Anyone have a list of #Swedish government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #Sweden
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Anyone have a list of #Finland government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility
Anyone have a list of #Slovakian government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #Slovakia
Anyone have a list of #Slovenian government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #Slovenia
Anyone have a list of #Norwegian government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #Norway
Anyone have a list of #Dutch government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #NL #Netherlands #TheNetherlands
Anyone have a list of #Lithuania government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility
Anyone have a list of #Cyprus government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility
I want a better list of #Croatian government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #Croatia
I want a better list of #Irish government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility #Ireland
I want a better list of #Estonia government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility
I'm trying to compile a better list of #Germany government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility
I'm trying to compile a better list of #Denmark government domains. Is there a repository of domains that they use for popular government sites?
This is a question for the next #WebAlmanac #Europe #Accessibility
Example of something that might be technically #accessible with a keyboard, but in reality is probably unusable: 141 consecutive checkboxes in the tab order. #accessibility
You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
… via lobste.rs/s/nwvary/you_don_t_o…
> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]
>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.
> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?
Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.
Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
@NVAccess
Hi everyone, hope all is well! Quick question for those using NVDA on Windows. I’m trying to help someone by remotely controlling their computer using the built-in NVDA Remote feature. But when I press F11, I can’t seem to control the other computer. Any ideas or tips? Appreciate the help! We are on the latest update of NVDA.
\#NVDA #Accessibility #ScreenReader #BlindTech #Windows #TechHelp
Listen, oh listen, o you great city of #Lyon! Or even better: écoute, ô écoute, ô toi la grande ville de Lyon ! Cet article est en anglais, mais tu peux le traduire si tu veux, y a des moyens. chacun de ceux et celles qui repostent le grand hourra de » À Lyon on abandonne #Windows et #Microsoft #Office pour #Linux » doit lire ceci. Chacun qui prône la soit-disante liberté de Linux et de l'open-source doit clairement avouer : on ne veut pas de gens handicapés, aveugles, âgés, «pas assez smart ». Nous sommes exclus de votre fête de la vie. Si une solution est libre, open-source mais pas accessible, c'est une mauvaise solution. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you… #Accessibility #Accessibilité #EAA
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.
If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
And quite honestly I feel there's a lot of victims to this kind of mentality that aren't necessarily disabled end users, take @danirabbit and others who do a huge amount of work to make #linux #accessibility be better than the wonky house of cards it's been for decades. They've essentially inherited the user frustration, righteous anger and powerlessness that systematic neglect has created while ALSO having to defend the fact to actually include hoomans that aren't "the norm" when deciding if a button should be a button or a superFancyNewRustUICompositeWidgetLookHowCoolMyInheritanceSKillzAreTemplateFoundationUIClassAlsoFuckYouKeyboardUsersButton. Peeps who want a simple OS for, say, an old computer that's losing Windows access a shot, seriously go give @elementary a look and provide feedback, these folks actually WANT to fix stuff
This is one of the reasons why IC_Null exists. Why I stream at all even though I know many of the products and services I call out do not give a single f*ck.
While #accessibility anything-at-all has a huge preaching-to-the-choir problem inside and outside of companies, this is the other extreme. Accessibility issues are just challenges to overcome, and this is a bit of a hot take, is NOT entirely inaccurate; a lot of accessibility issues can be mittigated by user knowledge, and a lot of folks don't know how to best use the assistive tech they have access to. HOWEVER, there comes a point where the user is absolutely within their rights to decide a so-called challenge does not need to be as challenging as it is, see also: pick your battles.
To me, if a product meant to make me more productive instead slows me down because of a poorly coded UI, I don't see the point, freedom, GNU or not. Today, my choice is between an operating system that compromises my privacy and tosses upsells at me in every way it can, or a set of operating systems that, through "freedom fighters" like Gary No-like Users over here, I can never trust to stay accessible enough to get anything done from one day to the next. Welp ... phone home all you like computer, I need to eat.
While #accessibility anything-at-all has a huge preaching-to-the-choir problem inside and outside of companies, this is the other extreme. Accessibility issues are just challenges to overcome, and this is a bit of a hot take, is NOT entirely inaccurate; a lot of accessibility issues can be mittigated by user knowledge, and a lot of folks don't know how to best use the assistive tech they have access to. HOWEVER, there comes a point where the user is absolutely within their rights to decide a so-called challenge does not need to be as challenging as it is, see also: pick your battles.
To me, if a product meant to make me more productive instead slows me down because of a poorly coded UI, I don't see the point, freedom, GNU or not. Today, my choice is between an operating system that compromises my privacy and tosses upsells at me in every way it can, or a set of operating systems that, through "freedom fighters" like Gary No-like Users over here, I can never trust to stay accessible enough to get anything done from one day to the next. Welp ... phone home all you like computer, I need to eat.
I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
Someone pointed me to a new PDF to HTML conversion tool that they had helped with. I've now lost that link and can't remember the connection.
So hivemind, what PDF to HTML tools do you recommend for those who want to convert a PDF as an accessible HTML file.
People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea…
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea…
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP
It can be EXHAUSTING to share the same feedback over and over and over (and over) again... but this is a harsh reality when you're an #accessibility tester. 😣
Are you a GitHub user who would like to support the great work NV Access does?
You can become a GitHub Sponsor!
Today, we'd like to give a shoutout to Nael-Accessvision, one of our GitHub sponsors.
You can sponsor NV Access here: github.com/sponsors/nvaccess
(Or through PayPal or bank transfer via the "Donate" link on our website)
*Donations in Australia are tax deductible*
#FOSS #FLOSS #Accessibility #NonProfit #NotForProfit #GoodCause #Donate #Donation
Sponsor @nvaccess on GitHub Sponsors
NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.GitHub
There's a growing movement on the #fedi that wants people to switch away from Big (US-based) Tech and towards #FOSS alternatives like #Linux, alternatives to #google, #Microsoft, #dropbox etc.
For #screenReader users, that might not be as simple as all that due to #accessibility reasons. This weekend's IC_Null stream aims to dig into this, but I need your help. What tools, services etc. should I look at from an #accessibility perspective? Anyone here who needs their tools evaluated? Anyone here who's curious about a particular tool or suite of tools? Let me know and I'll add it to the list. Anything goes. #selfHosting #blind #tech #EU
For #screenReader users, that might not be as simple as all that due to #accessibility reasons. This weekend's IC_Null stream aims to dig into this, but I need your help. What tools, services etc. should I look at from an #accessibility perspective? Anyone here who needs their tools evaluated? Anyone here who's curious about a particular tool or suite of tools? Let me know and I'll add it to the list. Anything goes. #selfHosting #blind #tech #EU
What did we miss in the Accessibility Chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…
What should we focus on for 2025?
#WebAlmanac #Accessibility #WebAccessibility
Accessibility | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
I don't usually share #work stuff here. But this may be of interest to #blind and #visuallyimpaired folks who live in the #UK: rblind.com/post/8599526#accessibility#screenreader#a11y
ChatGPT’s Mac app now records meetings, but it’s nearly unusable with VoiceOver.
Buttons are unlabeled, transcripts are hard to access, and navigation is broken for blind users.
Full write-up: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/cha…
Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=nGhfTH1ZNW…
OpenAI needs to include accessibility in every release. This one missed the mark.
#Accessibility #ChatGPT #VoiceOver #MacAccessibility #BlindTech #InclusiveTech
Buttons are unlabeled, transcripts are hard to access, and navigation is broken for blind users.
Full write-up: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/cha…
Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=nGhfTH1ZNW…
OpenAI needs to include accessibility in every release. This one missed the mark.
#Accessibility #ChatGPT #VoiceOver #MacAccessibility #BlindTech #InclusiveTech
ChatGPT for Mac’s New Meeting Recording Feature Is Powerful — But Almost Unusable for Blind Users
When OpenAI released the Meeting Recording feature in the ChatGPT for Mac app, I was excited.Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
An aborted journey into accessible flight simulation:
It's been quiet here for a couple of weeks because a project I was hoping to begin fell through.
stuff.interfree.ca/2025/06/22/flight-simulation.html#blind#accessibility#screenreader#accessible#flight#simulation#fsx#audiogames#games#gaming
It's been quiet here for a couple of weeks because a project I was hoping to begin fell through.
stuff.interfree.ca/2025/06/22/flight-simulation.html#blind#accessibility#screenreader#accessible#flight#simulation#fsx#audiogames#games#gaming
There’s always the first time for everything! :)
We just completed our first #Waymo ride from and to home. Everything went fairly smoothly except that on the way back we lost a ride because, for some reason, we could not locate the car even after engaging the “honk” or “play melody” feature. According to the app, the car was nearby but we could not hear any sound. $5 charge for a “no show”, but the bug and feedback is definitely coming! :) #accessibility
We just completed our first #Waymo ride from and to home. Everything went fairly smoothly except that on the way back we lost a ride because, for some reason, we could not locate the car even after engaging the “honk” or “play melody” feature. According to the app, the car was nearby but we could not hear any sound. $5 charge for a “no show”, but the bug and feedback is definitely coming! :) #accessibility
iOS App: Braille Keyboard Writer apps.apple.com/au/app/braille-… #iOS #Accessibility #A11y
Braille Keyboard Writer
Braille Keyboard lets you type in braille across any app on your iPhone. With a fully integrated custom keyboard, you can input braille characters directly into messages, documents, or anywhere the standard iOS keyboard appears.App Store
Yeah, this is not surprising…
“Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs”
nytimes.com/2025/06/20/travel/…
Archive: archive.is/6zzJa
Episode 30 of Access On, is on.
This week, we look ahead to just a few of the technology-related events at #NFB25 in New Orleans.
we discuss the National Federation of the Blind’s advocacy to promote the availability and accessibility of autonomous vehicles.
Listeners provide comment on Facebook #accessibility, seeking the perfect Windows email client and more.
This week, we look ahead to just a few of the technology-related events at #NFB25 in New Orleans.
we discuss the National Federation of the Blind’s advocacy to promote the availability and accessibility of autonomous vehicles.
Listeners provide comment on Facebook #accessibility, seeking the perfect Windows email client and more.
Is there any web based chess game that has bots, teaching tools and is fully screen reader accessible; i.e. allows you to move around the board with cursor keys, rather than just speaking notation? Basically WinBoard but web based. #accessibility
I'd still buy them as there is no viable alternative for blind people. I measn… I grew to have this colclusion that #Accessibility is the most important thing to me. I've been telling it to open-source warriors, against-Google, against-Microsoft, against-Meta varriors and so on: if you are abled, you have choice. I'm disabled, I need to work and live my life as fully as I can. So yeah, privacy and all this stuff is good, but to me accessibility is far more vital and important.
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
An #accessibility question for folks who use a #screenreader, I occasionally see people using alternate Unicode letter forms to get an italic effect on servers that don’t support rich text.
How does that play with a screen reader? Are those alternate characters read properly?
In other words: Is “𝑟” read as “r” or as ‘MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL R’?
Dangerous #Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk
buttondown.com/access-ability/…
#a11y #productmgmt #webdev #webdesign
buttondown.com/access-ability/…
#a11y #productmgmt #webdev #webdesign
Dangerous Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk
Three strips of intersecting yellow and black “warning” tape. Accessibility isn’t an extra feature or a nice-to-have add-on. It’s a foundational requirement...Access * Ability