Dictation - Google's Project Relate looks interesting. Google has you train your voice on 500+ cards, then creates a custom model for your voice. Particularly useful for anyone with unusual speech patterns.
Announced in late 2021, the Android app was released in January 2023. It sounds like the dictation accuracy (once trained) is better than current apps (Siri, Echo, Google, Dragon).
Made an change for VoiceOver in Slack on iOS. Tested it well via swiping gestures but forgot to test via explore-by-touch. Turns out, that was broken. Getting a hot fix out ASAP, and my apologies to any VO users that hit this issue (roll out was only at 1%, so hopefully very few!)
So let this be a PSA to always test your changes with swipe gestures AND explore-by-touch on mobile!
Outrageous! #AudioEye, a so-called #accessibility overlay vendor, has sued @aardrian, a highly respected member of the Accessibility community! Adrian has spent countless hours unveiling the pitiful truth about overlay accessibility solutions, with AudioEye being one of the prime examples. These so called solutions not only FAIL to meet their promises, but they also manage to erect MORE accessibility barriers on the websites they’re supposed to be ‘improving’.
Instead of acknowledging their flaws and engaging with the community, Audioeye hides behind lawsuits, which makes them seem even more miserable.This behavior is a glaring testament to their true intentions - which seems to be anything BUT making the world a more accessible place.
Accessibility work is an emotionally draining field, and it’s sickening to think of what Adrian is being forced to endure right now. https://adrianroselli.com/2023/05/audioeye-is-suing-me.html> #standWithAdrian#a11y#overlays#gaad23
a lot of people seem to think that screen readers should be able to recognize when extended characters are being used as a visual quirk rather than in the actual context they're meant for. while there's about eight million reasons this isn't as feasible as people imagine, that's not really what i want to address here.
my screen reader is set to be particularly verbose on extended characters outside standard punctuation because i work in math and those characters mean something and come up often
but i don't stop being a math person on social media. there is no math/social separation in my life. my social media is just as full of extended characters being used as they are intended unless from mathstodon because they have LaTeX.
also, i'll address one "reason" it's feasible: yes, LLMs can parse this, but screen readers are already incredibly resource intensive and including ML like this would make most people's computer's unusable.
I was just let go from my job and I’m looking for a new place to land.
If anyone knows of an open role for a Senior QA with 10 years of experience, please let me know.
I have extensive skills in Agile, SDLC, Jira, Confluence, Smoke and regression testing, Postman, documentation and more. I’m in the US (NY) and am looking for something remote / WFH.
Even if you don’t have a role but see this post, PLEASE BOOST IT so someone else may see it. Thank you.
I'm genuinely glad that more people are transcribing content these days.
However, if you're using speech-to-text AI tools, please, please, please take the time to clean up the transcripts/captions before sharing them.
AI transcripts still make obvious errors, misplace speaker labels, split sentences prematurely, merge other sentences, and add unnecessary line breaks.
All of these still make your transcript less usable, and come across as unpolished and uninvested in. #a11y
Ivory for iOS/iPadOS 1.4 is out on the App Store! It will slowly roll out over the next few days, but if you want it now, go to the App Store and manually update.
Heyah, #BlindMastodon / #BlindFedi hivemind. Does anyone know how the #accessibility / #a11y of #calckey stands right now? Its features look promising and I'm becoming interested as I read more, but I'd rather not jump into a place where there's not good #ScreenReader accessibility and #KeyboardNavigation yet either from the web UI or from third-party apps. Any and all thoughts welcome. Thanks.
find myself constantly having to explain/re-explain the same two #accessibility topics ... and really, i should just get off my arse and write articles about them so i can just reference them... one day... #a11y
As seen on an Accessibility Specialist job listing posted today:
"Experience- WCAG 2.2 or WCAG 3.0: 3 years (Preferred)"
Never mind the part where WCAG 2.2 is still at the "Candidate Recommendation Draft" stage as of 01/25/23 and the initial public draft for 3.0 (not including the later revisions!) was 839 days ago, equating to roughly 2.3 years. 😂
Clearly posted by a time traveling recruiter from the future. #a11y#accessibility#WCAG