As I just discovered, #Mastodon can be installed as a Progressive Web App. This is supported by Chromium-based browsers and possibly others.
I can now run it directly from my #GNOME desktop. #PWA#Chromium#linux
@bragefuglseth If they (and perhaps also the GTK 4 developers) fix their #accessibility support, I'll be able to use Tuba.
I tried it, but I wasn't able to bring keyboard focus to the editable field to enter the server name, hence couldn't advance beyond the first dialogue.
Running GNOME 44.1, a recent version of the Orca screen reader from Git, and Tuba from the Arch User Repository. #linux#ScreenReader
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.
@miki@talon The thing is, and I've used it before but not thought of it until today, it's #ScreenReader profiling people. By handing over your email to a company that very few people actually know about, you're giving them free data on those that use screen-readers, and for what goal? It's very dirty and underhanded. I did not realise this until today.
I have an #accessibility question for the #WebDev community: How can I make an accessible spoiler element? On my site, I use a #CSS class to make my div have a black background, and text color set to black. On hover (or on tap on mobile) the background and text color is unset. It's dawned on me though that this surely isn't doing anything for screen readers. So, how might I go about making this work better? An example page can be see here: https://www.vzqk50.com/projects/pentabit/#explanation
I'm wondering how screen readers cope with emoticons within posts. I was just reading someone's introduction, and it said "I enjoy [emoticon of a pile of books], listening to [emoticon of, I think, a radio], and eating [emoticon of a plant] food." I'm not visually impaired, but even I found that difficult to read. Does it come across as a garbled word salad through screen readers?
Today I am disappointed and disgusted to say that #WesternDigital have sent me an email that has very important content in it, but it's inaccessible.
They've suffered a data breach, but the information about said breach has been put into the email as an image.
A #ScreenReader user without some level of tech knowledge would be unable to read that, and may actually think it's spam. To us, it goes straight to the line that says 'Copyright 2023 Western Digital' and skips all the salient points.
Utterly disgusting behaviour from such a large company about such an important topic.
If you're of a mind to do so, please boost to raise awareness.
This email is seemingly not a drill.
Great to see even companies like @RogueAmoeba here on #Mastodon. This, I found out from their email newsletter which, unlike some companies I could mention (cough cough #SpitfireAudio) is #accessible for #ScreenReader users. Great work people.
Q for #Blind / #lowVision / #visuallyImpaired folks / #screenReader users: are any of these styles (in poll below) preferred as a way to add emphasis to words in plain text? Wondering which if any of these are communicated effectively while also not being irritating.
Please DO NOT vote based on visual aesthetic preference!!
Calckey is a Fediverse server type which includes lots of features that Mastodon doesn't yet have, such as emoji reactions, markdown, customisable interfaces, widgets and lots more.
To see for yourself, have a look on the official website at:
Ok, I have audio destination selected in the VO rotor, but it doesn't come up when I try to use the rotor. That is just not ok. I can select a device in Control Center, but that is kind of an unwieldy process. #iOS#ScreenReader
This is an utterly ridiculous name for a #ScreenReader user to have to hear. This is someone’s youtube name I came across in the comment section of a video, and I think the best way to show you how annoying it is to listen to, is to show you an audio recording of what my phone does, when it comes across it. Standard letters really do suffice, people. It is not necessary for all this. Even with my phone set to the normal speed at which I listen to speech, it takes an age to get through this, not to mention that youtube actually repeats names twice before reading out the comment.
It's just trying to say 'Sinister Potato.'
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If this doesn't prove that good old-fashioned letters do the trick, I don't know what will. 14 letters without a space, 6 syllables (when spoken normally) but far, far too many for a #ScreenReader user to have to deal with in this instance. Don't. Just, don't.
So yesterday I got an interesting question from a student. If JAWS crashes, how do you fix it? Liek with NVDA, you can just Windows R, NVDA, Enter, and it shuts down any already running processes and restarts NVDA. Does JAWS have something like that?
Seems that LTT's #FloatPlane doesn't want my money. Their website has some issues for #ScreenReader users, I opened a support ticket almost a week ago, not heard back from them. I offered to take them through what's wrong with the site on a call, free-of-charge and everything. Oh well.
Mir ist wichtig, dass unsere Inhalte hier auch für Menschen mit #Sehbehinderung gut nachvollziehbar sind. Ich hab mir zusätzlich zu #Bildbeschreibungen angewöhnt, bei Hashtags aus zusammengesetzten Worten am Anfang des neuen Begriffs einen Großbuchstaben zu verwenden, wenns kein ganz nomales zusammengestztes Substantiv ist.
Das hilft beim Vorlesen lassen enorm, denn der Screenreader erkennt so, wo ein neuer Begriff beginnt.
#Accessibility basics. Not everyone uses sight, so they cant acces visual stuff. Here helps #screenreader which uses text to speech software, which allows it to speak. but, not everything can work with screenreader, some apps just are not read at all, some are partially accessible, some are just made that they work amazingly with them.