Jonathan Charmley has been working on an archaeological excavation at an Anglo Saxon site in Berkshire. He has been able to educate the other people on the dig about his visual impairment whilst using his other senses to understand the site.

#GoodNews #Archaeology #Dig #Excavation #VisualImpairment #Senses #AngloSaxon #Disability #History

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gwp90n07zo

@sortius Maybe it's worth including some hashtags in the post, like #blindpeople #blind #blindness #visuallyimpaired #accessibility #visualimpairment

So, I'm really enjoying writing almost essays on a picture for my alt-tags. Is that good or bad for blind people? I'd like to know.

(I don't boost beg, but you know what to do)

#blindpeople #blind #blindness #visuallyimpaired #accessibility #visualimpairment

I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The #ImageDescription function of Microsoft's #Bing is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an #LLM is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct?

How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. #Microsoft either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted.

#Blindness
#VisualImpairment
#Accessibility
#AccessibilityMatters
#Disability
#DisabilityRights
#CorporateResponsibility
#LargeLanguageModels
#MoralHazard

Learn how color contrast can affect different people with #VisualImpairment https://www.whocanuse.com/
#ColorBlind #a11y #accessibility

Learn how color contrast can affect different people with #VisualImpairment https://www.whocanuse.com/
#ColorBlind #a11y #accessibility

Finding My People: Healing Through Acceptance https://healingwithyessie.com/2023/07/18/finding-my-people-healing-through-acceptance/ #Anxiety, #CPTSD, #Disabilities, #Healing, #HighlySensitivePerson, #HSP, #Self-acceptance, #Self-awareness, #Trauma, #VisualImpairment

Hey there, friends! I'm reaching out to all my visually impaired pals who might be using Life Fitness equipment. These gadgets are pretty nifty, right? They sync up with our iPhones and Apple Watches. But here's a question that's been bugging me: Can we truly enjoy a solo workout session with them? Let's unravel this together! #Accessibility #VisualImpairment #Disability #LifeFitness

I saw a post a few days ago about how annoying emoji use can be for people using screen readers, and I've been low key thinking about it since

I'd like to make sure the emoji on our instance are named in a way that's accessible and posts from our server provide a good experience

Anyone with experience in accessibility or using screen readers, I'd appreciate your input on best practices (if you have the time) :blobcathearthug:

#Blind #Accessibility #VisualImpairment #ScreenReader

This morning, the #ComparativeGuts conference began at the #KunsthalleKiel. It lasts until Friday and ends with the workshop "The Felt Body" for people with a visual impairment. More info: https://uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/148-comparative-guts
Registrations for the workshop are still open!

#Inclusion #BodyPerception #VisualImpairment #History #art #classics

Number 75 of 150

And here's the blind man with a guide dog I promised you.

Source: https://karenbjones.com/2023/05/21/number-75-of-150/

#artsample #blind #cartoon #childrensillustration #color #commission #digitalart #disabled #drawing #elder #elderly #goldenretriever #guidedog #illustration #illustrator #isolatedonwhite #karenbjones #LearningAZ #lowvision #man #oldman #serviceanimal #southasian #visibledisability #visualimpairment #walking

RT @OPENVIResearch
Did you know that apart from bats &marine mammals, people can echolocate too? How #echolocation may benefit people with #visionimpairment? Visit our website &have a look at the latest lab summary. #humanecholocation #learningecholocation #visualimpairment https://sites.google.com/view/open-vi-research/recent-research-summaries?authuser=0#h.gp0srgwdsqfx

Now that my right eye vision is distorted, I've been trying to increase computer display size, but it's been frustrating. First, my Mac is very limited in system-wide options for larger fonts, especially with an external monitor. Secondly (and more importantly), web pages display very poorly when I increase font sizes - for example google.com stuff ends up not displaying at all to the right of the page.

How do other visually impaired people deal with this?

#visualimpairment #accessibility

A survey for UK people who are #blind or #PartiallySighted and/or have #HearingLoss or are #deaf | ‘We need your views on #accessibility features on TV/video on-demand services for our research on behalf of Ofcom’ ~ Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RIfDC)

https://t.co/biTiowszDL
#BSL #VisualImpairment #DeafBlind

RT @OPENVIResearch
One more interesting research study from @Johnny_Ravo into #LEGO #Braille Bricks and people with significant #VisualImpairment: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LBB2023
#LegoBrailleBricks #internationalresearch #visionloss

Nyt aloin miettii tätä #valkoinenkeoppi asiaa et miksi näkövammaiset eivät käytä keppiä, kuin vasta silloin kun on ihan pakko eli silloin kun tilanne on oikeasti tosi haastava. Vaikka siitä kepistä olisi ollut valtavan paljon apua, jos olisi ottanut käyttöön jo paljon aiemmin. Lähinnä henkinen ja fyysinen kuorma pienenis, pelko liikkumisen yhteydessä pienenisi. Liikkuminen olisi varmempaa ja turvallisempaa niin itselleen kuin muillekin.

#AjatuksenVirtaa #näkövammainen #sokea #kuulonäkövammainen #blind #VisualImpairment #deafblind

Tuli lenkillä mieleen, et pitäiskö tuonne mustikkasoppa.fi sivustolle lisätä jonkinlainen info tuosta mun vammasta, kun se aiheuttaa enemmän kysymyksiä kuin ymmärrystä mun vammaa kohtaan.

Multa kysytään tosi usein, et miten voit irkata tai olla muuten vaan koneella tai pelata konsoleilla kun käytät samaan aikaan ulkona valkoista keppiä.

Ihmisillä on edelleen todella mustavalkoinen kuva kepinkäyttäjistä.

#näkövamma #kuulonäkövamma #blind #deafblind #VisualImpairment #WhiteCane #valkoinenkeppi

NEW REVIEW: 'They Don't Pay, We Don't Pay!' at @mercurytheatre in #Colchester! 🎭 Check on my review here: https://thevicritic.com/2023/03/23/they-dont-pay-we-wont-pay/

#LocalTheatre #AccessiblityReview #VisualImpairment #SightLoss #AccessibleTheatre

@TheQuinbox
I've noticed the trend of more accessibility bugs in new betas as well.

I've also been hearing more and more from people who've tried to report problems about how Apple seems to be deemphasizing their Accessibility commitment in general (not just blind/VI accessibility) especially when it comes to the long term stability of what they've built VS the good PR of new access feature releases.

It's to the point now where some of the techs are all but outright admitting it when you call in about long unaddressed issues; something I've experienced my self first hand.

I wonder if this is as a result of belt tightening do to inflation, investor pressure, or something else entirely.
#apple
#IOS
#iPhone
#iPad
#Mac
#MacOS
#Accessibility
#MobileAccessibility
#DigitalAccessibility
#A11Y
#blind
#VisuallyImpaired
#VisualImpairment
#Deaf
#HardOfHearing

#Audio newspaper charity seeks admin volunteers https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12513:audio-newspaper-charity-seeks-admin-volunteers&catid=166&Itemid=92
#bitternepark #southampton #volunteer #volunteers #volunteering #audionewspaper #localnews #visualimpairment