An welchen Stellen ist das denn explizit hilfreich? Gibt es Stellen, an denen eins vielleicht eher anfängt als an anderen? Beim C3 waren ähnliche Schilder ja auch schon vielfach vorhanden, aber ich kann die Wirkung noch nicht ganz einschätzen; hat da wer eigenhändige Erfahrungen mit? #blind #inklusion
Any interest in learning to #code from the #Blind community on an old-school platform?
a MOO is a text-based virtual world. if you ever played an old interactive fiction or text adventure game you'll be familiar with the idea. you type in commands like "go north" to move, "put coin in box", "kill dragon with sword" and so forth, and you get written responses unfolding the story.
This type of interface was taken online with a MOO in the 1990's, and rather than a playable story, you can join in and work with other people in an interactive, virtual world.
More than that, as well as just playing, MOO has a rich and beginner-friendly programming language, so you can create objects and code them to do things to your own specifications.
through a series of structured lessons with code samples and plenty of explanation you'll learn some of the basics of any programming language, all whilst having fun and playing about. The world is always open and you can build as many rooms and items as you like. You can practice your written English, socialising and programming all at once, in a 100% text-based environment perfect for screen readers and Braille displays.
This will be my twenty-seventh empty MOO. Each one has gone off in a different direction with between 1 and 15 participants, mostly young visually-impaired school-children and teens needing an introduction to programming in a fun way when the UK introduced coding as part of our national curriculum. I taught high school computing and college for a decade, and I'm wanting to open this opportunity up to more blind and visually-impaired people because coding is fun, and a MOO is a fun thing to play with. it's Only worthwhile if we have the numbers though, so if you're not interested please pass on if you can.
Unser Webshop hat eröffnet! oskars.org/b/ Hier bekommst du Schilder mit deinem eigenen Text. Der Schildgenerator erzeugt dir eine Voransicht deines Schilds. Unsere Schilder mit Blindenschrift Braille und Profilschrift sind von Menschen mit Seheinschränkung oder Blindheit entwickelt worden. Begreifbare Zeichen laden zur Teilhabe ein und sorgen für Orientierung. #make #blind #inklusion
If anyone uses Android with TalkBack and the onscreen Braille keyboard, please try to reproduce and report this issue:
In Talkback, if onscreen keyboard echo is set to words, and a word with punctuation after it is typed, TalkBack does not read the word when Space is typed. Similarly, if an emoticon is typed, like ":)" nothing is spoken when Space is typed.
Steps to reproduce:
• Turn on TalkBack, and open TalkBack settings by tapping once with three fingers. Set up the TalkBack Braille keyboard under the Braille section. • Go to Verbosity settings, then the keyboard echo option for onscreen keyboards, and set it to "words." Now, open a text box, turn on the TalkBack Braille Keyboard, and type something like "this is a test." Note the period after test. Then, swipe right with one finger to enter a space.
Expected results:
TalkBack should read "this" "is" "a" "test period."
Actual results:
TalkBack reads "this" "is" "a" and is silent after test is written.
I also put it up on Google's issue tracker if anyone wants to start it.
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 17. Februar, 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, 10. Februar, 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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Experimented yesterday with Fedora’s KDE spin… I was shocked by the level of accessibility, although it wasn’t perfect. My primary issues with it were that I had to use a lot of Orca’s navigation commands to read panels in the systems settings app, and I had major issues with Konsole, the default terminal app. I wasn’t able to read any of the information in that particular apps interface using Orca. I also tried the Fedora workstation edition, which uses Gnome as it’s a desktop environment. Let’s just say that was not worth my time. Had accessibility issues there as well, and surprisingly it was worse than the experience I had with KDE. I know KDE defaults to Wayland, as does Gnome, but KDE’s accessibility implementation seems to be a lot better than what Gnome has under Wayland, with the exceptions I’ve previously mentioned. Incidentally, the X 11 experience with Gnome is actually worse now than it was previously. For example, the terminal app does not even open for me. I should also note that all this is under Fedora 41, so people aren’t confused. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #Experiments #Linux #Fedora41 #KDePlasma #Gnome #Wayland #X11
Promised I'll be dropping in with examples of good #A11y in different countries and then I broke the promise. Coincidentally, I was asked to fill in a survey where one of the questions was about this very subject so I'll share one of the examples I gave there. In Austria, the qualified electronic signature is one of the state e-government services. A tool was built to allow screen reader users to insert their e-signature into any PDF document. The signature can be both visible and / or just a digital finger print, possible to verify through a qualifying verification tool. The visible signature can be inserted in one of three ways: 1. You place it right at the end of the document. If there's place enough, it should land in the line below the last one where there is content, otherwise, a new page is created. 2. The provider of the document can first place a QR code at a place in the document they choose, then the signee can replace this QR code with their own signature. 3. The provider of the document can determine coordinates in pixels where the signature should be placed and the signee enters them on their side to place the signature. pdf.egiz.gv.at/ #Accessibility #Austria #Blind
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 3. Februar, 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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The greatest Game Jam Ever (In my very biased opinion!) Has begun! It's a month long, so plenty of time to join and challenge yourself to make the best blind accessible game you can! #blind #GameJam #Gamedev #accessibility itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…
4 days until our 4th annual jam! Games for blind Gamers!
This is my all time favorite jam, I've met amazing people, learned a lot about accessibility, became a better programmer, and I'm super happy that I'm helping run it this year!
If you have time, consider joining! It's a month long chill jam where if all you can do is an afternoon one Saturday, you're as welcome as anyone and we'd be honored to have you!
A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of bli...
Long shot but worth trying. I'm #blind, want to redo my website(s) in Zola, and am looking for a theme. Can anyone please recommend something that a) looks good b) is somewhat flexible and c) would be appropriate for a blog/portfolio/project list? I realize that's a broad/vague ask, and I'm not very picky FWTW, but the Zola theme site is not terribly helpful if you can't see the screenshots.
If I had to narrow things down a bit more then I'd probably pick something Bootstrap-based since I know Bootstrap classes a bit more than Tailwind, but that's not a hill I'll die on if something looks/works better.
This is for both my personal site and, maybe, lightsout.games as well. The setup I used for both of those is creeky and less useful than I'd originally hoped so it's time to go back to mostly static.
Thanks for any recommendations and feel free to boost for reach.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 27. Jänner, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7800… #make #blind #inklusion
Also, because we might really need this right now, I thought I might try to post more unique accessibility practice examples from all around the world. Can't promise this being a regular thing as I don't have nearly as many examples at hand but as long as I've got the ideas, I'll try to post one every day. Here's one. While researching something else, I came across the "Plan an accessible journey" guide of the Transport of London where I have learnt that it is possible to order live updates on bus arrivals by text message. Not sure how practical this is or how many people use it but I love examples of accessibility being implemented in times where it wasn't just a matter of adopting an app according to common guidelines and you had to be creative to find a way of accommodating your customers. tfl.gov.uk/transport-accessibi… #Blind #Accessibility
How to use our accessibility services and travel tools to plan your journey and find maps, wayfinding and realtime audio/visual information when you're on the move.
My first contribution to #NoonScrolling: the 200th birthday of Louis Braille is being celebrated this year. On that occasion, the Braille working group of the European Blind Union hosts a year-long project, where each day a Braille-related piece is featured. Want to learn about a German man who's learnt 400 poems by heart by reading them in Braille first? They've got you covered! Looking for that Spanish summer hit of 2018 with millions of Youtube displays that references Braille? OK, that one is a bit far-fetched but still meets the filter so right you are. I love the advent calendar style of this, there is one new story to discover every day. I don't think they would say no to your contribution if you had one still: livingbraille.eu/ #Braille #Blind #Accessibility
I recently bought an LG TV and was happy to discover that it had a screen reader that even automatically began at startup! This video goes over the different accessibility features and my experience setting it up.
My brother and I bought an LG TV during the 2024 Black Friday sales. I've had an overall pretty good experience with it, though it could still definitely imp...
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 20. Jänner, 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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If you're a #blind user, you should really consider #Kagi for web search. Especially if you pay for chat GPT pro, you can subscribe to Kagi instead for cheaper and get more features. But even if you don't want AI, the search page is #accessible, fast, and light-weight. And unlike other big tech companies (Microsoft and Google) Kagi still offers a cheaper plan with no AI if you don't want it. Also, because they downrank websites with ads, the more accessible results tend to be at the top. Kagi also lets you block domains from your results. So I got rid of inaccessible stuff like instagram and pinterest, and downranked YouTube, because those results aren't usually #screenreader accessible. While I don't agree with many of the opinions of the @kagihq founder (especially his decision to do business with Yandex for image search), I still feel like using Kagi is more ethical than dealing with Google or Bing, and that these are reasonable differences of opinion that reasonable people can have, not just another clownishly evil tech company. I also find the idea that if you're a paying customer, that somehow guarantees the business will treat you better, really strange. I pay a lot to my ISP and they still treat me like dirt! Kagi will almost certainly sell out at some point. But for the moment, it's where it's at for search: www.kagi.com/
Hello fellow people of #Mastodon. My name is Nick and I'm 25 years old. I'm currently looking for a full-time job and have been since the beginning of this year. I have years of experience with Microsoft Excel and data aggrigation, as well as other Microsoft products though I'm also willing to use other programs. I also have some experience with accounting and I'm willing to learn quickbooks through on the job training if necessary. My resume is available here for reference: 1drv.ms/w/s!AlLCVRViUqvZhp1TBf… I'm looking for a full-time position because I feel I am ready for it and I do have to start paying my student loans in 6 months so please, if you're able #Boost so I can #GetFediHired. If you're looking for someone who's willing to work hard and do quality work, I'm your guy. #Employment, #Jobs, #Blind
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 13. Jänner, 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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Are you in Brisbane this week? NV Access are at the SPEVI conference at 293 Queen Street. We're talking all things NVDA & Mick is on a panel this afternoon on "The New Frontier of Braille" about multiline displays, chaired by Ben Clare.
Dear friends, #screenreader users, #blind users and #accessibility professionals in particular. Are you using chat over traditional email as provided by #DeltaChat / #DeltaLab / #ArcaneChat? I like it uses traditional email infrastructure, is federated, supports end to end encryption, rich content including audio / voice messages. I have even recognized @adb has implemented screen reader accessibility specific features into the android app. However I have quickly tried electron based app on linux with orca screen reader, exchanged a few messages back and fort between two of my personal accounts using the DeltaChat app and thunderbird and I haven't found the user experience verry appealing. I can't understand how to effectivelly navigate in the list of conversations and list of messages. Therefore I would be interested to hear a few comments from people knowing this platform better. How accessible is it on different platforms? On the desktop is the electron based app a prefered choice? Also some other questions. For the best experience, do I need a new email address or can I use my existing self-hosted one I have already configured in thunderbird? Ffeel free to point me to a FAQ, some up to date introductory documentation if you think my questions don't make much sense please.
I'm really happy we can finally announce some #lemmy#accessibility work myself, @MostlyBlindGamer, @dhamlinmusic, and the other Rblind admins have been working on for a while. We've just released two open-source themes, light and dark, for Lemmy that should be more accessible and usable for #blind and low vision folks. You can read the details, and please provide feedback, here: www.rblind.com/post/3476242#a11y#fediverse#opensource
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 6. Jänner, 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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200 years ago, a #Blind French teenager took six little dots and opened up the world of literacy for himself and generations to come. Merci Louis. Without the code that bears your name, I wouldn't have gotten through school or found success at work. I definitely wouldn't love to read as much as I do. #Braille is independence, dignity, resourcefulness, pride. #Braille is beautiful!! Happy #WorldBrailleDay
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Louis Braille (1809) - French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the #Blind or visually impaired. Today is observed as World #BrailleDay.
Birth Anniversary of Floyd Patterson (1935) - One of the greatest #Boxers. He was the youngest boxer in history to win the #Heavyweight championship.
#Sputnik 1, first artificial Earth satellite, falls to Earth from orbit (1958).
Zum Geburtstag von Louis Braille 🎂 feiern wir den #WeltBrailleTag . Dieses Jahr wird die Brailleschrift 200 Jahr alt. Erstelle deine eigenen Brailleschilder mit einem 3D-Drucker und unserem Beschriftung-Skript gitlab.com/projekt-define/defi… #make #blind #inklusion
It is with the Lime Aloud suite that I created my first printable scores for choir, bells and other instruments. On December 15, Yeamans Park Presbyterian Church in Hanahan, SC where I currently serve in the music department, presented five of the ten songs from my "Living That Story" Advent/Christmas musical as part of our "Big Music Sunday." It was an honor to collaborate with the choir, children, bell choir, guest oboist and guest cellist to put this presentation together. My best friend, Audrey, wrote the accompanying script and served as the narrator. She, her guide dog Bernie, the children, oboist, cellist and I all gathered with the choir in the chancel area, and it was truly a joy-filled event!
Dancing Dots products have been part of my professional musicianship for over 20 years and I just had to give a shoutout to Bill and anyone who has ever been part of the Dancing Dots team.
You know how many of the popular apps we use to check the weather offer the data of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute as an option? Having recently learnt that Norway has one of the most stringent laws on accessibility in Europe, I have decided to check their official app for iOS and am not disappointed. It found my current location in Poland without a problem, albeit with a typo for some reason. It also provided webcam imagery from my hometown - this of course is not accessible. It remains to be seen how accurate the data really is long-term. About the accessibility: the data presented is grouped as it should so it is read out in one cluster for each 3-hour segment. Custom hints will let you know that by tapping twice, the hourly forecast is expanded. In the 10-day view, each day is a heading. Unfortunately, the graphs are not accessible despite the API's for this being available for some years now. Other than that, the app is very simple and convenient to use so if you're looking for something uncomplicated to check your local weather, you can try YR. No idea how accessible that is under Android but I expect the experience might be similar apps.apple.com/pl/app/yr/id490… #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
Yr på iPhone og iPad er ulikt alt annet du tidligere har sett innen værvarsling.
Sveip deg gjennom en vakker og animert himmel og se hvordan været endrer seg time for time - samtidig som du får alle detaljene du trenger å vite.
It's almost past the holiday season and I hope you've had one that you were dreaming of all year. I realized, I haven't ever repeated my advent calendar event which many of you seemed to have liked. That does not mean I have stopped researching good practice examples of accessibility implementations around the world. As a way of making up for it, I wanted to share a story that I digged up by following a thread of references from a podcast I was listening to, through somebody's personal website like it was done 30 years ago, through an anonymous FTP to the main site of the Braillnet project. I found the story really inspiring. It's 1993 in then Czechoslovakia. and the Internet is slowly becoming a thing alongside some, often locally produced, ways of making DOS and Windows 95 PC’s talk, at least with the most common software. It is apparent to the employees of the local blindness organization that the net will be a game-changer in access to information for blind and partially sighted users, some of whom own notetakers like the Eureka or even PCs. By cooperating with the IT centre of a university they set up a BBS under a phone number in Prague and offer, for the first time, access to digitalized books and magazines, an e-mail account, a Telnet and FTP client. Public transport schedules might have been a thing too but I'm not 100% sure about that. The network develops but the limitations are apparent: access mostly to internal information and only through a number in one city. Four years later, an idea is born to give all persons with disabilities access to regular, dial-up internet with prominence of locally sourced material but not excluding the entire world wide web. They manage to secure state funds and support of local ISP's and set up numbers for all major numerical zones in already then Czech Republic, giving unlimited access to the Internet to any person with a disability for the fixed price of around 4 USD per month. #Accessibility #RetroTech #Blind
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 23. Dezember, 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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We've been asked about it for years, and we are pleased to confirm that we have finally setup an official NV Access mailing list. You can subscribe to receive:
- Our fortnightly In-Process blog - NV Access organisational updates - NVDA Release announcements (Stable, and / or beta) - Good news stories - Job listings
Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…
Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 16. Dezember, 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, 9. Dezember, 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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Hello. I just spat out my coffee. I'm #blind and your #alttext made me do it. Brilliant toot too. May I congratulate you especially on including "bum bouquet". Bowing. Grateful.
