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NVDA 2023.1rc2 available for testing
The Second Release Candidate (RC2) of NVDA 2023.1 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, thi…NV Access
the releace announcement can be found at https://odilia.app/news/release_0-1-0/
finally, we're here! A big thank you to the community who waited patiently for this release, as well as everyone who contributed, in one way or another, to the project's growth, we're here, we hear you, and we'll never forget our community! let's show the world it can indeed be done, make linux great again!
#accessibility #screenreader #screenreaders #blind #linux #odilia
Odilia Version 0.1.0 Released | Odilia Screen Reader
After many months, in fact, just over a year of hard work, we are proud to announce the initial, beta release of Odilia: a new, fast, lightweight screenreader for Linux, written in rust for maximum speed and efficiency.odilia.app
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thanks everyone for your input. Very helpful.
What strikes me as odd is that a #screenreader will announce a hashtag as “number” even though the # sign is followed by letters and not a number. I’d expect them to say „hashtag“.
That should be an easy fix for any developer, and I imagine it would be nice to know right away that a clickable link is coming up, or am I missing something?
Let me know how do you like it once it's accepted.
https://github.com/Bnyro/RecordYou/pull/48
This is my first experience with #Jetpack #Compose so bear with me and try to suggest improvements if you can please.
Add some screen reader accessibility improvements by pvagner · Pull Request #48 · Bnyro/RecordYou
Set content descriptions and other tweaks where it makes sense so the app is usefull for screen reader users. Visually disabled and blind people are likelly to enjoy using modern audio recording ap...GitHub
Hashtags for better reach:
#ScreenReaderAccess #screenreader #Accessibility #alttext #webaccessibility
#Blindness or #VisualImpairment is not a #disability. Rather, it is a #disperception. Imagine yourself blindfolded, put on an airplane and dropped off in a foreign land where no one speaks your #language and all the signs are in an #alphabet you have never seen. . You of course would not be able to #experience the world around you in any meaningful way without an #interpreter or a #translator. You have no disability, only a disperception, as you cannot perceive the language or the printed alphabet they are using in a meaningful way. By the same definition and the same experiences, #accessibility as it relates to blindness or vision impairment is not an #accommodation for a disability; it is instead a #translation into the #perception we can experience.
What is a #screenReader? It is simply an interpreter that takes what it finds on a device screen that we cannot see and translates it to speech, a sound that we can hear, or braille, an alphabet pattern that we can feel.
What is #Braille? Why it's nothing more than a translated alphabet that we feel rather than seeing.
What is accessibility? It's nothing more than being sure that your app, website, device, building, whatever, can reliably interpret or translate its visual cues that we cannot perceive into auditory, tactile and haptic cues that we can perceive, usually using a translation matrix that we already have available, although providing such a translation matrix can help in some cases as well.
Another aspect is navigation, where we use various methods of translation to take what would normally be visual cues from vehicles, buildings, etc and translate them to sensations that we can perceive. Still, this is simply translation, it in no way affects our ability to navigate in an environment; it is simply a translation matrix similar to a screen reader, even if it's low-tech like the staff we carry. Yes, I call it my staff, because a new friend and coworker called it that and I love it. I've got everyone at work calling it that now. Although I don't mind cane or stick or whatever, staff is my favorite word for this handy translation tool that has saved my life on more than one occasion, although it still doesn't protect my head, which I actually find more important than protecting me from the waste down. GPS is another handy translation tool, as it generally uses voice cues, and can be helped along with the aid of the screen reader, to tell us where we are, and in many cases, what is around us. The point is that these things are all translation tools, nothing more, nothing less. They translate visual cues into audible and/or tactile cues that we are able to perceive meaningfully, with or without instruction from others.
Once again, for the people in the back, I do not have a disability, which is defined as an inability to perform actions. I have a disperception, meaning that I have different experiences based on the fact that I cannot perceive visual cues, and need a translator that will take those visual cues and translate them into the #auditory and #tactile perceptions I do have.
I know you are changing for the better. However while testing Thunderbird 111 daily I would like to see some gradual improvements so it becomes ready for most userf of Thunderbird 115 in terms of #screenreader #accessibility once it's declared stable.
Positive things I have noticed:
We have brand new message list that no longer renders all the messages in selected folder at once but only those that are visible on the screen and ready for the user interaction. From my point of view it looks similar to infinite lists on mobile platforms. Most importantly it almost fully elliminates enormous lag when browsing huge message lists on linux with #orca #screenreader running. I was curious enough and I have tested imap folder with up to 75000 messages inside.
It is still possible to use F6 and shift+F6 to move the keyboard focus from the folder tree to the message list and back.
Message list has headers that are used for sorting and a popup menu for setting up visible columns almost from the begining of Thunderbird existence. From now on these controls are finally accessible to screenreader users. And we are now able to configure sorting and show / hide individual columns.
We can still use ctrl+shift+k to show / hide the filter entry. Also there are accessible buttons alongside the filter entry that allow quick filtering the list such as labelled messages, messages with attachments, starred messages, messages from addressbook contacts, unread messages, even ability to keep the filter active when changing folders. Some of these features were already there earlier but now these are accessible to keyboard users including screenreader users.
Now features that need some polishing:
It appears we can now open individual message folders on a new tab / in a new window however this feature needs some fixes. For example when navigating using up and down arrow keys in the folder tree, pressing shift+F10 first moves focus to the parent folder and displays popup menu for that parent item instead of currently selected one.
When navigating in huge list new selection is not properly reported to assistive technologies while scrolling. For example press end to move to the last message. Now press up arrow key several times to navigate back a message and notice how screenreader is reporting new selection as it happens. Now press the page up key to move the selection by the larger increment. New message is highlighted but the selection changed event is not fired properly or it's getting mixed with some spurious focus event on an unlabelled pannel. Some screen readers are able to filter out these but I think it would be nice to address it at the source rather than working it around.
Now the main window has a lot of focusable controls and it is no longer comfortable to use tab and shift+tab to navigate. It would be nice if buttons were grouped in a toolbar like controls implementing toolbar pattern the way it's explained at
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/toolbar/
It's nice that ability to reconfigure message list columns is now fully accessible to keyboard and screen reader users however accessible name of each item in the message list does not yet respect these settings. Subject is the only content that is communicated to assistive tools when navigating in the list using arrow keys. This is major issue and will likely be considered as a regression if it won't be addressed before releasing the stable version.
When navigating in the list of messages it is possible to select multiple messages for executing actions on them. I am afraid the fact multiple messages are selected or not selected is not properly communicated to assistive tools. This is major issue for screenreader users.
It is no longer possible to use applications key / shift+f10 to inwoke a popup menu in the message list.
Be good if it could become a #screenreader default!
Hi, my name is Wenwei (She/Her) and I am #blind. I will mainly use this account to #write #MicroFiction centering my #disabled experiences. I deeply care about the notion of equitable access, and in order to achieve this, good #accessibility practices is a concept that should be part of the public consciousness. As a blind #ScreenReader user, I am most familiar with good accessibility practices for blind and low vision individuals, but I make it my mission to learn about other marginalized and disabled groups. I am a #ChineseAmerican #feminist #queer #asexual and I believe that I cannot include marginalized voices (including my own) if I advocate for my own position and callously dismiss other perspectives that add an uncomfortable dimension of conflict to my own thinking.
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
#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
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Here's a podcast episode we did about how people with disabilities play on @storium :
http://storiumarc.com/episode/episode-70-storium-with-disabilities/
#writer #roleplaying #pbp #rpg
Episode 70! Storium with Disabilities - Storium Arc
Producing and hosting for the first time, Zachary (Rattannah) takes a deep dive into a side of Storium that often hides in plain sight, or in this case, behind a screen.Justin Hall (Storium Arc)
I wish that people would use a combination of the two finger scrub gesture and tap the "back" button when making #VoiceOver tutorials to demonstrate alternative ways of going back. This doesn't even need to be over-explained unless the tutorial is specifically an intro to VoiceOver tutorial. I know how to perform this gesture. I understand its function. However, I routinely forget about it because I don't always think it can be used interchangeably with the "back" button (if the gesture is indeed supported). Just today, I used it in the Kindle, NYTimes, Overcast, Safari, and Mona apps. I resolve to use this gesture much more often than I currently do. That is all.
Of course for real mapping eye sight is required but for suggesting fixes it's not. e.g. filling in opening and closing hours and similar.
— @jcsteh
#Firefox #Accessibility #Opensource #ScreenReader
https://www.jantrid.net/2022/12/22/Cache-the-World/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
Cache the World: Turbo Charging Firefox Accessibility Performance and Maintainability | Jantrid
The Firefox accessibility engine is responsible for providing assistive technologies like screen readers with the information they need to access web page co...www.jantrid.net
It doesn’t take long to write one.
And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.
Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/)
#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon
The page where you can track the progress is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/CacheTheWorld
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
Project Naptha looks to be a service that can generate descriptive texts for any image.
https://projectnaptha.com/
It is discussed on Hacker News now at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32051736