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Found a new way #WebDesigners are blocking #Accessibility.

Because I am legally #Blind, with less than 10 degrees of vision, I cannot visually solve #Captchas

Because I am mostly #Deaf, I cannot solve vocal Captchas.

Therefore, I added block and solve Captchas extensions to my browser.

On three major sites - I could no longer access, as they had added Captchas that bypassed the blockers!

FaceBook, Amazon, and Submittable do not allow Captcha blockers.

So, I had not been able to access those sites at all for a while.

When I found Submittable blocking me today, for the first time, I decided to turn off the Captcha blockers, as they obviously aren't working.

Instantly, Amazon and Submittable are working.

I haven't tried FaceBook.

#CaptchaBlockers are and #Accessibility need for blind, deaf, #DeafBlind, and multiple other disabilities. It is Disability Discrimination for sites to block Accessibility Access helpers.

I shouldn't need a sighted and hearing person, likely a stranger, to be given my login information, username and password, to log me into every site I need to go to every day!

#Tech people, please respect people with disabilities. Disable and Remove Captchas. Disable and Remove Block the Block Captchas extensions.

I wasted a lot of hours trying to figure out why suddenly I could not login to sites.

Hours because some tech people decided to break and block accessibility for a DeafBlind #Author!

#Captchas

#Captcha

#Accessibility #blind #captcha #tech #deafblind #author #deaf #webdesigners #captchas #captchablockers

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 2, 2024 - Volume 961
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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: 17,060 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 170 Premium 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 stylized access logos, clockwise a long cane user, enlarged print, fingers signing interpreter, full braille cell, hearing aid user. Background: Photo of a woman's face overlaid with human augmentation technology.

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 2, 2024 - Volume 961

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

I'm sure everyone who wants to know about this already does but, just in case anyone has, particularly if #blind or #DeafBlind, been looking for a local method of converting speech to text ... Whisper is an ML model from OpenAI which allows doing that. It can be used accessibly with all screen readers on Windows. Obviously, this is great for those of us with impaired hearing, it is certainly far more accurate than any of the speech to text programs I've seen, needs no training, and can handle background noise quite well. The audio duration limits are set by your hard drive space and the amount of time you're willing to put into transcription, I've transcribed several hours of audio without difficulty, it just takes time. It's available on Windows using github.com/Softcatala/whisper-… which just seems to need python. A GPU makes it faster, but it's usable on an I5 CPU. The model is also available online at freesubtitles.ai though that requires payment or waiting for long periods to transcribe limited amounts of audio. Thanks to @Bryn@mindly.social for the pointer at whisper-ctranslate2. #whisper #SpeechToText

FreeSubtitles.ai

Transcribe audio and video to text for free with automatic free translation
freesubtitles.ai
#blind #deafblind #speechtotext #whisper

This week's blog post is out! Featuring the Helen Keller Services AccessAbility awards, NV Access are hiring, RBlind on Lemmy, the Blind Accessible Research & Exploration Jam on Itch.io, and a walkthrough of #NVDA #Braille settings. Happy #DeafBlind awareness week! nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

In-Process 30th June 2023

Happy End-Of-Financial-Year to those who celebrate! As well as that exciting occasion, this week is also Deafblind awareness week, so I thought I’d include a run though of NVDA’s Braill…
NV Access
#braille #nvda #deafblind

“I can get my bank statement or a gas bill in accessible formats, but yet I still receive health information that I can’t read. What could be more personal than your health status?” So true! #accessibility #communication #blind #deafblind #disability @disability | Blind people at risk due to ‘inaccessible’ health information from NHS, charity warns | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/health/…

Blind people at risk due to ‘inaccessible’ health information from NHS, charity warns

Denying people access to their information can ‘cause embarrassment and loss of dignity’
Ella Pickover (The Independent)
#Accessibility #blind #communication #Disability #deafblind @Disability group

Just learned about this really cool theme park in Texas specifically designed for kids with disabilities. Apparently this guy was having tons of trouble finding a theme park able to accommodate his daughter Morgan who has multiple disabilities. Eventually, he soled his successful business and spent $50,000,000 to build his own.
It's got 25 different attractions, tons of events, thousands of positive reviews ETC.
morganswonderland.com
#accessibility #A11Y #disability #blind #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Deaf #DeafBlind #Autistic #Autism #CerebralPalsy #Wheelchair #WheelchairUser #ThemePark #ThemeParks

Morgan’s Wonderland: Closed

Morgan's Wonderland is the world's first Ultra-Accessible™, family fun park located in San Antonio, Texas. Visit our park to experience accessible rides.
Morgan's Wonderland
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #autistic #Disability #deafblind #autism #visuallyimpaired #deaf #visionimpaired #cerebralpalsy #wheelchair #wheelchairuser #themepark #themeparks

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