#accessibility

I wish there was a good solution for gps turn by turn navigation if you're blind. I so like to do long walks autonomously. But almost all of the usual blind navigation apps do routing in the city and not along a route from ridewithgps or similar. None of those routing platforms are accessible. I'm looking at Wayband, N-Vibe, I've used OpenWay (promising, but not well maintained). Would the stellar trek be something? #blind #hiking #autonomy #accessibility

Organizational Scaffolding for Accessible Design and Content, by @starshaped (@a11ytalks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2cMLDU4u4

#videos #interviews #accessibility #processes #tooling #culture

When you’re scripting for a screen reader, then you’re scripting for the browser, with exactly the same level of JavaScript support.

However complications can arise with event handling, because screen readers intercept events and don't always pass them on to the browser, and even then, keyboard actions might fire mouse events.

https://www.tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaws-and-nvda/

#accessibility #a11y #javascript

#Publishing: #Accessibility #Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.0 is Released"; & More Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/30/libraries-across-montana-await-grant-confirmation-amid-turmoil-at-federal-agencies-boston-public-library-celebrates-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month-new-booklist-available/

Hi guys.

I am the technical leader of my company and recently we have hired an autistic intern.
His learning is slow and I don't think he's very smart, but he can learn.
He has good communication and eye contact, but since the method of this field is self study, he has a lot of problems when he is given a concept and said to go figure it out or understand it.

For example I was teaching him SQL today, and I told him to see what the "constraint" and "unique" keywords mean and explain them to me in a paragraph at most. This would take most people about 15 minutes. But he took about 2 hours and then gave up and then I explained them to him.

How can I teach him better and help him actually do work?

#a11y #autism #teaching #accessibility

I had an interesting question on colour filter overlays from a librarian today.

A dyslexic student wants to read some original documents, not scans or reproductions, and they'd like to put some colour filter overlays on them.

The librarians are concerned that the documents might get damaged. They want to know if a hand-held colour filter, or something on the light source, would work just as well.

I don't know much about the science of colour filters for dyslexia except I've heard the data on efficacy is mixed, but assuming we want this to happen: is there any strong reason to have the colour filter directly on the document?

I don't know any hashtags that archives people would be watching, so please recommend one if you know one!

#accessibility #dyslexia

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#TTS #Accessibility #VoiceTech #PerspectiveVoices #AI

I'd never read the section of the WAI-ARIA spec about aria-label until today. Some lowlights:

> The purpose of aria-label is the same as that of aria-labelledby.

This is unnecessarily confusing. They mean that both aria-label and aria-labelledby are used to give something an accessible name, but you'd be forgiven for reading that sentence and thinking they work in the same way.

> Most host languages provide an attribute that could be used to name the element (e.g., the title attribute in [HTML]), yet this could present a browser tooltip. In the cases where DOM content or a tooltip is undesirable, authors MAY set the accessible name of the element using aria-label.

Cool... the spec for accessible web applications casually implying that the title attribute in HTML is something worth using.

#accessibility

Tonight, join Vis-Ability 2025: a unique gathering of blind and vision impaired leaders.

TetraLogical Director @tink is taking part as a panlist, and @SteveFaulkner will also be in attendance.

Get your online or in person tickets at: fightforsight.org.uk/get-involved/vis-ability-2025

#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #VisAbility2025

@NVAccess posted:

In-Process 30th April 2025

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-30th-april-2025/

#NVDASR #accessibility

Our lates In-Process blog is out: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-30th-april-2025/

Featuring
- The NVDA 2025.1 Beta
- What’s New in 2025.1
- Updated NVDA Expert Certification 2025
- Gene Empowers New Zealand
- Changes for Developers
- NVDA Add-ons and API Breaking Changes

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Newsletter #ScreenReader #Blind #Accessibility #Update #Changes

For more inclusive workshops and improved #accessibility: After receiving feedback from participants with colour vision deficiency, we started using stickers that don’t just rely on colour for identification. Before, some (male) participants could not distinguish the green and red stickers.

It is amazing how many people would rather debate the nuances of type-casing (camelCase/CamelCase or PascalCase or kebab-case or snake_case--for some reason even Title Case?!) instead of learning about accessibility and screen-readers.

I don't fucking care if you capitalize the first letter of the hashtag. I don't care what you call it. Just format your hashtags in a way that allows screen-readers to see where the word starts and still works as a hashtag.

#accessibility #inclusion

Viewpoint is a Windows program that uses Gemini AI to make user interfaces that aren't accessible, pretty accessible! I was able to navigate the PPSSPP interface with it pretty well! So yeah, it's starting to happen, the use of AI for more than just image descriptions.

https://viewpoint.nibblenerds.com/

#accessibility #blind #ai #ViewPoint #GeminiAI #google

HTML и CSS ошибки, влияющие на доступность. Мой опыт и моего незрячего знакомого Ильи. Часть 12

Хабр, я снова пришёл к вам с практическими советами про доступность вместе с Ильей. Мы показываем, как HTML и CSS могут улучшить или ухудшить её. Напоминаю, что Илья — мой незрячий знакомый, который помогает мне найти наши косяки в вёрстке. Сегодня мы рассмотрим следующие аспекты: что можно сделать лучше для пользователей с дислексией; как незаметно улучшить интерфейс для пользователей с травмой кистей рук; есть ли сложности с сокращениями для пользователей скринридера. Давайте начнём!

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/905270/

#ruvds_статьи #accessibility #html #css #вёрстка #html_css_a11y_story_melnik909

Creating an Accessible Accordion With HTML Description Lists, by @karlgroves:

https://afixt.com/creating-an-accessible-accordion-with-html-description-lists/

#accessibility #html #lists #accordions

#NewPipe, the #Android youtube tamer, is no longer offering audio downloads.

This is a reduction in accessibility for my #ElderlyRelative.

Want to get blocked?

Tell me that Google/Youtube has the right to do whatever they like around #Accessibility.

There are a lot of apps like Uber, DiDi, YT, that are significant barriers to disabled and frail aged folk partucipating in the community.

We need stronger government regulations.

The post-download open button in Chrome now receives a checked state when pressed, even though it's just a regular push-button and not a checkbox.

And like, this has zero screen reader impact beyond hearing the word "checked", but how does this even happen? How does someone look at a simple, single-purpose button and go, "You know what this needs? A temporary checked state when it's activated!"

Was this written by a human at all? If so, what was the thought process?

#accessibility

Hey, you, person thinking colors make good differentiators on route signage! Yeah, you, who thinks stupid shit like are route symbols...

#Accessibility

#UnseenImageChallenge #Accessibility

Tuesday: #Pets and animal friends. Making toast with your pet #dragon.
If you are curious and want to compare the #AltTxt to the actual image it is here: https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/hivna/

I'm not nominating three people to join in but if anyone wants to add alt text to a black blank image to help raise awareness of accessibility to a wider audience. Info here: https://micr0.dev/unseenChallenge/