Hello #accessibility community, I have a question regarding #cms user interfaces. I may have gotten the gig to implement a website with strong #a11y focus, tech stack of my choice.
I'm gonna go with @astro and want to implement a CMS that is as accessible as possible. Do you have any experience with the following platforms?
If you're a #screenReader user and struggling to find the start of responses in the #ChatGPT interface, you can instruct it to add a heading at the start of each one:
In the web interface, press the "User" button.
In the menu, choose "Customize ChatGPT".
In the dialog that comes up, the second multiline text field is labelled: "How would you like ChatGPT to respond?". In this field, you can add something like: "Whenever you respond, prepend a level 1 heading in the Markdown so I can easily find the start of the response with my screen reader.".
Near the end of the dialog, ensure that the toggle switch is in the on position, which will confusingly mean it has a label of: "Disable chat preferences". But this does mean it's enabled.
Press "Save".
In my experience, this works for something like 96 to 98 percent of responses, and is probably possible with other models too.
Since a new version has been released 4 days ago, let me take the opportunity to mention that @FeatherWiki is still the best, single-page local wiki ever made. It's minimalistic, extensible, and accessible to #screenReader software as well.
If you like TiddlyWiki but find yourself confused because of the myriads of expanding sections, you will love FeatherWiki.
Hello Fediverse Knitters & Crocheters who use screen readers! Is there anything you wish designers knew when trying to make PDF knitting/crochet patterns accessible other than "make sure to have instructions in both written and charted format"?
Let me know in the comments so I can make the most of my InDesign accessibility settings for you!
Access for All: Two friends helping change opportunities for blind people with an open-source screen reader for all. Now on Microsoft Unlocked: https://unlocked.microsoft.com/nvda/
Does anyone here have experience using Microsoft Access with any #ScreenReader? I'd love to know whether it just isn't accessible or I just haven't figured out what I'm doing yet. There's nothing in the help topics, the Freedom Scientific Youtube channel, or their training webinar page about it. Please boost. #Jaws#JFW#NVDASr#accessibility
Are you blind? Have you heard of the commandline, but don't know what it means or how to use it? I recorded a tutorial that shows how to use a popular commandline utility called YT-DLP to download the audio version of a video with a screenreader, and how you can apply this to other commandline applications. This will accomplish jobs more quickly and bypass inaccessible graphical user interfaces. I hope you find it helpful!
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.
How do you feel about duplicate links in articles, blogs, whatever? Meaning: A certain word is a link (let's say "HEALTH") leading to an external website.
Would it annoy you if this word was always a link and it's mentioned for example 20 times in an article? Or would you rather have it only once to make it easier to scan for links?
Hello friends, can you please retoot this widely? We are searching for someone using a #screenreader to test a particular #accessibility issue with fancy unicode strings. Thanks for sharing.
Meine getooteten Fotos versehe ich mit #ALT . #Bildbeschreibung machen mir persönlich Spaß, denn ich wende meine im Bereich Kunst angelernten Skills wie Bildinterpretation/Bildanalyse an, die ich in meinem Grafik Beruf schon lange nicht mehr benutze.
Wofür das überhaupt? Es gibt nun mal auch Menschen mit #Sehbehinderung, die können Bilder in dem Maße wie Du und ich nicht sehen. #Blind#Amaurose
Viele waren einst gutsehend.
how you move to next elements, e.g. headings, comments, footnote in a google doc? here goes! ctrl+alt+n, ctrl+alt+c for next comment, except when you press ctrl+alt+n, nvda starts/quits,
so what's the alternative? #accessibility#nvda#screenReader#googleDocs
So apparently #sonos is releasing a completely redesigned app in May. Has anyone heard anything about #accessibility? Do we know if any #screenreader users are in the beta program? #a11y
Sometimes, you might think that previous #accessibility wisdom has been superseded by new "facts". Maybe someone told you that #screenReaders don't work well with a particular design pattern, but you tested #ScreenReader X and it seemed to work fine. Perhaps you heard that an interactive HTML input doesn't persist with forced colours styling, but you tried a High Contrast mode in Microsoft Edge and it seemed to be there.
There are three considerations usually missing here:
How are you defining and evaluating the working state? Do you have a functional, accurate understanding of the #accessTechnology or accessibility feature you are asserting things about?
You tested one thing in relation to a statement about multiple things, e.g. a statement is made about screen readers, plural, and you only tested with #VoiceOver (it's always VoiceOver). Beyond posting on the web-a11y Slack, how do you propose testing more broadly, if you plan to at all?
Possibly the most critical at all: is this question worth its overheads? If answering it conclusively would require me to test ten screen readers with 45 speech engines, or seven browsers with 52 permutations of CSS properties, maybe following the advice is "cheaper" than determining whether the advice is still completely relevant.
Important disclaimer: this relates specifically to cases where following the advice would not actively make things worse for users.
TL;DR: when you know doing a thing won't make things bad, doing the thing is usually quicker than evaluating whether not doing the thing is also bad.
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