Accessibility veteran. #Blind from birth, live in #Germany, worked for Freedom Scientific on #JAWS and #Braille displays, and for Mozilla #Firefox. Shaped web #accessibility with work on #WAI #ARIA. Happy early retiree.

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@AncTreat5358@mindly.social avatar AncTreat5358 , to ActuallyAutistic group

Today I was fiercely reminded of why I feel I was correct as being late self-identified autistic (AuDHD, to be precise).

I was at an Apple Store, and about halfway through my visit, the noise level become overwhelming. And I was expecting an open courtyard-style shopping center, not a huge mall with lots of people. I went into full sensory overload and had more than a bit of a meltdown. I didn't think it was that visible to others, but my friend that I called on the way from there asked what was going on. So I guess I wasn't masking as much as I thought.

This was near the end of a 15 hour day on the road, looking at apartments in my new area.

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marco ,
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@AncTreat5358 actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Oh I know very well how that feels! Offering a supporting hug if you'd want it.

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A poll for all users out there who do coding. Which code editor are you using? Boost OK for further reach...

@marco@caneandable.social avatar marco , to random

@Codeberg Hi! I just started contributing to a project hosted on Codeberg for the first time. I'm a blind user using a screen reader, and my initial mmpressions of the website interface are quite positive! However, as is my habit, I did find an issue. If I view a project and am logged in, there are bits of information like how many forks are there, etc. These are links with just numbers as text, interspersed with some unlabeled buttons. My screen reader doesn't tell me which number means what or what the buttons do. Where is the best place to report this? The community issues page, or the Forgejo repository directly? That was a bit confusing when I tried to figure it out.

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@Codeberg Thank you for the quick reply! Since there's no time like the present, here's the issue: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/6621