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
Question to peole with screen readers about alt text:
Do you want the description in alt text to be what is seen or do you want an interpretation and opinions?
I see people using a hashtag about alt text being an art form and often putting interpretations, opinions and assumptions in there and somehow it irritates me, so I wanted to ask those who actually need the alt text.
People who use #ScreenReaders, imagine a feature on your instance where you can automatically hide any post that contains images/videos without alt text.
If you reply with an opinion and YOU PERSONALLY don't need alt text for accessibility reasons, I will probably block you.
"I am an NVDA screen reader user, and to preserve some of the "how to"
I have grown to rely on, I have begun asking the Google A.I.
assistant, Gemini, how to do specific tasks with my screen reader?
I am experiencing something of concern in that directions given do not
always equal experience gained."
In-Process is out - live from Melbourne! Featuring news on NVDA 2024.1 Beta 10, the WebAIM screen reader user survey results, GitHub's accessibility survey and the results of our own Mastodon survey! Read it now at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-29th-february-2024/
Thanks for your patience with the beta glitch last week. We're pleased to advise we've got rid of those nasty bugs. NVDA 2024.1 Beta 10 is now available, and we promise the bugs in this version are much friendlier! Please do head to https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1beta10/ for all the details & to download.
Here's a #screenreader tip if you are using a smart TV: turn off image processing!
Default settings apply a ton of effects to your picture. These are not only pointless if you are blind, but also make the device perform slower, including queuing of screenreader audio!
Go into your picture settings and change the mode to cinema/movie/director/game mode, and enable any available low latency options. Disable features like noise reduction, motion smoothing, sharpening, and so on.
@randulo It depends on the punctuation settings that a #ScreenReader user has set. For me, I didn't notice them whatsoever, but if I set my punctuation to 'All' for example, every comma, every dot, every slash or quote will be spoken.
Someone please tell me screen reader support isn’t broken on the major Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu that ship Wayland as default.
(I can’t get the modifier key for Orca to work under the latest Fedora Silverblue and, according to the linked issue, it’s because… it just doesn’t work under Wayland? That can’t be right, right? It would mean the major Linux distributions are inaccessible.)
Just installed and had a quick play with a new screen reader for Linux called Odilia. It doesn’t support key bindings at all at the moment but it did read stuff out and performed better than Orca at that with the custom Festival voice I’m using (Orca performs very well with its internal robot voice but the Festival voices are far more human.)
Anyway, not ready for use in any way but might be worth keeping an eye on:
Is there a #screenreader or something that you could recommend to use if I want to listen to a #paper
I have to urgently read through several #scientific papers but am too stressed and sleep deprived to focus on just reading the text. Please send help 👀
Papers are all available in #pdf and some also in other formats.
Adding alt text to images for social media used to be really hard, but nowadays you can let everyone enjoy images easily in all the social media tools. I decided to teach you how to do it!
I really wish there were a way to quickly pause #NVDA's speech output while testing #ScreenReader navigation without having to close the whole application. (Is there perhaps a way to do that which I haven't figured out?)