The #NABS Rocky Mountain Seminar is coming up, and all students are invited! Our theme, climb higher together, allows us all the perfect opportunity for #blind students to come together, grow, and learn from each other. We hope you will join us for a weekend filled with great opportunities. Hope to see you there!
whenever using sirens and lights, emergency vehicles (ambulances, fire apparatuses, etc.) ALWAYS have the right-of-way. Be hypervigilant when crossing streets. PAY ATTENTION! Do NOT cross when sirens are barreling towards you. They likely cannot stop/swerve in time to avoid hitting you. Do NOT be the person who learns this fact the hard way.
PS: I am physically fine. Deeply shaken, but am not hurt. I have no idea how, but I somehow tuned out the siren coming at me until someone yelled for me to stop crossing. Had I not heard the person yelling, I likely would have been hit and at the verry least seriously injured. In other words, I made a serious mistake that could have killed me. I still don't know how I did it. I am posting this in the hope that this does not happen to someone else. Please, learn from my mistake.
Every time I pull out my BrailleNote Touch Plus, I'm reminded of how pitifully stagnated blindness-related products are compared to mainstream systems. Turns out I can no longer install Box because HumanWare has backed themselves into a corner and will not be updating past Android 8.1. This would not be a big deal... except for the fact that it's the only #Braille display I have at the moment, and literally every BRF file I need at Eastman is stored in Box. Way to keep up with the times, guys. /s
Is anyone out there using accessibility apps with Mastodon? After having a sudden vision loss I'm looking for experts for Voice Over and Spoken Content on the Apple platform. Yes I know about Apple's YouTube videos but I have questions about my own system that aren't answered. For instance, can you use their screen reading software on non-Apple apps like Firefox? I've always been a techie but so much depends on having vision. #accessibility#lowvision
@Jude_theone479001 Hello. You should be able to use VoiceOver with the Firefox browser, yes, however your best experience will likely be had with Safari. Not ideal if you are a Mozilla fan, but given that Safari and voiceover are developed by the same company, the experience is more refined. Also, please feel free to tag #LowVision, #Blind, #BlindMasto, #BlindMastodon, #BlindFedi, and @mastoblind whenever you post blindness or low vision related questions. Your posts have a much higher chance of getting noticed that way.
#BlindMasto / #BlindMastodon / #BlindFedi / @mastoblind peeps, if you're going to write multiple sequential replies to a post (i.e. write a reply thread), please reply to your own reply so that it actually threads and others can read both of your replies.
We agree completely - accessibility is an essential human right, no question!
We deeply apologize...
Accessibility has always been a first-order priority for us. It's important as well to not see such essential feature sets as binary - an either "have" or "don't have", and our intention today was to receive feedback on whether we're currently excelling in these areas or if you, our dear users, feel we can do even better.
@mastoblind Update: After pinging #AmericanAirlines on X/Twitter, they replied stating this would be forwarded to the appropriate team, that it would be dealt with, and that they would circle back with any updates. All in all, very pleased with how this turned out. The link to my original post on X along with Americans replies are below. #AmericanAir#BlindMasto#BlindMastodon#BlindFedi@mastoblind
I don't like that when I'm adding ALT TEXT on my Mastodon post via my phone the image top is slightly cutoff so I end up describing the photo incorrectly. Don't know if this is a Mastodon problem or a problem with my phone, but gotta remember to not trust it and describe by going back and forth from the photo source in my phone to the Mastodon post in the future #Accessibility#DisabledMastodon#BlindMastodon
Eyo, #BlindMasto / #BlindMastodon / #BlindFedi. I come to you with one question: is #TikTok accessible? I would love your input as I will be at a meeting with a blindness group who is intending to launch a TikTok page, and I have concerns that the content posted there will be inaccessible to blind viewers. Any thoughts appreciated. #Blind#LowVision#VisuallyImpaired#Accessibility#A11Y
I thought it couldn't get any worse, but the Instagram website, specifically the direct messaging chats list, has gone even further down the accessibility toilet. As of now, my screen reader cannot see chats that I know exist. Particularly frustrating as fellow students and student groups use Instagram direct messaging religiously.
I need to read #German#Braille, and have configured #JAWS with two braille profiles: English and German. However, JAWS does not render the capital letter indicator (dots 4-6) when in the German profile, even though the “Suppress Capital Signs” checkbox within the “Profile details” dialog for the German profile is not checked. I am running JFW version 2023.2307.37. Any help is appreciated. #Blind#LowVision#VisuallyImpaired#BlindMasto#BlindMastodon#BlindFedi@freedomscientific