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
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.
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.
“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.
I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The #ImageDescription function of Microsoft's #Bing is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an #LLM is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct?
How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. #Microsoft either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted.
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
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
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!
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.
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
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
good morning! I just followed @main. i think this is where the R/Blind community is now. I'm not a reddit user so I just followed them for all things #Blindness. #Blind#Accessibility
“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
I’ve found a way to be at peace with the current state of #Siri.
In tech terms, it’s old. 12 years is a long time in technology. When you’re old, it’s often the case that you develop a hearing impairment.
Due to the condition that causes my #blindness, I also have a hearing impairment. It’s tough when I can tell people are getting frustrated because I ask them to repeat themselves.
So, the golden rule applies here. Hearing impaired virtual assistants have every right to do the job to the best of their ability. So even though I am repeating myself to Siri more and more of the time now, I do so willingly in the name of #inclusion.
See? It’s all in the way you think about things.