Let's all keep in mind that we're in the 21st century now and there are lots of great resources to learn about and start doing correct, accessible design and coding. Good people practice #accessibility and inclusive design while bad people with low-quality, tarnished reputations practice inaccessible, discriminatory design and development. The right answer is clear to see my friends!
Looks like PayPal has locked me out of my money with a "no blind people allowed" sign. I'd be happy to retrieve the "accessibility cookie" except there's an error: "ERR_BLOCKED_BY_RESPONS..." Really? What gives? I have to log in to get support. Anyone have any ideas? #accessibility
I didn't think UIA was quite mature, but I am also old enough to forget Windows’ prior but somehow also current #accessibility APIs. So I may simply be wrong.
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.
Alright. Here's how it is. Once you appoint yourself as gatekeeper, you become part of the problem. We as #disabled people have precious few allies as it is, without actively alienating the ones we have. You can stand up and offer to help, stand up and provide constructive feedback on how to improve, stand up and show appreciation, or just sit your ungrateful self down. Just stop. Thanks @stefan for raising awareness of #AltText. #blind#accessibilityhttps://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112451222240570433
Web Platform Baseline does not track browser support for #accessibility features built into the web platform. If you need to understand whether browsers support accessibility features as your own base level set of requirements, for legal or other compliance reasons, then Web Platform Baseline does not represent a baseline.
Just listened to my second podcast of the day 🎧, where the hosts are puzzled about who wants all this AI vision stuff they've seen this week. All they can come up with is blind people. Yes! Yes! Yes! We do! 🙌✨ #Blind#AI#TechForGood#Inclusion#Accessibility#ThisDayInAI#Verge
On the matter of accessibility and excellent closed captions:
Watching the end credits of an episode of Candela Obscura (chapter three, episode one) and the captions were excellent, as always. I can hear but they help me spot things I might miss, and to concentrate, but I also just appreciate them as an art form. But. Guess how many closed captions editors Critical Role hired for this?
FIVE. FIVE EDITORS. And that's how you do it. With intention!
This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?
This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.
It's June 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM Central US time. Almost every blind person that owns an iPhone has installed the iOS 18 beta. Some are playing retro games with the new, AI driven screen recognition. Others are gladly using DecTalk as their main voice, the Enhanced Siri voices that use ML to speak using emotion and context, as their reading voice, Eloquence as their notification voice (sent to one ear to minimize distractions), and finding it amazing that VoiceOver emphasizes italic text, and emboldens bold text. Others are finding it amazing that they can navigate their whole phone using Braille screen input, searching to find things by typing a few letters, or just swiping down through everything. A few are connecting their multi-line Braille displays, and feeling app icons and images, made much more understandable through touch, using an AI filter.
The next day, when news of all these features filters down to Android users, they quickly begin hammering Google, wanting DecTalk and Eloquence on their Pixel phones, like iOS users have. But Google is silent as always, only just now having given Chromebook users high quality Google TTS voices.
Note: great liberty has been taken to imagine the coolest outcome for the vague feature announcements Apple gave for VoiceOver users. We'll see just how cool, or not, they actually are on June 10.
Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...
Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, without us. ChromeVox has barely been updated in years, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.
"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...
First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can tell that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.
And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.
Accessibility matters, and we’re committed to breaking barriers.
Check out our Mind Map to see how MindNode supports inclusivity for all.
To find more information on how we’re working to make our software as accessible as possible for everyone, check out our website: https://www.mindnode.com/accessibility
Die Landes-Zentrale für politische Bildung Berlin hat eine Broschüre erstellt. Das Thema der Broschüre ist die EU-Wahl. Die Broschüre ist in leichter Sprache geschrieben. Das heißt: die Informationen sind für viele Menschen zugänglich.
Die Broschüre kann in Berlin abgeholt werden. Es gibt die Broschüre auch online.
Informationen gibt es hier: https://www.eltern-beraten-eltern.de/heft-in-leichter-sprache-europa-wahl-am-9-juni
Die #redaktionAndererseits hat eine Webseite erstellt sie heißt https://wahlchecker.at
Das Thema der Webseite ist die EU-Wahl in Österreich.
Dort gibt es 15 Fragen in einfacher Sprache.
Bei jeder Frage kannst du auswählen: "ja", "weiß nicht", und "nein".
Und du kannst sagen, wie wichtig die Frage für dich ist.
Zum Schluss siehst du: wie ähnlich sind deine Antworten zu denen von Parteien, die in Österreich zu dieser Wahl antreten? #europeElects#EUParl2024#leichteSprache#accessibility