@vaurora this looks very exciting. Does anyone know if it's accessible to the visually impaired? Can you get a screen reader on it? #a11y

I don't know if this is an NVDA issue, a website issue or, far less likely, a Firefox issue, but I am on a page and I know there's a button there, but navigating with b won't take me there. Searching for the word in the button label will though. Any idea what's going on? thanks for any help. #a11y

I don't know if this is an NVDA issue, a website issue or, far less likely, a Firefox issue, but I am on a page and I know there's a button there, but navigating with b won't take me there. Searching for the word in the button label will though. Any idea what's going on? thanks for any help. #a11y

Just placed an order for a new prototype PCB (Printed Circuit Board) for makers. This one charges NiMH (Nickel-metal Hydride) rechargeable batteries with charging speed options, support for up to 6 cells, temperature sensor, and USB-C plug.

This is a step toward our first accessibility product for blind people to feel visual art through a haptic pen-like stylus interface.

https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr

#blind #accessibility #a11y #pcb #prototype #fosh #foss #freehardware #freesoftware #copyleft #ee

I've submitted my resignation letter to Apple. My last day will be this Friday, October 31st.

I'm starting a nonprofit company to create FOSH (Free Open Source Hardware) assistive consumer electronics, focused initially on assistive consumer electronics for blind people. I plan to release many small intermediate products for the maker community.

I plan to start working full time starting November 1st at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc.
@bce

#nonprofit #a11y #blind #maker #fosh #foss #bce #bcecoop #freehardware #freesoftware #apple

Just placed an order for a new prototype PCB (Printed Circuit Board) for makers. This one charges NiMH (Nickel-metal Hydride) rechargeable batteries with charging speed options, support for up to 6 cells, temperature sensor, and USB-C plug.

This is a step toward our first accessibility product for blind people to feel visual art through a haptic pen-like stylus interface.

https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr

#blind #accessibility #a11y #pcb #prototype #fosh #foss #freehardware #freesoftware #copyleft #ee

I have today for the first time encountered an Elementor-powered suite of accessibility options on https://northwestbylines.co.uk.

Does the #a11y communtity here have a view on what it does?

The options seems good to me, but I really don’t like how the button for it hovers mid-way down the viewport over content

PSA: If you own an audio settings UI, it is now easier to enable mono audio on Linux
https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/

#linuxaudio #linux #pipewire #accessibility #a11y

PSA: If you own an audio settings UI, it is now easier to enable mono audio on Linux
https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/

#linuxaudio #linux #pipewire #accessibility #a11y

Hey #a11y folks,

I started writing an article about how you can sneak in #accessibility fixes (as a developer or designer) without telling your boss.

Do you have any stories you would like to share that I could use for the article?

I did it by silently adding landmark elements and a skip link, updating global focus styles so that they're consistent and accessible and other evil shenanigans. 😈

#blog #html #css #javascript #WebDev #frontend

Hey #a11y folks,

I started writing an article about how you can sneak in #accessibility fixes (as a developer or designer) without telling your boss.

Do you have any stories you would like to share that I could use for the article?

I did it by silently adding landmark elements and a skip link, updating global focus styles so that they're consistent and accessible and other evil shenanigans. 😈

#blog #html #css #javascript #WebDev #frontend

SelfHosting week2, phase 1.
Setup: Hostinger provider, KVM2 VPS plan. 2 CPU cores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB storage, Debian 12, YunoHost 12.1.39 stable, WordPress 6.9 branch.
WordPress procedure, I assumed it had to be the easiest, where I am mostly skilled in; obviously, it wasn't.
First of all, because YunoHost installs a plugin called "Companion auto update" which gives an error just on admin page. F-off to it. In that case I deactivated it through terminal, but I found the error's origin thanks to an LLM which interpreted the log for me. If I were unexperienced with web sites advanced configurations, I couldn't have figured it out.
My current multilingual approach on production website, has been a very satisfying experience but I'm noticing it requires too much attention in long term; full-site editing (gutenberg), manual template switch for each English or Italian post, some custom code to manage search and taxonomies. But any deep maintenance could break everything.

So I decided to follow an advice from @2ndkauboy a German blogger who wrote about MultiLingualPress, plug-in connected to MultiSite WordPress platforms during Advent period in his "Plugin Advent Calendar".
Having a VPS now I assumed to be 100% free to perform Multisite and began to build it: YunoHost's WordPress installer asked me if I wanted MultiSite or not, I confirmed YES.
The first obstacle was it did not work as I desired: my idea was to get "domain.extension/" as main site while "domain.extension/english" as second language website but YunoHost refused to place WordPress into the main directory, namely subdomain.domain.extension/, with multisite setup on.
So I removed WordPress from @yunohost by command: "sudo yunohost app remove wordpress"
Re-installed through the same script, sudo yunohost app install wordpress, this time answering "NO" to multisite option, and it accepted to provide the / directory as location.
Enabled MultiSite manually by editing wp-config.php file and installing it, then added extra-lines in the wp-config as well, after the network creation, using subdirectories for multisite setup. YunoHost uses nginx, so I went to modify the subdomain's WordPress nginx configuration; in that case as well, LLM helped me.
But then came trouble: I was logged off WordPress admin. No way to recover the password, no way to access its dashboard.
So, I gave up.
Tried another day: remove, re-install, set MultiSite manually. This time I used another e-mail address and when I got stuck, I managed to reset its password. But after setting main and secondary web sites, the result was wp-admin on main site worked, while /english/wp-admin returned an error: "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS".
No way to make it work at all!
So, I resigned. Removed, re-installed with multi-site on natively, by setting the path to subdomain.domain.ext/wp/
having /wp/ and /wp/english/ seemed to be the less evil.
In the end the too_many_redirects error was still there, and disappeared only when I added this string:
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
into the nginx WordPress-specific configuration, under the "location" setting.
Not bad, I assumed it was OK.
But installing MultilingualPress, the plugin suggested by the German blogger of before, wp-admin returned a critical error. Maybe a database, or something else.
Increased the php memory to 256M in wp-config.php and the multilingual press then resulted as active, in the network setup.
So I tried to connect the two blogs, setting related languages and trying to flag relations one another.
But nothing worked. The relations weren't flagged, and going to network / plugins, returned an error again.
So, in the end, I've resigned at the moment, to create two subdomains. English and Italian. Where I have two separate WordPress installations.
I'd like to try again the Multisite experience, though.
#accessibility #a11y #debian #multilingual #multisite #SelfHost #SelfHosting #WordPress #Yunohost

Listen to (watch) this self-proclaimed "blind girl" explain how she uses power tools. #a11y #Accessibility

Listen to (watch) this self-proclaimed "blind girl" explain how she uses power tools. #a11y #Accessibility

I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility

https://blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12/macos-accessibility-with-pyax/

I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility

https://blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12/macos-accessibility-with-pyax/

Sent my feedback on public initiative for European commission and open source. Placed my name - I am proud and active on what I'm doing, talked as a blind european citizen.
Every european relying on accessibility should talk now.

https ://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/

#accessibility #a11y #blind # disability #eu #europe #inclusion #OpenSource

Hey all,

I have a friend who's been trying to get on Mastodon but tells me that it doesn't seem to play well with screen readers. I know there are plenty of people on the fedi who do use screen readers, but I have no experience with them myself, so I can't really direct him.

Can someone who does use a #ScreenReader point me in the direction of some resources that might be useful?
#AskFedi #a11y