The other week, we had the opportunity to present to the Palmetto Council for the Blind. We had an engaging conversation about digital accessibility and how we are working to make e-commerce more inclusive for the blind and visually impaired community.
Loved meeting the members of Palmetto Council for the Blind and hearing their insights!.
Let’s keep pushing for a more accessible digital world! #AccessibilityMatters #InclusiveTech #InnosearchAI
Learning to Code? Don’t Do It Alone!
Overwhelmed by too many resources? Looking for an accessible space to connect with others on the same journey? Join our Techopolis Discord!
✅ Talk to fellow coders
✅ Share experiences & tips
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🚨 New Video Alert! 🚨
I had an absolute blast filming my first-ever video with Pianote! 🎉 They threw a challenge my way—I had to learn a song on the spot and create my own arrangement. No spoilers, but let’s just say it was a ride! 🎹🔥
For all my blind and visually impaired friends, we made sure to include audio description of any text that appears on screen, so everyone can fully experience the video. Big thanks to the Pianote team for making this happen!
Check it out here: youtu.be/ZeM3fnF8mN8?si=nUbJWo…
More to come—this is just the beginning! Drop a comment, let me know what you think, and share it with your fellow music lovers! 🎶
#Pianote #FirstTimeOnPianote #MusicChallenge #BlindMusician #AccessibilityMatters #PianoMagic #AudioDescription #Improvisation #MusicForEveryone #MatthewWhitaker #Jazz #MusicIsLife
Watch as Matthew Whitaker—a virtuosic pianist—experiences "Rain" by Sleep Token for the first time. Known for their genre-defying music, Sleep Token’s atmosp...YouTube
My girlfriend bought me a new dress last night and I went a little off the rails trying to describe it in the alt-text 😉
#AltText #AccessibilityIsHotAF #AccessibilityMatters
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
Proud to be a part of driving positive change in the accessibility for @wagtail!
Huge thanks to @thibaudcolas and the team for your unwavering commitment and sense of responsibility. It makes all the difference.
🙌 #AccessibilityMatters
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After 6 years – we finally got to close our longest-running #accessibility ticket in Wagtail, github.com/wagtail/wagtail/iss…. Thank you @mush42 for reporting this initially. We benefitted immensely from your accessibility expertise and first-hand experience with a screen reader ❤️This was the ticket I created our "accessibility" ticket triage label for. 38 of those still opened, 165 closed. Kick-ass!
Making Wagtail Accessible for users with disabilities · Issue #4199 · wagtail/wagtail
Hello everyone, After reading the docs, I've decided to use Wagtail on one of my personal projects. Since I'm blind, I've discovered that my experience on editing content would be rather unpleasant...GitHub
Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users!
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.
Are you passionate about improving accessibility features for blind and low vision users? Do you use VoiceOver, Zoom, or other low vision features on your devices? We need your help!
We’re looking for individuals who are interested in providing feedback and testing new features from our point of view. Your input will be invaluable in making technology more accessible for everyone.
If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below:
forms.microsoft.com/r/eRQAsmMb…
Let’s make a difference together!
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Best,
Matthew Whitaker
#Accessibility #BlindUsers #LowVision #VoiceOver #Zoom #AppleAccessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion #AccessibilityMatters #blind #lowvision
A friend of a friend, who is blind, got placed in “accessible” accommodation recently where all the amenities (washing machine, microwave, intercom etc.) are touchscreen, if ever you wonder how fucking ignorant non-disabled people can be.
