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30Impact30: Revolutionizing Adaptive Recreation Today, January 24th, is my 30th birthday, and I'm launching an ambitious philanthropic project. My goal is to have thirty times the impact of any otherThe world of Derek
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The #BBC is looking for a Head of Digital #Accessibility, with the role only open to #deaf, #disabled, and/or #neurodivergent applicants. Hybrid working, based at any UK BBC hub. Salary up to £110,000.
Too many blindness technology companies: Blind people need dumbed down, simple technology that they've used for 20+ years and need everything to look like either DOS or Windows, and they format documents like they do in Microsoft Word. Also we're stuck on Android cause we're tired of making our own apps for MSN Messenger and AIM and all that fangled new Inter Net stuff.
Meanwhile:
People on the BT Speak email list: I'm enjoying writing in Markdown!
On a Linux computer with a Braille input keyboard that's a Raspberry Pi with 8 GB RAM and both a traditional mode and Linux desktop mode, with real Firefox, Thunderbird, and any other Linux program that works on Debian.
Okay so I know this isn't much. But I'm serious when I say, I think this company, @BlazieTech is making Linux, and some Linux concepts, a lot more mainstream as far as the blind community. I mean, navigating Markdown headings? Only Ulysses for Mac and iOS, and Emacs, could do that before, oh and Word with an addon. When they get Braille support going, or release a Braille model, I'm getting one.
Also did I mention this is an actual general-purpose computer? I was just struck by that yesterday, and then boom people were just, picking up Markdown! Now I think it's just a matter of time before we get link support, and writing Markdown in emails, which I'm sure would take a bit of linking programs together. A Markdown verifyer to be sure the typed Markdown is good for HTML conversion, maybe a optional linter for fixing stuff like headings without a space after the number signs, and Pandoc to convert before sending through SMPT or whatever. Not sure what can be done in desktop mode though. Anyway, exciting stuff!
Plan an accessible journey
How to use our accessibility services and travel tools to plan your journey and find maps, wayfinding and realtime audio/visual information when you're on the move.Transport for London
#Accessibility #Android #Samsung
Google rolls out new accessibility features for Android, starting with Samsung's Galaxy S25
New accessibility features are rolling out for select Android devices, such as LE Audio hearing aid support and support for HID Braille displays.Mishaal Rahman (Android Faithful)
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Featuring @a11ytalks, @mgifford, @aardrian, @SteveFaulkner, @codepo8, @cferdinandi, @adactio, @rem, @cloudfour, @theadamsilver, and more.
#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
Executive Order (EO) 14035: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal Workplace
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It's sickening to see that what's left of it is a "404 page not found" on the whitehouse.gov website.
I recently bought an LG TV and was happy to discover that it had a screen reader that even automatically began at startup! This video goes over the different accessibility features and my experience setting it up.
#Accessibility #A11y #Blind #LowVision
LG TV (Web OS) Accessibility | my accessibility experience
My brother and I bought an LG TV during the 2024 Black Friday sales. I've had an overall pretty good experience with it, though it could still definitely imp...YouTube
In-Process is out - featuring news on NVDA 2024.4.2, our new add-on survey, a very successful SPEVI 2025 conference, and a User's guide: What to do if your add-on breaks?
Read the full issue now at:
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#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Newsletter #WhatsOn #ScreenReader #Accessibility
In-Process 20th January 2025
Welcome to 2025! And to those subscribed to receive In-Process via email, welcome to the first edition direct to your inbox! We hope you all had a bit of a break and some time with loved ones. We a…NV Access
Free Scout appears to be an open source version of Zendesk. They openly mention accessibility and screen reader support in their documentation and right there on the homepage, which is good! Their demo is here and their main website is the second link. Stuff is deleted after a short while, but this is decently accessible! Could use some improvements but far more accessible and screen reader friendly than Zendesk! demo.freescout.net/login
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Chrome, as of 132, finally has keyboard support for scrolling containers:
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This assumes it doesn’t get rolled back again, as it has every other time it was deployed since 2018.
Silence from Safari.
Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.Adrian Roselli
#Accessibility challenge: Using the #screenReader of your choice, navigate to today's TV schedule for BBC Two. From the top of the page, what is the minimum number of keystrokes you can find to switch it to the listings for tomorrow instead?
For zod's sake, PLEASE stop making progressive communications inaccessible.
If you want to get the word out about your union, etc., please make sure all images have alt text, all PDFs are accessible ones, etc.
It literally helps your words reach more people. #Accessibility #Union #Labor
VO/desktop bug via @elly:
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Using this pen:
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We both experience VO ignoring the start of most sentences when using read-all.
Is this a known issue?
Tweaking Text Level Styles
It’s a bit of a pain to pepper updates within the sections of the post, so just scroll down to the latest update and work your way back up. Considering how much I charge for this site, I am hoping my readers will accept the extra effort.Adrian Roselli
Hey.
Don’t wrap a `<figure>` in a link.
Definitely don’t use a `title` on that link.
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Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link
In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible de…Adrian Roselli
Slack has to be the most responsive team if you file an #accessibility bug. They are also really quick to fix said bugs, as documented in their latest release notes from the app store.
Bug fixes • What's in a name? In your audit logs, any mobile users who viewed a PDF were being logged as "Slack User" rather than their official handle. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but the security team needs to know who had access to those documents. Tragedy averted. • With VoiceOver enabled, the button to "Add a reaction" was not selectable. Some would say that "Act, don't react" is a wise maxim, but we believe in both. We hope the action of fixing this bug elicits a positive reaction. • VoiceOver was glossing over usernames when reading out DMs. As intriguing as it might be to play “Guess who wrote that message?” it can also be, frankly, pretty annoying. We’re sorry about that.
Anti-bot captcha: blind customers can't sign up because it's just visual · Issue #8287 · tutao/tutanota
This is not a feature request (existing functionality does not work, not missing functionality). I will request features on forum or via support. I've searched and did not find a similar issue. Bug...GitHub
After a night without sleep, some treadmill time, and lots of thinking, here’s a wild idea: could CS:GO ever be made accessible for blind players? 🎮🤔
It sounds far-fetched, I know, but hear me out. What if there were a mode or addon that used spatial audio to "ping" walls or obstacles (like a sonar effect) and distinct sound cues for player positions? It wouldn’t be the same as how sighted players experience it, but blind gamers have their own ways of navigating fast-paced games.
We already have some incredible audio-based games, and you wouldn’t believe the epic battles we’ve had—all sound, no visuals, just skill and spatial awareness. Making a game like CS:GO accessible might seem impossible, but with the right creativity, who knows?
#Gaming #Accessibility #BlindGamers #CSGO
I'm asking because I'd like to have something else to switch to in case google and mozilla go down the crapper.
I'm on mac so I have safari which I really like, but I some times have navigation-issues with it on some sites.
#accessibility
#blind
We are back for day 2 of #SPEVI2025. This morning we started with an inspiring keynote presentation by Mr Michael Sheppard, a solicitor who shared his experience growing up blind. The conference is on today and tomorrow at 293 Queen Street Brisbane, Australia
Pictured is NV Access founder Michael Curran chatting with Michael Sheppard after the presentation about how he uses NVDA.
#spevi #SpeciConference2025 #keynote #Conference #Brisbane #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y
Are you in Brisbane this week? NV Access are at the SPEVI conference at 293 Queen Street. We're talking all things NVDA & Mick is on a panel this afternoon on "The New Frontier of Braille" about multiline displays, chaired by Ben Clare.
#SPEVI2025 #SPEVI #conference #nvda #nvdasr #accessibility #screenreader #blind #blindness #education
Please consider commenting to FTC about the case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising. Deadline Feb. 5.
Happy to be featured in an article this week in the FNN :
Five takeaways from GSA’s latest Section 508 assessment
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#GSA #Section508 #Accessibility #A11y
Five takeaways from GSA’s latest Section 508 assessment
Agencies are dedicating more time and staff to digital accessibility efforts, but acquisition is still a key hurdle when it comes to Section 508 compliance.Justin Doubleday (Federal News Network)
FTC Catches up to #accessiBe
From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the W…Adrian Roselli
Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars
Public can submit comments until February 5th in case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising
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by @LFLegal
#accessibility #a11y #wcag #accessiBe #accessiBeNot #ftc
Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars
The new year brought weclomed digital accessibility news from the United States Federal Trade Commission, known as the FTC.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Happy to have some of my work on #accessibility featured in this #GovTech article govtech.com/network/whats-new-…
Was a real pleasure to work on the #WebAlmanac this year.
What’s New in Digital Equity: Feds Fund Digital Upskilling
Plus, the BEAD Progress Dashboard gets updated this week, a comprehensive report examines website accessibility across government, and one Georgia county gets to work on digital inclusion.Julia Edinger (GovTech)
The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.
VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.
(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)
While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.
What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.
AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.
I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.
So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.
#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility
After lots of back and forth with OpenAI and several emails, the latest ChatGPT beta for Android (V1.2025.007) has finally fixed many accessibility issues!
Screen reader users can now access Camera, Microphone, and Screen Sharing options in the Advanced Voice window.
Proper window scrolling and Explore by Touch now work smoothly in the main ChatGPT window.
The edit box no longer disappears after the first chat exchange when using TalkBack.
#Accessibility #Android #ChatGPT
#Screenreader users: in a timed online exam, how would you expect to interact with something telling you the amount of time left?
I think having it regularly announce the time remaining is an obviously bad idea. If you know that it's labelled "Time remaining", would you just search for that text in the page when you want to check the time?