Jami could be a skype replacement if only accessibility was cross-platform

Jami is a fully peer to peer chat application that supports text and video, but is only accessible on mobile.

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In response to this blog post, and without any outreach or advocacy on my part, I received the following email from the developers of Jami:

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My Accessible Cordcutting Solution

I haven't paid for a cable subscription for years. This is what works for me as a blind TV watcher.

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Unfortunately, if you're a blind consumer who wants to enjoy TV content, far too many of the online cordcutting solutions don't take accessibility into account. While online-first services like Netflix and Disney are pretty good about offering audio description these days, livestreaming, IPTV, cloud PVR, and video on demand services for TV based broadcasts are a different story. Even if audio description was there in the original broadcast, it's often missing in the online stream, and unavailable in the video on demand archive. That's assuming the online website is even screenreader accessible in the first place.

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Innosearch is good because of the humans, not the AI

Innosearch is an accessible shopping solution, powered by AI. But it's the human support that makes it worthwhile.

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If you follow me on the fediverse, you may have scene my thread about trying innosearch. They've done a lot of marketing to the blindness community, including promotions with audiogames, and events with Freedom Scientific. In trying them, I wanted to know three things:

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