CPH Daily Bulletin 10/5/2025
Beach access remains difficult for people with wheelchairs. Here are some resources to help
https://boyleheightsbeat.com/disability-advocates-continue-to-lobby-for-better-beach-access/
CPH Daily Bulletin 9/29/2025
How #California families are already bracing for looming #Medicaid cuts
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-09-29/looming-medicaid-california-impacts
Mastodon HOA and accessibility.
"PolicyMap demonstrates how a housing needs assessment that integrates affordability, accessibility, and housing quality can help leaders understand not just where shortages exist, but why they persist. Explore how local governments and nonprofits can use data-driven insights to target reinvestment and align housing with real community needs."
https://www.policymap.com/blog/housing-needs-assessment-case-study
Für alle, die den Vortrag "Barrierefreiheit bei OpenTalk: Lessons Learned" von unserem Frontend-Entwickler Emre Neumann am Wochenende auf der @FrOSCon verpasst haben, gibt es nun die Aufzeichnung zum ansehen:
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3319-barrierefreiheit_bei_opentalk
How can beaches be made more accessible to people with reduced mobility?
"In Belgium, the Inter agency launched the "Sun, Sea... Carefree" programme in 2006, to improve access to the coastline."
Hi y’all!
v0.1.0 of my portable text to speech device software was released!
Information about it can be found at https://git.ka-so.me/kasanwa-solane/portable-tts
Why did I make this?
I made it as a tool for my personal accessibility toolbox. There’s times that, for various reasons, I struggle with speech, but am expected to speak aloud or that speech is the modality for communication most useful in said context. This allows me to produce speech in a recognizable facsimile of my voice by typing it on a dedicated device.
Why a dedicated device?
Sometimes, I’m in situations where smartphones are disallowed, as well as any device with an integrated camera or microphone. A dedicated accessibility device that deliberately does not have those input modalities is much more acceptable in those spaces.
Everyone is encouraged to boost this post and/or share the link elsewhere. I want the people who might have a use case for this device to be able to find it.
Please Do touch: sculpture exhibition curated by blind people to feature tactile works
In November, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds will host Beyond the Visual, the first sculpture exhibition curated by and created with the input of blind and partially sighted artists.
#Blind #Accessability #Art
#GoodNews
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/14/please-do-touch-sculpture-exhibition-curated-by-blind-people-to-feature-tactile-works
Reposting the original text from Twitter here for #accessability for people using a #screenreader, and simply because I dislike text-only screenshots.
STATEMENT OF @AuschwitzMuseum DIRECTOR DR. PIOTR M. A. CYWIŃSKI ON THE COMMENT MADE BY GRZEGORZ BRAUN, MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTA scandalous and deceitful statement by Member of the European Parliament Grzegorz Braun, in which he denies the existence of gas chambers at the Auschwitz camp, is not only an act of Holocaust denial – a crime prosecuted under Polish law. It is also an act of desecration of the memory of the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, and an expression of contempt toward Survivors and their families.
The main group of victims of gas chambers at Auschwitz were Jews – those deemed unfit for work by SS doctors immediately upon deportation to the camp. However, the gas chambers were also used as a tool for killing various other groups of prisoners. In the first mass execution using Zyklon B, carried out by the SS in September 1941 and serving as a prelude to the later mass extermination of Jews, a large group of Soviet prisoners of war and Polish prisoners selected from the camp hospital were murdered. SS men also used the gas chambers to kill sick or severely weakened prisoners selected from among all those incarcerated in the camp. It was in the gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau that over four thousand Roma – primarily women and children – were murdered during the liquidation of the so-called Zigeunerlager in August 1944. Grzegorz Braun’s statement is a disgraceful assault on the memory of all those people: Jews, Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and all other victims. It is also a slap in the face to those prisoners who risked their lives to document and convey the truth about German crimes, as well as to the Survivors who still bear the trauma of their personal experiences.
Grzegorz Braun’s statement constitutes a blatant denial of historical truth and introduces manipulation into public discourse based on antisemitism, falsehood, and hatred. It is a statement unworthy not only of a public figure – in this case, a person holding a seat in the European Parliament. It is simply a shameful statement. There can be no place for such words in political, media, or social space.
We firmly reject the absurd claims that the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum “blocks research” or “offers a pseudo-historical narrative that does not meet the criteria of scholarly historical methodology.” This is slander that damages the reputation of our institution and of the entire community of individuals researching the history of Auschwitz. In response to this statement, a lawsuit for defamation will be filed. We emphasize with full force: denying the existence of gas chambers is not only an expression of antisemitism and an ideology of hatred – in Poland it is also a crime. In this matter, a formal notification will be immediately submitted to the public prosecutor’s office.
Separate responsibility lies with the media, who hand microphones or cameras to a man who has repeatedly demonstrated that he is incapable of functioning in public life without vandalism, lies, hate speech, and racism. We appeal to the community of journalists to show solidarity in refraining from inviting him to interviews, conversations, and their programs. The media must not be used as a platform for spreading a deliberate lie that causes pain to so many.
The Museum is currently working on a new online tool, which we hope to launch as early as July, that will enable every internet user to fight more effectively against all forms of Holocaust denial.
The German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz was a site of industrial murder, where approximately 1.1 million people were murdered. Today, the Memorial is preserved thanks to the efforts of the Polish state and the international community – to serve as a warning and reminder of where human hatred can lead. The words of Grzegorz Braun are not a “political provocation,” but a conscious lie and an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred. They cannot remain without a resolute response from the state and from all decent people, for whom the memory of Auschwitz holds profound meaning.
Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of the Museum
Digitale Barrierefreiheit: Ein Zukunftsfaktor für Unternehmen und Behörden
Im Gastbeitrag bei manageIT erzählt Dennis Kalbhen, Direktor technische Services bei OpenTalk, warum die konsequente Umsetzung barrierefreier Technologien dazu beiträgt, das Potenzial der digitalen Transformation vollständig auszuschöpfen und eine wirklich inklusive digitale Arbeitswelt zu etablieren 
https://ap-verlag.de/digitale-barrierefreiheit-zukunftsfaktor-fuer-unternehmen-und-behoerden-inklusive-digitale-arbeitswelt/96585/
#digitaleBarrierefreiheit #digitaleKommunikation #BITV2.0 #Accessability
Can anyone suggest a good alt-text generating extension for Chrome? Would prefer as simple as possible - right click, click the button in the menu which generates the text, select & copy, paste... if such a thing exists. Cheers. #AltText #Accessability #Disability #Communication
Also als gehbehinderte Person ist eins in der Pariser #Metro echt am Arsch…
Nur Stiegen, wenige Rolltreppen, praktisch keine Aufzüge.
Dear vibe coders,
Make me an iPhone app called Velma.
Launch Velma with “Siri, find my glasses”. Then wave the phone around the room until the camera detects glasses. Beep louder when they are centered and closer.
That’s the whole app! Thx.
by the way , do screen readers handle symbols well ? like "⁸/₉" (superscript 8 , slash subscript 9) or "⍼" (RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW , which notably does not have a defined meaning) ?
After a long week of work, tried to the movies with my family in a nearby town to see Lilo and Stitch. They had capitviewer (closed captioned devices) . But the captions just kept displaying classic movie quotes while the movie was playing. Got a refund and movie passes. Might as well stick with my local theater from here on.Heh, Deaf life.
TODAY!
#WearRed. Make a Pledge. Support #Canadians living with #disabilities.
Join #EasterSeals in the movement for #accessibility , #inclusion , and #equity ! Take part in #RedShirtDay on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by wearing red, making a pledge, and supporting Canadians living with disabilities.
Established by Easter Seals #Canada in 2019, this annual event takes place on the Wednesday of National #AccessAbility Week each year.
Red Shirt Day® is more than just wearing red; it’s also about making a commitment to remove physical, attitudinal, and #SystemicBarriers to accessibility and inclusion in your school, workplace, or community.
New piece in The Conversation today from Kathryn Locke and me:
"AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision" https://theconversation.com/ai-is-now-used-for-audio-description-but-it-should-be-accurate-and-actually-useful-for-people-with-low-vision-256808
Good idea: vibrating vests
https://www.dw.com/en/vibrating-vests-allow-deaf-people-to-feel-music/video-72278848
How can people who are deaf or hard of hearing experience music? The team at Not Impossible Labs have created a vest with vibrating modules that reproduce individual sounds.
It would be nice to be be able to put alt text into the metadata of an image, so it populates automatically when the image is reshared. There are at least a couple of ways to do this, but none that Mastodon can recognize.
Jamez Re!nert
