Category: accessibility
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Writer’s Block
Frequently on Twitter people ask for ways to get through writer’s block… Here’s a suggestion I make. Describe your photos so someone like myself who is blind can understand what is happening in them. The small pink cyclamen, hunkered at the base of the hedgerow, shakes like a defiant fist behind a barricade of grass…
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Circumstances Beyond Our Control
That’s most definitely what today could be entitled. Woke up with everything aching after a couple of hours moving around and adding the last bits to my backpack I tried it on and my body said are you insane I’m not walking to the station so took up Cat’s offer of a taxi. Having got…
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Be a joyful helper
Twitter (and other social media) can be heaven or hell. It’s not fun when a chain brand puts up a tweet like this screenshot as my screenreader cannot read it sensibly This is how it sounds using voiceover. https://youtu.be/MSZr6Exl-QM?si=ldSfECP2FJ76He6L In a tweet like this sighted people automatically and subconsciously ignore the squares and squish the…
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Why I use an Apple Watch.
A comment on a Twitter/ X post got me thinking “Have never understood why anyone would pay hundreds of pounds for a smart watch…🤷. For the record a watch only ticks the relevant box if it has hands on it that rotate around the circumference of the dial!” The original post was a poll asking…
Was that a dinosaur? 2.0 