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Hey everyone, #Linux Access appears to be live! This is a really fantastic resource for beginning Blind Linux users! linuxaccess.org/ #Accessibility #A11y

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Welcome to Linux Access This is your central hub for all things related to accessibility on Linux. Here you’ll find articles, tips, and resources written by the community to help make Linux more usable for everyone.
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The overlay shill is not just a shill, but an overlay vendor itself.

It may have failed to disclose that when asking for, and engaging in, a “balanced” and “open” debate about overlays on LinkedIn.

Overlay vendors continue to be ethically dubious (at best).

#overlay #accessibility #a11y

The Sitemorse overlay, copyright AAANow, showing options for ADHD, dyslexia, vision, color, motor, and seizure; other options in a separate box are voice over and text only. There is also a disabled button with a camera icon and a reset button.
#a11y #Accessibility #overlay

What the fuck is it with #overlay companies and their apologists commenting on my blog?

I got two today (on the same post):
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…

They are promoting their water-carrying shill-piece over on LinkedIn.

#accessibility #a11y


FTC Catches up to #accessiBe

From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the W…
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #overlay

@Delta Chat Please stay awesome and original with your exclusive features and thanks for embracing #screenreader #a11y almost from the begining.
#a11y #screenreader @Delta Chat

#a11y #Accessibility #overlay #accesstive

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#a11y #web @Matheus Richard

#a11y #orbitspeak #brailleforall #orbitreaderq20 #orbitreaderq40 #orbitplayer

#a11y #inclusion #orbitspeak #brailleforall #orbitreaderq20 #orbitreaderq40 #orbitspeakplus #orbitplayer #nfb25 #acb2025

I love this so much. It's pretty much a GUI for #tampermonkey, offering an easier way for #blind folks to find elements on a webpage and do things to them. Yes, you could do the same things directly by just writing JavaScript yourself. But this is much, much faster, and requires a bit less knowledge. It took me less than 30 seconds to turn all the story titles on fanfiction.net into headings. Labeling a button, or making other small changes would be just as fast. The typos and slightly incorrect English put me off at first; especially the word "blinds" for blind people felt weird and derogatory. apparently the author is from #Cameroon, though, so maybe that's standard there. stsolution2.org/WebAccessibilizer/#a11y#accessibility#screenreader

WebAccessibilizer- A web javascript to help blind to make html web pages more accessible

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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #tampermonkey #cameroon

#a11y #Accessibility #html #UX

#a11y #aria #webstandards #at @lola

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux


Improve accessibility with event widgets in the month view (!576) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Calendar application for GNOME
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#FreeSoftware #a11y #Accessibility #linux #foss #gnome #calendar #gnomecalendar

Happy Disability Pride Month everybody :)

During the past few weeks, there's been an overwhelming amount of progress with accessibility on GNOME Calendar:

• Event widgets/popovers will convey to screen readers that they are toggle buttons. They will also convey of their states (whether they're pressed or not) and that they have a popover.

• Calendar rows will convey to screen readers that they are check boxes, along with their states (whether they're checked or not). Additionally, they will no longer require a second press of a tab to get to the next row; one tab will be sufficient.

• Month and year spin buttons are now capable of being interacted with using arrow up/down buttons. They will also convey to screen readers that they are spin buttons, along with their properties (current, minimum, and maximum values). The month spin button will also wrap, where going back a month from January will jump to December, and going to the next month from December will jump to January.

• Events in the agenda view will convey to screen readers of their respective titles and descriptions.

Accessibility on Calendar has progressed to the point where I believe it's safe to say that, as of GNOME 49, Calendar will be usable exclusively with a keyboard, without significant usability friction!

There's still a lot of work to be done in regards to screen readers, for example conveying time appropriately and event descriptions. But really, just 6 months ago, we went from having absolutely no idea where to even begin with accessibility in Calendar — which has been an ongoing issue for literally a decade — to having something workable exclusively with a keyboard and screen reader! :3

Huge thanks to @nekohayo for coordinating the accessibility initiative, especially with keeping the accessibility meta issue updated; Georges Stavracas for single-handedly maintaining GNOME Calendar and reviewing all my merge requests; and @tyrylu for sharing feedback in regards to usability.

All my work so far has been unpaid and voluntary; hundreds of hours were put into developing and testing all the accessibility-related merge requests. I would really appreciate if you could spare a little bit of money to support my work, thank you 🩷

• ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
• github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…

#Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GTK #GTK4 #Libadwaita #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource


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One of Forbes’ renowned 100 lists has just recognised NV Access as a global leader in accessibility.

Forbes’ first-ever Accessibility 100 highlights the biggest innovators & impact-makers in the field of accessibility.

“It’s an honour to be recognised alongside the world’s best innovative organisations advancing accessibility” said NV Access Co-Founder, Mick Curran.

The Forbes Accessibility 100 List is at: forbes.com/lists/accessibility…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Forbes #Top100 #BestOf2025

NV Access logo top-left and mockup of NVDA box bottom right, with "ACCESSIBILITY 100" in turquoise diagonally from lower-left to top-right with turquoise lines above and below. 2025 in orange in blank area below, orange tinge in lower-left background and orange border top and right.
#a11y #Accessibility #nvdasr #nvda #forbes #top100 #bestof2025

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If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.

It’s nice to see others embrace it.

“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/sel…

#accessibility #a11y


Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…
Read the Tea Leaves
#a11y #Accessibility

You may think that digital accessibility is unrelated, but I assure you that every successful effort to chip away at rights and protections will be followed by another.

Don’t wait until it affects you personally. Speak up. This is low-risk, so do it while you can.

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#a11y #practices

@podfeet interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device that enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology. #a11y #CSUN2025 podfeet.com/blog/2025/06/csun-…
View from above looking down on the Guided Hands assistive device. The photo shows a person using the Guided Hands device to control a tablet laying face up on a black square surface. The surface extends beyond the tablet and has two this rods spanning the left and right sides. Attached to the left and right rods at a perpendicular angle is another rod that slides up and down on the side rods. A wrist rest is attached to and can slide left and right on the horizontal rod, allowing full two-dimensional access of the tablet below. A person’s right hand and wrist is attached with a strap to the wrist rest. A small articulated arm extends from the handpiece and ends with a stylus pointed downward onto the surface of the tablet. The device has the name Guided Hands and the Imaginable Solutions company logo (a hummingbird) on the bottom of the surface.

CSUN 2025: ImaginAble Solutions Guided Hands - Podfeet Podcasts

Allison interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device for people with limited hand mobility. The device enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology.
Steve Sheridan (Podfeet Podcasts)
#a11y #csun2025 @podfeet

Open Source Accessibility Summit!
Sunday, Oct 12, Raleigh, NC USA
"Improving the accessibility of open source software"
2025.allthingsopen.org/open-so…
#opensource #oss #a11y #accessibility #events #event #raleighNC

Open Source Accessibility Summit • All Things Open 2025

About the Open Source Accessibility Summit The Open Source Accessibility Summit will be a one-day in-person event that brings together members of the disability, accessibility, and open source communities to define a roadmap for improving the accessi…
All Things Open
#a11y #Accessibility #opensource #oss #events #event #raleighnc

Thank you. I use NVDA it a lot to test the #a11y of my projects at work. Can't wait to try out the new version.
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Ok, the #Thunderbird chat interface for IRC and Matrix seems to have #a11y issues with #NVDA now. Sometimes NVDA completely freezes, especially when the interface is maximised, though not reliably in all channels. I filed a bug, appreciate anyone who can dig into what on earth is going on: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

1972175 - When focusing the chat input in Thunderbird 128.11.1 (for Matrix or IRC), NVDA freezes with watchdog errors until a message is sent.

UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Chat Core - General. Last updated 2025-06-14.
bugzilla.mozilla.org
#a11y #thunderbird #nvda

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Incidentally, the company unleashing a new wave of contrast problems on the web (see today’s Codepen Spark for liquid glass copycats) is also the company that seems uninterested in supporting `prefers-reduced-transparency`:
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

#CSS #Safari #accessibility #a11y


prefers-reduced-transparency - CSS | MDN

The prefers-reduced-transparency CSS media feature is used to detect if a user has enabled a setting on their device to reduce the transparent or translucent layer effects used on the device.
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#a11y #html #aria

#a11y #Accessibility #Disability #disabilityrights

#a11y #accessible #blind #screenreader #hidden #content @Steve Faulkner

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do…

Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.

#accessibility #a11y #UX


I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational dec…
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #UX

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