#visuallyimpaired — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #visuallyimpaired, aggregated by home.social.
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Exciting #Accessibility tech being built in #Canada!
This is #EasyPath - an early version of an app to aid in navigation for visually impaired people. Verbally dictate locations & queries, receive voiced navigation options & steps. An #OpenSource project from an #Ontario developer, built with open #GIS data.
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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 -
Hey #blind people
I'll be going to #SightCity in #frankfurt on May 21 along with my fellow Be My Eyes engineers.
More BME people will be there all week, but the engineering team will join the party on the 21th.
Come say hi, bitch at us because we don't have x feature (ok you can but please be nice about it), and have a good time with us all (I know I will).
#a11y #accessibility #ai #conference #blindtech #tech #visuallyimpaired #assistiveaccess #assistivetech
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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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Solar Eclipse Sonification Tool for Visually Impaired
"I want students to be able to hear the eclipse, to hear the stars."
"The LightSound device is the result of a collaboration between Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer who is blind, and Harvard astronomer Allyson Bieryla."
https://fortune.com/2024/04/05/total-solar-eclipse-blind-visually-impaired-experience/
#eclipse #eclipseday #lightsound #visuallyimpaired #impaired #blind #astronomy #sonification #fortune
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Question:are there #screenreaders that substitute a little beep instead of the word #hashtag #visuallyimpaired #blind #blindness #visualimpairment #accessibility #lowvision #disability #disabilityawareness #sightloss #visionloss #legallyblind #whitecane #disabled #love #braille #k #partiallysighted #legallyblind
#whitecane
#disabled
#braille
#partiallysighted
#visualimpaired
#abandoned
#i#visualimpaired #art #abandoned #inclusion #blindartistsww #blindphotographer #blindmusician #blindviolinist