I refuse to rejoin #Facebook.
Where do #Accessibility #professionals hang out and talk shop? Slack? Discord? Perhaps a listserve?

I am on #LinkedIN. Feel free to add me.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/smartwebtester/
#A11Y #blind

I'm using an air fryer for the first time and making Chicken nuggets. I can't believe it cooks things at 400 degrees. Thing is, its a touchscreen which reall sucks because we'll need to figure out how to label it right. #Cooking, #Food, #Blind

Ooo lookie new study for blind people!

Requirements:

Yep, I'm blind.
Yep, I'm 18 years old or over.
...
Must be in a certain geographical area? Nope, can't do that cause can't drive and wasn't spontaneously born in a certain area of the world. Ah well, surely these researchers know they'll barely get any participants if they don't make these kinds of studies remote right? Like, how many blind people do they *think* exist in a single city? Lol. Meh.

For years, I've wanted to use Android and Linux as daily drivers. I've always said that if I were sighted, I'd be using Linux and Android.

And this year, it's complete. I'm using a OnePlus 13 Android phone, and Fedora Mate Linux. Well okay, I'm using Linux at work, because Windows is still good for games, but if a VM works well enough, I might just switch to Linux at home too!

Just saying, it's possible. And I'm not even a programmer so can't bend technology, especially FOSS and such, to my will like some other blind people could. I'm just so amazed right now that I did it.

Need some help from the blind Mac users here on Mastodon. I’ve searched on AppleVis and also done a general search on google and have sent an email to an Apple group for the blind but haven’t found anything. On my Mac Mini, voiceover will say unread for unread emails but it does not do it on my MacBook Air. They are both running MacOS 15.4.1. Does anyone know how I can get voiceover to identify unread emails on the MacBook Air? Please and thank you. #Blind #Mac #voiceover

FYI: Personal opinion incoming:

Also see some #blind people crying that BeMyEyes blocked access to unauthorized services that used BeMyEyes for image descriptions.

To those I have very few things to say. Imagine if the world worked like you wanted. Then we would have nothing at all, because no one wanted to make anything, because it would just be stolen and missused by others.

#StayMad #KeepCrying

But also. The usecases I saw was cool. I'm 100% on the #blind peoples side, and will fight internally for first party integrations to everything a blind person might want, and everything I hear around in the community, is something I bring up to the development team

Molly Burke legt het nog even uit voor jou als je weinig visus hebt. GEBRUIK EEN TASTSTOK! Ondanks alle geinternaliseerd stigma en wat niet al. Het maakt je vrijer en onafhankelijker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMy8YWpRydk #blind

‘… the new tactile tech bringing #Basketball to #Blind and low-vision fans.’

https://www.fastcompany.com/91317275/inside-one-court-accesible-tech-sports-watching

#Accessibility
#Inclusion

PSA: If you request to follow, I'll reject you if you don't #alttext your images or do performative alttext, eg with Altbots. #blind

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any #IndieDev that makes #blind accessible and more complex games and wants me to cover their games?
yes my yt channel is small but I just want more games to play.

(video flashback, Russia, 2018) Beating the Argus II retinal implant with The vOICe non-invasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution glasses in an open contest in Samara, Russia. Convincingly won by a blind user of The vOICe vision BCI.

One of my big Accessible Enhancements to Voiceover for IOS and Mac os for WWDC for 2025 is Multi Line Access to the Monarch Dynamic Tactile Display.
This will open up so much more functionality across apps and websites, and make reading electronic Braille in books and newspapers 10 times (smile) more enjoyable.
Couple this with the iOS drawing app, brings access to maps etc to that extra level that I've wanted for a long time.
#accessibility
#Braille
#tactile
#blind
#STEM
#apple

Ik heb deze taststok, de werkelijk peperdure IO, en het is nog steeds en altijd mijn favo stok: op deze video zie je waarom. Oa heeft het de beste ergonomie en de stokpunten van whitecane zijn de beste die ik ooit heb gehad. Ook als je de stok niet kunt betalen zijn de stokpunten het overwegen waard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFKALnQ7sc #blind

Did you know you can support our thriving #Blind #LGBTQ community and look fabulous doing it? Click here for our Queer Gear: https://blindlgbtpride.org/queer-gear/ And yes, there's #Braille on it. How cool is that?

ICYMI for the evening crowd, BPI's #PrideConnection #Podcast brings you a #Blind #LGBTQ perspective on the April 5 #HandsOff rallies. Listen and subscribe here: https://pride-connection.pinecast.co/episode/75369744/pride-connection-presents-hands-off

We haven't done a proper #cybersecurity stream in a minute, let's fix that. Today on the docket: @wireshark . I hear left and right that #wireshark is not #accessible, seen an academic paper to that effect, I'd like to judge this for myself. 2 PM EST, 8 PM CEST, let's see how a fully #blind #screenReader user deals with Wireshark. See you then, over at https://twitch.tv/IC_Null / https://youtube.com/@blindlyCoding #infosec #foss #selfPromo