A terrific 3-part series on colored blindness, accessibility, and data visualizations.

Part 1: https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part1/

Part 2:
https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part2/

Part 3:
https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part3/

#a11y #webdesign #UIDesign #color #dataviz #colorblindness

What’s it like to be colorblind - Datawrapper Blog

'One notices being colourblind more often when looking at data visualizations': Ten experiences.

^{Lisa Charlotte Muth (Datawrapper Blog)}

NV Access is very pleased to share the release of the NVDA 2024.1 Release Candidate. Unless any major issues are identified, this will be identical to the final release. We encourage all users to test the Release Candidate. Many updates including on-demand speech mode, native selection in Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store and much more! Read the full details and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1rc1/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #News #NewVersion #Release

I am excited to be presenting tomorrow (Mar 19) at 9am UTC at the Cabinet Office - Central Digital and Data Office Services Week 2024.

I will be presenting on What Green Digital Policy can learn from Digital Accessibility Policy?

We are in a climate crisis, and it is important that we are able to pivot to reduce our demand on the environment. Digital sustainability is a relatively new discipline, and teams are struggling to define best practices.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-green-digital-policy-can-learn-from-digital-accessibility-policy-tickets-852077335247

#A11y #sustainability

What Green Digital Policy can learn from Digital Accessibility Policy?

Format of the session: Talk with Q&A

^Eventbrite

Responsible and Ethical AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury | Axe-con 2024 Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCZ4FxruMU

#ethic #a11y #ai #disability #axecon

Responsible and Ethical AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury | Axe-con 2024

^YouTube

Continuing this thread about Glidance/Glide.

Based on the demo on their site + FAQs + the recent interview, here are some questions that seem to have been answered.

1. The design takes into account rainy weather. It will work on rainy streets. No answer about snow yet.

2. The timeline is longer than I anticipated. Beta tests are happening this year and release will happen in 2025.

3. Preorders wil start this year to gage demand and satisfy funders.

#accessibility #blind #a11y

Are you a #ScreenReader and/or #Braille user on #Matrix?

Should we be adding messages as captions until #AltText is supported?

#A11Y #Accessibility #BRLTTY #FOSS #OpenSource #Element #GNOME #KDE #elementaryOS #XFCE

• Yes, always. (66%, 4 votes)
• A quick summary is fine, I'll ask if I need more (16%, 1 vote)
• As long as you do it if I ask. (16%, 1 vote)

The more I learn about Glidance, a system that purports to replace the cane, the more it seems to have taken all the criticisms of "smart canes" into account. It might be the first genuine high-tech navigation aid that could be beneficial, replacing the cane in most circumstances. I'm usually highly skeptical about these things because people just havent thought through the implications including ergonomics, weather conditions, etc

https://glidance.io

#accessibility #blind #a11y #mobility

Glidance | Glide your way to independence

A new era of independence for the visually impaired Glide is the first self-guided mobility aid designed to help individuals with sight loss navigate the

^Glidance

Reminder that support for the `headers` attribute in tables is pants:
• https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40691227
• https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40818082
• https://github.com/FreedomScientific/standards-support/issues/601
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235740

Even if `headers` worked, table navigation for spanned cells is still wonky.

So, you know, avoid spanning table cells and headers:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/avoid-spanning-table-headers.html

#accessibility #a11y

Avoid Spanning Table Headers

Spanned table headers are not well supported across screen readers. While you can visually style these all sorts of ways to make the spanning clear, I am focusing on the programmatic outcomes.

^{Adrian Roselli}

Accessibility for Everyone: In two hours, come hear @laura talk about accessibility – register here now (it’s free/online):

https://lu.ma/BookGroup1

“Please join author Laura Kalbag, Guild host Lija Hogan, and other UX researchers for a fireside chat about the latest in accessibility and inclusive design topics … We’ll use her recent book, ‘Accessibility for Everyone’ from A Book Apart as a reference and starting point.”

#accessibility #a11y #event

Accessibility for Everyone: A Conversation with Author Laura Kalbag

Please join author Laura Kalbag, Guild host Lija Hogan, and other UX researchers for a fireside chat about the latest in accessibility and inclusive design topics. With the launch of WCAG 2.

^lu.ma

Look at this document and tell me what's wrong with it.

https://ai-weekly.ai/newsletter-03-12-2024/

#accessibility #a11y

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - Volume 103 — AI-Weekly

The Week's News in Artificial Intelligence

^AI-Weekly

@nah @fvsch @sonny @matt But here’s the thing: Wayland would never have been made the default if, say, fonts didn’t render correctly. Not having a functional screen reader is as big an issue for people who rely on screen readers. So at some point, someone at Canonical decided that it didn’t matter that people who use screen readers would be excluded. And so they should be ashamed.

#a11y #canonical #wayland #orca #screenReaders #accessibility

So @gnome is removing the x11 session, leaving just the Wayland one.

If this goes out before Orca, the GNOME screen reader, is fixed to work on Wayland, it will mean that people who rely on screen readers will have no way to use one on GNOME. And thus on the major Linux distributions.

So I’m hoping the plan is that this change will not land until GNOME has a working screen reader.

#accessibility #a11y #gnome #linux #openSource #foss #wayland #x11 #orca https://peoplemaking.games/@ailepet/112077559713299711

If you need a blind accessible smart scale in the EU, Lidl's Silver Crest SBF75 body analyser is a pretty good choice for 18 euros. The only inaccessible bit is when it asks for a 6 digit code during bluetooth pairing.

Everything else works beautifully, the Health for You app is completely accessible via VoiceOver (not sure about Android), including the measurements history, weight, water intakes, calories data, etc.

The scale also supports up to 8 people based on a reference measurement during your profile setup, which can be done on the phone through the app as well. All in all, this is a fantastic experience compared to a lot of other, way more expensive bluetooth smart scales. #a11y #blind

People who use #ScreenReaders, imagine a feature on your instance where you can automatically hide any post that contains images/videos without alt text.

If you reply with an opinion and YOU PERSONALLY don't need alt text for accessibility reasons, I will probably block you.

#poll #ScreenReader #accessibility #a11y #blind

• It's a great idea (32%, 16 votes)
• No strong feelings (6%, 3 votes)
• It's a bad idea (6%, 3 votes)
• I don't use a screen reader (56%, 28 votes)

Jakob Nielsen thinks accessibility has failed.

Jakob Nielsen thinks that generative AI will make my experience better.

I think Nielsen needs to think again.
https://tink.uk/nielsen-needs-to-think-again/

#accessibility #a11y #AI

Mir werden immer wieder mal verschiedene Linux-Distributionen vorgeschlagen, mit dem Argument, sie seien besonders barrierefrei.

Sind sie nicht. Sie haben nur die „richtige“ Software von Haus aus mit an Bord. Die echten Probleme von Linux sind aber immer noch da.

Die meisten dieser Projekte werden auch nicht sehr lange maintained.

Und außerdem: Warum soll ich eine Blindenversion eines Betriebssystems nutzen? Gibt’s bei macOS und Windows doch auch nicht. #a11y

“Nielsen has given everyone who sees accessibility as an unnecessary cost center a way out. Listen, they will say, the experts are telling us that AI is going to solve this, so let’s deprioritize the work now so we don’t duplicate our efforts.”–Matt May

https://buttondown.email/practicaltips/archive/we-need-to-talk-about-jakob/ #a11y

We need to talk about Jakob

Jakob Nielsen woke up one morning last week and chose violence. If you haven’t read his recent post, “Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI =...

^{buttondown.email}

This weekend I was using a Windows 11 box with NVDA to help out a sighted relative with their computer.

I don't understand what the hell they've done with explorer. I open it and can't find the list and tree views to navigate through drives and directory trees. Is there a trick or is it as dire as I think? I ended up raging out and launching it from the command prompt on whichever directory I had to navigate to do cutting and pasting and so on.

#windows #NVDASR #a11y

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/02/29/accessibility-in-ptyxis/

#GNOME #a11y #accessibility #terminal #ptyxis

We had a question from someone asking, what Mastodon client for Windows do people use which is accessible with NVDA. I thought here might be the perfect place to post that question? What do YOU use, or how do you access Mastodon on PC? Please let us know!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Software #Recommendation #WhatDoYouUse #Accessibility #A11y

"If a document isn’t accessible, it’s unfinished.

If a video doesn’t have captions, it’s unfinished.

Finished content and documents are accessible. They reach more people. They give people choices. They win more fans."- Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf)

#Disability #a11y #Technology #DigitalAccessibility #Diversity #Equity

👁‍🗨Screen Readers support for text level HTML semantics

"A long time ago (2008) I wrote an article: Screen Readers lack emphasis. At the time, 15 years ago..."

#a11y #webDev #HTML #screenReaders

https://www.tpgi.com/screen-readers-support-for-text-level-html-semantics/

Screen Readers support for text level HTML semantics - TPGi

A long time ago (2008) I wrote an article: Screen Readers lack emphasis. At the time, 15 years ago, the screen readers tested did not signify the semantics of text...

^{Steve Faulkner (TPGi)}

As a front-end developer, there are some things that jumped out to me in the recent screen-reader survey. I'll share a couple of them, but keep in mind that I don't typically use a screen reader myself. You can take a look at the results yourself at:

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

@frontend #a11y #accessibility #WebAIM #frontend

What's the easiest way to get up and running with a screen reader?

I want to try putting on a blindfold and using #Willow exclusively through a screen reader to test its accessibility

#accessibility #a11y #askfedi

The tenth #WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey results are out!

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

#a11y #accessibility