Mastodawn

Well that lasted a *loooooong* time. For context, I'm blind and use a screen reader on my phone. Tried to make a #Feeld #dating profile. I get to the “This is your space to be unfiltered” screen... and I can't tell if I'm checking any of the boxes. I could troubleshoot this into the ground and find some fuck ass workaround but I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO! And I have absolutely no one in my irl life who I'd ask to help me fill this out, and again, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT. This should be #accessible to #blind people and #ScreenReader users. #Disabled people date, have sex, and live all over the spectrum of lifestyles just like everyone else. Being disabled by places meant for people who are already #marginalized really sucks. And worst of all, I can't find a way to contact Feeld about this. Really discouraged. #OnlineDating #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sex #ENN #Kink #Poly #Polyamory #BDSM

James 14h ago

Small reminder that when you use emoji in your social media posts, screen readers read their names.

If you intend your posts to be accessible, it's a good idea use emoji sparingly and at the end of your posts or sentences where possible.

Hashtag list:
#Accessibility #Emoji #ScreenReader

Tech Singer 1d ago

Ok, so this is another of those weird questions which I post because people here use their brains more than most. I want to have one NVDA Remote client control two machines at the same time. That is, I want my laptop to control my desktop and my second desktop, but I want both desktop1 and desktop2 to have their NVDA heard through the laptop at the same time. I also want to switch back and forth between the two machines, as well as to and from the laptop itself, with a keystroke. There are two solutions I've found for this, but both are a bit of a mess. I can use thenvdaremote:// URLs to disconnect from desktop1 and connect to desktop2 with one keystroke, and have another keystroke to do the reverse. The problem there is that I can't hear both machines' NVDA at the same time. Also, and this isn't as big a deal, I'm just a perfectionist, switching takes a few seconds. Secondly, I can run a virtual machine and have that connected to desktop2, with the host machine connected to desktop1. That allows easy switching of the keyboard, just alt+tab to the VM window and hit ctrl+g when I want to control desktop2. It also allows both desktops to have their NVDA run through the speaker at the same time and also, which is very nice, allows braille to swap with any display which supports channels. The problem there is the latency of the VM audio, which I can't seem to shrink. It seems a bit overkill, I may say, to run an entire windows OS just for NVDA remote in a VM. Does anyone have any better solutions. Can anyone think of something which would get all three things running, fast switching, simultaneous NVDA, and no latency? Ideas would be very gratefully received and boosts would be appreciated. #NVDA #blind #a11y #screenreader #remote #nvdaremote

Peter Vágner 1d ago

Yesterday an open-source developer Christian has released life changing update to the privacy respecting #android app called #MakeACopy. The app now features so called #accessibility mode that is enabling #screenReader users to take pictures of the paper documents independently.
Accessibility guide is available on github.
The latest prerelease version provides clear Accessibility guidance phrases with screen readers such as Talkback, Corvus, Jieshuo and others that can handle announcement accessibility event.

I am verry happy about this. We are now getting privacy respecting open-source based screen reader accessible solution that performs very well and is easy to use.

The prerelease version can be downloaded at
github.com/egdels/makeacopy/re…

egdels — Math-minded FOSS Developer

Privacy-first Android apps: Let’s Bend, MakeACopy, SambaLite. Reproducible builds, CV/ML, DSP.

egdels

NV Access 2d ago

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.3.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

This is a patch release to fix a security issue.

Full info and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3-2/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #Release #Update #Download #FOSS #Free

solo 3d ago

for those who use screen readers (or other similar assistive technology):

I'm making a hugo theme (static site generator) which is able to have "featured images" for articles (an image at the top of the article/shown in article thumbnails), however it relies on the user specifying alt text, which some people might not do. (it will emit a warning if the user does this)
but, if the user chooses to ignore the warning, which of the following would you prefer:

add aria-hidden="true" (or something else?) to the image so that it hides the image from the screen reader entirely
add some less useful alt text such as "Featured image" or "Featured image for [title of article]", etc. (the actual title of the article will always be present in proximity to the featured image, so I can see how including the article title might be annoying)

#accessibility #alttext #screenreader

hide it from the screen reader

62.5%

less useful alt text

12.5%

something else (please comment)

I just want to see the results

25%

Poll ended at 2:15am.

podfeet 4d ago

I had a nightmare the other night. I dreamt that someone told me we don’t use alt tags for screen readers any more, that there was something new … but nobody would tell me what I could use now.

#a11y #accessibility #screenreader #VoiceOver #NVDA

K. A. Andrews 4d ago

So... I've run into a problem with Idle Crafting Kingdom and am not able to play the game anymore because Direct Touch isn't working properly or something. I have direct touch set properly for the app, but it's not showing up in the roter despite the option being turned on there, so toggling it isn't an option. the app is now completely unusable. Does anyone know how to fix this? #Gaming #Blind #CraftingKingdom #A11y #Voiceover #iOS #Screenreader

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alxp 4d ago

That said, I admire the NVDA community effort and the fact that its existence has let me get a job I may not have gotten if I insisted on them buying me a Mac and making it work with all their IT systems. And it's about time I learned to use MS Office anyway. My 18 year old Slashdot-posting M$ hater self is cringing somewhere.

#ScreenReader #NVDA #VoiceOver (12/12)

alxp 4d ago

Some quick thoughts I wrote in Facebook in response to someone asking me about my learning to use NVDA on Windows as a long-time macOS VoiceOver user:

OK, sorry this took a while but I wanted to get my thoughts down when I could take some time.

Perspective: I am a very low vision user, becoming dependent on screen readers about 5 years ago and exclusively using Apple products the whole time. (1/12) #ScreenReader #VoiceOver #NVDA