CQ Blind Hams is "the" source for #amateur radio content for #blind people in the English-speaking world. That's why I think it would be great if you could subscribe to the channel. They could monetize the thing with 1000 or more followers, which they then want to use to finance radio equipment for blind #Hams. I think it's a cool thing, I support it. Range boosts welcome. youtube.com/@cqblindhams?si=JZ…
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.
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📣 Do-It-Blind DIB online Besprechung am Montag, 15. Juli, 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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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.
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.
📣 Do-It-Blind DIB online Besprechung am Montag, 8. Juli, 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 any enthusiasts of legacy assistive tech, it seems the first source code of the Talks Screen Reader for Nokia 9110 Communicator has been published by one of the original devs. Unbelievable to think that it all started off as a bunch of prerecorded messages supplemented by the ability to spell anything it doesn't have ready letter by letter and plugging in external synthesizers and Braille displays via the serial port: github.com/mgroeber9110/talx91… #Accessibility #Blind #RetroTech #ScreenReader
Jaws Discount. Like in past years, Freedom Scientific is offering a 20% discount for upgrading your SMA or Annual license during the time of the ACB and NFB conventions; July 3rd thru 12th. You can call and do it by phone, or do it online. You will just need one of these codes, ACB24 or NFB24. If doing it online, just know that the place you put in the code is on down the page past all of the charges. Here is the link to do it online... support.freedomscientific.com/…. #Jaws #Discount #ACB #NFB #Convention #Blind
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The image is a popular internet meme format known as the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme. It shows a man walking with his girlfriend but turning his head to look at another woman passing by. In this version of the meme:
- The man is labeled "MEDIA." - The woman he is looking at is labeled "REFORM'S 4 MPs." - The girlfriend, who looks annoyed, is labeled "THE GREENS' 4 MPs."
The meme humorously suggests that the media is more interested in the Reform Party's 4 MPs than in the Greens' 4 MPs. #Blind #AI 👩🦯😘 mas.to/@howie319/1127348400461…
Introducing Groundbreaking Innovation: Solos' AI-powered Smart GlassesSolos, a front-runner in wearable technology, has unveiled a game-changing product that...
Not sure if I've talked about this here, but there are like, tons of stuff here. I'm gonna try that Linux distro through Crostini on my old ChromeBook that I don't do anything else with anymore. The VM's over the Internet are really cool too! The AT Museum is cool. And I'm curious to see if the Windows 2000/XP on **Android** works. That'd be trippy.
#alttext #ai #accessibility #websites #socialmedia https://youtu.be/CHCK43D0jJ0An Alt-Opinon On Alt-Text. In this conversation, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece...
Man sagt ja auch gerne "#blind vor #Hass" - Ich finde das passender: Auch blind vor der #Wahrheit, die ja auch selten #objektiv ist. So haben #Terroristen ihre eigene Wahrheit, von der sie felsenfest überzeugt sind. #Radikalisierung ist ein hochkomplexer #Vorgang, der nicht mit ein paar einfachen #Metaphern zu erklären ist. Da spielen viele verschiedene #Elemente eine #Rolle.
An idea for anyone with the time and energy required to moderate anything, here it goes: a blog open to anybody to post guest entries where blind users can post about everyday things achieved using tech. I imagine everything going there: somebody reading the screen of a washing machine using OCR or LLM's, somebody trying to teach others a folk song in a foreign language by jotting the lyrics down in a notepad app on an Android smartphone which crashed due to a bug; trying and succeeding or failing to book train tickets... you get the idea. Make it variet, make it international, make it interesting, modern or retrospective. Goals: 1. To motivate each other and show what is possible and what still needs solutions; 2. To evaluate which of the many technologies flowing through the market actually ended up being used and for what purpose; 3. To create an archive not just of what was available in the past but what was actually in use by people; 4. Perhaps to showcase to the wider audiences that Accessibility is not just a dull requirement to satisfy and actually helps end-users. Any takers? #Accessibility #Blind
Are you interested in accessibility on Mastodon? Are you blind or do you know someone who is blind and wants to use Mastodon?
There is a Mastodon-compatible accessibility app for Windows and Mac called TweeseCake which is designed for blind and sight-impaired people. You can find out more on its website at tweesecake.app
You can follow the developers of TweeseCake at @app
A friend just reminded me today that #braille watches for the #blind inspired by the soviet braille watch tradition are still being produced nowadays. I have found an eshop with world wide shipping meranom.com/en/vostok/vostok-t… Also there is a nice article on the history of these watches: mroatman.wixsite.com/watches-o…
Vostok-T Watch (Braille watch) are designed for blind and partially sighted people. Manual winding 2409 movement with 17 jewels Chromed case made of brass Dial with raised signs in the form of Braille latin letters: a, b, c Stainless steel caseba…
Please boost for reach: There's an open issue on Github about adding scripting support to Retroarch. This would enable scripts like the Pokemon Access mod to be ran on Retroarch, hopefully allowing blind people to actually play the game while mobile. I tried it out and am already making a team in Pokemon Emerald, and in the woods in the first few areas of the game! If anyone is good with adding Lua to things, or if anyone is good at modding games and wants to enhance the Pokemon Access scripts, I'd really appreciate you looking into this.
Description New feature: Lua scripting, like other emulators. Provide functions to read/write game memory, display graphics on screen, poll input, control emulator, etc. (Not Lutro! Scripts running...
We've been doing this a while. Let's SWING for the big leagues. Tomorrow, we're doing a deep dive on #burpSuite from a #screenReader perspective. It will be mostly #blind (as in playthrough) as I've not looked at this program for a few years, and fully blind (as in sight) given ... well ... screenReader user :)
Any #blind people have one of these? Are they accessible. The page says there’s a bluetooth module. Does that mean they have an app where you can get your results accessibly? How is the accessibility of the test kit itself, in terms of a blind person being able to use it without too much difficulty?
The Metrix® Test & Reader Starter bundle gives you everything you need to get started. The bundle includes 2 Metrix® COVID-19 Test Kits and 1 reusable Metrix® Reader.
I was wondering around on the internet and saw this webpage; Accessibility suggestions for blind players – Minecraft Feedback. The person who created the post gave some suggestions on how to improve the accessibility of mind craft.
Linux blind users, listen to this and let me know what you guess this actually is, and most importantly, what you think! I'm just gauging interest as this is still in its early infancy, and I was wondering if it was worth continuing. As you can infer, I'm already far enough to have a working yet incomplete prototype!
Okay y'all, Retroarch is now accessible on iOS! You *will* need a keyboard or gamepad to play and use the user interface. PSP games work great though! Just download all the core updates and needed core files for PPSSPP, if you plan on playing PSP games, and you're good! #accessibility #RetroArch #blind #blindGaming #emulation #emulators #gaming #iOS Link to the App Store page: apps.apple.com/app/id649953943…
RetroArch is a free, ad-free, open source, and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and other applications. Supported systems come in the form of libretro cores.
Subtoot. Alright, look. My disability isn't your disability. My blindness, is not your autism, or Deafness, or others. My blindness means that I need screen readers to access digital technology which has screens. So, when we, blind people, say that it's hard for us to use Linux, or that the command line can be difficult because of some commands using a table layout, like top, we um, I don't know, actually fucking mean it. When we boot up your Linux distro of choice, and find that Orca, the Linux screen reader, isn't even available on the install media, or that it cannot read the installer, that's Linux, and foss as as a general whole, being ableism. Clear and simple. If someone with low vision can use Linux well, that's great. I sure as hell wish I could just pop in any distro and get something that I can at least use like a sighted person, but no. If someone with Autism finds that desktop environments allow them to make things the way they need enough for them to get their work done more easily, that's great. Be glad you don't have to use a screen reader on top of that, okay? Next time you go distro hopping, I want you to try something for me. Shut down your computer, then put in the flash drive, press the power button or do whatever you need to to start the computer, then close your eyes. Then, set up your new distro. Then tell me how it went. I thought about just letting this kind of shit go, but damn it it's bad enough when we fucking get this kind of shit from non-disabled people, but when other people with disabilities pile on and basically accuse blind people of lying and that Linux is fine, no. I get that all disabled people have a disability. But just because you can see, that the world is *made* for you, doesn't mean everyone else has that privalidge. And right now, Windows is still usable by people who are blind, mainly because Windows is so open that we can have screen readers that can grab just about anything they want, and the Windows foss screen reader is amazingly scriptable. Wayland kills accessibility in the name of security. Orca doesn't support addons yet. So what's that about Linux being customizable? Linux distros only come with one, extremely barebones, sound theme. Orca still doesn't have sounds for important events, like when it enters browse or focus modes.
This isn't even getting into the fact that a lot of people with Autism on Mastodon seem to do really well with programming and techie stuff. Blind people? Most of us live on our iPhones. Oh, try browsing the modern web on that CLI that you say works so well for us. Try reading output of the top command using a screen reader. Do you like Ascii graphics? Screen readers sure don't! Like damn, do we need another label just for people with sensory disabilities? Because "disabled" is really getting crowded, and it's almost like blind people don't belong anymore.
@piper@sunny.garden linux (and free software in general) has much more accessibility features available, and the nature of it is that the software can be more easily adapted to suit special needs
windows and a lot of proprietary software often doesn…
Hey, if you don't like the fact that many #blind people have to rely on AI to describe images for them, you can help by, you know, describing images for them.
Do you typically use AI to describe images you post/see on social media?
#AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility
#a11y #blind #ai #poll
[ ] Yes, and I'm blind/visually impaired
[ ] No, and I'm blind/visually impaired
[ ] Yes, and I'm not blind/vi…
Patch tuesday be upon us once more. That means another IC_Null stream at 3 PM EST/9 PM CEST today. Today we cover more #TryHackMe content in the #webHacking category. SOme announcements about the channel as well. Next week, we'll take a break from pure #THM to go full ham on #burpSuite #accessibility ... or the lack there of. Let's see how long it takes for us to be forced onto the far superior #zaproxy :) See you all tonight at twitch.tv/ic_null #infoSec #cybersecurity #blind #screenReader #a11y #twitch
New instance, new introduction. Hello, I am Adam from Ottawa Canada. I am a totally blind man, identifying as he/him. My primary interests are technology and music. I was a former professional drummer, playing the bar stages of Ottawa and the ocasional out-of-town show. I've always been rhythmical, annoying the heck out of my parents at the tendor age of four on up banging on pots, pans, spoons, and whatever else I could get my grubby little hands on. I got my first drum kit when I was 12, back in 1999. I got a couple of upgrades over the years, and then switched to electronic kits in 2007 when I managed to save and purchase a Roland TD-12 kit with my own money. That was like buying a car for me, LOL. I was professionally active from 2007 until 2019. Some hearing issues with extended loudness causing anxiety and unease started my issues with playing live shows, and then COVID19 really finished that career.
I've been interested in technology from a young age as well, receiving my first electronic note taker for the blind, a Blazie Engineering Braille Lite in 1996 at the age of 9. I then got my first computer in the summer of 1998, learned DOS, then eventually Windows 3.1, 95, and on up. I've had many, many, many computers and other technological devices since those days, and I have done any serious compute work in Linux, where in I am mostly referring to running servers, hosting things, and distributed compute projects. Professionally, I am currently a systems/server administrator, backend web developer, database administrator, and infrastructure administrator. Other interests include animals, documentaries, listening to most kinds of music, having deep intellectual conversations, and pondering the meaning of life. #Mastodon #Introduction #Ottawa #Canada #Blind #Music #Technology
What is alt text? Alternative text (or alt text, in short) is the text you can use to describe an image when you publish it on your website or social media.
Test your might! On this Walop Wednesday we'll be waloping indeed as we look at what's changed in #mortalKombat1. THere's been a number of #accessibility updates and I'm curious how it's faring these days. There'll be #gaming, chuckles and laughs as we explore what's new. See you in 45 minutes at twitch.tv/zersiax #twitch #streamer #goingLive #blind #screenreader
Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...
Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, **without us**. ChromeVox has barely been updated in *years*, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.
"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...
First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can *tell* that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.
And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.
Read about our partnerships in Kenya that bring Chromebooks to low vision and blind children, and learn more about new Chromebook updates for Global Accessibility Awaren…
(YouTube) Google TalkBack screen reader and Gemini Nano AI model with multi-modality were highlighted at Google I/O 2024 youtube.com/watch?v=XEzRZ35url… #blind #a11y
It’s time to I/O! Tune in to learn the latest news, announcements, and AI updates from Google.To watch this keynote with American Sign Language (ASL) interpr...
Cautious optimism that Sonos has heard the concerns of the #blind community but continuing to watch closely: National Federation of the Blind Urges Sonos to Restore Accessibility nfb.org/about-us/press-room/na…
WDR-Reporter Kevin Barth ist von Geburt an fast blind. Zum internationalen Protesttag für die Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderung am 5. Mai hat er für uns aufgeschrieben, mit welchen Änderungen sein Alltag einfacher werden könnte.#WDR #Barrierefreiheit #Sehbehinderung #Blind #Dortmund #Protesttag #Gleichstellung #Behinderung
Come hang out while we hack the system over at twitch.tv/ic_null #blind #twitch #accessibility #goingLive #selfPromo #toomanyHashtags