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blog.pope.tech/2022/12/02/wave…
#a11y #accessibility
How to use the WAVE extension and start manual accessibility testing - Pope Tech Blog
Learn how to use each tab in the WAVE extension.Whitney Lewis (Pope Tech Blog)
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#FreeCourse #Accessibility #VoiceOver #MacOS #Terminal #BlindTech
Accessing the Mac Terminal Accessibly
Join this course to learn how to use the terminal in macOS with VoiceOver. During this course, you will learn how to navigate the terminal, and use the Mac with nothing but text. We are excited to have you in this free and interactive course.Techopolis Courses
In #Linux, #opensource, #foss communities is #accessibility considered a priority?
It's not a rhetorical or ironic question. I ask this because in the past I have struggled to find #speechtotext apps on Linux while on #macos it is pre-installed.
Interesting breakdown of how Google has gone off the accessibility rails, among other rails, while also framing some common corp methods for reframing needs into revenue streams.
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Original post for following:
kolektiva.social/@FractalEcho/…
Thank You For Your Feedback Loop is a monthly newsletter that will share previously unpublished reporting and analysis on the elite capture of disability movements.
The first post, "The Rise and Fall of Access" is available now.
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#accessibility #DEIA #DEI
The Rise and Fall of Access
by: Liz Jackson & Rua M. Williams In the Year 2000, Google’s 23rd employee, Paul Buchheit was pulled into a “meeting to decide on the company’s corporate...Thank You For Your Feedback Loop
In-Process is out, featuring:
- The NV Access 2025 Roadmap
- Thanks to our sponsors
- Corporate support with Benevity
- our new VPAT & Multiple key press timeout.
Read it all here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-7…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Support #CorporateGiving #VPAT #Blog #News #Newsletter
Naturally, the best thing to do was to try #Tapestry for myself. I added my Mastodon account and here's what I found:
1. Each post requires between 9 and 11 swipes to read with #VoiceOver. This can be reduced to 6 or 7 swipes per post in the collapsed timeline view, and 4 or 5 in the "mini" view. But the last of these doesn't include the text of posts.
2. Each post has three VoiceOver actions: the standard "Activate", "Open original", and "View details". "Activate" doesn't seem to do anything, "View details" opens a modal screen with similar info as on the timeline entry itself, and "Open original" opens the post on the Mastodon instance in a webview.
3. As you may've inferred from point number 2, you can't post, repost, reply, like, or bookmark from this app. You can mark a timeline entry, but that seems specific to the app and doesn't do anything on Mastodon.
4. There's a "Menu" button on each entry which has a few more buttons that aren't present as VoiceOver actions (e.g. "Translate" and "Share").
Right now, this is a no from me. The #accessibility is not good, and I can't really conceive an idea of reading my Mastodon timeline without interacting with any of the content in it.
This is an effort to make my career illegal.
“The new memo claims that it will target private sector DEIA initiatives for potential ‘criminal investigation.’”
archive.is/OSx8H
Le Chat by Mistral AI
Le Chat combines powerful AI with extensive information on the web to help you rediscover the world. Enjoy natural conversations, real-time internet search, comprehensive document analysis, and much more.App Store
Ep 5 - Ed Summers - Head of Accessibility, GitHub
Hosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon interview Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub. They discuss how Ed began working in accessibility, some of the lat...YouTube
The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. · Issue #7751 · nextcloud/desktop
Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...GitHub
AGAIN, I must complain about bugs being camera shy! Every time you want to record them, they scuttle away as to not let you show evidence of their existence... 😤😡
#Accessibility Testing is hard.
🤔Is Google Lighthouse an industry accepted standard for assessing #accessibility?
❌No it's a tool that automates testing of a subset of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 Standard
30% auto testable
70% manual evaluation
Be wary when adding additional context only for #screenReader users. An example:
Say you're working on an e-commerce site, and some products have two prices to show how great a sale discount is. The before and after is made visually apparent via some aspect of text formatting, and you want to make it explicit for screen reader users too.
The first step is to ask if this is necessary. If a user encounters two consecutive prices and one is lower than the other, they may intuitively understand what's going on without any explicit signposting, and can verify how much they're gonna pay during the checkout process. Only your users can provide this verdict.
If it's determined that some additional context is helpful, you could format it as something like: "Was $14.99, now $8.99" (optionally swapping the prices). It's short and punchy in braille and speech, perfectly descriptive of the situation at hand, and mirrors how it may be spoken out loud on an ad.
Resist the temptation to go further than this. You do not need to say "original price: $14.99, current sale price: $8.99". This is much longer and more verbose, while adding nothing. It also implies that you think screen reader users need to be told what a price is and explained the concept of a sale, even though you're not doing so for other audiences.
You also don't need to spell out the word "dollars", format the price in words, repeat the product name, and so on. If you find yourself with screen-reader-only text like: "The current price of 500 Grams of Premium Oolong Tea was fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, and is now on sale for eight dollars and ninety-nine cents", it has gone way too far.
In short: Set out to identify the problems that actually need solving, and only solve those problems.
Does this seem like appropriate markup for a DHL notification email?
```
<div
aria-describedby="cke_126"
title="Rich Text Editor, GREETING"
aria-label="Rich Text Editor, GREETING"
role="textbox"
spellcheck="false"
tabindex="0"
id="GREETING"
>
Hello JAMES SCHOLES,
</div>
```
New post: “Which VoiceOver?”
adrianroselli.com/2025/02/whic…
Just because something behaves a certain way in VoiceOver doesn’t mean it behaves that way in VoiceOver.
Which VoiceOver?
You may have seen this as a thread on Mastodon (my primary social short-form platform) or on BlueSky. Imagine these as the opening to a series of conversations between a vendor or client or boss or PO or whomever and me.Adrian Roselli
Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility (Paris Web)
Lainey shares "share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations"
paris-web.fr/2024/conference/b…
#a11y #accessibility #ParisWeb
Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility - Paris Web
This session will share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations. Have you ever tried to convince someone of the value and importance of …Paris Web
My 2nd @fosdem talk was Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
It is available online:
docs.google.com/presentation/d…
#FOSDEM #FOSS #AI #LLM #AltText #Accessibility
FOSDEM 2025 : Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?
Alt Text for Images: How Bad Are they Anyway? FOSDEM, Feb 1, 2025 25 minutes, Track: Inclusive Web, Room: K.3.201 https://fosdem.Google Docs
Paraphrasing "Take your alt text, run it through an AI image generator. Does it even vaguely match your image? If not, it is bad alt text!"
(A not entirely unserious proposition by @mgifford )
Mozilla.ai
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#blind #GameJam #Gamedev #accessibility
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JIT isn't just for games! I just ran Arch Linux, with sound, on my iPhone! I used VoiceOver screen recognition to read the screen, then used espeak once I got that installed. I couldn't figure out how to enable Speakup, so I'll leave that for future me to tinker with. I'd be curious to know if any other blind people have used UTM, on the Mac maybe, and have some Windows VM's or a Windows install ISO that talks. I can probably only handle up to Windows 7 or so on this iPhone. But it would be cool to see if it's possible!
#linux #UTM #iPhone #iOS #sideload #ALTSTORE #archLinux #blind #accessibility
The US Web Design System has deleted it's info on inclusive design, in response to the 2025-01-20 Executive order "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing".
github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pu…
If you know anyone who used those resources, let them know about the Inclusive Design principles:
inclusivedesignprinciples.info…
#accessibility #a11y #inclusion
Remove content related to 1/20/25 EO by thisisdano · Pull Request #3078 · uswds/uswds-site
Summary Removed report link and introduction. Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 Executive Order, "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing". This...GitHub
1. Ships with TalkBack 15.1 out of the box.
2. Interestingly, Samsung TalkBack lacks an option to enable or disable Gemini’s online image descriptions, yet the "Describe Image" command works, suggesting it's enabled by default. The TalkBack tutorial even includes an image sample and usage instructions.
3. The default US English female Samsung voice sounds more natural, clearer, and less depressed compared to my S24 Ultra experience.
4. Face detection in the Samsung Camera app remains unchanged, meaning the camera experience still falls short of the Pixel Camera app for accessibility as it doesn't offer object detection or Auto image capturing.
5. Accessibility volume is improved—better bass and clarity than the S24 Ultra—but still lacks the full, rich Media volume quality screen reader users deserve. Some odd frequency shifts persist.
6. Scrolling long lists still lags, as expected with TalkBack.
7. Holding the Side button opens a menu with options like "Ask about the current item," "Ask Gemini," "Talk with Gemini Live," and "Ask a question"—seemingly a blend of Bixby and Gemini.
#Android #Accessibility
Oh nice, Mastodon is getting an alt text reminder.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
#mastodon #accessibility #AltText
Add reminder when about to post without alt text in web UI by Gargron · Pull Request #33760 · mastodon/mastodon
Fixes #7804, fixes #13894, fixes #19974, fixes #22875GitHub
Someone plays music in the background during a meeting. They ask if it's bothering people. Neurotypical folks on the call quickly speak up and say it's fine.
The autistic person on the call (me):
1. has extreme difficulty participating in or even following the meeting due to the inability to separate foreground from background noise
2. experiences distress from sensory overload
3. spends the whole meeting stressing over how to bring it up in a side channel without taking the wrong tone and offending the person due to social communication difficulties
4. questions whether it should even be brought up, or if they're just being "too sensitive" due to a lifetime of conditioning to treat their own needs as invalid just because they're aren't "typical"
Meanwhile, no one on the call even realizes something is wrong or that the autistic person just got screwed over, completely by accident.
#Disability
#Accessibility
#AccessibilityMatters
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic