„Von Barrierefreiheit weit entfernt“: Kann Theater für Blinde zugänglich werden? – Nachrichten aus Stuttgart
Stuttgart. In Deutschland leben mehr als 13 Millionen Menschen, die eine sichtbare oder eine unsichtbare Beeinträch…
#Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Audiodeskription #Baden-Württemberg #barrierefreiheit #Behinderung #blind #Germany #MenschenmitBehinderung #Seheinschränkung #Theater
https://www.europesays.com/de/195477/
I released my new game for iOS today. It's called Shift The disks. It's my take on the classic Towers of Hanoi game. Enjoy the game. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shift-the-disks/id6746863384 #blind #puzzle #puzzles #logic #towers_of_hanoi #accessible
After reading this thread, I don't want a new Mac anymore. I do wish there were posts like this going over Android and Windows' accessibility frameworks, but I'll take what I can get.
Hey, got any plans this Saturday, Jun 21? BPI's having a party, and everyone's invited. https://blindlgbtpride.org/announcing-bpi-silver-saturday-on-june-21/ #Blind #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #SilverSaturday
"Smart glasses offering a combination of sensory substitution based 'raw' vision and AI-based scene description and OCR appears to be technically and economically the most feasible and sustainable way toward meeting expectations, needs and interests of many blind people." https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm
And yes, I did already check this statement with a number of totally blind people, including a congenitally blind and a late-blind person.
Overlays were never AI. They papered over barriers, then blamed #Blind users for glitches. In 2025 we can do better: AI models that regenerate code with WCAG baked in, guided by disabled testers. Follow this 10‑day thread as I share how UK teams can build “born‑accessible” from day zero. 🌱 #AI #Accessibility #A11y #VibeAccess #Blind
My brother wants to instal this thing called slint, which is #Linux's supposedly, accessible distro for #Blind people. I'm skeptical, but if it works, great, though I still feel that Linux isn't for end-users. #Technology
From the Orca mailing list:
Hey all.
I plan to make all of Orca's commanded executable over DBus. It's going
to be a ton of work and I'm only getting started. That said, I just
landed what I have so far to Orca's main branch.
For users who said Orca must have a means for apps to tell it what to
say, Orca now has that. To try it -- assuming you have the very latest
Orca from the main branch -- do
gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Orca.Service --object-path
/org/gnome/Orca/Service --method org.gnome.Orca.Service.PresentMessage
"Bla bla bla I'm a message"
For those saying Orca's speech should be controllable, by other apps,
see what's available by doing:
gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Orca.Service --object-path
/org/gnome/Orca/Service/SpeechAndVerbosityManager --method
org.gnome.Orca.Module.ListCommands
Hopefully one of those commands is what you need. To learn more about
how to use them, here's some documentation:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/blob/main/README-REMOTE-CONTROLLER.md
Please play with it and let me know what you think.
Anyone have any experience with the AromaTech app? How is it with voiceover?
#Blind #iOS #Voiceover
I really hope this bug can be fixed this beta cycle.
FB18083880 (VoiceOver reading notifications breaks the reading from current item)
Exactly - you've crystallized the real shift happening. "Agent bosses" is such a perfect way to put it. The #Accessibility challenge transforms from "make this website work with screen readers" to "make sure my AI agent knows I can't see and communicates accordingly."
This is already visible in how LLMs handle visual content. When I describe an image to someone, I'm essentially acting as a seeing agent for a #Blind user. The difference is whether that agent relationship is designed thoughtfully or happens by accident.
The "Google Zero" phenomenon you mention is the canary in the coal mine. If search results increasingly answer questions directly rather than linking out, then the web becomes infrastructure rather than destination. Websites become databases that #Agents query, not places humans visit.
For blind users, this could actually be liberating - no more fighting with poorly designed interfaces or waiting for sites to be retrofitted for accessibility. Your #Agent just knows you need audio descriptions, spatial information conveyed verbally, or text-based rather than visual confirmations.
But it requires intentional design. Agents need to understand not just that someone can't see, but how that affects information needs - that "the red button" means nothing, that "over there" needs coordinates, that visual metaphors need translation.
The key insight is that accessibility becomes a property of the agent relationship rather than the content itself. Instead of a million websites each needing to be accessible, you need agents that can make any information source accessible to their specific user.
Are you seeing this transition in your own digital interactions? How are you preparing for or thinking about this shift? #AI
This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.
This seems valuable for all public spaces.
@masukomi Speaking as a #blind person, #braille is just another tool in the box, but it's a tool which does not really have an equivalent in certain circumstances. It's not surprising that young people don't see its value, it's hard to learn, it separates them from a sighted society (unlike a phone), it makes them feel blind... That's leaving aside the advantages to parents and teachers, less work, less money spent by school systems more people able to teach phones (both costing less and being easier to get), you get the idea. The point is that there are certain areas where there is simply nothing else. Language learning without braille can be... difficult. So can coding, certain math, maps, certain diagrams, and doing pretty much anything as a person with more than a severe hearing loss. We go back to the tool, there are certain tools in some sets which look like they can never be used for anything but, when you come across a certain issue, are the only thing which will let you get past it. There is just nothing else which will help, or everything else is so hard as to be impractical. Of course, people go a bit crazy the other way. If you're blind and don't use braille, you have personally violated all the moral laws of the universe. That's nonsense, but it's a reaction to the equally foolish view that braille is useless. As I see it, life as a blind person is significantly worse than life as a sighted person. Braille can make that life somewhat better than it would otherwise be. That's all. No need for either thinking braille is useless or that it's holy. It's neither.
#blind : destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation
- French: aveugle
- German: blind
- Italian: cieco
- Portuguese: cego / cegar
- Spanish: ciego
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Since other multi line tactile displays are still not available in Australia, as a long term Braille user, Monarch still gets my vote. The inbuilt apps that the Monarch has and will continue to develop and add more, makes it a more flexible stand alone or connected solution rather than relying on a computer or smart device for its overall functionality. #a11y #accessibility #braille #blind
A #blind person in my feed was limiting that he seems to be the only one who gives a shit about #Braille these days. The younger generation being happy to let their phone just read text to them.
Here is a really good example of why braille is still important even in the age of smartphones
(this is a TikTok video showing a blind woman gushing about a sign outside of the bathroom that informed her about the full layout and what to expect inside)
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rLNRrk/
