soc_puppet: Dreamsheep, its wool colored black and shot through with five diagonal colored lines (red, yellow, white, blue, and green, from left to right), the design from Dreamwidth user capri0mni's Disability Pride flag. The Dreamwidth logo is in red, yellow, white, blue, and green, echoing the stripes. (Disability Pride)
[personal profile] soc_puppet
Not sure if this quite qualifies here, but people are fans of animals, so why not!

[tumblr.com profile] why-animals-do-the-thing had a colleague reach out and ask if they could help get some feedback on setting up a zoo tour for people with low vision. Honestly, I read the suggestions, and they sound pretty great, IMO.

You can check out the outlined plan over here. If you don't have a Tumblr account of your own, I'd be happy to pass on any feedback on your behalf.
jesse_the_k: Ultra modern white fabric interlaced to create strong weave (interdependence)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k

Creating on Crip Time, the restfestfilmfestival.org runs August 15-22, 2024.

It's a by-us, for-us event. They're prioritizing access--including

  • low- and zero-cost passes
  • wide open schedule encourages attending from bed
  • captions (no sign language)
  • audio description
  • video on demand provides a 7-day window 15-22 August to unlock a screening, and then 7 more days to once unlocked to actually watch it
  • content warnings

among other considerations https://www.restfestfilmfestival.org/accessibility

More details Read more... )

soc_puppet: Dreamsheep, its wool colored black and shot through with five diagonal colored lines (red, yellow, white, blue, and green, from left to right), the design from Dreamwidth user capri0mni's Disability Pride flag. The Dreamwidth logo is in red, yellow, white, blue, and green, echoing the stripes. (Disability Pride)
[personal profile] soc_puppet
Hello, everyone! I'm looking for some help offering feedback on a visual design.

Backstory: I was looking around the website of a convention I used to staff, and discovered that they were using a different graphic than I expected in the Accessibility Policy section of their website. Instead of the graphic I expected, they were using one based on the old, visually unsafe version of the Disability Pride flag from 2019; the one with the lightning bolts that triggered a lot of photo-sensitivity issues for people.

I reached out to the current Accessibility team as soon as I saw it to let them know about the problem, and the graphic design person got to work on a redesign right away; she just contacted me today to let me know that she's updated it.

The problem is, she wasn't interested in using the colors or design from the updated, visually safe Disability Pride flag, and I don't know enough to be able to say whether the current design is safe or not. The zigzag and black lines between colors are gone, but I don't know if that's enough. Is there anyone here who might be able to help me figure out if the new design is safe or not?

Thank you very much in advance!

Edit: The design has been confirmed visually unsafe, and I'll be looking into more alternatives I might be able to suggest for design elements. I wouldn't say no to more help, but I'm off to an excellent start. Thank you, everyone!
jesse_the_k: Baby wearing black glasses bigger than head (eyeglasses baby)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k

It’s a cool concept, hides clutter in your room. Also creates barriers.

Zoom virtual backgrounds combine you in the foreground with something nifty in the background. (Think the weather reporter on TV in front of a big US map.) In the past week I've seen the prow of a ship, inside of Tardis, comets, the Hamilton stage and more. Zoom itself says This feature works best with a green screen and uniform lighting, to allow Zoom to detect the difference between you and your background. -- which is not equipment most people have at home!

The Zoom software uses clever algorithms to isolate your outline from what your camera captures. But these algorithms often fail for delicate edges, like hair or hands. Outcome: every movement captured on camera includes Zoom struggling to adjust the edges, which can result in your head and hands sparkling, flashing, or disappearing altogether.

It’s distracting and unpleasant for me when even one user has the virtual background. For some of us with migraine, vestibular issues, brain injury or epilepsy it can be a complete barrier.

Even if the software works perfectly, some of the available backgrounds include so much detail that it overwhelms your image. I can’t read your facial expression, much less your lips. This results in no benefit to using video at all.

Do you have issues with this aspect of Zoom? Are there benefits to the backgrounds that I'm missing?

komadori: Kisa from Fruits Basket with the caption "I'll turn my courage into wings." (Default)
[personal profile] komadori
Hey everyone, I am a screen reader user, and I would love to know if there's anyone making icons and posting them with image descriptions. I know a lot of people add image descriptions to their personal icons, and I am grateful for that. Please keep doing that or start if you don't already. I was just wondering if there are creators or communities that regularly make icons with image descriptions because I would like to have some options for finding new icons aside from looking through ones used by my flist.

Also, I realize that this request is somewhat hypocritical since I don't have image descriptions for my icons currently. Would any sighted fans mind describing them for me? I found them many years ago when I had more vision, so I know roughly what they look like, but I thought it might help to have them described more precisely. If no one is able to do it, I can always ask a sighted person in real life.
jesse_the_k: (Braille Rubik's Cube)
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AO3 Reaches 5 Million Fanworks!


To celebrate this milestone, the archive created a Fanworks Bingo card, encouraging folks to comment at the announcement and brag elsewhere on with #AO3Bingo hashtag.

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/13111

The original post only had a graphic version. In response to my comment, [archiveofourown.org profile] i_dwell_in_darkness quickly transcribed the text. I rotated the columns and rows to make a version that will be easier to use with braille devices

see 'em all )

Thanks to [personal profile] jazzyjj for proofreading!

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Tue, May. 14th, 2019 02:04 am
soc_puppet: Miraculous Ladybug; the design from the Cat Miraculous: A green cat pawprint on a black field (Cat Noir)
[personal profile] soc_puppet
My current fandom, Miraculous Ladybug, originated in France and takes place in Paris. While there is an English dub available, the majority of the fandom uses the French name for one of the main character's superhero identity - most likely because the French version was available before the English dub was, and fandom adopted the French name early on. (The other superhero's name was always in English.)

The problem with this? The superhero's French name is Chat Noir; in French, it's pronounced shah.

Is there a way to indicate to screenreaders how a specific word is supposed to be pronounced? Or that it's in a different language? A bit of HTML or something? A possible skin on AO3, or a way for me to make one myself? I personally am planning to stick to the English name either way, but I'd love if there was at least an option to give the rest of the fandom.

Edit: To clear things up a bit: I wanted to know if there's a way to indicate for other people's screenreaders how a specific words is pronounced, or if it should be considered in a different language. So someone posting something here to Dreamwidth, or on AO3, can write it "Chat", but a screenreader will either read it as the French pronunciation or as "Cat".

It's entirely likely that I'm looking for a difficult solution when an easy one will do, or where one isn't needed (I'm sure most folks using screenreaders figure out what's what pretty quick, and again, I'm sticking to the English name myself), but I thought it might be worth asking.
jesse_the_k: ASL handshapes W T F (WTF)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k
http://ncamftp.wgbh.org/cadet/

CADET is free, downloadable caption-authoring software that enables anyone to produce high-quality caption files that are compatible with any media player that supports the display of captions. CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts. CADET does not require an internet connection in order to operate: it runs locally in any Web browser, so users do not need to upload private videos or proprietary content to servers or video-hosting sites in order to create captions.

feature overview and origins )


  1. Variously called “The Caption Center,” the “Media Access Group,” and currently “The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media.” ↩︎

jesse_the_k: (Braille Rubik's Cube)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k
Describing Visual Resources Toolkit for Accessibility in Arts & Humanities Publications

https://describingvisualresources.org/

The Univ of Michigan has prepared an excellent tool kit for anyone creating text descriptions of visual material. This isn't only relevant to blind or visually impaired users. Folks with narrow bandwidth often turn off image loading so that they can navigate the web in under four days. Adblocking software can also eat your images without warning.

The resource is also notable for how it's structured. They provide entry paths for different users. They reuse the same info in many orders, which increases the chance of matching the user's needs.

For the first time, I understood the differences between "alt" text and "longdesc"! They also make the c dial point that you can't design for today's technology.
[personal profile] jazzyjj
Hello all. I have not yet tested this out but am planning to do so at a later date. But there is now a client that can be used with Second Life, which is accessible for users of screen readers. Actually this client has been around for several years, but the original developer passed away and the new one has updated the client. I can't wait to get started with Second Life. Check out this great article: http://onj.me/2xxc- . Last I checked which was just this past weekend, the latest Mac version of Radegast hadn't been posted to the new site but that may have changed by the time you read this. I was told several years ago that Second Life would come in handy for me in terms of my independent travel skills. I don't know how true that is necessarily, but I still want to check it out at some point.
jesse_the_k: That text in red Futura Bold Condensed (be aware of invisibility)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k
Keidra Chaney has posted a most excellent essay on her process of coming to terms with progressive vision loss. You may know her as part of The Learned Fangirl. She addresses the barriers fandom erects as well as her own shame and confusion.

But I didn’t anticipate how much my vision disorder would eventually affect my own view of myself, my work, and my life in fandom.

In pop culture, disability is a trope, especially visual impairment.


http://uncannymagazine.com/article/living-working-fangirling-chronic-illness
[personal profile] jazzyjj
Hi everybody. I'm pasting a link to a post about Apple. I just read about this this morning but I am so excited about it. I haven't yet watched any movies in iTunes, and in fact I'm waiting to download any until I see somebody at the Genius Bar about the decreased free disk space on my hard drive. But I have previewed some of these movies.

-http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-news/apple-highlights-audio-described-movies-new-itunes-room
jesse_the_k: Woman holds camera overhead, captioned "capturing the stars" (photographer at work)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k
Monroe Street Entrance

Here's what I have so far...

Photo: Photo shows entry of retail brick building sited at intersection. The corner store sits back from the sidewalk in a five by twelve foot rectangle (knocked out of the very corner). In this alcove, there's a recessed entry door swinging out, handle on right side, next to building. On the right of the door assembly is a two-foot wide vertical window (side light). A three-shelf display (topping out just at handle height) runs diagonally from the edge of the door frame to the outside wall, completely blocking access to anything aligned with the the handle side of the door. A narrow wooden bench extends from the wall's juncture with the shelf to the forward edge of the building. The display and bench combine to require a person to stay precisely behind the door to open it.

Image descriptions

Sun, Jun. 8th, 2014 11:16 am
sasha_feather: Retro-style poster of skier on pluto.   (Default)
[personal profile] sasha_feather
Hello hello!

At Access Fandom we like to encourage folks to use image description, and this post is to give a shout-out and big thank you to people who do.

If you want to learn more about how to create image descriptions, our own [personal profile] lightgetsin wrote an excellent post on this subject.

[personal profile] eruthros created a spreadsheet listing Tumblrs that use image descriptions. Check out these Tumblrs! You can also add to the spreadsheet if you know of others!

If you want to start using image descriptions and feel like you need help, we at access fandom are here to help you. Ask questions!

Image descriptions benefit many people. They are beneficial for people who use screen readers (such as blind and vision impaired folks), people who have a hard time parsing images, and people who don't know what fandom or celebrity your image is referring to. Probably other folks as well!

Image descriptions: Love them, use them, don't strip them from your posts.

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