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#a11y #Accessibility #eaa #europeanaccessibilityact

Back-to-school seasoning may be winding down, but Thunderbird is seeing where we make the grade (and don’t) with accessibility. Learn about our recent a11y study and find how to help us make Thunderbird accessible to everyone!

#Thunderbird #Accessibility #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/v…


VIDEO: Thunderbird Accessibility Study

In our latest Office Hours, we're covering what's in (and out) of our latest Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0 ESR "Eclipse"!
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#Accessibility #opensource #thunderbird

In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery: our new dishwasher.

A dishwasher that can or needs an internet connection absolute no go.

Crappy sensors which only function sometimes and not with wet hands.

Ask Bosch Siemens.

There is so much untested trash sold as advancement, why because engineers are scared to tell their bosses to F Off because that great new idea is just flashy shit.

#Accessibility

Ein sehr guter Blogbeitrag von meinem KIT-Kollegen Gerhard zum Thema Urlaub - der gut erklärt, warum auch eine Behinderung wie Geburts-Blindheit durchaus kontextabhängig nicht behindernd sein kann.

blindnerd.de/2025/08/20/unter-…
#a11y #accessibility
#blindNerd


Unter uns

Meine lieben, Vor acht Jahren schrieb ich bereits einmal über das heutige nicht astronomische Thema. Ich finde, es ist es wert, heute und hier nochmals neu aufbereitet und rezykelt zu werden. Es ge…
Blindnerd - Wissenschaft und Technik blind erleben
#a11y #Accessibility #blindnerd

In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery: our new dishwasher.
In terms of form factor, Fisher & Paykel DishDrawers really suit us: you effectively get two half dishwashers, so you can easily run a half load, run one while you're still filling the other, etc. We had them at our old house years ago and they were awesome. They were also the most accessible dishwasher I've encountered by design: they had tactile buttons, and even though some of the buttons cycled between options, there were different beeps when you wrapped around to the start of the options, so if you couldn't see the screen, you could choose what you wanted easily once familiar.
So when our old dishwasher died last week, it was a clear choice: we'd get DishDrawers. There's always a risk that new models will regress accessibility, and unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to test or find out about stuff like this. But this new model also has WiFi connectivity, so I figured that would work as a fallback at least.
It turns out that they're all capacitive touch buttons; i.e. not tactile, no press. Worse, there are no distinct beeps when you wrap around to the first option, etc.
So I resigned myself to using the app, which is surprisingly very accessible. But... no go there either. Because of a safety feature you can't disable, you have to enable remote start using the (inaccessible) buttons on the dishwasher. Remote start gets auto disabled when the door is opened, after the next wash completes or after 72 hours, whichever comes first.
At best, that makes this thing extremely tedious for me to use. I can stick tactile dots above or below the buttons, but even then, it's easy to accidentally touch a button while you're looking for them and you can easily choose the wrong option due to the lack of useful audible feedback. I already have this problem with our air fryer and it frustrates the hell out of me. But I guess it just is what it is, as is so often the case.
The worst part is that they took a reasonably accessible product and made it inaccessible. And for what? Visually pleasing touch buttons that probably don't even function when you have wet hands (because surely people don't have wet hands in a kitchen?). It's Thermomix all over again. And the message these companies send is clear: "we don't care about people with disabilities at all. We don't even give it a thought."
I called Fisher & Paykel to see if there's anything they can do and it's been escalated to their tech team, but I'm not holding my breath, especially because the inability to permanently enable remote start is a deliberate safety choice. I'm just so, so tired of struggling with and fighting these battles every. Single. Day. I barely even have the energy to be angry. The temptation to just give up is immense.
#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #leichtesprache #leichterlesen #leichterschreiben

After an amazing long run of stability it has been decided that I am back on the job market and available to work for a new employer. I prefer to remain in the #accessibility space, but I guess beggers can't be choosers and all that jazz. I'm doing my own search but if anyone out here is on a team needing help or has any job leads, I would really appreciate making the connection. #CPWA #WCAG #Salesforce
#Accessibility #wcag #salesforce #cpwa

Will anyone be updating the NVDA AudioScreen add-on for renewed compatibility with more recent versions of the NVDA screen reader from NV Access? E.g. keyboard shortcuts appear reassigned github.com/nvaccess/audioScree… @NVAccess #blind #a11y #accessibility

Once up-to-date again, I'll gladly add a link to the NVDA AudioScreen add-on in the white paper on brain implants for the blind versus visual-to-auditory sensory substitution artificialvision.com/neuralink… Global accessibility matters.


GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.

An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen
GitHub
#a11y #Accessibility #blind @NV Access

I'm considering sellign my BTSpeak. As much as I wanted to, I never got to tinker with it. So, other than a few things I did on the Linux end, it's been sitting there. I'd rather have it be used by someone.

It's a pro.

If one of you wants it, make me a good offer. I'll consider it. It's in an excellent case. If the offer is good, I might even throw in a 512 GB storage card. If no one wants it (with a good offer), I'll put in a clasified on Blind Bargains or something.

#accessibility #BTSpeak

#Accessibility #btspeak

#Accessibility @Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @Alison Meeks

#Accessibility #google @Michael Hanscom

Has anyone written up best practices for #accessibility with #GoogleSheet's charts & graphs? I'm struggling to deal with the best of bad choices. Text isn't legible or it is hard to differentiate between dark bars.

I wish they had patterns, but someone must have written some guidance on this. #a11y

#a11y #Accessibility #googlesheet

Question for people using #screenreaders: Do I need to retype the text of a page into the accessibility box for a pdf? I am assuming yes since it sees the page as an image, correct?
#LowVision #accessibility #BlindFedi

For some reason I thought pdfs were automatically better for accessibility, but now I wonder if that was false information.

#Accessibility #screenreaders #lowvision #BlindFedi

I remain a fan of consuming my news via RSS feeds. There are #accessibility and time-saving benefits to getting all your news in one accessible app, and there are no naughty algorithms trying to filter your view of the world.
For many years, I've used Lire as my RSS reader on my iPhone, in conjunction with a feed aggregator service called The Old Reader. Sometime last year, The Old Reader hit a rough patch, but it seemed to have come right, until a couple of months ago.
At that point, I began experiencing serious issues accessing The Old Reader from Lire. Most of the time, Lire would time out. I worked out that if I tried to access the service repeatedly, it usually succeeded on the third or fourth attempt, but that was time-consuming and frustrating. One other person contacted me to let me know he was experiencing the same problem.
I contacted The Old Reader, and they seemed uninterested in pursuing the issue, apparently because they weren't receiving many reports of it.
I contacted the developer of Lire, who couldn't have been more helpful. He asked for my credentials for The Old Reader so he could test with the app, and he duplicated my findings right away. He was able to identify the issue with The Old Reader API that was causing the time-out, and gave this information to The Old Reader, who didn't even acknowledge his message, let alone commit to resolving the issue.
So over the long weekend, I resolved to find a better service. After doing some deep research with ChatGPT, I settled on Bazqux Reader. The website has a few rough edges from an accessibility point of view, but I was able to export my feeds from The Old Reader, import them into Bazqux, and log in via Lire.
The one thing that is very different is the speed. Retrieving article from Bazqux is way faster than The Old Reader ever was, something that my deep research told me I should expect.
So, sadly I can't recommend The Old Reader anymore, but so far so good with Bazqux. Lightning fast and simple setup.
There is a cost for this service, I think about $39 per year, and Lire does support using iCloud to store your feeds. I find that for the large number of feeds I have, a service like Bazqux adds value, but if your requirements are more modest, using iCloud may be sufficient. However you choose to use it, RSS is worth using.
#Accessibility

I watched Envision's community call. If I'm understanding this correctly, I can actually buy the Solo AirGo V glasses from the manufacturer's web site. I haven't looked at it in detail. but, the prices appear to be cheaper. I'm confused by the financing here. I understand the first year's pro sub to be free. But, if I subscribe to the annual pro plan right now, I'd get it for $100 and I'd be grandfathered in for following years.

#accessibility #blind

#Accessibility #blind

One of the benefits of eSpeak-NG is that it doesn't make assumptions like reading "CUP" is Cuban Pesos (hello US OneCore voices) - but the flip side is that eSpeak will read the year 1987 as "nineteen hundred eighty seven". If you'd like it to read that as "nineteen eighty seven" & learn a little #regex on the way, then @fastfinge has you covered with the "Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak" blog post: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/08/28/…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Tips #Accessibility

Sam's Stuff - Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak

stuff.interfree.ca
#Accessibility #nvdasr #nvda #tips #RegEx @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery, booking.com hides hotel prices from accessibility tools using aria-hidden. Even better, they have an sr-only version of the price, except that is inside an aria-hidden container, so it isn't actually exposed to screen readers.
<div aria-hidden="true" tabindex="0" ... aria-describedby="_36ygf5luf">
<div>
<div ... aria-hidden="true">
AUD 89
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div ... aria-hidden="true">
<span ...>
AUD 72
</span>
</div>
<span class="bui-u-sr-only">
Original price
AUD 89
Current price
AUD 72
</span>
</div>
</div>
#Accessibility

The slides from my last talk (of 3) from #OSSummit can be found below. Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A11y — Accessible Roles and Responsibilities Mapping

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

#ARRM #W3c #A11y #Accessibility

/c @wai


Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A11y

Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A11y Accessible Roles and Responsibilities Mapping Mike Gifford, Open Source Summit Europe 2025, August 27, 2025 4:20-5:00pm CEST G109 (Level 1) Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A…
Google Docs
#a11y #Accessibility #w3c #OSSummit #arrm @Web Accessibility Initiative

Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears! :psyduck:

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years. :blobmiou:

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech

#Accessibility #linux #orca #texttospeech #speechdispatcher #pied

My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑

Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?

What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?

#a11y

#a11y #Accessibility #linux #fedora #orca #mycroft

Tonight at 4:30 pm I’ll be streaming a new branching interactive fiction game set in occupied Netherlands during World War II and is inspired by real events. It should be completely accessible and below is the steam link and Twitch is RossMinor!

store.steampowered.com/app/384… sist_Collaborate__a_World_War_2_ChoiceBased_Story/

#Blind #Accessibility #Gamedev


Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story on Steam

A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian.
store.steampowered.com
#Accessibility #blind #gamedev

#Accessibility #uxdesign #inclusivedesign #webaccessibility #ecommerce #smallbusiness

#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdevelopment @Large Heydon Collider

This week's In-Process is out. Featuring all the news on NVDA 2025.2, info on the upcoming NVDA 2025.3, a recap on restarting after updating (no we're not about to enforce that!) and a look into the namesake feature of Microsoft Windows... and just how complicated ARE the Windows+arrow key commands? (Very, but we break it down for you!) All that and more, available now: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Windows #Desktop #NewVersion #NewRelease #FOSS #News #Newsletter

Screenshot of my desktop showing one window snapped to the left half of the screen and the snap window manager showing other windows I can snap to the right half if I choose.

NV Access | In-Process 22nd August 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #Windows #nvdasr #News #newsletter #desktop #nvda #newrelease #newversion

#NextCloud really drove me angry. They simply choose to ignore accessibility concerns in favor of so-called "security". It's absolutely none of their business to protect users from viruses and trojans, and saying that "We can't allow one-press copy public link because a script can call this API" is total BS, because in this case any attacker script has access to every file on that PC! Great job, NextCloud, great job. Whenever someone tells me once more about "giving up big corporations", I'll point them to this issue. And yes, I really hope someone sues them because their #desktop client is a total accessibility nightmare. github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i… #OpenSource #Accessibility

The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version.

Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
SebjuFrab (GitHub)
#Accessibility #opensource #nextcloud #desktop

Following a discussion in the user group, which essentially revolved around "After updating to a new version of NVDA, it should FORCE you to restart the PC", I thought I'd just ask here: SHOULD NVDA force you to restart the PC after updating? (The argument being, that sometimes we see quirky behaviour after updating but before restarting. Currently we simply advise you to restart if you encounter something unexpected).

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Poll #Update #Updates #Question

  • Yes, NVDA should force you to restart after updati (14%, 12 votes)
  • No, don't make me restart after updating. (85%, 73 votes)
85 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago

#Accessibility #nvdasr #Question #poll #update #nvda #Updates

#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #webcontent #terms

Have you completed the 2025 NVDA Satisfaction Survey? It's a short 3 question survey, but it's a great chance to have your say on the most popular free screen reader for Windows! What are we doing well? What can we improve? Please let us know: nvaccess.org/survey

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Survey #Feedback #Accessibility #Input #HelpUs #WhatDoYouThink?

Stylised survey with NV Access logo up the top, title "Survey" and checkboxes numbered 1 - 3 with a tick in the middle box. Coloured sunbursts around edge and border of orange and turquoise, with purple shade in two corners.

NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2025

At NV Access we are always interested in understanding the satisfaction of our NVDA users. Plus, we like to understand clearly what is important to you and also identify what we can do more effectively.
Google Docs
#Accessibility #nvdasr #nvda #survey #feedback #input #helpus #whatdoyouthink

#Accessibility #android #ios #guitar

Question to #React experts. Where is the problem if the htmlFor attribute (the one used for <label> instead of the "for" attribute to avoid keyword conflicts) — this attribute remains "htmlFor" in the rendered code, not converting to "for"? Like, in the browser dev tools it shows: <label htmlfor="">.
My first idea was wrong casing (htmlFor vs. htmlfor), but I have almost no knowledge in React, so any help is appreciated. #JavaScript #accessibility
#Accessibility #react #javascript

anyone familiar with VSCode and Jupyter notebooks on here?

we're switching to VSCode in our computer science class this year; my question is, how accessible are Jupyter notebooks to screen readers? are there any pitfalls we need to be aware of? what keyboard shortcuts do we need to know?

#Accessibility #Blind #Python #VSCode #NVDA

#Accessibility #blind #python #VSCode #nvda

In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery, in an article comparing different platforms for hiring support workers on a website for a company which apparently specialises in disability support plan management:
"In the table below, we compare some of the key features of the most popular support worker platforms: Mable, Hireup, LikeFamily, Care Seekers and Find a Carer
image.png"
Wow. That's brilliant. Because surely people with a disability won't actually be reading this, will they? And making a table accessible is just so hard in 2025, so fuck that, we just won't bother.
planpartners.com.au/knowledge/…
#Accessibility

#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #testing #update #nvda #beta #prerelease

#Accessibility #opensource #Disability #3dprinting #blindness #hardware #braille #VisualImpairment #brailleEmbossers

#Accessibility #AI #money

Thank you to everyone who left us comments and questions on our Accessibility post this Tuesday. We'll gather those up and bring them to our design team when we meet with them later this month to record our next community office hours!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Accessibility

#Accessibility #opensource #thunderbird

#a11y #Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #eaa

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