Mastodawn

Warms my soul to see NVDA Coach gain some traction in India. This beautiful country is home to the largest population of blind and visually impaired people by nation population, and having a free resource to help push people towards their employment goals is a win-win! Check out this fun YouTube short recorded by a community member walking through the basics. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0KtsuOs2Lqg #Accessibility #NVDACoach #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReaders #Windows #Tech #Education #Training

can't find a teacher? use theNVDA coach #guidancefortheblind

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2something 3d ago

Hello fedi,

I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables.

Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

Header    Also a header
Thing     A thing
Another   thing

but I was told that that sort of table is hard for people using screen readers to parse. So now I'm trying something else.

I made two copies of each table: one is preformatted text that I manually lined up, aimed at sighted-users. The other copy is a csv file. I link to the csv file right under the preformatted text.

If you have a gemini browser installed, you can see the results right here
gemini://pandorastale.wiki/Main/Chapters.gmi

If you don't have a gemini browser installed, you can see it through a regular web browser here:
https://pandorastale.wiki/Main/Chapters.gmi

Note that if you click on the csv link from Firefox or Chromium, they try to download the csv file instead of displaying it in browser, while Gnome Web/Epiphany (and so maybe Safari?) will display it in-browser.

So my question to users of screen readers is, does this work? Can you actually read the table?

How does it compare with the MediaWiki version of the same information?
https://pandorastale.miraheze.org/wiki/Chapters

#Geminispace #Gemtext #Screenreaders #Blind #Accessability #a11y

Gemini hypertext format, aka "gemtext", specification

WordPress Accessibility Day 4d ago

Akosua Asabere and Deneb Pulsipher demystify screen reader testing in this 2025 #WP11yDay session.

#WPAD #A11y #ScreenReaders
https://wpaccessibility.day/2025/sessions/demystifying-screen-readers-your-guided-intro-to-manual-accessibility-testing-for-wordpress-sites/

Demystifying Screen Readers: Your Guided Intro to Manual Accessibility Testing for WordPress Sites - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 Archive

Session Video Space for positioning sign language player This session is available in 2 languages! Can you help translate more? Most accessibility professionals know that screen reader testing is essential — but very few feel confident doing it. In this session, Akosua Asabere (a native screen reader user and seasoned accessibility engineer) and Deneb Pulsipher […]

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Tony Gebhard 6d ago

So excited to travel to South America this summer to tour around Peru, Bolivia, and Argintina to talk with blind and visually impaired professionals to help bring more qualitative training for their communities. NVDA Coach has sparked a significant interest for underserved and rural areas, and the icing on the cake, is, networking and meeting with these amazing folks in their towns. #AssistiveTechnology #SpanishCulture #ScreenReaders #Love #Travel

Tony Gebhard Apr 29

NVDA is the most used screen reader around the world right now, and training for students is just not as popular as it should be. NVDA Coach was designed from the ground up to fill that gap for newly blind adults and kids around the globe to have free resources at their finger tips. More time learning and preparing for their future, and less time spent on the frustrations of affording tools.... www.tonygebhard.me/nvdacoach
#Training #Technology #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReaders #GlobalAccess #Education #Blindness

Web Axe Apr 22

Resources for screen reader usage and keyboard commands:

https://webaim.org/articles/voiceover/
https://webaim.org/articles/nvda/
https://webaim.org/articles/jaws/

https://www.tpgi.com/basic-screen-reader-commands-for-accessibility-testing/

https://dequeuniversity.com/screenreaders/

#a11y #screenreader #screenreaders #tips

WebAIM: Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility

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🫧 socialcoding..Apr 20

@reiver

The only thing that I would bring in regarding emoji use in display names is #a11y issues if there are a lot of them. I'd say recommended practice should be to have 1 and max. 2 emoji in the name, so #screenreaders don't have read a long shebang you sometimes see on 'funny' display names.

But perhaps someone better versed in #accessibility issues for the visually impaired can chime in on this #ActivityPub #FEP (and perhaps other FEP's too), if this is a real issue. A "fediverse accessibility best-practices" may exist as well (somewhere).

#SX #SocialCoding #AskFedi

Frontend Dogma Apr 18

Making Emojis and Icons Screen Reader Accessible, by @popetech.bsky.social:

https://blog.pope.tech/2026/04/01/making-emojis-and-icons-screen-reader-accessible/

#emoji #icons #images #accessibility #screenreaders #html

Making emojis and icons screen reader accessible - Pope Tech Resources

Learn how emojis and icons are often not traditional images that need special considerations to be screen reader accessible.

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Tony Gebhard Apr 17

Reviewing spanish translations for the NVDA Coach training module today, and I am excited to share that we'll be shipping out support for Mexico, Spain, and all South American spanish speaking nations to incorporate this training for their students and instructors. If you have not heard about it, check out the add-on documentation here, www.tonygebhard.me/nvdacoach #NVDACoach #NVDA #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReaders #GlobalAccessibility

Tony Gebhard Apr 15

Big thanks and cheers to The Knowledge Chest on #Youtube. From South Africa, sharing their experience with using #NVDACoach with their students across the country. Grateful to see this global impact move its way up. The mission has been, and always will be about creating a bridge to gap learners from progress. #Assistive Technology #ScreenReaders #GlobalAccess #SouthAfrica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-sR0in_Dk&t=1449s

Bits & bytes S2Ep10 Local send and the NVDA Coach

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