Common Misconceptions About Disability, by @TetraLogical:

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/12/03/common-misconceptions-about-disability/

#accessibility #concepts

News from #Microsoft:

More logical navigation through Word documents for screen readers

There is a new setting (now in Office 365) which "allows you to use the up and down arrow keys to move through all the content in your document based on the logical reading order." - this will be a big improvement for situations including:
- Multi-column pages
- Text wrapped around images
- multi-page view

Read more at: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/more-logical-navigation-through-word-documents-for-screen-readers/4471937

#News #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Keyboard

Right on the heels of #CSUN, I'll be giving my Intro to Web #Accessibility class and a shortened version of my Be a Better Tester talk online on March 18th, 7-9pm Eastern. We'll go over learning resources, the industry in general, and how to write successful and actionable feedback for apps and websites! It's a free virtual workshop hosted by the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Books library and you can register here: https://nypl.zoom.us/meeting/register/WnFhNoHdQRSbrN3B5O7GJg#/registration

I've just made a very important update to the Auto-Dubber script for eleven labs, on the final step before processing the file, it will check your account balance and tell you how many credits you have remaining so you can make a decision particularly with longer bits of Audio of what you want to do.
It's really important for people like me who accidentally go way over there free credits for the month and end up paying huge amounts of money.
You can find the dropbox link here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3wfgp468dbls8lwbsddul/Auto-Dubber-for-ElevenLabs.zip?rlkey=4z9kb097v7it53mc607b9riqx&dl=0
There is now also a donate.TXT file for anyone who feels so inclined that wants to throw a couple of bucks my way.
It is not mandatory, the script is free for you to use but I've put it there just in case.
#AI #vibecoding #elevenlabs #Accessibility #programing

Reposting this amazing guide on how to write helpful alt text from https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/, originally posted by @karengregory (including her original image description) so that I can pin it.

#AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility #a11y

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ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Blind folks, what would make you want to use, or try out, Linux?

Boosts okay.

#accessibility #blind #linux #foss

That is so wounderfully #cursed...

And I could see this combo of #GoogleStadia + #Xbox360 #Controller as an #accessibility setup tho...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l3e68b90dw&t=204s

#Gaming #Stadia #Xbox #Controllers

Alt text is context based: a picture of a dog in a yard would have different emphases if it's someone sharing a picture of their dog, a dog food company's ad, or an ad for urine-resistant grass.

While a couple tools can use AI to guess and fill in alt text, Adobe turns the setting on by default and doesn't make the guesses as easy to change. The guesses are often completely wrong in even identifying elements of the art.

Be careful and check this! ^^

#accessibility #adobe

Coming up in #GNOME 50 there is new #accessibility option — reduced motion! It allows to reduce animations across desktop and apps.

Thank you to many contributors who made this happen❤️

#linux #opensource

Google says "Noooo, don't use a password manager, let us handle that for you!"

How about no.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/android-17-blocks-non-accessibility.html?m=1

#google #accessibility

A new blog article, purposely non-technical, so you could share it with your manager.

"Why frontends fail when you approach them like a backend."

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/03/16/why-frontends-fail-when-you-approach-them-like-a-backend/

#WebDev #UX #Accessibility

What can we in the fediverse do about this whole age verification thing?
I've heard rumers that the EU is talking about open source age verification stuff, so it can’t be that bad can it?
I just don't want to see the fediverse go away because of this stuff.
#ageverification #fediverse #mastodon #blind #accessibility

Mudpie v0.6.0 is out, and this one I'm really proud of.

The headline feature: Connection Proxy (Pro). Mobile MUD has always had one awful problem. Your phone drops the TCP connection the moment you lose signal or switch networks. The proxy wraps your connection in a WebSocket relay that keeps your MUD session alive for up to 30 minutes when your device loses connectivity. Walk through a dead zone, ride a buss, hop between WiFi and mobile. Come back and your session is right where you left it, buffered output and all. It even survives app kills. Automatic reconnection, keepalives, the works.

Also new:

Device font picker: use any font installed on your device for game output, input, or UI. No more settling for generic Monospace.

Color customization: terminal background, terminal text, UI background, UI text. Named preset palettes, RGB sliders, hex input. High contrast mode for when you just want white on black. Every color picker is fully accessible — TalkBack announces "Navy" and "Coral", not "#1A1A2E".

Privacy policy: in-app, plain language, covers everything. The proxy and AI workers process data in memory only. Nothing is logged or stored server-side.

Plus bug fixes: shake-to-interrupt TTS is reliable again, Cosmic Rage CDN sounds play without delay, and several crashes fixed

Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/mudpie-releases/releases/latest

#MUD #GameDev #Accessibility #A11y #Android #TTRPG #InteractiveFiction #TextGames #MudPie

Oh hey lookie, state/local governments and public schools, must comply with WCAG 2.1 AA by, at least, April 24, 2026, 2027 for orgs that serve less than 49000 people I think. AI tells me this includes audio description in government videos, which may be wrong, but definitely includes image alt-text and such. I've heard very little about this anywhere, so like maybe this is from an alternate Earth or something? We'll see if this has actual teeth though. I have little faith in government to enforce the government. Still, disabled folks prepare your web browsers and app stores. Maybe we can make a difference.

https://www.ada.gov/resources/2024-03-08-web-rule/

#accessibility #disability #ada #wcag #boost_ok

I have hyperhydrosis on my hands, feet, and under arms. I lost count of the amount of keyboards I've had to replace, both internal in my laptops and external usb ones. I know there are silicone options, but they are very mushy, often have strange layouts, and are full-sized. I am totally blind, so I need both tactility and the layout to be normal, or at least, close to it. I tried at least one a keyboard cover, but it made it very difficult to feel the keys, since it was thick and felt like a single sheet of silicone, even though it did have the spaces for each key.

This is my ideal keyboard in both layout and size, next to that on the Acer Aspire One D270, which is perfection. But I've gone through about seven of them already, because I keep shorting out keys. I try to remap them, but after awhile, it just becomes annoying.

CUQI Mini Keyboard, Small Wired 82 Scissor Keys, USB Interface

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C26RZBRJ

I bought this last month. It's okay, but I always have to use Auto Hotkey to add an Applications key and reverse the left Alt and Windows keys. Plus, not all programs recognise the changes. I have no idea how long it will last, either, since this is my first one. But at this price, I don't want to keep buying them. It's not portable enough to fit in my bag with my tablet, but it's thin, light, and not huge.

ALLIFE Universal Ultra Light Slim Portable Wireless Bluetooth 3.0 Keyboard

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GKFJM5D

This is good for phones, but it doesn't contain the F1 through F12 keys for Windows.

ProtoArc Foldable Compact Keyboard, XK04

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9PT9884

I bought this a few days ago, precisely because it's supposed to be waterproof. They say it's for my Toughpad, which is a seven-inch tablet, but it's a giant, full-sized keyboard! Why they would make this for such a small machine is beyond me. That said, if this were compact, it would be perfect, since it's rigid with good key tactility. While they say it's mechanical, don't expect anything like a Model M.

BoxWave Keyboard Compatible with Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 MK3 (7 in)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ3NT9G9

I've tried a few others, from folding to solid, but many were missing essential keys (most noteably the F1 through F12 keys) and some were simply ruined very quickly. Can anyone help me find a good, portable keyboard that can withstand my sweat?

#accessibility #blind #computers #hyperhydrosis #keyboards #portable #sweating #technology

This way, the CSUN #assistiveTech conference is being held in California. It's a place where global #accessibility leaders, and a bunch of companies in that space, come together to share ideas, food, and I'm sure sometimes other things as well. #iykyk
It's also a place where the newest #accessibility "innovations" are shown off to potential customers, and that's where today's stream comes in.
I'm a #blind developer and computer power user. Would I actually use these products? Am I happy they exist, and was I consulted? Let's find out :)
See you in an hour, 1 PM EST, over at https://twitch.tv/IC_Null or https://youtube.com/@viewpointunseen
#tech #blindness #csun #csunat #stream #selfPromo #twitch

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Hey fine fedizens

Need a PDF viewer/editor that has a proper dark mode option. Not just for the menus, but for editable PDFs.

Basically looking for an app that works like the Firefox extension doqument.

Needs to:

• Work on Windows.
• Be free.
• Ideally be open source (or open sauce).
• Not be some kind of malware.

Thanks 🩷

#PDF #EditablePDFs #DarkMode #accessibility

Mudpie 0.2.0 is out!
The big one: built-in TTS support, independent of TalkBack. New SPEAK trigger action lets you choose exactly what gets read aloud. Per-world modes: TalkBack (unchanged), TTS: all lines, or TTS: triggers only. Engine, voice, and rate configurable at global, world, and per-trigger level.
Also: blank lines now send to the MUD, Cosmic Rage soundpack is opt-in for new installs, and several TalkBack navigation fixes in Settings.
Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/mudpie-releases/releases/tag/v0.2.0
#MUD #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Gaming

I want to set up a test machine to try out Linux. Which distro should I use, and with which desktop environment? It seems like I'm reading conflicting recommendations everywhere. Is there perhaps a list of apps that someone has already tested for usability?
Thanks for any advice.
#linux #blind #accessibility

Seeing that I have a egui web application that is essentially a giant canvas element, making it an opaque blob to all screen-readers, I started looking into why all the smart people working on web technology never came up with a solution to provide some sort of metadata for what a canvas is displaying.

#rust #egui #accessibility

#rust #egui #accessibility

But people did come up with solutions, like this proposal for Canvas hit testing.

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Canvas_hit_testing?utm_source=chatgpt.com#Change_Proposal

From 2012. That never went anywhere.

A query about dentists and #disability.
My mum, who cannot get up stairs, got a call from her dentist saying that the dentist she’s been seeing will no longer switch surgeries from upstairs to downstairs, and now mum has to see a different dentist.
Is there anything we can do about this?
#NHS #Dentistry #Accessibility

NVDA 2026.1 Beta 6 is now available!

PLUS, bonus In-Process blog!

So, head over to https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-10th-march-2026/ and you can read all about all the news. As well as the new Beta, there is also news on Sight City, and a discussion around using AI in add-on development.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #News #Newsletter #AI #SightCity #SightCity2026

So ... the #CSUN list of exhibitors page is now a bunch of buttons that, when pressed, tell screen readers absolutely nothing and add a modal to the end of the DOM that you have to go find, which in turn has buttons that go to a website for said exhibitor.
Premier #blindness conference in the US and we can't even follow basic #web #accessibility practices I see. Great look guys, incredibly impressed. /s

That's it, people. With lots of emotion I announce the first release of my first ever open-source desktop app. Who happen to know I'm blind will laugh (and I share that laugh, so feel free and don't hold yourselves): it's an image converter. I was in need of an accessible solution for well… converting images from one format to another and didn't find anything, especially that supported ICO needed, for example, for making favicons for websites.
Anyway, it's a dead simple and of course accessible #Windows app that can work with most popular image formats, can convert in batches, can do favicons, application icons, resize with keeping proportions or cropping as you wish (very useful if, for example, you need a photo of yourself but 128x128 pixels and not a pixel wider). You can paste images straight to the main window, and you can even paste direct links. It also supports detecting and downloading files that are stored in clouds (I tested with OneDrive).
Anyway, it's called SIC! (for the Latin word "Sic" and for "Simple Image Converter"). Oh, and it's multilingual, supports English, French, German, Ukrainian and Russian for now. And yes, you can use it as installed software or in portable mode, and it doesn't go to the Internet (only to check for updates), unless you add an image by link or prefer to update automatically. I reiterate: your images are converted on your device and don't go anywhere.
Official page: https://oire.org/software/sic
GitHub: https://github.com/Oire/sic
Issues are welcome. Discussion of the 1.0.0.23 release: https://github.com/Oire/sic/discussions/29
#Accessibility #OpenSource #Software #SelfPromoting

If we expect backend devs to do DSA, I vote we expect front-end devs to do #accessibility patterns to even the score.

"Make a list of links"
"A linked list?"
"No, a list of links"
_whirr whirr whirr_
"This is a soup of divs. You're fired"

Question to all #DotNet developers caring about #Accessibility: what do we have of really robust and accessible besides WindowsForms and (with some quirks) WPF? anything cross-platform yet? I quickly sketched Avalonia, MAUI and Uno, and everything seems absolutely disastrous accessibility-wise. I don't need anything fancy-schmancy, like usual windows with menu bar, dialogs, buttons, check boxes, modals, text boxes, list views, combo boxes etc. Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I know what the answer's going to be, but I just asked Deutsche Bahn if I can take my mobility aid (a folding recumbent trike) on their trains... #BikeTooter #Disability #Accessibility #Trains

This is a very important #accessibility gap that's not very much addressed in the #blind community. To start, we definitely need a one-handed input mode or keyboard layout in the #NVDA screen reader to account for people who are blind that can only use one hand. I guess JAWS has a sticky insert mode, but not a full-fleshed one-handed keyboard layout. @NVAccess https://mstdn.social/@brandtsteenkamp/113890778425254743

That's why, dear #OpenSource militants, people are reluctant to use alternatives. At least, some people.
One more post here said: "You should use LibreSpeed now, because SpeedTest is bought by some company, dealing with billionaires, something like that".
Okay, let's give it a try.
No main region — fine, at least there is heading level 1.
"Start" which should be a button, is… a piece of text. Nice? Nice.
then there is the server combo box, then ping, download speed, upload speed — all at zero, because we haven't started yet. Why is it showing at all? Question.
Okay, we are advanced peeps, we press space on Start and pray. Yes, it launches.
The results are not a region, no ARIA-driven announcements, no separate headings…
I mean, it's a dead simple service.
You might think I want to just bash LibreSpeed. No, I don't, at least, it's not my goal.
It's just an example. SpeedTest did it better — not perfect though, there are unlabeled elements, I want more headings, etc., but Start Test is a button, there are live ARIA announcements throughout. Hence I'll use SpeedTest. Because it's accessible. Because it's convenient. Because it's better UX.
And this is true for everything: operating systems, office suites, clouds (see my previous angry post about Nextcloud and inaccessible Copy Link dialog which Microsoft and Google managed to do accessibly).
We are roughly 15% of population. And also we have family, friends and people that listen to us.
Make this world accessible, and only then preach about bad billionaires, trackers and whatever else. You can repeat your mantras, but they won't get to my ears nor to my heart — I'm blind, and I need to work and to live in the digital world. And for that I need —
#Accessibility!

*If anyone can help me with this, I would sincerely appreciate it. I have no interest in discussing whether Windows 7 is supported or not. I know it's not, and I am choosing to use it. I have everything I need, except a Mastodon client, so right now, I am using 11. And no, I have no interest in Linux either.*
I normally use TweeseCake, but it doesn't work on Windows 7, and it's closed source, so there is no way of changing that. Apparently, there is a version of TWBlue that did, but I can't find it. I just tried a client called Fast SM, and it's wonderful. However, it doesn't work on 7 either. Judging by the Github page, it seems to be written in Python. I am not a programmer, but would it be possible to get modern TwBlue or Fast SM to work with Windows 7? Both of these are open source. If not, then does anyone have the old version of TWBlue?

Finally, it seems that, unlike TweeseCake, the others have some sort of retrieval limit. If, for example, I'm not on Mastodon for a day or two and have 400 notifications, TweeseCake shows all of them. But the others only show a certain number far below that. Why is this, and can it be changed?

As a side note, I tried Whalebird and it was an absolute disaster with NVDA.

#accessibility #blind #clients #FastSM #Fediverse #Mastodon #NVDA #programming #Python #technology #TWBlue #TweeseCake #Windows7

@ChristineMalec @iampytest1

#AI to improve #accessibility and supporting those with #disabilities is unquestionably one of the few valid use cases that can and will directly and meaningfully improve people's lives. Yet, it's being used for chatbots and weird pictures and videos.

Make it make sense.

#tech #technology #disability #support

@cassolotl Whereas even the crappy stovetop I have has plastic dials that click into place and hace a little notch to feel where it's pointing at.

• Those are not just #accessibility #features, but in and of itself good.
  • Like noone in a professional kitchen would accept mere touch controls (outside of say a huge industrial kitchen or fast-food - joint where hygiene means "steam pressure-washing the entire kitchen" because it's otherwise unmanageable and a necessity.)

Everywhere else, there's may more demand for intuitive controls.

• Same reason we still use steering wheels and pedals and not a single joystick for driving cars, because familiar controls are more important than "innvation for the sake of innovation"...

Something #BEV manufacturers seem to tacitly ignore if not violently despise and disregard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauQtcj7UTM

Over the last six months or so, I've been creating a new app that will provide a common interface to your email, calendars, contacts, and possible other things like notes. It will be accessible out of the box and will also be visually pleasing. I've been putting in quite a few hours. I'll also be employing people to make sure that the app will be visually appealing and accessible.

Here's a poll to gage if and how ongoing development and support can be funded.

#accessibility

Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.

This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/galaxy-z-fold-seven-day-one-the-fold-has-arrived-setup-was-a-disaster-this-is-why-no-one-upgrades-their-android-phone/

#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews

TypoGenie v1.1.0 is out. The app and its document output now target WCAG 2.2 Level AAA.

Full keyboard nav, screen reader support, native dialog modals, high contrast and reduced motion support. All color pairs across 165+ templates auto-validated for AAA contrast.

The Word docs it generates are also more accessible - tagged table headers, heading structure, document metadata.

Free, portable, CC0.

https://apps.lashman.live/typogenie/

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Accessibility #A11y

TutorialVault v1.1.0 - completely rewritten from Python to Rust + TypeScript on Tauri v2. Now targets WCAG 2.2 AAA - full keyboard nav, screen reader support, 44px touch targets, 7:1 contrast, reduced motion, and Windows High Contrast support.

It's a local video tutorial library manager with progress tracking, subtitle support, per-video notes, and drag-and-drop playlists. Free, portable, CC0.

https://apps.lashman.live/tutorialvault/

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Accessibility #A11y

OpenPylon v1.1.0 - accessibility update. The whole UI now targets WCAG 2.2 AAA. 7:1 contrast, 3px dual-ring focus indicators, ARIA live regions, dialog focus trapping, skip nav, keyboard-accessible context menus, high contrast mode, and 8-second toasts with pause and dismiss.

It's a local-first Kanban board for Windows with markdown cards, version history, and a command palette. Free, portable, CC0.

https://apps.lashman.live/openpylon/

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Accessibility #A11y

Vesper v1.1.0 - accessibility and light theme update. Full keyboard nav, ARIA landmarks, focus traps in modals, skip link, aria-live status messages, reduced motion support, and AAA contrast across both the new light and dark themes.

Also added content zoom and width spinners as non-gesture alternatives to scroll shortcuts.

It's a distraction-free Markdown reader for Windows. Free, portable, CC0.

https://apps.lashman.live/vesper/

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Accessibility #A11y

Other than whyp.it and clyp.it, does anyone know of an accessible site where I can create a profile and upload mp3s with titles, descriptions, and tags? I am not referring to music. These recordings are things such as product reviews and demonstrations, personal opinions on various non-political things, demonstrations of how to do things blind, and general discussion. I am not interested in artwork or complicated layouts, nor in extreme sensorship (obviously barring illegal things). If you've seen Whyp and Clyp, then you know what I am seeking. Basically, it's an audio version of Youtube. For some reason, the Pricing page on Whyp won't let me select monthly, only yearly or lifetime, even if I click the monthly button. I also couldn't even get to that page from their site but had to use a search engine. AStill, the man who runs it is very responsive and kind. Maybe, I'll try sending him an e-mail.

#accessibility #audio #blind #Clyp #mp3s #recordings #reviews #Whyp

Message from the Executive Director: Accessibility at Project Gutenberg

Please take a look at this important topic published in our latest newsletter.

https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

If you use social media, please feel invited to respond with upvotes or comments or questions. Your shares and reposts help spread awareness of Project Gutenberg’s library.

#ebooks #publicdomain #accessibility

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Actually, I'm really shitty about this. A customer shouldn't be teaching workers at a major telecom (and the only major physical location for a lot of folks in a 100k radius) about #accessibility options in an extremely common product. The sales rep was gushing about how useful this will be for helping them set up phones for customers with accessibility needs and like... If it's going to be so useful for you why weren't you trained on it from the start?!?!

There's a lot of issues here. "Accessibility is an afterthought for most" is the most egregious. This is a stupid, stupid situation that shouldn't have happened. The barest minimum of training could have avoided this. It took 5 mins to run through the accessibility settings, how to activate them and what they can do. A 5 minute conversation was all it took to give someone the tools they need to improve accessibility for a ton of folks who are gonna walk through that door in future

Some problems regarding accessibility are big problems that need a lot of thought and time and patience to solve. And some things are 5 minute conversations that should have happened years ago. It's hard not to get infuriated at the latter category...

Yet another reminder for people to test their web pages with large fonts. Here's the advanced search syntax options widget thing from @gitlab show at my default Minimum font size of 24 (not the same as zoom)

#accessibility #lowvision

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screenshot showing a 3 column table where the right column is cut off and mostly useless. There may actually be more columns. I dunno.

OMG Social media improvement idea!
Option to publish individual posts to be, allowing no further edits except emphasis.

Like, you can change the formatting forever onward to be:
"make this bit bold", "italicise the other thing", or "strike-through that", "underline whatever".
Maybe add a redaction feature, in case you want to keep a post up, but remove sensitive info you left in.
Or redact any hacked or bot posts, leaving that portion up as, like, "hey this is when stuff got annoying".

#Social_Media #SocialMedia #SocMed #comms #comm #communication #DataHoarders #internet # #Accessibility

@heliomass Both. Montreal's tough, because you're going uphill all the way from the Gare Centrale to Maisonneuve, so there have to be some level changes the the underground shopping.

Downtown Toronto is pretty flat moving north from Front St, so I agree that there are fewer excuses for level changes and awkward accessibility ramps.

#Toronto #Montreal #accessibility

@hellogreg in the middle of his #axecon talk on keyboard testing:

"The reason I'm doing this whole talk is actually not about keyboard testing. It's actually about carousels. If you've spent any amount of time on accessibility testing, it will make you an anti-carousel zealot. Don't make them. They're hard to do right. Nobody likes them except stakeholders. And if you're hiding stuff in a carousel, you'd better be okay with nobody ever seeing it." Love it. #accessibility

Quick tech update — and an apology.
To everyone who tried to help me troubleshoot Tintin++ and MUD client issues on the Raspberry Pi 500: thank you. I disappeared from those threads and never properly followed up, and I'm sorry about that.
I ended up giving up on using the Pi as my main computer. Between Linux accessibility gaps and ARM package compatibility headaches, I hit a wall.
Right now I'm using my mom's 4 GB RAM laptop running Windows 11 Home and offloading coding work to the Pi over SSH in VSCode. It works… but everything feels like a battle on 4 GB. I don't have half the apps I normally use, and on rough days I can't even decompress with games.
Yesterday we dropped my mini PC off at a local repair shop. The diagnostic fee was $49, which felt reasonable, and the tech has worked on these machines before. That gave me hope.
We should get a call today. I can't wait to have it back.

#RaspberryPi #LinuxAccessibility #Accessibility #AssistiveTech #MUD

I’m excited to announce the first public release of Terminal Access for NVDA: an add-on focused on improving the NVDA experience when working in terminal/console applications. Inspired by TDSR and Speakup, there's quite a bit of functionality here. I welcome contributions. Issues and PRs welcome. Lots of testing needed.

Open issues on the Github repo at: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA

Get it here: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/latest

#accessibility #NVDASR

Terminal Access for NVDA 1.0.46 released with better cacheing support and a new configurable output buffer with nvda+alt+n. It automatically speaks newly appended terminal output as it arrives. Coalesces rapid output within a configurable window (default 200 ms). Speaks a concise summary: e.g. "47 new lines". Window monitoring is more efficient and reliable. Settings now give you four new options to control the output buffer.

https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/download/v1.0.46/terminalAccess-1.0.46.nvda-addon

#NVDASR #accessibility

Terminal Access 1.0.51 released with even more simplified shortcuts such as for adding and reading bookmarks, more terminals supported including additional TUI profiles such as for apps like Claude Cli, code improvements for better performance, attempts at crushing persistent bugs like reading "blank" after pressing enter, and more. Read the documentation.

I'll make updates based on feedback since I believe I'm done with features for now.

https://github.com/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/latest

#NVDASR #accessibility

I had this hilarious idea for #CSUN, and they just materialized at my door. Behold! My Unlabeled Buttons! These are sure to make fellow #Accessibility geeks laugh and make others remember to label their damned buttons and controls. I'll have 100 of these at the conference!

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5 round black buttons scattered haphazardly on a tablecloth. Each button has the word "unlabeled" printed across their centers in white sans-serif text.

RIP: the paperback

"‘We’re losing #accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market #paperback

The so-called ‘pocket #book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US

They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like... there is something here for everyone, whether it’s the Harlequin romance novel or something very pulpy like a sci-fi or horror novel that you could quickly get”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/america-says-goodbye-paperback

#books #bookstodon

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Books ‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read ‘They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like it was the pick ’n’ mix candy-type store where there is something here for everyone.’ Photograph: John Mahler/Toronto Star/Getty Images

Hey, Mastodon hive mind. I'm wondering what the best sollutions are these days for accessibly interacting with IRC? I come from the era of tools like MircWithSpeech and TalkingIRC. I'm currently using ADIIRC, with its speech plugin, which I helped develop! Along with @fastfinge, but i'm not sure if that client is seeing a lot of development, and there's still some annoying accessibility quirks, I'm also quite comfortable with irssi, but would prefer a windows native sollution if possible. Anything still good for mIRC? Something else? #IRC #Accessibility #A11Y #Chat

Introducing WebAccessBench, a novel benchmark for AI language models to assess #accessibility quality and WCAG conformance in generated web interfaces under realistic prompting conditions.

I did a bit of research and found that LLMs are incredibly bad at basic digital accessibility tasks. You can compare models and read the full white paper at https://conesible.de/wab.

Overall data suggests massive implications for society at large, and major discrimination of people with disabilities. #a11y

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A sharepic that lists all benchmarked models and their score in a bar chart. Find them listed at https://conesible.de/wab. Beneath is a preview of the whitepaper PDF.

So short of iOS Accessibility > Audio & Visual > Flash for Alerts, what other options are there to help ensure that a hard of hearing individual knows they have a phone call?

I miss the old days of landline connected to a lamp!

#iOS #accessibility

Question to #blind #linux users: I'm stuck using my #RaspberryPi500 as my computer for a bit because my PC quit working. Can anyone recommend a #Mastodon client? I'm on #Stormux, based on #ArchLinuxArm.
#accessibility #orca #ScreenReader @mastoblind @main

When you tell AI models on what specifically to look out for in a coding task…

…they repeatedly, consistently, just won't care. At all. Ever.

That's your "vibe coding“ for y'all.

Btw, I’m working on a benchmark for #a11y #accessibility stuff for „AI“.

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AI models on average produce 50% less accessibility errors when told in the prompt to „make the UI accessible“. Telling them what to specifically look out for does not change that, and error rates are consistent with the simple prompt.

Core Cooldown v0.2.0 is out - and it's still completely free. This update brings the whole UI up to WCAG 2.2 Level AAA accessibility.

7:1 contrast, 44px hit areas, full keyboard nav, WAI-ARIA 1.2 screen reader support, Windows High Contrast, and reduced-motion support. 42 fixes across 18 components.

A break timer meant to prevent RSI should work for everyone. Portable, no installer, CC0 public domain.

https://apps.lashman.live/core_cooldown/

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Accessibility #A11y

Whisper Voice also got a big accessibility update! The whole UI now meets WCAG 2.2 Level AAA - 7:1+ contrast, full keyboard nav, screen reader roles on every component, reduced motion support, and I/O marks on toggles so nothing relies on color alone.

Still free, still portable, still completely local. Your voice never leaves your machine.

https://apps.lashman.live/whisper_voice/

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Accessibility #A11y

Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?

If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)

#Accessibility #A11y #WebForms #FrontEnd #Development

Programmers:

Reminder 6,479 to test you gods damned shit with large fonts.

Reminder 9,037 that most people's eyes degrade as they age.

YOU WILL BE HERE TOO.

#Accessibility #LowVision
#Programming

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screenshot from scribblehub showing a menu under the profile link that's got four completely unreadable entries because of bad handling of large fonts.

RE: https://dice.camp/@kitwinter/114032223886498601

This was last year. I'm looking for a place to land still.

I got two gigs I'm finishing up but the thing that would help most is steady/regular employment. Was employed fulltime in web accessibility since 2016, but got laid off last year. WAS certified, over the past year (gigs) have done more PDF remediation & design work for document accessibility. I'm looking for #UX or #accessibility roles, US remote. #GetFediHired

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrielpaige

clean air is a human rights issue
clean air is an accessibility need

a decade or three from now, this reality will be so painfully clear to you in so many ways. now would be a GREAT time to stop pretending that the pandemic won't follow you for the rest of your life.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrWpA7gS/

#covid #covid19 #longcovid #covidisntover #disability #disabled #ableism #access #accessibility #humanrights #cleanair #maskup

Canadian here so bear with me because I don’t fully understand US gun laws (nor do I understand their attachment TO guns).

What I do know is whenever there’s a mass shooting someone will bring up stricter gun control and the Right wing gun lovers shout “my freedom! You can’t take away my right to protect myself!”

Yet we are seeing a U.S. State attempt to criminalize the wearing of medical masks in all public spaces. Something that is quite literally “personal protective tool”. Why doesn’t our freedom to protect ourselves from infection as much as their freedom to carry a gun?

I can’t see any scenario where someone else would be harmed by an N95 - the same is NOT true for any gun. Yet one is being criminalized and the other isn’t.

I sincerely hope we start hearing more people speak out against criminalizing medical masks if for no other reason than the violation of freedom and bodily autonomy. You don’t have to care about Covid to understand that some people need to wear masks.

It is a very sad example of the state of the world when a person can walk into a pharmacy or grocery store with a gun - but not wearing a medical respirator DURING A PANDEMIC

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #sarscov2 #maskup #WearAMask #CleanAir #Pandemic #Disability #accessibility #DisabilityRights #N95s #Ableism #CommunityCare #Eugenics #MaskBans

So ....apparently #fluxer is the new kid on the block that is supposed to subplant #discord. ...Dare I ask if #accessibility was considered, at all, when making this? If I go through it with a screen reader am I going to find blockers within five minutes?

Love Birds MASK-erade Ball
Hosted by King LOTUS BOY + Taipei

dancing · glorious fashion · drag performances · treats + treasures ·
*hella covid safer*

Friday February 13th
6:00-9:00 pm

165 Grove Street, San Francisco

ASL · deaf interpreters · adults-only · captions · covid + flu rapid tests · inside + outside · KN95 masks required 😷

hosts: San Francisco Disability Cultural Center & the Disability Visibility Project

RSVP: dcc.page/mask-erade
https://thehavenofhope.tfaforms.net/4&sid=a0zVL00000AfSQt

#SanFrancisco #CovidIsNotOver #CovidConscious #CovidCautious #CovidSafeEvents #CovidSafeFun #MaskedEvents #Drag #Disability #Accessibility #AccessibleEvents

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A flyer for an upcoming Covid-safer event in San Francisco. The background is a pink, blue, and purple stylized image of a galaxy in space with stars. In the center left, there are three colorful birds sitting side-by-side on a branch inside a white line-drawn heart, each wearing a small brightly-colored N95. The white text reads: Love Birds MASK-erade BALL Hosted by King LOTUS BOY + Taipei Friday February 13th, 6:00-9:00 pm dancing, glorious fashion, drag performances, treats + treasures, *hella covid safer* RSVP: dcc.page/mask-erade 165 Grove Street ASL, deaf interpreters, adults-only, captions, covid + flu rapid tests, inside + outside, KN95 masks required hosts: San Francisco Disability Cultural Center, Disability Visibility Project

For anybody interested, there is an accessibility mod for Fallout 4. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet so I’m not sure how well it works, but here’s the link if you wanna check it out. And if you do, please let me know how you like it.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/100314
#Accessibility
#BlindGaming
#AccessibleGames

*feedback for Perspective Intelligence*
I'm trying to use Perspective Intelligence. It looks extremely accessible, which makes sense, since it was designed that way. But what I really like is that it is also accessible with my external keyboard. However, I am using an iPhone SE 2022. It says "this device doesn't support Apple Intelligence", which I understand. At one point, it told me that I can download another model, but there doesn't appear to be a way to do so, and when I go back to settings, I don't see that message. When I go to "ai models" it just sends me to the standard one, then tells me that I need to download it and that its 2.5gb. I have my celular data off, so that isn't a problem. I press download, but it just asks if I want to enable the standard model. When I press "download and enable", nothing happens. If I press "not now", nothing is installed. The cycle just continues every time I try, so I closed it. I have no idea what's going on, but there should be a clear option for those of us who don't have Apple Intelligence on our devices to download the other model.

#accessibility #AI #blind #feedback #IOS #models #PerspectiveIntelligence #VoiceOver #technology

Always nice to see an #AlertBanner that we implemented come in handy for a client. Notice the ample contrast, h2 heading, and a close button that is actually a toggle that can open the message back up after you initially dismiss it.

https://www.sfusd.edu/

#accessibility #DesignForDisaster

That moment when you have to admit defeat and medically withdrawal from University due to the compounding effect of multiple disabilities/illnesses. 😞

I tried, friends.
For two years, I gave it my all.

Now, I’ve got at least 3-6 months off to focus on trying to stabilize my health. I’d like to return for spring/summer, but it’ll likely be in the fall.

(cont. on second post)

#medical #ph #disability #disabled #mecfs #pots #autoimmunity #LongCovid #Accessibility

So with AI over the past month, I've:

* Gotten Termux to a state I can use it accessibly on my Android phone.
* Gotten Emacs and Emacspeak working, with DecTalk not just ESpeak, in Termux.
* Created a brand new MUD client that can even use some sound packs from Windows clients, inside Emacs, of course working with Emacspeak, that works in Termux.
* Got XFCE running with Orca and AT-SPI support. In Termux using Termux-x11.
* Got the beginnings of the Action RPG Flare working with menus speaking and rudamentary pathfinding. In Termux.
* Made Emacspeak helpers to get Telega and Mastodon-mode (more or less) accessible with Emacspeak, since Inafore went down.

None of this, absolutely none of it, would have happened without AI. Sighted people would not have done this. There aren't enough blind programmers interested in Android, or Linux, or Termux specifically, to do any of this. And even if AI disappears tomorrow, all this is open source, and once blind programmers and nerds get into Android, it'll be there waiting.

Instead, AI will continue, my weekly Codex limit will reset tomorrow at 1 PM, and I'll continue working on stuff.

And no, I don't one-prompt things. I tell it to look at, for example, the Emacspeak project directory, so it gets context full of how Emacspeak advises packages. Then I tell it to look at, for example, Mastodon-mode. This was the hardest, since it appears Mastodon-mode grabs the webpages and rangles them into buffers. And I don't blame the author if that's how things actually work. That's beside the point though. I tell it to make n and p speak the next/previous toot. It took a while to get that working. And then I test it. Then I tell it to have "f" and "b" ETC. speak "favorited" and "boosted" and so on. You really have to test the stuff you make.

But in the end, I don't care about the code. I care that I can use, for example, Mastodon-mode. And AI made that happen for me, in like an hour.

#accessibility #AI #blind #foss #linux #termux

Every vision feature is free. No subscription. No paywall. We made that choice because we want to help people. And this is just the start. Eventually we want to bring these features to Meta smart glasses so you do not even need to reach for your phone.
We are looking for feedback. What works? What does not? What would make this better?
feedback@perspectiveintelligence.app https://perspectiveintelligence.app
#Accessibility #A11y #OnDeviceAI #iOS #BlindCommunity #VoiceOver #AssistiveTechnology (3/3)

Everytime I see people naysaying #AI, a question comes up that I'd be curious to get people's takes on.

An #accessibility issue is blocking a person from using a tool, a website, a professional app that they need to make money and not die of starvation, take your pick.

Figuring this person is dealing with other humans, they report the problem to the tool's developer, hoping they can fix it and not exclude a bunch of people. Developer either does nothing, puts it at the bottom of the backlog, or indicates the developer doesn't have the skills or resources to fix the issue. This is common enough to be the expected default response for these kinds of reports, particularly these days.

This person likes the environment, likes not using tools made by dickheads, and likes paying for services rendered if those services are useful to them. So they would really rather not use AI, which goes against all those maxims.

@noondlyt Makes tooting with #Parkinsons easier. lol #accessibility #A11y https://oldfriends.live/@paul/116027732160134423

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Paul Chambers🚧 » 🌐 2026-02-07
@paul@oldfriends.live

@DaveMasonDotMe FYI, any time you have Mastodon Web open, you can press the ? (Question mark) and the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet will open. #FediTips

@noondlyt
@alienghic

RANT: Started using the new ENFit feeding tube bags and accessories. ENFit was an industry-wide change to "fix" a problem that didn't exist. I put it off as long as I could. Feeding tubes have been around since the 1800s, pretty much unchanged. There wasn't a problem "mixing up" feeding tubes with intravenous IVs.

I shouldn't have to have to use a wrench to use my feeding tube or its accessories, like medication syringes. I shouldn't have to use an ENfit cleaning kit because stomach contents (puke) now reside in the connections after using them because you can't flush the cavity. #Medical #MedMastodon #enshittification #Enteral #Nursing #FeedingTube

I shouldn't have to spend a hundred dollars to buy various adapters to use my stocked up medical supplies or spend thousands to buy new ENFit supplies. Of course, nothing is being produced "generically" now. It's all proprietary and shared by the few large mega-medical supply manufacturers through a trade organization they formed just for enteral (feeding tubes) care called the Global Engineered Device Supplier Association

After 14 years with my feeding tube, ENfit has now taken away my #accessibility to use my feeding tube and self-administer some of my medical care.

The ENFit transition is a global patient safety initiative to standardize enteral feeding tube connectors, replacing old "legacy" connectors with a new, twisting design to prevent misconnections with IV lines.

https://stayconnected.org/enfit/

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Much of the internal surface areas of the ENFit connector will be extremely difficult to clean with conventional cleaning devices such as cotton balls, swabs and toothbrush. The EnClean device solves this concern!

If you have a WordPress blog and want to retrospectively update your media library with image descriptions ... consider my little python script https://repos.mxhdr.net/maxheadroom/wp-image-alt-generator

This will generate images descriptions using various LLM providers and updates them in the WordPress media library. If you want so, it can also sync those descriptions to existing blog posts.

#wordPress #AltText #ImageDescription #LLM #accessibility

@shadowfals I do believe that Debian does pretty well, including that it has software speech support for the installer (and that is apparently the default since Debian 12, which would be about three years ago). https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility has a lot of details and there is also the section on accessibility in the stable release manual at https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s02

#Linux #Debian #accessibility

Calling people who write their own #websites by hand, or appreciate those who do!

Do you have a favourite #links page style? It's been ages since I've composed a website manually. I'm avoiding CMS for now, just doing it the hard way with #html and #css, but want to make an attractive table of links to other sites, and a bit of blurb about them.

Seeking minimalist style and maximum #accessibility .

Thanky'all

#indieweb

@psiinon @zaproxy Right now while a lot of ZAP's UI CAN be reached from the keyboard, due to a bunch of Swing oddities and the way the UI has been coded this often isn't super efficient, particularly if you have like tabs nested within tabs and such. I guess a bunch of fixes could be made to this, but hey ...AI is an option, too :) #accessibility

I posted this some time ago, but now that I have a few blind friends who are involved in programming, and especially the musical side of things, I figured I would try again. To summarise. I want to see if it is possible to make pre-electric recordings sound like early electric ones. So one from 1903 might sound like it came from 1930. I doubt we could go any higher than the 1940's, if that, given the constraints of acoustic recording, but it would still be a huge improvement in sound. Perhaps, with the right software, some frequences can be restored. The trouble is that there are only a few such programs and all are inaccessible with screen readers. I explain things more fully at the below link. Normally, this is a subreddit about opera recordings and singers from the 1950's and earlier, so if you have no clue about this but like opera, feel free to join us in general.

Frequency Restoration in Acoustic Recordings

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldOpera/comments/1oqgz2k/frequency_restoration_in_acoustic_recordings/

#accessibility #AcousticRecordings #Android #AudioRestoration #blind #DigitalRecording #FrequencyRestoration #gramophone #IOS #Linux #MacOS #opera #phonographs #records #software #technology #Windows

This is how I’m feeling. Also it has excellent #AltText
#Accessibility #A11y https://thecanadian.social/@alipunk/116009936120495520

@jaffathecake @ddelemeny @froztbyte It is dishonest to repeatedly frame your points from the view of marginalized people who did NOT ask you to champion them, and who have an entirely different set of concerns that Mozilla has barely ever recognized or focused on.

If Mozilla actually cared about accessibility, they would focus on accessibility, not scapegoat it as a marketing tool for something else they have decided to do against user wishes.

#accessibility #ai #FakeAlly

@saxifraga That highly depends on user's particular settings. For instance, I'm a developer and I use very fast, but very robotic TTS with poor intonation, it suits my pace and habits. So for me, yes, it would read everything. Not sure about the subscripts though, probably not. but what you can do is to spend more time and process this by some tool that would interpret LaTex and output MathML or MathJax. That way at least some screen readers would interpret it as mathematical notation. #Accessibility

Hi everyone, I'm on a project, and I've got some queries about #ScreenReaders and symbols. This will also be helpful for me in general.

1. When using a screen reader to read something like this:
... two white spheres (hydrogen) ...
will it read 'two white spheres open bracket hydrogen close bracket?

2. When reading H2O (with the 2 as subscript), will it read H subscript 2 O?

3. Finally, with δ (which I think is delta), accompanied by a superscript plus after it, will it simply read delta superscript plus sign?

Thank you!

#FediAsk #FediHelp #Accessibility

I do a bunch of work to make sure that videos I'm involved in have subtitles (or even captions, though I don't think captions have as much utility for music…). I do it for:
➡︎ people like me who do want to understand the lyrics but can't always do it directly despite being able to hear the song itself clearly
➡︎ people who are hard of hearing and can't hear it clearly, but can still enjoy what they do hear
➡︎ parts of songs that just aren't enunciated well
➡︎ to make machine translation less terrible, so any of our non-English-speaking audiences have half a chance of understanding what we're singing about
➡︎ sometimes even including human-translated lyrics! I love it when we can do this.

#accessibility #subtitles #music #acappella

My BSDCan talk about using BSD while being temporarily blind in March has been accepted, so I need to prep a lot more for my blindness and also start taking this more seriously. Anyone want to talk accessibility and OpenBSD with me to give more perspectives?

#OpenBSD #accessibility #blind

It's hard enough trying to read 4pt type on food or medicine labels. But white lettering on a pink background is just hostile.

#accessibility

Accessibility fedi, may I nerd snipe you a little. At the makerspace we have 9 doors. I'd like to repaint each door a unique colour, so we can have simple stuff like "lock on blue door broken" and remove ambiguity. Except, as xkcd has proven, colours are hard.

Is there a set of 9 (maybe 10 to allow for future expansion) unique colours that work with all colour blindnesses, and related visual accessibility needs?

#Accessibility

Spending some time pondering site navigation for my new website. Must reflect: indie web values, high accessibility for all kinds of browsers & readers, simplicity and elegance. And not be a pig to code and maintain.

#indieweb #browser #accessibility

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, January 29, 2026 - Volume 1052
https://toptechtidbits.com/newsletter-01-29-2026/

♿️ The Week's News in Access Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication
#news #technology #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #deafblind #toptechtidbits

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.

Subscribers: 43,427 🔢️ subscribers were sent this issue via email.
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Top Tech Tidbits. The Week's News in Access Technology. Eight photos. 1: A young girl with down syndrome smiles enthusiastically while cutting paper at school. 2: A man with a prosthetic right leg goes for a run. 3: A man in a wheelchair smiles on a sunny day as he is lifted into a bus. 4: A blind man wearing sun glasses in a park holds a white cane in his right hand and a phone in his left. 5: A woman with black and blonde hair wears a hearing aid at work. 6: Fingers read braille through a refreshable braille display. 7: A man makes the sign for 'family' in American Sign Language (ASL). 8: A woman uses magnification software on a tablet to read a magazine.

@doubletap I'm listening to today's episode ("The Best NVDA Add-ons and Keyboard Tricks You Need") and really enjoyed the discussion around #NVDA workflows and keyboard customisation. I smiled when one of you mentioned struggling to remap an Applications key on a Keychron, because I ran into exactly the same issue after buying my Keychron shortly after Christmas.
What finally worked for me was not using the Menu / Applications keycode directly at all. Even though it's exposed in the Keychron Launcher, it didn't actually do anything reliably on Windows with NVDA.
Instead, I created a macro for Shift+F10, which is the standard Windows keyboard equivalent for the context menu and is very screen-reader friendly. In the Keychron Launcher, I went to Macro, selected a macro slot, chose Start Recording, pressed Shift+F10, stopped recording, and then assigned that macro to the key I wanted.
One important gotcha I ran into: the launcher shows what look like “duplicate” key entries in the macro (for example multiple F10s or Shift appearing twice). Those aren't mistakes. They're the key-down and key-up events. If you delete them, you can end up with Shift getting stuck. Leaving the macro exactly as recorded solved that for me.
Once I did this, the key worked reliably everywhere I’ve tried it, like File Explorer, browsers, and with NVDA, and it's honestly been more dependable than trying to use the Applications key directly. Thought I'd share in case it helps others listening to this episode or experimenting with Keychron keyboards.
#ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blind #keyboard @mastoblind @main

@Woebin

I can boost but you need to add more information.
Where eg country or time zone?
Online only?

A brief example of your work would be useful.
And as others said, hashtags please.

#Accessibility

@Woebin

If you edit your post and add the tag #accessibility, a lot more people interested in the topic will see this post, potentially including people who know about jobs.

@pixelate Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.

At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.

At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/ focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.

I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.

Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome.

#accessibility #FreeBSD #UNIX #openSource

Fellow crips & gimps, attend me now! Lend me your input sources!

Folks, I’m legit tired of having to selectively frame/tag/hide posts that talk about the really weird & gross stuff that goes along with many disabilities.

I get that a lot of people find it icky & I respect that but this is a huge part of a lot of our lives, & we deserve the same freedom to talk about our lived experiences as folks discussing politics, porn & poodles. That means a standardized ease of finding, referencing and *muting* the topic.

Yup. I’m talking about a new hashtag my peeps.

I propose #GrossHealth as a clear descriptor so we can build some community for folks that wanna discuss urine collectors, adult diapers & accessibility gadgets without ableist bullshit or puke emojis.

Please repost, spread, comment, and suggest a better tag if you’ve got one.

Also - ironically - I’ll ask respondents not to include gross stuff in this particular thread. 😉

#Disabled #Accessibility #Disability #Health #Recovery #MeatSacks

So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

You can read it for free at:
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/

If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, and not for profit. We reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

* https://kitten.small-web.org

#accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech