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So just for the hell of it, in order,...

I keep hearing on Mastodon and elsewhere how the Lemmy devs like to close github issues prematurely, are condescending to people when responding to the issues, host CCP, North Korean, and Russian propaganda on their instances and delete any criticism of those regimes ETC. Even if you don’t care about the propaganda stuff, the...

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As the holidays are warming up, let’s share our suggestions and idea requests for gifts for our blind and VI family and friends....

So playing visual novels written in Ren’Py has become my latest momentary obsession. I figured I’d create a thread to post my thoughts on the few I’ve played, and see if anyone else has played any good ones. If you have, let me know in the comments! I really want to hear what everyone is enjoying....

Before the whole new transcription effort really starts going, I wanted to get some input from actual Blind and low-vision users to see like…what y’all actually want us to work on. Are there any particular Lemmy-specific accessibility problems we should be aware of? Additionally, for those of us independently transcribing...

I’m so sorry what reddit did to the blind community hopefully you guys can become the new backbone of the lemmy/kbin threadaverse

Mods, please let me know if this is not in line with your plans for this community. I’m flying blind here, lol so funny. Don’t know anything about Lemmy or the Fediverse or what this community is supposed to look like. This is just me, bull in china shop....

As a blind man, I know I am usually attracted to the sound of a woman’s voice. It’s usually just the way they say a specific word or syllable, like “uh huh”. However I find this almost never happens with people in the “real world”. It only happens with voice actors, other performers, and people who are completely...

So, I have been thinking about this community (the Lemmy side in specific) and how to break the chicken/egg problem of trying to move communities....

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So a quick update on where we’re at for folks not following the discord. The stability issues plaguing us over the last couple of days seem to have been fixed, touch wood. Thanks to Arch and VictiniStar101 on our Discord for keeping me moving forward when I was out of ideas, spinning in circles, and becoming unproductive....

Dealing with the same old questions from people who don’t get us was one of the hardest things about the other site. At one point, it was easier to create a rule against them, than it was to foster communication and awareness....

As the r/Blind mod team announced on July 1st 2023, Reddit has made it impossible for blind people to moderate on mobile. We’re bringing you this post to update the community on the developments since that time....

pixelated r/blind Snoo and text with Reddit app logos below it and parts of fuck spez above it, p.d in a corner

Would avoid anything on that server where possible until we hear an all clear...

Just thought I’d see how you all are doing, need to get some activity here or us mods will have nothing to do besides our normal real life shit and we don’t want that now do we?

Recently got to examine a Chris Park graphite folding cane. Liked how light it was, but it seemed super-flimsy. Does anyone have any experience with their durability?

I’m looking into a new braille display, and since I prefer a QWERTY keyboard over braille input, I’m a little interested in the Mantis Q40. Does anyone own it and use it with iOS? any quirks to know about? Does the QWERTY input actually work with iOS? (I own an apex QT where it doesn’t.) www.aph.org/product/mantis-q40...

I’ve got RP, but a decent amount of central vision. I can still see cars if I’m looking right at them, people walking right at me, usually find cross I’ve got RP, but a decent amount of central vision. I can still see cars if I’m looking right at them, people walking right at me, find crosswalks, that sort of thing. But...

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I’m an indie web developer that’s finishing up an app I’ve been building over the past three years, a platform to advocate for Medicare For All. One of my top priorities is ensuring the app is accessible to everyone. It gets a perfect score on Google Lighthouse for Accessibility, but accessibility isn’t just a checkbox...

A few weeks ago I read The Dream Master, a scifi novel that deals with dreams and virtual reality that has a blind character in it. The portrayal of blindness was… not great, but something that struck me about it was that for a futuristic setting, it lacked imagination for what technology could look like for the blind. The...

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“ In October, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a core recourse for protecting disabled people’s civil rights: The ability to sue private businesses for inaccessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act.” motherjones.com/…/disability-testers-keep-busines…