priryo@linernotes.club
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Aral Balkan
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For anyone who missed it: new blog post! Beyond Parity: The Case for True Accessibility Affordances
https://devinprater.micro.blog/2025/08/13/beyond-parity-the-case-for.html
For anyone who missed it: new blog post! Beyond Parity: The Case for True Accessibility Affordances
https://devinprater.micro.blog/2025/08/13/beyond-parity-the-case-for.html
Agaric Tech Collective
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Boosts appreciated: I am working on an #accessibility wiki, because info on accessibility for #blind people is fragmented. It is not ready for public release, but I would like to invite volunteers to help me improve the site. I need to get web devs, server maintainers, moderators, writers, and whoever else would be able to contribute. Please send me a DM if you're interested.
Roni Laukkarinen
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Minua häiritsee ihan hirveästi se, kun jos joku sanoo, että vammaisen elämä on tragedia.
Noin niinkuin syntymästä asti vammaisen elämä. Tätä on jotenkin todella vaikea sisäistää, kun itse en koe elämäni olevan tragedia.
Kun on elänyt vähän erilaista elämää, niin se on ollut ja tulee olemaan aina suuri rikkaus. Vammaisuus on tuonut paljon uusia ja hyviäkin juttuja itselleni ja muillekin.
Me kaikki koemme elämässämme haasteita. Ne ovat hyvin kirjavia ja tilanteisiin löytyy joko ratkaisu tai sitä sovelletaan niin, että elämä olisi jollain lailla laadukasta. Haasteita tulee myös ei-vammaisillekin. Aivan älytöntä lähteä vertailemaan kenen haasteet ovat vaikeimmat ja kenen ei. Jokainen kohtaa esteitä kaikkialla ja vain oma suhtautuminen asiaan on se mihin itse voi vaikuttaa.
Toistan. Elämäni kuurosokeana ei ole tragedia.
#vammaisuus #disability #kuurosokeus #deafblind #sokeus #blind
Minua häiritsee ihan hirveästi se, kun jos joku sanoo, että vammaisen elämä on tragedia.
Noin niinkuin syntymästä asti vammaisen elämä. Tätä on jotenkin todella vaikea sisäistää, kun itse en koe elämäni olevan tragedia.
Kun on elänyt vähän erilaista elämää, niin se on ollut ja tulee olemaan aina suuri rikkaus. Vammaisuus on tuonut paljon uusia ja hyviäkin juttuja itselleni ja muillekin.
Me kaikki koemme elämässämme haasteita. Ne ovat hyvin kirjavia ja tilanteisiin löytyy joko ratkaisu tai sitä sovelletaan niin, että elämä olisi jollain lailla laadukasta. Haasteita tulee myös ei-vammaisillekin. Aivan älytöntä lähteä vertailemaan kenen haasteet ovat vaikeimmat ja kenen ei. Jokainen kohtaa esteitä kaikkialla ja vain oma suhtautuminen asiaan on se mihin itse voi vaikuttaa.
Toistan. Elämäni kuurosokeana ei ole tragedia.
#vammaisuus #disability #kuurosokeus #deafblind #sokeus #blind
Agaric Tech Collective
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Blog post about the #Dolby#Accessibility Solution
When Good Intentions Meet Poor Design at the movie theatre: Why Nothing About Us Without Us Still Matters
Blog post about the #Dolby#Accessibility Solution
When Good Intentions Meet Poor Design at the movie theatre: Why Nothing About Us Without Us Still Matters
alcinnz
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Question to the fellow blind/VI people. How do you train/do fitness? What I mean by that is, going to the gym, or have you found good/fun activities for home which do actually improve strength/muscles and aren't just keeping up the general condition. Regarding the gym thing, I live in Germany, so no idea if there are differences to stuff in other countries. But for now I don't have friends or other great ways to get around, so no idea if that would actually be an option anyway. Still interested.
I figured I'd ask here first, but might actually also post this on r/blind later.
#Blind#Accessibility#Sport
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Question to the fellow blind/VI people. How do you train/do fitness? What I mean by that is, going to the gym, or have you found good/fun activities for home which do actually improve strength/muscles and aren't just keeping up the general condition. Regarding the gym thing, I live in Germany, so no idea if there are differences to stuff in other countries. But for now I don't have friends or other great ways to get around, so no idea if that would actually be an option anyway. Still interested.
I figured I'd ask here first, but might actually also post this on r/blind later.
#Blind#Accessibility#Sport
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podfeet
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iOS tip: If, while inside any app, you focus the status bar, Braille Screen Input will act as if you were on the homescreen, that is it will let you find and open any app. Great for multitasking. #Accessibility#Blind#iOS#iPhone
iOS tip: If, while inside any app, you focus the status bar, Braille Screen Input will act as if you were on the homescreen, that is it will let you find and open any app. Great for multitasking. #Accessibility#Blind#iOS#iPhone
alcinnz
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At least once a week, like clockwork, I see a post warning against abusing text characters from outside the standard alphabet (i.e maths notation, superscript) in posts. Some people use them for style reasons, especially places in that only support unformatted plaintext - like mastodon.
'Screen readers don't like them' is the basic reason to avoid using these characters. A screen reader encountering a username made of extreme 'zalgo' text might keep a text-to-speech unit busy for an hour as it explicitly describes every modifier and ligature.
But I have to wonder: are screen readers really so basic? Surely this kind of nonsense is so prevalent that a #TTS focused mastodon tool knows not to render usernames that use characters from the greek/math italic set? Or upon encountering a post filled with ascii art or obscure unicode characters that will take a long time to read, triggers some kind of heuristic to compress or otherwise skip? I understand that in the context of an maths article a sigma character represents 'summation', but when I see a capital 'Σ' at the start of a display name I instead understand it is either a greek user or just someone that wanted a 'fancy looking capital E'.
In an inclusive space we should prioritise accessibility to everyone, and if that means avoiding Fraktur unicode, fine. But I am wondering if #blind TTS users are really using software that has not adapted to the way other users interact with social media. Are there tools that handle Emokid2008s insistence on posting lyrics in bold italic unicode characters? Is GothicPrincess99's username a five minute description job because of the blackletter text she chose?
Hopefully my lack of knowledge in this area isn't too offensive. I just want to understand if the TTS social media experience is really so susceptible to non standard characters and more importantly: why is this the case??
(cc @GoemonIshikawa )
At least once a week, like clockwork, I see a post warning against abusing text characters from outside the standard alphabet (i.e maths notation, superscript) in posts. Some people use them for style reasons, especially places in that only support unformatted plaintext - like mastodon.
'Screen readers don't like them' is the basic reason to avoid using these characters. A screen reader encountering a username made of extreme 'zalgo' text might keep a text-to-speech unit busy for an hour as it explicitly describes every modifier and ligature.
But I have to wonder: are screen readers really so basic? Surely this kind of nonsense is so prevalent that a #TTS focused mastodon tool knows not to render usernames that use characters from the greek/math italic set? Or upon encountering a post filled with ascii art or obscure unicode characters that will take a long time to read, triggers some kind of heuristic to compress or otherwise skip? I understand that in the context of an maths article a sigma character represents 'summation', but when I see a capital 'Σ' at the start of a display name I instead understand it is either a greek user or just someone that wanted a 'fancy looking capital E'.
In an inclusive space we should prioritise accessibility to everyone, and if that means avoiding Fraktur unicode, fine. But I am wondering if #blind TTS users are really using software that has not adapted to the way other users interact with social media. Are there tools that handle Emokid2008s insistence on posting lyrics in bold italic unicode characters? Is GothicPrincess99's username a five minute description job because of the blackletter text she chose?
Hopefully my lack of knowledge in this area isn't too offensive. I just want to understand if the TTS social media experience is really so susceptible to non standard characters and more importantly: why is this the case??
(cc @GoemonIshikawa )
Roni Laukkarinen
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Mulla on ulko-oven nurkassa vara-keppi. Kokeilin huvikseni kepin kahvan tuntumaa. Edellisestä kerrasta on jo aikaa.
Kahva ei tuntunut enää hyvältä kädessä. Sen silikonipinta on alkanut lähmääntyä ja tarttua ihoon kiinni kuin huono tarra. Taitaa olla niin, että keppi joutaa roskiin. 🦯🪦
Pitää katsoa nyt mitenkä saisin uuden vara-kepin. Nykyisen kepin kahvan pinta on kuorrutettu lampaannahasta. Se on paras keppi tähän mennessä.
#valkoinenkeppi#WhiteCane #apuvalineet #nakovamma #blind#Ambutech
Mulla on ulko-oven nurkassa vara-keppi. Kokeilin huvikseni kepin kahvan tuntumaa. Edellisestä kerrasta on jo aikaa.
Kahva ei tuntunut enää hyvältä kädessä. Sen silikonipinta on alkanut lähmääntyä ja tarttua ihoon kiinni kuin huono tarra. Taitaa olla niin, että keppi joutaa roskiin. 🦯🪦
Pitää katsoa nyt mitenkä saisin uuden vara-kepin. Nykyisen kepin kahvan pinta on kuorrutettu lampaannahasta. Se on paras keppi tähän mennessä.
#valkoinenkeppi#WhiteCane #apuvalineet #nakovamma #blind#Ambutech