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It's somewhat rare that a game supports an exact constellation of #accessibility features that allow fully #blind people to play it from day one. The new #lifeIsStrange game released by Square Enix (?!) MAY have managed this. Come hang out while I find out if the yactually did https://twitch.tv/zersiax #blind #gaming #twitch #selfPromo

@mcourcel It's literally however you want it to be. I just hit n for next unread message, and it reads the subject in a slightly different voice, then the body in regular voice. If I hit n and it's the same subject, it reads just the body.

Is there anyone who still would play Siralim Ultimate with a screenreader and would be interested if there was a new update of the mod? I'm actually working on one and gathering interest. Would anyone like to see something more polished if I really manage to pull something together? Walls are already taken out, that was the first thing to do.#siralimultimate#gaming#blind

@fireborn Oh some one on the Accessible Android crew ran into an issue where, if you switch to GBoard with the tap type accessibility overlay on, Gboard gets the same tap to type thing, which isn't what he wanted.

TapType v1.1 is out. Big update.Action mode. You can now move the cursor, select text, copy, cut, and paste — all without leaving TapType. Swipe left/right to move, swipe up/down to change granularity (character, word, sentence, line, document). Tap to toggle selection mode. Two-finger swipes for clipboard. Spaces, punctuation, and capitals are all announced properly when navigating by character.Clipboard mode. Browse your clipboard history and paste from it. It only captures what's on the clipboard when the keyboard opens — no background listener, no spying.Autocomplete. Word prediction no longer requires you to tap every letter. After a few taps it suggests longer words that match what you've typed so far. It also suggests shorter words in case you hit an extra key.Spell-out. After announcing a word, TapType spells it out character by character — helpful for homophones like their/there/they're. Configurable delay, can be turned off.Punctuation rework. Punctuation commits instantly now. Swipe up/down to cycle through options, swipe right again to chain them (!!!, ?!, etc.).Other stuff: "I" is always capitalized, delete-by-word instead of character, full screen hide keyboard fix, and various bug fixes.Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/tag/v1.1#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech

@doubletap I'd say accessibleandroid.com if they like text, blindandroidusers.com if they like long podcasts.

@somegregariousdude Image description isn't that expensive, that you need to worry about it at that level.

@fireborn @jonathan859 nope, still doesn't work here. if I use two fingers and swipe left on the keyboard area I get "nothing to delete", and it inserted a 'g' when I tapped on the "TapType keyboard" object.

Button. Button. Button. Menu collapsed submenu. Menu collapsed submenu. Menu collapsed submenu. Are you getting the hint yet?There is absolutely no excuse. #accessibility #blind #a11y

This is how you shut disabled people out.https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/910Blind person reports issue. No one cares. Bot closes and locks issue.#disability #blind #foss #tech

@menelion Sadly, I couldn't help it. I had to change something in Settings.

@menelion @ner @NicksWorld There's just too much to do for one or even two people, even with vibe coding.

@kaveinthran Wow! Hopefully, most people will find the basic training ebook available from NV Access to be sufficient to get up and running at a fraction of what you'd spend at the accessible learning lounge. You'd at least be supporting NVDA directly with that purchase. To be fair, I think NV Access would have been smarter to include basic training materials with the screen reader. They should do a built in basic tutorial. (1/3)

from the lovely, visionary, @joslee Community proposal: celebrating, reflecting, and envisioning NVDA's past, present, and future together as a community throughout 2026Joseph Lee12/23/25 Hello add-ons community,Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for folks celebrating them.Please circulate the following community proposal throughout the NVDA community (if you want, please do translate them into your languages). While I will be offline from the community for majority of the time in 2026, I will do my best to offer advice in terms of event planning:Proposal: community events to celebrate, reflect, and envision NVDA’s past, present, and future throughout 2026 (NVDA’s twentieth anniversary):Hello NVDA community,Hope all of you are doing well and staying safe and healthy.In a few days we will usher into year 2026. The upcoming year is special for the NVDA community: it is NVDA’s twentieth anniversary, and the NVDA community should come together to mark this occasion by celebrating, reflecting, and envisioning NVDA’s past, present, and future.Background: in April 2006, an early version of NonVisual Desktop Access was released to the world. In the midst of competition between several commercial (and free) screen readers for Microsoft Windows, NVDA made a mark by being an open-source, free screen reader made by the blind for the blind. For the next twenty years, NVDA and NV Access, the nonprofit in charge of developing NVDA, became a recognized force in the access technology landscape, with numerous awards, sponsorships, and a community of people driving its growth and adoption, including being adopted as a primary screen reader for an upcoming braille-centric computing hardware.In 2016, I and several NVDA community members organized NVDACon, a weekend of fun and reflection on NVDA’s ten years of service and impact. Starting out as a small screen reader targeting Windows XP in 2006, NVDA became a centerpiece of a community dedicated to equal access to technology ten years later. Not only the screen reader itself became an example of community involvement, things around it such as add-ons, localization, tutorials, and others strengthened NVDA’s ecosystem and its message that people should not have to pay extra to access information anywhere. The 2016 event was global in scale and featured talks from members across countries, languages, and backgrounds, including a keynote from NV Access discussing their reflection and vision for NVDA for years to come.So, as we approach the twentieth anniversary of NVDA, let us work together as a community to organize events throughout the year celebrating, reflecting, and envisioning NVDA’s past, present, and future. The events can include workshops on submitting bug reports and feature suggestions, a showcase of community add-ons and their development, a collection of video testimonials from community members, in-person or online gathering of community members organized by local communities or on a more global scale, or something creative and memorable. Ideally, the events should happen throughout the year, with some of the memorable ones happening to coincide with NVDA’s twentieth anniversary in April 2026. Or, if we want, let us try resurrecting international NVDACon and make it more modern such as webinars over Zoom and other more modern (and accessible) possibilities.While many events might be organized at the level of local communities by country or language, I think we should aim to have at least one global scale event in 2026 to celebrate NVDA’s impact in the past, reflect on NVDA’s present strengths and challenges, and collectively envision what NVDA will be for the next five years or so. While I may not be able to coordinate various events including the global event I envision happening later in 2026, I will be available should any NVDA community seek advice on event planning and organization.Thank you.Sincerely,JosephJoseph S. Lee, M.A.PhD student and instructor of record (communication), University of Colorado BoulderCertified NVDA Expert, 2025Member, NVDA Advisory GroupFounder and initial event planner, NVDA Users and Developers Conference (NVDACon), 2014 to 2016#nvda #screenReader #nvda20 #blind

Access Technology in the Workplace Study: https://www.blind.msstate.edu/sites/www.blind.msstate.edu/files/2026-03/NRTC%20AT%20Study%20Final%20Report%202026.pdf#accessibility #blind #at

@techsinger Thank you so much for evertyhing! Yes. I received a noficiation about viruses when I downloaded the other one (not Next, but the second one I linked to with I486).

@Kingslayer @vol4life8657 @MariahL @NicksWorld @pawpower For me, I've met a few people who, well, I don't think they should have a guide dog. They were't well groomed, one of them that just came out of training decided to sniff my butt. The dog, not the person. Anyway I know I wouldn't be good with a dog. A dog needs to move around and go places. I go to work, mainly sit at a desk, and go home. That ain't enough movement to keep a dog happy and trained.

@xogium Although seleste was doomed to fail from the beginning. From conception, to hardware to community engagement in development. They got an initial investment and spent like crazy which also isn't a great approach. We can only hope other companies learn from their mistakes.

@nlowell @pixelate NVDA on Linux or a stable equivalent, with command to enable during OS setup. App install options during setup, including SSH. Minimal requirement of interacting with the CLI to make settings/config changes. Configured and updated for security by default, and interface to consolidate settings status for review and management. Offline search-based file and app access. No opinion on GUI to use due to being out of touch on their differences and capabilities. Stable development.

my 3YO is doing public education in NYC about disabilities after watching the Paralympics. We were on the subway with a couple kids from her school who started asking about my white cane, so I explained when you can’t see you use a cane to feel what’s in front of you. Then she jumps in really enthusiastically to say more, and she is at the perfect toddler age where she has absolutely no sense of how loud she is. So she was just screaming to everyone on the train about how if you lose your legs but you want to ice skate you get a sled, and if you don’t have an arm you can get a new one (which she called a glass arm b/c the only prosthesis she knows is my eye). The moms of her two friends were like “Oh… okay we’re just screaming about amputation huh?” It was so funny. #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Parenting