65% of vision impaired people are over 50 years of age, despite making up only 20% of the world's population.
Accessible technology benefits everyone. As we age vision impairment becomes more likely. NVDA's free and open-source technology ensures no one is unfairly disadvantaged because of their vision.
You can support NV Access providing accessible technology by donating:
Linux blind users, listen to this and let me know what you guess this actually is, and most importantly, what you think! I'm just gauging interest as this is still in its early infancy, and I was wondering if it was worth continuing. As you can infer, I'm already far enough to have a working yet incomplete prototype!
Hi #blind folks, especially software developers! I'm taking part in a #GitHub research meeting and I hope to raise as many #accessibility points as I can. I was told this fact is not at all confidential, so I may gather feedback.
Here's what I remember: multiline comments are inaccessible (eternal story); sometimes menu roles are used where they shouldn't be (watching repos, reactions etc.). Anything else that really bugs you at GitHub? Thanks!
You can make a difference by reporting inaccessibility as you come across it. When reporting accessibility issues, it is important to be as specific as you can. Because most developers are generally unaware of what #accessibility is, telling them that their website/app isn’t working with your assistive technology isn’t enough information to yield results. If you provide plenty of detail, the developer can learn how to reproduce the problem, thus making fixing that problem significantly easier.
This looks awesome. I just backed Eventably, a project by @karlgroves to create an accessible event management platform (planning, ticketing, execution, analysis, etc). Just read their testimonials to see reasons why this is sorely needed. The campaign has 17 days left! Help make it happen! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eventably#accessibility#a11y
Partly because event platforms are accessibility poop-shows, partly because I think Karl (and team) can build it, partly because there are only 17 days left and I didn’t want to forget.
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Completed a huge personal milestone today. Facilitated my first ever talk at an #Accessibility conference! Thanks to the #UofGuelph for putting it on, and thanks to all of the attendees who came out (even though I experienced a little technical difficulty)!
Reminder: #AltText is not a place for copyright information, or additional details about the image.
Put that into a separate post, for the love of god.
It's as if you were blocking a bike path with a street sign.
The purpose of alt text is increased accessibility, so when in doubt, ask yourself if the text you're adding helps blind or visually impaired folks better understand what's in the actual image.
Regarding last boost, you may recall I have warned people to be wary of any accessibility content in posts at Google’s web•dev.
My simplest example is this 1½-year-old report on an egregiously wrong tool-tips post that its author, and site editors, have chosen to simply ignore: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/298296173
How can we improve #accessibility for scientific conferences? This short guide by Ulla McClurg covers many of the issues that organisers (and attendees) can consider.
You may think that QR codes are great for securing your login, or letting users read more online about a product marketed in a news paper ad. But there is a high risk you are creating barriers for people with disabilities, unless you use QR codes correctly.
An #accessibility take: people are too quick to use an empty alt on images to declare them 'decorative'. This means you can't easily know an image even exists on the page, for example to copy or download it, or discuss its existence with others.
There are some valid cases but for the most part blind users deserve equitable access to information that the images exist at all (and what they are)
Accommodations are hardly ever the solution. For a disabled person to be granted accommodations, we have to jump through numerous hoops, and there is no guarantee they will be granted (it's hardly ever a doctor deciding-it's an institution). Allies build inclusion in so we don't need accommodations.
My birthday gift from Husband & the kids is a new HP laptop. I haven't had a real computer other than my phone for 5+yrs. I need a laptop for school. I've been using it all weekend. My major complaint - you can't adjust the font color and the font color currently in use is too light. I need black. It's a light blue. It makes it really hard to see anything in screen. I can't do dark mode, that gives me headaches.
If you are #blind and you have been locked out of being able to use your InstantPot after the inaccessible app update, please email support@instantpot.com and refer to Case 02284154 asking that they restore #VoiceOver#accessibility to their #iOS app.
Hi #accessibility specialists! Do you have in mind an article about HTML email accessibility best practices? I was almost sure @aardrian wrote something about it but couldn't find it straight away. It's for a friend :) Thanks!
A new report on the Maui Project progress is now out. MauiKit4 fully based on Qt6 and KF6 is almost ready for the stable release and all the Maui Apps have been ported over. Find out more at
OC Fun fact: Autoplaying animation on websites that you can't stop is disability discrimination in the US
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