About a month ago, I had the privilege of presenting #FreeBSD at the Institute for the Blind in Milan, during an event held in connection with #GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day). It was a profoundly meaningful experience that deepened my commitment to digital accessibility and the development of assistive technologies.

I'm excited to share that the #Accessibility Handbook, focused on vision-related assistive technologies in FreeBSD, is nearly complete. This task has been made possible thanks to the tireless dedication of FreeBSD community volunteers and the support of the @FreeBSDFoundation for new projects and documentation centered on visual accessibility.

#UNIX #OpenSource #A11Y #Inclusion #VisionImpairment #ColorBlindness #LowVision #Blindness #ScreenReader #Braille #Documentation #AssistiveTechnology

📢 Unsere Beiträge zum GAAD sind online!

Mitschnitt und Präsentationen unserer Veranstaltung vom 15. Mai ist ab sofort verfügbar. Natürlich inkl. #Untertitel und #Gebärdensprache.

Beitrag auf unserer Seite: https://www.inklusion.sh/aktuelles/nachrichten/nachricht/loesungsansaetze-fuer-die-umsetzung-der-digitalen-barrierefreiheit-in-der-verwaltung/

Zum Mitschnitt: https://www.bundesfachstelle-barrierefreiheit.de/DE/Presse-und-Service/Veranstaltungen/GAAD-Veranstaltung/Video/node.html

Rückblick der Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit: https://www.bundesfachstelle-barrierefreiheit.de/DE/Presse-und-Service/Veranstaltungen/GAAD-Veranstaltung/gaad-2025_node.html

#GAAD2025 #GAAD #Barrierefreiheit #DigitaleBarrierefreiheit #BarrierefreieIT #Durchsetzungsstelle #BundesfachstelleBarrierefreiheit #Verwaltung #ÖD

I wrote a recap of what we and some of the contributors worked on for GAAD! We ended up with 86 people pledging 382 hours to improve accessibility. 💪
https://equalizedigital.com/celebrating-gaad-2025-community-wins-wordpress-progress-and-whats-next/

#accessibility #a11y #GAAD

Speaker deadline extended! You’ve got until June 9th to submit your talk for WordPress Accessibility Day 2025.

Got insights on WordPress or accessibility? We want to hear from you!

$300 honorarium
Pre-recorded talks + live Q&A

Apply now → https://2025.wpaccessibility.day/speaker-submission-deadline-extended/

#WPA11yDay #Accessibility #CallForSpeakers #IAAP #GAAD #a11y

Join us on today for our #GAAD special Envision Community Webinar! Neeraj Gupta from the Vista Center will share tips on funding & training for assistive tech like Envision Glasses. Plus, get exclusive product updates from Karthik Mahadevan, CEO at Envision! 🌟

🗓️ May 27th, 6 PM CET/ 12 PM EST
Register now:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2616994628000/WN_6xkt3evlQmuVAwfzEl3ECQ

(Bi-)Weekly Notes: May 12–25, 2025: Two weeks in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past fortnight. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/05/25/bi-weekly-notes-may-12-25-2025

#GAAD #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #Norwescon #NWC47 #Underworld #WeeklyNotes #Apple #Geekery #Music #Personal

How do we build cross-organisational #accessibility awareness, capacity and capability? Last week, as part of #GAAD, my @digitalservice.bund.de colleagues Christoph Schmidl and Marion Couesnon shared our approach in the international #GovDesign call #36. Here is the recording of their input —

Intl design in government call...

How can #contentDesign and #accessibility work hand-in-hand? My colleagues Marion and Sue shared how they worked on Germany’s court claims justice service, transformed legal language into citizen-friendly #plainLanguage and created new content patterns. Here’s the recording from #GAAD: #WCAG

Accessibility in practice – Ma...

Today is the last day of this year's #GAAD sale ⏳

https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/114533493922343133

Letzte Woche war #diwokiel25 und sie ging viel zu schnell vorbei.

Es bleiben großartige Impulse und Inspirationen von der Eröffnung, dem #webmontagkiel, Fireside Chat von IHK, #diwish und CGI, unserem Event zum #GAAD Global Accessibility Awareness Day, der IgNITE plus Networking Summit und dem Job Talk von #kielworks.

Und natürlich viele Gespräche und Begegnungen. Nächster Halt: #barcampflensburg2025

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show where we discuss all the announcements from #GAAD, Be My Eyes and Innosearch, Google Gemini Live, Yes, Android discussion, Meta Ray Bans long Descriptions for the Blind, why this feature is not available in England or Scottland yet, and bad podcasting by others! Listen here https://thatrealblindtechshow.libsyn.com/episode-178-gaad-makes-a-hard-man-humble

Grateful to all the people out there sharing their experiences and expertise to make the web more accessible: https://maureenholland.ca/magpie/gaad-2025

#GAAD

In #SwiftUI you can explicitly tell VoiceOver how to pronounce something...

Except this just straight up doesn't work. Is this broken?

https://ray.so/oFSoCJG

#a11y #GAAD #accessibility

Attention, attention!!
The deadline is coming up faster than you think!

May 26th, 2025, is the last day to submit your application to be a speaker for WP Accessibility Day. That's in TEN days!

#Speakers #Accessibility #IAAP #id24 #GAAD

https://2025.wpaccessibility.day/share-your-knowledge-at-wordpress-accessibility-day/

A couple of videos for #GAAD from @londonwebstandards.org Shift left on accessibility by @gerireid.com londonwebstandards.org/talks/shift-...

Shift left on accessibility | ...

Missed GAAD on Thursday? Feeling FOMO? You're not too late.

You can still:
Audit your own website or product for accessibility gaps.
Share a post about what you're changing in your process to include accessibility.
Commit to learning more and post what you've learned.
Follow creators and orgs who talk about accessibility year-round.

Here's a start - watch replays from past WPAD events.
https://wpaccessibility.day/past-events/

#GAAD #a11y

Lol Microsoft is like: "Okay disabled people, we have to skill up! Learn about AI so we don't have to fix Windows! I mean, with AI blind people can develop scripts to have Gem... Um I mean Copilot! Use Copilot! To control your PC for you! And while you do that, I'll be playing Candy Crush and Doom! Oh, blind people can't play that? Meh, too bad. Go play some text game roflmao. Oh and take our course cause it's not like you don't have tons else to learn and do. I mean statistically, disabled people don't have jobs and blind people spend their time running radio stations. I mean, it's the data bro, data don't lie and data means everything right? Also happy #GAAD, here's a course! Get to work upskilling cause AI, particularly our AI, particularly our $20 per month best AI, waits for no one! And you'll want the best AI for the best image descriptions and help and a eleven y!"

Note: I know GAAD isn't just about blind people, but it should seriously include us. We kinda do exist after all.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/accessibility/ai-in-action-celebrating-global-accessibility-awareness-day/

#a11y #accessibility #blind #microsoft #rant

On the Anker Liberty 5 you can’t even do a firmware update as VoiceOver stays connected to the pods when in the case when opened needed for updating fucking hilarious Guess the Chinese don’t celebrate #GAAD

Google: "The best features of <companyName> Mail are only available on your phone and tablet with the official Gmail app." Sorry #Google, but it's your fault if the features are available *only* in the app, and everyone working from desktop systems are excluded. Nothing to be proud of here, to be honest. #GAAD #Accessibility

Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).

#a11y #bemyeyes #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday
#blind #bme #tech
#disability #assistivetech