Disabled In Computing
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Resources and mutual support for disabled, neurodivergent, and/or chronically ill folks in computing. Access - Equity - Support.
RS≠endorse. #A11y
RS≠endorse. #A11y
Credit to @amyko.phd for co-authoring this book.
May 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Credit to @amyko.phd for co-authoring this book.
I recommend this book bookish.press/tac
It’s geared more towards educators but has great resources for any audience.
It’s geared more towards educators but has great resources for any audience.
Teaching Accessible Computing
For computing to work for everyone, it must be accessible to everyone. Alas, it is not: people with disabilities in mobility, vision, hearing, learning, attention, and more regularly face software tha...
bookish.press
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I recommend this book bookish.press/tac
It’s geared more towards educators but has great resources for any audience.
It’s geared more towards educators but has great resources for any audience.
Yeah, it’s not perfect and definitely requires some effort to get setup. Particularly signing up for a Mistral Account and plugging in an API key. I wonder if it would work well if someone built a frontend for it.
May 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yeah, it’s not perfect and definitely requires some effort to get setup. Particularly signing up for a Mistral Account and plugging in an API key. I wonder if it would work well if someone built a frontend for it.
Thank you for keeping the post up and being open to learning. I hope others learn too.
May 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thank you for keeping the post up and being open to learning. I hope others learn too.
While it is true that disability is the one minority that most people will join one day, many of us are asking that euphemisms such as “differently abled” stop being used. You can read more about why in this post:
thenoraproject.ngo/nora-notes-b...
#SayDisabled
thenoraproject.ngo/nora-notes-b...
#SayDisabled
The Harmful Reality of Disability Euphemisms: Why You Shouldn’t Use Phrases like “Special Needs” — The Nora Project
By Katie Carr “Special needs,” “handicapable,” and “differently-abled” are just a few euphemisms that have been used to describe disabled folks. But why do so many people create these complex, round-...
thenoraproject.ngo
May 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
While it is true that disability is the one minority that most people will join one day, many of us are asking that euphemisms such as “differently abled” stop being used. You can read more about why in this post:
thenoraproject.ngo/nora-notes-b...
#SayDisabled
thenoraproject.ngo/nora-notes-b...
#SayDisabled
There’s a lot to be said for using vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS for sites that are more usable and require less maintenance.
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s a lot to be said for using vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS for sites that are more usable and require less maintenance.
If you are using OCR, Mistral AI has the best OCR algorithm I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately it’s only available as an API, but someone made a tool to convert from OCR to HTML running in Google Co-Lab.
github.com/coldplazma/A...
github.com/coldplazma/A...
GitHub - coldplazma/Accessible-OCR-Mistral-: A Python Notebook working with Mistral's API to process a PDF document into an accessible HTML document
A Python Notebook working with Mistral's API to process a PDF document into an accessible HTML document - GitHub - coldplazma/Accessible-OCR-Mistral-: A Python Notebook working with Mistral...
github.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If you are using OCR, Mistral AI has the best OCR algorithm I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately it’s only available as an API, but someone made a tool to convert from OCR to HTML running in Google Co-Lab.
github.com/coldplazma/A...
github.com/coldplazma/A...
I wonder if the new GTK update will help make things better for some users or just get broken by upstream again.
blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/a...
blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/a...
An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog
blog.gtk.org
May 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wonder if the new GTK update will help make things better for some users or just get broken by upstream again.
blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/a...
blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/a...
We use @buffer.com since it supports more alt text more thoroughly than other platforms.
May 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We use @buffer.com since it supports more alt text more thoroughly than other platforms.