Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!

forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton…

Today on #twitch we look at the #accessibility of a newly released game, going by the rather interesting name of #southOfMidnight. I know very little about this #game other than it supposedly having some #blind specific #accessibility features, so let's see how I as a fully blind #gamer do in playing this narrative bit of folkloristic action. See you in an hour over at https://twitch.tv/zersiax #smallStreamer #goingLive #selfPromo

So #Amazon have outdone themselves again, my 2021 #Kindle Paperwhite SE is unusable with #Voiceview because the TTS is garbled compressed electronic sounding crap apparently due to the 5.18.1 update that I did not even know it was receiving. I have reported it but doubt they'll do shit about it. #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader

Hurrah! Wir sind bei den "Low vision charts" diesen Monat auf Platz 2 gelandet! Nur den verdienten, wenn wohl auch nicht representativen Siegersong beim ILSCVorentscheid konnten wir nicht überholen. Aber das ist auch wirklich ein genialer und so wichtiger Song! Ich stell ihn mal hier rein, ich finde; den müssen mehr leute Hören: https://youtu.be/Oe7Di77SeY0?si=gsXum9W7-yWQ99Gp Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Rocky trio! zum Vorentscheid-Sieg und zum zweiten ersten Platz in den Low vision charts für Euren Song!Boost erwünscht! #blind #Depression

About to head into #CTEBVI for the first time to help present the Tangible Art & Design Adventures curriculum with CATT-NW! Will lead folks through tactile drawing and art techniques, and explain how #blind kids and adults can go from that up to building their own digital and tactile graphics with SVG coding! Check out the curriculum: https://tada.wssb.wa.gov

Fuck you too, SELinux.

SELinux is preventing brltty from getattr access on the chr_file /dev/bus/usb/003/073.

Hey #blind people

I'll be going to #SightCity in #frankfurt on May 21 along with my fellow Be My Eyes engineers.

More BME people will be there all week, but the engineering team will join the party on the 21th.

Come say hi, bitch at us because we don't have x feature (ok you can but please be nice about it), and have a good time with us all (I know I will).

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Z #NowPlaying Did you miss it 45 minutes ago? We'll play it again at the 45 minute mark. The repeat of New Horizons Produced by #Blind Citizens #Australia. is up next. Listen in at https://theglobalvoice.info:8443/broadband #TGVRadio #A11Y #visionloss #news #talk ⠁⠥

I no longer use Skype, but while browsing through all the apps on my computer, I saw it, I saw this forgotten app, and it brought back some nice memories, and nice conversations I had there, with nice people whom I still talk to, this app helped me to stay in touch with the ones I truly cared about, when I was far away from them, old good times :-) now there are better tools for communication, and I guess if I ever want to use Microsoft messaging app I will have to use Teams, and Teams is something I hate, so I think I will stick to Google Chat and Meet, better sound quality, and the interface is not so irritating. But who knows, maybe my curiosity will be strong enough to try Teams again, connected to my private account, but if the interface is so horrible as it was before, then I don’t feel encouraged to do this. #Technology #Computers #Communication #Blind.

Z #NowPlaying At the top of the hour it's New Horizons Produced by #Blind Citizens #Australia. www.BCA.org.au news and events in the Australian blindness community. Listen in at https://theglobalvoice.info:8443/broadband #TGVRadio #A11Y #visionloss #news #talk ⠃⠉⠁⠀⠁⠥

Die selbe Art Übergang laut Leitstreifen bzw. aus „Sicht“ blinder Menschen.

Aus Sicht Sehender ist das eine ein offizieller Übergang (Zebrastreifen), der Andere ist keiner.

Was zählt jetzt mehr?

#verkehr
#sehbehinderung
#blind

Holy crap y'all, Quickemu is amazing! I got Windows 10, (English United States cause English International only allowed me to choose English UK for some reason), installed it with Narrator, downloaded and installed NVDA, and it barely feels like I'm running a VM at all. I kinda wonder if it'd work well at all on the BTSpeak. I could imagine it passing through Braille access on a future BTBraille.

Anyway, two commands I've figured out so far, Control + Alt + G gives control back to Linux, and Control + Alt + F puts the VM in fullscreen.

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu