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TBT: “I Am Colorblind, And You Can Too!”
Accessibility NYC hosted a Meetup last year at thoughtbot, titled “I Am Colorblind, and You Can Too!” The presenter was Jake Voytko, a senior software engineer at Etsy. Voytko addressed how people see color, how colorblind people are different, and how we can design around that difference.
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“A Taste of ReelAbilities”
[caption id="attachment_2037" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Ravit Turjeman, Director of the ReelAbilities Festival[/caption]
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How to Create an Accessible Meetup
by Thomas Logan
Leveling the Playing Field: Toward Equivalently Accessible Video Game Worlds
This article is based on a talk Vishnu Nair gave at A11yNYC.
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A Taste of ReelAbilities New York 2024
This article is based on a talk Isaac Zablocki, co-founder of ReelAbilities and the director of film programs at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, gave at A11yNYC about the 2024 ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York.
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Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of the Five Senses with Artificial Intelligence
Close your eyes and visualize a loved one. Can you see the person's facial features? Can you visualize them with eyes open, closed, or both? Someone who experiences extremely vivid imagery may have a condition called hyperphantasia.
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Automatic Captions: Our Experiments and Best Practices
The number one rule for high-quality accessible captioning is readability. After all, if nobody can read your captions, then none of the other rules matter
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Adding Alt Text in Social Virtual Reality
Imagine trying to navigate a virtual space without being able to see the objects in it. If a host tells everyone to move to the outside space and you can't see where is outside and where is inside in the virtual world, then how do you do that?
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Accessible Typefaces, Fonts, and Text with Jared Smith
Most of our time online is typically spent reading text, yet we don't often consider how accessible that text is. The typefaces, fonts, and text styling used can have a significant impact on the user experience — and there are few accessibility guidelines that relate to text accessibility
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Why Accessible Pedestrian Signals Are Now a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
Photo credit: Andi Weiland | Boehringer Ingelheim, Societypix.org
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