zersiax

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by zersiax 17d ago
Will have to give this a whirl with a screen reader, see how it does. Given the only somewhat working video editor accessibility-wise is currently Clipchamp, competition is sorely needed. Don't have high hopes, but I guess a x.0 releas
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by zersiax 3mo ago
Very true :) I had this exact issue with the Elgato StreamDeck user interface, which renders the macro buttons as one big canvas only drag-and-drop interacts with. It's rare that I outright cannot figure out a way to make a UI accessib
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by zersiax 3mo ago
Doesn't work for security, not for accessibility, not usually for localization and internationalization, it doesn't work for bandwidth optimization... yet we all keep making UIs that really only work on 300 inch Apple Studio displ
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by zersiax 3mo ago
I'm not a hard person to find. My hackernews handle into a search engine gets you myriad ways to contact me (Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc.) but I'm at florianbeijers [at] google's mail service if email is your preferred mode of co
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by zersiax 3mo ago
I always find it interesting to see that while we watch people struggle to get through a UI , unable to see the forest through the trees while they just want to get done with the task they, when they eyeball it, should only take five minute
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by zersiax 3mo ago
Honestly the fact that this article still needs to be written in 2026 is the designated real-big-sad imho. Screen readers almost entirely ignore the visual layer of any UI, and are entirely dependent on the layer that most developers ignore
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by zersiax 3mo ago
No. There are certainly AI-generated accessibility solutions for single, existing applications, games and websites but no outright AI-powered screen reader. I'd think the token cost alone would make such a project prohibitively expensi
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by zersiax 3mo ago
The solution, that accessibility advocates have been clamoring for for decades now, is to s"shift left". If you know you're going to add accessibility, which ... we have had WCAG since 2005, not knowing that at this point is
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by zersiax 4mo ago
Honestly as a blind person and blind developer myself, most of these features get a shrug at best. For one, there's already a bunch of third-party apps that do most if not all of this (Seeing AI, Envision AI, BeMyEyes, Aira, etc.). So
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by zersiax 8mo ago
I am ... relatively sure JAWS reads out title attributes of images because people kept erroneously sticking important info there decades ago, I wouldn't say that's a generally accepted recommendation. Not entirely sure what NVDA w
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by zersiax 8mo ago
'Honestly this is a people problem more than a tech problem. We have the tech. We're just not using it. I'd say LLMs COULD make it easier to implement accessibility, it also couldn't, always a coinflip with those, but I&
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by zersiax 8mo ago
The tricky thing with these "unofficial" distros is that they are generally maintained by either a single individual or a small group of people. This is true for many accessibility projects actually (game mods, third-party UIs for
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by zersiax 8mo ago
Wait the title attribute? What are you basing that on? Screen readers tend to not pick those up at least on interactive elements by default, you need to do a bit of "wiggling" to get those to be announced. Disclaimer: screen reade
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by zersiax 1y ago
From the article I'd assume this wouldn't work in any way for mobile given no hover, not for screen reader users because a website often has no idea where a screen reader's cursor is, and potentially not for keyboard users (
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by zersiax 1y ago
This is a really cool concept :) Generally in language learning it's a good idea to try to "think" in the language as much as you can so you get creative about how to phrase something with the words you do have, but if that f
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by zersiax 1y ago
I'm sure it's fast, but is it accessible? Am I as a screen reader user going to get fired if the company I work at decides one day to have all of their devs use this? And if not, any plans to make it so? Might sound a little brus
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by zersiax 1y ago
I love this idea, it would actually solve a lot of accessibility issues within coding courses for the fully blind. Unfortunately right now the scrimba interface appears to need some help where that is concerned. WOuld love to discuss more i
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by zersiax 2y ago
You're not wrong but I think there is absolutely a case to be made for these kinds of restructurings as well. For one, giving you the restructured version exposes you to different ways of stating the same content, it might make reading
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by zersiax 2y ago
Would love this for Finnish, not gonna lie :)
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by zersiax 2y ago
I'll check that out :) I'd be curious how well this would work without being able to see the video you're messing with (fully blind myself). Will give that a whirl.
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by zersiax 2y ago
Honestly this looks cool but setting it up is a bit much. Like... I think the idea of this is cool, but by the time I've done all this setup I've more than likely forgotten what it is I was trying to do to begin with, and even whe
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by zersiax 2y ago
I love this ;) If you do add TUI graphics please consider adding a switch to not use them, ascii art is majorly annoying with a screen reader :)
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by zersiax 2y ago
Here's a question, will accessibility be considered? I fully realize my HN contributions are a bit of a broken record but also, if I don't bring this up, it appears nobody does so here we are. Is this going to work with screen rea
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by zersiax 2y ago
Feel free to come find me on Masto or similar and AMA. That goes for all of you. Not auditing for free, but happy to answer questions/figure out ARIA warnings or whatever. Linting issues like that are probably stupid easy to fix once y
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by zersiax 2y ago
That is the sad part, yeah. You'd think with the ADA existing since the early 90s things like coding bootcamps and CS college degrees would spend more time on this but they really, really don't. I taught that class myself to my pe
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by zersiax 2y ago
Oh absolutely. In an ideal world, we see a lot of disabled folk with a bunch of applicable knowledge be hired to do this for companies. The reality is that a lot of people who have the knowledge are actually unemployed, the teams who want t
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by zersiax 2y ago
Please don't, commandline is like the one frontier where I don't have to yell at devs for doing that kind of thing and locking people out by accident too often. It'd be rather ironic to have braille of all things become an ac
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by zersiax 2y ago
And while that is a perfectly valid stance to have on this, you'll more than likely shoot yourself in the foot if you don't. - Wayland didn't think it was important to immediately include this, and now we have the majority of
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by zersiax 2y ago
Lol that was me :)
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by zersiax 2y ago
Generally what you want is to have people like this embedded within the team/the company itself for this reason. When I do an audit, or when I stream on Twitch about a product/website/whatever I aalways make sure I remain ava

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