<p>Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me<br><a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a></p>
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<p>GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People</p><p>GrapheneOS could have shipped real accessibility support. They had a screen reader. They had a libre speech engine — one they requested a feature from. They got that feature.</p><p>And then they said no.<br>Because the license was GPLv3.</p><p>They’ll ship sandboxed Google Play Services.<br>They’ll let you install GPLv3 software from their app store.<br>But a working screen reader for blind users?<br>Blocked. On principle.</p><p>This isn’t a technical limitation.<br>This is not a matter of priorities.<br>This is cruelty by ideology — and they’re proud of it.</p><p>So here it is. My full public dissection of the excuses, the hypocrisy, and the sheer contempt they’ve shown to the people who need privacy and security most: the disabled.</p><p>They chose licensing purity over basic humanity.<br>I chose to write this.</p><p><a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/gra</span><span class="invisible">pheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/grapheneos/" rel="tag">#GrapheneOS</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#Accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#Blind</a> <a href="/tags/disabilitytech/" rel="tag">#DisabilityTech</a> <a href="/tags/inclusion/" rel="tag">#Inclusion</a> <a href="/tags/gplv3/" rel="tag">#GPLv3</a> <a href="/tags/espeak/" rel="tag">#espeak</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#Security</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/disabilityrights/" rel="tag">#DisabilityRights</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#Rant</a> <a href="/tags/techshame/" rel="tag">#TechShame</a></p>
<p>I'm looking to join or start a group for <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/nonbinary/" rel="tag">#nonbinary</a> people. Does anyone know if something like that exists? Boosts appreciated.</p>
<p>Poll only for <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#Blind</a>/LowVision users who rely on <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a>. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.</p>
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<p>As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.</p><p><a href="/tags/appreciation/" rel="tag">#appreciation</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/altbot/" rel="tag">#altbot</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/blindness/" rel="tag">#blindness</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/gratitude/" rel="tag">#gratitude</a> <a href="/tags/images/" rel="tag">#images</a> <a href="/tags/inclusivity/" rel="tag">#inclusivity</a> <a href="/tags/peoplewhocare/" rel="tag">#peoplewhocare</a> <a href="/tags/pictures/" rel="tag">#pictures</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>Good day all! Fireside Fedi TODAY! Yes we're still on, internet was fixed, thank you Brightspeed techs!<br><br>Livestream: <a href="https://stream.firesidefedi.live" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>stream.firesidefedi.live</a><br><br>Special Guest: @elettrona<br><a href="/tags/ally/" rel="tag">#ally</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/wordporess/" rel="tag">#wordporess</a> <a href="/tags/designer/" rel="tag">#designer</a> <a href="/tags/hivawareness/" rel="tag">#hivawareness</a><br><br>Date & Time: 2025-12-02 1500 UTC-5<br><br>After the show:<br><a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#Peertube</a> <a href="/tags/vod/" rel="tag">#VOD</a> - <a href="https://video.firesidefedi.live" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>video.firesidefedi.live</a><br><a href="/tags/castopod/" rel="tag">#Castopod</a> <a href="/tags/fedicast/" rel="tag">#Fedicast</a> - <a href="https://audio.firesidefedi.live" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>audio.firesidefedi.live</a><br><br><a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#Youtube</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@btfree_org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.youtube.com/@btfree_org</a></p>
<p>Tis done 🎉<br>My <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#youtube</a> channel, formerly known as BlindlyCoding, is now named ViewpointUnseen. This allows me to broaden the content on that channel to include a lot more different types of content, from tutorials for the <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> from a <a href="/tags/blindness/" rel="tag">#blindness</a> perspective, tech reviews from that same perspective, <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> streams as well as reaction content when I find sufficient things to react to.<br>I think there's a lot of value I can offer to the world at large with stuff that's currently locked inside my head and having a bit more time during the work week allows me to spend more time on <a href="/tags/contentcreation/" rel="tag">#contentCreation</a>. Screen reader tutorials? Hacking streams? Videogames? Reviewing pieces of tech and supplying <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> recommendations to users AND developers/creators? Yes, all of that and more. Stay tuned!</p>
<p>Question for <a href="/tags/hamradio/" rel="tag">#HamRadio</a> folx out there who are also <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#Blind</a>. How did you handle questions on the test that use schematics? I just discovered this is an issue while studying on a site that, so far, has been reasonably accessible. Hoping figuring out how others have handled it might help me figure out how to proceed and/or what suggestions I can make to the site so I can proceed and/or others after me don't face the same problems. Thanks in advance, and please boost for reach.</p>
<p>Reposting this since the groups went down, some Of this is available in <a href="/tags/braille/" rel="tag">#Braille</a>, or in audio, on <a href="/tags/bookshare/" rel="tag">#BookShare</a> and/ <a href="/tags/nlsbard/" rel="tag">#NLSBard</a></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/dhamlinmusic" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.goodreads.com/dhamlinmusic</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://rblind.com/c/main" rel="nofollow">@main</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#Blind</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/visuallyimpaired/" rel="tag">#VisuallyImpaired</a></p>
<p>Reposting this since the groups went down, some Of this is available in <a href="/tags/braille/" rel="tag">#Braille</a>, or in audio, on <a href="/tags/bookshare/" rel="tag">#BookShare</a> and/ <a href="/tags/nlsbard/" rel="tag">#NLSBard</a></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/dhamlinmusic" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.goodreads.com/dhamlinmusic</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/blind" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blind</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/Braille" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Braille</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>[email protected]</span></a></span> <a href="https://rblind.com/c/main" rel="nofollow">@main</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mastoblind" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mastoblind</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#Blind</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/visuallyimpaired/" rel="tag">#VisuallyImpaired</a></p>
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<p>i want to hear from people who use screen readers: what makes alt text useful to you? what doesn't help?</p><p><a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a></p>
<p>Just received our first prototype of a Nickel-metal Hydride battery charger with a USB plug. This board is made to charge from 1 to 6 cells in series and supports a thermister for sensing overheating batteries.</p><p>This circuit design is planned to be a part of a pen-like stylus with a camera and haptic feedback for blind people to feel visual art.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-b</span><span class="invisible">q25172dsgr</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/ee/" rel="tag">#ee</a> <a href="/tags/pcb/" rel="tag">#pcb</a> <a href="/tags/fosh/" rel="tag">#fosh</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/bce/" rel="tag">#bce</a> <a href="/tags/prototype/" rel="tag">#prototype</a> <a href="/tags/maker/" rel="tag">#maker</a> <a href="/tags/nimh/" rel="tag">#nimh</a> <a href="/tags/battery/" rel="tag">#battery</a> <a href="/tags/charger/" rel="tag">#charger</a></p>
<p>Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse</p><p>@selfhosted</p><p>Hello, I followed the "selfhosted" instance on LemmyWorld in order to be able to talk about my experiences having them in order, without confusing criteria into Fediverse. Hoping they can be useful to others. </p><p>Current setup: Hostinger vps kvm2 plan, Debian12, YunoHost, Hostinger's docker manager installed. </p><p>Personal background: blind since birth, (I don't see), I'm mostly a computer power-user, worked and studied with ms-dos since 1989 until late 90s. Basic GNU/Linux knowledge in 2002, then interrupted in 2004. </p><p>I don't care talking about disability when discussing unrelated topics but it's necessary in this case as my needs are quite different from others. </p><p>So, I've been scared by self-hosting and have had shared hosting web sites until now. Until <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_elena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_elena</span></a></span> started self hosting her digital echosystem from scratch using YunoHost. </p><p>Due to lack of drivers I stopped with Linux on my private machine, drivers for the Braille display I had, and then the uneffective (at least for my need) screen reader capabilities on Linux's GUI based distros. </p><p>Finally in January 2026 I jumped in the dark after reading Elena Rossini's blog about YunoHost and having explored their demo pages. At the worst, I'll cancel the contract...</p><p>In the end I've managed to run WriteFreely, WordPress, CastoPod and GoToSocial, just by YunoHost; but if someone says terminal knowledge is not needed, this is a complete lie. </p><p>Where a system (such as YunoHost) can do the dirty work configuring postfix and nginx, I'll support it but it has its disadvantages: not every app can be installed through it. </p><p>For me it's very difficult to create and look after a config file on my own, it's frustrating for a sighted to miss a punctuation sign, an apostrophe, an indent. Let alone for me! A single space skipped, can crash a system.</p><p>A lie even saying that AI completely helps. It does solve some small, simple, immediate tasks but it has some mistakes as well. The so-called allucinations which create a real mess if you can rely on no personal skill.</p><p>Such as "sudo yunohost tools cert-install", or similar. AI wrote "cert-install" while the real command is "cert install"! A power user can get rid of it and correct, a beginner with no command-line knowledge, just copies, pastes, and gets scared.</p><p>My late attempt has been Madblog, a static markdown-based blogging platform with Fediverse activitypub in it, so I learned what Docker is and how it basically works. But I gave up, due to several timeouts and activitypub slow-downs. I think I'm going to use WordPress for blogging then. In case of comments it'll be more intuitive for non-fediverse folks.</p><p>Hopefully share others' experiences as well! </p><p><a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/selfhost/" rel="tag">#selfhost</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#WordPress</a> <a href="/tags/yunohost/" rel="tag">#YunoHost</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MonaApp</span></a></span> - the Mona7 app has a serious VoiceOver problem in the post's language setting. You used a switch which groups 3 checkboxes and VoiceOver doesn't detect it correctly. <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#ios</a> <a href="/tags/testflight/" rel="tag">#testflight</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> Italian, European, citizen of the world. Internet user since 1998 but started with PC in 1989. Formerly facebook, now stable on Mastodon - formerly "talksina" on MastodonUno italian instance; still "talksina" as handle into Linkedin, WordPress .org profile, google (till it lasts) and github, as it's impossible to edit profile name. I believe in data liberation and ownership. I work on accessibility (web and apps), I have a disability myself (totally blind). Blogger, WordPress user and MarkDown lover, interested in electronic voices and creating audio-dramas with text-to-speech. AI user, moderately optimistic. HIV awareness advocate. Firmly against tech-based "age verification" on sexuality related sites. Education should do the job, allowing governments to control Internet is introduction to censorship. <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#WordPress</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/hiv/" rel="tag">#hiv</a> <a href="/tags/advocacy/" rel="tag">#advocacy</a></p>
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<p>Just placed an order for a new prototype PCB (Printed Circuit Board) for makers. This one charges NiMH (Nickel-metal Hydride) rechargeable batteries with charging speed options, support for up to 6 cells, temperature sensor, and USB-C plug.</p><p>This is a step toward our first accessibility product for blind people to feel visual art through a haptic pen-like stylus interface.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-b</span><span class="invisible">q25172dsgr</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/pcb/" rel="tag">#pcb</a> <a href="/tags/prototype/" rel="tag">#prototype</a> <a href="/tags/fosh/" rel="tag">#fosh</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/freehardware/" rel="tag">#freehardware</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#freesoftware</a> <a href="/tags/copyleft/" rel="tag">#copyleft</a> <a href="/tags/ee/" rel="tag">#ee</a></p>
<p>We've just received a new manufactured prototype of a nickel metal hydride battery charger that handles the charging from 1 to 6 cells from a standard USB-C cable.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-b</span><span class="invisible">q25172dsgr</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/fosh/" rel="tag">#fosh</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/pcb/" rel="tag">#pcb</a> <a href="/tags/ee/" rel="tag">#ee</a> <a href="/tags/bce/" rel="tag">#bce</a> <a href="/tags/pensee/" rel="tag">#pensee</a></p>
