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@elettrona@poliversity.it · 1d ago

"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 · Jun 08, 2026

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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Badass Britt

@britt@mstdn.games · Jun 05, 2026

Hey, I’m reaching out to the #blind community here on Mastodon. I need your help in assisting a customer on my website who is blind. They’ve reached out to me via messages on Etsy, asking how tactile my fidgets are. They want to know if my fidgets (2 in particular, I can link you) are detailed enough for a visually impaired person to enjoy. I feel unqualified to answer this question without consulting others with lived experience. Further, I’m dyslexic and autistic, and worry that I might describe something inaccurately. They’ve requested I send them a highly detailed written description of what features can be tactically felt on the fidgets they want. I really want to help, but I’m unsure the best way to do this. Your help would be immensely appreciated. Thanks. 😊 #Accessibility

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Fubsepude

@fubsepude@mhh.fedihost.io · May 27, 2026

#introduction Hi!. I'm Michael, or Fubsepude. I'm a 30's #blind and #autistic person from Denmark. My interests include: #accessibility #music #tech and connecting with folks.

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Dorota

@LadyMaverick@dragonscave.space · Apr 23, 2026

I know this is common knowledge, particularly for blind users, but I’m obsessed with ElevenLabs. The human-sounding voices are incredible; they've made listening to ebooks an amazing experience. Now I barely need other apps for ebooks, #Audiobooks are still my main choice, but when an audiobook is not available, or if I don't like the narrator's voice, then I always use Eleven Reader as an option. It means now I can read more and more with even a bigger pleasure. #Accessibility #Blind #Books #Bookstodon #Technology #AI

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@sallytheflame@mastodon.world · Feb 21, 2026

@Kholud1972@freesewing.social only has 6 followers. The needs of this family are very great so please follow them. If you can donate this is their donation link: https://chuffed.org/project/152941-help-90-year-old-kamela-survive-in-gaza #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #family #elders #blind #disabled #compassion #kindness #help #share #hope

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@hspmauli@norden.social · Jan 14, 2026

Hör/Schau dir das Video an dann hörst du wie viel akkustische Infos man bekommt bei nur einem einzigen Tweet. Das Video hab ich damals auf Twitter gemacht auch zur Aufklärung. Ich sage nicht umsonst das ich alles höre was ihr seht. Hinweis: ihr hört das in Normalgeschwindigkeit damit ihr das auch verstehen könnt. Ich höre das in 3x Geschwindigkeit #Blindheit #Blind #Screenreader

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James Scholes

@jscholes@dragonscave.space · Dec 06, 2025

A severe #accessibility issue I’ve seen very few people talking about is the widespread adoption (in my country at least) of touch-only card payment terminals with no physical number buttons.

Not only do these devices offer no tactile affordances, but the on-screen numbers move around to limit the chances of a customer’s PIN number being captured by bad actors. In turn, this makes it impossible to create any kind of physical overlay (which itself would be a hacky solution at best).

When faced with such a terminal, blind people have only a few ways to proceed:

Switch to cash (if they have it);
refuse to pay via inaccessible means;
ask the seller to split the transaction into several to facilitate multiple contactless payments (assuming contactless is available);
switch to something like Apple Pay (again assuming availability); or
hand over their PIN to a complete stranger.

Not one of these solutions is without problems.

If you’re #blind, have you encountered this situation, and if so how did you deal with it? It’s not uncommon for me to run into it several times per day.

why do you think this is not being talked about or made the subject of action by blindness organisations? Is it the case that it disproportionately affects people in countries where alternative payment technology (like paying via a smart watch) is slower to roll out and economically out of reach for residents?

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MostlyBlindGamer

@MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space · Nov 20, 2025

@akamran@indieweb.social @altbot@fuzzies.wtf @Jyoti@mas.to be me, be visually impaired, notice comic boosted by mutual, start reading overly verbose alt text. Sigh. This was written by an LLM wasn’t it? Continue being me, get confused by alt text, zoom into comic and strain vision to read it, notice alt text said it’s four panels arranged horizontally when it’s actually a 2 by 2 square, fail to find the “small cylindrical object between the two mice” from the alt text, realize one of the characters is that object but not a mouse and not cylindrical. Sigh. I was so happy with the culture of using alt text on the Fedi, but it’s being flooded by wasteful and incorrect descriptions promoted as helpful. The tech bros are winning. Human art and thoughtfully communication is being chewed up by machines that waste power and water while pretending to help people. If AltBot provides you a description, I beg of you to write one yourself instead. You know what you posted, you know why, you know what’s important and what it means. I want that. I want what the human posting for other humans wants to share. #blind #accessibility #AIslop

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