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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 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.
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For any folks still out there using the #Rockbox firmware, I recently discovered the Hifi Walker H2 which is both officially supported, and more importantly, still being manufactured and sold. Flashing takes a bit of patience if you're #blind, but it can be done.
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!
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…
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
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.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 28. April, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/8037… #make #blind #inklusion
My previous post in German is just a shoutout that the "Do it Blind" group, the people behind the Metabraille keyboard, log their weekly meeting protocols for everyone to see. The posts / logs are in German but if you throw a translation service at it, you may discover what we're up to and what we discover as far as accessible tech is concerned. We also host weekly online meetings you can attend. Although primarily in German, we will be happy about new English-speaking guests. #Accessibility #Blind
Die "Do It Blind" Gruppe in Metalab, in Rahmen dessen die Metabraille Oskar Brailletastatur entstanden ist, hat angefangen, ihre Mitschrifte für alle zu veröffentlichen. Ihr könnt dort jede Woche lesen, welche Themen wir besprochen haben, was wir so bezüglich barrierefreie Tech finden und was uns rund um diese Themen aufregt. Ihr seit auch herzlich eingeladen, zu unsere wöchentliche online Treffen zu kommen. Ich hoffe, das wird eine interessante Lekture für alle die sich für Technik, Barrierefreiheit für blinde Menschen, Technik und alles dazwischen interessieren. oskars.org/posts/ @oskar_mbr @metalab #Accessibility #Blind
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 21. April, 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
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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 14. April, 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
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For those #blind folks into #flight #simulation, you should know that talking Flight Monitor is out of beta and ready for people to buy. It would appear that the PMDG 777 is accessible with the panels and such. I'm watching a stream with the features. youtube.com/watch?v=nG4MGKYDEn…
Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 7. April, 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
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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 31. März, 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
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Final update: The developer is now on Mastodon via @andrew_guide.
Update: The developer has removed the ability to download Guide until the security issues mentioned in the linked thread are fixed.
Update: this product contains some code flaws that are concerning from a security perspective, beyond just giving control of your computer to an LLM. You might want to read this thread before installing the product: toot.cafe/@matt/114258349401221651
Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more.
Just tried guide for fun. It's supposed to be an app to use #AI to help #blind folks get things done. I asked "Where are the best liver and onions in Ottawa?" It: 1. Decided it needed to search the web. 2. Thought that the "stardew access" icon on my desktop was a kind of web browser, so clicked it. 3. Imagined an "accept cookies" dialogue it needed to accept. 4. Decided that didn't work, so looked for Google Chrome (I don't have chrome installed on that machine) 5. Finally opened edge from the start menu. By the way, it just...left Stardew open and running. Because apparently having Stardew Valley running in the background is a vital part of finding liver and onions in Ottawa. 6. Opened a random extension from my edge toolbar (goodlinks). 7. Clicked the address bar and loaded google.com, instead of just doing the search right from the address bar. 8. Got blocked because it couldn't sign into my Google account, even though it could have also searched from the Google homepage.
To be fair to AI, that was the kind of open-ended task AI is terrible at. If I had asked it to check an inaccessible checkbox, or read a screenshot, or something, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Anyway, I'm still better at using a computer than an AI. So is my 87 year old grandfather, for that matter. www.guideinteraction.com
With Guide, inaccessible doesn't have to mean undoable. Guide is a Windows AI assistant that helps people with low vision or blindness navigate the digital world.
There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys…
I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?
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iOS Game. If you like Braille and a challenge then you will like the game Brailliance! Its like a Braille Wordle. Each word is made up of so many total dots and so many letters; like 5 letters with 13 dots. So for this word, the dots from each letter will add up to be a total of 13 dots. And of coarse its totally accessible with Voiceover. So give it a try. Here is the link to it in the app store... apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia… #ios #game #Braille #Blind #Accessible #Brailliance
Brailliance is a puzzle game where you guess the word by adding up braille dots.
This game has been carefully crafted to be playable by everyone, and it includes multiple accessibility features for people with blindness and other disabilities.
I have always been satisfied with Framadate and derivatives for quick and accessible event planning when it comes to finding a date that fits everyone. Well, the Austrian government has a tool of its own which is as accessible and it also offers the ability to book appointments, similar to solutions like Calendly or Fantastical. It's called Termino and like all things run by European governments should, it's got its own accessibility statement. Apart from the table where the number of participants voted for a given date choice being tricky to read due to wrong header cells' association, it lives up to the promise of compliance. I have reported that issue and received a response that they will look into it. Some texts, including the email messages, are also in German. I hope they can smooth that one out but otherwise it's there for everyone to use. termino.gv.at/ #Accessibility #Blind
Bei unserem Stand vom @metalab am Wiener Forschungsfest haben viele Kinder mit dem Braille-Alphabet geschrieben und gelesen. Dabei haben die Kinder Braille verstanden, angewendet und auch untereinander vermittelt. 😎 oskars.org/posts/wiener-foschu… #make #blind #inklusion
#Blind users, users that rely heavily on #keyboardNavigation or anyone else with a preference on that matter (please indicate what applies in the comments):
Do you have a preference for or comments on the format of URLs? During user research, we have learned that URLs that are easy to handle are a good thing.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 24. März, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7914… #make #blind #inklusion Verbesserung: März statt Februar
Have made my first ever experience with the package pickup stations of the Austrian post last weekend. They have been made accessible to the blind. The procedure is as follows: 1. You receive a physical notification about a package being dropped off at a station in your mailbox. 2. The notification has one of its corners cut off to make a tactile difference. This way you can tell where the code you need to scan is located. 3. You go to the pickup station. The tactile flooring inside will guide you to the stations. 4. You touch anywhere on the touch screen of the station. 5. You touch again, this time the area above a circle shape that can be touched on a strip below the screen itself. 6. The voice guide is activated and issues further instructions. 7. You place the code on your notification in front of the reader. 8. Assuming it has been scanned correctly, you proceed to signing the delivery confirmation on the touch screen. How you can do it without seeing the screen is still a mystery to me but I guess anything you draw is accepted by the system. 9. The locker opens and makes a ticking sound until you find it, remove your package and shut the door. I still find the way of opening it with a mobile app that some providers in other countries offer far easier but it's great those are ready for use even if you don't want or can't use a smartphone. #Accessibility #Blind
Thanks to a meetup at our local hackerspace @metalab , I have learnt about a web-based, open source, highly accessible video downloader frontend you can fire up at cobalt.tools. Really easy how it works: 1. You open the site; 2. you paste the link into the edit box; 3. You press enter; 4. The standard "Save File" dialog comes up. All the extra stuff like formats and qualities can be set in the settings and a choice between a video, audio-only or video-only version is offered under a button below the link input. #Accessibility #Blind
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 17. März, 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
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Ball Bouncer is perhaps the ultimate culmination of a bunch of weird #blind traits in the #audiogames scene: random pointless destruction, casual games, 2d audio, and incomprehensible ball physics. Oh, and as with most of these types of games, I brutally suck at it, but feel compelled to keep playing anyway for some reason. For the curious, here's a recording that mostly demonstrates...why I don't have a gaming channel. Available for Windows and Linux: files.sooslandia.ru/BallBouncer/1.3.4/#a11y
Die mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille wird im Rahmen der Ausstellung „IMAGINE: Coral Reef. Regenerative Design“ im Museum für angewandte Kunst Belgrad ausgestellt. oskars.org/posts/imagine_coral… #make #blind #inklusion
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 10. März, 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
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Question for any #blind people who do video recording or streaming: How accessible is OBS Studio (obsproject.com/) with screen readers on the three major desktop platforms? I've never tried it.
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 3. März, 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
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Happy first anniversary to the BT Speak!! We have just released our anniversary Update: featuring one-handed mode, numerous Editor enhancements, append mode, time announcements, expedited web searching, YouTube expansion, improved Bluetooth, new languages, and much, much more.
Inklusion - Das kann ja nie gelingen!
Davon möchte ich mich eigentlich gar nicht entmutigen lassen, sagt Heiko Kunert
https://www.kom-in.de/190/inklusion-das-kann-ja-nie-gelingen
#Info #Barrierefrei #blind #sehbehindert
