Coach8264

Coach8264, 3 months ago

@weirdwriter @pixelate @halisonjl Obsidian is difficult to impossible when using a screen reader. I just pulled down the current version and does not seem to have gotten better since the last time I tried it.

I use a variation of manually making folders and text files, like @weirdwriter suggests, except I use markdown (or sometimes html) files instead when I need use formatted text. If you do not use markdown already it is something worth learning how to do - and there are a lot of resources on the Internet for how to use it.

Coach8264, 3 months ago

@weirdwriter @pixelate @halisonjl @weirdwriter, that article is a fantastic resource! Please do continue to keep it up to date with your discoveries. If I had found it earlier it could have saved me work discovering things on my own - then again, I do like figuring things out so I might have done the same anyway, just with a better start point.

When I was considering my options for tools to (re)learn to use after my vision loss my primary focus was on regaining my ability to write code instead of documents as that was more central to the type of work I did at the time. While I found learning to use #VSCode effectively with a screen reader to be a very frustrating and time-consuming process, it made sense at the time, and proved well worth it to me in the long run. After (re)learning to use it to code, discovering I could use it for #markdown as well was a very nice bonus. It is very web app like and can be very difficult to use with a screen reader without learning a library worth of hotkeys/key-binding/keyboard-shortcuts. If I had not already needed to learn them for coding, I don't know that I would have tried for writing documents alone. I have been consider switching to #vscodium. Less telemetry definitely appeals to me.

Thanks again for referencing that article! I'll definitely be giving it a follow.