#visionimpaired — Public Fediverse posts

#Blind and #visionimpaired people, and those who design accessible #PenPaper #rpg rulebooks in my followers: How do you read roleplaying game books, and what do you do with charts, map and illustrations?

Right now, most of my rulebook is text (see https://roa.5f9.de), and relies on purely textual information to convey things. That should be decently accessible with a screen reader.

BUT: I am thinking of redoing the skill "tree" with a hex map, so that each skill learned unlocks those that are touching that hex for future learning.

So, assuming you learn the skill "Physical Combat", that has "Stalwart Defender", "Hold Ground" and "Shield Use" adjacent to it - so these are unlocked now, even though "Shield Use" is part of a different skill group.

Visually, it is pretty easy to lay out and read. But how would that translate that to a screen reader? Would it be enough to list all adjacent skills in a skills description, and then people compile the map in their head?

My design goal is to lower cognitive load and lookups wherever I can, and this is a great way to do it visually, but I fear that it'll make things a lot harder for non-seeing people?

*edit: Boosts welcome

3D printing in education & tactile technology in sport, are just two ways technology is revolutionising access to community for people who are blind or vision impaired.

Have you used 3D printing or other tactile technology? Tell us about it!

3D printing use in education: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/school-for-vision-impaired-3d-models-finger-glance/104643348

AFL touch and track technology: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1346638/a-first-for-australian-sport-telstra-touch-and-track-technology-launches-at-marvel-stadium

#A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #VisionImpaired #AssistiveTechnology

I'll be the brave one to say this: Please stop making fun of light mode users and people who use high britness settings to their face. Just like how dark mode accomodates your eye comfort, light and neutral modes accomodate some with poor vision as well.

Yes, a lot of light modes are shitty and lazily made (please stop using #FFF white so much), but the people who need it dont deserve being individually maligned

#BeebzBlog #DarkMode #LightMode #ableism #VisionImpaired

ICYMI: My latest radio column about Jacob Wilkinson and his Kitchener-based hot sauce company, Blowing Smoke is up!

You can listen here : https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16145299-how-local-hot-sauce-maker-creates-fiery-recipes

#WaterlooRegion #SMB #Entrepreneur #VisionImpaired #Mastonom

I'm still looking for a big button Contacts Dialer for Android.

#VisionImpaired #Blind #AssitiveDevice

Guide Dogs campaign urges businesses to make dining out more accessible

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-23/guide-dogs-campiagn-nsw-accessible-dining-blindness/104964418

Oh FFS. 😡

#News #Australia #Disability #GuideDog #VisionImpaired #Discrimination

Woman takes Uber to Federal Court over repeated guide dog refusals

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-19/uber-sued-federal-court-discrimination-guide-dog/104891104

Disgraceful that this keeps happening

#News #Disability #Discrimination #GuideDog #VisionImpaired #Uber #Transport

Some #Drycleaners are IMO predatory scum.

A vision impaired elderly relative was for years using the local drycleaners.

Who would return the clothes still stained.

It wasn't until someone else put their glasses on and went through the clothes that had been drycleaned and found stains on most of them that the racket was unearthed.

A stern rebuke to the drycleaners was delivered in person by the discoverer.

How to assist?
When to assist?

#VisionImpaired

@dgar

I found my own post thru THE JOYS OF CLEAR ALT TEXT COMPOSITION!
JOY UNTO ALL WHO CARVE MEANING INTO MULTIMEDIA,
MAKING WAY FOR THOSE WHO MAKE WAVES!

https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/113187340313708910

Like a Dragon
Majima Goro is hot —
now in Hawai’i!

#YakuzaLikeaDragon #likeAdragon #yakuzaHawaii #MajimaGoro #GoroMajima #pirate #arr #meHearties #Japanese #WestCountry #soIguess #Okinawa #accent #antiPiracy #piracy #disability #eyepatch #vision #VisionLoss #visionImpaired #visionImpairment #sightLoss #eyesight #depthPerception #fighter #fighting #omg #watchThis #FightingGamesFriday #fightingGame #fighting_games #JRPG #RPG #nerd #puns #geek #dork #dweeb #game #gamer #gaming

"Hey, let's include #braille on this container, so that people who are #blind or #visionimpaired can use it, too!" #accessibility gone wrong?

Are there any bots/automated accounts that #blind / #VisionImpaired folks like to follow?

Not necessarily image/video-based ones, but I'd really like to see examples of those, if there are any.

So I've been called out for https://alttexthalloffame.org not being run by someone who's #blind or #VisionImpaired.

And that's fair. I'm very much open to anyone from those communities to get directly involved, so this is my public invitation.

Would also love to hear from the #blind and #VisionImpaired community: who are your favorite webcomic artists that you enjoy following on here?

@VastHypno Good question! I'd imagine yes, with an appropriate warning, but would love to hear from the #blind #VisionImpaired community on how to best approach this.

Another advantage of being on a smaller fediverse instance: (mostly) better experience for #blind and #VisionImpaired folks.

Data via https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112343128875676585

#data #dataviz #AltText #ImageDescriptions

@Jeffrey there must be some hashtags that could help with your request, but as I am not part of the community I can only guess...
#alttext #visionimpairment #visionimpaired #blind

#TIL that actual #VisionImpaired people have pointed out the #ableism in the term "time blindness" (in my context, associated with #ADHD) and have requested that we sighted folk refrain from using it.

Never occurred to me, as I'm privileged, but it makes sense. Time isn't something anyone can actually "see" anyway, so nobody can be "blind" to it. What happens with ADHD (& with other neurodivergences too, I assume, I just don't know which ones) is that we don't perceive the passage of

1/

Check out this 3D-printable model of Mars.

It has been developed as part of "A Touch of the Universe", a non-profit project for a tactile astronomy kit addressed to children with vision impairments.

Details and links in the model's description

https://skfb.ly/oM78v

#visionimpaired #astronomy #kids #children #tactile #model #mars #3Dmodel #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Dprintable #3D #universe #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #STEM #scicomm #vision #impairments #uvao

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #TimeofFlightSensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #WearableHacks #blindness #VL53L1X #lidar #radar

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #TimeofFlightSensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #WearableHacks #blindness #VL53L1X #lidar #radar

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing - [tpsully]’s Radar Glasses are designed as a way of sensing the world without the b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #timeofflightsensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #wearablehacks #blindness #vl53l1x #lidar #radar

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing - [tpsully]’s Radar Glasses are designed as a way of sensing the world without the b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #timeofflightsensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #wearablehacks #blindness #vl53l1x #lidar #radar

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing - [tpsully]’s Radar Glasses are designed as a way of sensing the world without the b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #timeofflightsensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #wearablehacks #blindness #vl53l1x #lidar #radar

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing - [tpsully]’s Radar Glasses are designed as a way of sensing the world without the b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #timeofflightsensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #wearablehacks #blindness #vl53l1x #lidar #radar

‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing - [tpsully]’s Radar Glasses are designed as a way of sensing the world without the b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/radar-glasses-grant-vision-free-distance-sensing/ #timeofflightsensor #assistivedevice #visionimpaired #wearablehacks #blindness #vl53l1x #lidar #radar

Apologies to the #VisionImpaired who like #camelcase. I try but Mastodon does not like me using #CamelCase and very frequently changes what I type, #CamelCase, into #camelcase

Why they'd be doing this I don't know.
It's very disheartening and produces multiple #NegativeUX events - even within one post: try, fail, try, fail, try, fail.

#Arrrrgh

Swish: a game invented in Australia where vision impaired people can play sighted people on almost equal terms.

#swish #australia #VisionImpaired #TableTennis #EqualOpportunities #FastAndFurious #blood

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-07/swish-vision-impaired-table-tennis/103167470?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

The Dominant Anti-Pattern in Text UX's Online

new blog post by me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37101669

please upboat it on HN if you can

THANK YOU!

#Roguelike
#Roguelikes
#RoguelikeGames
#RoguelikeDev
#textgames
#textadventures

#TUI
#text
#plaintext
#ASCII
#Unicode
#UTF8

#UI
#UX
#UIAntiPatterns
#UXAntiPatterns
#GUIAntiPatterns
#WebAntiPatterns

#accessibility
#VisionImpaired
#VisionDisability
#glare
#highcontrast
#resizabletext
#fonts

#curses
#ncurses

#Terminal
#terminals
#shells
#CLI
#CLIs

Also, rather than hound people who don’t use ALT text, just refuse to like or boost pictures that don’t have ALT text.

You could also repost their memes, screenshots, etc. and add your own ALT text. Don’t do this with their own pictures/artwork ofc, but pictures that aren’t theirs anyway are fair game. It’s not about teaching people a lesson; it’s about discouraging ableism and fostering an inclusive environment.

#AltText #Inclusive #DisabilityPride #Ableism #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

Also, rather than hound people who don’t use ALT text, just refuse to like or boost pictures that don’t have ALT text.

You could also repost their memes, screenshots, etc. and add your own ALT text. Don’t do this with their own pictures/artwork ofc, but pictures that aren’t theirs anyway are fair game. It’s not about teaching people a lesson; it’s about discouraging ableism and fostering an inclusive environment.

#AltText #Inclusive #DisabilityPride #Ableism #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

Also, rather than hound people who don’t use ALT text, just refuse to like or boost pictures that don’t have ALT text.

You could also repost their memes, screenshots, etc. and add your own ALT text. Don’t do this with their own pictures/artwork ofc, but pictures that aren’t theirs anyway are fair game. It’s not about teaching people a lesson; it’s about discouraging ableism and fostering an inclusive environment.

#AltText #Inclusive #DisabilityPride #Ableism #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

Also, rather than hound people who don’t use ALT text, just refuse to like or boost pictures that don’t have ALT text.

You could also repost their memes, screenshots, etc. and add your own ALT text. Don’t do this with their own pictures/artwork ofc, but pictures that aren’t theirs anyway are fair game. It’s not about teaching people a lesson; it’s about discouraging ableism and fostering an inclusive environment.

#AltText #Inclusive #DisabilityPride #Ableism #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

Also, rather than hound people who don’t use ALT text, just refuse to like or boost pictures that don’t have ALT text.

You could also repost their memes, screenshots, etc. and add your own ALT text. Don’t do this with their own pictures/artwork ofc, but pictures that aren’t theirs anyway are fair game. It’s not about teaching people a lesson; it’s about discouraging ableism and fostering an inclusive environment.

#AltText #Inclusive #DisabilityPride #Ableism #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals who would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.
*see addendum below

#ALTText #DisabilityPride #Disability #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals who would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.
*see addendum below

#ALTText #DisabilityPride #Disability #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals who would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.
*see addendum below

#ALTText #DisabilityPride #Disability #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals who would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.
*see addendum below

#ALTText #DisabilityPride #Disability #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals who would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.
*see addendum below

#ALTText #DisabilityPride #Disability #SightImpaired #VisionImpaired

Ye fucking gods, it's 2023 and we're still building shit and forgetting that there are people who can't see.

#accessibility #TechAndDisability #visionimpaired

https://amp.9news.com.au/article/56de159d-36cd-4471-9a5d-85684953e3cf

My new year #resolution after walking down a guided #walking track with eyes closed reading the #Braille notices and finding one that I interpreted, because my Braille isn't good, to say "Don't Touch", is to ask all photographers, especially of wildlife, to #CaptionEverything in #CamelCase so those who are #VisionImpaired can enjoy them the same as everyone else.

I have come to the point where I think to not do so is #Ablist.

Please #boost this and see if we can't have the whole community thinking about the whole community, not just the able.

#CamelCase #hashtags can be read by screen readers which are used by our #VisionImpaired #Brethren throughout the world where the technology can be afforded.

Enjoy todays #KangaroosOfMilkTeeth #KangaroosOfMastodin whose name is Wadjaling.

Hey all, I've set up a new group for online crazy party game invites. That way we can stop spamming our local and public timelines with it LOL
It also lets us get notified when a new invite happens, even if we're on an instance that doesn't allow following of hashtags. Lookin at you Hometown...
Simply follow:
@cpinvites
Just make sure to read the intro and rules post on the profile please. Thanks!
If you don't know what Crazy Party is, it is an audio only minigame collection and card battler for PC, with online play capability.
It's totally free and you can download it at:
http://pragmapragma.free.fr/crazy-party/en/index.php
Note that you may need to create a new folder and make an exception for that folder in your anti virus program before unzipping the game to it, otherwise your AV will probably try to kill it. This is because games made in the BGT programming language are falsely flagged by most popular anti virus software. If this is too much of a risk for you, I understand, but Crazy Party is widely known to be a safe game by the audio gaming community.
#CrazyParty
#AudioGames
#AudioGame
#AccessibleGaming
#Blind
#VisuallyImpaired
#VisionImpaired

Modified HoloLens helps teach kids with vision impairment to navigate the social world - Growing up with blindness or low vision can be difficult for kids, not just because they can’t read ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DaAp8ssgDKk/ #artificialintelligence #augmentedreality #visionimpairment #visionimpaired #accessibility #disabiliites #projecttokyo #disability #wearables #blindness #microsoft #hardware #hololens #gadgets