"The first in a nostalgic and heart-warming WWII saga series by bestselling author Maisie Thomas..." Bestselling author Maisie Thomas and I may have slightly differing views on whether the phrase "heart-warming" and World War II make for natural bedfellows.

Another day, another unwanted parameter in an NVDA configuration profile.

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 […]

"Your post is sent, tap to view." No thank you, Mona. I was actually wanting the Back button that you've just covered with your banner.

Dear #python Developer, The single sentence, "The interface is like #javascript WebSocket object," does not constitute acceptable documentation in the context of a Python project. Yours, Annoyed.

Thought: if #open, #federated, and #distributed solutions were the most #accessible solutions, people with disabilities would be some of the biggest allies in pushing adoption. I already constantly have to get my friends, co-workers, etc, to switch tools for me. If we're working or playing […]

Do you use #eloquence on the 64-bit #nvda #screenreader? If so, a new release is available, and we could use your help! You can find out more info on the release page: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v4 #blind #accessibility #a11y

Unintentional #python error of the day: `ValueError: 'test' is not a valid Test`

Do I understand correctly that Narrator is currently not available in the installer for #Windows11? Does this apply to the out-of-box experience, or only the bit before that? I.e. if I buy a computer with Win 11 already installed, will Narrator work for the setup? #accessibility #screenreader

"Your delivery is delayed due to unexpectedly high demand," says the parcel courier who had absolutely no way of predicting the mass-market capitalism drive that happens at the same time each year.

Absolute scenes at Chateau Lawson yesterday when I caught La Daughter's Useless Dog somehow on top of the kitchen table munching a bowl of plum crumble I'd saved for El Son.

"BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. This censorship of Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture is just another […]

Went to type "I think the" on my phone which it immediately autocompleted to: "I think they've backed themselves into a corner." Unsure why.

If you need an SVG of the instragram logo, you can just go and download the official _11MB bitmap wrapped in an SVG trenchcoat._ 🙃

Me: *makes 2 minutes and 48 seconds ringtone, and tries to set it on my iPhone*. Apple: "Ringtone too large. Choose a rington under 30 seconds." Me: *Shortens audio to 29.97 seconds, and tries to set it as my ringtone*. Apple: "Ringtone too large. Choose a rington under 30 seconds."

All other things aside, I hope @NVAccess will benefit financially from NVDA being included on the BrailleNote Evolve.

My coffee machine needs to be descaled. The process requires 4.5 litres of water. It probably won't be very accessible, so I might have to do it twice or more to successfully complete it to the machine's satisfaction. Please make your products #accessible so I can stop wasting water. Thank you […]

"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked […]

Pet peeve: people mixing up the terms "screen readers" and "screen reader users." The latter rely on the former precisely because they cannot read the screen. It is deeply dehumanising to reference work being done "for screen readers," as though the tools occupy the mind more than the people […]

They were just sitting looking at each other. A little #Caturday story about Ping. Picture this: Two or three days a week, I have a video chat of about an hour with my father-in-law 3000 miles away in England, who is soon 95, unable to move from his chair or […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

The first eight series of #reddwarf are now available to purchase as audiobooks, with four series per book. For example on Audible, that means two credits for 24 and a half hours of episodes.

#accessibility Statement " This statement was last updated on [enter relevant date]. We at [enter organization / business name] are working to make our site [enter site name and address] accessible to people with disabilities. " I really believe you.

[lil vent running free services, altbot] altbot generates alt text for images using locally hosted open source llm. runs on my own infrastructure, costs me money and time, (and is also able to only exist thanks to my supporters on github and kofi) does it for free because accessibility matters […]

If you haven't been able to ship your iOS/macOS 26 update yet and have been feeling bad about it, just remember: Apple still hasn't shipped iWork with Liquid Glass, and Apple also opted all its pro apps out of Liquid Glass. Final Cut Pro on iPad still doesn't support the background video […]

A career tip I'm still really bad at. Stuck on something, you know someone else more experienced in that thing can probably help you with it, but don't want to bother them because you're embarrassed to not have figured it out on your own? Ask them anyways. In general, it's legit people's jobs […]

I buy a fair amount of #audiobooks with the intention of listening later, for instance when there's a sale. It's incredibly frustrating when I get around to listening to the first in a series only to find that the rest have become unavailable or been rerecorded by another narrator in the meantime.

my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.

Getting towards the end of the working week and I find myself writing QA steps like: "Open the application on iOS with TalkBack running." Nearly there...

My Bluetooth braille display isn't currently switched on/available, and NVDA's braille display setting is set to automatic detection. That seems to be making the following unhelpful context get logged at INFO level every 20 seconds: "Loaded braille display driver 'noBraille', current display […]

Every GUI toolkit/accessibility API has the concept of windows. So I'd love to know why NVDA only announces the window role for some of them and not others. E.g. I know I'm using an application powered by UIA (or toolkits that use it like WPF) because NVDA announces the word "window" after the […]

If the writings of Elizabeth Jane Howard are to believed, the most pressing problem in late 1930s Britain were the bluebottles, mostly dead. War? What war? "[B]luebottles at the sash windows buzzed and sank into stupor." "But it was a ghastly bathroom — freezing cold, and so ugly, with the […]

I live in a house with large open spaces carved up by some alcoves, columns and protrusions. I'm told on occasions that it looks quite attractive. but as I, a #blind person, miscalculate while bending down to pick something up and yet again catch my head on another bit of pointless wall, I'm […]

A particularly cringeworthy trait of some tech people: providing way more information than is warranted in response to simple queries. For example, question: "Does this website load for you?" Answer: "No," proceeded by debug-level output from curl for some reason. "Oh, you don't know what […]

Healthcare In America: Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead. Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost? Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea. Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this […]

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" I'm not very good with CSS...

Apropos of nothing, I'm remembering the time we ordered food and upon delivery, the driver apologised for the delay on account of being arrested en route.

@jscholes whoops, sorry! we've fixed this instance, effective the next time we deploy changes to the fronend, but we still need to do a pass to clean up the other svgs. thanks for pointing it out!

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

Absolutely unbelievable. An unnecessary icon was added to my system tray telling me Adobe Acrobat had successfully been updated. I wanted to get rid of it, so tried right-clicking. Nothing. I hit Enter on it instead, hoping that would just acknowledge it and make it go away. Instead, it […]

It is impossible to overstate the contribution Glen Gordon has made to the #accessibility industry. More important even than that, his meticulous attention to detail and his understanding that something must be more than accessible, it must be efficient, has helped countless people to be […]

I do enjoy encountering new cases of Reckless error handling in #unix; how about you? "Cannot schedule shutdown without logind support, proceeding with immediate shutdown."

"Breeding down their necks" is quite the audiobook narration error.

I've said it before, but it's disappointing when small things let down the #accessibility of an otherwise good interface. For instance, I've told many people that the Tailscale web UI is actually quite good with a #screenreader. Unfortunately, the first thing an NVDA user hears after […]

Subject: "We’re Sorry! You Received a Ticketmaster Email in Error". Except I didn't. But thanks for sending me an apology for something you didn't do, which would not have been necessary even if you had done it.

Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values

New #accessibility post: On #aria and Experiential Design (Or: why it’s not always about ARIA support levels.): https://jamesscholes.com/2025/10/31/on-aria-and-experiential-design/

There is exactly one valid use case for Grokipedia, and that is as a source for spectacularly bad markup samples to use in your #accessibility presentations and shitposts. This, for instance, is their take on inline reference/citation controls: ``` <sup type="button" aria-haspopup="dialog" […]

"And could I ask the reason you want to return the couch?" "When I'm sitting on it, FaceID doesn't work."

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.