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@Bri I think they've done some amazing #accessibility work as for the first release. I find the non-screen UI a bit too complicated and somewhat chatty, but it might be a good thing for many people. I am still getting used to the workflow because some of the essential statuses are missing. Anyway, just my experience!


NV Access is very pleased to announce the release of our updated Microsoft Word with NVDA training module. Available now from https://www.nvaccess.org/product/microsoft-word-training-for-nvda-ebook/ Extensively rewritten, the module incorporates the latest NVDA and Office 365 features and keystrokes. At only $32 Australian (Roughly $20 USD / 19€ - converted at checkout), it's very affordable. #Training #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Learning #Word #Microsoft #Office


I think this article, while somewhat radical and presumptuous, does have some good points, at least the ones I agree with.
I do think generative AI might have a potential of creating on-demand user interfaces to “personalize” #accessibility, but I think we forget about a human element here. Someone has to build such smarts and, as long as disabled people are deprioritized, whatever the reasons may be, the outcome will likely be not much different.

https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/accessibility-generative-ui?utm_source=practicaltips&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=we-need-to-talk-about-jakob


Hello. hope this is working correctly. First time posting with Tweezecake on my new Windows desktop. Super excited. Using NVDA here.

#blind #accessibility #windows #nvda #tweezecake


one thing that i'd love the WebAim screen reader survey to differentiate better is how results break down by OS (mainly to be able to have more segmented "on Mac, VoiceOver is effectively the only screen reader used" or similar). it might then also reframe some of the other statements/results, e.g. "71.6% of respondents use more than one desktop/laptop screen reader" ... I suspect those 71.6% are effectively Windows users? https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/ #a11y #accessibility


Just a small plea from me to anyone in the blind community writing or podcasting about the Zoom Essential series of recorders. Obviously there’s huge interest in these products because of their #accessibility.
I’ve been contacted by quite a few blind people today who have seen others referring to the products as the H1E, H4E, and H6E. They are not called this. You might think this sounds pedantic, but the problem is that the old H series is still being sold, so people have in a couple of cases ended up ordering products that don’t have the accessibility feature. So, if we’re able to refer to the products by their proper names, hopefully this will help people to search on the correct thing and find them. This is especially important given that blind people can’t see the pictures of them.
I am sure many people who don’t live and breathe this stuff but have become intrigued by the accessibility options will really appreciate this. Thanks.


Hi everyone! The games for blind gamers 3 game jam has ended! But that means we have 27 games that want YOUR feedback and submissions! Give these creators some love! https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3/entries #GameDev #Blind #accessibility


OnePlus 12 Review https://accessibleandroid.com/oneplus-12-review/ #Android #accessibility #OnePlus


Here's my periodic reminder: alternative text for images is important! It makes your images accessible to people who are blind and provides context for the neurodivergent (like me!).

HOWEVER! Writing appropriate alternative text can be very hard, especially if you don't have a lot of practice.

If you see an image missing alt text, don't be a jerk about it.

If you post an image and can't add alt text, don't be a jerk about it.

#Accessibility and #community go hand in hand. If we're all willing to be a little vulnerable with each other, we can help each other build a space that is accessible for everyone.

Edited to fix a spelling error 😁

#AltText


Take a hint: an input hint

There's a new #GNOME initiative, and this one's for everyone:

1. Identify entry widgets
2. Evaluate their purpose, and add `input-hints` and `input-purpose` properties judiciously, none is also fine.

Better #Accessibility, better #OSK experience, better software 🙂

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/announcement-input-hints-initiative/19498


ChatGPT Voice Conversations Feature: Why Is It Special, and How to Use It? https://accessibleandroid.com/chatgpt-voice-conversations-feature-why-is-it-special-and-how-to-use-it/ #GPT #AI #Android #Accessibility


@the esoteric programmer On linux #Accessibility is working fine with #GTK4 if a screen reader is already running. I think you can try to follow the tutorial you like and try to pay extra attention to the keyboard navigation, focus handling and labelling controls that don't have the text by default.


So excited to announce that I am one of five honorees to be granted the 2024 SXSW Community Service Award! This was something I simply wasn't expecting and I'm absolutely floored to be recognized for my work in accessibility :). If you're attending and would like to meet up, please let me know and maybe we can figure something out! More info and link below:

https://www.sxsw.com/news/2024/community-service-awards-honorees-at-2024-sxsw/

#SXSW #Accessibility #Blind


GNOME attaches great importance to #accessibility, so I vote for a #Fedora with #GNOME 😺

And since disabled people really need a particularly stable and robust operating system, I will even go so far as to recommend the immutable Fedora Silverblue version.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/


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


Ableton on Live 12's #accessibility revolution: "When you say 'accessibility is not on your roadmap', you’re cutting out a lot of musicians from being able to use the tools that you make"

https://www.musicradar.com/news/ableton-live-accessibility-revolution


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


Yep, cool feature! Try it out when you get it! #accessibility #andorid #ios #google https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111996735554779021


4) Last October, Google launched Lens in Maps (formerly Search with Live View). This feature uses AI and augmented reality to help you find information about nearby stores. Now, this feature has been upgraded with screen reader support, so you can point your phone’s camera at your surroundings and have TalkBack read the place’s information out loud.

(3/7)



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

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

#accessibility #a11y #askfedi


It seems there is a fail-safe way to show how much the GPT behind Be My AI can hallucinate - the slips of paper inside fortune cookies. Both a friend and I have had false results with these in two different languages, none of them being English, over a different period of time. Any experiences? And that's my random post for the morning. #Accessibility #Blind #AssistiveTechnology


So uh, the Mac has this interactive fiction client, called Spatterlight. And it’s amazingly accessible! Anyone with a Mac should seriously check this out. It even has Voiceover actions!

#accessibility #macOS #apple #InteractiveFiction #Spatterlight

https://github.com/angstsmurf/spatterlight


#GNOME Clocks' timezones dialog is not really keyboard-friendly. These two #accessibility issues I filed would probably be easy for a newcomer to fix:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-clocks/-/issues/331
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-clocks/-/issues/332


I just had to fill in an online #DBS form This is a government-run website and it, was, shit! The #accessibility of the page was disgustingly bad.
On-click combo boxes for date pickers, edit fields that are read-only, areas you can't tab out of, no idea how you do this if you're purely a keyboard user, luckily #NVDA got me through the process but that was one time I actively went looking for an accessible version and I didn't find one. Know what I did find though? Their so-called 'accessibility statement' down the bottom, and it reads like corporate tripe and a load of old waffly bullshit of the highest order.
I don't know the last time a website pissed me off and almost stumped me in such equal measure.


The single best thing about the reversibility of multimodal models like GPT-4 is that with the ability to generate Alt Text, #Blind people can now judge books by their covers! 📚👁️‍🗨️💡 #Accessibility #AI #Innovation #TechForGood 🚀🌐


If anyone knows of any concrete evidence that Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA adversely impacts people with disabilities more than others, I'd be grateful if you could share it with me.
I searched but could not find any; on the contrary, I found at least one study showing that Invisible reCAPTCHA is equally usable for disabled and non-disabled people.
To be clear, I'm not looking for theoreticals, I'm looking for concrete evidence one way or the other.
Thanks.
#accessibility


Be My Eyes 2.2 for Android was released today. It adds the capability to share images from other apps to be used by Be My AI.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bemyeyes.bemyeyes&hl=en&gl=US
@bemyeyes
#accessibility #Android


I finally got around to writing up some of my thoughts on the Deque CPACC course, just in time for #axeCon

Deque University CPACC Prep Course: A Disabled Perspective

#accessibility #a11y


We've had great feedback on our recent In-Process article on creating portable copies of NVDA. A lot of people use them for testing out beta's of new versions, particularly 2024.1. Have you been trying the 2024.1 betas, and do you use a portable version to do it? If you'd like to find out more, check out our article here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-9th-february-2024/#portable

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Testing #Beta #NewVersion #PreRelease #Accessibility


I know that the mastodon team are suggesting you turn on #hCaptcha for signups to your instance, to combat the spam wave provided by a rudimentary script that doesn't have the smarts to get around it.

I vaguely remember, however, that people have previously raised #accessibility concerns about it. Does anyone have any experience with the accessibility or lack there of, of signing up to instances that use this feature?

If it is indeed inaccessible, I don't consider this to be a reasonable solution.


So, Envision is doing this survey. It says to choose my country. I can't type U N to search ahead to United States. I can't hit the End key to move any nearer to it. So I closed the tab. I do *not* have time for AT companies that can't test any outgoing communications, or media, or surveys, or whatever, for accessibility.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczjnJdRPjfkjUIy-DypeIQMf6aBuLio1U1NuQOQ8gfO_zCPw/viewform

#Envision #accessibility


I wrote an article about how to make hastags accessible. Did some #ScreenReader testing with #JAWS, #NVDA, #VoiceOver and #Narrator, which was fun!

Pretty long one though, contains a bunch of tables for comparison. Enjoy the ride!

https://stevefrenzel.dev/posts/easy-web-accessibility-wins-hashtags/

#accessibility #a11y #html #JavaScript #WebDev #frontend


I’ve been vocal about the fact that when it was working well and before some of the recent changes to the UI, Castro Podcasts for iOS was in my view the best podcast app ever created.
It’s been through some hard times and even faced an existential threat.
But recently, it was acquired by a new owner. I covered this in a recent episode of Living Blindfully, and mentioned that the new owner promised to systematically get through the huge backlog of tech support requests.
Some of those requests related to Living Blindfully, because Castro and our podcast hosting company, Pinecast, were having issues.
Matt from Pinecast and Dustin from Castro now have this sorted, so Pinecast podcasts are flowing freely into Castro again.
Dustin from Castro got in touch with me earlier in the week. I can tell he’s serious and committed to returning Castro to its former glory, and even taking it to greater heights.
We briefly talked about some of the recent #accessibility regressions that have crept into the UI and I’m confident those will be attended to when some of the serious systemic issues are under control.
I am excited about the props ect of being able to return to Castro soon, and I have no doubt at all it’s in good hands.
Oh and a wonderful bonus. They’re even here on Mastodon now. Follow them here:

@castropodcasts


Axe-Con virtual conference is coming up in under a week! Presented by @dequesystems this year's theme is "Building accessible experiences". We are very pleased to be a donation partner for the event, alongside @blackgirlscode and the Disability Visibility Project. More info on the event and register for FREE to attend https://www.deque.com/axe-con
#Axecon #Axecon2024 #Axecon24 #A11y #Accessibility