So excited to announce that I am one of five honorees to be granted the 2024 SXSW Community Service Award! This was something I simply wasn't expecting and I'm absolutely floored to be recognized for my work in accessibility :). If you're attending and would like to meet up, please let me know and maybe we can figure something out! More info and link below:

sxsw.com/news/2024/community-s…

#SXSW #Accessibility #Blind

Community Service Awards Honorees At 2024 SXSW

Meet the 2024 SXSW Community Service Awards honorees recognized for their leadership and contribution to education, film, music, and technology.

^{SXSW Staff Writer (SXSW)}

TIL: #Wayland breaks most screen readers, as they are not not intended by design. (they need to interact with other apps)

Wayland is now the default in pretty much all gnome distros.

Orca has workarounds, but they are not merged and not fully working. (And a blind user can't built it without a working screen reader)

I'm not entirely sure if I got this correct, but it seems to me like the #Linux community once again booted the #blind.
wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/W…
wayland-devel.freedesktop.nark…

So excited, the Final Hour stream is today. @meatbag, @TheFake_VIP , tunmi13 and myself will be playing from 08:30PM UTC. Join us then!

My stream on the Lower Elements channel: youtube.com/watch?v=LRBFui4Qli…
TheFake_VIP's stream: youtube.com/watch?v=E7ynjRUOA8…
Tunmi13's stream: youtube.com/watch?v=hgWIml9vze…

I hope to see you all there!
#blind #finalHour #audioGames #a11y

Final Hour - An Audio FPS

My second stream of Final Hour, an audio game first-person shooter made by my friends.

^YouTube

final Hour, a zombie fps audio game, made by @meatbag and I is looking for new beta testers.
If you're interested, go checkout its page:
finalhour.lowerelements.club/

And apply to be a beta tester using the following form.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#Blind #Accessibility #A11y #Audiogames #Audiogame #Games #gamingc

Final Hour Beta Testing Team Entry Form

Final Hour is a complex, innovative audio game that attempts to bring the experience of sighted and blind gamers closer together.

^{Google Docs}

I find myself reaching out for #MutualAid once again. I thought I had 11 days to renew my phone number for the month, but I only have 9. I have to pay £9.49 by January 26th. Please support me with whatever you can!

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/seedythreesixty
Patreon: patreon.com/seedy360
PayPal: seedy360@hotmail.com

#blind #disabled #neurodivergent @mutualaid

Support SeedyThreeSixty on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/seedythreesixty

Support SeedyThreeSixty On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

^Ko-fi

Hi everyone. Hope all is well. Just thought I would post an audio recording of me going through some sounds of my Nord Stage 4 I have in my studio. These are sounds I customized from the factory and sounds I didn’t do much tweaking on, except for EQ here and there. HOpe you enjoy!

#blind #accessibility #nord #music #keyboards #fun

Oh, this is really cool. The National Library Service is now making indefinite loans of print-on-demand braille books! Up to 5 per month per person.

wapo.st/41I2uaE #GiftArticle #Blind #Braille

Robert Kingett explains what Artificial Divide is all about.

About the book:
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.

This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.

When we think about it, we're not really divided.

With stories by: Eunice Cooper-Matchett - Anita Haas - Rebecca Blaevoet - Tessa Soderberg - Laurie Alice Eakes - Melissa Yuan-Innes - Jamieson Wolf - Ben Fulton - Felix Imonti - Niki White - M. Leona Godin - Ann Chiappetta - Lawrence Gunther - Heather Meares - Fabiyas M V - Jameyanne Fuller

Pre-order now:
Amazon.ca: tinyurl.com/535k8fme
Kobo, Indigo/Chapters, Apple, and others: books2read.com/u/b5v0pk
Renaissance (ebook and audiobook): tinyurl.com/rj8umtpz
Renaissance (paperback): tinyurl.com/79vanr8r

ASL interpretation by probonoasl.com/

Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.

This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.

When we think about it, we're not really divided.

With stories by: Eunice Cooper-Matchett - Anita Haas - Rebecca Blaevoet - Tessa Soderberg - Laurie Alice Eakes - Melissa Yuan-Innes - Jamieson Wolf - Ben Fulton - Felix Imonti - Niki White - M. Leona Godin - Ann Chiappetta - Lawrence Gunther - Heather Meares - Fabiyas M V - Jameyanne Fuller

Pre-order now:
Amazon.ca: tinyurl.com/535k8fme
Kobo, Indigo/Chapters, Apple, and others: books2read.com/u/b5v0pk
Renaissance (ebook and audiobook): tinyurl.com/rj8umtpz
Renaissance (paperback): tinyurl.com/79vanr8r

Edit2: Solved! Thanks everyone!
#Blind #Microsoft #excel users and others who, for whatever reason, only use the keyboard, NOT THE MOUSE: How the hell do I tell Excell to continue a pattern in a column without selecting it and clicking on the bottom left side of the screen or whatever?
Let's say I have a column with 1 in A1, 2 in A2, 3 in A3, so forth, and want that to go on for 150 cells or so. How the hell do I do it? Because I know I used to know, but I cannot find it.
It's not control+d. That just fills the whole column with 1's. It's not copy-paste; that does adjust properly for formulas, but for this, it doesn't. There is surely an option somewhere in the menus, but I cannot find it.
Alternatively, I'd also be happy to learn of ways to do this in #OpenOffice #Calc, so long as they are keyboard-only and accessible. LibreOffice doesn't work all that well here, at least Writer doesn't, but I could double-check if that extends to other programs.
#AskFedi #AskMastodon #ScreemReader

Edit: a couple folks suggested using formulas for this, adding so the first cell would be 1, the second A1 +1, etc. That works quite well for most use cases! It would mean the order of the numbers would stay the same when reordering the table though, so if I was using this to autocomplete a list of years, then sold by the comumn Income ... bam, the income of each year's not right anymore.
Also suggested was Home>Fill>Series. I do not see a Series option in the Fill menu at all, Bewilderingly. I'll try to switch my language to English to see if that's the issue, but I pressed all the things, so pretty sure it's not there for me in Office 365. Could someone with that version check whether it works for them?
Edit2: I figured out how to get to the series option! Turns out it was there, I just didn't realise I had to select the right type of series. For those curious, for the Slovenian version, that's Alt +N, FI, V, Enter.

So I wrote a blog post for the first time in 5 years, warning about hcaptcha's accessibility account. Long story short, they banned me from the accessibility account because I'm not blind. I am blind, but well, they seem to think not. Please boost, share, etc since this seriously affects me, and it's not ok at all. You can read the full blog post here: 4mt.me/hcaptchastory

#blind #hcaptcha #a11y #accessibility #boost

Congratulations to Gene, recipient of this year's RNZFB Chair's Award. It is wonderful to see your hard work & advocacy over many years acknowledged with this prestigious award. Gene has long advocated for NVDA & been a great friend to us in New Zealand. We're excited to see him honoured.

Read more at: blindlowvision.org.nz/news/cha…

#Blindness #Blind #Advocacy #RNZFB #BlindLowVision #A11y #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader

#Yaga #mod for the #Gothic #game status update.
Recently the Open Gothic reimplementation of the ZenGin engine became quiet stable which let me to wonder whether it wouldn’t be easier to port YAGA to this engine, instead of relying on the Union SDK which is basically a set of reverse-engineered classes of the original ZenGin engine. This way, we get macOS compatibility, future-proof support for future Windows releases, ETC. That means a lot of Yaga’s code base would have to be rewritten from scratch, but that’s with the benefit.
Tell me what you guys think, and let’s comment on this issue if you have some valuable insights

github.com/try/opengothic/issu…
#programming #GameDev #accessibility #blind

Integrating Accessibility into Open Gothic · Issue #479 · Try/OpenGothic

Introduction Hello everyone. My name is Nuno and I have been working on the YAGA project which aims to make Gothic I, Gothic II/Gothic II NotR accessible and playable for blind players. The current...

^GitHub

I welcome everyone to read my #blog #post on #modding #games for the #blind people. Let me know what you think. I am not good at English lol

nunonuno.micro.blog/2023/06/28…

I’ve finally found the time to listen to the episode of @podcast I was graciously invited to speak on.

(I’m very excited about some of the #wwdc stuff, including #VisionPro.)

I want to say I’m touched by the way Jonathan explained the impact of r/blind on people dealing with vision loss, as well as the rest of the community. That’s one of the things that made it so hard to make the decision to go dark for two days.

Since we spoke, we’ve also come out of a meeting with Reddit with mixed feelings, and Transcribers of Reddit have announced the upcoming API changes are forcing them to shut down permanently.

I’m growing sadder and more and more disappointed. Whatever happens next, #Reddit will be less welcoming to #blind people.

For what it’s worth, we’ve been testing a Lemmy instance at rblind.com. As discussed with Jonathan, federation and FOSS allow us to be in charge of our own destiny, while staying connected to other communities.

These are hard times, but communities are made up of people, not platforms.