Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️

Deaf Queer Professional | Australian/Indonesian | Govt Executive Championing Accessible Technology | Tweets represent only my views/opinions.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@timgallagher007 @ussefian @youkhna Their latest update said next batch ships ~17 March, and then the remaining orders (placed by/on 31 Dec 2024) will be shipped by end of March.

I’d expect as one of the first 100, you’d get yours sooner than me. As a fellow Australian I hope mine arrives by end of the month.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@MicrosoftLoop Awesome. Has Loop 2.0 had any accessibility improvements to the interface, for compatibility with screen readers and other assistive technology?

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@metrotrains got on the 7:31 train at Reservoir to Flinders, got kicked off at Clifton Hill Platf 2 with the only information “please listen for announcements” on the screens. Not accessible to deaf people. Followed the crowd to get a FS bound train from Platf 1. What happened?

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@MicrosoftLoop Properly test accessibility features and publish guidance so people who use assistive technologies can use Loop effectively. It’s such a learning curve especially for people who use screen readers.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@MicrosoftLoop Streamline the functionality between notes in Teams and incorporating into Workspaces. It’s so annoying for every meeting instance to ‘add to workspace’ to consolidate regular meeting notes in one place.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@Vintage_Dingo Looks like you need see through blinds to dim or diffuse the light a bit.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@Vintage_Dingo So what exactly /is/ the right way?

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@MicrosoftLoop Give us Jira Data Center support!

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@Vintage_Dingo I’m glad I can’t hear when I get a haircut.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@timothy_89 Technically RentPay lets you pay rent with credit cards to get points.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@CapablePerform1 @MicrosoftLoop There is a templates folder, that you can save custom templates to.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@signingmango Out of curiosity, what brighter place did you move from?

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@MicrosoftLoop While we can create a Microsoft Teams meeting and create an associated loop page, then add it to a workspace after. It would be great if we can create a loop page THEN add it to a Teams meeting so it comes up during the meeting.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@MicrosoftLoop 1. Built in accessibility checker, to make sure people make accessible loop content.
2. Ability to easily change font/size (eg I’m fine with the default but my dyslexic colleague isn’t).
3. Loop is very chatty when using a screen reader, every line is read out as editable.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Disabled doesn’t mean less.
Disabled doesn’t mean inferior.
Disabled doesn’t mean unable.
Disabled doesn’t mean incapable.

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

I rarely share any links to podcasts on linguistics either, because so often they are not accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people.

[Indie Beedie @indiebeedie]

Podcasts about disability, or any podcast with the word accessible in it that isn't accessible need to take a good long hard look at themselves.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Medical staff: “You have to accept that you have a disability and your quality of life is less.”
Me: “I accept I have a disability. What I will never accept is others telling me that my quality of life is less.”

The devaluation of quality of life based on disability is ableism.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@timothy_89 You can also do it with flight numbers.

[Ryan 🤟🇦🇺🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukraakryan]

@evans_emorydawg There’s lots of technology and solutions out there, with many Deafblind people having great success through tactile sign language and braille displays connected to computers or phones. Have a read of my friend’s story from Deafblind Awareness Week. https://t.co/LA8MuVdWRx