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Announcing the next #Blind-Centered #AudioDescription Chat (Live)! Friday Feb 3 at 7 PM ET w/ @TSReid@twitter.com, @WhoAmIToStopIt@twitter.com, @blindconfucius@twitter.com, @MrBrokenEyes@twitter.com, and me on @Clubhouse@twitter.com. Topic: AD Advocacy Through Feedback. Join us and tell a friend! https://www.clubhouse.com/event/Pra4X0aG?utm_medium=ch_event&utm_campaign=ILMIBL-Rwr2DDMznHRJAWA-564052 #ADFuBu
Audio Description Advocacy Through Feedback (Recording)
Friday, February 3 at 7:00pm EST with Thomas Reid, scott Blanks, Cheryl Green, Nefertiti Matos Olivares.Clubhouse
@blindandroiduserspodcast
Every week they release a podcast with news, information, guides and a few laughs.
#blind #lowvision #accessibility #android
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✅ Makes fitting a USB cable easy - the magnet pulls the cable into place.
✅ Saves wear and tear on the USB C port.
✅ Can be used with chargers, wired earbuds and data sync cables.
✅ Acts as a quick release if the cable gets yanked.
✅ They work well with phones, laptops, and tablets.
https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Transfer-Compatible/dp/B08XX3PQWF/ref=sr_1_9?crid=1BSWDSZ760CGD&keywords=usb%2Bc%2Bmagnetic%2B5%2Bpin%2Bpd&qid=1674827661&th=1
#blind #lowvision #visuallyimpaired #a11y
Thanks Microsoft, I hate it. I wish I could be like all the sighted techies out there that can just pop in a flash drive with Fedora Linux on it, set it up, and not even have to learn that much of a new interface and how to do things. Or one of the less techie people out there that open up a MacBook and click the Internet icon and when you ask them how it is they strug and go "Well I mean it's just a computer."
#accessibility #windows #linux #mac #blind #a11y
Envision announces new glasses and different pricing models. The clarity of this announcement is fantastic.
https://www.letsenvision.com/blog/envision-glasses-editions-launch
#accessibility #blind #AI
Introducing Envision Glasses Editions, Updates, and Upgrades
Creating more possibilities through more choiceswww.letsenvision.com
For example, the Mac uses object navigation for everything within VoiceOver. Everything is an object, and you navigate mostly with the VoiceOver keys and sometimes you can get away with using Tab. On Windows, you primarily use Windows navigation commands, with Windows screen readers speaking any needed info. The Mac, to me, is great at writing, and email, because because it has good writing apps, and a good mail client built in. Windows is great for web navigation and games, and writing if you like Microsoft Word. The ChromeBook is good for Android apps and Linux kinda and that’s about it for me. Everything else, web, Windows can do a bit better.
#accessibility #blind #operatingSystems #screenReaders #a11y
#iOS #accessibility #blind #Android #iPhone #a11y
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200121222502/https://digabi.github.io/exam-engine/SC/fi-FI/koe.html
#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German
From Adrian Roselli: AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Alt Text
My thoughts: Yeah I sat there and was like "Wow, image recognition is really good." And then I've read posts like this and I'm like yeah AI gives a loose idea, but it isn't going to replace caring, helpful people allowing us to appreciate their images, art, and so on any time soon. And he got hit with the way Apple's ML just goes "we don't recognize this so we'll call it a video game." As a blind person, ML generated descriptions are like a person who slept through a book summarizing it in 10 words. When an image is described by a person, it's more like experiencing the thing. And while I'll still use ML for when nothing else is available, it really shows the difference between "well it has Alt Text '' as opposed to "this has an excellent description that shows that the uploader of the image has a higher than average level of human decency.
#a11y #ImageCaptioning #blind #ai #ml #accessibility
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/08/ai-generated-images-from-ai-generated-alt-text.html
AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Alt Text
Dear sighted reader, I want you to read this post without looking at the images. Each has been hidden in a disclosure. Instead, read the alternative text I provide and visualize how it may look.Adrian Roselli
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/action-gesture-paint-women-and-global-abstraction-1940-70/
Action, Gesture, Paint - Whitechapel Gallery
Bringing together 150 paintings by 80 artists from across the globe, this ambitious exhibition celebrates the women artists of mid-20th-century gestural abstraction.Whitechapel Gallery
In 2-D engines generally, or #Bevy specifically, what are the standard directions in which various angles point? I.e. which directions do 0, pi/2, -pi, and -pi/2 typically point?
Trying to migrate away from setting velocities directly, to routing everything through the same action/input systems. Now I'm hitting a bunch of corner cases where I took the data for a given scenario and made it behave how I'd expect. That's a bit harder when you're trying to standardize everything and realize everything is using axis and vectors slightly differently and none of it matches up.
Anyway, tried researching this but everything I've found wants to just show me a picture. I know how to do the math, I just don't know what unit vectors each angle points in.
https://www.realmicentral.com/2023/01/14/android-accessibility-13-1-brings-some-welcome-improvements-to-talkback/
#a11y #accessibility #android #blind
Android Accessibility 13.1 brings some welcome improvements to TalkBack - Real Mi Central
Version 13.1 of Android Accessibility Suite brings some welcome improvements to TalkBack, Google's screen reader service.RMCTeam (Real Mi Central)
Visualization for the BlindACM Interactions
Understanding data has become critical to everyday life. You need data to decide which products to buy, which health choices to make, and whom to vote for. People spend hours reading...interactions.acm.org
Are those alt text bots on Twitter actually useful?
Have long been suspicious of them since they bury the alt text deep in the thread and out of context, but none of use screen readers.
#Accessibility #ScreenReader #Disability #Blind #SightImpaired
#a11y #aira #accessibility #blind
#AltText is something I advocate for, as well as some other simple ways to make posts more #accessible and #inclusive. Let's make this #interactive.
Reply with an #image and I'll tell you what my #ScreenReader thinks it shows, as a practical #demonstration of inaccuracies, limitations and why alt text is better.
Edit on request: Not all screen readers can do image recognition. Alt text is the only viable way to be inclusive. #accessibility #blind
First up, a small NVDA script exposing a configurable gesture to exit a content recognition result. Without this, you can OCR fine from the touchscreen but can't close the resulting buffer to open another one later, meaning you needed a keyboard to OCR games. Now OCR-accessible games with controller support are fully playable with only the deck.
Next up, accessibility fixes to make this user-mode gamepad driver and configuration UI more accessible. I used it to play ShadowRine in its default configuration last night, but next I'd like to get it working with Hearthstone.
Getting there, and I'll do a guide on all this at some point.
Biel Glasses and Panasonic demonstrate Life-Changing Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired at CES 2023 | Others | Products & Solutions | Blog Posts
Biel Glasses and Panasonic demonstrate Life-Changing Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired at CES 2023Panasonic Newsroom Global
I keep hoping to see #Publishers post accessibility guidelines for submission.
Several post the should be shunned Shunn as the perfect example.
First major issue - size 12 point font. I think I was 15 the last time I could read anything in size 12 of any font. At least 35 years ago!
Then he says to choose an easily readable font, and proceeds to list the two least readable fonts ever created!
Times New Roman and Courier are both like writing something in pencil, and erasing it half way out. And in size 12 point font - the rubbed out lines dance on he screen. In fact, ChalkDuster font is easier to read.
A readable font is Arial Rounded MT Bold six 18. Even then, it is sometimes too small to see.
I keep hoping #Publishers will begin to accept #Accessible written content.
Allow #Authors to use a font they can see.
Please.
#Accessibility matters.
Allow #Disabled, #Blind, and #DeafBlind writers to publish in your magazines.
It only takes a minute for you to reduce the size of the font, if you don't enjoy reading in a readable font. However, authors may not be able to read your notes and edits, if they are in an #InAccessible font and font size.
Which means they can't correct mistakes.
Oh, and nix the phone numbers. If I wanted to do a talky, I wouldn't be publishing.
#Writing, #Writing Tips, #Publishing, #PublishingTips
#a11y #blind #android #writing
Except I have none of those problems on Android!
#a11y #iOS #Android #blind
https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/wiki/Creating-a-new-voice-for-RHVoice.
I haven't tried it myself yet so can't answer possible questions, others have though so it surely works.
Happy hacking, creating SAPI, NVDA, Android voices or whatever else you imagine! ##SpeechSynthesis #Accessibility #NVDASR #Blind
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