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Thanks, will keep an eye on your progress. If you want to discuss this kind of use cases in the future, feel free to get in touch.

Congrats on the launch. Have you thought about assistive technology/accessibility tasks as well? Would love to use such a device to control the touch screens on inaccessible coffee…

Braille tablets/multiline braille displays are finally coming. The traditional piezo-electric cells are not well suited for them, due to the space the cell + driver+ electronics ne…

I disagree. To "solve" their CAPTCHAs I had to register by providing a working email address. I don't encounter HCAPTCHA problems that often, so when I need to solve a new one usua…

Totally agree. Buying new appliances is hard if you are blind. It's either very cheap stuff that still has buttons, expensive stuff with touch screens which are unusable to me or e…

Marijn has done much to make CM6 an accessible code editor. Now with Monaco (editor component of VS Code) and CM6 both being accessible, online code runners/playgrounds and interac…

Yes, a nested list would clearly be the better structure here. Or even a description list (dl) with the comment's metadata in a dt and the comment in dd.

My thought exactly. An open source version could be nice in it's own right or lead to good improvements on other open source speech synthesizers such as Espeak. I think current TTS…

The engine behind that add-on, Axe core, can be called from JS and there are some open source tools around to integrate it in your CI. I would say Axe is kind of the gold standard …

Yes, I would like to publish some lessons in the future somewhere. However, a few quick takeaways: * The microcopy matters, a lot. We had a button stating "I've got a notification:…

Before doing screen reader testing on complex web components, what I see as some kind of lack box testing where you test your whole screen reader + browser stack, it is useful to h…

No time to read the whole thread right now, but feel free to get in touch (email is in my profile). I'm blind since birth and have had various software development jobs. These days…

+1 for this advice. Identifying the issues is just one part of the work, finding a correct and usable solution might be lots of work if you don't have much experience with accessib…

I'm still looking for a service like this, but that creates a nicely tagged PDF and conveys the HTML structure in the PDF tags. Tagged PDFs are a requirement in many processes for …

What's the standard really depends on which slice of the world/market you're looking at. NVDA[0] is a very capable screenreader as well and does some things even better than JAWS. …

Well, in this case I was quite glad that they have targeted the web platform. At least that allows me to code my own stopgap solution using userscripts and stuff. That's harder for…

> Here's a thought: how about you write a native app for each platform? I can guarantee that the hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers working on AppKit and Windows APIs are a l…

Pretty cool. And if people are wondering, yes, screenreading software can output this to a braille display. However, mainstream displays only have one line of braille making 2d ima…

Your question is very generic, but in situations where this device might be used most (e.g. walking, getting around) I usually use the following: * Guide dog (still the non-technic…

Congrats on your launch. As a potential blind user, I've some questions. How can I reach you? Your email doesn't seem to be listed in your profile.

Yes, you are right, but things like face recognition in this app run locally already. I tried it in airplane mode. Also, check this blog from a blind user and some interesting comm…

Yes, if you make a mess and bring in some accessibility compliance people that have to suggest all kinds of shitty workarounds it will cost you money. If your devs don't know why t…

Sounds familiar. I had only the former kind of education. Often I'm pondering if I should pursue a masters degree in anything CS related. It's not that I really need it for my work…