Excited to share Thorsten-Voice's YouTube channel!

Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content!

follow hem here: @thorstenvoice
or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThorstenMueller YouTube channel!

NVDA 2025.1 Beta 6 is now available!

Read the full details and download from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1beta6/

Changes introduced in Beta 6:
- Updates to translations
- Fix for the COM registration fixing tool: don’t run when cancelling with alt+f4
- Minor fix for SAPI 4 voices
- Fix for Braille display detection
- Minor improvements to the user experience of Remote Access

Please continue to test and give feedback via GitHub!

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day we'd like to shout out to our translators! NVDA has been translated into over 55 languages to provide access to technology for blind and vision impaired people around the world. Recently we spoke with Harun in Türkiye, who shared how access, in his own language, has helped him: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/harun-fast-local-in-turkey/

Peak Mastodon: in response to the recent #Linux #accessibility content that's been going around, a sighted person indicating that they're confused because when they tried a #screenReader last year, it worked fine for them.

I’m building a #Mastodon client and want to make it more accessible for people with visual impairments.
If you use a screen reader or other assistive technology, I’d love to hear how you interact with Mastodon and what challenges you face.

Would you be willing to share your experience?

Thanks! #Accessibility #ScreenReader

Following today's post on the Microsoft Edge blog, I've started a page of ARIA Notify examples that currently only function in Edge Canary:

https://jscholes.github.io/ariaNotify.html

The blog post:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/05/creating-a-more-accessible-web-with-aria-notify/

Can anyone recommend a screen-reader-accessible, self-hosted package that provides a web interface that communicates the status of multiple machines? UP, down, maintenance, etc? I think UptimeKuma can do this, so will check that out. But also very interested in any recommendations. Please boost for reach. Much appreciated.
#Linux #OpenSource #Self-Hosted #StatusReporting #WebInterface #ScreenReader #Accessible #A11Y

To other #JAWS #ScreenReader users, is anyone who uses #JAWS2025 having issues with the results viewer? I'm not sure when it started, but mine is completely inaccessible. Anytime I try to use PictureSmart, FS Companion, or anything else that uses the results viewer, it opens, but I can't read anything. JAWS won't do anything while on that window, and escape doesn't close it like it should. I tried repairing JAWS but that didn't fix anything, so I'm wondering if it's a script I use causing the problem. The only scripts I have installed are Leasey and the Zoom pro scripts by @brian_hartgen and a few scripts for things like Discord and Unigram by Doug Lee. I'm starting to contemplate a complete reinstall of JAWS though because not being able to use the results viewer is causing me more and more pain.
@freedomscientific @mastoblind @main
#blind #tech #accessibility #Windows

@kc bietet eine "Schulung zur Nutzung von mobilen Screenreadern" an.

Durchführung auf Anfrage.

https://conesible.de/schulung-screenreader.html

Eine Frage an die Nutzenden von Screenreadern:
Lesen die eigentlich geläufige Wörter wie ,,Laptop'' oder ,,E-Mail'' von sich aus englisch vor oder sollte ich die lieber doch entsprechend im Quellcode markieren?

Gibt es da irgendeine Faustregel?

Bei den Texten, mit denen ich es gerade zu tun habe, wird es gerade ein bisschen unübersichtlich?

Ein Boost wegen der Reichweite wäre hilfreich! Danke!

I have an #accessibility question for #screenReader users.

If I use hashtags within flowing text, like #this, does that annoyingly interrupt the narration flow and should I rather list them all at the end?

Or is in-text tagging the preferable alternative to a large wall of hashtags at the end, like this:

Hi guys, I'm a totally #Blind woman interested in learning French to start with. In coming back to #Duolingo, I found that the first thing you have to do right off the bat is "choose the correct image". You can choose based on the audio you are hearing, absolutely, but you have no way of actually knowing what the so-called correct image actually is, making it pretty much impossible from an accessibility standpoint to know what words are being introduced and/or what they mean in English. Does anyone know of a good language learning app that is actually accessible? #A11y #technology #Language #French #Learning #Screenreader

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