My personal experiences with #accessibility relate more to physical barriers for moving through community with assistive devices such as rollators, crutches, and canes.
And hoo boy is there a huge gap between what #abled people think is #accessible and what is *actually* accessible.
Add to that moments such as witnessing a bus driver freak out at a #wheelchair user for daring to use our 100% wheelchair-accessible buses yet not be able to manage the very stiff and heavy seat latch alone to lift seats to open the wheelchair space.
I make formal complaints every time I witness this crap yet am constantly gaslit that transit drivers have training to support disabled passengers.
Apologies for wandering a bit -- I am thoroughly sick of the overselling of accessibility by every possible social vector. 😡
I concur that the glasses are just another #DisabilityDongle that likely won't be geuinely useful in real life. 😡
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“Grad student’s VR app to help blind people navigate the world”
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/03/grad-students-vr-app-to-help-blind-people-navigate-the-world/
via @VulpineAmethyst:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@VulpineAmethyst/114196469660279877
UC Davis is circulating more PR about what they do "for" disabled people.
Read the UC Access Now Demandifesto and look up subsequent coverage in the media (the ones that aren't always spoonfed by UC Davis' expensive PR department) to see just how much UC Davis *actually* cares about disabled people.
https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #Ableism #UCAccessNow #DisabilityDongle
UC Access Now is a loose non-profit coalition of students, staff, and faculty working for accessibility and inclusion for all disabled people in the University...
“How to develop automatic French sign language?” (I machine translated that from French; the post is in French):
https://emmanuelle-aboaf.netlify.app/blog/article/comment-developper-la-langue-des-signes-francaise-automatique
By @eaboaf
Avec l’émergence de l’intelligence artificielle en particulier générative, de plus en plus de projets impliquant la langue des signes sont développés. Ces projets sont-ils utiles ou, au contraire, ne sont-ils pas utiles à la communauté sourde et malentendante ? C’est l’objet de cet article.
*None* of the #AI hardware including the Humane pin, Rabbit R1, this newly announced Frame glasses, or Facebook's glasses is accessible for #blind people. You'd think the interfaces would be made accessible. But none of these products have #accessibility built in for the setup or the connecting apps. In case you're wondering, I've specifically asked each of the companies.
@aardrian There's actual products which are 100x less clunky which pretty much achieve much of what that seems to (I'm guessing based on skimming the website video cos I can't parse French speech). OrCam is one example and various built-in options in iOS for sure.
Reinvented #DisabilityDongle which is clunkier and probably more expensive too!
Axios is essentially headlining with the business model overlays use: “Assistive technology is AI's next billion-person market”
The technologies it describes are not AI, even if there is some computer vision in there. Anyway, it’s just a CES marketing round-up with two simple caveats at the end.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/12/ai-assistive-technology-accessibility
@fastfinge Ha ha ha no.
It is literally a #DisabilityDongle fest. Feel good, achieve nothing.
Still high on his own farts (and the music and editing and choice of language shows this is ~40 mins of click bait and a couple of real info), but part 2 of that social media influencer’s video about those color-blind glasses:
https://youtu.be/_QQtOv2PlOE
Enchroma responded to the first video (though I am not sure it moves the needle):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZM2LyU8g8
Likely Jan Lukas
Adrian Roselli, pH0
UC Access Now
NatalyaD