Mastodawn

Lichess has always been the most #accessible #chess website for #blind #screenreader users. You can play games there, analyze them, even do puzzles. What you can't do, though, is learn the absolute basics there.
The tutorials are not accessible, and this has been a problem for years from what I know.
I'm fixing that. I have the platform running locally, and already fixed the " collect the stars"-style tutorials so they work with screen readers. Once i'm happy with these changes I will submit a pull request upstream... let's hope they feel up to merging it once I'm done here. #lichess #accessibility #blindChess #webdev #openSource #tech

Florian May 21

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@zersiax/116612787239857291

Live now! Come hang!

Florian May 21

"Today is #GAAD, or Global #accessibility awareness day."

I have seen this phrase, or variations of it, many, many times today. And while accessibility is seemingly at a very low point in people's awareness right now, I'd like to do my part in educating and raising awareness, something I try to embody when doing streams on my game streams, tech streams, and Youtube videos.

In 3.5 hours, at 7 PM CEST, 6pm UK, 1PM EST, I will go live on #twitch and #youtube to have a look at some of the efforts and initiatives that are happening today, but from the viewpoint (heh) of an actually #disabled (fully #blind) user.

If this sounds like something you're interested in, I'll be at https://twitch.tv/IC_null and https://youtube.com/@viewpointUnseen. If this doesn't sound like something you'd be interested in, I encourage you to show up regardless. You might accidentally learn a thing or two :) #selfPromo

IC_null - Twitch

Fully blind person hacking, coding and tinkering while using a screen reader. THM, HTB, accessibility, all the things.

Twitch

Florian Apr 26

RE: https://cupoftea.social/@zersiax/116470839683747279

This was a super fun tinkering project. It's a giant shame it came down to me, an end user, to enable this device to become #accessible, and I'll never see anything but gratitude for the work I put in, but it did make my inner #hacker happy. #elgato #streamDeck #accessibility #tech #blindness

Florian Apr 11

During this year's "Games for blind gamers" jam on #itchIO, a #game was submitted that tried to accurately portray a #blind protagonist. This game was developed by a developer who is not blind, but believed to have done adequate research into this. Some people did not agree and came down on them rather hard, but I saw an opportunity.
In this video I break down what was represented well, what wasn't, and we get into some really interesting #blindness and #disability topics along the way. Hopefully it might teach a thing or two :) https://youtu.be/qE81d4Pcw9E

#disability #disabilities #blindness #representation #indieGames #gaming #youtube #selfPromo

Blind Gamer Reacts to Blind Protagonist in Cane & Able: Accurate or Not?

YouTube

Florian Apr 3

Given this is now released, I'm happy to report that the third-party control client for the Elgato Streamdeck, called OpenDeck, is now a lot more accessible for #screenReader and keyboard-only users.
These devices have always had a huge #accessibility barrier in that the only way to assign an action to a key was through a drag-and-drop interface. Elgato has been notified about this, but proved ... let's say ... less than ehtusiastic to fix it. So, I did.

While I can't claim 100% accessibility, primarily because that isn't a thing, I can say I made sure everything I could find was labeled, and that there's now a keyboard-only way of associating buttons, knobs, and touch controls with actions, something the official client does not, and probably will not, support.

I'll be making a video on the ViewpointUnseen youtube channel with all the details soon.

https://github.com/nekename/opendeck

Florian Mar 14

This ear, the CSUN #assistiveTech conference is being held in California. It's a place where global #accessibility leaders, and a bunch of companies in that space, come together to share ideas, food, and I'm sure sometimes other things as well. #iykyk
It's also a place where the newest #accessibility "innovations" are shown off to potential customers, and that's where today's stream comes in.
I'm a #blind developer and computer power user. Would I actually use these products? Am I happy they exist, and was I consulted? Let's find out :)
See you in an hour, 1 PM EST, over at https://twitch.tv/IC_Null or https://youtube.com/@viewpointunseen
#tech #blindness #csun #csunat #stream #selfPromo #twitch

IC_null - Twitch

Fully blind person hacking, coding and tinkering while using a screen reader. THM, HTB, accessibility, all the things.

Twitch

Florian Mar 4

These days I rarely mention my streams here anymore because I honestly don't know if my followers are the crowd for them, but this one's a bit of an exception.
Over the month of February, @Ericbomb and others have worked day and night to organize the fifth "Games for Blind Gamers" Jam, essentially a month-long hackathon on #ItchIO where people interested in #gameDev try to create #games that are fully #accessible to the #blind.
For a few years now I tend to do a #twitch #stream where I go through the submissions, critique them from a player's and developer's perspective and boost the signal they are broadcasting in my own small way.
If you watch any stream of mine this year, I'd recommend it be this one. We're starting in an hour over at https://twitch.tv/zersiax

Zersiax - Twitch

Life really is strange, isn't it? !discord !commands

Twitch

Florian Jan 16

David Bombal Jan 16

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

#DailyMotivation #inspiration #motivation #bestadvice #lifelessons #changeyourmindset

Florian Dec 30

Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet.
If anyone needs help with their #accessibility from someone with both native #screenReader experience and a coding background, keep me in mind I guess :)
Located in the eastern Netherlands, primarily interested in remote opportunities.
#fediHired #layoffs

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