I know how to skip backwards and forwards between tracks with my AirPods Pro but I don’t think there is a way you can actually fast forward or rewind through a track but I would love to be proven wrong on this point. #AirPods#Apple#Accessibility
irrationally irritated by people who proudly announce how inclusive they are in their language choices...but then it's clear they haven't actually talked to the people they're trying to "help" and just make assumptions on their behalf... https://twitter.com/lauraparkerux/status/1651561367646748673 ... #a11y#accessibility (with hat-tip to @davidofyork who still clearly scours twitter/the nazi bar)
early morning...and i'm emailing newsletter authors to pretty please not just slap images (particularly images of text) into their emails and calling it a day... /cc @Euromove#a11y#accessibility
My current client claims to be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, but has instructed me to not raise accessibility defects, but record them in a spreadsheet. Because if they have too many unresolved defects they can't deploy. [smashes forehead into high vis keyboard repeatedly] How about just fixing the bugs?.... QA, the watchman on the hill. #accessibility#QA#TestAnalyst
Question for all #blind people who have watched "Succession" with audio description. Do you know what any of the characters look like from the description?
Accessibility isn’t something you add to your product. It is your product.
I think 90% of my job is trying to convey this. If the button isn’t labeled, if the text cannot be seen, if the action cannot be performed, then it may as well not be there for some subset of people. #accessibility#a11y
From an Android user’s perspective, I quite like Speech Central after using it for only 10 minutes, 1 minut of that time used to set up the app. I’m sorry to hear the developer’s being ghosted like this. Personally, I will recommend this app to anyone looking for a book reading app. #A11y#Accessibility#books
Has anyone made contact with the people behind #Audon? I think many #blind people would like to use it, but it has a few unlabelled buttons in the room UI.
I haven’t been able to find any way to contact them but this would be a big hit in the blind community if it were a bit more #accessible.
Another #Accessibility question relating to iOS (and Android) dev - we've been exploring improving support for Full Keyboard Access on iOS (and equivalent for Android), but the default focus state doesn't offer much contrast. Is there any way to customise this behaviour, e.g. detect when focus is on an element and change how it displays? #iOSDev
Imagine you have a keen and fresh new developer getting started in web - what is the first resource or two that you would point them to in order to learn #Accessibility and why it's important?
I see you on Bluesky giving billionaire Jack Dorsey your free labor by reporting #accessibility bugs when he could not be bothered to staff up with practitioners.
You do you, but understand it devalues the work and rewards him for failing to hire professionals. #a11y
This may be an unpopular take, but...
I don't think any blind person will ever be completely independent. I do, however, think that every blind person can be self-sufficient. Independence, to me, implies a lack of reliance on anyone/anything. But everyone needs help sometimes. Self-sufficiency, on the other hand, is about having the tools you need, and the ability to get assistance, to go where you need to go/do what you need to do.
Thoughts? #Blind#Disability#Disabled#A11y#Accessibility
Finally realized I should be using dictation more for inputting text.
Having previously used Chrome "Speech Recognition" API for voice-to-text in websites. I'm both surprised and disappointed that the accuracy of MacOS's built-in dictate feature is noticeably worse than Chrome's.
What happened to the Apple that broke new ground with a revolutionary voice assistant? #accessibility#webdev#apple
On the bright side, this led me to discover Talon Voice for dictation which I am using to dictate this Mastodon post. Talon Voice can do a lot more than just dictation, such as system actions and scripts.
The accuracy of Talon Voice appears to be better than apple dictation. https://talonvoice.com #Accessibility