TIL: #Wayland breaks most screen readers, as they are not not intended by design. (they need to interact with other apps)

Wayland is now the default in pretty much all gnome distros.

Orca has workarounds, but they are not merged and not fully working. (And a blind user can't built it without a working screen reader)

I'm not entirely sure if I got this correct, but it seems to me like the #Linux community once again booted the #blind.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Wayland
https://wayland-devel.freedesktop.narkive.com/in2sPBfc/making-wayland-accessible

So excited, the Final Hour stream is today. @meatbag, @TheFake_VIP , tunmi13 and myself will be playing from 08:30PM UTC. Join us then!

My stream on the Lower Elements channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBFui4Qlik
TheFake_VIP's stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ynjRUOA8c
Tunmi13's stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWIml9vzeU

I hope to see you all there!
#blind #finalHour #audioGames #a11y

Final Hour - An Audio FPS

My second stream of Final Hour, an audio game first-person shooter made by my friends.

^YouTube

final Hour, a zombie fps audio game, made by @meatbag and I is looking for new beta testers.
If you're interested, go checkout its page:
https://finalhour.lowerelements.club/

And apply to be a beta tester using the following form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFYFkaJIWlnuXR8sUw8KFtcRUuMMPtwONQuHXhKPEcUy_vAw/viewform
#Blind #Accessibility #A11y #Audiogames #Audiogame #Games #gamingc

Final Hour Beta Testing Team Entry Form

Final Hour is a complex, innovative audio game that attempts to bring the experience of sighted and blind gamers closer together.

^{Google Docs}

For those of us who sometimes nod off at work, how do you stay focused and alert during times when there isn't much going on?

#work #blind

Hey, #Accessibility #Experts, #blind or #disabled people. Have you noticed, that @thunderbird@mastodon.online is calling for questions about Accessibility? See quotation, please. #Thunderbird #Inclusion #a11y

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

2024-01-22 16:52:31

Do you have questions about the Message Context Menu, accessibility, or the design process in general in Thunderbird? Send them to officehours@thunderbird.net to get them answered during our chat with UX Developer @emitche this Thursday, January 25, at 18:00 UTC. Find out more - and how to join us live! - in the blog post: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/january-2024-thunderbird-community-office-hours-how-to-join-us/

January 2024 Thunderbird Community Office Hours: How To Join Us!

Join us and UX Engineer Elizabeth Mitchell for our January 2024 Thunderbird Office Hours. We'll share upcoming changes to the Context Menu, why we're making them, and answer your questions.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Every time I pull out my BrailleNote Touch Plus, I'm reminded of how pitifully stagnated blindness-related products are compared to mainstream systems. Turns out I can no longer install Box because HumanWare has backed themselves into a corner and will not be updating past Android 8.1. This would not be a big deal... except for the fact that it's the only #Braille display I have at the moment, and literally every BRF file I need at Eastman is stored in Box.

#Blind #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind @main

I find myself reaching out for #MutualAid once again. I thought I had 11 days to renew my phone number for the month, but I only have 9. I have to pay £9.49 by January 26th. Please support me with whatever you can!

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/seedythreesixty
Patreon: https://patreon.com/seedy360
PayPal: seedy360@hotmail.com

#blind #disabled #neurodivergent @mutualaid

Support SeedyThreeSixty on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/seedythreesixty

Support SeedyThreeSixty On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

^Ko-fi

Hi everyone. Hope all is well. Just thought I would post an audio recording of me going through some sounds of my Nord Stage 4 I have in my studio. These are sounds I customized from the factory and sounds I didn’t do much tweaking on, except for EQ here and there. HOpe you enjoy!

#blind #accessibility #nord #music #keyboards #fun

Oh, this is really cool. The National Library Service is now making indefinite loans of print-on-demand braille books! Up to 5 per month per person.

https://wapo.st/41I2uaE #GiftArticle #Blind #Braille

Robert Kingett explains what Artificial Divide is all about.

About the book:
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.

This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.

When we think about it, we're not really divided.

With stories by: Eunice Cooper-Matchett - Anita Haas - Rebecca Blaevoet - Tessa Soderberg - Laurie Alice Eakes - Melissa Yuan-Innes - Jamieson Wolf - Ben Fulton - Felix Imonti - Niki White - M. Leona Godin - Ann Chiappetta - Lawrence Gunther - Heather Meares - Fabiyas M V - Jameyanne Fuller

Pre-order now:
Amazon.ca: https://tinyurl.com/535k8fme
Kobo, Indigo/Chapters, Apple, and others: https://books2read.com/u/b5v0pk
Renaissance (ebook and audiobook): https://tinyurl.com/rj8umtpz
Renaissance (paperback): https://tinyurl.com/79vanr8r

ASL interpretation by https://www.probonoasl.com/

Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.

This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.

When we think about it, we're not really divided.

With stories by: Eunice Cooper-Matchett - Anita Haas - Rebecca Blaevoet - Tessa Soderberg - Laurie Alice Eakes - Melissa Yuan-Innes - Jamieson Wolf - Ben Fulton - Felix Imonti - Niki White - M. Leona Godin - Ann Chiappetta - Lawrence Gunther - Heather Meares - Fabiyas M V - Jameyanne Fuller

Pre-order now:
Amazon.ca: https://tinyurl.com/535k8fme
Kobo, Indigo/Chapters, Apple, and others: https://books2read.com/u/b5v0pk
Renaissance (ebook and audiobook): https://tinyurl.com/rj8umtpz
Renaissance (paperback): https://tinyurl.com/79vanr8r

Edit2: Solved! Thanks everyone!
#Blind #Microsoft #excel users and others who, for whatever reason, only use the keyboard, NOT THE MOUSE: How the hell do I tell Excell to continue a pattern in a column without selecting it and clicking on the bottom left side of the screen or whatever?
Let's say I have a column with 1 in A1, 2 in A2, 3 in A3, so forth, and want that to go on for 150 cells or so. How the hell do I do it? Because I know I used to know, but I cannot find it.
It's not control+d. That just fills the whole column with 1's. It's not copy-paste; that does adjust properly for formulas, but for this, it doesn't. There is surely an option somewhere in the menus, but I cannot find it.
Alternatively, I'd also be happy to learn of ways to do this in #OpenOffice #Calc, so long as they are keyboard-only and accessible. LibreOffice doesn't work all that well here, at least Writer doesn't, but I could double-check if that extends to other programs.
#AskFedi #AskMastodon #ScreemReader

Edit: a couple folks suggested using formulas for this, adding so the first cell would be 1, the second A1 +1, etc. That works quite well for most use cases! It would mean the order of the numbers would stay the same when reordering the table though, so if I was using this to autocomplete a list of years, then sold by the comumn Income ... bam, the income of each year's not right anymore.
Also suggested was Home>Fill>Series. I do not see a Series option in the Fill menu at all, Bewilderingly. I'll try to switch my language to English to see if that's the issue, but I pressed all the things, so pretty sure it's not there for me in Office 365. Could someone with that version check whether it works for them?
Edit2: I figured out how to get to the series option! Turns out it was there, I just didn't realise I had to select the right type of series. For those curious, for the Slovenian version, that's Alt +N, FI, V, Enter.

So I wrote a blog post for the first time in 5 years, warning about hcaptcha's accessibility account. Long story short, they banned me from the accessibility account because I'm not blind. I am blind, but well, they seem to think not. Please boost, share, etc since this seriously affects me, and it's not ok at all. You can read the full blog post here: https://4mt.me/hcaptchastory

#blind #hcaptcha #a11y #accessibility #boost

Congratulations to Gene, recipient of this year's RNZFB Chair's Award. It is wonderful to see your hard work & advocacy over many years acknowledged with this prestigious award. Gene has long advocated for NVDA & been a great friend to us in New Zealand. We're excited to see him honoured.

Read more at: https://blindlowvision.org.nz/news/chairs-award-2023/

#Blindness #Blind #Advocacy #RNZFB #BlindLowVision #A11y #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader