Ok, question for all my #sighted friends on here. Why are you guys seemingly obsessed with app icons? Apple announced their new Creator Studio bundle last week, and everyone is upset because the app icons look bad I guess? Like why do you care, it's like me getting mad because the app name is stupid or something. I don't get it.

#Blind friends. It is long since time we took our responsibilities far more seriously and ensured our #sighted friends are more aware of where they are, where they are going and even where it is they hope to get. Next time an over eager person with sight approaches you, stop and ensure they know where it is they are, which direction they are traveling and even if they know what their destination is. when you encounter one who does congratulate them and see them on their way. #blindtravel #a11y

EU projects:

#SIGHTED: reStoring sIGHt wiTh a neuroprosthEsis for the blinD (2025-2027) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101212687

#POSITIONED: PrOstheSIs to resTore vIsiOn iN thE blind https://neurotech-nl.com/project/positioned/ "fountain probe"

Cf. John Pezaris' work at https://sight2blind.org and his TEDx talk on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29aKusFQ83A

Much like Stanley & Pezaris long before news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science... (1999) EU projects: #SIGHTED: reStoring sIGHt wiTh a neuroprosthEsis for the blinD (2025-2027) cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... #POSITIONED: PrOstheSIs to resTore vIsiOn iN thE blind neurotech-nl.com/project/posi...

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Real people who are blind bust 10 major myths about their love lives

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/blind-love-misconceptions-ex1

For some context, we are very much interested in words, and also games and other couple enriching activities that can make our relationship warmer and deeper.
Do also suggest movies and documentaries that are great tow watch together. Any Recommendations and suggestions are much appreciated.

#blind #sighted #games #couple #dating #ldr #blindGames #Audiogames #online (2/2)

#Phosphoenix awarded EIC Transition grant https://www.phosphoenix.nl/phosphoenix-awarded-eic-transition-grant/ €2.5-million for their neural prosthesis project: #SIGHTED; brain implant, #BCI #NeuroTech

@cobalt
This is a fantastic resource, thank you! Also, a great story about the founding of the enterprise in 1903.
Turns out I have found not only a Braille cell "template" but a font that I've just installed. Free, though I had to sign up for the newsletter: https://www.pharmabraille.com/pharmaceutical-braille/introduction-to-pharmaceutical-braille/
#sighted #braille #learning #font

Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of #blind and #sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based #echolocation training http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae239 Would be fun to encode truly visual information in sound and then see what happens, no? Sensory substitution.

#Blind and #PartiallySighted people on Mastodon and the Fediverse use special apps called “screen readers” that read text out loud, so they can tell what is on the screen.

There are many things that #sighted people can do to make their posts more accessible to people using #Screen Readers.

It is all fine. And also there are #SpeechToText apps, allowing people dictate their posts. But wouldn't it be nice to have a #VoiceMessages available as well? In a way similar to instant communicators? It could work as a #ServerSide #plugin or in a client. Perhaps somebody is already working on it?
How do I make posts more accessible to blind people on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

I think it would be cool if I could find a #Sighted person to colaberate with so that I could play Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 on #stream. I have always wanted to make it through that game, I just can't because the story mode is a map where you have to fly around to marked points. Only thing holding it back from being a great game.

I found my blue glasses!
#near #sighted #blue #glasses #found #today #eyesight #eye #see #Spring #this #Friday #Happy #Vernal #Equinox

So #sighted people. My mind is blown. I just heard of a commentator telling me they just saw something out of their left eye. You all can look through individual eyes and see different things and focus your individual eye on something you're looking for? That's a real neat ability. I'm #blind so I hope you don't mind me asking.

#accessibility

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Blind and otherwise visually #disabled people discussing the topic.

#Sighted people centering themselves as experts.with legitimate authority to pontificate about using #visual metaphors that honestly need to be seen to understoond...

People not doing it.
The occasional person who actually DOES it.
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@actuallyautistic

Similar object shape representation encoded in the inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex of #sighted and #early #blind people https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001930 "#ILOTC selectively implements shape representation independently of visual experience"; #blindness #neuroscience

#I #just #realized #how #to #fix #fediverse #search #oversight #with #regard #to #the #exceptionally #short #sighted #and #unnecessarily #limiting #not #being #able #to #search #with #a #definition #of #search #unchanged #since #the #dawn #of #time #FollowMeForMoreFediverseTips #someone #write #us #a #hashtag #inserter!?

Does visual experience influence arm #proprioception and its lateralization? Evidence from passive matching performance in #congenitally-#blind and #sighted adults https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030439402300294X

Once many #sighted people wear #AR #headsets or #glasses with cameras, it won't be stigmatizing anymore for #blind people to wear such devices - it makes #blindness invisible.

(PhD thesis) #Body #perception and #brain #plasticity in #blind and #sighted individuals https://openarchive.ki.se/xmlui/handle/10616/48562 by Dominika Radziun.

Scientists discover anatomical changes in the brains of the newly #sighted https://news.mit.edu/2023/scientists-discover-anatomical-changes-brains-newly-sighted-0501 "Following #cataract #removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought"; #blind #neural #plasticity #neuroscience