This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.
How do you feel about duplicate links in articles, blogs, whatever? Meaning: A certain word is a link (let's say "HEALTH") leading to an external website.
Would it annoy you if this word was always a link and it's mentioned for example 20 times in an article? Or would you rather have it only once to make it easier to scan for links?
Hello friends, can you please retoot this widely? We are searching for someone using a #screenreader to test a particular #accessibility issue with fancy unicode strings. Thanks for sharing.
Meine getooteten Fotos versehe ich mit #ALT . #Bildbeschreibung machen mir persönlich Spaß, denn ich wende meine im Bereich Kunst angelernten Skills wie Bildinterpretation/Bildanalyse an, die ich in meinem Grafik Beruf schon lange nicht mehr benutze.
Wofür das überhaupt? Es gibt nun mal auch Menschen mit #Sehbehinderung, die können Bilder in dem Maße wie Du und ich nicht sehen. #Blind#Amaurose
Viele waren einst gutsehend.
how you move to next elements, e.g. headings, comments, footnote in a google doc? here goes! ctrl+alt+n, ctrl+alt+c for next comment, except when you press ctrl+alt+n, nvda starts/quits,
so what's the alternative? #accessibility#nvda#screenReader#googleDocs
So apparently #sonos is releasing a completely redesigned app in May. Has anyone heard anything about #accessibility? Do we know if any #screenreader users are in the beta program? #a11y
Sometimes, you might think that previous #accessibility wisdom has been superseded by new "facts". Maybe someone told you that #screenReaders don't work well with a particular design pattern, but you tested #ScreenReader X and it seemed to work fine. Perhaps you heard that an interactive HTML input doesn't persist with forced colours styling, but you tried a High Contrast mode in Microsoft Edge and it seemed to be there.
There are three considerations usually missing here:
How are you defining and evaluating the working state? Do you have a functional, accurate understanding of the #accessTechnology or accessibility feature you are asserting things about?
You tested one thing in relation to a statement about multiple things, e.g. a statement is made about screen readers, plural, and you only tested with #VoiceOver (it's always VoiceOver). Beyond posting on the web-a11y Slack, how do you propose testing more broadly, if you plan to at all?
Possibly the most critical at all: is this question worth its overheads? If answering it conclusively would require me to test ten screen readers with 45 speech engines, or seven browsers with 52 permutations of CSS properties, maybe following the advice is "cheaper" than determining whether the advice is still completely relevant.
Important disclaimer: this relates specifically to cases where following the advice would not actively make things worse for users.
TL;DR: when you know doing a thing won't make things bad, doing the thing is usually quicker than evaluating whether not doing the thing is also bad.
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Congratulations also to The GNU Compiler Collection, Urllib3, CLAP & MSW.
New blog post! Free #accessibility consulting for #tidal! #music recommendations from yours truly! #ScreenReader testing! Click here and find out how #NVDA clearly wins this iteration of the series:
Hey #screenreader users: How problematic is it when people abuse alt texts to add image credits, license information, or URLs?
Of course I'm aware that it's not what they're intended for, and that, given the choice, you'd rather not have people do this, but how much of an issue is it in practice? I have never really used a screen reader, but I'd imagine you can just skip over an alt text like that, and that it's maybe just confusing for a moment?
Question re aria-live - either polite or assertive - does the user need to still have the tab or the browser active/in focus, to receive the announcements?
Our new Chief Technology Officer, Gerald Hartig, is being interviewed on Vision Australia Radio tonight at 8:10pm AEST (About 1hr 15mins after I post this). You can tune in online at: http://player.listenlive.co/65731/
Heute ist FREEDOM DAY! Wir haben 83 Menschen aus dem Gefängnis freigekauft, die wegen Fahren ohne Ticket einsaßen.
Wir wollen das nicht mehr machen. Es sollte den Freiheitsfonds nicht geben müssen. Marco Buschmann hat noch immer kein Gesetz zur Entkriminalisierung vorgelegt.
Insgesamt haben wir jetzt 992 Menschen aus dem Knast befreit und zusammen 182 Haftjahre gestrichen. Außerdem hat das dem Staat Kosten in Höhe von 14,2 Millionen Euro gespart. 1/
Just wanted to bring this to the #blind community's attention: Giving two massive thumbs down to the #Vivaldi browser as the experience for those of us using a #screenreader is #atrocious There's no seperation between the toolbar at the top, the main part of the window & the status bar at the bottom. Trying to use a shortcut to access the toolbar or even the address bar won't work as there's no keyboard shortcuts to do that with. Even accessing the menu is a hit or miss proposition for a screen reader user. Also, don't get me started on the focus jumping that goes on when you're navigating between pages, it's frustrating to say the least. Very #disappointed that accessibility seems to be an afterthought for this browser. #Avoid using this hot mess of a web browser until they bother to fix it, assuming they actually give a shit in the first place. Boost if possible, as I'd like to save others in the blind community from a poor #accessibility experience.
The current owner of #VoiceDreamReader is the Applause group, who offer #accessibility auditing and testing services to many high-profile clients. When Applause are paid to evaluate the accessibility of a product, they are expected to point out some of the exact issues that have been raised in relation to their work on #VoiceDream, such as controls that have no labels or accessible role information, images without alt text, etc.
This hints at a wider problem in the industry, where companies are "cashing in" on the market for accessibility-related services without actually being that invested or incentivised to do good work. Do Applause work with #disabled testers? Was anybody there tasked with testing the application with a #screenReader and other #assistiveTechnology? If not, it raises questions about whether their accessibility services are a force for good, or are actually causing harm.
NV Access is very pleased to share the release of the NVDA 2024.1 Release Candidate. Unless any major issues are identified, this will be identical to the final release. We encourage all users to test the Release Candidate. Many updates including on-demand speech mode, native selection in Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store and much more! Read the full details and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1rc1/
Someone should replicate some/most of leasey into nvda Addons. Previously we had v-terbo and v-mouse, but it has been discontinued. #nvda#screenReader#addon
Thank you #accessibilityoverlay for automatically enabling, informing me to change your settings or disable that I could go to a specific button, it would have helped if every button was not just called button, also would have been nice if you had not replaced every navigation object with a label that said the type and level of them but without any function, and also forcing a mobile webpage to use keyboard navigation and pass through commands to do anything. As a #blind#screenreader user this is very helpful to decide what businesses I will not be doing business with, have fun explaining to your clients how your product helped them with pesky customers wanting to pay them for things. @mastoblind