Where @SteveFaulkner points out the ChatGPT UI is inaccessible and, had its developers asked ChatGPT for help, its ‘AI’-powered fixes still would have been wrong.
I am concerned. Not about Large Language Models (LLM)s doing me out of a job, but about the people who make money out of them not making their User Interfaces (UI)s accessible.
So my tool that I'm making is being made with Game Maker. Game Maker doesn't have built in Text To Speech capabilities, so I hired someone to make a DLL for GameMaker so GMS2 games can now work with NVDA, SAPI, JAWS, and a few others I never heard of! If you use GameMaker, check it out since it's licensed under LPGL! Also tell the developer they did good because they did!
I am stable for the time being, but a rapid disease progression in my 40s had me losing my vision and most reading capabilities, especially small text (phones and horrendously, most paper books).
Alt text is really helpful — and it can also be fun to write.
This is the image I'm generating to share the forecast. My plan is to by default share the image and text that has the same forecast information for accessibility reasons. I'd have a setting so that you can use just the image or just the text when you share a forecast.
Since I'm defaulting to sharing image and plain text forecasts should I add some "alt text" for the image that says "hey, this image contains this forecast info" or is that overkill?
I would love some more feedback on the game I made for the game jam! It's a blind accessible turn based RPG, and I'm really hoping for feedback because it's the first game I've made in my engine! The goal of the engine is to be accessible to everyone and make games that are accessible. So feedback on this game also helps with the future of my engine be as good as possible! https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/rate/2042449#GameDev#A11y#accessibility#Gaming
A big lesson in accessibility can be gleaned from gaming:
Give people the options, and a LOT more people will make use of them than you might expect!
The option to hold/auto complete QTEs instead of mashing for example, is technically intended for people with motor difficulties. But it's by no means only for them.
Accessibility features ARE features! People love features! Approach them as features, not "grumble grumble gotta do this".
Since being educated on digital accessibility, I put a lot of effort in incorporating this knowledge into the classes that I teach as an assistive technology instructor. We should all have a basic understanding of what accessibility means, not just for our community, but others as well. DeQue University is an underused resource, as their courses are free to those with disabilities. Are there any other quality resources out there that are your go to for information, and education on #A11Y
Oh yay, someone has referenced an utterly inaccessible web-dot-dev pattern again as ‘the right way’ because (hand-wavy) Google and I have to be the asshole.