ChanceyFleet

@ChanceyFleet@mas.to

I'm a Blind tech educator in New York. I'm passionate about making sure accessible tech isn't harmful or extractive, building digital literacy, and bringing tactile graphics and Braille within reach for all Blind people! I run the Dimensions Project at NYPL — we're the world's only free and public tactile graphics lab and we've got all the equipment and training you need to learn the art of tactile design

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ChanceyFleet, to random

Our library tech education team is preparing to teach Swift Playgrounds with Voiceover this summer. If you’ve taught this curriculum to Blind kids or adults, we’d love to talk with you about it - please reach out! TIA for bossting to reach more folks

matt, to random

Question for @ChanceyFleet and other blind people working with tactile graphics: If the Inkscape UI were accessible on Windows and macOS, even though the graphics canvas itself wouldn't be, would that help with any of the work you do? I might be able to make that happen as a byproduct of the work I'm doing on GNOME accessibility; I'm integrating my cross-platform AccessKit accessibility library into GTK, the UI toolkit used by Inkscape.

ChanceyFleet,

@matt For sure. Scaling, rotating, applying filters, cropping etc would be very useful even without a tangible canvas.

ChanceyFleet, to random

Join Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen, Steve Landau and I at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum for an afternoon of dialog and discovery about tactile symbols!

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/touching-the-stars-designing-tactile-symbols-for-space-flight-and-beyond-04-27-2024/

ChanceyFleet, to random

You CAN, however, ruin someone’s day with one line of code

ChanceyFleet, to random

Dear sighted people: there is one (1) context in which you are allowed to play around with blindfolds without the supervision of a real Blind person. And if you're thinking of your grandmother in this one (1) context, you are doing it very wrong. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/arts/design/mercer-labs-roy-nachum-braille.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk0.1u5k.ubednlf8bxrD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

ChanceyFleet, to random

Sure i’ll spring forward. Back into this bed

ChanceyFleet, to random

FML. I left my guide dog Ellie home today because she hates her snow boots and I just — I just called my cane a "good girl!" out loud for anybody to hear when it found the door to Tenichi Mart.

ChanceyFleet, to random

Copilot by Bing has twice responded "i’m sorry to hear that you are blind" after i disclose in the course of, say, a request for image description. If i wanted to be micro-aggressed i would go to the airport, thanks

ChanceyFleet,

@MisuseCase It's also a very straightforward case of bias in training data coming back to haunt.

ChanceyFleet, to random

Peak tech educator moment: I’m using Be My Ai to read the webcomic from Data, Responsibly about AI bias. What’s interesting is that straight ChatGPT refuses to describe copyrighted PDF documents so i’m literally sitting here using Be My AI to take pictures of my laptop screen as i move through the PDF page by page. Time is a circle: i was also taking pictures to get access one page at a time in the 90s with the Kurzweil Reading Edge

ChanceyFleet,

@mattmay it just notices that the text is copyrighted and outright refuses. This isn’t even DRM.

ChanceyFleet, to random

How is Zoom so genuinely good at screen reader accessibility for meeting attendees, while curating an admin experience for meeting creators that feels more like a game of nonconsensual ski-ball, UX-wise, with every passing month?

ChanceyFleet, to random

My husband calls seltzer water without flavoring "blank" and i would just like to go on record with a hard agree

ChanceyFleet, to random

Is there anything more satisfying than the sound when they shut that boarding door and there’s nobody else in your row?

ChanceyFleet, to graphics

The latest version of Photos in Windows 11 lets you send obtrusive backgrounds right to hell. Edit Photo — Background — Remove — Apply — Save Options (copy to clipboard, overwrite old image or save as new) — buh-bye. As a Blind technologist i constantly need to chase away background clutter before can work for / perception, whether i’m embossing, using swellform or 3d printing. Sighted people, you'll probably like this too.

ChanceyFleet,

@matt This method works with most file formats. Often i’m not dealing with a photo (unless i’m 3d printing a relief, most photos are too complex). More likely, i’ve selected something that by all rights SHOULD be good for tactile, like a Keith Haring painting or some sort of clip art or a mandala — or something i asked generative AI for. Simplifying photos is a whole other thing that has not been solved yet.

ChanceyFleet, to random

Fav if you've used both an outhouse and a large language model. Boost if you're as curious as i am. I have — born in the early 80s in rural Virginia, mom owned an antique shop doing business in an old general store and we had what we had. I’m now a tech educator in a library. In the UX for both, we’re encouraged not to think too much about what happens to our inputs

ChanceyFleet, to random

Sometimes i catch myself doing something which for me passes for normal and then realize that the sighted people on the train with me would be massively disoriented if they knew. Today i imagined people glancing over and thinking "wow, that Blind girl can use a smartphone: INSPIRATION!" which is what they occasionally say to me out loud. What i was actually doing: idly taking pics out the train window and asking ChatGPT to describe them in the voice of Lorelei Gilmore because i was bored.

ChanceyFleet,

As a tech educator it is my goal to get every patron, who wishes it, comfortable enough with their smartphone to do frivolous things with ease and at speed. And i model that. So PSA i guess: your inspiration is probably not using the phone to mentor underprivileged children and journal affirmations. She is probably doomscrolling social media, buying silly shit online, talking smack in a group text, playing a never-ending dice game or making an AI be weird. Warms your heart i hope.

ChanceyFleet, to random

Tech industry friends: please stop advertising fireside chats and then showing up with nothing to burn

ChanceyFleet, to random

Registration is filling up fast for our inaugural accessible tech conference at NYPL!
You Are Invited! NYPL’s Accessible Technology Conference 2023 | The New York Public Library

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/09/07/you-are-invited-nypls-accessible-technology-conference-2023

ChanceyFleet,

@dotsonapage some sessions will be recorded and offered for download later.

ChanceyFleet,

@dotsonapage @JeffBishop I don’t think we can but we’re making recordings available.

ChanceyFleet, to random

APS — accessible pedestrian scissors https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT82GjDmj/

ChanceyFleet, to design

Library staff & patrons were sad when APH discontinued the Peg Slate, a beloved Braille learning tool that we use for word-building & games.
But thanks to Noam and friends at Makers Making Change NYC, we have a fresh take on the classic idea — Braille cells that are poppable, swappable, rackable & so colorful! You can download and print your own right here:
https://thangs.com/designer/noamplatt
Start your Braille adventure with us here:
https://talkingbooks.nypl.org

ChanceyFleet,

@remixman They do not!

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