#AccessKit question. I'd like to recommend this to developers so they can make their projects more #accessible. I noticed there's no documentation. Is it easy enough to learn without the need for documentation? If not, I'm hesitant to recommend something that I know developers are going to struggle with. It's tough enough asking them to make their apps accessible when they don't know much about us, let alone asking them to learn a new library with no docs. #Accessibility#Blind#VisuallyImpaired
I'm still open to the idea of dropping this course as someone here suggested, but I'd rather not if I can help it. I'd like to find a workaround instead. I'm going to email the instructor to see if I can use a different database system and modify the assignments accordingly. Another idea, is there some other more #accessible software that can open and modify MS Access database files?
So fellow #blind#Android folks. I'm not as impressed with my Google Pixel Watch as I thought I would be, and am contemplating switching to a Samsung one. How #accessible are they with #Talkback? I have a #Pixel phone, in case that matters. Thanks in advance!
@TRodick93 From my understanding more, the same set of accessibility issues samsung phones and tablets have vs pixel ones, samsung forks and bloat. @evilcookies98 has one I believe and was talking about getting CSR running on it.
@dhamlinmusic@TRodick93 that’s right. Not to mention if you have a smaller arm, the Samsung stuff is going to feel like a brick. I’ve never owned one, but I have seen them.
Yesterday was Global #Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Today, some companies will be considering switching away from #Slack to a less #accessible alternative due to #AI bullshit.
@matt I think 37signals is partially owned by David Heinemeier Hansson, who is a pretty controversial figure. I also didn't think much of the accessibility of Basecamp. Still, being able to buy the code is an interesting move.
#X's implementation of its latest #moderation decision, to include the term "c*sgender" in their (undoubtedly rancid) collection of swears, curses, and other nasty words, is IMO warranted, as we shouldn't allow the gradual outing of normal persons from an evermore hostile internet.
The main proponents of a successful internet should be its moderation tools. While a manually maintained list is sufficient for most usecases, with the growth and ever increasing need of an #accessible internet, we should also look for inclusion of hateful terms identified by automatic tools, such as sentence sentiment analysis, methinks.
Well, a client site is being dinged by the Google Search Console for trying to be #accessible.
We are having the mobile nav open on initial page load, and then close as soon as javascript is enabled and starts running, so if scripts fail on the site for some reason the user can still navigate the site.
Seems like another good reason to use #DetailsElements for nav menus, so they can start close and aren't dependent on javascript.
If you were wondering whether the new #Sonos app is as bad with #VoiceOver as people said, I can confirm that it is.
The first element that receives focus has no #accessible role or name, i.e. VoiceOver doesn't announce anything for it. The screen is split up into sections, like "Recently Played", "Your Services", and "Sonos Favourites", but none of these have headings. And, as previously noted, explore by touch doesn't work; VO seems to just see that blank element I mentioned as being stretched across the entire screen.
As a result of all this, the "Search" button requires 32 swipes from the top of the screen to reach, at least with my setup. If you have more services and/or more favourites, that number of swipes will be higher. #accessibility
@jscholes That, and on my iPhone with system language set to German, the UI does show up in German but is spoken by VO using an English voice, probably because the localization settings are not correctly configured and so all the German strings are marked up as being in English. This truly is a huge #accessibility#fail.
Several of them will be done in a chair. Some standing & others are laying down. I don't see many exercise vids made by & for #disabled folks available online. I got frustrated, trying to find exercise vids, made by fellow disabled folks.
So, I'm going to stop complaining about lack of them. I'll start to create them, myself.
@msquebanh awesome!! We'll watch them! I still can't do a lot of standing out active exercises because of my ankle injury so it'll be great to have some alternatives.
If you want to hear your sexy stories read aloud as #AudioPorn, or get help with training + equipment so you can record them yourself... I'm currently accepting submissions for the next round of the project.
I'll...
a) pay you a license fee
b) treat your work with respect and horny enthusiasm and
c) give you a widget to embed the audio in your own site to make it more #accessible to blind readers
@objectinspace i know!! they're already very accessible before you export. Why don't they just translate that into the export process??? It seems easy to me. But what do i know!
iPhone Tip. Message Shortcut. For someone that you send messages to a lot, would it be handy to have a shortcut on your home screen that when you double tap it, it brings up messages, fills in who it is to automatically, and it puts you in the edit field ready to type your message. Well, this can be done pretty easily using the shortcuts app and something called an URL Action. Here are the steps.
1, Open the shortcuts app and choose Create New Shortcut.
2, Need to search for the shortcut action to use. Go to the bottom of the screen and swipe left going back up the screen. After the dictate button will be the search edit box.
3, In the edit box, just type, Open Url.
4, Swipe right, and one of the search results will be Open URLS, double tap on that.
5, Go to the top of the screen if not there.
6, As you swipe, you will come to a done button, then you will hear, Open URLS, draggable, show actions menu, swipe one more time and you should hear, Open, URL. This is where you need to be.
7, Now, flick down and choose Edit URL. This will open an edit box and put the keyboard at the bottom of the screen. Even though you can swipe around the screen, you can still type in this edit box.
8, So type, with no spaces, sms, colon, then the phone number of the person you want to make this link for.
9, All done making the shortcut. Go to top of screen and hit the done button. Now you have to rename it and add it to your home screen.
Renaming Shortcut.
1, From the top of the screen, swipe and you should hear, Open URLS. This is the shortcut that you just made!
2, Do a single finger triple tap on the shortcut to bring up a pop up menu. Now while swiping across voiceover does not have focus on what it reads to you, so you have to go past what you are looking for and then swipe back before making your choice. So swipe across until you hear details, then swipe back to rename and Double tap it.
3, A rename window will pop up, swipe across and enter the name in the edit field.
4, Once finished, hit the done button.
Adding to the Home Screen.
1, do a single finger triple tap on the shortcut like you did before. This time choose details. Remember, to make sure voiceover has focus on the correct thing, swipe past the details button, then go back to it.
2, On the details screen, swipe to the button that says, Add To Home Screen. This will add the shortcut to your home screen. If you need to, you can move this shortcut just like you move any of apps, and put it where you want.
Enclosing, I do realize that there are other ways of sending messages, like with Siri, or maybe by using a widget. But for those who normally open the messages app, go to the compose button, or to the person in their list of conversations, this is definitely a quicker way. The best thing is that there are multiple ways of doing it, and having choices is always a good thing! 😄 #iPhone#Tip#Shortcuts#Messages#Homescreen#Quick#Easy#blind#Accessible
@ChrisChaffin You may want to add an example of the sms: URL since you simplified it and actually used the word colon. But thanks for this, I didn't know you could directly open a URL like that. I probably don't use Shortcuts to even 2% of its potential.
what was this WIndows GUI for WHisper that was #accessible? I just got the question and I recall someone mentioning it a month or so back, you perhaps @FluidEscence