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The Access Text Network (a US platform where some publishers share accessible PDFs of their books on demand to authorized users) has gradually been coming back online after it collapsed this spring as a result of some kind of disagreement between Georgia Tech and the Association of American Publishers.🤔
My work was only granted access to the new AccessText today, and the collection has to be built back up over time book by book.
accesstext.org/about-us
Facebook's useless #AI based photo descriptions have made it to Threads; and, because they have, #blind people have to suffer for it. People think that posting photos on Threads without alt text is ok because of the utterly useless auto-generated descriptions. I thought I was rid of it when I abandoned Facebook in 2017. Please ask your friends, followers, and acquaintances to describe #photos on Threads.
The release of #GNOME47 is imminent and our #translators have done their usual amazing work! There was a lot of #Accessibility work this cycle and #translations are a big part of that.
With a few days left, this is a great cycle to improve the user experience for non-English #ScreenReader and #Braille users.
In just a few minutes, Inclusive Design 24 will be getting underway... 24 hours of #free talks about everything related to inclusive design:
inclusivedesign24.org/2024/
#accessibility #design #code #UX #XR #gaming #disability #a11y #id24
The twelfth edition of @inclusivedesign24 #id24 is just over 2 days away.
Free, online, no registration, no product pitches. Just show up (on time or not).
Countdown timer is on the schedule:
inclusivedesign24.org/2024/sch…
YouTube playlist waiting for you:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn7…
From a selfish #accessibility viewpoint, things I would like to stop existing:
Discord.
PDFs.
statista.com
Powerpoint/Impress.
What are your "my life would be better if abled users didn't inexplicably choose X" preferences?
Boosts welcome, replies more so.
When creating accessible web applications using HTML, what are the recommended practices for editable elements?
Say I have a list of cards, each of which have a title which can be edited. Should all these cards be individual forms? Or should these be naked input elements with appropriate labels? Or something different altogether?
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
Because I can’t be arsed to re-up my Dragon license, kudos to @siblingpastry for the most recent test of voice control support for wrapped labels:
tpgi.com/should-form-labels-be…
Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism masto.ai/@phoronix/11307885166…
I wrote a @TPGi blog post last year on 20 #DigitalAccessibility books. Since then, quite a few more have been published, so I've blogged about 19 more.
There are two basic approaches to making novel/custom widgets accessible to assistive tech, and one of them is usually wrong:
1. accesibly describe the mechanics and visual presentation;
2. accesibly convey the functional interactions and purpose.
If you find yourself thinking "I need an aria-live region to explain this" then the chances are -- you don't -- you need to conceptually shift from 1 to 2. Live regions are the last resort.
⌨️ prayer for the un-entitled user
"Like the rest of the web platform, interoperability is key to accessibility support. It is safe to say at this time (September 2024) that the display of title attribute content on keyboard focus is not implemented interoperably."
Anyone running macOS 15 and want to test to see if this `aria-activedescendant` bug is really fixed?
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
It’s not that I don’t trust Apple folks, it’s just that I have learned never to take the “Fixed!” assertion at face value.
#a11y #accessibility #Safari #ARIA
It took over a year since I wrote this warning, but I finally found a case in the wild!
Well, *I* didn’t, but someone on the A11y Slack had an issue and I was able to identify it by description alone.
“Brief Note on Popovers with Dialogs”
adrianroselli.com/2023/05/brie…
Well done, me!
[ wrenches arm reaching for his own back]
I finally got around to linking @lloydi’s post “Context is king: long live the king!” from my own (which he references). Anyway, his post:
tpgi.com/context-is-king-long-…
He also covers a couple variations where you can stack techniques for… an effect.
And he has a mini-tool (buried in a disclosure widget at the end) in there to generate the HTML/CSS for each scenario if you provide it the words.
Very detail. Much comprehensive.
Context is king: long live the king! - TPGi
Want to provide extra context in accessible names for buttons, links and other controls while retaining design integrity? Ian Lloyd shares some techniques.Ian Lloyd (TPGi)
#PROTip:
If you use BeMyEyes on Windows, it helps to change the default keyboard commands to ctrl+alt+f1 through f4 for the four main functions.
When meta glasses work to read something, they work very very well. But, when they fail, they fail spectacularly. For some reason, I could not get them to read me something that was right in front of me, the same exact thing I'd done before with other documents I had sitting before me. And other appps did much better.
It's a reminder that this device hasn't been enhanced for blind people's specific needs. It's a device/platform that happens to have features that help.
Wow, this piece exposes a supposedly prominent accessibility contributor to gaming industry that ended up actually not existing in the first place. ign.com/articles/a-prominent-a…
#a11y #accessibilty #games #gaming #expose
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN
In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be.Grant Stoner (IGN)
Marcus Herrmann shares how you can apply the 80/20 rule to accessibility, and make progress.
#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y
80 / 20 accessibility
Many people are confronted with the …marcus.io · Blog of web developer and accessibility consultant Marcus Herrmann
Updated my sortable tables post.
It now notes that NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, and VoiceOver / iPadOS will announce when you sort a table column.
That means VoiceOver on macOS and TalkBack do _not_ announce a sort.
Dramatically better than when I wrote it in 2021 yet still utterly inadequate.
adrianroselli.com/2021/04/sort…
Sortable Table Columns
An accessible sortable table is not necessarily the same as a usable sortable table. Outline: Basics Let The User Know This Thing Has Sorted Screen Reader Announcement Sort Arrows Column Background Column Background via Let The User Know This T…Adrian Roselli
This is not to suggest that automatic descriptions aren't useful. Several tools available to #blind people are now capable of providing a good idea of the contents of photos when no descriptions are available. Apps and hardware are able to analyze photos and videos for quick access to the environment when this wasn't possible short time ago.
Even though these tools exist, automatic #descriptions should not be a substitute for alt text.
Thread:
I've conducted several informal experiments over the last few weeks about alt text for #photos as described by humans and as provided by #AI systems.
#LLMS, despite providing plethora of details when describing images, still miss the nuances of what the photos contain. Human #descriptions certainly continue to be better at conveying context.
For this experiment, I asked several friends to send me photos and share #descriptions with me.
To give you one example, I was sent a photo of a table surface with a small coffee pot and a cup of coffee with foam on top. The table also had a plate of cookies, muffins, and croissants.
The #AI description described the drink in the coffee cup as a yogurt-based concoction. It also missed the cookies on the plate.
#accessibility #a11y #blind #photos #photo #photography
Originally called NSFKeys, and originally made as an experiment during the Intel Macbook/Touch Bar/Boot Camp era, rewritten this month, the app is meant to make using a touch bar on Windows more accessible.
Maybe it could still be useful?
I have also updated Capbeeper, fixing the double tray menu open bug, featuring slight sound volume adjustments, and (thanks to TouchBarSpeak), the “Run as admin” feature/option, accessible from the systray menu.
I hope any of this is useful, if it sounds like so, feel free to check things out.
nsstudiosweb.com/programs.php
#touchBar #touchBarLove #a11y #freeApps #development
#EnneNews
NVDA 2024.3, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Full information & download links available from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3/
Highlights:
- Notification of add-on updates
- Unicode normalisation options
- Help Tech Activator Pro braille display support
- Mouse wheel scrolling commands
- Many bug fixes & updates for Windows 11, browsers, LibLouis, eSpeak-NG, Unicode CLDR
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #A11y
NVDA 2024.3 Released
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…NV Access