Here's a summary of the great work happening at #harvard (and in other labs) to find a therapy for Usher Syndrome.
I continue to be amazed and impressed by the machine that is science. The work these teams are doing is crazy good - three different types of gene editing and vectors to treat progressive #blindness , based on decades of painstaking, bit-by-bit understanding of cellular and retina biology.
"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
What Braille displays (preferably 32 cells or above) would people recommend for use with NVDA? Price doesn't matter, I'm going to get the rehab agency to pay for it because I really need a display for my math, but I can't do it with my current, 14-cell display. #Braille#Math#Blindness
Remembering the time I posted on Reddit about a waitress at a chain restaurant treating a blind person like she didn't exist, repeatedly, despite very pointed suggestions from both the blind and sighted customer that she not do that. I got a lot of interesting responses from all over the map, and most of them sided against the waitress, but there were two diametrically opposed arguments that were repeated many times:
"She probably didn't know how to make eye contact so she felt awkward and didn't know how to address a blind person."
"I'm not blind, but am <insert disability here>. This happens to me all the time."
Some non-disabled people will defend ableism at all costs. Obviously, there are lots of solutions to argument #1, but it's clear that isn't even the problem. What would happen if I substituted "blind" with some other disability? Would people find another way to apologize on behalf of the abled, or is blindness just at the bottom of the totem pole?
We all need to learn to call this out when we see it. We are never in the wrong when we demand autonomy. #disability#blind#blindness#ableism
Okay, basic NVDA question. What's the difference between the default dictionary and the voice dictionary? If I want to change the way something is pronounced when I read, which is the best one to use? Thanks! If you don't know the answer, please boost. #Blindness
“Accessibility shouldn’t just be a box you check. It should be cool.”- Steve Decker, Target’s Senior Manager of Accessibility 🎯
On Episode 5 of Access Matters 🎙, our host Jenine Stanley will sit down with Steve to discuss how his team has built inclusion through accessibility into the Fortune 50 retailer’s offerings.
for those who need #image descriptions or #AltText for photos, here is a model that pretty much does it. It is called #LLaVA. I will post a sample image with a description on my next post and let you sighted friends comment on it. 😁
any accessible, fast and efficient way to convert wav recordings to video with some kind of image on it? need to upload my recordings somewhere. Thanks! #Blind#Blindness#Accessibility#Sound
Really think there needs to be much more #PhilosophyOfBlindness discussion out there in our community than there is. Take the #study I was just discussing on here. So many of us would hope that we have no (as commonly-called) “super-powers” as #blind people, because, many would argue, that would “other” us even further. (In fact, I’ve always been of this mindset.) Yet, we seem to have #studies that actually counter such a position. What are we, as a #BlindCommunity, to make of them? #blindness
Visual prosthesis development is entering the trough of disillusionment https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle "Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters." #blind#blindness
just contacted the #Microsoft#disability Answer Desk via #BeMyEyes to ask for help in formatting my PDF document. They remote in to my computer using quick assist and boom, all is fixed. they are always very helpful on these kind of situations.
and did you know that all representatives/agents on the disability answer desk are all #Filipinos? something to be proud of! our fello #Kababayans are doing a big difference! If you are by any chance in #Fediverse and may have read this toot, I would like to say thank you very much for all the work you're all doing! #Mabuhay kayo!