Okay, so iOS 26's, feature for VoiceOver is... Braille Access. To access Braille Access so you can access the accessible Braille Access accessories, access dots 7 and 8 on your accessible Braille access hardware. Accessibly.
Nothing else I can find. Glad I'm cynical lol.
Dear #blind #Apple users! Do *not* install the first developer beta if you have no separate testing device! At least two people on a #YouTube stream I'm in installed it and lost their speech output completely! One of the people recovered it back after half an hour or so, but for the other person it's not back yet. So please beware! // CC @JonathanMosen
#followerpower — hat irgendwer schon einmal von entwicklungsbedingter topographischer Desorientierung (DTD) gehört? Ich bin heute zufällig auf einen Artikel dazu gestossen und hab mich total darin wiedergefunden, abgesehen davon, dass ich keine visuellen Orientierungspunkte nutzen kann, weil ich von Geburt an #blind bin. Aber dieses keine mentalen Karten bilden können, Drehungen nicht übertragen USW kommt mir absolut bekannt vor. Ich wohne wie der Blogger ebenfalls viele Jahre in meiner Heimatstadt und beherrsche nur ein paar auswendig gelernte Wege... Kent jemand dieses Phänomen? Vielleicht sogar jemand Blindes? Gibt es vielleicht Forschungen, die sich mit der Kombi von Blindheit und DTD befassen? Gern Boost für mehr Reichweite. #blindleben #Orientierung #Neurodivergenz #Behinderung
Blind LGBT Pride International Celebrates Pride Month with Defiant Joy and Unwavering Resistance: https://blindlgbtpride.org/bpi-celebrates-pride-month-with-defiant-joy-and-unwavering-resistance/ #Blind #LGBTQ #PrideMonth
it should be illegal to sell appliances that omit tactile control interfaces. no, I don't care if the appliance came with a remote which has a tactile interface; the appliance itself needs to be tactile.
and if I'd known before I bought this unit that it didn't come with tactile controls I wouldn't have bought it.
bonus stupid: the remote has an LCD display, right? it does not appear to have a backlight, because apparently if I don't want to blast myself at 3am just to adjust the A/C I can go fuck myself.
It has been an incredible two years since NV Access founders Mick Curran & Jamie Teh featured on Australian Story: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mick-curran-jamie-teh-changing-lives-of-the-blind-with-nvda/101768788
The impact NVDA has for blind people around the world has only grown & the need is as great now as ever!
You can watch the Audio Description enabled version of Australian Story: https://youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI
Regular version: https://youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw
So, with the success of using Kindle for Android, I thought I’d try Kindle for Mac to see if that continuously scrolls too. But, nope. Lol. I guess they see even less blind Mac users than Android users.
Mit diesem Film macht der Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband (DBSV) auf die Probleme aufmerksam, die viele Touchscreens für sehbehinderte Menschen verursachen.
In Lüneburg ist Blinde und sehbehinderte Nutzer*innen von Gehstock komplett untersagt, ohne Begleitung ins Schwimmbad zu kommen, selbst wenn sie nicht zum ersten mal kommen.
An meine blinde und sehbehinderte Follower*in:
Ich arbeite gerade zum Thema Schwimmbad und Barrierefreiheit und möchte von euch wissen wie die Regelungen sind für den Zugang von blinden und sehbehinderte Personen zu eurem lokalen Schwimmbad oder was allgemein für Erfahrungen ihr gemacht habt. Welche Diskriminierungen erlebt ihr? Dürft ihr ohne Begleitung hin? Gibt es Leitstreifen? Wenn nein, Hättet ihr gerne welche?
Schreibt gerne eure Antworten in den Kommentaren oder per Privatnachricht.
June 4, 2025 marks the First Annual World Day for Assistive Technology. https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/world-day-for-assistive-technology-2025/ Devices that help #Disabled folks live more fulfilling, independent lives have come a tremendously long way over the years, so let's hear your stories. What's the first piece of #AssistiveTech you remember using? (yes, mobility devices count.) What's been your favorite? Least favorite? Most helpful? Most Fun? And what are your AT dreams for the future? We can't wait to hear about them. #WorldATDay #Blind #Accessibility
So, on Android with TalkBack, has anyone encountered an issue where, in Google Discover, the thing before the first home screen, you can't swipe passed the first few items?
(YouTube playlist) Some 15 years after receiving his Dobelle brain implant for restoring vision, Jens ("Patient Alpha") tried The vOICe vision BCI https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrvukzbS44SMVxMLRpd-_iTpy_Cj5liB Will Neuralink Blindsight recipients do the same after their brain implant fails? #BCI #NeuroTech #blind #blindness
Any #blind #musicians or producers out there know of a good resource for learning how to play the keyboard? I have a Kk A61 keyboard that I've not really used in quite a while because I simply don't know how to play the keyboard, bought Logic and everything, but it doesn't really matter if I don't know how to use the keyboard right? I have 10 years worth of French Horn experience, and so I do know music theory to an extent, but need to be able to translate it from brass to keys. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!
This week on #PrideConnection, a panel of BPI members discusses why we still need #Pride celebrations, a topic that's become even more relevant since this episode was recorded in 2024. Listen, learn, and raise your rainbow flag with us: https://pride-connection.pinecast.co/episode/5a4ec315/pride-connection-presents-why-pride-flashback #Blind #LGBTQ #Podcast
Okay so, anyone with a Braille Sense Six, have you ever had issues where NVDA wouldn't see the display at all over USB? I have a client with this issue and I just don't know enough about it to give more help. They've installed the HIMS driver, restarted the computer and display, reinstalled the drivers, don't use Narrator or JAWS, made sure NVDA's Braille setting is set to Automatic, for automatically detecting the display. And they are on USB mode in the Braille terminal.
Who knew 6 dots in combinations could offer so much freedom? Because of #Braille I can read and write with the best of them and the best part is, I'll never forget it because I learned it early. It's all I've ever known when it comes to reading Now, I can read everything from posts, manuals though I hate reading manuals, books on all different subjects, even smut and its all because a man decided to invent a system for the blind people that works. Braille rocks! #Blind, #Literacy
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And this month we, (me & #ElderlyRelative, #Blind & with #Dementia) are prepping for a #BookClub meeting on #BoySwallowsUniverse.
The #Audiobook performer is pretty much perfect. #StigWemyss is not raising even yellow flags based on what I know of teenagers in #Brisbane's junkie-criminal culture. (Not firmly based, past hearing two fellow Brisbane train passengers discussing how best to drink metho, & media coverage of violence.)
