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Are you interested in accessibility on Mastodon? Are you blind or do you know someone who is blind and wants to use Mastodon?
There is a Mastodon-compatible accessibility app for Windows and Mac called TweeseCake which is designed for blind and sight-impaired people. You can find out more on its website at tweesecake.app
You can follow the developers of TweeseCake at @app
(Thank you to @sasquatch for info about this 🙏 )
65% of vision impaired people are over 50 years of age, despite making up only 20% of the world's population.
Accessible technology benefits everyone. As we age vision impairment becomes more likely. NVDA's free and open-source technology ensures no one is unfairly disadvantaged because of their vision.
You can support NV Access providing accessible technology by donating:
nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat….
#Donate #NVDA #Support #Blindness #Accessibility #Technology #FOSS #SupportUs
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: blindlowvision.org.nz/news/cha…
#Blindness #Blind #Advocacy #RNZFB #BlindLowVision #A11y #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader
Blind Low Vision NZ - Celebrating Achievement: The Chair's Award
The annual Chair's award is a prestigious honour bestowed upon a blind, deafblind, or low vision person who has shown remarkable achievement.blindlowvision.org.nz
What a beautiful story of #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #software from #ABC news from Kristine Taylor and Susan Chenery - @kristineataylor@twitter.com and @chenery3@twitter.com - Jamie Teh - @jcsteh and Mick Curran - @md_curran@twitter.com, who both live with #blindness, created #NVDA software which is a desktop #ScreenReader - and continue to give it away for free.
abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…
Get the software here on @github github.com/nvaccess/nvda
#a11y
How friendship between NVDA founders Mick Curran and Jamie Teh is changing lives for thousands of blind people
Mick and Jamie have been mates for almost three decades and have worked on a project with one goal in mind — to ensure everyone can use a computer.Kristine Taylor (ABC News)
Quite a revealing read: wellcomecollection.org/article…
#disability #inclusion #accessibility #history
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness.Wellcome Collection
Coming up on Mosen at Large 206, mastering mastodon, harnessing ham radio, and how to put an end to the Eset issues plaguing some screen reader users
Kia ora Mosen at Largers. Here’s what’s coming up in our next two-hour show that’s got the blind community talking. There’s no doubt that Twitter is tanking while Mastodon is having a moment. This …Mosen At Large