‘See A Million Solutions Week 2025’ Empowers Visually Impaired Students In Srinagar

‘See A Million Solutions Week 2025’ Empowers Visually Impaired Students In Srinagar #srinagar #visuallyimpaired #otvnewsenglish #otvnews --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OdishaTV is Odisha's no 1 News Channel. OTV being the first private satellite TV channel in Odisha carries the onus of charting a course that…

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In a major step towards inclusivity, the UPSC has agreed in principle to introduce screen reader software for visually impaired candidates in its examinations. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/upsc-screen-reader-software-visually-impaired-nh5kgxzf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #UPSC #SupremeCourt #Accessibility #ScreenReader #VisuallyImpaired
Fedi users who are #visuallyimpaired - what requests or recommendations would you be willing to share about how useful or useless screen readers and other assistive tools are when confronted by a complex PDF document? Is it worth fighting to get platforms to start allowing them as uploads alongside other file types, or is a converted image with good alt text preferable?

In my latest blog post I share my experience as a visually impaired person. I share what it’s like to be partially sighted.
#Disability #VisuallyImpaired #LowVision

https://aflowerinthefieldoflife.com/2025/10/29/my-experience-as-a-visually-impaired-person-the-blurred-line-between-blind-and-sighted/

My Experience as a Visually Impaired Person | The Blurred Line Between Blind and Sighted

This graphic was generated by AI Chat GPT When you are not fully blind and not fully sighted you find yourself in a strange space. This reality comes with the challenge of facing misunderstandings …

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OK, #ProTip time

you might have noticed that some of my toots have multiple blank lines so that I can create some space between the main body and (e.g.) a footnote…

“but itgrrl” you might ask yourself “how is such witchcraft possible, since most platforms render #UserGeneratedContent as sanitised #HTML & rarely convert multiple newlines into multiple line break or paragraph #HTML tags? 😲”

welp, I have a replacement text trigger for that too 😜 💁‍♀️

trigger: //nb

expands to: (non-breaking space #unicode character)

for this one, I may need to apologise to to #blind & otherwise #VisuallyImpaired folks, as it would be annoying & / or confusing to have “non-breaking space” read out by your #ScreenReader software (I haven’t checked this across a bunch™ of screen readers)

from what I’ve read, most screen readers won’t / shouldn’t read out non-printable characters (either HTML or unicode) but some may – I’d love to get some real-world feedback on the range of different screen reader behaviours for this case

#accessibility

#GIFs
#memes
#ALText

Norberts fantastische Ecke: Blind Gaming

Vor meiner Erblindung vor 10 Jahren spielte ich Spiele auf dem PC, der Konsole, am Handy, Tischrollenspiele, Sammelkartenspiele und Brett- bzw. Gesellschaftsspiele. Doch mit meiner Erblindung änderte sich da sehr viel. Nur wenige Wochen zuvor hatte ich eine neue Konsole gekauft und genau einmal die Möglichkeit gehabt mit Freunden Mario Kart zu spielen. Ich war … Weiterlesen Blind Gaming →

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Blind Gaming

Vor meiner Erblindung vor 10 Jahren spielte ich Spiele auf dem PC, der Konsole, am Handy, Tischrollenspiele, Sammelkartenspiele und Brett- bzw. Gesellschaftsspiele. Doch mit meiner Erblindung änder…

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My Experience Using a White Cane

This graphic was generated by Grok (AI) October 15th is White Cane Safety Day in the United States. Since 1964 this date has been marked to celebrate the white cane, an important symbol and tool th…

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So, I am watching the #SentoShowdown playlist, a playlist of all of the seasons of the Sento Showdown leading up to the upcoming Season 5 which was just announced. For those who do not know, the Sento Showdown is a Mortal Kombat tournament where people who are #Blind or #VisuallyImpaired compete in a Tournament setting to win fabulous prizes and bragging rights to become the Sento Showdown champion. This is awesome and it happens annually and is in my opinion, some of the best MK gameplay out there. Season 5 will be for #MK1 and will feature a 2 on 2 player system that’s never been done before. Here is the list for people wanting to watch this incredible Gameplay. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZLld-_vBzD0&si=7uLCc76MMhrC7DxS
The Sento Showdown Blind Mortal Kombat 11 Top 8

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October is Blindness Awareness Month. In my latest blog post I shine a spotlight on Bold Blind Beauty
#Blind #VisuallyImpaired #Resources

https://aflowerinthefieldoflife.com/2025/10/08/spotlight-bold-blind-beauty/

Spotlight: Bold Blind Beauty

October is Blindness Awareness Month, so today I want to spotlight Bold Blind Beauty. This media advocacy platform was started by Stephanae McCoy to shine a spotlight on the blindness community. Bo…

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