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If I decide to start blogging again (it's been years), what's more #screenreader#accessible: ghost or micro.blog or something else? Don't even mention #wordpress; my desire to run a PHP app for any reason is zero. Plus the gutenberg stuff. #a11y
Are there any other #accessible audio and #music apps for IPhone and IPad besides ableton, garageband, logic and tape it?
#accessible #accessibility #ableton #audio #blind #garageband #logic #music #recording
#accessible #accessibility #ableton #audio #blind #garageband #logic #music #recording
Is there an #accessible #InternetRadio player for Android? I'm especially looking for minimalistic stuff. I don't need any browsing database or such. Let me enter my URLs and a Name and fine. Transistor is a bit too less; it literally only allows me to enter a URL, and that's a pity because at least let me give a Name for quicker access and some little player. Anything? OSS would be great so I can get it with obtainium, but I take all stuff.
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Recent datepicker experience:
1. Control is presented as three separate spin controls, supporting the Up/Down Arrow keys to increment and decrement the value as well as manual typing. But because they're not text inputs, I can't use the Left/Right Arrow keys to review what each separate one contains, only to move between day, month, and year.
2. I tab to year.
3. I press Down Arrow, and the value is set to 2075. I'm unclear how many use cases require the year to be frequently set to 2075, but I can't imagine it's many so this seems like a fairly ridiculous starting point.
4. I press Up Arrow, and the value gets set to 0001. The number of applications for which 0001 is a valid year is likewise vanishingly small.
5. I delete the 0001, at which point my #screenReader reports that the current value is "0". Also not a valid year.
6. Out of curiosity, I inspect the element to see which third-party component is being used to create this mess... only to find that it's a native `<input>` with `type="date"` and this is just how Google Chrome presents it.
A good reminder that #HTML is not always the most #accessible or user-friendly.
iOS Game. If you like Braille and a challenge then you will like the game Brailliance! Its like a Braille Wordle. Each word is made up of so many total dots and so many letters; like 5 letters with 13 dots. So for this word, the dots from each letter will add up to be a total of 13 dots. And of coarse its totally accessible with Voiceover. So give it a try. Here is the link to it in the app store...
apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia…
#ios #game #Braille #Blind #Accessible #Brailliance
apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia…
#ios #game #Braille #Blind #Accessible #Brailliance
Brailliance - Learn Braille
Brailliance is a puzzle game where you guess the word by adding up braille dots. This game has been carefully crafted to be playable by everyone, and it includes multiple accessibility features for people with blindness and other disabilities.App Store
Just in case: Does anyone know what's up with the #Balatro accessibility mod? I get the following on running the game after first install:
Oops! Something went wrong:
engine/controller.lua:395: attempt to index global 'BlackHole' to a nil value
#a11y#audiogames#accessibility#accessible
Oops! Something went wrong:
engine/controller.lua:395: attempt to index global 'BlackHole' to a nil value
#a11y#audiogames#accessibility#accessible
I'm getting a new IPad shortly.
Are there any good #accessible mediaplayers and recording-apps out there which aren't just the built-in memo and musicplayer-apps?
I'm asking because this IPad air has USBC so I can connect external drives to it and I'd like to play and record stuff on it without going through the standard apple-apps if possible.
#accessible #accessibility #apple #blind #ipad #audio #music
Are there any good #accessible mediaplayers and recording-apps out there which aren't just the built-in memo and musicplayer-apps?
I'm asking because this IPad air has USBC so I can connect external drives to it and I'd like to play and record stuff on it without going through the standard apple-apps if possible.
#accessible #accessibility #apple #blind #ipad #audio #music
Hits from my Tuesday morning inbox:
1. An unsupervised, LLM-generated, and hence completely useless set of recommendations about how to implement #accessible hovercards.
2. An email suggesting that accessible websites are ugly websites, and therefore we need some sort of cookie in everyone's browser describing what access technology they use so they can be directed into the appropriate "ghetto". This was sent to the #ARIA Authoring Practices mailing list for some reason.
Considering going back to bed.
Is tor-browser #accessible with screen-readers?
I'm asking because I see quite a few people talking about using that browser here on mastodon.
#accessible #accessibility #blind #fediverse #mastodon
I'm asking because I see quite a few people talking about using that browser here on mastodon.
#accessible #accessibility #blind #fediverse #mastodon
Hi dear #OpenStreetMap -community! I made a #tagging #proposal to tag grab rails (aka grab bars, handrails, support brackets) in #wheelchair #accessible toilets and I'm searching feedback.
I'd appreciate your feedback: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pr…
The app for the TP-Link Deco mesh system is nice and #screenreader#accessible if you're in the market for a router. More than can be said for Linksys Velop. Amplifi was okay, but the TP-Link app is actually better, at least on #IOS with #voiceover. I haven't had the system for long enough to give a review, other than that setup was quick and all the apps joined without issue. Also the default DHCP settings are weird. Who wants to start at 192.168.68.1? Changing it isn't obvious. First you have to change the lan address. Then it will change the gateway for you as part of that. Only then can you change the DHCP allocation. And even then it wants to start allocating at 192.168.0.1. That's too weird for me when the router lives at 192.168.1.1. And even after fiddling, it's still randomly assigning devices in 192.168.2. and 192.168.3.. But at least it let me reserve the devices that I need to be static. I probably have to go somewhere and do something incomprehensible with netmasks, but whatever. It's fine. #a11y
Just me, or is the #iOS #appLibrary not #accessible with #VoiceOver when opening one of the folders? Latest version of iOS at time of writing (18.3.1)
There was an #accessible #internet #radio app mentioned here the other day that people were saying was the best app for internet radio on iOS with VoiceOver. For the life of me I can't remember the name or even who posted it. Could someone please point me in the right direction?
What #accessible #iOS #games are people playing these days? Must work with #VoiceOver or be otherwise accessible/self-voiced.'
Hey, #MechanicalKeyboard people! I just got myself a #Ducky One X wireless mechanical keyboard. As a #screenreader user who finds myself constantly running out of keyboard shortcuts, multi-level actuation sounded really exciting to me. Unfortunately, the browser-based programmer at duckyhub.io is entirely inaccessible. Apparently it uses a standard called #QMK or something? I don't build mechanical keyboards; I use them because I love the feedback, so I'm not deep enough into the hobby to know much about this. A browser-based programmer gave me hope that programming would be #accessible, but at least with the official website, that hope turned out to be false. So before I return this thing, do these standards mean there might be other software I can try to program the keyboard, to see if it's more accessible for me? #a11y#keyboard
So this evening, #Windows update installed the wrong #AMD video driver update for my Framework 16. Using #narrator, I was able to boot into recovery mode, enter my bitlocker key to decrypt the effected drive, find my system restore point, and restore it to just before the bad update. The entire process was fully #accessible: all of my sound devices worked, my external keyboard worked, the screen reader read every screen, etc. The only thing that wouldn't work was my Braille display.
So now that I have a working #matrix#homeserver, what #screenreader#accessible clients for matrix do folks like? #elementX is...fine on #IOS with #voiceover. But it's kind of annoying with #NVDA. Is there a better desktop client? Thunderbird, I guess?
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.
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.
So now that bit.ly is showing ads, if you need a URL shortener, #lynx is decent and #accessible and easy to host. And before you tell me that we don't need URL shorteners anymore and how they're a security risk, I need them for:
1. Business cards, slides, signs, and other physical objects that need a URL. While most phones can scan QR Codes, you can't read them out loud for #blind folks. If you're doing a presentation, "scan the QR code on screen" isn't good enough. You need to have a URL that you can speak and another human can remember. Yes, NFC is a thing, but it doesn't solve that problem.
2. Places that still don't allow URLs (LinkedIn) or where long URLs are awkward to work with (text-only emails, the terminal, etc.)
3. Times (like a phone call) where I need to tell someone a URL using the noises that come from my face-parts
Find it here: getlynx.dev/#a11y#bitly
Spent a couple hours playing the visual novel Pizza Game. If you're the kind of person who finds bad My Immortal style #fanfic funny, this will work for you. It's fully #screenreader#accessible in the standard #renpy way, but also has descriptions of the visual jokes; the developer spent time thinking about #A11y, and it didn't just happen thanks to the engine. store.steampowered.com/app/710710/Pizza_Game/#visualnovel
Decided to sign up for #Codeberg, the #GitHub alternative that the Fediverse at large is insisting is worth a try and, in some cases, claiming will improve project contributions by avoiding some of the GH antipatterns. I expected to find some #accessibility issues; this is the modern web, after all.
I did not expect a fully inaccessible visual CAPTCHA with no workarounds. I'm unable to solve it, so I cannot create an account.
In short: If you want people who are #blind or #lowVision to contribute to your projects (you do, right?), Codeberg is currently not an #accessible platform.
Fellow #Blind #ContentCreators, have any of you found a decent free website platform that is #accessible and usable by someone who isn't a professional web dev? I'd hoped to go with Neocities, but their hCaptcha doesn't seem to let me use my cookie. I need, at this point, a free option, sadly. Any suggestions? Boosting greatly appreciated.
Does anyone know how #accessible the #aT&t tv box is for #blind users is? Their fiber service will be here soon and I'm wondering how their service will stack up against #youtube_tv.
The New Year is already in full swing, and we’re kicking things off with exciting updates to #ScribeForDocuments! These enhancements are designed to make your documents even more #accessible, #inclusive, and easy to navigate—at no extra cost.
Here’s what’s new in this release:
Enhanced Image Descriptions
Our improved model delivers more accurate and concise descriptions, making visual content clearer and more accessible.
Upgraded Neural Voices for Text-to-Speech
Next-generation text-to-speech voices provide a more natural, lifelike listening experience.
New AI-Powered OCR Engine
The new OCR engine ensures greater accuracy when recognizing text in scanned documents.
Smarter Document Navigation
Enhanced detection of headings, lists, and tables improves document organization and navigation, making for a more intuitive reading experience with screen-readers.
Math Accessibility Revolutionized!
Scribe for Documents is now the world’s first end-to-end automated remediation package to offer math remediation! Mathematical notation is now detected and converted to MathML, making it fully navigable through speech and Braille! Most screen-readers have support for MathML built-in, with NVDA offering support by way of a free add-on. This beta feature also includes Braille support for mathematical content utilizing the Nemeth Code, a Braille system used for mathematical and scientific notation. Direct support for Nemeth Code ensures visually impaired users can access and understand complex mathematical expressions in Braille with precision.
And now for a Call to Action for Organizations.
Does your organization need large-scale remediation of legacy documents? Look no further than Pneuma Solutions, the leader in augmented document remediation. Scribe for Documents now has the capacity to process and remediate hundreds of thousands of documents in days or hours—not months or years—and at a fraction of the cost of traditional human document remediation.
Don’t let inaccessible documents hold your organization back. Reach out to us today and discover how Scribe for Documents can transform your workflow, ensuring your content is accessible to everyone.
If you haven’t explored Scribe for Documents yet, now is the perfect time. Visit the Scribe for Documents information page to learn how it can make a difference for you.
Thank you for relying on Scribe for Documents. Let’s make 2025 a year of progress and accessibility together!
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Here’s what’s new in this release:
Enhanced Image Descriptions
Our improved model delivers more accurate and concise descriptions, making visual content clearer and more accessible.
Upgraded Neural Voices for Text-to-Speech
Next-generation text-to-speech voices provide a more natural, lifelike listening experience.
New AI-Powered OCR Engine
The new OCR engine ensures greater accuracy when recognizing text in scanned documents.
Smarter Document Navigation
Enhanced detection of headings, lists, and tables improves document organization and navigation, making for a more intuitive reading experience with screen-readers.
Math Accessibility Revolutionized!
Scribe for Documents is now the world’s first end-to-end automated remediation package to offer math remediation! Mathematical notation is now detected and converted to MathML, making it fully navigable through speech and Braille! Most screen-readers have support for MathML built-in, with NVDA offering support by way of a free add-on. This beta feature also includes Braille support for mathematical content utilizing the Nemeth Code, a Braille system used for mathematical and scientific notation. Direct support for Nemeth Code ensures visually impaired users can access and understand complex mathematical expressions in Braille with precision.
And now for a Call to Action for Organizations.
Does your organization need large-scale remediation of legacy documents? Look no further than Pneuma Solutions, the leader in augmented document remediation. Scribe for Documents now has the capacity to process and remediate hundreds of thousands of documents in days or hours—not months or years—and at a fraction of the cost of traditional human document remediation.
Don’t let inaccessible documents hold your organization back. Reach out to us today and discover how Scribe for Documents can transform your workflow, ensuring your content is accessible to everyone.
If you haven’t explored Scribe for Documents yet, now is the perfect time. Visit the Scribe for Documents information page to learn how it can make a difference for you.
Thank you for relying on Scribe for Documents. Let’s make 2025 a year of progress and accessibility together!
pneumasolutions.com/scribe/
If you're a #blind user, you should really consider #Kagi for web search. Especially if you pay for chat GPT pro, you can subscribe to Kagi instead for cheaper and get more features. But even if you don't want AI, the search page is #accessible, fast, and light-weight. And unlike other big tech companies (Microsoft and Google) Kagi still offers a cheaper plan with no AI if you don't want it. Also, because they downrank websites with ads, the more accessible results tend to be at the top. Kagi also lets you block domains from your results. So I got rid of inaccessible stuff like instagram and pinterest, and downranked YouTube, because those results aren't usually #screenreader accessible. While I don't agree with many of the opinions of the @kagihq founder (especially his decision to do business with Yandex for image search), I still feel like using Kagi is more ethical than dealing with Google or Bing, and that these are reasonable differences of opinion that reasonable people can have, not just another clownishly evil tech company. I also find the idea that if you're a paying customer, that somehow guarantees the business will treat you better, really strange. I pay a lot to my ISP and they still treat me like dirt! Kagi will almost certainly sell out at some point. But for the moment, it's where it's at for search: www.kagi.com/
We share in case this might be of use. Our friends in a large portion of the #USA might be experiencing severe weather tomorrow. This is a great 24-7 stream to monitor for #Accessible #Weather #WX updates. youtube.com/watch?v=SFcykaD6g0… And his main channel often goes live for coverage during severe weather events. Those who subscribe and tap the notifications bell icon will know if he goes live. His main channel is here. youtube.com/@RyanHallYall
Ryan Hall, Y'all
My name is Ryan Hall. I am a professional weather analyst, storm chaser, and a dad! I love making YouTube videos about the weather and that's what I plan on doing here. Please consider subscribing. Contact: info@ryanhallyall.comYouTube
Calling all #WordPress users, especially those passionate about #Accessibility! I need advice: My current contact form on this page of my #Website (laniecarmelo.tech/connect-with…) is very basic. I'm using WPForms Lite, but improving it would require manually adding fields since advanced features are locked behind their premium plan.
I’ve tried the Fluent Forms plugin, but I didn’t find it accessible. Can anyone recommend a free, #Accessible contact form plugin that allows for creating more robust forms? Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
#Blogging #Tech #Technology #WebDevelopment #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility
Connect with Me - Life of a Rare Bird
Discover various ways to connect with Lanie Carmelo, a blind, autistic accessibility advocate and programmer. Find social media profiles, professional networks, and direct contact options.Lanie Carmelo (Life of a Rare Bird)
Hi everyone! This is a wiki made to help sighted devs make #blind #accessible games for the first time!
gamesforblindgamers.miraheze.o…
It's full of information about our game jams, but most mostly it is full of resources to make #Blind accessible games! As well as listing out blind accessible games to learn from. So check it out, and let me know what can be better! #GameDev #A11y #accessibility
Another random thing that made me happy tonight: I discovered that at some point #wordweb added a feature to disable linking of words in addon dictionaries. That makes reading definitions with a #screenreader much faster. It's a bit expensive, but if you frequently find yourself resorting to Google, or even worse #AI, to define words for you, it's worth the money and is largely #accessible as well: wordweb.info/#a11y
Are you interested how to use Apple notes as an #accessible graphing calculator? Check out this post
nunonuno.micro.blog/2024/11/04…
#accessibility #apple #blind #ios #math #education #tech
Using Apple Notes as an accessible graphing calculator
Starting with the basics Exploring our graphs with VoiceOver How does it relate to other accessible graphing tools? Epilogue Starting with the basics With the release of their latest batch of operating systems Apple made some substantial updates to…nunonuno.micro.blog
Amos Miller of Glidance released a new amazing video showing the capability of Glide, the mobility tool that he has created. If you have not seen this new video, and by the way it is described, then I highly encourage you to check it out... youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8ofapGxX…
#Blind #Mobility #AmosMiller #Glidance #Glide #Accessible
Glide Demonstration Video #2: Stairs, Roads without Sidewalks, Paths, Overhead Obstacles & More.
In our second scenario video, we demonstrate Glide, the world's first intelligent guide for the blind and low vision community, in a variety of new situation...YouTube
I have today off, (thanks Indigenous People!), so I've been spending it sending get-out-the-vote texts to #Democrats in Ohio and Arizona. If you're #Blind and looking for an #Accessible way to volunteer this election cycle, Campaign for Democracy is entirely virtual, lets you text on your own time, and only requires a device with a Web browser. (some familiarity with Discord also helps, but isn't required.) Learn more here: campaignfordemocracy.com/text/
Text Team Onboarding - Campaign for Democracy
Join our Text Team and reach out to supporters and voters using our simple 4-step process.Gavin Newsom's Campaign for Democracy
That was interesting. Still I wonder how #Accessible the RTL Belgium’s Magenta project might in fact be.
🔵 The Nonvisual Website
by Angelika Cathor @angelikatyborska
There's a treasure hidden somewhere on this website. But there is a catch.The content of this website is only #accessible with a #screenreader
To build the directory we could start with adding the programs from the #accessible installer section of the #ninite program.
Great Braille Game! I learned about this game from Holly Anderson of the Maccessibility Podcast.
Brailliance is a Braille version of the popular Wordle game with a little twist.
You are given the total number of dots in the word, and you have to guess what the word is by figuring out the letters in the word with each of your guesses.
For example. The word has a total of 10 dots.
So your first guess is tale, t, a, l, e.
It tells you that 3 of those letters are in the word, and one is not.
t, a, and l, are in the word, and the letter e is not.
Please note: those letters are part of the final word, but they do not have to be in that order.
So lets see, the letters t, a, and l, equal a total of 8 dots, so you only have 2 dots left to make the final word.
And you only have 4 letters left with 2 dots, b, c, i, and k.
So now it is just a process of elimination
For this word, the correct other letter was k. So the final word was talk, t, a, l, k.
The tough part is figuring out words that have a specific number of dots, but this gets easier the more you play.
Plus, to help you out, the total number of dots for each letter can be found on the letters of the on-screen keyboard.
So how good do you know your Braille? Ready to take the challenge?
Just like Wordle, there is a new puzzle every day, as well as some other puzzle packs that you can play on the side if you like.
The game is totally free, and does have a cost to get rid of ads if you want.
I actually find this game more fun and challenging as Wordle! So I highly recommend giving it a try.
Here is the app store link.
apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia…
#Game #Accessible #Wordle #Braille #Maccessibility #Blind
@dhsholly
Brailliance - Learn Braille
Brailliance is a puzzle game where you guess the word by adding up braille dots. This game has been carefully crafted to be playable by everyone, and it includes multiple accessibility features for people with blindness and other disabilities.App Store
Apple gave us a great, #accessible graphing calculator on #iOS and #iPadOS in the form of math notes. Given, for example a quadratic function: y=2x^2 +x +1 it generates a graph which sounds like this. While such simple quadratic equations can be used only in schools I see huge potential in making math more accessible to the #blind. As a math nerd and someone who almost failed a year at school due to accessibility, I am really happy and grateful to #apple for making this accessible to us.
Hab ich Gas-Wasser-******* Folgende?
Die Rezeption meint, das wäre normal so. Ich nicht. In der Stellung kommt 70°C heißes Wasser aus der Leitung. Irgendwie ist das für mich falsch herum.
Gibt es in Frankreich andere Einbau Normen?
Ich würde hier bei Hahn nach rechts gedreht in Richtung blau immer kalt erwarten.
Es gibt in dem Hotel auch anders herum montierte. Wahrscheinlich je nachdem welcher Subunternehmer für welche Etage zuständig war.
Eure Meinung?
