Bought a new white cane for long distance hiking. Vendor uses a parcel tracking service that is inaccessible because of HCAPTCHA #blind #annoyed

I'm looking at prices for a specific braille display, a device for the #blind, across regions and the differences are , honestly, scary.
In the United States alone, two different providers offer the exact same device for either 2682 or 3095 dollars. This might be a tax thing, or it might simply be an odd difference, who knows.
That same device, in the UK, costs 3095. Pounds, that is. This is 4082 US dollars.
It's that thing where an app costs 3.99 USD but in Europe it's 3.99 EUR ... just ... times a thousand. What the bleeding fuck.
Again, could very well be tax up to a point, but still that difference is ... wow.

A #blind woman, a 'dream #job,' and the toll of the #governmentshutdown

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/26/blind-woman-government-shutdown-toll/86948892007/

@benrob0329 it's automated if you automate it.

The headers in that link should show the header as 'alt-text'.

I'm not sure what kind of alt-text a screen reader expects from a table. Presumably something like CSV would work, so maybe PSV does ('pipe separated values')?

#blind #gemini

well there goes the last quarter of my one remaining brain cell. Spent it with Gemini to get Fire Emblem stones of fate, or big stones or big balls or whatever it's called to at least talk the main menu thinggie and yeah I'm done for the week. Or two. Or forever. That stupid memory search in VBA-RR v24 has to be minimized instead of closed so it'll keep collecting memory changes and such and that took me like 20 minutes to figure out cause I thought the search just wasn't working.

But hey the main menu talks and I know the memory address for the um, the difficulty chooser menu, just don't know what it is for the transition to different menu thing, and every time I try to narrow it down it just goes down from like 10000 to 9999. and I ain't sitting here minimizing a window with obj nav cause windows down arrow is passed to the game and alt space ... oh. Shoot. Anyway and then Alt C for cheats, Enter, Tab to search, Enter, obj nav to minimimimimize, Insert numpad enter, go back to main menu, alt c, enter, search, minimimimize, go into difficulty menu, alt c, enter, search, ... So yeah I don't have a brain anymore.

#gaming #gameMod #mod #accessibility #blind

Also, this is not the place for sighted people to tell their sob stories about how they struggle to write #AltText. The #Alt4Me hashtag is right there. It seems to me that to a #Blind user, the reasons why your image isn’t described, or why it’s incorrectly described by an #LLM, doesn’t change the fact that your image is impenetrable to them. (For what it’s worth, I have ADHD and still I manage to add reasonably meaningful AltText to all my images and videos.)

What I really do not want to see in this thread is sighted people telling #Blind people that their choices are wrong if they use #LLMs to get image descriptions that weren’t provided by sighted people who post the images. My followers know I hate LLMs for all the familiar reasons, but just as I don’t attack people who have no other options for using Amazon, I’m not going to criticize Blind folks for doing what they need to when the fault lies with inaccessible sight-centric society.

We've just placed an order for our first PCB (Printed Circuit Board). This one is for a 16 megabit SRAM chip that we plan to use in our first accessibility product for blind people to feel visual art through a haptic pen-like stylus interface.

https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-rmlv1616a

#blind #accessibility #a11y #pcb #sram #prototype #fosh #foss #freehardware #freesoftware #copyleft

For all blind/visually impaired fetizens and those who know blind people who might be interested, Retena International is conducting a study on the psychological well-being and mental health impacts on people with inherrited retenal conditions. Learn more about it or take the survey here. #Blind
https://retina-international.org/survey/international/

Poll only for #Blind/LowVision users who rely on #AltText. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.

Do any #Blind #Bloggers know of a good app for windows that I can use to easily write my blog and then use the app to post it to multiple blog platforms at once, like I can with Ulysses for IPad and IOS? That would be very helpful.

to my #Blind friends, anyone has an experience with Logitech MX keys mini? is the software to customize settings accessible? i have to buy this keyboard because the down arrow on my laptop decided that he does not want to stay with it anymore. sadly, if you're a screen reader user, losing one key means losing all control.

#Keyboard #Logitech

Well that lasted a *loooooong* time. For context, I'm blind and use a screen reader on my phone. Tried to make a #Feeld #dating profile. I get to the “This is your space to be unfiltered” screen... and I can't tell if I'm checking any of the boxes. I could troubleshoot this into the ground and find some fuck ass workaround but I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO! And I have absolutely no one in my irl life who I'd ask to help me fill this out, and again, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT. This should be #accessible to #blind people and #ScreenReader users. #Disabled people date, have sex, and live all over the spectrum of lifestyles just like everyone else. Being disabled by places meant for people who are already #marginalized really sucks. And worst of all, I can't find a way to contact Feeld about this. Really discouraged. #OnlineDating #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sex #ENN #Kink #Poly #Polyamory #BDSM

For those who have bought the Castro subscription, have you liked it? Is it easy to navigate and accessible? I'm just curious about why people would pay $24 for a podcast app? #Blind

Wandelvrinden! Welke LAW?
Ik ben benieuwd, dus boost gerust.

UPDATE: Grote dank voor het boosten en reageren! Er springen nu 2 paden uit voor mij: Ziltepad en Trekvogelpad. Ik neig naar Trekvogelpad, vanwege de bereikbaarheid van etappe start - en eindpunten.

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Al een tijd wandel ik autonoom buitenaf, als blinde wandelaar. Ik wandel met #VoiceVista en een Garmin tracker en ondersteuning van verre. Ook met een buddy ter plekke is deze manier van wandelen erg fijn omdat jij, als blinde wandelaar, ook gidst.
Mijn plan voor 2026 is om een LAW autonoom te lopen en tegelijk ook toegankelijk te maken, ook qua overnachten. Ik doe al dag-etappes, maar wil ook meerdaags lopen toegankelijk maken. Voor mijzelf en voor anderen.

Ik denk natuurlijk meteen aan Pieterpad (heb al rond Vorden gewandeld), maar ook Ziltepad en Path of Grief op Terschelling zijn bij me opgekomen. Ultimo voor mij: Dutch Mountain Trail.

Vertel me: op welk pad ga ik beginnen?

#blind #wandelen

Re last boost about Android coming to PC:

Premium hardware lol. Poor Google. It's doing a ChromeOS all over again. Intel I-5 with 16 GB RAM and just about nothing to do on all that RAM. Yep, Acer Spin 713. Great device, bullcrap OS. Google Accessitility will need to step up TalkBack a *ton* to get it ready for great keyboard use, and not the "selected, element name" mess. We already know it's selected, we hit the down arrow to get there, ya kitten.

#google #accessibility #blind

Ok, so this is another of those weird questions which I post because people here use their brains more than most. I want to have one NVDA Remote client control two machines at the same time. That is, I want my laptop to control my desktop and my second desktop, but I want both desktop1 and desktop2 to have their NVDA heard through the laptop at the same time. I also want to switch back and forth between the two machines, as well as to and from the laptop itself, with a keystroke. There are two solutions I've found for this, but both are a bit of a mess. I can use thenvdaremote:// URLs to disconnect from desktop1 and connect to desktop2 with one keystroke, and have another keystroke to do the reverse. The problem there is that I can't hear both machines' NVDA at the same time. Also, and this isn't as big a deal, I'm just a perfectionist, switching takes a few seconds. Secondly, I can run a virtual machine and have that connected to desktop2, with the host machine connected to desktop1. That allows easy switching of the keyboard, just alt+tab to the VM window and hit ctrl+g when I want to control desktop2. It also allows both desktops to have their NVDA run through the speaker at the same time and also, which is very nice, allows braille to swap with any display which supports channels. The problem there is the latency of the VM audio, which I can't seem to shrink. It seems a bit overkill, I may say, to run an entire windows OS just for NVDA remote in a VM. Does anyone have any better solutions. Can anyone think of something which would get all three things running, fast switching, simultaneous NVDA, and no latency? Ideas would be very gratefully received and boosts would be appreciated. #NVDA #blind #a11y #screenreader #remote #nvdaremote

It's only 11:23 and I already feel like I've lived 5 Mondays. The grocery man made one bag so heavy I could not lift it. Good for himself not so much for little me. I had to empty it where it was and bring things in one by one. Then, it was off to call court house to see about excusal from jury duty. Do you have someone there to help you fill out the questionaire? As though all of us #Blind folk have minions in our basements waiting to do our bidding. Do you have any up coming doctor appointments? Thankfully no I say. Well call your doctor and ask them to write us a note verifying that which you just said. As though someone is gonna wake up on Monday and decide yup this is the day I'll lie and say I'm a blind person. Alrighty then, I call doctor and hopefully that note will be written and emailed to me early next week if not this week. Then off to call Blue Cross because I was told that I needed to do something to disenroll as it was not automatic when enrolling in a different plan. I call and a lady assures me that one of the ways to disenroll is to enroll during a valid period in a different plan so I'm good. I go back and tell my friend who works in the health insurance industry and she tells me that is not true. Umm alrighty then. I'm leaving that alone until she investigates more herself. Anything else I absolutely have to do today? I'd like to hide somewhere for a spell.

OK so, I have a question for my fellow orbit reader 20 users.
When my OR20 is turned off or in standby mode, it’ll keep showing charger connected on the display every 10-30 seconds or so when plugged in.
Is this an indication that the device is broken or something?
#blind #Braille

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 24. November, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! https://bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-ohn-jof/join Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion