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bnyrbt · 7 months

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re-make of a previous poll in hopes of a larger sample size.

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thecoramaria · 1 year

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Can Blind People Enjoy Your Fanfiction? 🤔 Screen-readers and Podfic

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Ever wondered how accessible your fanfiction is to people with low vision? If you want your work to be enjoyed by anyone regardless of seeing ability, then give my latest video a watch this video.

(See the video on YouTube for the full description.)

#fanfiction #fanfic #archive of our own #ao3 #low vision #low vision accessibility #screen reader #screen reader friendly #blind accessibility #small youtuber #cora’s youtube videos #cora’s original posts #Youtube

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actingwithportals · 6 months

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ALT TEXT ISSUE

So just a heads-up for folks who defer to using ALT text on their posts instead of plaintext IDs, if the ALT text is long enough clicking on the ALT button to visually read the text creates a problem, because as soon as you move your cursor away from the ALT button (like if you use a screen magnifier and are trying to scroll down the page to read the rest of the ALT text) the text WILL DISAPPEAR. It is not possible to continue reading the whole thing visually, which is a problem for blind/low vision users that rely on screen magnifiers or enlarged text.

I know that most people prefer ALT text because people hate having long IDs on their posts, and that generally ALT text is better for people who use screen readers, but it is continuously proving to be a problem for blind/low vision users that rely on screen magnifiers over screen readers. So please PLEASE consider including plaintext IDs so that we can read them too, especially if your IDs are long and likely to get cut off by the limitations of the screen size.

#blind #legally blind #low vision #visually impaired #actuallyblind #alt text #image descriptions #screen readers #screen magnifiers #accessibility

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bumblebeeappletree · 6 months

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This is your reminder to go check to see if there is a school for the blind and low vision or school for the deaf and hard of hearing for either yourself if you are under 18 or your relative is under 18 who is one of these things near you or said relative. There should be at least one in your state/providence/territory and odds are they will have a dorm to stay in during the school week or all school year round (kinda like a boarding school). And if you or a relative is 18 years or older who is also either blind, low vision, deaf, or hard of hearing then check to see if that school has any programs for adults. Even if it’s only a week long it is still a good opportunity to brush up some skills and meet new people!

#solarpunk #blind #low vision #deaf #hard of hearing #school #blind school #deaf school #schooling #accessibility

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front-ill · 4 months

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Okay to reblog/like even if you're on my DNI. I'm putting this on my disability blog because it relates to accessibility.

Let's talk about inaccessibility in the MOGAI/LIOM/Queer/LGBTQIA+ community online. Especially if you're a coiner, flag maker, or whatever.

Do you know how privileged it is to be able to not make any, and I mean ANY, of your posts accessible because you are arrogant about people being forced out of the community because of you? Specifically people who are visually impaired in any way which are forced out of the community because you're lack of willingness to be accessible?

There are many, MANY resources available to you to make your posts accessible. You absolutely can make your posts accessible. YOU, yes YOU, can absolutely fucking make YOUR POSTS accessible. Just fucking ask. Reach out.

You can draft your posts, you can look further into communities to make your post accessible before posting, you can save spoons to make your post accessible or wait until you have spoons to make them accessible, and you can look for others to create descriptions/plain text FOR YOUR POSTS.

At this point, there is no excuse to have none of your posts be accessible. "I don't have spoons," but making flags and counting terms also requires spoons. You aren't sneaky with not wanting to be accessible and putting in the work to do so. Oh, and we shouldn't have to be fucking BEGGING and ASKING for accessibility. BEING ACCESSIBLE SHOULD BE STANDARD.

[PT: Being accessible should be standard. End]

So you know what? Start calling people out on this ableist, arrogant behavior. And you know what else? It is ableist if you do not make no attempt to be accessible. Simply because, you have no reason to not be. If your blog shows absolutely NO ATTEMPT at being accessible, YOU need to change. Doesn't matter if it, 'ruins your aesthetic,' neither.

Start being accessible, or continue to have no care whatsoever for people who require that accessibility on your posts. Show no care and sympathy for people who are forced out of the community because of you.

Tags, asked to be removed

@chronicallycouchbound @epikulupu @xdle-coxns @galaxy-starshine @potato-head-kids @blindcultureis

#image description #accessibility #accessibilities #vi #visually impaired #blind #low vision #legally blind #blindness #awareness #long post #serious #other #disability #disabled #sensory #sensory disability

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incognitopolls · 5 months

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #accessibility #screen readers #blindness #visually impaired #low vision #polls about the internet

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badolmen · 6 months

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Actually it really fucking frustrates me as a disabled person how ‘controversial’ video game accessibility is, how contrived it is to find actually useful accessibility mods for even popular games, how abled gamers try to distance themselves from us because we’re the ones without social lives, who don’t leave the house, who can’t work.

#ra speaks #personal #video games #accessibility #not to mention this is part of why elderly people would LOVE video games but the modern market is hostile to ANYONE who might need help #whether that’s better designed controllers/easier remapping of controls #options for low vision/color blind players #or simply implementing easier difficulties #do you know how much it fucking sucks to love horror and gore and ‘adult’ material #while being relegated to fucking Nintendo kids games bc they’re the only people #who makes games that are approachable and forgiving and MADE to be understood?#this isn’t a stab at convoluted plots or even difficult bosses this is to say that a lot of adult games #don’t have good game design when it comes to having accessible controls or ‘tutorial’ levels #like that’s the bare fucking minimum and jfc is it rare to find a #‘skill issue/git gud’ fun fact I do in fact kick ass in doom 64.#because it’s an older game with simple controls and plenty of accessibility mods #I suck at modern shooters bc they have shit tutorial levels too many buttons and terrible modding scenes #it’s not a matter of skill it’s a matter of accessibility for the purpose of improving that skill

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hillbillyoracle · 2 years

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I'm sure a lot of folks know this but it was news to me -

If you or someone you know uses Braille, the Tarot Garden looks like they offer a brailling service that will let you pick a deck and have it brailled in either contracted and uncontracted braille.

They also keep a few braille decks of Rider-Waite on hand.

I've been having some vision issues which are fairly normal for my family but scary to me. I've been worried what the impact would be on my ability to read cards so I've been teaching myself to sight read braille to start and I'm gonna try touch training when I'm able.

Knowing there are places that braille tarot cards and you have options as far as decks - that's really reassuring to me.

#low vision #braille #blind #witchblr #witch #accessibility

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chronicallycouchbound · 9 months

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Free accessible font options for disabled people:

• Hyperlexic font for people with low vision, Atkinson hyperlexic: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

• Dyslexia-friendly font, open dyslexic: https://opendyslexic.org/

• Dyslexia-friendly font, inconsistent regular: https://danielbrokstad.com/Inconstant-Regular

• Focus Ex for ADHD, font and browser extension: https://focusex-extension.webflow.io/#welcome-a

• Additionally, comic sans is dyslexic friendly!

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its-ticsticstics · 8 months

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people get so scared writing image descriptions thinking they need to include every little detail when like really all thats normally needed is

*picture of a red necklace* and then an image ID that says "Image of a red necklace with a white chain" basically

like i can't see the image so its not really valuable to me when people add the angle its on or a description of the background thats not necessary and adds zero info i actually needed

what im saying is

don't be afraid to keep your image descriptions simple and to the point! its actually better that way for the majority of screen readers!

#low vision #visually impaired #image id #described images #accessibility

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airenyah · 5 months

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no but when mhok told day to think of his plate as a clock and told him where on the clock the food was that really reminded me of one of my favorite movies from when i was in middle school which is also about blind people and where the title of the movie itself is a reference to thinking of the plate as a clock: it's called "erbsen auf halb 6" which literally translates to "peas at half past 5" (yes, "halb 6" means "half past 5", yes the numbers are different, don't worry about it)

the plot of the movie is a theater director losing his eyesight in a car accident and him being a director who kinda needs to see what's going on on stage he really doesn't take his sudden loss of vision very well. he gets assigned a helper/mentor, a lady who is blind herself and who's been blind since birth and is supposed to help him adapt to a life with disability. he ultimately runs away from her when he learns that his mother is sick to go find his mother in russia and say goodbye before she dies. his helper/mentor chases after him and they end up on a travel adventure together

it's been over a decade since i last saw the movie but i think at some point they eat and they talk about how the peas sit on the plate where it would be half past 5 on a clock?? anyway, that moment with mhok and day at the restaurant where mhok tells him the position of day's food with the help of an analog clock really reminded me of that movie

edit: i went to look for the trailer of that movie and i found the scene in question!! turns out they're at a restaurant and the helper/mentor character goes "if you imagine the plate as a clock... what numbers is the food lying on?" and the waitress is all confused going "i'm sorry?"

there are no eng subs for the trailer buuut the moment is at the very end at 2:11:

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see it's a real movie i didn't just make it up kjdfkjdfk

#god i need to rewatch that movie so bad it's been so long since i last saw it #i actually thought about this movie only recently!!#bc these two italian erasmus students were asking for german movie recs and i told them about this one #and now the scene with day and mohk at the restaurant reminds me of it too and #now i just feel this strong urge to go rewatch it #i vividly remember many scenes but there is no connection between them djgdkfjkfdg #i should really rewatch it during christmas break i think we have it on dvd???#bc my mom found it in the library and we liked the movie a lot and i think she ended up buying it #i gotta check my parent's dvd shelf when i go home for christmas in a week #airenyah plappert #last twilight #lt ep5 #adrm #no but that movie also had this feature where they had an accessible version of it for people with low/no vision!!!!#which was the first time i'd ever seen a feature like this‚ up until that point i didn't know it existed #(i was like 12 or 13 or so i think when i first watched that movie)#(and (pre-)teen me thought it was really cool)

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the-delta-quadrant · 8 months

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sighted allies should go watch my pinned tiktok @ deltaxquadrant. it's a collection of the internet being inaccessible to me as a vision impaired person because of my text size. this stuff needs more awareness because they're not doing anything for those of us who rely on magnification.

#disabled #disability #visually impaired #vision impaired #visual impairment #vision impairment #sight impaired #sight impairment #low vision #partially blind #partially sighted #actually blind #accessibility #awareness

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bumblebeeappletree · 7 months

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This is your reminder to go email your local library head/director to give them a list of Solarpunk books, and ask to see if they’re able to get them in large print and Braille. And! If you have an absolutely favorite book and your library doesn’t have it, either in the mass produced print, large print, or in Braille, you should email the library head/director to see if they will be able to get it in! Accessibility is important, and reading is fun! Share the joy!

#solarpunk #reading #accessibility #library #large print #braille #blind #low vision #books #listen I just think it’s important that the blind and low vision population have access to Solarpunk books #because tbh i don’t know if the Solarpunk books that are in circulation have Braille or large print editions #but with enough demand we will have that available #and also not everyone who is blind or low vision listen to audiobooks #they could just not like the voices #or they may feel like they like to go at their own pace by reading it #but we also must not forget people who are blind/low vision who are also deaf and/or hard of hearing #these things can stack you know #so why not make things as accessible as we can?

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wxrmeaterz · 1 month

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"I care about accessibility" motherfuckers when you ask them to make shit readable and possible to view with a screenreader

[ Image ID: A light brown cat with darker stripes and spots in a car. He has both right paws on the shoulder of the person taking the photo. His back left paw is on the seat of the car and his left front paw is out of frame against the window of the car door. The cat has a surprised expression on its face with its mouth wide open as well as its eyes. He is looking at something behind the camera. // End Image ID ]

#accessibility #actually disabled #screenreader friendly #using a screenreader #low vision #visual disability #visually impaired #accessibility issues #fuck ableists

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pandasmagorica · 5 months

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Last Twilight and disability

I haven't spent enough time with blind people in years to know what the experience was like, but I have spent time with one blind person. We were students together in college when we were discovering being gay and he mentored me later on leading up to my finally coming out of the closet. He became a homeowner and lived on his own, and had a lover who lived separately.

Someone else mentioned it strange to not see any Braille in the library for the blind. I thought it strange - when Day applied to drop out of college - for the college staff member to not relate what facilities were available to blind students that Day would have been able to use to complete his studies now or at least once Day had been able to learn Thai Braille. My friend not only graduated college while blind - he could basically only see light and shadows and not even be able to count on that - he became a school teacher.

So, while from a story telling perspective I am loving this series, its handling of blindness in society grates on me now and then. I don't know whether Thailand has fewer facilities or fewer rights for blind people, or whether it is laziness, ignorance or the writers valuing plot points over accuracy.

I'm not saying that even if the script made it clear that these accommodations were available that Day would be able to implement them, I'm just saying that it needs to be clear they exist.

I know that television does not represent reality. The problem is that most of us have so few blind people in our lives and there are so few dramatic portrayals of them that inaccurate portrayals leave us with false impressions in our head.

I do appreciate the relative lack of sentimentality in the series, and that Day has drive and some agency. I'd like to see his options reflect the reality of blind people today and not seem so bleak.

The show is not totally without reality. We hear Day make use of the read aloud feature on his smart phone. I'd like to see more.

#yaoi #thai ql #thai bl #pandasmagorica #last twilight #last twilight series #last twilight meta #disability #accessibility #blindness #low vision

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sl33py-g4m3r · 19 days

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Need to accept myself~~

I got to accept and realize that my vision is worse than the average person....... I think I'm in denial about it despite being legally blind my entire life for the most part.

I like listening to birds outside sometimes and look and try to find them. An older guy that I'm living next to can see the birds and tried to point them out to me one time, and all I saw was tree.

I'm always reminded that my vision is very bad and I get sad about it for a while before I forget again.

My right eye sees nothing; my left is 20/200, or what you can see at 200 feet, I can only see at 20 or less feet.

I shouldn't forget; and I shouldn't let that prevent me from doing things. Especially using accessibility aids.

I'm always worried that someone might think lesser of me if they knew I have a disability; or pity me for it if they saw me using an aid.

It's a stupid irrational fear that might be tied to anxiety, but I'm not exactly sure.

I should be proud of the sight that I have tho. I can still: watch tv, play video games, read, watch birds if they're close enough, see my brothers cat, and many other things. Some things are just harder because of my problem and I lack depth perception.

I can still see well enough to successfully 1CC Phantasmagoria of Dimentional Dream, which I'm very proud of cause the ai cheats so hard.

I can't see super small text without a magnifier, or not at all. I'm always amazed that people can see things from greater distance than me, making me sad that my vision sucks.

But I should be glad I have vision at all tho given what happened for me to lose it to begin with.

I was born 4 months premature because mom sneezed; technically never born, just removed, lol. Was in the hospital and on oxygen for many months and they only gave me a 5% chance of living. The nurses or someone had turned the oxygen up too high and it detached my retinas. The left retina was attached again, and the right one couldn't be saved and is nothing but scar tissue at this point.

My left retina is luckily stable still~~!!

Is it anxiety? the fact that I'm worried people would pity me for using something that's helpful? Stubbornness?

I need to accept it and not forget how bad my vision is. To use aids if necessary and stop worrying about how other people precieve me. If they pity me for having bad vision that's their problem not mine. It is annoying however.

I can still do stuff it just takes a different way to do it. But there are some things that I can't and it makes me sad sometimes.

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