Product Accessibility at Walmart, digital accessibility advocate, blind gamer, audio description junkie and sometimes… adaptive climber. Tweets are my own #a11y
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Walei retweeted
24 Oct 2024
This weekend, the #SentoShowdown returns with all the blind gaming action you love. To bring our tournament further to life, we present Season IV’s commentary team: @KHRattlehead, @Captain_Earshot, and a very special guest, the wonderful, illustrious, @kevinmcolon! #MoreThanABlade
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5 Oct 2024
I’m so excited to participate again in this tournament for blind gamers organized by blind gamers. Props to the @SentoShowdown team for raising the bar once again. Thanks for all the hard work you put into making this happen.
2 Oct 2024
“It’s much more than a blade.”
Announcing The Sento Showdown Season IV! The premiere Blind FGC event returns for its fifth year! To celebrate, check out our brand-new trailer, featuring the voice of Takahashi Kenshi, @VicChao! #SentoShowdown #MoreThanABlade
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30 Aug 2024
I was delighted to find out that the website 1 million checkboxes is accessible with screen readers. Now go forth and check some boxes everyone!!! The public version is closed but you can at least play alone. #a11y onemillioncheckboxes.com/
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Walei retweeted
16 May 2024
It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Adding descriptive transcripts to videos helps Deafblind people and others who process information through text. Share this tip. Happy #GAAD! #Accessibility #a11y 1/6
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17 May 2024
I totally missed it yesterday so happy #gaad! Every year I like to post this clip of pinky saying Egad brain! Brilliant! #a11y. getyarn.io/yarn-clip/81a8bb8…
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17 May 2024
This year I am grateful of the accomplishments in mainstream video games. Because of accessibility consultants and advocates, people like me have multiple titles to play including mortal kombat 1, the amazing Spider-Man 2, as dusk falls and of course the last of us part 2.
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17 May 2024
There’s still plenty of work to do in digital accessibility but it’s always good to recognize the wins.
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31 Jul 2023
Oh snap. The voiceover label on my Home Screen has changed from twitter to X. RIP twitter
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We've released a new update to the WAVE accessibility tools with numerous improvements and bug fixes. This version now informs users that accessiBe and UserWay overlays may manipulate page content to suppress detection of accessibility errors.
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18 May 2023
Happy #GAAD!!! Cheers to all the #a11y folks out there celebrating their wins today. AD: clip of Pinky from Pinky and the Brain saying “Egad Brain! Brilliant!” #GAAD2023 getyarn.io/yarn-clip/81a8bb8…
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23 Apr 2023
If you love audio fiction as much as I do, you’ll want to catch this virtual event on May 5th. Five teams will showcase their accessible comic projects that are full of voice acting, music and sound effects! #a11y #audiofiction tinyurl.com/InnovationsInCom…
ALT A white flyer with the headline The Program in Visual Impairments, Comic Studies & The Longmore Institute on Disability Present: Innovations in Accessible Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers. To the side of that text is the gold seal for San Francisco State University. Under that is a star with the words Zoom Event! Friday May 5, 2023, 10am to 1:30pm. An image of two eyes against a black box with the words How can a visual medium become accessible? Below that is comic-style artwork. A box has the outline of a person in it with the words Dialogue, Immersive Sounds, Voice Actors. The other two boxes show raised shapes and dots and SFX. Underneath are the words, Get exclusive access to the projects of the Accessible Comics Collective design competition as they receive feedback from comics/access experts... and YOU! AD/ASL/CART provided. For other requests: beitiks@sfsu.edu. Supported by the College of Liberal and Creative Arts. Register at https://tinyurl.com/InnovationsInComics
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23 Apr 2023
The organizers created this fun audio flyer which you can listen to. My favorite part is the X-men theme song at the end. It brings me way back to when I was a nine year old immigrant watching my first American cartoon. drive.google.com/file/d/1SaD…
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Walei retweeted
19 Jan 2023
I performed a WCAG review on a single page manually, and with axe DevTools, ARC Toolkit, WAVE Evaluation Tool, & Equal Access Accessibility Checker (all free tools).
I gathered the results of each:
adrianroselli.com/2023/01/co…
I show my work so you can judge (me or the tools).
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30 Dec 2022
My favorite is 34 street Harold square. There is an interactive audio art installation on the NRQW platform that I’ve played around with many times before. If you wave your hands in front of motion sensors it will play some music and animal sounds. amny.com/transit/new-yorkers…
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30 Dec 2022
They are spread throughout the platform so theoretically you can jam with another passenger while waiting on your train. Which I’ve always wanted to do.
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Walei retweeted
12 Nov 2022
Now Hiring: Audio Description Project Coordinator! Check out this brand new opportunity to join the ACB and ADP team in a full time remote role! #BlindTwitter #AudioDescription linkedin.com/jobs/view/33491…
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Walei retweeted
26 Sep 2022
I am FUMING. On Saturday, @AirCanada made me rebook my flight to DC, forcing me to go to NY instead because they said my wheelchair wouldn’t fit in the cargo of the plane and the agent said they no longer tilt chairs to get them in cargo because it causes too many broken chairs.
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Walei retweeted
13 Sep 2022
Have you heard the news? Superfest Film Festival tickets are officially on sale and this year all of the films will have #AudioDescription! Get the details for virtual tickets right here! @SuperfestFilm #BlindTwitter superfestfilm.com/2022-virtu…
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7 Sep 2022
This is a great article on building accessibility into contracts. There are a lot of lessons to learn on both sides. #a11y
6 Sep 2022
I've got some other questions & resources here github.com/mgifford/a11y-con…
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4 Sep 2022
When I worked for government as a digital accessibility person, I had to deal with a lot of venders who claimed that their product was accessible. Here are some questions I used to ask them to find out whether or not they meant it. #a11y #accessibility
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4 Sep 2022
Whether or not they can provide a demo, you should ask them if they have step by step guidance on how to use their product with assistive technologies. If they do not have any, then it becomes clearer that they did not put in the work.
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4 Sep 2022
Finally, be open to follow up conversations. Sometimes a vender is not there yet and all they need is a wake up call in the form of you. Some venders seemed hopeless at first but then put in the effort after an embarrassing initial conversation about accessibility.
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