ICYMI: My latest radio column about Jacob Wilkinson and his Kitchener-based hot sauce company, Blowing Smoke is up!
You can listen here : https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16145299-how-local-hot-sauce-maker-creates-fiery-recipes
#WaterlooRegion #SMB #Entrepreneur #VisionImpaired #Mastonom
Watching an episode of "Japan's Top Inventions" on #NHK about tactile paving.
It's kind of depressing when you see the inventor, who had a #VisionImpaired friend, searching for solutions...and not asking the people his invention was meant for...at first.
Then noone was interested to invest in his solution so he even offered the "Ministry of Construction" that he would pay for the tiles and the installation.
The first #TactilePaving was installed in 1967...
Thank you to the #ADHD, #Dyslexic and #VisionImpaired people here on mastadon who asked for audiobooks of my writings. The more people tell me their access needs, the better position I am in to encourage/ convince my publishers to make my work #Accessible.
Delighted my latest publisher agreed to make an #Audiobook of Wired Our Own Way; An Anthology of #Autistic Irish voices, which will be released tomorrow. Not sure all the platforms it will be on yet.
Case in point, it's wrong to be #ableist even if most people post & re-post graphics of famous quotes or other brief, poignant words. Almost everyone does it. I do it far too often. But it's still wrong to be ableist. It's wrong to exclude #VisionImpaired folks. I'm "preaching" at myself, here.
I'm still looking for a big button Contacts Dialer for Android.
Guide Dogs campaign urges businesses to make dining out more accessible
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-23/guide-dogs-campiagn-nsw-accessible-dining-blindness/104964418
Oh FFS. 😡
#News #Australia #Disability #GuideDog #VisionImpaired #Discrimination
Woman takes Uber to Federal Court over repeated guide dog refusals
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-19/uber-sued-federal-court-discrimination-guide-dog/104891104
Disgraceful that this keeps happening
#News #Disability #Discrimination #GuideDog #VisionImpaired #Uber #Transport
Some #Drycleaners are IMO predatory scum.
A vision impaired elderly relative was for years using the local drycleaners.
Who would return the clothes still stained.
It wasn't until someone else put their glasses on and went through the clothes that had been drycleaned and found stains on most of them that the racket was unearthed.
A stern rebuke to the drycleaners was delivered in person by the discoverer.
How to assist?
When to assist?
I found my own post thru THE JOYS OF CLEAR ALT TEXT COMPOSITION!
JOY UNTO ALL WHO CARVE MEANING INTO MULTIMEDIA,
MAKING WAY FOR THOSE WHO MAKE WAVES!
https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/113187340313708910
Like a Dragon
Majima Goro is hot —
now in Hawai’i!
#YakuzaLikeaDragon #likeAdragon #yakuzaHawaii #MajimaGoro #GoroMajima #pirate #arr #meHearties #Japanese #WestCountry #soIguess #Okinawa #accent #antiPiracy #piracy #disability #eyepatch #vision #VisionLoss #visionImpaired #visionImpairment #sightLoss #eyesight #depthPerception #fighter #fighting #omg #watchThis #FightingGamesFriday #fightingGame #fighting_games #JRPG #RPG #nerd #puns #geek #dork #dweeb #game #gamer #gaming
The latest Eyes On Success episode featuring Innosearch AI is out now! Join our co-founders, Patrick Long and Bryan Vuong, as they dive into how Innosearch AI is making online shopping accessible and seamless for the visually impaired. Plus, with our referral link, new users get $10 free to start exploring!
🎧 Listen here: https://buff.ly/3YAQAyb
#InnosearchAI #EyesOnSuccess #AccessibleShopping #VisionImpaired #AI #InclusiveTech #ReferralReward #AccessibleTech #Innovation
"Hey, let's include #braille on this container, so that people who are #blind or #visionimpaired can use it, too!" #accessibility gone wrong?
Are there any bots/automated accounts that #blind / #VisionImpaired folks like to follow?
Not necessarily image/video-based ones, but I'd really like to see examples of those, if there are any.
So I've been called out for https://alttexthalloffame.org not being run by someone who's #blind or #VisionImpaired.
And that's fair. I'm very much open to anyone from those communities to get directly involved, so this is my public invitation.
Would also love to hear from the #blind and #VisionImpaired community: who are your favorite webcomic artists that you enjoy following on here?
@VastHypno Good question! I'd imagine yes, with an appropriate warning, but would love to hear from the #blind #VisionImpaired community on how to best approach this.
Another advantage of being on a smaller fediverse instance: (mostly) better experience for #blind and #VisionImpaired folks.
Data via https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112343128875676585
@Jeffrey there must be some hashtags that could help with your request, but as I am not part of the community I can only guess...
#alttext #visionimpairment #visionimpaired #blind
#TIL that actual #VisionImpaired people have pointed out the #ableism in the term "time blindness" (in my context, associated with #ADHD) and have requested that we sighted folk refrain from using it.
Never occurred to me, as I'm privileged, but it makes sense. Time isn't something anyone can actually "see" anyway, so nobody can be "blind" to it. What happens with ADHD (& with other neurodivergences too, I assume, I just don't know which ones) is that we don't perceive the passage of
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Check out this 3D-printable model of Mars.
It has been developed as part of "A Touch of the Universe", a non-profit project for a tactile astronomy kit addressed to children with vision impairments.
Details and links in the model's description
#visionimpaired #astronomy #kids #children #tactile #model #mars #3Dmodel #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Dprintable #3D #universe #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #STEM #scicomm #vision #impairments #uvao
