Link at end Years ago, I took the legal route regarding Patreon’s many #Accessibility problems. There was a lot of things there that eventually led to things like the accessibility of #Discord improving, I was mistaken in the sense that it would’ve made significant improvements because they seem to roll back every agreement they made with me. Honestly glad I got the Patreon settlement money and bailed out. Reminder about this video explaining the fall of Patreon. https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXyN3-gQwJw&si=eopuCdY_J7Djeooy#Law#YouTube#Patreon
i have a spare folding rollator with footrests, a seat, and a backrest plus extra bar for emergency use as a short term wheelchair if needed. it's like new. i had to replace it (and i also didn't need the extra features anymore), plus I am moving overseas, and I would love this to go to someone who needs it for absolutely nothing in the denver metro area. no questions asked.
i am in town until june 15 and can drive some distance to meet up somewhere public for exchange, up to 45 minutes one way (measured during off hours even if we decide on traffic hours!) from The Medical Center at Aurora (off Potomac).
first claim takes it, we'll schedule from there. please, please reach out if you need it, even if you're shy. this thing helped me so much and there are so many of us underserved and/or newly LC disabled. it's okay to try out something new to make things easier. and you too can pass it along if it doesn't work for you!
I'm late to the party, but I found out I'm with the majority! lol According to the WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #10, 68.2% (779 out of 1142) "respondents indicate that individuals should not describe what they look like during a virtual meeting or webinar" for blind and visually impaired participants. #blind#accessibilityhttps://www.webaxe.org/webaim-screen-reader-user-survey-10/
It's official, I've completed my talk for the University of Guelph's #accessibility conference! This is a huge goal I've been pushing myself to do for the last year and- holy crap- I did it! Really looking forward to facilitating the discussion on how to improve technical excellence through more social understanding of disability!
Please boost in the hopes of reaching someone who can answer:
Can someone direct me to a form and/or a person responsible for ensuring ADA compliance (not a defensive "cover your ass" thing, but actually caring about accessibility) at USDA?
I'm looking for benchmarks.
For @mucConf we want to provide accessibility information online.
Please send me links to events/conferences that did a good job communicating accessibility information!
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I have been testing low visibility accessibility on websites I visit, just to see what the experience is like.
Voice over is very easy to enable on a Mac with a magic keyboard. Clicking your touch id button quickly 3 times turns voice over on, and 3 times again turns it back off. Excellent shortcut that makes it easy to include in your development process.
First was an interesting talk by David Gissen on the architecture of disability at the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub). Architecture has engaged with accessibility well before HCI, and the insight Gissen brings here is widely applicable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uV0hxeChgY (2/9) #architecture#accessibility
I, for one, am curious how allowing tables (et al) in <option> is going to work when the issue discussing it is deferring #accessibility to another issue — in which none of them are participating.
Delighted to see the tech press taking an interest in the Sonos #accessibility debacle. We need this to keep the pressure on. New Sonos app breaks accessibility for visually impaired users, here’s what this advocate recommends
Tired of coming home with a case of "conference crud"? Want to enjoy great talks about science and accessibility? SciAccess is an accessible conference that started among astronomers, but also has talks that are of interest to folks in STEM in general as well.
And you can still register for it and attend despite it kicking off tomorrow!
Anyone ever had to OCR a webpage to find a link? I did today. On a supposedly accessible college site, with nice fluffy captions on tables telling us poor simpleton blink blinks what the table will contain. Well it didn't contain the one link we were looking for! So yeah, thank goodness for OCR.
So I finally contacted Google disability support about the degrading accessibility of the youTube app for iOS. I'm fairly sure I was sent there from the youTube help site. I summarized a lot of the issues I and other Voiceover users have been having with the iOS app, particularly the hellish clutter of search results and recommended videos. The response I got today directed me to write to YouTube premium support, but the page they linked to is only for help with one-time purchases or ongoing subscriptions. As an alternative, I was told to post in the community. There was no acknowledgement of the issues and no offer to pass it along. It very clearly said "You've reached the wrong place."
My interpretation of this e-mail is simple: Google disability support can't file feedback about youTube. If there is a way to do so and reach an accessibility-aware person, I have not found it.
The youTube iOS app has now degraded to the point where it's painful to use. I think this is a good nudge to move the podcast feed generator in-house (literally) and start listening to videos in Overcast. It'll also make me less unfocused and dependent on the algorithm. #Accessibility#Google#YouTube#Enshittification
@verge Sonos has destroyed accessibility as well. Have you seen the stories & maybe you could cover it as well?: Jonathan Mosen: Boosting Living Blindfully (podcast): Delighted to see the tech press taking an interest in the Sonos #accessibility debacle. We need this to keep the pressure on. New Sonos app breaks accessibility for visually impaired users, here’s what this advocate recommends
Der Pirat-o-mat ist online: Ab sofort kannst du deine Standpunkte mit 12 echten Abstimmungen im EU-Parlament vergleichen. Ein Archiv unserer Abstimmungsgrafiken liefern wir mit.
Würde ich gerne weiterempfehlen, mangels #Barrierefreiheit wird das aber nichts.
Die Seite ist eine einzige Orgie von reingeklatschten Bitmaps zu Abstimmungen - keine der zahllosen Grafiken hat auch nur ein bisschen #AltText, zum Beispiel eine simple %-Zusammenfassung je Partei.
Wer blind oder sehbehindert ist, bleibt also außen vor.
Ich glaube, so ein Statement ist jetzt nicht wirklich hilfreich als Werbung für Ihre Partei. Aber danke für die offene Antwort, sie hilft mir persönlich schon mal bei der Wahlentscheidung.