Hi all, i often work with the accommodations team at my org and we're seeing an increase in requests for all sorts of tech to help with a variety of needs but often vision related. Seems like there are new ones popping up and we're wondering if there is anywhere that has a good list of what's available. Any ideas?

The other big one is note-taking assistance that can handle private/HIPAA/SSA and other high/sensitive data.

Hey all, I do closed captioning, amongst other things, at a university and I'm curious to know how people prefer their math content in closed captions. For example:

When captioning a math equation spoken as: a times b squared equals c, would you caption that as a x b^2 = c or written out?

A second question I have, when captioning a video that has A, B, and C as well as a, b, and c as variables, how do we specify upper/lowercase? We've been changing it as needed but realized that probably isn't clear enough. Especially for those who use screen readers. Should we put something like "uppercase" A and "lowercase" a in, even if it isnt' said?

As a team, we've been going through with the idea of "Caption what is said." But with STEM content, I don't think that quite cuts it and I want to hear some opinions from others.

Thanks!

Existing strobe/bed-shaker fire alerts cost $250–300 and lock you into a per-brand transmitter ecosystem. I built a $15 alternative that just listens for the legally-mandated alarm beep pattern (NFPA 72) so it works with any alarm already installed — no pairing.

It's a prototype, not certified (UL listing is the real barrier — $50k+ and 6 months), so it's a "use alongside your real alarm" device and open-source. Sharing in case it's useful to this community or worth building on.

https://github.com/ayaanrustagi/alarm-sentinel

I'm trying to reduce my screen time and a watch seems like a good way to have access to what I need without the temptation of scrolling (I've tried everything else).

I just got an Apple Watch and it's helped with avoiding scrolling, but I'm sensitive to light and the lowest brightness setting is still way too bright for me much of the time. The iPhone accessibility settings like Reduce white point or the Zoom low light filter don't exist on the watch.

Anyone know of a watch that can get dimmer? (bonus points if it also has something like Voice Control). I know the Apple Watch Ultra has a red mode which is supposedly a lot easier on the eyes, but it's out of my budget. TIA

Do you also fix low priorities and best practices? They're not necessarily an error. For example, semantic clean up or reducing ARIA/HTML redunduncy? Do you go above and beyond? After I prioritize level A and AA, I try to "clean up" as best as I can. If it's more complex, then I just document it and discuss it with the client.

I'm a blind developer, working to create helpful tools, for both non-blind, and blind/low vision users.

I recently submitted a hackathon project for a recent Slack event and wanted to share it with everyone here! It's called, Lull: An accessibility-first Slack agent: alt-text guardian, streaming catch-up digests, and vision-aware assistive features.

Link to follow:

https://devpost.com/software/lull