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Eter is now the most feature-rich and accessible radio app for iOS! It supports the public Radio Browser directory, giving you access to thousands of stations worldwide. You can also add stations directly from the app for ultimate customization. Plus, extensive VoiceOver Rotor actions make navigation and control smoother than ever.
apps.apple.com/us/app/eter-str…
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‎Eter: Streaming Internet Radio

‎Eter Radio is an app for listening to Internet radio stations. Eter Radio is available in a universal version for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS. Eter Radio uses the publicly available radio-browser.
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Sometimes, the smaller #accessibility issues bug me more than the big stuff, particularly on screens or in apps that are mostly in good shape.

For example: On the now playing screen of BookPlayer on iOS, there's a control labelled "Audio source". I can reach it with VoiceOver and double tap it to access AirPlay devices, so it's sufficiently accessible to me. But it bothers me that it should actually say "Audio destination", and be a button rather than just static text.

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Does anyone know if #LibreWolf or any other privacy focused #firefox forks keep #screenreader and other #accessibility features? Sadly, most of these projects seem to consider accessibility an unneeded feature that ads bloat and security issues and just strip it out completely, so I don't have high hopes. This just seems to be the latest one getting popular after the recent #firefox issues. #a11y
#a11y #Accessibility #firefox #librewolf #screenreader

#Accessibility #gnome

#a11y #Accessibility @Accessible Android

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#Accessibility #gemini #google #blind #AI #chatgpt

#Accessibility #emacs

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What's the state of #matrix, #xmpp and #IRC as far as #screenReader -accessible clients are concerned? Desktop (Windows, Mac) and mobile (iOS, Android).

Hoping for some input, please feel free to boost. As far as I know:

Matrix does not have a lightweight, fully accessible client for desktop, but one could be modified, such as #gomuks. On mobile, Element has scrolling issues, which is unacceptable for large rooms.

XMPP has accessible desktop clients (I used to run #Adium on the Mac), also #WeeChat. No idea about mobile.

IRC is perhaps the one which everything supports on desktop, from #MirandaIM through Weechat to the old Freedom Chat, which I could probably rewrite if I had to. Also not sure about mobile, but it would definitely need push notifications, because we can't expect people to stay constantly online on the go. #a11y #accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #xmpp #matrix #screenreader #irc #weechat #gomuks #adium #mirandaim

Question for the blind travellers among us: Is there an app for Android or iOS that is similar in design to the Stellar Trek from Humanware? For example, can a sighted person go with you on a route and record that route so that the blind person can travel it independently the next time following the breadcrumbs? #blind #accessibility
#Accessibility #blind

#Accessibility #guidedog #mobility

Any blind folks played with a Flipper Zero? Obviously, the device itself isn't going to be accessible, but you can connect to it via USB. There is a CLI, but that doesn't seem to provide all the functionality available on the device itself. Does the Flipper Lab web interface give you access to all the things or is it just for managing apps and running the (less capable) CLI? #accessibility
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If the extent of your WCAG testing is running axe / ARC / WAVE / EAAC and that’s it, not only are you only testing ~30% of WCAG, but my own 2023 testing shows those tools catch under 15% of issues:
adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comp…

Manual testing is still a thing.

Which you need to know how to do, especially if bumping into `<canvas>`.

#accessibility #a11y


Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews

Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes that claim.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

So the new CoPilot app on Mac is a bit clunky and misses important festures like file upload. Accessibility on the onboarding screens is hit and miss - tab is your only friend. And once in the app there’s no way to access previous chats. Day one - so fingers crossed it improves. For now I’ll stick to ChatGPT on the web. #blind #accessibility
#Accessibility #blind

#Accessibility #mobile #wcag

Been playing with a video/article concept as of late with the working title"What you see is NOT what you get", pertaining to making things #accessible to fully #blind users.
A lot of #accessibility issues are easy to visualize: a missing ramp in front of a building, bad contrast, missing captions etc. but #screenReader accessibility is a lot more nebulous because there's actually not that much reading of the screen happening. I can't "point" at a screen reader accessibility issue because it happens behind the curtain, in the land of metadata, APIs and standards, rarely on the actual screen, which also makes it more difficult to "visualize" for devs. hrmm.
#Accessibility #accessible #blind #screenreader

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 27, 2025 - Volume 1004 ♿️
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The Week's News in Access Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #technology #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #deafblind #toptechtidbits

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.

Subscribers: 36,455 🔢️ subscribers were sent this issue via email.

Top Tech Tidbits. The Week's News in Access Technology. Masthead logo includes title as well as five photos, a blind man with a white cane wearing dark sunglasses talking and listening to his mobile phone, a woman with sandy brown to blonde hair wearing a hearing aid, finger tips feeling braille dots on a refreshable braille display, a man making the sign for 'family' in American Sign Language (ASL), and a woman reading text from a tablet using magnification software. Background: Photo of a woman's face overlaid with human augmentation technology.

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 27, 2025 - Volume 1004

The Top Tech Tidbits newsletter. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.
Top Tech Tidbits - A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #technology #News #Disability #deafblind #deaf #toptechtidbits

#Accessibility #Disability #asl

if people want to be good journalists, every single news story should stop with the misdirecting clickbait, should have a full lede in the beginning, and a summary too if they are going to continue to write massively long stories.
We have A LOT to take in right now. Help us out.
Ever since people had unlimited scroll & algorithmic fuckery, no one edits their work. They take forever getting to the point and what’s important. Keep it for your book.
#news #journalism #accessibility #editing
#Accessibility #News #journalism #editing

FSReader, the DAISY reader from Freedom Scientific, is a responsive book reader, much more responsive than Thorium Reader, and, unlike what Freedom Scientific wants, it can also be installed without JAWS if you have access to its MSI installer. However, lack of Epub support aside, it can't open internal links in many DAISY books and just displays the following error message:
FSReader dialog Sorry, the external link could not be opened.
It seems to have been abandoned by FS.
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#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind

First, they shut down the Basic HTML site, forcing many of us to switch to clients such as Thunderbird. Now, they're using qr codes which are not only inaccessible to the blind but also to those who don't use smartphones! This is ridiculous! Yes, they do still have the option to click whether it's you trying to sign in or not (which still requires a smartphone and a carrier, which they claim to be concerned about), but how long before they remove that, too?

pcmag.com/news/google-is-repla…

#accessibility #Android #authentication #blind #Google #GMail #IOS #Narrator #NVDA #sms #Talkback #technology #Voiceover #Windows

#Accessibility #android #google #blind #technology #Windows #ios #talkback #sms #GMail #nvda #voiceover #authentication #narrator

Update:
The state of book-reading apps on Windows is pretty disappointing:
• QRead: Discontinued, lacks formatting display, doesn’t announce links, and can’t hide blank lines.
• Bookworm: No DAISY or Bookshare support.
• Thorium Reader: Still in development, but buggy—crashes with many DAISY books and only displays one page at a time.
• Dolphin EasyReader: Limited to a single page view, no smooth navigation between pages, and has an odd navigation UI.
• Kurzweil 1000: Versatile with a built-in dictionary, but discontinued, lacks heading navigation, and is very expensive.
• Speech Central: Costs $8, making it impossible to test if it truly supports text-only navigation via screen readers, as it's mainly marketed as an audio reader. According to the dev, development for Windows 11 has been paused.
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If you’re serious about digital accessibility, ditch the overlays and invest in real, sustainable solutions—like proper coding practices, WCAG compliance, and user testing with disabled individuals.

Read more about the UserWay lawsuit here: lflegal.com/2025/02/userway-ov…

#Accessibility #UserWay #Lawsuit #A11y #DigitalInclusion #WebAccessibility (3/3)


Another Web Access Overlay Company Sued by a Small Business

Another class action lawsuit has been filed by a small business that purchased an overlay monthly subscription, yet still got hit with a lawsuit claiming its website was not accessible.
Law Office of Lainey Feingold
#a11y #Accessibility #UserWay #webaccessibility #lawsuit #digitalinclusion

If you’re an individual who is blind or has low vision facing #accessibility challenges in your daily life—whether at work, online, or in everyday experiences—the ACB Accessibility and Training Services program is here to help! We can work with you to understand your accessibility challenges and the best approach to resolving them. Email us at accessibility@acb.org or visit acb.org/accessibility to get in touch.
Graphic of the ACB logo on a purple background with the text “Accessibility & Training Services” below. At the bottom of the graphic is the webpage address: acb.org/accessibility.

Accessibility and Training Services | American Council of the Blind

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@mastoblind Any blind folks have experience with Linux desktop environments? I have thoroughly enjoyed Bash over SSH for many years. I want to switch away from Windows entirely, but my experience with screen reader accessibility on Linux desktops has been mixed at best. Any tips or advice? Has the situation improved substantially? Is one desktop environment better than others for blind users?
#blind #linux #accessibility
#Accessibility #linux #blind @mastoblind group

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this video was going to be made public at some point ... but as this seems to have stalled (and there's really no financial incentive anymore that the conf can gain from keeping this 16 month old video under lock and key) ... here's the recording of my (then) updated talk "These (still) aren't the SCs you're looking for..." from 19 October 2023 / #a11yTO / Toronto youtube.com/watch?v=ADIgU53Y2R… #a11y #wcag #barrierefreiheit #accessibility

Patrick H. Lauke - These (still) aren't the SCs you're looking for / a11yTO 2023 / 19 October 2023

WCAG is supposed to give us a reasonably objective way of saying whether or not the sites we are building/auditing are "accessible" (to a particular baseline...
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#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #a11yto #barrierefreiheit

Auto-generated sign language has been very difficult to create. I'm hopeful that advancements in AI will lead to auto-generated sign language becoming ubiquitous in the next 15 years. However, it is important to remember that auto-generated sign language like captions will probably never be 100% accurate. There should be a way to edit auto-generated sign language in the future. Also, interpreters and CART services are needed for live events. #accessibility blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-sign-…

AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language | NVIDIA Blog

The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications.
Michael Boone (NVIDIA Blog)
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today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!

Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.

🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!

you could write about:

* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects

if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!

you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.

if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ goodinternetmagazine.com!

(please boost if you can! ❤)

good internet magazine | for the small web

A print and digital magazine coming soon.
goodinternetmagazine.com
#Accessibility #opensource #blog #webdev #SmallWeb #webdesign #web #indieWeb #Internet #enshittification #websites

#Accessibility #atmos

I #voted at the advanced poles in #Ottawa in the #Ontario#election. As a #blind voter everything was smooth, even though I didn't get my voter card in the mail, and the Elections Ontario app requires a driver's license to look up your voter registration. It was busy; already a lineup at 10 AM. Hopefully that means high voter turnout, and hopefully people aren't buying Doug Ford's lies masquerading as patriotism. #a11y#accessibility#Canada
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #canada #ottawa #ontario #election #voted

I know some out there aren't fans of AI, but I have a bit of an counterarguement for you. When you're blind like me, having AI tools that allow you to do certain tasks independently is a game changer. Getting image descriptions, being able to check if what you're wearing looks good on you and identifying everything from doors to furniture + everyday objects is useful. Doubly so when like me, you live alone and don't exactly have someone around to ask for help from. Using AI for tasks like this is reasonable in my opinion, but some other things surrounding AI do have me concerned. All I ask of anti-AI protesters is think about what context AI is being used in before completely condemming it. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #StopAI #AIProtests
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #stopai #aiprotests

When evaluating a digital accessibility product or consultancy, each time I see “a11y” in the copy of its marketing site I move it a little closer to the do-not-hire column.

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So, a quick question for others in the blind community: Do you use ReddIt at all? I'm wondering if it's worth my time to create an account over there or not. Feel free to vote on this quick & dirty poll if you wish, and add any additional thoughts if desired. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #Poll #ReddIt

  • Yes (100%, 7 votes)
  • No (0%, 0 votes)
7 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #poll #reddit

Do we have any news of the so-called selest glasses? It was all we could see for months a while back and suddenly, radio silence. Nothing. Have they disappeared into nothingness somehow?

#accessibility #blind

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So, VoiceOver or macOS decided to have the mouse cursor follow the VoiceOver cursor which triggers hover states that should totally not be triggered. It’s super annoying. Anyone have an idea on how to disable it? I have reset VoiceOver settings already.

😭

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