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Voicenet is the service of the Swiss Union of the Blind, where you can call in and receive all the information you need to access culture, shopping, receive advice, benefit from the organization's services etc.
Some things you can find there:
- the current supermarket prospects with all of the weekly discounts and special offers read by volunteers;
- TV and radio schedule, including information on movies with audiodescription aired throughout the week;
- traffic and construction works;
- rail schedules;
- signing up for the Union's events;
- a voice forum where users can ask for advice and exchange information;
All of that provided by volunteers and an editorial team in three languages: German, French and Italian with the ability to navigate through content E.G. jumping from beverages to dairy products with the phone's keypad.
I realize that things like the NFB Newsline exist but it seems that, as Switzerland is a much smaller country, it is easier to offer much more local information.
sbv-bvas.ch/voicenet-2/
#Accessibility #Blind #Phone #languages #Switzerland #German #French #Italian #AdventCalendar
Voicenet des Schweizerischer Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband Sektion Aargau-Solothurn
VoiceNet ein interaktives Hörmedium +41(0)31 390 88 88 und bietet umfassende Informationen des Schweizer Blinden und SehbehindertenverbandBith (sbv-bvas)
Hey @yatil - I came across your #accessibility in the #fediverse post: yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i…
I'm currently working on a #chess game that can be played over Mastodon, and I'm keen for it to be as good an experience as it can be for everyone. I've done some research, have a prototype, and now I feel like I can start talking to users...
Would you be willing to offer your thoughts, and could you recommend a few people I could email or chat to?
Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert
Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.Eric Eggert
My boyfriend (@crispy) says that he wishes there's a way to use Mastodon when he can't type much because of #OCD. He says that's why he prefers Twitter Spaces, because he can use his voice.
Perhaps #Mastodon would do well to add a voice post option?
He doesn't like dictation because it's slow and doesn't work properly. The built-in dictation at least.
Related GitHub Issue: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#accessibility #TypingImpaired
[Accessibility] voice record support in toots · Issue #9878 · mastodon/mastodon
Audio support is asked many times (although odd enough I didn't find an issue about it), but not voice support. A blind person on Todon.nl (a new user) asked the question if it would be possibl...GitHub
#accessibility #blind #Japan #adventcalendar #mobile #phones
1. regex101.com. This website is your all in one toolbox for regular expressions, with tutorials, reference and a very advanced debugger which can visualise the expression’s output. All for free, and with #accessibility for the #blind out of the box.
2. youtube.com/watch?v=r6I-Ahc0HB…
A little course on regular expressions. The teaching is cler and the guy explains everything on the way.
As always, if you have any questions about #RegEx, #csharp #dotnet, #swift or anything else, feel free to ask me!
regex101: build, test, and debug regex
Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET.regex101
Great SVG Data Visualization Examples from VISA visa.github.io/visa-chart-comp…
#SVG #Data #Accessibility #a11y
Heads up for fans of the #Metatext #Mastodon app
- its lead developer @metabolist has stopped updating it, for health reasons.
If someone else would like to help out, please email them at info@metabolist.org
mastodon.social/@metabolist/10…
Web: metabolist.org/
I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:
🔗🇬🇧 ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies
Please boost to reach more people!
I'm assisting a blind student in learning how to navigate the web using a laptop.
NVDA reads out the title first, then properties about the document, then the summary box on the side.
I can't find any way to skip that whole box and move straight to the main content. There is no main content landmark, nor is there a heading, not is it in the Contents section.
Take en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood… as an example. How can I navigate to the first sentence of the main article?
Thanks for any help.
#blind #accessibility
So, it's the server (instance) that converts it? Do you know if that's the same on all masto instances, or is it a setting the admin can change?
Letter case makes a HUGE difference to hashtags for screen readers, people with dyslexia, the visually impaired, etc. That is the reason I'm asking.
#accessibility
Hey, I read fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver… as I was looking for someone to write to about the fact that hashtags on Mastodon default to *remove* camel case if you select the drop-down reference when typing a hashtag.
New here and wondering if I can lend my voice to a related discussion or reach out to someone to promote camel case hashtags as a default.
Mastodon and Fediverse Accessibility Tips | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Google publishes the source code for their TalkBack screen reader. GrapheneOS maintains a fork of it and includes it in GrapheneOS with the help of a blind GrapheneOS user who works on their own more elaborate fork. Eventually, we'd like to include more or all of their changes.
TalkBack depends on a text-to-speech (TTS) implementation installed/configured/activated. It needs to have Direct Boot support to function before the first unlock of a profile. Google's TTS implementation supports this and can be used on GrapheneOS, but it's not open source.
We requested Direct Boot support from both prominent open source implementations:
RHVoice: github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/iss…
eSpeak NG: github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng…
eSpeak NG recently added it but it's not yet included in a stable release and their licensing (GPLv3) is too restrictive for us.
RHVoice itself has acceptable licensing for inclusion in GrapheneOS (LGPL v2.1), but has dependencies with restrictive licensing. Both these software projects also have non-free licensing issues for the voices. Neither provides close to a working out-of-the-box experience either.
Google's Speech Services app providing text-to-speech and speech-to-text works perfectly. Their proprietary accessibility services app with extended TalkBack and other services also works fine. However, many of our users don't want to use them and we need something we can bundle.
There aren't currently any usable open source speech-to-text apps. There are experimental open source speech-to-text implementations but they lack Android integration.
We also really need to make a brand new setup wizard with both accessibility and enterprise deployment support.
GrapheneOS still has too little funding and too few developers to take on these projects. These would be standalone projects able to be developed largely independently. There are similar standalone projects which we need to have developed in order to replace some existing apps.
AOSP provides a set of barebones sample apps with outdated user interfaces / features. These are intended to be replaced by OEMs, but we lack the resources of a typical OEM. We replaced AOSP Camera with our own app, but we still need to do the same with Gallery and other apps.
Google has started the process of updating the open source TalkBack, which only happens rarely. We've identified a major issue: a major component has no source code published.
github.com/google/talkback/pul…
Google has been very hostile towards feedback / contributions for TalkBack...
This is one example of something seemingly on the right track significantly regressing. Another example is the takeover of the Seedvault project initially developed for GrapheneOS. It has deviated substantially from the original plans and lacks usability, robustness and security.
In the case of Seedvault, GrapheneOS designed the concept for it and one of our community members created it. It was taken over by a group highly hostile towards us and run into the ground. It doesn't have the intended design/features and lacks usability, security and robustness.
All of these are important standalone app projects for making GrapheneOS highly usable and accessible. What we need is not being developed by others and therefore we need to the resources including funding and developers to make our own implementations meeting our requirements.
#grapheneos #privacy #security #android #mobile #accessibility #texttospeech #speechtotext #talkback #blind #backup
add Direct Boot support for Android so RHVoice can be used with TalkBack before the initial unlock · Issue #271 · RHVoice/RHVoice
More information: https://developer.android.com/training/articles/direct-boot https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_Updater is a trivial example of using this. You need to mark a sub...GitHub
An interesting experiment in turning 💯 data and 📈📊📉 graphs into 🔊 audio.
“… one aim is to make our data journalism more #Accessible for vision-impaired people.”
theguardian.com/news/datablog/…
#DataViz
#Accessibility / #A11Y
#Inclusion
What is the sound of Facebook’s value crashing? Noisycharts turns news into noise
Rising carbon dioxide and the slump in the pound have been frequently graphed. Now we’ve turned the data and graphs into audioNick Evershed (The Guardian)
Sheri Byrne-Haber presents How (and why) to 'shift-left' your accessibility testing youtube.com/watch?v=UmPBLoJI3j…
Sheri Byrne-Haber presents How (and why) to 'shift-left' your accessibility testing
Sheri Byrne-Haber presents for the 2022 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference hosted by WebAIM and Pope Tech.YouTube
I like the early #accessibility tips from fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver… especially the bits at the end where admins can add CSS to help support their authors to create better content.
I wonder if there are more tools to help authors create more accessible content. #ATAG 2.0 is really powerful, yet old school social media hasn't adopted it.
Mastodon and Fediverse Accessibility Tips | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
I always find videos about #accessibility super interesting. Here are two videos from ProRail showing how one can use Dutch railway stations when blind or visually impaired:
In Dutch: yewtu.be/watch?v=aZYx_q5bIsk
In English: yewtu.be/watch?v=X54WMxb2Wgw
Accessibility is really important and needs to be given more attention.
All train stations accessible for blind and visually impaired people
We have worked on it for years, and now the moment is finally here: all Dutch train stations have been made accessible for blind and visually impaired passengers by means of clear, predictable route guidance.ProRail | Invidious
An article on how to write an effective #AltText #ImageDescription for #accessibility...
MAIN POINTS:
• describe the image only, not the photographer credits or keywords
• write a description appropriate to the context (ex., a post about photography vs. a celebrity)
• make it as concise as possible, except if you are transcribing text in an image
• no need to start with "An image of..." as the screen reader says that by default
• end with a period to provide a pause
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide
This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web developer with vision impairment who use a screen reader in my day-to-day life.Daniel Göransson (Axess Lab)
I'm not blind or have impaired vision, so take this with a grain of salt (feel free to correct me), but people who put nondescript one sentence alt texts are almost worse than those who put no alt text.
At least if I'm about to boost a picture without, glitch-soc will warn me about it. If a picture has an alt text like "screenshot of my tweet", that's less than useless but it will slip through the alt text detector.
Write good alt text ffs. Describe the picture. Not a title or a TLDR, a proper description. If it's text, copy the text into the image description. If it's selfies, don't write "a selfie of me", describe your selfies. Describe film scenes, descripe paintings, descripe charts and infographics. You have, on this instance at least, 1500 characters to describe your pictures. Do it.
And if 1500 isn't enough, you can add a second picture to keep describing it.
#feditips #accessibility #alttext
Keyboard Testing: The A11y Enhancement to Your Definition of Done
Accessibility has always had a tough time being a part of the definition of done in web development....Mark Steadman (DEV Community 👩💻👨💻)
Like this idea of Quality Gates - smashingmagazine.com/2022/11/a…
#Web #accessibility #AutomatedTesting
Using Automated Test Results To Improve Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Noah Mashni and Mark Steadman share their approach to how to leverage the automated test results from the accessibility checks to drive change and reach sustainable digital accessibility transformation.Smashing Magazine
If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.
Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.
I found this guide really informative: uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-im…
Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!
Just published an article on #GovLoop on some work we are doing to promote #accessibility in #VeteransAffairs for the #USAGov
govloop.com/community/blog/sup….
Supporting Authors to Produce More Accessible Content for VA.gov - GovLoop
VA.gov was recently recognized for its hard work improving user accessibility. Since veterans are more likely to have visible and invisible disabilities than other demographics, enhanced accessibility was an especially worthy goal.GovLoop
Inclusively Hidden | scottohara.me
There are various ways to hide content in web interfaces, but are you aware of the different effects they have on the accessibility of that content? While so...www.scottohara.me
Why are people joining issue or specific Mastodon servers? I'm interested in many issues, and am curious about ones tied to #OpenSource #Sustainability & #Accessibility, but unsure how or why people choose.
Are certain instances going to be seen as being more legitimate? How will sustainability be managed as numbers grow? What happens if I move & that instance shuts down?
Some info here:
blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/…
How to migrate from one server to another
With the sad news that KNZK was shutting down we thought it might be useful for people to have a refresher on the features that Mastodon has built in that make moving instances easy and painless.Official Mastodon Blog
#A11Y #accessibility #WebAccess #disability #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Blind #WebDev #UXDesign
Wonder no more:
ARIA in HTML
w3.org/TR/html-aria/
#webdevelopment #accessibility #W3C
ARIA in HTML
This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 attributes on [HTML] elements.www.w3.org
It's got 25 different attractions, tons of events, thousands of positive reviews ETC.
morganswonderland.com
#accessibility #A11Y #disability #blind #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Deaf #DeafBlind #Autistic #Autism #CerebralPalsy #Wheelchair #WheelchairUser #ThemePark #ThemeParks
Morgan’s Wonderland: Closed
Morgan's Wonderland is the world's first Ultra-Accessible™, family fun park located in San Antonio, Texas. Visit our park to experience accessible rides.Morgan's Wonderland
No es norma pero se va convirtiendo en convención: nuestros fediversantes ciegos no suelen personalizar su avatar, les queda el predeterminado (imagen adjunta).
Tiene lógica y está chido porque nos permite identificar de un vistazo cuando conversamos con quien tiene esa discapacidad.
Les invito a que, si no son ciegos, personalicen su avatar tan pronto como puedan.
#EsViernesDeSeguirA @blindscribe @jaguarunileiro
#FF #FollowFriday
#FediTips #Accesibilidad #Accessibility #Blind #Ceguera
As "#accessible" drag and drop (with accessible in quotes as I haven't personally verified the claims) is added to #React Aria and React Spectrum, I'm happy to see drag-and-drop get some #accessibility love at the framework level. However, I'm not convinced that aiming for parity always creates the most efficient, usable experiences in this area.
For many use cases, there are alternative approaches legitimately better suited to how people actually operate their devices, across various assistive technologies and input methods. For instance, dropdowns with type-ahead, offering more of an opportunity to browse before committing, rather than constantly navigating back and forth across drop zones which could be far apart.
The article highlights challenges in finding a preexisting holistic system, without delving into the possible reasons for that being the case until now. User feedback is also not a panacea; are you asking someone to evaluate whether they can use a thing? Or whether that thing is a good idea, and/or if a better thing could theoretically exist?
react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/…
#a11y
Taming the dragon: Accessible drag and drop
We are excited to announce the release of drag and drop support in React Aria and React Spectrum! This includes a suite of hooks for implementing drag and drop interactions, with support for both mouse and touch, as well as full parity for keyboard a…Adobe Inc (Adobe)
I have thus far failed to figure out how to get this one tagged for #accessibility
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Make hyperlinks in toots work like wiki links · Issue #13241 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Hyperlink highlighting already works just fine when you post a toot that contains a link, making them automatically clickable if an URL is detected that conforms to a valid schema. I suggest ...GitHub
Hope blind people find it helpful and sighted people find it interesting.
Podcast transcript, Mosen at Large episode 206, Mastering Mastodon, how do you get started with ham radio, and a fix for the Eset issues plaguing screen reader users
Transcripts of Mosen at Large are made possible by Pneuma Solutions, a global leader in accessible cloud technologies. On the web at You can read the full transcript below, download the transcript …Mosen At Large
If you are interested in improving the #accessibility of Mastodon, take a look at the issue queue github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…+
If there are issues you've found that aren't there, are they part of the instance of Mastodon that you are using, or part of the core open source project? Custom themes can get in the way.
Posting #a11y bugs is important in moving ahead any open source project.
Issues · mastodon/mastodon
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - Issues · mastodon/mastodonGitHub