to my #Blind friends, do you know of any site or app that can create a slide show of images? i would like to create like a video of photos i took from a trip and i'm looking for an accessible way of doing that. thanks! #Blindness#Accessibility
A total solar eclipse will move across the U.S. on Monday, April 8. People who are blind or visually impaired will be able to experience it as they grow colder and hear birdsong change along with the dimming light, but much of the effect is visual. Planetary scientists Cassandra Runyon and David Hurd have written a guide called “Getting a Feel for Eclipses,” which has tactile graphics that illustrate the paths of the 2017, 2023 and 2024 eclipses. They write for @TheConversationUS about why they made it, and how it works.
What is the sound of an eclipse? For Atlas Obscura, Sara Mellas writes about the LightSound Project, which was started by astronomers and engineers in 2017 and uses a sonification device to sense light changes and translate them into flute, clarinet and bassoon tones, as well as percussive clicks. The original objective was to serve the blind and low-vision community. Listen to their "Symphony of Light" here, and learn more about how you can build your own LightSound sonification device.
This is probably going to be a longshot, but I want to get an idea of what its like to be a #accountant from the #Blindness prospective. I have heard that #Blind accountants exist within the profession but I'd like to ask some questions about how this could work and how successful I could be. If someone is willing to talk to me about this, I'd love to have an informal interview. Please boost if you could, I would very much like to get as much knowledge as possible. #Accounting, #FinancialAccounting, #ManagerialAccounting
📖 @mariaromeiras estudou o Centro Infantil Helen Keller, com um foco particular na revista "A Pérola", produzida por trabalhos dos alunos, reflexo do espírito cooperativo entre docentes e discentes, onde eram divulgados os objetivos pedagógicos da escola.
I asked several AI services how to compost, but I was not impressed with the answers. Composting is both simple and complicated, with not one recipe or method that works for everyone. AI is not a sustainable solution and contributes to #climatechange. Not using AI can be seen as an act of resistance.
One of my concerns with AI is that it often provides incomplete answers, despite the race to develop the latest and greatest AI technology. If you want to learn how to compost, it's best to turn to books and your local library, YouTube channels, or websites for guidance.
This is why we created this account - to help those who are interested in composting, especially since there has been a surge in interest due to the pandemic and mandatory composting laws in some areas.
@compost Are there any books that give tips for people with #chronicIllness, or #blindness. I haven't seen a lot on how to compost when you have a #disability yet. I would be an good conversation to start, if it isn't out there yet. I want to compost, but I would need confidence from people who have had experiences that would be similar to mine.
"Shopping for groceries is a common activity for many of us, but for visually impaired people, identifying grocery items can be daunting. A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore’s School of Computing (NUS Computing) introduced AiSee, an affordable wearable assistive device that helps people with visual impairment ‘see’ objects around them with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)."
I started creating miniature 3d printed buildings so that blind people can feel what they are like. So far I have 9 buildings, including the White House, Smithsonian Castle or the Independence Hall, but there is many more to come.
You can read more about the project at: https://evengrounds.com/3d-buildings
try lang ito. nakakahiya pero, push natin. 🤭
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PS. if you have Blind related questions, comment nyo po sa youtube video. i'll try to create a video and explain. this is for everyone's awareness so no wrong question. kapag na offend ako, PM ko nalang kayo. 🤣🤣🤣 joke lang.
I've read about Daniel Kish before, but never had the opportunity to spend so much time with him. This short #documentary visualizes how his #echolocation technique works and shows him teaching it to younger #blind students. Transformative and beautiful, must-watch for anyone who's interested in #accessibility or #disability or #blindness.
I can't contact #Microsoft's #Disability helpdesk on #BeMyEyes. so what's happening is, when i tap on contact microsoft, the new intigrated #BeMyAI tries to help. and then, there is a call Microsoft button there in case the AI is unable to help. when I tapped on that button, it is not connecting to Microsoft, it is connecting me to a regular sighted volunteer. #Blind#Blindness#Accessibility
is there any other source of zoom or online gathering of #blind people where i can join like #ACB comunity thing? love to join if there are any. #Blindness#Accessibility
No offense to anyone on this server, but I'm less than thrilled about my #Mastodon instance of choice. Local timeline is full of things I don't really care about. Considering changing...again. Lol I know I migrate a lot, but I'm trying to find an instance I'm happy with, so I'll keep doing it until I do.
Been looking at a few of the inmstances I think I might be interested in, mostly ones who have a lot of users who care about, #accessibility, #blindness, #disability, #neurodivergence, or #asexuality and think I might check out Tweesecake.social. Actually think I might have had an account there in the past, but can't remember which of my many old email addresses I'm trying to get rid of that I might have used to create it. Can't remember why I moved away, but I just requested to register again.
📖 O número inaugural da revista Tiflociência inclui um artigo da autoria de @mariaromeiras sobre o "início material e teórico do que hoje é a educação especializada para alunos cegos e amblíopes", que remonta aos primeiros institutos para educação e promoção da autonomia das pessoas cegas criados no mundo ocidental em finais do século XVIII.
Author M. Leona Godin, who is blind, writes for LitHub about her new obsession with photography, and the obsession sighted photographers have with blind subjects, in particular, the tired trope of the blind pencil vendor.
"I want to document how I see the world so that I can show my children what I saw through my perspective,” he says. Gabriel describes this poetic way of preserving his sight as a form of comfort to himself. Being able to make full use of his eyes through #photographs while he still has vision cements a multitude of memories that he can share with others.
to my #Blind friends, any idea on where to put #Image#Descriptions so it will stay with the file and not with the phone only? Since we already have this #AI things already, i wanted to organize my photos. I have an android phone and a computer. Thanks! #Blindness#Accessibility#Photo
After coming out, #ChrissieCochrane, now 77, used her “#blindness to great effect,” telling people: “I don’t care if you #stare at me. I can’t tell, so I’m going to not even think that you are.”
Artist Emilie L. Gossiaux lost her vision in an accident in 2010 and has been working with her guide dog, London, for a decade. She describes their relationship as being like a marriage. Other Worlding, her new show at Queens Museum in New York, explores that bond and the wider question of what humans can learn from animals.