Tony Gebhard
@tonygeb23@techhub.social
Blind AT instructor, musician (18 releases and counting), and host of The Tony Gebhard Show. Building NVDA Coach — free, open-source screen reader training for everyone. Founder of Inclusive Pulse. Based in the west coast. Music, motivation, and positively obnoxious.
techhub.social
I'm proud to announce the launch of Blind Productions.
Blind Productions is a showcase and community I built to celebrate blind creative professionals — musicians, DJs, actors, authors, podcasters, and content creators — and to give us one place to discover each other's work, collaborate, and connect.
Here's the honest part: this is the ground floor. The doors are open, the foundation is built, and now it's time to fill it up. I'm inviting you to help shape what this becomes — a living archive that future generations can search to discover the musicians and creators who came before them, and a moderated space where we create, support one another, and network as a community.
What's here today:
• A searchable directory of blind creatives, each profile with a bio, links to their work, audio to listen to, and video to watch.
• A moderated community forum for collaboration, support, opportunities, and networking.
• Accessibility built in from the ground up — screen-reader friendly, fully keyboard operable, with adjustable text, themes, and high contrast on every page.
So here's my ask: start submitting profile suggestions. Nominate yourself. Nominate the artists you admire. Bring the people who deserve to be found. Create a free account, join the conversation, and let's build something that lasts.
This is how a legacy gets started — together.
Explore and submit: https://blind.productions
You must be 18 or older to join.
#Accessibility #BlindCreatives #BlindMusicians #DisabilityInclusion #A11y #BlindCommunity #DisabilityAdvocacy #InclusiveDesign #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReader #VisuallyImpaired #DigitalAccessibility #BlindArtists #DisabilityPride #InclusiveCommunity
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@elettrona@poliversity.it
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1d ago
Elena Brescacin
@elettrona@poliversity.it
Blind since birth, accessibility expert, WordPress blogger and Fediverse ambassador, inclusive designer, HIV awareness advocate. #accessibility #blind #WordPress #accessibility #hiv #fediverse #advocacy #activitypub #StopStigma #UEqualsU
poliversity.it
"We're verifying that you are a human".
How degrading is this sentence? It's CloudFlare's warning and it often happens you must complete a challenge. In this case a flag to check, in other cases it even gets worse - a captcha based on senses. Hearing and vision. And if you're impaired, you're simply screwed.
It's more and more frequent due to the very high percentage of bots navigating the web, automated systems percentage has overcome humans and it's an evident statistic. We can't deny this.
But I must share this fear: humans just click on the flag or overcome the challenge without even being aware of what the real meaning of "tell me you are a human" is.
It can even cause internalized ableism. Humans with disabilities normalizing the fact to have mandatory certification of being humans.
#a11y #ableism #accessibility #ai #blind #disability #human #inclusion #StayHuman #web
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aaron
@fireborn@dragonscave.space
I’m aaron, a #blind person from #England, #Uk. Interests include #tech, #gaming, #reading, #music, #science, and #writing. Only accepting follow requests from accounts with bios (must interact first)
dragonscave.space
You need to be able to trust a screen reader the way you trust your eyes.
A lot of people on Android right now are shipping software that makes that impossible, and calling it accessibility.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/stop-vibecoding-screen-readers/
#accessibility #Android #TalkBack #screenreader #blind #a11y #blog #writing #opinion
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@feoh@oldbytes.space
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Jun 03, 2026
Feoh
@feoh@oldbytes.space
I'm a crusty old nerd who chases bright shiny things and loves playing with old computers :) Especially my Atari 800XL and Amiga. I build castles in the cloud(s) for a living. Apparently I exude TOXIC POSITIVITY, or so people on the internet tell me. We're all gonna die eventually, might as well feel good while we enjoy the ride :)
oldbytes.space
Dear tech talk/conference presenters: USE BiGGER FONTS PLEASE!
The average age of your bog standard techie is increasing. I've had crappy eyesight all my life, but I suspect now more and more are struggling to actually try to read the code samples you're putting up.
Make the fonts (for you) uncomfortably large. I guarantee your audiences, both in person and later on Youtube will thank you!
#a11y #vision #technology
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@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca
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May 18, 2026
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca
completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those. keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
fed.interfree.ca
This was invented for #AI. However, I'm finding it really nice for screen readers:
RTK rewrites output from chatty terminal commands that produce a lot of output, often in complex tables, in order to make the output 80 to 90 percent shorter. Just put rtk in front of the command you want to compress. So "rtk git status" instead of "git status". And you can be sure the compacted output is correct because it's just using regular expressions and deterministic rules under the hood to rewrite output from the tools it knows about. If it doesn't know about a particular command, it just passes the output on unchanged.
github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
Now I've got to figure out how to wire this up in #bash so it'll just happen without me typing rtk all the time.
#a11y #screenreader #accessibility #commandline
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The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility https://lobste.rs/s/ifbdw1 #a11y
https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility
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@YaLTeR@mastodon.online
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Jun 25, 2025
Ivan Molodetskikh
@YaLTeR@mastodon.online
Hi! I like #Rust, #GNOME, rhythm games, hiking and reading. Working on a PhD in computer vision, and learning drumming as a hobby. I make #niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
mastodon.online
Out of curiosity, I tried running Orca on niri, and apparently it sort-of works for some apps (I expected nothing to work at all; idk anything about screen readers). However, compared to GNOME Shell, there's quite a few missing or broken things. I documented what I found here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/issues/1904
Is there some "Integrating Orca to Wayland desktops" docs? Like, what the compositor needs to do, who handles the hotkeys and how, etc.
(not actively working on this, just curious)
#niri #a11y
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@YaLTeR@mastodon.online
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Jul 27, 2025
Ivan Molodetskikh
@YaLTeR@mastodon.online
Hi! I like #Rust, #GNOME, rhythm games, hiking and reading. Working on a PhD in computer vision, and learning drumming as a hobby. I make #niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
mastodon.online
About finished implementing org.fd.a11y.KeyboardMonitor in niri, necessary for correct screen reader function:
https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2060
I tested it with Orca more or less, seems to work, but I'm very new to screen reader workings, so it's possible I've missed something.
This makes Orca announce keys everywhere in niri, and makes grabs work (both modifier with double-press passthrough and keystrokes). Making Orca actually say niri dialogs will be a separate effort.
#niri #a11y
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@YaLTeR@mastodon.online
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Aug 23, 2025
Ivan Molodetskikh
@YaLTeR@mastodon.online
Hi! I like #Rust, #GNOME, rhythm games, hiking and reading. Working on a PhD in computer vision, and learning drumming as a hobby. I make #niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
mastodon.online
Implemented basic AccessKit integration for niri based on @DataTriny@fosstodon.org's proof-of-concept. I have little experience with screen readers, and also had several questions, so I would appreciate more eyes and testing on the PR:
https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/2273
#niri #a11y
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@zeldman@front-end.social
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Apr 24, 2026
zeldman
@zeldman@front-end.social
Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.
front-end.social
Designers are good people. Some designs exclude people anyway. Alan Dalton explains why—too much to remember—and offers a practical fix: accessibility personas that help you recognize problems while you’re designing, not after. Homework included.
Good designers, bad websites: a proposal by Alan Dalton
https://alistapart.com/article/good-designers-bad-websites-a-proposal/ #ux #a11y #accessibility #personas #alistapart #uxui #design #webdesign #productdesign
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Protovoters: Free, accessible voter files for democracy https://lobste.rs/s/dotsw2 #show #a11y #culture #javascript #release
https://protovoters.org
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@MoritzGlantz@mastodon.social
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Apr 20, 2026
Moritz Glantz
@MoritzGlantz@mastodon.social
🦾 Web Accessibility Consultant 👨💻 UX-Engineer ＜ HTML-Fundamentalist 🎙 Podcast @wwsiv (retired) 🥁 Musician by heart
mastodon.social
There is not a single reason to build a checkbox using something else than .
Change my mind.
#dontFightHtml #a11y #Accessibility
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@dusoft@fosstodon.org
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Apr 20, 2026
dusoft
@dusoft@fosstodon.org
Author of ActivityPub / Mastodon bots: @nypl @sfpl @lapl @cpl @movieposters @adventuregames @dikda @wikipediatoday @gameoflife ...and others. https://github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-bots SEO since 2003, data & analytics, cycling infrastructure expert (what a mix, huh?) Tech speaker Hobby programmer #php #lua #love2d #python #js #Linux user
fosstodon.org
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Unicode Variation Selectors (2007) via @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems https://lobste.rs/s/t1zl6m #a11y
https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2007/06/secret-life-of-variation-selectors.html
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Tech Note: Sidenotes https://lobste.rs/s/rswccw #a11y #web
https://unbreaking.org/blog/tech-note-sidenotes/
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@leffe@social.linux.pizza
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Apr 13, 2026
Leif Samuelsson
@leffe@social.linux.pizza
(What's so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding Former Silicon Valley code monkey. 47 years with Unix, GUI, Sun, Ubuntu; Emacs 1977, Java Swing/FX until 2016. Freeing myself of big tech, oil, etc. Social media: Usenet to Masto with no commercial sites in between. My memory isn't as good as I think it used to be. #EV 2014 #Humanism #Science #DEI #ProportionalRepresentation #OpenStandards #RadioParadise #ItsTheClimateStupid #VoteGreen #KärnkraftNejTack #noai #nobot #nobridge
social.linux.pizza
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@paul@oldfriends.live
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Mar 30, 2026
Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live
Admin & owner of OldFriends.Live Host of 9 o'clock @HashTagGames AKA #FeedingTubePaul #Healthcare: #Parkinsons Plus- #MSA #MultipleSystemAtrophy #FeedingTube since 4/2012 #HashtagGames #Jokester #Progressive #politics #Banjo #music, #literature, #movies, #TV, #fedi22 #Ohio #US #AppalachianOhio #Veteran #SissyCat & #MillieCat are my #CatsOfMastodon #JakeDog and #LittleBit have crossed over the Rainbow Bridge #noai
oldfriends.live
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online It's been a while since I have posted this, but on days when my motor control is off due to my Parkinson's, or in times when my meds are "turned off" in-between doses, being able to "Flip" through my Mastodon timeline has been a godsend and has granted me more #accessibility to the #Fediverse as well as all the content through the #Flipboard app. Flipping through my timeline allows me to stay connected socially. It is really a great #a11y application.
@mike@flipboard.social @tchambers@indieweb.social @Flipboard@flipboard.social
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@deobald@fantastic.earth
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Mar 06, 2026
Steven Deobald
@deobald@fantastic.earth
3rd wave open source, vipassana, chai, fixies, other stuff.
fantastic.earth
@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family sorry cassidy, i didn't even notice. i have dark reader on all the time for this precise reason... most websites still don't respect the system theme and i get a headache within a couple seconds of seeing a white background. i just assume web #a11y is broken and don't even take the risk.
dropping niki from the cc because i was on the fence about tagging him in the first place and your message is probably sufficient here, if it's a thing he wants to fix.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
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Feb 28, 2026
ARGVMI~1.PIF
@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Previously @argv_minus_one@mstdn.party
mastodon.sdf.org
If #webDesign people could please stop overriding the #hyperlink style to remove the underline, that'd be great. Great for #accessibility, to be precise.
Removing the underline makes hyperlinks hard to see, even if you have fully acute vision! I just saw a site where links are a deep reddish color, barely distinguishable from the black text. No underline. No other markings. Utter madness.
#a11y #webdev
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@zenia@mas.to
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Feb 24, 2026
Zenobia Żaczek
@zenia@mas.to
Aktywistka Komitetu Obrony Praw Lokatorów i Związku Syndykalistów Polski. Osoba transpłciowa (zaimki ona/jej)
mas.to
Jestem w Poznaniu na konferencji o dostępności w kinie. #a11y
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