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Could you guys fix this accessibility bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126072... - it's been open for years.

My two cents: learn VoiceOver for iPhone yourself, turn on screen curtain for further realism, and spend tons of time with your relative practicing simple things. I am blind and a …

iOS VoiceOver is better than Google TalkBack on Android. Although I've heard recently that Android is catching up fast. I mean it's amazing that blind people can use such a portabl…

Blind developer here. I could never recommend VoiceOver on MacOS to anyone. 10 years ago before I lost my eyesight I was a huge fan of Apple - everything was just working so much s…

Very interesting idea. I think it depends on precision with which that implant can communicate heading. If precision is 10 degrees or less, this can actually be extremely useful to…

I got the idea when I was learning to cross a wide street with a white cane. three lanes in each direction - and it proved to be a challenge because I would veer left or right and …

I use NVDA. Here is that add-on if you're interested: https://github.com/mltony/nvda-browser-nav/

Blind developer here; I often write tools for myself to perform some task that is not well supported by my screenreader. For example: * I wrote an add-on that allows me to read HN …

I do use it with bluetooth headphones - bone conductance headphones, so that I can also hear the street. I tried to put my phone in the pocket, but then heading fluctuates with eve…

iOS app Blind Compass https://github.com/mltony/blind-compass I am blind and I developed this auditory compass for blind people that communicates your heading as two tones - musica…

Blind developer here. So surprised to see so many negative comments here. Wondering if wheelchair users were hated back in the days when the law about wheelchair ramps was passed. …

Blind developer here. Even though web technology might move fast, things move slowly in the world of accessibility. You're saying it's too hard to catch up with the latest technolo…

Ah, you're right, CodeMirror 6 appears to be more accessible. However it still only shows one line at a time. So that's still worse than Monaco. Monaco can show one or two hundred …

One more point to consider: CodeMirror is not accessible for blind users with screenreaders, as it just presents an empty text area. While Monaco is acdcessible, at least VSCode is…

Could it be that Boeing engineers made this presentation vague and confusing on purpose? I mean the article presumes that the engineers had poor PowerPoint skills, but it seems to …

10 years ago I found even more outrageous bug in Windows 8. I was working in MSFT back than and I was writing a tool that produced 10 GB of data in TSV format , that I wanted to st…

Blind developer here. If anyone wants to use computer without a mouse, I can also recommend screenreaders for the blind, such as NVDA. Blind people have to use screenreaders,, but …

Just having raw Tex code for the formula would be already immensely helpful. Right now we're in the situation that the information about formulas is lost for screenreader users. On…

Could you elaborate on this? Like a link to a concrete project/discussion? I am visually impaired too and I did my own research on this topic a while ago. It appears that in the pa…

I had a 5 years gap in my career - all medical. Recently, right after that gap, I was intervieweing with multiple companies - most of them didn't even ask me, even though I was wor…

I come from Russia, where the idea of gifted classes is taken to the next level: instead of gifted classes we have entire gifted schools. If this is true, that children who coudln'…

> The new engines were too big to fit in their traditional spot under the wings. To combat the problem, Boeing mounted them forward on the wings. Moving the engine position forward…

I actually work more in backend area, so I am not that familiar with accessibility standards in HTML. I am only a user there. But looks like others have already answered some of yo…

You don't need any non-standard input elements to make web site accessible. In fact the opposite is true: if you only use standard HTML elements, chances are your web-site is going…

Microsoft Word is fully accessible. As for PDFs, as long as they are not scanned, most likely they are accessible. Sometimes forms in PDF files are not very accessible. And also ev…