A note for #mastodon#admins. Apparently, a beta of mastodon is introducing #HCaptcha. If you aren't aware, this can present #accessibility issues for some #blind users. If their accessibility cookie works, it's fine. However it breaks on a pretty regular basis. I encourage you to either not activate this, or be prepared to disable it temporarily if a blind user tries to sign up and has problems.
We need to stop dodging the question of disability. It's okay to be disabled and Autistic, trying to keep the two concept separate is in itself a form of ableism.
I got my first call from someone on the Be My Eyes app that lets the sighted step up for blind & low-vision people today.
I’m a late adopter, having only heard about it this week. You register, & when time permits, you can answer video calls placed by blind app users asking for help seeing, reading, selecting things.
Thanks to the founder, a Danish visually impaired guy himself, for having the idea and going with it; & the people working there now.
It’s not often that a crowdsourcing app lives up to every hope the internet allowed us to cling to. Silicon Valley social media owners talk a lot about ‘bringing people closer together’.
“Today is the last day to register online for our National Convention in Houston, July 1-6. Join us for an educational week of new technology, fun, and opportunity. #nfb23 nfb.org/convention” @nationsblind
To anyone who's played with an Olympus LS-P5, does it have voice guidance? If so, it looks like an absolutely amazing replacement for the impossible-to-find LS-P4. #Blindness#Accessibility#A11y#Olympus#recorders
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
@freedomscientific#question and #suggestion here. can you add #OpenAI#Bing or #Bard to the sources of image descriptions from the #PictureSmart feature in #JAWS? this picture smart feature is very efficient because on a press of a keystroke, you can get descriptions of image files and controls. except sometime, it provides descriptions that are totally not helpful, for example identifying logos that are really not in the picture. i think it will be grate and much more efficient if these #AI things could be intigrated to this feature. #Blind#Blindness#Accessibility#ScreenReader#JFW
Interestingly, I see no blind people complaining on social media about the lack of progress in visual prosthesis development (retinal implants, brain implants for restoring vision, no invasive devices on the market); #NeuroTech#BCI#blind#blindness
📖 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.
So, blind Mac users, do y’all know of a personal wiki system or knowledge bank like Obsidian or Logseq that’s accessible? Bonus points if it has a todo system that can push notifications and such.
question for #JAWS users and to @freedomscientific as well. when going to the #windows context menu with windows+x, JAWS says "Context Menu. Installed apps. 1 of 18. Alt followed by p".
why does it have to say "alt" when you can just activate an item there using the letter shortcut without the alt key. is it #Microsoft that put alt on the shortcuts there and JAWS just happened to read it?
"Alt followed by p". again, why does it have to say "followed by". I completely understand that this "followed by" thing is used on the shortcut keys on ribbons in Microsoft office to inform the user to press alt and then the letter combination to activate certain items. but in this context, it doesn't apply.
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.
📖 @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.