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Airacast: Return from CSUN 
By now, you’ve likely come across numerous podcasts discussing the 40th annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. The Aira staff gathered to share their experiences in the exhibit hall, during sessions, and in workshops. Join Jenine Stanley as she engages in conversations with Troy Otillio, Everette Bacon, Jill Ratliff, Blake Steinecke, and Dianne Howie. Aira ASL made its debut, and the response far exceeded our expectations.
Discover more insights and learn about the other valuable takeaways from the conference.
Listen here: https://pnc.st/s/airacast/58b21b37/return-from-csun-
Or in the podcast app of your choice.
Learn more about Aira Explorer and Aira ASL at www.aira.io.
Hello #Blind and #VisuallyImpaired community! 
I'm having trouble signing PDF documents with a digital certificate using my #screenreader (NVDA on Windows). I can do it in Adobe Reader but it's quite cumbersome and requires sighted assistance.
Does anyone have a more accessible workflow or software recommendation for signing PDFs with a digital certificate using the keyboard and a screen reader? Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Could you please #Boost this so it reaches more people? Thank you in advance! 
#Accessibility #NVDA #PDF #DigitalSignature #AssistiveTechnology @NVAccess
Had someone on one of my tours today who is part of a 7 a side team with a blind player
Their team name is Braille Madrid 
#visuallyimpaired #soccer #stlouis
#^St. Louis CITY SC Expands Energizer Park’s Best-In-Class Accessibility Programming by Testing Touch2See Program for Blind and Visually Impaired Fans | St. Louis SC
CITY SC becomes first Major League Soccer team to test Touch2See’s innovative technology
Hey, folks who use screenreaders. I often use asterisks and parentheses in my writing, because the structure forms as I write. I've just realized that may make my stuff less accessible for you.
Is there a different way for me to add short snippets of clarifying text that's more accessible?
Thanks!
Source: @mercurynews.com
From the article: "New technology — and its rapid adoption for remote work during COVID-19 — continues to break down many barriers for people with disabilities. There are more ways than ever for workplaces to ensure accessibility, often at little to no cost. For example, voice recognition expands communication options for those who face challenges with traditional keyboards. And auto-captioning ensures that people who are deaf or experiencing hearing loss can fully engage with multimedia content."
#Disabled #Disabilities #Blind #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #VoiceRecognition #VisuallyImpaired #TextToSpeach #Deaf #HearingLoss #AutoCaptioning #Employees #Employers
Come join me in a webinar with The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.- Real Time AI Assistance with Smart Glasses and Live Video March 12 @ 4:00 PM pacific. We'll discuss Meta Live, ChatGPT, and Gemini and their AI with video capabilities for image descriptions. How can they help the #blind, #LowVision, and #VisuallyImpaired?
Learn more and register now to secure your spot!
https://buff.ly/fhWomeb
For this Friday, I've decided to post this shot which I've taken last week using UV filter (and using my modified camera for full-spectrum photography). Initially, it was just an experiment really, since I didn't shoot in UV in a long time. UV photography is quite hard, way harder than infrared photography, for technical issues and considerations. For this reason, using high ISO in my case is a must (and hence more grain).
Initially, I've shot this as an experiment. I wanted to apply a technique that "almost" blowout the highlights (working with the histogram delicately here). Then, as I was working on the effect, it occurred to me how much I struggle with brightness in real life.
For people who read about RP, the impression is that patients of RP would need a lot of light; which is true. However, such brightness can be "blinding" in the sense of not being able to adapt and discern details. A real-life example: The kitchen at home is completely white and around the middle there is a support beam, which is also painted white, beside other white things. Roaming the kitchen can be tricky at times (especially when, my eyes show flyers or flashes) and I often need to pause a little to adjust my perspective in this space. It is not uncommon for me to head directly into that beam, because I didn't see the edges clearly.
Patients of RP, generally speaking, retain low-contrast vision and that makes them slow to move around, especially around the stairs where feeling the steps by foot is a must. For this reason, I wear polarizing shades over my glasses to help add contrast; though it doesn't work all the time, but it was/is definitely a must when driving during the day (something I don't do much right now anyway), and also around the house, in the yard specifically.
#RP #RetinitisPigmentosa #UV #ultraviolet #bright #brightness #awareness #February #visuallyimpaired #eyes #goodmorning
just for fun I thought I'd ask my fellow #blind, #deafblind, 'and #visuallyimpaired people what #books you all are #reading currently, and what format, audio, #braille, or print. @mastoblind
I'm reading North Queen by Nicola Tyche on my kindle with #voiceview, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on my braille display.
This Wearable Camera ‘Sees’ For Blind People https://petapixel.com/2025/02/27/this-wearable-ai-seekr-camera-sees-for-blind-visually-impaired-people/ #artificialintellgence #visuallyimpaired #wearablecamera #Technology #blind #seekr #News
I am thoroughly enjoying the #AtkinsonHyperlegible font as a default across my #XFCE desktop. I'm not #visuallyImpaired, but using a font that's designed to be very legible at any size with no ambiguities (like l and I or O and 0 looking too similar) is somehow very pleasant.
So, for this Friday, I'm posting something different from my usual "matches". This time I'm posting something that I do every year in February; The Retinitis Pigmentosa Awareness Month.
It took me a while to come up with something and I was thinking about more a "tech-savvy" shot, but then I realized I don't have to do all of that if I can just deliver the idea and some aspect about the struggles that a person with this disease, like me, do face. Hopefully, by next Friday, I'll be posting another one related to this topic.
I will leave defining the disease for those who don't know about it to the internet - look it up. The image here reflects the confinement that such a disease causes, despite that in my case, I'm still better than my other two siblings who are almost completely blind and can't even differentiate colors. I don't use a cane (yet), but it doesn't make any difference when it comes to being imprisoned in one place and fearing to drive anywhere by. Ironically, I was officially diagnosed in 2013, but nevertheless, I was driving before and after that time, and not until I got an official certificate for my condition (to be classified as a person of special needs) in 2021 - only then, driving had been a bit of a hassle; One, because of my surrounding environment and the blame-game if I do so, and two, because of the law, as I might get fined if I got caught driving with me being recorded as someone with an eye condition (and not supposed to drive). All in all, it does feel like being chained to the cane, even if there was no cane, and leaving a lot to be desired for the peace of mind and mental health…
#RP #retinitispigmentosa #retinitis-pigmentosa #awareness #chain #chained #cane #blind #visuallyimpaired #visual #eyes #retina #health #mentalhealth #impression #impressionism #goodmorning
re #OpenStreetMap, a global mapping project that has grown into a diverse ecosystem of applications, all of which rely on foundational @osm data to varying degrees.
One example is #WalkersGuide, an initiative aimed at creating a free and accessible world #map by providing navigational aid designed primarily for #blind and #VisuallyImpaired pedestrians.
It calculates routes and displays nearby POIs, enhancing the user's mobility and awareness of their surroundings.
#DisabilityAccessibility #BigTech
https://mastodon.accessinformationnews.com/@news/114035868587422278
In looking through this I see 2 huge flaws -
1. (beyond mastodon)These are big tech extensions/parts & thusly they're privacy disrespecting pieces of trash.
2. On the accessibility group/features - they're really only meant for #VisuallyImpaired & #HearingImpaired folks, beyond one that's for temperature regulation issues
*I'm not saying the groups these are meant for don't matter but the one I'm in & need help with is #spinal.
What I’m learning is #AltTxt is going to help me become a much better observational writer, both in what I notice and how I communicate. One thing I wonder about is do people who are visually impaired tend to have vivid mind’s-eye imaginations? Do you tend to be aphantasiac? Is it a spectrum? If you can clearly see mental images, is there a particular character to those images that make certain types of AltTxt more useful to you? If you are on the aphantasiac end of the spectrum, how does your brain process descriptions and what aspects of these descriptions are most helpful?
#Question about #AltText: Sometimes I'd like to post or link to a long comic strip, say 8 or more panels. Writing a full alt text would be a lot of work, and I don't know if it would be fun to read. I suspect text wouldn't do justice to the visual medium (and it just wouldn't be funny). Not posting it because not everyone can enjoy it seems harsh.
I'd love to hear the opinions of visually impaired people on this. What would you suggest?
It's always fun when people come and show us what they do with their Boxes.
Yesterday Dr Alex Ball from the Natural History Museum visited and brought his collection of pollens, insects, sand and sugar 3D prints.
He uses them with him Museum in a Box to explain microscopy and scale. 5 pence coins for scale 
