Here's a great episode with Marco and I. Talking about everything from how to do artisan coffee and using appliances and maintaining their accessibility enjoy https://youtu.be/l9YLdnOgVVw

@mmasnick sees Mastodon, Bluesky, and the rest of the open social web as an antidote to the AI-generated decline of the internet:

"decentralized social media could offer an alternative to the world in which all the information we consume is intermediated by a single centralized player, whether it’s a search engine like Google, or a social media service like Meta [...] one in which you get to build the experience you want, rather than the one a giant company wants."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/21/decentralized-systems-will-be-necessary-to-stop-google-from-putting-the-web-into-managed-decline/

I just want to say for my first post to the #Fediverse that I've already seen more #alttext in the last couple of days than I've literally seen in my entire life. I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content. Think I'll write an introduction soon.
#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration

For #blind folks, which method of typing on a mobile device do you prefer? Please boost for wider reach. #accessibility

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD #GAAD23)!

#AudioEye is suing me
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/05/audioeye-is-suing-me.html

I am not taking questions.

#a11y #accessibility

Intriguing idea from Mark Noonan at his talk "Maintaining #Accessibility in Complicated Components" at #StirTrek 2023.

Too many widgets are built only for sighted mouse users, who can perceive many aspects of the widget at a glance.

While designing a widget, try describing its usage in detail over the phone, without any visuals. If it's difficult or complicated to talk through sequentially, then the widget may be difficult for users with screen readers or keyboards.

#a11y #UI #Columbus #Ohio

I've never lost my sense of wonder over the internet, more particularly social media. The idea with just the press of a button a bunch of people can see what you have to say and are connected to you in a way that would never have happened if that button hadn't been pressed. That's part of why I like boosting other peoples' posts and having my own boosted. It just still seems magical to me! I don't know if people younger than me, for whom the internet was always just there, can understand this.

If you are a sighted user, why not use this browser extension?? Social Visual Alt Text automatically displays an image's text alternative below the image.

See if that image has good alt text before you boost it! Help out your fellow human using a screen reader or refreshable braille display.

Maybe also post a review to the links below to help other interested users find the extension.

#Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/social-visual-alt-text/

#Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-visual-alt-text/bkpbmomfemcjdeekdffmbohifpndodmi

#AltText #a11y #accessibility

I've been playing with Svelte recently, as it seems like a really cool technology, and I just discovered the following. If you make an inaccessible image, like:
<img src={src}>
It warns you:
A11y: <img> element should have an alt attribute
This is actually really, really cool, and one of the advantages of Svelte's approach to things.

We need to not get taken in by Trump. Who cares if *he* says he’s going to be arrested on such-and-such a day. The person who will determine when the grand jury will vote to indict is Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney.

Trump is making noise to further grift his supporters out of millions. Ignore him!

Surprisingly, at least to me, my dogs like wasabi peas. There were definitely a few curious crunches, but once the burn set it in they were clearly into it. Just like me!

Watch this short documentary with vintage 1970s news footage about Judith Heumann and many others struggling to get Section 504--which was already U.S. federal law--to actually get enforced.

Cringe at the terms used in the 1970s to describe people with disabilities...

https://youtu.be/52XqupjXHIM

The Power of 504 by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)

#JudyHeumann #JudithHeumann #a11y #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #Section504

Huge feature comparison of #Mastodon clients, by @runevision et al. HT @craigdietrich

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1De5KRwqMIdwEryfoeBLARgxF7QgKkeOQBCilKuIdAXE/htmlview#

There's a certain kind of techbro who thinks it's a knock-down argument to say "Well, you haven't built anything". As if the only people whose expertise counts are those close to the machine. I'm reminded (again) of
@timnitGebru 's wise comments on "the hierarchy of knowledge". >>

@MTRNord @blindscribe I would be happy to setup a reminder bot on my instance that could be used to auto reply with a helpful post when invoked.

I'm excited to announce that egui (https://github.com/emilk/egui) is now the first pure-Rust GUI toolkit to implement platform accessibility APIs (most mature on Windows, with macOS catching up), via AccessKit (https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit). This was just merged in egui's master branch. New versions of egui crates should be published to crates.io soon. Thanks to the Google Fonts team for funding both the development of AccessKit and the integration in egui.

Want to learn more about careers in digital #accessibility? Join me for a panel conversation with three professionals who are making tech more equitable for people with disabilities. 📆Tues, Dec 6 from 10:30-11:30 PT. Hosted by UCI Informatics and the Division of Career Pathways, as well as Access Computing and Teach Access. 👉Register here: https://tinyurl.com/career-panel-fa-22

#Writers of the #Fediverse! Looking for a writing exercise/writing prompt? Join the #ALT4you and #ALT4me mutual aid effort to provide #ALT descriptive text to images in the #fediverse

ALT descriptive text is used by blind and visually impaired people to understand and process photos and images that they otherwise cannot see. So please add ALT to any images you Toot.

Putting an image into words can be a very creative exercise that forces you to look at images more deeply and then convey their content and meaning in words.

Also follow the #ALT4me hashtag. It's used by blind and visually impaired tooters (is that even a word?) to request mutual aid when they encounter an image that does not have ALT.

Respond to #ALT4me by replying with the ALT text.

Here's a great example of #ALT4me in action:
https://universeodon.com/@groo79/109451400586037596

The first toot is a request for ALT and the comments provide them.

Read more about it here: https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediverse-accessibility-tips/

Any #accessibility or #screenreader folks out there have any thoughts on Able Player (https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/)?

Considering making it a requirement for my students' video submissions next quarter and I am curious if it offers any advantages over a properly captioned and described YouTube video.

The founder of Post said today that the company is explicitly *not* focused on accessibility. Disappointing to read something like this in 2022
#tech #technology #Disability #twitter #postnews #twittermigration