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From the Firefox 109.0 changelog:
„The native HTML date picker for date and datetime inputs can now be used with a keyboard alone[…]“
Nice! Always great to see native elements being improved.
The full changelog can be found here: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.…
#firefox #mozilla #release #changelog #date #picker #accessibility #keyboard
A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling — Smashing Magazine
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered HTML Emails and SVG Generators.Smashing Magazine
A beginner's guide to link and text accessibility - Pope Tech Blog
Learn how to create accessible links and text in your web content.Whitney Lewis (Pope Tech Blog)
Interesting open source alternative to #Calendly that I just DISCOVERED. Anyone know if it's accessible?
"Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals."
#accessibility #usability #calendaring
GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone. - GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.GitHub
We had an #accessibility meeting about at-spi2-core, pyatspi2, orca - notes at gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/a…
BigBlueButton seems usable with a screen reader! Everyone was able to participate just fine.
HedgeDoc, not so much?
This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.
An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.
It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rober…
Here's where you can read about the font and download it: brailleinstitute.org/freefont
Via @tombofnull
Holy cow! Put a Bluetooth mic by TV. Connected it to @Android and turned on live captions for #GoldenGlobes It’s better and faster than TV captions. Not as accurate but the TV captions delay and ALL CAPS are too much.
Video shows Android and TV with captions
#accessibility
Accessibility | Atlassian
Our journey towards born accessible products continues to accelerate. We’re learning and growing, and we’re committed to accessibility.Atlassian
Games for Blind Gamers 2
A game jam from 2023-04-01 to 2023-05-07 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome to the second Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of blind gaming (and accessibility in general), as well a...itch.io
Marketing in Accessibility
Marketing is a fun topic that’s not talked about a lot in the accessibility space. Often, marketing teams are focused on the product, the code, and making it accessible. They neglect to think…Equal Entry
If you're looking for samples of #audiobooks narrated by AI, search for the term "Narrated by Apple Books" in the Apple Books app. It will pull up a list of books converted to Audio by #Apple.
Here are a few samples:
books.apple.com/us/audiobook/i…
Really glad Sony is finally making an accessibility-focused controller for PS5.
It’s overdue, especially considering all the accessibility work Sony’s been doing on the software side.
Hope they sell it for a reasonable price.
#gaming #VideoGames #Sony #PS5 #accessibility
blog.playstation.com/2023/01/0…
Introducing Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5, a highly customizable accessibility controller kit
Designed to remove barriers to gaming and help players with disabilities play more easily, more comfortably and for longer periods on PS5.PlayStation.Blog
I've been playing with #ChatGPT a lot since it came out on November 30th. A few days ago, I decided to have a bit of a conversation with it about the threat it might pose to the future of digital #accessibility.
The resulting conversation surprised me beyond anything I could ever imagine. Why don't you take a look? :)
#Storium is built with #accessibility in mind. One of our most active members is blind and (without checking with him beforehand) I'm sure he'll be happy to show you around. But yes, the site works well with a #ScreenReader!
Here's a podcast episode we did about how people with disabilities play on @storium :
storiumarc.com/episode/episode…
#writer #roleplaying #pbp #rpg
Episode 70! Storium with Disabilities - Storium Arc
Producing and hosting for the first time, Zachary (Rattannah) takes a deep dive into a side of Storium that often hides in plain sight, or in this case, behind a screen.Justin Hall (Storium Arc)
In 1993 alt text was added to the HTML specification. Someone then posted an idea: A library where people could store and look up alt text for frequently used images. I've lost the post, and no one else that I can find has talked about it since.
I believe that the time is now, but I can no longer be who. As I announced yesterday, I am closing down the alt-text.org project, but others have expressed interest in carrying the project forward.
(cont)
github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/wik….
I haven't tried it myself yet so can't answer possible questions, others have though so it surely works.
Happy hacking, creating SAPI, NVDA, Android voices or whatever else you imagine! ##SpeechSynthesis #Accessibility #NVDASR #Blind
Home · RHVoice/RHVoice Wiki
a free and open source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages - Home · RHVoice/RHVoice WikiGitHub
The sign language gloves are making the rounds again. It needs to stop. Here’s why. linkedin.com/posts/meryl_meryl…
Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf) on LinkedIn: #merylmots #disability #inclusion #entrepreneurs #startup #accessibility
Just got another link to the sign language gloves asking if I had seen it. Yes. It’s an old video that seems to make the rounds once a year. Even though…Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf) (www.linkedin.com)
In two weeks on #A11yTalks, @springbroken@twitter.com will discuss how to redesign websites with a focus on cognitive ease
buff.ly/3G3kF1A #A11y #Accessibility
Redesigning for Cognitive Ease - Alyssa Panetta (A11yTalks - January 2023)
After all the WCAG standards are met, how accessible is your site for users with cognitive disabilities? How can you tell? What does that mean? Where would y...YouTube
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…
Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Featuring @knowbility, @redcrew, @dequesystems, @jaredsmith, @MikePaciello, @LFLegal, @brucelawson, @ericwbailey, @alvaromontoro, @pxlnv, @j9t, @codepo8, @rachelandrew, @estelle, @5t3ph, @matthiasott, @tempertemper, @gerrymcgovern, et al.
Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
One thing I want to note--given my wrist situation, almost all of the game's art was drawn by voice.
The software itself gave me a lot of trouble though, so I've decided to make a fork and do further dev & maintenance on it.
While I don't know how many people would use it, I think idea of a #PixelArt editor designed for hands-free #accessibility might have legs and I want to explore that further.
This one might be known to some of you as the news has reached quite some peak in media outlets worldwide. Accessible Christmas was an app developed to let blind people enjoy the Christmas lights of Madrit through a geolocation-based audiodescription experience. The great thing about it was, you could also access these descriptions wherever you were. Many blind people do not have the privilege of worldwide mobility so bringing bits of the world closer to them is what I call an extension of accessible tourism. Describing the world you experience through textual blogs, social media postings, audio recordings and sharing interesting highlights of life in different countries is what you can do next year to make others travel even if they physically can't. If you're the one unable to travel, here are a couple of things that help me personally when I wish I could be elsewhere but can't:
1. Play a random radio station in a language you understand nothing of or find the music that you like coming from somewhere obscure or far away. I enjoy checking out local charts in other countries just to see how different languages fit into the music trends of today.
2. Try to find recordings of places on sites like Freesound or Soundcloud; close your eyes and imagine.
3. Read travel blogs, watch or listen to content on the Internet of others travelling where descriptions are abundant; research how topics that interest you are managed elsewhere.
4. Try to find penpals, somebody to exchange occasional packages with and simply make friends; if that's possible, try to find a local language conversation group, groups for people who have moved to your city etc. meet, ask questions but most of all, listen!
5. Maybe one day make your own advent calendar.
coolblindtech.com/this-app-all…
#Accessibility #Blind AdventCalendar #Spain #Travel #Tourism
This app allows blind people to enjoy Christmas lights - COOL BLIND TECH
The Human Language and Accessibility Technologies (HULAT) research group at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed and validated a mobile application that allows people with visual impairments to enjoy Christmas lights in the city …Nelson Régo (COOL BLIND TECH)
The Office of Management and Budget should review its strategic plan for improving
management of #Section508. #OMB’s current strategic plan was released in 2013 and
should be reviewed using current information and compliance data.
Zuzanka is an app made by Zatoichi, a Warsaw-based startup with one of my blind friends as a tester and head consultant. It reads out the expiry dates on products so it's perfect to run through everything in your fridge before Christmas to see whether your supplies are still safe to be consumed. Once you start it, it will beep continuously to tell you it is ready. Then, once something that it may consider to be a date is found in the camera, it will start beeping faster until it finally recognizes and speaks the date outloud. There is a handy tutorial added telling you where expiry dates are commonly found on different products. The app gives you a 24-hour trial period and a handful of subscription options which I believe should be affordable. There is a lifetime license option too capped at around 30 €.
The AI models for this app have been predominantly trained on products found in Polish supermarkets and I was successful using it on a pack of German Balsen chocolate biscuits so it is interesting to see whether this could work in other countries.
apps.apple.com/pl/app/zuzanka/…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Poland #Mobile #Startup #Shopping
All good things come in threes and as it happens, one of the things I did yesterday was taking part in the Clubhouse meeting of the Czech blind community where 2022 was summed up and different good things that happened in terms of assistive technology were named.
One of the solutions somebody pointed out was the ability to operate an ATM using the banking app of Ceska Sporitelna, one of the leading Czech banks.
Developed with the Covid pandemic in mind, the feature happened to also benefit blind users. The way it works is, every ATM supporting the feature displays a QR code on its screen by default. The user scans it using the dedicated feature in the Sporitelna app, confirms whether the ATM number detected is the same as the one written on the machine itself and once the connection is made, all of the operation: defining the amount of money to be withdrawn, confirmation, authorization etc. is being handled using the app. The money comes out, the operation is successful and everyone is happy.
The number of the machine can be verified either through the list of nearby machines in the app or via an accessible spreadsheet that either the bank or the community have put together, I'm not sure.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #CzechRepublic #Banking
It is a bit of shameless promo as yours truely is one of the hosts so I hope you don't mind me and we look forward to the feedback.
In our pilot, we go over the current campaigns and initiatives the EBU is involved in, we find out about the expectations and fears of blind people regarding Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and we finish off with our correspondent's section where we go to Italy to check what is new for blind people there.
If you have suggestions of topics that should be brought up in future episodes, feel free to share.
euroblind.org/publications-and…
#Accessibility #Blind #Podcast #Europe #CAVs #AutonomousVehicles #Disability #Inclusion
The EBU Podcasts | European Blind Union
Ebu has created podcasts on topics related to our communitywww.euroblind.org
The New IT Episode 54 | Video | CivicActions | TechBridge Inc.
Is Drupal still? In todays episode learn why you should consider go to Drupal and what makes it standout from the other CMS systems.TechBridge Inc.
Highlighting Image Accessibility on Mastodon
Styling images posted on mastodon.social based on whether or not they have alt text.meyerweb.com
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You would probably not be surprised to hear that the :dumpsterfire: formally known as Twitter's new checkmarks are not accessible. They differ by color only which makes them hard to detect by users who are color blind.
help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-…
#a11y #accessibility #UXfail #a11yfail #wtfUX
The way it works is by detecting a Bluetooth beacon near a supported elevator using the dedicated app and calling the elevator almost as if we pressed the physical button. We can then choose the floor where we want to go and, once we board the elevator, notify the app about it and wait until we reach the destination. We will be notified about the arrival through a notification in the app. The developers have even thought of Siri support so you can set shortcuts for favourite elevator +floor combinations. The solution is presented within the following session of the Zeroconf conference in Vienna:
youtube.com/watch?v=_PcPk3BcUL…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #BuildEnvironment #Spain
ZeroCon22: Zero Project`s Shark Tank
Welcome to #ZeroCon22 - The Zero Project Conference 2022 on Accessibility!Five high-tech start-ups pitch to experienced investors, who question their potenti...YouTube
Totupoint is an in-door navigation system created by Jan Szuster, a blind engineer from Warsaw. It revolves around Bluetooth beacons placed at key points in a building or at a points of interests such as bus stops, administrative buildings or other venues that are key infrastructure. Those can be discovered through the Totupoint mobile app or an additional module attached to the user's white cane. As soon as you find yourself within the range of a beacon, it is triggered and plays the assigned recording so that you exactly know where it is located. You can repeat the message as many times as you need to locate the point you're looking for or in case of the mobile app read the attached information such as opening hours or address and phone number of the place you're at.
The system also supports tiny interactive HTML apps that can be operated from within the app so it can be adapted to turn on the traffic lights or request line number on public transport. Many successful installations happen at an increasing number of venues in Poland. You can learn more and see the complete list of active locations at:
totupoint.pl/
In other news: as soon as Apple flicks the verification switch, I will have something to share that potentially all of you might find useful so watch this space.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Poland #UrbanEnvironment
The navigational center of the Czech Union of the Blind assists their customers in many ways:
- by delivering help through the user's smartphone's camera via Skype;
- by looking up information on public transport routes and general information on places of interest;
- best of all: by researching routes that the user would like to take bearing in mind everything that is of importance when travelling independently with a white cane or/and a guide dog, including possible hazards or characteristic waypoints and landmarks.
It comes as no surprise that the service is available throughout the entire country. Pricewise, it works in two models: it is possible to buy packages of single uses of the service starting at less than six dollars for ten single uses; or a periodic subscribtion starting at around 13 dollars for three months.
portal-pelion.cz/aplikace-a-sl…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #CzechRepublic #Mobility #PublicTransport
Aplikace a služby využitelné při sebeobsluze a samostatném pohybu zrakově postižených - Pélion
V textu si povíme o aplikaci, která existuje již pár let, ale i tak se stává, že o ní někdo slyší úplně poprvé. Je to aplikace Be My Eyes.Linda Albrechtová (Pélion - Vzdělávací portál pro zrakově postižené)
Blik is a Polish payment system that is based on six-digit codes entered as a confirmation of payment on the website where you want to make a transaction. The way this is used is the following:
1. You open the app of your bank on your phone and press the Blik button. Sometimes banks will place this feature under the app's shortcuts so starting straight from the homescreen or through a shortcut you yourself created is definitely possible.
2. A six-digit code is generated and it is read out to you. You can remember or copy it and from that moment you've got 120 seconds to finish the transaction.
3. You enter the code on the website or in the app where you're trying to complete a transaction.
4. You return to your banking app to confirm the amount to be paid through the biometric authorization method of your choice or a PIN code. In my banking app the time limit is counted down with each second being marked with a chaptic feedback of my iPhone.
Note: meanwhile regular payment terminals already support Blik and more and more shop assistants know how to activate it so the phrase "Poproszę Blikiem" ("By Blik, please") is more commonly heard.
Another component of the system are the P2P micropayments to a mobile phone where it is enough to enter the other party's phone number to make or request a payment straight from the banking app.
I believe similar systems function in other countries but are mostly QR-code based and require a separate app. I find this way much handier. Also, it is universal across all major Polish banks.
blik.com/en/how-to-use-blik
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Shopping #Banking #Mobile #Poland
How to use BLIK
BLIK in a blink of an eye! Pay for your purchases, wherever you are, in a few moments, with BLIK`s fast and secure payments!blik.com
Have a recording of a ticket machine that speaks three languages: French, English and German. Upon pressing a dedicated button above the card read we activate the speech component. Everything that is displayed on screen is read back to us. On starting, the machine greets us in the language of our choice, tells us to insert our travel pass if we have one and reads the minimum and maximum amounts for card and cash payments. The upper part of the touchscreen acts as a navi pad with the left corner taking us to the previous option and the right one to the next. In the lower part, the left corner is "Cancel", while the right is "Confirm". This way we can choose our desired ticket, the preferred payment method and complete our transaction.
The recording is a montage of different clips from the machine indicating a chosen ticket in English, through its welcome message in French and German with the latter going through some ticket options, coming back to the full welcome message in English. The recording is peppered with occasional Polish from me as it was originally recorded for our Polish podcast. It was taken using the built-in mikes of my Motorola One smartphone. Now that I listen back, it sounds kinda condensed.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Metz #PublicTransport #Audio #recording #FieldRecording