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TalkBack 15 on Galaxy S25 phones is compatible with Braille displays that use HID, thus saving users from additional set-up steps. TalkBack on the new devices will also use Gemini models for more detailed image descriptions. Not sure when these features will extend to older Samsung devices - hopefully soon: androidfaithful.com/android-ac…
#Accessibility #Android #Samsung

Google rolls out new accessibility features for Android, starting with Samsung's Galaxy S25

New accessibility features are rolling out for select Android devices, such as LE Audio hearing aid support and support for HID Braille displays.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Faithful)
#Accessibility #android #samsung

#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Adrian Roselli @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Jeremy Keith @Chris Heilmann @Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ @Steve Faulkner @A11yTalks @rem @Adam Silver @Cloud Four

#Accessibility #inclusion #DEI #employment

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #lowvision

In-Process is out - featuring news on NVDA 2024.4.2, our new add-on survey, a very successful SPEVI 2025 conference, and a User's guide: What to do if your add-on breaks?

Read the full issue now at:
nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

and remember, you can now subscribe to receive In-Process via email at: eepurl.com/iuVyjo

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Newsletter #WhatsOn #ScreenReader #Accessibility


In-Process 20th January 2025

Welcome to 2025! And to those subscribed to receive In-Process via email, welcome to the first edition direct to your inbox! We hope you all had a bit of a break and some time with loved ones. We a…
NV Access
#Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda #whatson

Free Scout appears to be an open source version of Zendesk. They openly mention accessibility and screen reader support in their documentation and right there on the homepage, which is good! Their demo is here and their main website is the second link. Stuff is deleted after a short while, but this is decently accessible! Could use some improvements but far more accessible and screen reader friendly than Zendesk! demo.freescout.net/login

Main page. freescout.net/

#Accessibility #A11y #OpenSource

FreeScout

demo.freescout.net
#a11y #Accessibility #opensource

#a11y #Accessibility

#Accessibility #screenreader

I just received Testflight invitation for @surf application. And discovered that VoiceOver, assistive tech for blind people, does not read anything. Just says "bottom sheet" twice, and the app's name, then NOTHING. I hope they fix this mess, because this all means cutting blind people off. I won't keep silent in front of yet another accessibility issue. #ableism #accessibility #blind #inclusion #disability #voiceover #fediverse
#Accessibility #fediverse #blind #Disability #inclusion #ableism #voiceover @Surf

For zod's sake, PLEASE stop making progressive communications inaccessible.

If you want to get the word out about your union, etc., please make sure all images have alt text, all PDFs are accessible ones, etc.

It literally helps your words reach more people. #Accessibility #Union #Labor

#Accessibility #labor #union

VO/desktop bug via @elly:
adrianroselli.com/2017/12/twea…

Using this pen:
cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/rNRxZmP

We both experience VO ignoring the start of most sentences when using read-all.

Is this a known issue?

#accessibility #a11y #Safari


Tweaking Text Level Styles

It’s a bit of a pain to pepper updates within the sections of the post, so just scroll down to the latest update and work your way back up. Considering how much I charge for this site, I am hoping my readers will accept the extra effort.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #safari @Elly Loel

Happy birthday to @bemyeyes I’ve just seen that it’s 10 years old now and I vividly remember what it was like to hear about this amazing app on an RNIB tech podcast when I’d only lost my sight a few months and was struggling with the sudden loss of independence. Using Be My Eyes changed my outlook on doing things myself, I didn’t have to wait for someone sighted to come home to get things done! Over the years I’ve learned so many more tools and stopped using it for a while but now we have Be My AI I’m using it every week again for something - taking my own photos and enjoying the ability to access descriptions of photos on social media if I want to. I always recommend this app to anyone just losing their sight as one of the first things to learn to use #blind #PartiallySighted #Accessibility #BeMyEyes
#Accessibility #blind #PartiallySighted #bemyeyes @Be My Eyes

#a11y #Accessibility #html

Slack has to be the most responsive team if you file an #accessibility bug. They are also really quick to fix said bugs, as documented in their latest release notes from the app store.

Bug fixes • What's in a name? In your audit logs, any mobile users who viewed a PDF were being logged as "Slack User" rather than their official handle. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but the security team needs to know who had access to those documents. Tragedy averted. • With VoiceOver enabled, the button to "Add a reaction" was not selectable. Some would say that "Act, don't react" is a wise maxim, but we believe in both. We hope the action of fixing this bug elicits a positive reaction. • VoiceOver was glossing over usernames when reading out DMs. As intriguing as it might be to play “Guess who wrote that message?” it can also be, frankly, pretty annoying. We’re sorry about that.

#Accessibility

We had an amazing, emPOWERing time at #SPEVI2025 ! And it's not over yet. If you're in Brisbane, join us in Post Office Square this morning, for a morning of Braille and music. It's a free event, open to everyone!
#Braille #NVDA #Accessibility #a11y #SPEVI
#a11y #Accessibility #braille #nvda #spevi2025 #spevi

🌙 Sleep-deprived thoughts...
After a night without sleep, some treadmill time, and lots of thinking, here’s a wild idea: could CS:GO ever be made accessible for blind players? 🎮🤔
It sounds far-fetched, I know, but hear me out. What if there were a mode or addon that used spatial audio to "ping" walls or obstacles (like a sonar effect) and distinct sound cues for player positions? It wouldn’t be the same as how sighted players experience it, but blind gamers have their own ways of navigating fast-paced games.
We already have some incredible audio-based games, and you wouldn’t believe the epic battles we’ve had—all sound, no visuals, just skill and spatial awareness. Making a game like CS:GO accessible might seem impossible, but with the right creativity, who knows?
#Gaming #Accessibility #BlindGamers #CSGO
#Accessibility #gaming #blindgamers #csgo

What is a good, accessible, cross-platform alternative to mozilla-firefox and google-chrome?
I'm asking because I'd like to have something else to switch to in case google and mozilla go down the crapper.
I'm on mac so I have safari which I really like, but I some times have navigation-issues with it on some sites.
#accessibility
#blind
#Accessibility #blind

We are back for day 2 of #SPEVI2025. This morning we started with an inspiring keynote presentation by Mr Michael Sheppard, a solicitor who shared his experience growing up blind. The conference is on today and tomorrow at 293 Queen Street Brisbane, Australia

Pictured is NV Access founder Michael Curran chatting with Michael Sheppard after the presentation about how he uses NVDA.

#spevi #SpeciConference2025 #keynote #Conference #Brisbane #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y

Michael Curran in a brown jacket talks with Michael Sheppard in a blue suit & tie as James Boreham in NV Access shirt talks with another attendee in the background.
#a11y #Accessibility #nvdasr #conference #nvda #keynote #spevi2025 #spevi #speciconference2025 #brisbane

@brave ok, would you be willing to test that, if the opportunity presents itself? Also, I'm having an #Accessibility issue with Edge. If I open multiple tabs, #Voiceover on #iOS doesn't tell you what they are, when in the tab switcher. It just says, "draggable."
#Accessibility #ios #voiceover @Brave

#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #education #blindness #conference #nvda #spevi2025 #spevi

#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot

#a11y #Accessibility #section508 #gsa

In a shocking #accessibility #regression, the TescoGroceries website no longer uses headings to show products, either in search results or on shelves. Without headings, screen reader users like myself can no longer navigate on a per-product basis. We now have to move by focusable control, which provides a lengthy and inconsistent way around that we've not had to use for the last decade. This can mean pressing "tab" or similar up to 5 times per product before adding it to my basket, reducing my efficiency accordingly. It's 2025 and we're still seeing ridiculous and 100% avoidable barriers to something as simple as the weekly grocery shop as blind people. Someone should be held accountable for releasing stupid code.
#Accessibility #regression

#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot @Adrian Roselli

Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars

Public can submit comments until February 5th in case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising

lflegal.com/2025/01/ftc-access…

by @LFLegal
#accessibility #a11y #wcag #accessiBe #accessiBeNot #ftc


Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars

The new year brought weclomed digital accessibility news from the United States Federal Trade Commission, known as the FTC.
Law Office of Lainey Feingold
#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #accessiBe #ftc #accessibenot @Lainey Feingold

#Accessibility #govtech #WebAlmanac

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.

#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility

#Accessibility #AI #VLC #transcription #deaf #hearingimpaired

Accessibility Update:
After lots of back and forth with OpenAI and several emails, the latest ChatGPT beta for Android (V1.2025.007) has finally fixed many accessibility issues!
Screen reader users can now access Camera, Microphone, and Screen Sharing options in the Advanced Voice window.
Proper window scrolling and Explore by Touch now work smoothly in the main ChatGPT window.
The edit box no longer disappears after the first chat exchange when using TalkBack.
#Accessibility #Android #ChatGPT
#Accessibility #android #chatgpt

I really want to give a positive review to the host of an Airbnb Experience I attended recently. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which of the unlabelled links in their email to choose. Maybe "t3s6S0VG" means five stars? Then again, it could be "fxq2V6ci", "Sc2yVOPh", or even "sABCEL6T". And I'm sure one of those will report them and get them banned. #accessibility
#Accessibility

#Screenreader users: in a timed online exam, how would you expect to interact with something telling you the amount of time left?

I think having it regularly announce the time remaining is an obviously bad idea. If you know that it's labelled "Time remaining", would you just search for that text in the page when you want to check the time?

#accessibility #screenreader #VoiceOver #JAWS #NVDA

#Accessibility #screenreader #nvda #jaws #voiceover

Is there seriously no way to move a row up or down in Google Sheets with the keyboard? I'd even accept a menu command (reachable either via the menu bar or with the alt+/ menu search), but I can't even find that. Please tell me I'm missing something? #accessibility
#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #opensource #fosdem @FOSDEM

Dear friends, #screenreader users, #blind users and #accessibility professionals in particular.
Are you using chat over traditional email as provided by #DeltaChat / #DeltaLab / #ArcaneChat?
I like it uses traditional email infrastructure, is federated, supports end to end encryption, rich content including audio / voice messages. I have even recognized @adb has implemented screen reader accessibility specific features into the android app.
However I have quickly tried electron based app on linux with orca screen reader, exchanged a few messages back and fort between two of my personal accounts using the DeltaChat app and thunderbird and I haven't found the user experience verry appealing. I can't understand how to effectivelly navigate in the list of conversations and list of messages.
Therefore I would be interested to hear a few comments from people knowing this platform better. How accessible is it on different platforms?
On the desktop is the electron based app a prefered choice?
Also some other questions. For the best experience, do I need a new email address or can I use my existing self-hosted one I have already configured in thunderbird?
Ffeel free to point me to a FAQ, some up to date introductory documentation if you think my questions don't make much sense please.
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #deltachat #DeltaLab #arcanechat @adb

#a11y #Accessibility #podcast #UX #userexperience #uxdesign #UXPodcast @James Royal-Lawson @Per Axbom

#Accessibility

Anyone have advice for simple #blog #themes for #wordpress? I have learned that what I really want to look into is what theme to use for my site instead of trying to strip manual links out of the #wordpress default. What are some themes people are using in the #vi community? #accessibility
#Accessibility #blog #wordpress #themes #vi

Okay, let's try this out. Are there any accessible and free RSS feed readers for iOS? Perhaps those with a minimalist, simple-to-use design? I would like to learn how to use those, and would be glad for your input and suggestions. Thank you. #RSS #Accessibility #IOS #iPhone
#Accessibility #ios #RSS #iphone

#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign #uidesign @Large Heydon Collider

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