Around a year ago, I managed to dig up some information on why a song in Life is Strange: True Colours wasn't subtitled, resulting in an accessibility issue for deaf players.
Life is Strange: True Colors will unfortunately have this accessibility problem for the foreseeable future.Stephanie Minor (TheGamer)
During Global Accessibility Awareness Week this year, I was invited to give a talk for Eidos Montreal / Square Enix West, all about how disabilities often intersect, and needs can overlap in unexpected ways Devs need to consider.
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My main piece of regular work is a series called Access-Ability.
The series, which is made up of 100+articles, releases weekly, and discusses how the video game industry can be more accessible to disabled players.
Text: access-ability.uk
Video: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0…
My name is Laura Kate Dale, and I am an author, accessibility and queer representation critic and consultant, video game critic, streamer, and all around content creator.
Below is a thread of my various projects, and how you can support my ongoing work.
#accessibility #a11y #trans #gaming #author
“Tires are foundational to all our concept cars! You can tell because we left a wheel well to hold one!” A common refrain I see from companies is a variation of “Accessibility is a core principle!” They will include it in messaging, brag about their …Adrian Roselli
Good news for the @Mastodon #iOS app‘s #VoiceOver support. @jedfox has been on a roll these last few days and has added some really awesome #accessibility related pull requests to the public repository. Hope they all get merged soon and new TestFlight builds be made available so we can test them out before release. Among the fixes is the compose button, custom actions, better labels in the compose screen, and more.
Hope @Gargron or @zeitschlag can approve and merge them soon. #a11y
If it is important enough to need words, it is important enough to use text content.…Eric Bailey
Thank you, TEDx for viewing #accessibility as an important topic and for making it an Editor’s Pick. Thank you Shannah Hayley and TEDxPlano for the opportunity! Thanks to Thomas Logan, Makoto Ueki, and Ashley Coffey for making the talk possible
#a11y
While no one wanted a pandemic to happen, Meryl Evans points out that history has shown events like this can lead to changes for the better. For her, the ris...YouTube
A guide for using #screenReaders with #Mastodon.
starshipchangeling.net/mastodo…
What is This? This is a page where you can find links to all of the currently published chapters of Changeling’s Guide to mastodon for Screen Reader Users. I was considering publishing…The Starship Changeling
In dieser #Anleitung für blinde Menschen nutzen wir für #Android übrigens @AntennaPod
kom-in.de/156/podcasts-via-rss…
#Podcast #RSS #Audio #Player #App #mobile #a11y #accessibility #blind #FOSS #OpenSource #AntennaPod
@jamescridland
Über einen RSS-Feed können Web-Inhalte mit Apps abonniert werden. Besonders häufig wird dies zum Hören von Podcasts angewandt. Wie das blinde Menschen machen können, wird hier erklärt.www.kom-in.de
Maybe this could help FOSS developers make something like this for Linux or Android. This is an article from Apple Machine Learning, on how they made mobile apps accessible with machine learning:
machinelearning.apple.com/rese…
At Apple we use machine learning to teach our products to understand the world more as humans do. Of course, understanding the world better…Apple Machine Learning Research
There's also a wider question about implementation, because codeberg isn't the only site that needs to implement some form of control mechanism in their sign up to stop them from being overwhelmed by bots signing up.
Our projects are small and often just 1 to a couple of folk. We all have our small fields of expertise and energy levels. How do we help each other to fix this?
How do we ensure that sites are #accessible for everyone? How easy are they to install and support? #a11y
So back in 2020 Codeberg asked for help from the community to help them with #accessibility issues. They need some help in house as the current solution helps them manage the spam that would overwhelm signups, but their moderation team is small. CAPTCHAs aren't very accessible and they would like some help to fix this. #a11y Can anyone help? The linked toot is their request for help.
mastodon.technology/@codeberg/…
codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit…
In #389 it was reported that text editors were not accessible yet. Given that such a central piece of the software it not accessible by screen readers (and spell checkers for the matter) yet, it's very likely that there are other UI roadblocks, too.Codeberg.org
Here's the thing, the fancy-looking unicode characters almost never create words on their own, especially not those from the web, gemini or IMs, nor the ones for STEM fields.
A rudimentary look ahead "algorithm" can toggle transliteration on and off. We have transliteration mappings in every web CMS that deals with user uploaded files, because they need clean paths for SEO, just take the mappings from Drupal.
#a11y
cc: @lena @aral @devinprater
mak os and linux users, report for combat duty. mudlet testing finally (Page 1) — General Game Discussion — AudioGames.net Forum — Discuss audio games!forum.audiogames.net
One area we realized we hadn't given so much focus recently was around technologies that allowed people with various disabilities to make use of our software.Christian Fredrik Schaller (Fedora Magazine)
I blogged about text-overflow: ellipsis which can hide important content, especially when the viewport changes: yatil.net/blog/text-overflow-e…
(And yes, I always wanted to write a “considered harmful” title. And here it is!)
On the downsides of constraining content through CSS.Eric Eggert
Someone made an app for blind people to check to see if their face is in the camera view, good for video conferencing. #a11y #accessibility
Can You See Me is a simple tool that offers guidance on webcam placement to people with limited amounts of useful vision.canyouseeme.app
While looking for workarounds to assistive technology needs for work, I found this article about a device that's basically two keyboards with screens attached, connected wired or wirelessly, made for use by Deaf people, and how Deaf people view it.
trudysuggs.com/doingmoreharmth…
#a11y
I blogged about WCAG Resize Text and Reflow. Two success criteria that are related but have actually very little to do with each other.
yatil.net/blog/resize-text-ref…
There seems to be a confusion about the relationship and how to test for the WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow. While these two success criteria seem related, they cover different use cases.Eric Eggert
If anyone hasn't joined the FossAbility Matrix space yet, you can, and it's got an off-topic room. The link is:
For Android developers, if you have fast swipe actions for doing things like deleting an item, upvoting a post, favoriting an item, playing an eppisode, stuff like that, consider using accessibility actions.
developer.android.com/referenc…
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