How to make the screen grayscale in Ubuntu with desktops other than GNOME? #kde #desktopenvironments #cinnamon #accessibility

https://askubuntu.com/q/1546984/612

As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step [gitlab.gnome.org] needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/564

Hey everybody. I've got a complaint about #Suno. So, after the release of their #IOS app, many #blind users commented that the #VoiceOver #Accessibility could be better. The app could be worked with, but wasn't perfect. Anyway, I posted in their discord a few times reporting bugs and explaining how to reproduce them, and not only have none of them got fixed, but the app is now much worse. I can't seem to create a song by entering a prompt anymore, as I now get a message that the data couldn't be read because it was in the incorrect format? I can't even find the create button with standard #VoiceOver anymore without turning on screen recognition. I started my subscription again due to the release of v4.5, but if nothing is done soon I'm gonna cancel and request a refund. Please repost this as much as possible, because #Suno should be made aware. If this post seems a little harsh, it's not because I feel entitled to anything because I'm #Blind. It's because I'm sick and tired of developers charging subscriptions for products and not listening to their users when they report critical issues with the services they pay for every month to use.

To other #blind #students, what tools have you used to help you formate your papers with #APA styling and #citations? My #university provides #Perrla for free to students, but it doesn't seem to be the most #accessible with #ScreenReaders, at least not the online version. I haven't tried the add-on for #MicrosoftWord. With the online version, though, I don't see any keyboard shortcuts, and when you move into the edit box to start writing a paper, focus gets trapped there and it's hard to get out, so I don't think it's the best tool for me. The only other tool I know of is the reference manager built into Microsoft Word, but it seems to have fewer features and doesn't really help you format your paper like Perrla does, something I was looking forward to since all the APA rules for styling seem hard to remember.
#College #CollegeStudent #accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReaders #writing
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When you’re scripting for a screen reader, then you’re scripting for the browser, with exactly the same level of JavaScript support.

However complications can arise with event handling, because screen readers intercept events and don't always pass them on to the browser, and even then, keyboard actions might fire mouse events.

https://www.tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaws-and-nvda/

Hi guys.

I am the technical leader of my company and recently we have hired an autistic intern.
His learning is slow and I don't think he's very smart, but he can learn.
He has good communication and eye contact, but since the method of this field is self study, he has a lot of problems when he is given a concept and said to go figure it out or understand it.

For example I was teaching him SQL today, and I told him to see what the "constraint" and "unique" keywords mean and explain them to me in a paragraph at most. This would take most people about 15 minutes. But he took about 2 hours and then gave up and then I explained them to him.

How can I teach him better and help him actually do work?

I'd never read the section of the WAI-ARIA spec about aria-label until today. Some lowlights:

> The purpose of aria-label is the same as that of aria-labelledby.

This is unnecessarily confusing. They mean that both aria-label and aria-labelledby are used to give something an accessible name, but you'd be forgiven for reading that sentence and thinking they work in the same way.

> Most host languages provide an attribute that could be used to name the element (e.g., the title attribute in [HTML]), yet this could present a browser tooltip. In the cases where DOM content or a tooltip is undesirable, authors MAY set the accessible name of the element using aria-label.

Cool... the spec for accessible web applications casually implying that the title attribute in HTML is something worth using.

Tonight, join Vis-Ability 2025: a unique gathering of blind and vision impaired leaders.

TetraLogical Director @tink is taking part as a panlist, and @SteveFaulkner will also be in attendance.

Get your online or in person tickets at: fightforsight.org.uk/get-involved/vis-ability-2025

Our lates In-Process blog is out: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-30th-april-2025/

Featuring
- The NVDA 2025.1 Beta
- What’s New in 2025.1
- Updated NVDA Expert Certification 2025
- Gene Empowers New Zealand
- Changes for Developers
- NVDA Add-ons and API Breaking Changes

Viewpoint is a Windows program that uses Gemini AI to make user interfaces that aren't accessible, pretty accessible! I was able to navigate the PPSSPP interface with it pretty well! So yeah, it's starting to happen, the use of AI for more than just image descriptions.

https://viewpoint.nibblenerds.com/