Who needs Project 2025 when The Donald could be so easily swayed to return us to 1925, halfway through the forced sterilization of 30,000 Americans in the eugenics program that influenced the Nazis.

“My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’”
time.com/7002003/donald-trump-…

#accessibility

My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’

Fred Trump III describes conversations with his uncle about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

^{Fred C. Trump III (Time)}

Being #OpenSource has many advantages. For #NVDA has opened the way for community contributions, and has enabled #transparency, #security and #innovation beyond what might have been possible in closed software. Increasingly, governments are also mandating the use of open source. Here is an article on such a step forward in Switzerland:

"Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory For Public Sector"

news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-o…

#FOSS #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Software #News

Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory For Public Sector

A big boost to the open-source community and an inspiration to other public sectors!

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Derek attributes his experience with NVDA instrumental to his career success and since working at Google has found numerous ways to improve accessibility, both internally and externally.

"A product built by the community, for the community, is better than one built by some company, simply because the community is in charge of what goes into it." - Derek Riemer

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource

GitHub has released an insightful article to accompany the documentary shared earlier showcasing NVDA, OSARA, & REAPER. The article interviews NVDA co-founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh, as well as Derek Riemer, who has used NVDA since 2011. Derek has contributed to NVDA itself & written over 20 add-ons. He also now works as a software engineer at Google.

Find the full article (& short documentary) here: github.com/readme/featured/nvd….
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource

Coding accessibility: Software by the blind, for the blind

NVDA and OSARA provide access to information, employment, community, and more, as well as empower a new generation to build a more accessible world.

^{Mike Melanson (GitHub)}

Dark mode & accessibility myth

stephaniewalter.design/blog/da…

#darkmode #a11y #accessibility #webdesign #webdev #UIDesign

Dark mode & accessibility myth by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.

Dark mode isn't always better for accessibility, you need to let users chose. And if you build a dark theme, make it accessible!

^{Stéphanie Walter (Stéphanie Walter - Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Conference Speaker, Blog writer and Teacher.)}

The folks at TPGuy have finally made a Firefox extension for ARC Toolkit:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

I installed it yesterday. Nothing has caught fire. Appears to work as I recall it on Chrome.

#accessibility #a11y

ARC Toolkit – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download ARC Toolkit for Firefox. Accessibility testing tool from TPGi

^{addons.mozilla.org}

Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.

When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.

Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic

Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)

It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.

#GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #TableTop #CardGames #BoardGames

If you or someone you love (or even vaguely tolerate) is using #accessiBe, perhaps send them this information about the class action lawsuit against accessiBe for lying about its #overlay:
lflegal.com/2024/07/accessibe-…

#accessibility #a11y

New Class Action Lawsuit against AccessiBe

On June 24, 2024 Tribeca Skin Care, a small skin care dermatology practice in New York City, filed a class action lawsuit against overlay company AccessiBe.

^{Law Office of Lainey Feingold}

Newsflash: other people exist!

For the love of God, don’t block the sidewalk for wheelchair users and people with strollers or suitcases or whatever. Some massive main character syndrome on display here.

#frustration #antisocial #ableism #accessibility

Today at 13:55 MDT (19:55 UTC), my colleague Georges Stavracas will talk about bringing accessibility back to WebKitGTK:

events.gnome.org/event/209/con…

#gnome #guadec #guadec2024 #igalia #accessibility #webkit #a11y

In-Process is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4, the add-on update notification feature in NVDA 2024.3, thanks to Intopia (& all our corporate sponsors) and a look at jumping between paragraphs! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #ThankYou #Intopia #Navigation #Beta #Prerelease #FOSS #Software #blog

Congratulations to our newest NVDA Certified Expert, Victor-Daniel Dima!

If you'd like to become an NVDA Certified Expert, you can sit the exam for FREE here: certification.nvaccess.org/

(There is a cost to receive the certificate, with all money helping keep NVDA free for all!)

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Certification #Qualification #Study #AmStudying #Exam #Leadership #Technology

In 2014, Steve Faulkner wrote an article What ARIA does not do. 10 years later, the message is unchanged.

buff.ly/4cJlV7S

#WebDev #WebDevelopment #ARIA #HTML #DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y

#DisabilityIN The Evinced CEO referred to the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Working Group as one of the three pillars of creating accessible content. Using it can guarantee “100% accessibility”.

#accessibility #a11y

#DisabilityIN Very quick demonstration of Microsoft Accessibility Insights run against the Disability:IN home page only. Found no issues! Applause from audience. I *think* the “Needs review” tab listed two issues.

#accessibility #a11y

#DisabilityIN Luncheon Plenary: “Nothing About Us Without Us: Accessibility Innovation, Leadership, and Impact”

Microsoft’s CAO discussed one challenge of #accessibility is non-practitioners creating accessible content. She talked about advances in tooling to solve that, using this slide.

#a11y

Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users!

Exciting news! I’ve reached out to Apple Accessibility, and they’re on board to collaborate with us. They’ve asked me to put together a team so we can work directly with their team and engineers.

Are you passionate about improving accessibility features for blind and low vision users? Do you use VoiceOver, Zoom, or other low vision features on your devices? We need your help!

We’re looking for individuals who are interested in providing feedback and testing new features from our point of view. Your input will be invaluable in making technology more accessible for everyone.

If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below:

forms.microsoft.com/r/eRQAsmMb…

Let’s make a difference together!
Feel free to share this post.

Best,
Matthew Whitaker

#Accessibility #BlindUsers #LowVision #VoiceOver #Zoom #AppleAccessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion #AccessibilityMatters #blind #lowvision

Accessibility is not a loud, one-time event; it's a quiet revolution. It's also isn't about quick fixes or public shaming.

it's about the power of ongoing action like watering a plant – splash it once, and you'll make a mess; nurture it daily, and you'll watch it thrive.

#Disability #HumanRights #a11y #Accessibility #SDGs #Poverty #Technology

Okay, I think I fixed the link.

So, this is like, one of the first times I've done this, but I wanted to show a bit of installing Fedora Linux on my laptop. I'd already started the installation, but it shows most of it, and a bit of setup afterwards. I recorded this on my iPhone, so it won't sound the best. A few things I forgot to mention:

* You cannot buy IBM Viavoice (Eloquence) for Linux anymore, but it's of course still floating around.
* We also have DecTalk on Linux, obvious from the BTSpeak using it.
* You can also get Vocalizer voices.
* There's also Piper of course.

dropbox.com/scl/fi/ku4p2ylikzz…

#Linux #foss #Fedora #accessibility #blind

Fedora-install.m4a

Shared with Dropbox

^Dropbox

For those who don't know about it yet, here is a tool, called Audio Game Manager, that lets you play lots of Windows audio games on Linux. This might be useful to be put on the BT Speak, connected to a USB keyboard or Gamepad of course.

git.stormux.org/storm/audiogam…

#linux #foss #audioGames #blind #accessibility

👉 Success Criterion Applying SC 2.4.2 Page Titled to Non-Web Documents and Software

🤔 Should SC 2.4.2 Page Titled be applied to individual screens of an app 🤔

#WCAG #apps #accessibility

github.com/w3c/wcag2ict/issues…

Success Criterion Applying SC 2.4.2 Page Titled to Non-Web Documents and Software · Issue #437 · w3c/wcag2ict

For Applying SC 2.4.2 Page Titled to Non-Web Documents and Software it is unclear whether a title is required for each screen in an app (Software) or for the application as a whole? Likewise is it ...

^GitHub

Only one week to go for #GUADEC! Don't miss the talks from @igalia by Patrick and Georges, on the new SDK for #WebKitGTK (and #WPE) and on WebKitGTK #accessibility, on July 19th and 21st.

More details in events.gnome.org/event/209/con… and events.gnome.org/event/209/con…

See you there!

I am once again asking you you not to use Web•dev for #accessibility info, but this time with receipts.
adrianroselli.com/2024/07/dont…

#a11y

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info

Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform.

^{Adrian Roselli}

The City of Boston is going to stop asking people what disabilities they have in favor of asking what accommodations they require. Brilliant!
Via @kellylford
wgbh.org/news/local/2024-07-11…

#accessibility #a11y #disabilities

Boston is changing how it collects data on disability

City departments will ask about accommodations rather than a person’s type disability.

^{Meghan Smith (GBH)}

Why are my live regions not working? by @patrick_h_lauke

'Live regions have a reputation for being "flaky" and inconsistent. While this can be attributed in part to shortcomings in current implementations, the problem can also be caused by developers misunderstanding how live regions are intended to work.'

#accessibility #HTML #ARIA #WebDev

tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/…

Why are my live regions not working? - TetraLogical

^TetraLogical

In just a couple of weeks, Carie Fisher and Jesse Dugas from the GitHub Accessibility team will be sharing the accessibility features of GitHub Copilot that you can use to enhance your own projects.

Mark your calendars for July 23, 2024, 1pm ET
a11ytalks.com/posts/2024-jul
#A11y #Accessibility #A11yTalks #Drupal #GitHub #Copilot

I'd like to boost this, but:

1. There's no alt text
2. There doesn't seem to be any link to the original source

In the interests of accessibility, avoiding disinformation and getting your post the most reach possible, would you consider fixing these two issues?

Thanks!

#accessibility #AltText #Disinformation #Tuta #Journalism