Tag 1, 23.30 Uhr: wir haben die ersten taktilen Stockwerkspläne (in Version 1.0) ausgerollt 🥳 Vielen lieben Dank an die großartigen Engelund Maschinist_innen, die das möglich gemacht haben. Wir freuen uns auf eure Rückmeldungen 💜 #38C3 #a11y #accessibility
Quick note about alt texts: There's no point in starting off with "Image of...", because screen readers will announce that this is an image anyway.
But there *can* be value in saying if it's a photo, a drawing, a cartoon, etc. That helps the person visualize it better, and may make a real difference to the impact. "Photo of a cat wearing sunglasses" is much cuter than a mere "cartoon of" the same thing! 😺
😍 Pinch me, I must be dreaming. This is a new smartwatch with a braille interface for blind users. What's even better is how beautiful the hardware is, even though users can't see it. Care and attention to detail to the max.
We're looking for a designer who has experience working on software to help with Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker in the new year. Familiarity with #a11y preferred and strong understanding of UI/UX in a web application context needed.
The sheer variety of combinations of browsers, operating systems, screen sizes, devices, ATs, etc. that make the notion of a "normal" user absurd. This talk ...
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Here at TetraLogical we put people first. One of our founding principles is ensuring everything we do is ethical. We make decisions for the good of our customers and their customers, our team, and for the world at large.
The @w3c has just released their Ethical Web Principles in the belief that the web should empower an equitable, informed, and interconnected society.
The web should be a platform that helps people
and provides a positive social benefit.
As we continue to evolve the web platform,
we must therefore consider the consequences of our work.
We've been asked about it for years, and we are pleased to confirm that we have finally setup an official NV Access mailing list. You can subscribe to receive:
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Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…
Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.
Today, we celebrate the 165th birthday of Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof, the visionary creator of Esperanto. His goal was to establish a language that would facilitate communication among people from different countries and cultures, thereby contributing to peace and cooperation among nations.
Esperanto is now the most successful planned language in the world, with millions of speakers in over 120 countries. It is utilized on the internet, in social media, and even in some universities and institutions. But Esperanto is not just a language—it's a movement. It represents a community of individuals united by the common goal of promoting peace, unity, cultural richness, understanding, and cooperation among all people. Esperanto is a language of hope, unity, and love.
Zamenhof's vision is more relevant than ever. In an era of increasing globalization and interconnectedness, Esperanto provides an opportunity for people from diverse cultures and countries to communicate and collaborate without language barriers.
Moreover, Esperanto serves as a valuable tool for inclusion and accessibility, thanks to its simplicity and regular structure. It not only eases communication between speakers of different native languages but also supports neurodiverse individuals who may struggle with learning natural languages or navigating irregular writing systems like English orthography. Thus, Esperanto can promote accessibility in education.
What makes Esperanto so special? Its simple, logical grammar and vocabulary derived from the most common European roots make it incredibly easy to learn. Its phonetic spelling features one sound per letter and one letter for every sound, unlike English or French. Beyond its practical benefits, Esperanto embodies the noble ideals of mutual understanding, cultural exchange, and the brotherhood of all people.
In our increasingly interconnected world, Esperanto has found new life on the internet, where online communities and resources allow learners to connect across borders. It is truly a language of the digital age, used for everything from casual conversation to academic discourse.
As we celebrate Zamenhof's 165th birthday, let us embrace his timeless vision of a more harmonious world, where Esperanto serves as a bridge between cultures. By learning this beautiful language, we honor the legacy of its creator and take a meaningful step toward a more peaceful and productive coexistence for all.
Happy birthday, Zamenhof! Your dream lives on. ✨ Thank you for your inexhaustible legacy and the inspiration you have given us all. Let us unite humanity and reach for the stars! ✨
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**Interesting Facts about Esperanto 🌎💚:**
* Esperanto is the 14th most used language on the internet, according to 2022 statistics. * The website "Duolingo" offers an Esperanto course, which is one of the most popular courses on the platform. * The University of Amsterdam includes an Esperanto course as part of its program in international communication.
Vielleicht kommen wir der Sache näher, wenn es z.B. auch möglich ist, einen handschriftlichen, formlosen Antrag, per #Papier, als #Brailleschrift oder per #Spracheingabe mit Schlüsselwörtern, (z.B. #Wohngeld) und Basisangaben wie der Adresse zu stellen.
Dieser könnte die Zusendung von einfachen und übersichtlich gestalteten Fragebögen, reduziert auf die individuell noch fehlenden Angaben auslösen.
Die Antworten sollten dann wieder in einer Form zu übermitteln sein, die den Umständen (und z.B. #Behinderungen) der Antragsteller entsprechen, also z.B. auch formlos, schriftlich, per Spracheingabe, per #Gebärdenvideo, alles ohne dass der Antragsteller selbst ein digitales Gerät besitzen muss.
I've tried desktop #Linux as a #blind many times. It was #Ubuntu, #debian, #archlinux, and even some "for blind" things based on Debian or Arch. And every attempt was accompanied with such phrases like "come on, friend, you can do the same as on Windows! Accessibility had become much better since your last try!" Okay, I spend several days configuring things, and... No, thanks! "You can play games on Linux" they say. But they play only Stardew Valley and Factorio. Or they play on a Windows vm. "There are no problems with accessibility" they say. But they are used to switching from gui to terminal and back to solve simple every day tasks. "No no, drivers are okay" they also say... But they stay silent about hours spent on forums finding solutions and looking for components which have known good drivers for Linux. "#Orca behaves just like #NVDA!" - but you will spend days and weeks configuring it to behave like NVDA.
The trials and tribulations of working in #accessibility: when I want to find something broken to demonstrate a particular issue, all the places I look, it's been fixed. When I need something to actually work, everything is always broken. #a11y
eBay created the Include—Accessibility Annotations Figma plugin to help designers with accessibility considerations early in their project, and to help with designer-developer collaboration. It is available to the Figma community and free.
"Given the fact that NVDA has an extremely light computer resource foot print the portable version is a blessing" - Squire, South Africa / NVDA negates the barriers many face when accessing a PC, as a free and light-weight screen reader translated into more than 50 languages.
Most JavaScript libraries offer a library of client-side widgets that mimic the behavior of familiar desktop interfaces. Sliders, menu bars, file list views, and more can be built with a combination of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
How cute, Google's adding a status string at the bottom of search pages stating, "AI overview is ready" - very useful to know, thanks Googsies for putting engineering effort into this but not other pressing #A11Y problems, you truly are a delight
Accessibility Unlocked is a #free 6 day newsletter curated by the team at @TetraLogical@indieweb.social, and you can sign-up here: tetralogical.com/newsletters/a…
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I have a lot of cat pics in my mind, thanks to all of you who put alternative text descriptions. I Love you, and I hope you don't feel pressured to put them. Writing a text description should be fun, should be easy, and should be rewarding, because when writing it, you know blind people, visually impaired people, or people with very slow internet connections could read the text and enjoy the cuteness along with you. Let's not forget the dog friends, a lot of them too. Let's not forget the other media and types of images you all describe #Appreciation #Grateful #AltText #Accessibility #A11Y You get a lot of virus free, warm, comfortable virtual hugs, and universally global level love from me, as well as interactions. 🤗 😺 💙 PS: last but not the least important, the effort counts, always.
It's full of information about our game jams, but most mostly it is full of resources to make #Blind accessible games! As well as listing out blind accessible games to learn from. So check it out, and let me know what can be better! #GameDev #A11y #accessibility
We have added the "Accessibility In Gaming Resources Guide" by Jennifer Kretchmer to the "Accessibility Resources" page on our website!
This guide provides a detailed overview of information, tools and resources related to all aspects of accessibility in the tabletop roleplaying game space.
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Getting better with the whole #ChatGPT flow. Recently used it to refresh my #JavaScript skills to dynamically create elements in a webpage, but I caught it making some buggy code. Catching it and walking it through it's own remediation was really interesting. Interdependent education on both sides of the chat, especially teaching it better #A11y best practices after it implemented #Aria incorrectly. Now I wonder how many subjective a11y ideas and practices are colliding within the models.
I want to write my own cross-platform and accessible for blind users #Mastodon client. There are no #a11y friendly clients for Linux (only some TUI software) and there are only one buggy and unstable proprietary client for Windows called #tweesecake. I already know the stack I'll use but I have one problem. I don't know Mastodon well enough to be sure that I implement every feature which is supported there. For sure I can read the whole API reference but maybe there are easier ways, maybe some list of features, maybe some feature guide for developers, etc.
As a blind user I can't just install any popular and cool client and take all features from it... That's the problem: they are not accessible at all or not accessible enough for every day use.
So, maybe someone helps me with some sort of docs or I don't know :D
Ah, I see that BlueSky has joined LinkedIn in supplanting Twitter as the primary source of accessibility misinformation.
(I didn’t make this clear, but this post came across my timeline here and on linkedin and it just shows how this kind of stuff spreads on algorithmic timelines and then bleeds over to other social networks. That’s how you poison a well.)
Over the past months, we’ve been improving the accessibility of both our desktop and mobile apps, in particular to better support visually impaired users.
So this third party Windows Bluesky app is making a good start in terms of accessibility. JAWS reads it well. There are buttons in the tab order to switch between Home, notifications, maybe other timelines when available. Posts are read as you arrow through the list. The main thing this seems to lack so far is keyboard shortcuts, but if the author is receptive, it would be an easy fix: #a11y #beeskiewindowscentral.com/software-ap…
As a low vision / blind user, So, I'm looking to install Linux after a 10+ year hiatus - Any advice, distributions or other articles or list servs someone can point me to? BlindArch, seems dead #a11y #blind #linux
Another random thing that made me happy tonight: I discovered that at some point #wordweb added a feature to disable linking of words in addon dictionaries. That makes reading definitions with a #screenreader much faster. It's a bit expensive, but if you frequently find yourself resorting to Google, or even worse #AI, to define words for you, it's worth the money and is largely #accessible as well: wordweb.info/#a11y
Okay, this is a big one and ongoing effort. So definitely not doable in a single PR.
Let's find accessiblity issues on flohmarkt:
* not keyboard navigateable
* not properly labeled for screenreaders
* mediocre color contrast
* more?
Thanks to our supporters, speakers, guest hosts, and team members from our last event inclusivedesign24.org/2024/ we've been able to once again make a little donation to @NVAccess on behalf of Inclusive Design 24 #id24 #a11y #accessibility
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highly appreciated!
