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

If you had told my 10-year-old Blind girl self that in 30 years i’d be taking pictures of a touchscreen with another touchscreen to find out from a conversational AI down on land how much longer the flight is; and that this is somehow easier than making the airline fix their website so i can read the damn time for myself; she would have been mad, but maybe not entirely surprised

ChanceyFleet, to random

What strikes me most in the ChatGPT4O demos is some kind of high camp deference. Fluid, unconditional, unearned enthusiasm and delight. They had real actors model laughter and surprise but not hesitation, boredom, discomfort. This pre-fab veneer of joyful work — is this the dream?

ChanceyFleet, to random

GPT4O still doesn’t know the ABC’S in Braille. Training data reflects real-world bias and resource distribution: if underresourced codes and languages aren’t affirmatively included in an LLM, it's destined to perpetuate every old familiar knowledge gap.

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

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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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, to random

Where do i go to find a cool dress in Berkeley/Oakland now that Convert has closed? I have a fancy event thing Saturday night and nothing i love the thought of wearing. Please boost so some dress-finding experts see it! I love: pieces that are wearable/comfy while stylish; fun and unusual cuts; fabrics that feel amazing and last a long time. I despise pencil-cut and sheath designs and i will not step foot in a chain store. Thank you

ChanceyFleet, to random

If anyone ever tells you that "good" verbal description for accessibility should be objective, swing this at them like a chair https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8NN5TTg/

ChanceyFleet, to random

Today in Blind girl surprises: i learned the body pose that people use to propose, down on one knee (my husband did not do this: i said "should we get married or something" and he said "i reckon" and there were no contortions). I’m sorry — this is romantic? I might take this stance if i really had to pee, or needed to tie my shoe, or started to trip but wanted it to look cool. Y'all do this on purpose in front of cameras?

ChanceyFleet, to random

Nonprofit / activist friends — who knows about affordble retreat spaces in New York State that will be open in the late fall and could fit 75 people? So far, I know about Stony Point …

ChanceyFleet, to ai

Claude 2, the "more honest, helpful, harmless" new large language model from Anthropic, just taught me about "la lota": a colloquial Latin American tech term rootedin early 2000s consumer culture. Except: this term isn’t real. https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vT55qU8aQgj0_uEs_4alQFiYu3GhFIH2jbtIMEVZ6I9x-3kECmMWZwCQcxovHxEaUs5EWkKCAjUzJ7v/pub

ChanceyFleet, to random

This is how I entered the AI lottery of facts and got played.
It's a story about how we can be led to accept hallucinations even when we we think we’re braced for them.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lqhijvjYzVuhPdecLY1XX_7XD1VB9vSy4txozbWf30/edit

ChanceyFleet, to random

I was in a great mood this morning — fast-walked to the trainwith my guide dog, loving the teamwork appreciating the birds. Dressed up and confident as hell. Then we step onto this subway car and some absolute zombie of a sighted person wordlessly grabs me around the bare elbow so hard that I feel fingernails. This is not how you offer a seat, folks. This is how you replace somebody’s good vibes with a fight-or-flight response: thoughts scattered, heart racing, body tense as a bow. Can we not?

ChanceyFleet, to accessibility

Introducing a different kind of conference at the New York Public Library, October 21-22! Free to attend: focused on maker culture, affordable tech, intersectional / human factors, and emerging technologies. No web accessibility 101 talks and no talks focused on sales. Our proposal window has closed but we’ve left open a crack — fill the form this week and you're good! https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/07/05/upcoming-nypls-accessible-technology-conference-2023

ChanceyFleet, to random

Today i let a little girl at the library play with my guide dog out of harness as a reward for finishing a Braille lesson her mom wanted her to have. For five minutes kiddo and doggo are happily visiting, wagging, talking and giggling. And then … i hear this rattle. i investigate. Guide dog Ellie has wriggled under her harness and has halfway put it on unassisted. She has now mastered the timeless library worker classic: "I’d love to keep chatting but i need to get back to work!"

ChanceyFleet, to blender

I’m a Blind technologist and i’ve built the Dimensions Lab for #accessible tactile graphics and #3d models at New York Public Library. With the right tools, skill-building opps and community support, Blind people can break out of image poverty and excel at spatial thinking + design. This is me waving hello to folks in #Vis #Art #Graphics & #CreativeCoding https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074036/ending-image-poverty/amp/

ChanceyFleet, to random

On the way home today my husband spotted a lady ascending the subway stairs in a very short skirt in such a way that a tampon string was revealed. He referred to it as a "tea-bag dangler". I asked him if this happens often and he says he sees it maybe once a year?!?!? There are some eventualities that i have just never considered as a Blind person i guess

ChanceyFleet, to random

JFC Google Bard: "Braille is easier to read when the ink is dark"

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