#visuallyimpaired — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #visuallyimpaired, aggregated by home.social.
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Since Japan signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007, inclusive education for those with and without disabilities has been growing steadily there. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/09/japan/society/japan-inclusive-education/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #education #aichi #nagoya #disability #visuallyimpaired #specialeducation #studyabroad
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@Tor Iver Wilhelmsen For starters, making it a hard technical requirement on the server side would exclude and discriminate against- actually blind or visually-impaired people who do post images regardless
- neurodivergent people who, due to their disability, are incapable of turning images into words
Besides, what's "the platform"? Only Mastodon or the whole Fediverse?
Just in case you didn't know: The Fediverse server applications that can send posts with images and other media onto your timeline include, but aren't limited to:- Mastodon
- Glitch
- Hometown
- Pleroma
- Akkoma
- Misskey
- Calckey
- Firefish
- Iceshrimp-JS
- Iceshrimp.NET
- CherryPick
- Sharkey
- Meisskey
- GoToSocial
- snac
- Hollo
- Tootik
- Mitra
- micro.blog
- Smithereen
- Socialhome
- Friendica
- Hubzilla (that's what this comment came from)
- (streams)
- Forte
- Pixelfed
- Vernissage
- PeerTube
- Loops
- Plume
- WriteFreely (needs an external image host, but still)
- WordPress
- Ghost
- nodeBB
- Lemmy
- /kbin
- Mbin
- PieFed
If "the platform" means something with one development team, it's only Mastodon. And everything else I've listed above, and then some, is free to keep alt-text optional.
If "the platform" means the whole Fediverse, this means that well over 100 Fediverse server applications, all being developed independently from another and especially from Mastodon, often working vastly differently from Mastodon, would have to make it impossible to post images without alt-text. This, by the way, is next to impossible to implement on at least some of them due to the way they handle images and therefore alt-text.
And you can be certain about one thing: If the Mastodon developers add something to Mastodon, it's very unlikely that Mario Vavti and Harald Eilertsen, the Hubzilla developers, and Mike Macgirvin, inventor of Friendica and Hubzilla and still developer of (streams) and Forte, will follow suit. Other server applications won't because they're dead in spite of still having running servers (Calckey, Firefish, /kbin etc.), they're in maintenance mode which means they won't get new features (Iceshrimp-JS), or their development is on hold (Plume).
CC: @Dgar
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence -
Sooooo... thinking about the possibility and feasibility of big life changes, namely studying opera seriously in Europe. Would love to connect with other #Blind language learners, especially those using #braille as a component of their learning. Currently learning #French. Am particularly interested in chatting with people who have taught themselves grade 2 French Braille as well as those who are either conversational or fluent and/or who have worked in or currently live in a #Francophone European country. If this is you or you're in any way adjacent to this world, please reach out. Would love to talk to you. Would also love to chat with people who use #MusicBraille / #BrailleMusic in Europe.
#Francophonie #ClassicalMusic #Opera #LanguageLearning #Languages #Français #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind
PS: if I missed any hashtags or groups, please let me know and I'll add them.
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Kat Hanks, hope you made it to your appointment just fine.
#denver #aurora #visuallyimpaired #whitestickgang #anschutz #medical
Helped a lady that got dropped in a terrible place when I was headed out of the credit union today in the #CU Anschutz medical district. She was part of the white stick gang and trapped among the bicycle lockup area, parked cars, stacked pallets, and a stray traffic cone, in a very noisy construction zone (tree limb chipper running, pneumatic tools, etc.
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Airacast: Return from CSUN 🏆
By now, you’ve likely come across numerous podcasts discussing the 40th annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. The Aira staff gathered to share their experiences in the exhibit hall, during sessions, and in workshops. Join Jenine Stanley as she engages in conversations with Troy Otillio, Everette Bacon, Jill Ratliff, Blake Steinecke, and Dianne Howie. Aira ASL made its debut, and the response far exceeded our expectations.
Discover more insights and learn about the other valuable takeaways from the conference.
Listen here: https://pnc.st/s/airacast/58b21b37/return-from-csun-
Or in the podcast app of your choice.
Learn more about Aira Explorer and Aira ASL at www.aira.io.#AccessAI #OnMyTerms #AccessForAll #AccessibleTechnology #Blind #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #AccessibilityForAll #UniversalDesign
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Source: @mercurynews.com
From the article: "New technology — and its rapid adoption for remote work during COVID-19 — continues to break down many barriers for people with disabilities. There are more ways than ever for workplaces to ensure accessibility, often at little to no cost. For example, voice recognition expands communication options for those who face challenges with traditional keyboards. And auto-captioning ensures that people who are deaf or experiencing hearing loss can fully engage with multimedia content."
#Disabled #Disabilities #Blind #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #VoiceRecognition #VisuallyImpaired #TextToSpeach #Deaf #HearingLoss #AutoCaptioning #Employees #Employers
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Belgian company #InThePocket announces a proof of concept that leverages Apple’s latest technology, the Apple #VisionPro to aid for #VisuallyImpaired and #blind people
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Being a partially-sighted artist, I’m fascinated by how differently we all see the world.
Because of the angle of the sunlight, the shadows in this photo of a footprint appear on the lower edge of the imprint rather than the upper edge. Our brains expect light to come from above, so i see this as a footprint shape sticking up out of the sand rather than indented into it.
How do you see it?
#Perception #SightImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Neuroscience #Vision #Cheltenham #MastoArt
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Leckhampton Hill Trig Point is another pointillism-style watercolour painting, based on a walk on Leckhampton Hill. This is the view across towards Charlton Kings Common from the trig point at the top of the hill.
#Leckhampton #LeckhamptonHill #Cheltenham #SightImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Pointillism #ContemporaryArt #Gloucestershire #GloucestershireArtist #Watercolour #MastoArt
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Leckhampton Hill Walk is a recent pointillism-style watercolour painting. Unable to drive, I draw much inspiration from local spaces I can walk to.
This is a view from along the cross-country walk up towards the top of Leckhampton Hill.I love fallen trees and the wealth of microbial biodiversity that makes them their home as the wood slowly decays.
#LeckhamptonHill #Cheltenham #SightImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #DisabilityArt #ContemporaryArt #Gloucestershire #WallArt #Watercolour #MastoArt
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Would anyone happen to know if there is a version of #eSpeakNG that has good #SAPI5 support? Thanks in advance. #Accessibility #a11y #BlindTwitter #BlindMastodon #ScreenReader #blind #VisuallyImpaired
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If you're a #lowvision person and use Windows, checkout PowerToys from Microsoft. Some of the tools it comes with are super useful.
👉 On screen ruler tracking mouse
👉 Grab text from any image on screen & auto ICR'd & put in the clipboard.
👉 Change Windows shortcut keys and add new ones.More info here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/