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It has been an incredible two years since NV Access founders Mick Curran & Jamie Teh featured on Australian Story: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

The impact NVDA has for blind people around the world has only grown & the need is as great now as ever!

You can watch the Audio Description enabled version of Australian Story: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI

Regular version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blind #Accessibility #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Impact #Australia #AustralianStory


ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.
Kristine Taylor (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#FreeSoftware #Accessibility #foss #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #australia #nvda #impact #australianstory

June 4, 2025 marks the First Annual World Day for Assistive Technology. awarenessdays.com/awareness-da… Devices that help #Disabled folks live more fulfilling, independent lives have come a tremendously long way over the years, so let's hear your stories. What's the first piece of #AssistiveTech you remember using? (yes, mobility devices count.) What's been your favorite? Least favorite? Most helpful? Most Fun? And what are your AT dreams for the future? We can't wait to hear about them. #WorldATDay #Blind #Accessibility

World Day for Assistive Technology 2025

What is World Day for Assistive Technology? World Day for Assistive Technology aims to raise awareness of the importance of assistive technology\n
Awareness Days
#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #assistivetech #worldatday

#blind #inklusion #make

So @LeonianUniverse and I are printing a Braille chess board designed by Aravia. We're printing the board itself and its working very well though of course we don't want to jinx it as you never know until you try. We've already printed some good chess pieces that are for the accessible chess set. If there's anyone into #3dprinting, who is #blind and looking for a good chess set that is endorsed by the Braille Chess Association, check out Aravia here. printables.com/@ERAVIA

ERAVIA | Printables.com

Hi there! I am Eray. A designer & engineer with a deep passion for 3D printing. Commercial License & Terms are on Patre… – 3D models
www.printables.com
#blind #3dprinting @LeonianUniverse

#blind #AudioGame #kirandur

#blind #inklusion #make

Do any #blind people reading this either own the (expensive) Monarch tactile graphics device or have access to one through school or work? If so, is it at all open to third-party apps running on the device itself? Failing that, has anyone figured out the specs of the computer that's certainly inside it? It's expensive enough that it would be great if it could serve as a blind person's general-purpose computer.
#blind

Ooo lookie! Not sure when this version will be released, but...

The topic for the Tuesday, May 27, That All May eRead online program will be NLS Braille eReader software Version 3.0. In the remaining time, we will answer any questions you have about the NLS Braille eReader.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. eastern time and will last for one hour. The meeting will be recorded. To access the meeting, go to loc.zoomgov.com/j/1609330620?p…

#BARD #NLS #EReader #accessibility #Braille #blind


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#Accessibility #blind #braille #bard #ereader #nls

#a11y #accessible #blind #screenreader #radio #hamradio #amateurradio #voiceover #amateur #ham

#OpenTalk habe ich bereits erfolgreich für Aufnahmen und Konferenzen mit blinden Menschen eingesetzt.

Jetzt wurde nach eigener Aussage die Nutzung mit #ScreenReader weiter verbessert.

opentalk.eu/de/news/opentalk-u…
@OpenTalkMeeting@social.opentalk.eu #a11y #Inklusion #digitaleTeilhabe #blind #Video #VideoKonferenz


OpenTalk Update: Verbesserte Sicherheit & Benutzerfreundlichkeit

Die digitale Kommunikation entwickelt sich stetig weiter – und mit ihr auch OpenTalk. Das Update unserer Videokonferenzlösung auf die Version 25.1.3 bringt wesentliche Verbesserungen.
OpenTalk
#a11y #blind #screenreader #video #inklusion #videokonferenz #digitaleteilhabe #opentalk @OpenTalk

#blind #inklusion #make

Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).

#a11y #bemyeyes #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday
#blind #bme #tech
#disability #assistivetech

#a11y #blind #tech #Disability #GAAD #bemyeyes #assistivetech #globalaccessibilityawarenessday #bme

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Join Forces to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users

‍Be My Eyes announced today – on Global Accessibility Awareness Day – a strategic alliance with Innosearch.ai, an AI-powered eCommerce portal. The alliance will provide super-accessible online shopping to the users of the Be My Eyes app,, without the clutter and noise present of many other websites.

Be My Eyes users will benefit from an exclusive 2% cashback credit into their Innosearch account for use against future purchases made through the Be My Eyes app. The service is currently available in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, with more regions to follow.

The alliance represents a significant step and new direction for Be My Eyes, as it lays the foundations of the Be My Eyes app and the underlying technology platform becoming the de-facto access-tech of choice for people who are blind or have low vision, wherever they are – at home, at work or at play.

bemyeyes.com/news/be-my-eyes-t…
#globalaccessibilityawearnessday
#gaad #a11y #bemyeyes #innosearchai #innosearch #blind #shopping #disability #assistivetech


Be My Eyes to Provide In-App Accessible Shopping for Blind and Low Vision Users with InnoSearch AI - Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Team Up to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users
andyb (Be My Eyes)
#a11y #blind #Disability #GAAD #shopping #bemyeyes #assistivetech #innosearchai #innosearch #globalaccessibilityawearnessday

Am Welttag der Barrierefreiheit wollen wir, über digitalen Zugang/Inklusion und Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Behinderungen sprechen, nachdenken und lernen. Durch den Zugang zu digitalen Produktionsmitteln hat die Do-It-Blind Gruppe selbst herstellbare Beschriftungen für Menschen mit Blindheit oder Seheineschränkung entwickelt. oskars.org/posts/gaad-2025/ #make #blind #inklusion #gaad
Auf einem roten, rechteckigen Masten mit den Fahrtzeiten der Linie 46 befindet sich ein schwarzes Schild auf dem in weißer Profilschrift und Braille „Linie 46, Ottakring, Richtung Joachimsthalerplatz“ steht. Dahinter befindet sich ein Blindenleitsystem, eine Mauer und ein weißes Gebäude mit großen Schaufenstern.

Welttag der Barrierefreiheit

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
Oskar
#blind #GAAD #inklusion #make

I can't tell y'all how much I love #Emacs. It was the first interface that really intrigued me. It was the first interface where I felt like there was so much I could learn about. And Emacspeak brought it to life for me. Headings spoken by a deeper voice. Italics spoken by a higher, rather fuzzy voice. Bold spoken by a deep voice, almost like headings. Because headings are bold, and large. A calendar where I could move around the actual calendar, not just a list of events. Want to know what date next Friday is? Find Friday of this week, and simply press Down arrow. Or C-n if you're really into Emacs. And there it is. Oh and Nov-mode (nov.el). I can't say enough about that package. An EPUB reader that doesn't choke on a huge book. And Markdown-mode and Org-mode, and even HTML-mode. With Emacspeak, I could hear the syntax highlighting. That way, I knew if I didn't close a bracket pair, or quotes, not only by the punctuation itself, but how the voice sounds.

And now Emacspeak hasn't been updated in a year. Luckily, I think T.V. Raman has made fixes up to Emacs 30. But beyond that, I don't know. I hope it's not abandoned forever. I maybe could use Emacs through Orca, or BRLTTY, or maybe Speechd-el, if I can figure out how it's supposed to be set up and used well. But it feels like such a pail imitation of Emacspeak. But then, unconfigured Emacs doesn't feel all that special either.

#Emacs #foss #Emacspeak #accessibility #blind #linux

#Accessibility #linux #foss #emacs #blind #emacspeak

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 12. Mai, heute um 19:15 statt um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

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bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

A listener's perspective on what he calls a 'crisis' when it comes to #blind people accessing kiosks and payments terminals in stores and restaurants. Read the thoughts of Derek here: doubletaponair.com/the-growing…

The Growing Accessibility Crisis of Self-Service Kiosks: A Listener’s Perspective - Double Tap

Listener Derek has raised a pressing concern about the increasing use of self-service kiosks and digital payment terminals, highlighting how their inaccessibility continues to create significant barriers for blind and visually impaired individuals.
Steven Scott (Double Tap)
#blind

#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind #slackware #slint @Jessica Dail

For my disabled followers, what do you consider when thinking about inclusive swag? Swag in this case meaning t-shirts, coffee mugs, backpacks, stickers, etc. that you acquire through conferences, work, or other places.
I struggle to name what I look for in swag for it to be inclusive as a blind person; I think the most I'd look for is cool tactile design on t-shirts and perhaps embossed designs on stickers. But even that's a stretch; I've never felt strongly enough to remotely consider this, and that's why I'm here! I also consider things like Braille to be a novelty, and don't feel excluded when it doesn't exist. In a nutshell--I don't really care. But I'm sure someone out there does. Surely there's at least one of you.
Please boost for reach.
#disabled #accessibility #blind #swag
#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #swag

Version 1.1 of our BT Speak users’ manual is now available from our Web site’s Guides and Media page.
blazietech.com/guides-and-medi…
If you have installed the May 2025 software update, you can already read this new edition of the manual on your BT Speak, complete with relevant links and lots of headings. Just go to Options, Help, Guides and Tutorials, the Users’ Manual.
DG
#BTSpeak #blind

Guides & Media | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies engineers premium computers for the Blind. Check out our latest media, podcasts, and demos of the BT Speak pocket computer.
Blazie Technologies
#blind #btspeak

According to NVAccess, there are over 2,000 #NVDA open issues and if seeing one fixed is "particularly important" to me, they would "encourage hiring someone to work on it."

So how about it, #blind programmers? Your serious quotes for fixing this bug on a freelance basis:

github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

#accessibility


Can't review/spell text of accessible names applied with aria-label/labelledby in focus mode · Issue #15159 · nvaccess/nvda

When a control on a web page is given an accessible name via aria-label or aria-labelledby, and NVDA's focus mode is active, the text of the control's name cannot be spoken or spelled with the "rep...
GitHub
#Accessibility #blind #nvda

#accessible #blind #tv

So I was browsing the Internet today, and so I found some weird script someone made for Linux which takes a screenshot and describes it with Gemini. As usual, read the script before running it and all that, I obviously wasn't the one who created it because I don't code, so I cannot answer any questions about it or make new features or anything like that. But yeah I mean it's also AI, so don't use it, and Linux will obviously be filled with slop because of this awful person who added A11yAI to Linux, but yeah here it is:

dropbox.com/scl/fi/qy49ewvvj0g…

#ai #blind #linux

#linux #blind #AI

In the May 2025 update, version 1.1 of our users’ manual is now available under Options, Help, Guides and Tutorials.
It has many additions since the last update and it also includes headings, allowing for heading navigation. Because the manual loads in our new smart reader, this means that you can search for text and you can copy part or all of the manual and paste it into a new file. This also means that if you paste the manual into a file with a .brl extension, you’ll have a translated version of the manual according to the Braille table you are using.
blazietech.com/may-2025-update
DG
#BTSpeak #blind

May 2025 Update | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies
#blind #btspeak

#blind #btspeak

#blind #inklusion #protest #make #barrierefreiheit #5mai

#blind #info #barrierefrei #sehbehindert

#blind #inklusion #make

#Accessibility #google #blind #AI #viewpoint #geminiai

#blind #sleep #insomnia

#blind #deafblind #visuallyimpaired #lowvision @mastoblind group @Blind Main

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese #audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be #accessible to both #blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.
stuff.interfree.ca
#accessible #blind #AudioGame

#Accessibility #blog #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #update #nvda #changes

#blind #rockbox

Yesterday at the #PlayStation concert, a young, blind man sat next to me.

We got talking and it turns out he is an accessibility consultant for companies, including video game developers and has worked with Sony on God of War and other products!

He goes by his handle: Sightless Kombat.

He is entirely #blind from birth, but loves video games so is passionate about accessibility in the sector.

I told him to come join Mastodon as I think it’s the friendliest social network for visual impairments, he said he was thinking of joining but wasn’t sure which instance was good. I’m not sure if there is one that’s dedicated to visual impairment? I just told him to join mstdn.games 😅

Anyway, here’s his YouTube & Twitch channels, and website if you’re interested in seeing what he has to offer. The dude has platinumed God of War Ragnarok on its hardest difficulty, what a legend!

YouTube: youtube.com/@sightlesskombat?s…

Twitch: twitch.tv/sightlesskombat

Website: sightlesskombat.com/

#disability #disabled #Accessibility


SightlessKombat - Twitch

I'm an award-winning, multi-credited accessibility consultant and gamer without sight from the UK. If you ever thought "how can someone with no sight play a videogame?", you've come to the right place for answers! Relax, say hi and see just how I enj…
Twitch
#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #Disability #Playstation

Fresh off the press: Transition Technologies, the Polish company behind everything with Seeing Assistant in the name, have done it again. Seeing Assistant Go is their brand-new navigation app that improves on the previous Move offering. Most of the features you know are there plus a few additions. There is a simple as well as an advanced mode with a couple more settings and options. You can explore all of the OSM tags for a point which lets you find out pretty useful things e.g. does a pavement have tactile flooring or do the traffic lights have acoustic signalling. The navigation no longer provides instructions based on clock-wise or compass directions but rather you turn around with the phone in your hand and once you hear the assigned sound, you know you have found the direction and then carry on straight. This one will need a bit of getting used to but I was told by an experienced blind tester of the app it actually works once you got the hang of it. As far as I know, a blind developer and user of navigation apps is involved full-time in the project. Happy testing! iOS: apps.apple.com/pl/app/seeing-a…: play.google.com/store/apps/det… #Accessibility #a11y #Blind

‎Seeing Assistant Go

‎The Seeing Assistant Go app supports the spatial orientation of blind and visually impaired people. It provides information about the surroundings using synthetic speech, sounds, vibrations and pointing in the direction of the top of the phone.
App Store
#a11y #Accessibility #blind

#a11y #blind #inklusion #make @metalab

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