#assistivetech — Public Fediverse posts
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2/2 Inklusion heißt deshalb auch: Dass wir Technik nicht danach beurteilen, was sie Durchschnittsmenschen zusätzlich bietet, sondern welche Barrieren sie anderen nimmt.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #106: Interview with Steve Barclay, Founder and President, Canadian Assistive Technology, and Co-Host, AT Banter Podcast | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-19-2026/Steve Barclay rose from bench technician to co-owner at Aroga, lost it after his partner diverted company money, and rebuilt from his townhouse basement on his wife's capital.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #106: Interview with Steve Barclay, Founder and President, Canadian Assistive Technology, and Co-Host, AT Banter Podcast | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-19-2026/Steve Barclay rose from bench technician to co-owner at Aroga, lost it after his partner diverted company money, and rebuilt from his townhouse basement on his wife's capital.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #106: Interview with Steve Barclay, Founder and President, Canadian Assistive Technology, and Co-Host, AT Banter Podcast | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-19-2026/Steve Barclay rose from bench technician to co-owner at Aroga, lost it after his partner diverted company money, and rebuilt from his townhouse basement on his wife's capital.
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If you have not tried AI voice mode hands free yet, give it a go on a walk.
No keyboard, no screen, just talking and listening. For a lot of us it is the most natural the tech has ever felt.
What do you use voice mode for?
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BONUS podcast EPISODE: We Walk Talk! 🦯
What’s up, Docs! We joined Sight and Sound Technology for a special WeWalk Talk, exploring the WeWalk smart cane and some of its fantastic features.
Listen now: https://thetechdocpod.com/
#TechDocs #WeWalk #Accessibility #TechTalk #BlindMastodon #A11y #AssistiveTech #IrishPodcast
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I have stood alone in an airport, pointed my phone at the sign above me, and asked what gate it was and which way the restrooms were.
Ten years ago that was a stranger's favor. Now it is a question I get to ask out loud, on my own terms.
No Sight Required.
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NVDA Coach walks you through 45 lessons, step by step, free. #NVDA #AssistiveTech #Blind
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Master the tool in your hands first. #AssistiveTech #ScreenReader #Learning
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We were never the broken part. #AssistiveTech #Disability #A11y
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Researchers from KAIST and Stanford have demonstrated a robotic garment that can help dress a wearer in about 10 seconds, a step toward assistive clothing tech for older and disabled people.
#GoodNews #AssistiveTech #Accessibility #Robotics #IndependentLiving #HealthTech
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🎙️ New episode alert!
Episode 6 of Tech Docs is out now!
This month we’re joined by Dave Nason to chat all things Apple, explore the latest accessibility updates, share our favourite everyday tech, answer your listener questions, and, of course, enjoy plenty of laughs along the way.
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or visit
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This is awesome for accessibility, but I'm immediately wondering what all I could do with it to make music, discrete communication, heads-up displays... more tongue dexterity for everyone. https://www.augmental.tech/ #accessibility #assistivetech #sf
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New NVDA add-on: WindowState. Press NVDA+Shift+T to hear if your foreground window is maximized, restored, minimized, or snapped to a side or quarter of the screen. Optionally appends the state to NVDA+T like JAWS does.
I built this because pressing Windows+Up Arrow to maximize a window sometimes triggers the Windows 11 snap chooser instead, and NVDA doesn't tell you which one happened. There's no way to just ask "is this window maximized?" without trying to resize and listening to what changed. Now there is.
Requires NVDA 2026.1+. Free and open source.
Download: https://github.com/RareBird15/windowState/releases/tag/v1.0.0
#NVDA #Accessibility #BlindTech #ScreenReader #AssistiveTech
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@j @NikJov Thanks for the feedback! Version 0.5.0 is out now and addresses both issues:
- The bare number keys are gone. Prediction selection is now NVDA+Control+1 through NVDA+Control+0. This shouldn't break heading navigation in browse mode or interfere with typing numbers.
- The Ctrl+letter shortcut problem is fixed. The add-on now waits for you to physically release Control before typing the predicted word, instead of trying to force-release it. No more Chrome history, save dialogs, or new windows popping up.
- Terminal auto-detection is here (thanks @j for the suggestion). Prediction automatically disables in 30+ terminal apps including Windows Terminal, PowerShell, CMD, WSL, PuTTY, and more. Toggleable in Settings.
Download Word Predictor v0.5.0
#Accessibility #NVDA #BlindTech #ScreenReader #AssistiveTech
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Today I built an NVDA add-on: WordPredictor.
It watches what you type and predicts the next word using n-gram analysis. Predictions are announced through NVDA's own speech engine. No external TTS, no clipboard pasting, no mouse required.
Features:
- Automatic predictions after each word
- Partial-word prediction (type "sho", get "should")
- Learns from your writing and saves across restarts
- Settings panel in NVDA Settings
- All keys remappable in Input Gestures
I built this because Lightkey Pro AT doesn't work well with NVDA. Gestures conflict, system-wide mode requires mouse clicking, and words get mangled when pasting. This add-on works inside NVDA instead of against it.
Download: https://github.com/RareBird15/wordpredictor/releases/tag/v0.3.0
#Accessibility #NVDA #BlindTech #ScreenReader #AssistiveTech
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#Development #Guidelines
Use cases for the ‘aria-expanded’ attribute · How to determine when ‘aria-expanded’ is appropriate https://ilo.im/16ekr9_____
#AssistiveTech #Accessibility #ARIA #ProgressiveEnhancement #APIs #Browsers #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS -
Anyone using Kontakt 8 on a Mac with VoiceOver?
I'm trying to use VOCR to access the File menu so I can run Batch Re-save on my libraries, but I'm stuck. Nothing happens when I activate the File menu button. VOCR never sees the drop-down menu—it only detects my libraries and presets.
Has anyone figured out a way to access the File menu with VoiceOver, or found another accessible method for running Batch Re-save? I'm running Kontakt in standalone.
#Accessibility #VoiceOver #Blind #MacOS #NativeInstruments #Kontakt #MusicProduction #AudioProduction #AssistiveTech -
🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jack Walters, Founder & CEO, HapWare | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-15-2026/Dr. Adams talks with HapWare CEO Jack Walters about ALEYE, a haptic wristband that pairs with Meta smart glasses to translate facial expressions, gestures, and body language into wrist vibrations for blind and low-vision people in under a quarter-second.
#AssistiveTech #BlindCommunity #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jack Walters, Founder & CEO, HapWare | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-15-2026/Dr. Adams talks with HapWare CEO Jack Walters about ALEYE, a haptic wristband that pairs with Meta smart glasses to translate facial expressions, gestures, and body language into wrist vibrations for blind and low-vision people in under a quarter-second.
#AssistiveTech #BlindCommunity #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jack Walters, Founder & CEO, HapWare | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-06-15-2026/Dr. Adams talks with HapWare CEO Jack Walters about ALEYE, a haptic wristband that pairs with Meta smart glasses to translate facial expressions, gestures, and body language into wrist vibrations for blind and low-vision people in under a quarter-second.
#AssistiveTech #BlindCommunity #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp
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One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can Feel | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Top Tech Tidbits | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://toptechtidbits.com/onecourt-the-tablet-blind-fans-can-feel/How it works: the device taps official NFL, NBA, and MLB tracking data, translates it into a haptic language of vibrations, and pairs it with synced audio, so fans follow every play by touch. OneCourt is now a TTT sponsor.
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One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can Feel | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Top Tech Tidbits | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://toptechtidbits.com/onecourt-the-tablet-blind-fans-can-feel/How it works: the device taps official NFL, NBA, and MLB tracking data, translates it into a haptic language of vibrations, and pairs it with synced audio, so fans follow every play by touch. OneCourt is now a TTT sponsor.
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One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can Feel | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Top Tech Tidbits | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://toptechtidbits.com/onecourt-the-tablet-blind-fans-can-feel/How it works: the device taps official NFL, NBA, and MLB tracking data, translates it into a haptic language of vibrations, and pairs it with synced audio, so fans follow every play by touch. OneCourt is now a TTT sponsor.
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📋 Access App Club Survey | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4B_0-dfuGeQ1tGE0ZzC1xV-ideT9TFQm_fbazQXYexArd4Q/viewformAccessible apps are too often built without input from the blind and low-vision community. Dr. Edward Metz is developing Access App Club to give BVI students a direct role in shaping the apps and tools they use — and he wants your feedback first.
👉 Take the short 4-question survey (link above)
✉️ Questions: [email protected]Please share widely. 💜