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Anyone know of any free Speech-to-text translator apps for Windows 11? Asking for a friend. Apparently the older version is being retired (I am not too sure about the in's and out's of it) #a11y #accessibility

Accessibility Law of Headlines:
Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.
#a11y

Accessibility Law of Headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

Trump's DOJ trying to do an end-run on Title II accessibility requirements for the web.
Don't let this happen!
What it all means, and what you can do to help...
#a11y #webAccess #accessibility

Red Alert: DOJ Web Rule in Danger
Last June, I wrote about the growing threats to the DOJ’s ADA Title II Web Accessibility Rule. That warning feels understated now. If you care about the accessibility of state and local government websites, read on. There are credible rumors…

This week's career limiting accessibility regression from @… is to not show comments in pull request diff any more. There's a separate comment panel which you can look at (but not at the same time as the diff) where there are indications of content replies but these cannot be interacted with using standard accessibility tools.
I review very long pull requests for work and as a volunteer maintainer and I am not sure why we're okay with this constant march of degraded experience. #a11y

When considering what keyboard shortcuts to support in your application, don’t stress about JAWS/NVDA. They have pass-through commands (a key combo that tells the SR to ignore the next key/combo).
• NVDA F2
• JAWS 3
• Narrator 3
Stress about other languages instead.
#a11y #i18n

Accidentally hit the CONTROL key and SPACEBAR together while typing in MS Word, and was startled when my computer blurted out the word I was typing.
I knew TTS was possible, but I really didn't expect it to happen from a typo.
Irony abounds, as the word I was typing happened to be "accessibility"...
#a11y #keyboard