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Basically, we do not recommend any screen reader tests, as using the program requires a lot of practice. Nevertheless, a test can sometimes be useful. The read-aloud function of the Adobe programs does not use any accessibility tags and is therefore unsuitable for a test. The screen reader NVDA is recommended here, which is only available for Windows but free of charge. You can create a portable v...

As accessibility geeks we are taking much care for compliance. What we are ignoring is the lack of good user experience of blind persons.

Disabled people are particularly hard hit by severe storms and similar disasters:

You want to develop an accessible website? What should you consider?

What does digital accessibility mean for autistic persons?

People who deviate physically or psychologically from the average are a popular subject of scientific research. Oliver Sacks and V. S. Ramachandran have published numerous case histories on this basis. The reason for this is that the deviation allows you to study how it actually works. In “The Blind Woman Who Can See,” Ramachandran introduces a woman who is actually blind, but can purposefully rea...

Visual Literacy is the understanding of Information Graphics.

Blind persons are using computers and smartphones on a daily basis? You want to know how that works? Then listen to this episode.

We not often talk about the relationship between blind and sighted persons. Let's cahnge hat in this episode.

Rough contact with walls, cars or tables is part of everyday life for blind people. Running through the city is like Tetris and Pakman rolled into one. For the sighted person, the space consists of free areas that are bordered by objects. For the blind person it consists of objects between which there is free space.

Visual impairments are very often found in the workforce. In this auto-generated episode I show what you can do to prepare the workplace for that group.

Which role Braille can play in an Age where audiobooks and speech outputs are available everywhere. We will disscuss it in this auto-generated episode.

Automatically generated image descriptions have reached a state where they can be better then human made descriptions, especially for complex info graphics. One great thing is the possibility to use the chat for refinement of the description.

In this episode we talk about the usual problems of contrasts in digital accessibility and how to solve them.

In this automatically generated Interview I talk with an User Experience Researcher on working with blind and visually impaired persons.

This is an automatic generated audio version of my interview with Ulrike from the monitoring ahthority of Bremen. We talk about the importance of feedback for accessibility.

In this automatically generated interview we talk about the role of avatars in sign language.

This is an automatically generated audio version of an interview.

Older people have special demands due to digital accessibility. Let's talk about it in this episode.

This is the auto-generated version of a German Interview.

Emojis are everywhere in out communikation. But how accessible are they? In this episode we will take a look on the different groups of people with disabilities and their challenges with emojis.

In this translated talk i speak with a founder: She created an app for blind shopping.

A lot of effort is made to make PDF's accessible. But even a good PDF is not as accessible as a bad HTML page. Only sighted experts believe in perfect accessible PDF documents.

Which role can artificial intelligence (AI) play for digital accessibility?

Many disabled persons say that this or that is not accessible. That may be right for them. But there are objective rules for accessibility. Why this I will discuss in this episode.