@sonny I'm not a programmer but a text-to-speak user, and please don't do whatever Apple is currently doing. To access TTS you have to go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Live Speech or Personal Voice instead of an icon on the desktop. 3 steps in real world application is not accessibility.
I am looking for a job. It's becoming a little urgent, so if anyone has any leads whatsoever, please send them my way.
I'm a malware guy: reversing, detection, Intel, anything really related to defending and proactive research. I can also do system administration duties when it comes to Linux. I am able to quickly pick up anything I don't already know.
@catavz A long, long time ago – a lot has changed since then. And many would argue that it didn't succeed for political reasons, rather than technical: https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/
So, this morning, after years and years of using the GUI in Linux, I gave up. The state of the GUI does nothing but deteriorate over time for accessibility, and it's exhausting. It's only getting worse. We're far, far away from what it used to be, years ago. Certainly, the QT framework has improved since 5 and now 6 came out, but GTK? Oh dear, oh dear... So, let's dive into it. #linux#xorg#wayland#a11y#accessibility#blind
When GTK 4 came out, on the other hand, things had shifted. No longer were the GTK people happy to provide accessibility for us. No longer did they care about it. Their grand plan was to remove accessibility from GTK altogether, claiming that it was up to the applications themselves to become accessible. It took several weeks, and even days during fosdem for them to recognize this wasn't the way forward, thanks to the orca developer and the Hypra folks, but they got the idea. Or did they?
@xogium the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) was forced to withdraw support and funding for various projects that worked on GTK/gnome 2 blind accessibility by an AFB corporate donor, and forced to fire the AFB CTO who ran these programs, Janina Sajka. The corporate donor that did this? Microsoft.
🐧 I wrote a new blog entry listing all the changes I made to turn the Lenovo Yoga 370 into my mobile GNU/Linux digital painting device. It's long because it contains detailed instructions for beginners. I hope it is helpful.
@torbuntu It's not maintained by Krita team, and big libs and frameworks using it are not patched to fix specific issues. It's not as stable as the appimage...
@sonny the other items in the list are UI features, which are inseparable from the desktop environment. "VPN support" however implies the backend, which is not part of GNOME and which is anything but inseparable from GNOME
Fun and heart warming #Linux#kernel contrib from 4-year old about "s" letter feeling sad and lonely at the end of line, missing header hilight as the all other letters have. ❤️
@nixCraft Ironically I basically just had this incident a few minutes ago. I knew I had to get up, but man was it a fight.
I've always found that "this incident will be reported" thing particularly funny though since I don't really maintain any multi-user systems, so it just means that it would be reported to... me... Plus I don't even have it configured to actually send a report, so I'd have to manually check the logs...
@davidrevoy cooool, j'avais pas vu passer cet article 🙂
Moi j'utilise les touches les plus à droite de mon mini clavier MIDI (bon du coup je les ai pas décorées vu que ça me sert aussi de vrai clavier de piano, mais bon), avec un script qui map le signal MIDI vers une combinaison de touches reconnue dans Inkscape (annuler, changer d'outil, etc.).
@rinidisc That's kind of the opposite of what happened to me. I finally, finally was getting to do UX officially, and I thought, "So I guess that means I need a Mac now." A colleague showed me a used Mac with similar hardware specs to my then-current but ancient Dell. The Mac cost $2,000 CAD compared to the Dell's $600 CAD.
I told a relative, and he said, "You know... for that much money you could get a really good gaming laptop with lots of RAM and a great graphics card, brand new." So I did.
