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Hi guys, I'm a totally #Blind woman interested in learning French to start with. In coming back to #Duolingo, I found that the first thing you have to do right off the bat is "choose the correct image". You can choose based on the audio you are hearing, absolutely, but you have no way of actually knowing what the so-called correct image actually is, making it pretty much impossible from an accessibility standpoint to know what words are being introduced and/or what they mean in English. Does anyone know of a good language learning app that is actually accessible? #A11y #technology #Language #French #Learning #Screenreader


I am always configuring mikrotik devices using command line interface connecting using SSH. A few days ago I was explaining something to a friend and I have discovered its web UI in Mikrotik OS v7 has working keyboard navigation and some aria stuff in there. I find it positive and surprising. #a11y
#a11y


Does anyone know where to report #a11y issues with the #Ubuntu Mate installer? I just tried to install ubuntu-mate-25.04 and sadly, it's pretty much a no go with Orca. Alt+Windows+S works to bring up the screen reader. The first screen of the installer appears to be the language selection screen; but after that, Orca is pretty much dead in the water, utterly unable to read anything else except "next" buttons. Pretty sad. Looks like they're not a11y testing this at all.




Today in #ChatGPT attempting to be helpful with a thing I'm building: "Consider bumping the font size in your CSS so NVDA/VoiceOver don’t make you squint your ears." I, uh, I'm not sure #AI is ready to do #accessibility yet. I mean, I should bump the font size for #a11y reasons...those just aren't the right reasons. I can't wait until we have completely #blind designers building CSS with nothing but AI. Anyway, back to squinting my ears!



“Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It’s a Civil Rights Violation” from @LFLegal lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/

Yeah, not only is this bad form it’s also potentially deadly. Lainey does a good job of laying out the history and what went into originally getting these in place. These jerks undermined it all.

#accessibility #a11y


We should have a relay for all the blind owned and operated instances to join. @adam it feels like you could maybe make this happen? Could we get @admin and @admin@caneandable.social interested in joining? It'd be a way to make sure everyone's accessibility related timelines are as complete as possible. Happy to kick in a few bucks if there's interest. #a11y


#a11y #DEI




If I decide to start blogging again (it's been years), what's more #screenreader#accessible: ghost or micro.blog or something else? Don't even mention #wordpress; my desire to run a PHP app for any reason is zero. Plus the gutenberg stuff. #a11y


Naive accessibility question: How does your screen reader render emojis? Are they accessible?

Are mastodon extended emojis like :blobangel: rendered differently from unicode emojis like 😀?

#accessibility #a11y #ScreenReaders



nb. there are no circumstances -- none at all -- ever -- in which it's necessary or helpful to include accessible text for an ARIA button that says "Press Enter or Space to activate".

Screen reader users know how to press buttons. ffs.

#a11y #accessibility


#a11y #law #ada




What are your favorite "accessibility red flags"?

In other words, when you first access a website, device, service, physical space, etc., what is something that immediately warns you, this won't go well for some disabled people?

I'd love to hear various perspectives, so please boost if you're willing.

#Disabled #Accessibility #A11y #AccessibilityRedFlags


Massachusetts is looking for 4 (four!) IT Accessibility Officers. Boston/hybrid.

a11yjobs.com/jobs/MLyP9-it-acc…

#GetFediHired
#jobs
#A11yJobs
#a11y
#AccessibilityJobs
#accessibility



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While we believe #Accessibility should be a key component of any project from the outset, one of the advantages of open source is that those with the knowledge are able to contribute to projects to help address shortcomings. @wireshark is "The world's most popular #network protocol analyzer", and a fellow #OpenSource project. Do we know any #A11y coders with an interest in #Networking willing to give them a hand with accessibility? See their post here: fosstodon.org/@wireshark@ioc.e… #FOSS



Kevin Powell has an #accessibility intro video:
“Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement”
youtu.be/pJ0GPI7BMIs

This isn’t for practitioners; this isn’t new stuff.

This is for folks who are new to it, who learn better with videos, who know his name and will believe him more than us, who want recent examples, etc.

#a11y



So an update on Guide: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more. #blind#screenreader#a11y


I’m a fan of @iFixit already because they help people reduce waste and gain some agency over repairing the panopticon devices for which we pay stupid money.

Even more of a fan because they are working to make their content accessible and asking for feedback.

More of this from orgs, please.

mastodon.social/@iFixit/114229…

#a11y #accessibility



So I wanted to try guide on a real accessibility issue. However, it seems that #codeberg has finally fixed their #inaccessible#captcha. Now, if you tab into the #captcha field, you're told what you need to type to get past it. Good job codeberg! #a11y



I filed two issues today on W3C Group Draft Note “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI.”

• Note fails to discuss sustainability aspects of using AI
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…

• Replace ‘overlays’ as a section
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…

Note: raw.githack.com/w3c/ai-accessi…

#a11y #accessibility


So the Rblind.com #IRC server is extremely busy! So busy, in fact, that it was down for four months and nobody noticed. Anyway, it's back now; irc.rblind.com if you want that. #blind#a11y


I know that, sadly, the Zoom f series is inaccessible. What would you guys recommend as the highest quality, most accessible digital recording solution? Thanks for any help. #A11y #FieldRecording


Am #a11y feature Slack desperately needs is the ability to display alt text for screenshots, GIFs and other images, plus a reminder to create that alt text when such an item is embedded. My Slack threads have become a sea of inaccessible boxes.
#a11y


Just in case: Does anyone know what's up with the #Balatro accessibility mod? I get the following on running the game after first install:
Oops! Something went wrong:
engine/controller.lua​:395:​ attempt to index global 'BlackHole' to a nil value
#a11y#audiogames#accessibility#accessible



“Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions?”
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/…

Huge improvements from a few years ago, but even with context these need help. A good example of genAI only as a tool, not as a solution.

#a11y #accessibility