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zersiax, 2 days ago to random

hey @ben someone pointed me at your showmy.chat project which looks amazing :) I just had a comment, maybe this is in the more extensive instructions already, but the quickstart currently doesn't indicate how wide/high the chat overlay should be :) THis might be somewhat subjective but a bit of guidance would be really helpful for screen reader users who have a hard time figuring out if text is going to overflow/get cropped :)

zersiax, 5 days ago to accessibility

I think the newest #accessibility resistance piece I see a lot of these days is " We just made the component, we're constrained by how the component is used". That is a self-inflicted limitation at best. If you see a component is consistently being used wrong, likely your documentation needs work, and if it is happening in one particular use case, the component might just not be intended for that use case and may need to be forked. That we CAN reuse a component doesn't always need we SHOULD reuse the component. It is still possible to make bespoke experiences, and one-size-fits-all does not, in fact, always fit all. Sorry to break it to you. #accessibility #webDev

zersiax, 29 days ago to accessibility

The case for AI in #accessibility is a hotly contested one but I do feel the baby's being tossed out with the bathwater just a tiny bit. Yes, it is bad that AI is being used to phase out hoomans in all sorts of pursuits. And yes, it is also true that at least at the moment, Ai-generated anything is generally lower quality than hooman-generated stuff. And yes, it is also true that we're seeing AI in places we really shouldn't be seeing it (MDN anyone?) and that people, just like always with a new toy, are going absolutely nuts with it and putting it front and center like it's Cthulhu's new miracle to end all toilet paper shortages. But it CAN, at times, actually be an enabler. It CAN, OCCASIONALLY, actually be used for good, and I don't think people who find this out and do this should be villified

zersiax, 1 month ago to random

what was this WIndows GUI for WHisper that was #accessible? I just got the question and I recall someone mentioning it a month or so back, you perhaps @FluidEscence

zersiax, 1 month ago to accessibility

To what degree does NVDA actually have support for TUIs? When I look at TUIs (terminal user interfaces) for tools like Joplin, Vim, practically anything that requires using arrow keys/tab within a terminal, it almost always is a horrible experience. Are there things TUI developers can do to better accommodate NVDA? @NVAccess @tspivey
Do terminal-first tools like TDSR in a WSL2 shell improve this at all? #nvdasr #screenreaders #accessibility

zersiax, 1 month ago to random

Does the concept of a Boot Menu still exist in modern UEFI? Like ...just a list of currently bootable devices, pick one from the list? I don't need boot order priorities, secureBoot etc., just ...hit a key, list of boot devices, pick one, done. DO we still do that on modern mobos?

zersiax, 1 month ago to random

Getting "Dropbox unexpectedly quit" messages on windows 11 ... anybody else? THinking of just getting something like CLoudMounter and being rid of the whole stupid thing at this point ... #grumble

zersiax, 3 months ago to random

I find myself contemplating Dutch pejoratives today. Where the Americans appear to have an unhealthy obsession with one's anuas and everything that happens to it and comes out of it, see also : asshole, shit, assWipe, assHat, etc., the Dutch appear to have split their attention between horrible diseases (typhoid sufferer, cancer thing, get tuberculosis) and genitalia, particularly the non-dangly kind. Our word for fuck as in "aww fuck!" as well as "this fucking thing' is all replaced by essentially the dutch word for pussy, with that same level of formality. One has to wonder how these things happen :) Can we combine them? Can something annoying or unwanted be defined as a typhoid pussy thing? Spoilers, no, not really, but its fun to contemplate. Or should that be cuntemplate in thse? ehh, I am goin

zersiax, 5 months ago to accessibility

What is this thing about Windows Terminal and NVDA somehow not working together well? I hear from various people they're having trouble, but it's working fine for me, I'm wondering where the difference is. #accessibility #screenReader #NVDASR

zersiax, 5 months ago to jupyter

Do I know folks who #jupyter with a #screenReader? Got a couple questions after today's #adventOfCyber thing

zersiax, 5 months ago to random

Damn ... last night I smelled smoke which caused me to do a quick wellfare check on my devices to see if anything was amiss, only to find out there was just a strong, smoky, gunpowdery smell coming in from outside. Now I know why ... an apartment burned to the ground just a few streets over, can't be more than 200 meters. I must've walked by it all the time without even knowing. Now its gone ...and unfortunately so is its inhabitant. Really sobering thought...

zersiax, 5 months ago to accessibility

this year, I am participating in the #tryHackMe #AdventOfCyber2023 event. I have deided to make videos of me doing the tasks to document the #accessibility struggles I run into, as well as how I (fail to) get around them, for awareness, education, and basically because I felt like it. The fruits of my labor can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoI1JGnSzOVKWI2fOpymnWcQtgxPLoW4X

Please note that the videos are still processing and therefore may not have subtitles yet. If the autogenerated ones are really bad, which wouldn't surprise me, I have infrastructure in place to do better, just let me know if it's a blocker for you and we'll sort it out. I really hope the #infoSec community as a whole can learn from this, and that it paves the way forward for better #accessibility for these kinds of challenges going forward. I'm not asking for too much here, it's about time this industry moves into the 21st century where this is concerned. Let's make it happen! :)

zersiax, 6 months ago to CSS

Brushing up on my #css and noticing that using the CSS grid system actually makes laying out UI components a lot more doable as a #blind #programmer. Don't get me wrong, it's still CSS which means left is south and forward is towards the fifth dimension, but its a bit more predictable than older methods used to be. #accessibility #BlindlyCoding #webDev

zersiax, 6 months ago to android

SO ...given #BeMyEyes still hasn't unlocked this new fancy #BeMyAi feature after almost 8 months waiting on #android ... any alternatives yet? #accessibility #blind #screenReader

zersiax, 7 months ago to random

no idea if thiss is #accessible, but I thought of you two when I saw this :) @FreakyFwoof @talon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd0KYxotzv8

zersiax, 7 months ago to random

a news post to a dutch news outlet just now: "unverifeid video show missile attack on hospital" with the relevant video linked. This could be just me not understanding but ...if it's unverified, maybe don't signal boost it as one of the biggest Dutch news outlets in the country? Can we do that?

zersiax, 7 months ago to random

I recorded an English version of my voice back in February or so. I just ran a bunch of nonsense through the multilingual model, and what comes out is essentially a very, very angry person from 't Gooi, the Netherlands. That sounds, kinda sorta like this #Dutch #elevenLabs #silly

zersiax, 7 months ago to random

It's ben a while since i actually liked the sound of a web app framework but this framework called Enhance actually looks like loads of fun :) It's HTML-first and progressive by design, which leads to fun projects like this thing: https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music

zersiax, 8 months ago to random

lol. An email at 00:09: "Your job application is being reviewed". A second email at 00:10: "After careful consideration, we have decided not to move forward". Careful consideration, eh? :)

zersiax, 8 months ago to Games

I did warn y'all :) In an hur, Mortal Kombat 1 should unlock for the poor souls who didn't order the superduper premium ultra edition version, and I, a regular schmo with no particular talent for these kinds of #games, will go ahead and stream my adventures stumbling around in it. #accessibility appears to have been given some extra thought on this one, as people like @superblindman were consulted during development to get the #blind angle, as well as general accessibility considerations to be taken for this type of game. Let's see how much they were able to do, shall we? I'll see you in an hour over at https://twitch.tv/zersiax #twitch #streamer #selfPromo #contentCreation #gamerWithoutSight

zersiax, 10 months ago to random

4. Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide? *
   Ahh, it's ESTA time again :)

zersiax, 10 months ago to random

random observation but why do so very many #TTS voices make absolutely no distinction between a period and an exclamation mark when the screen reader leaves it up to the TTS voice to interpret them? Question marks, no problem. Exclamation marks ...nope. Just like a period. They are different, folks!

zersiax, 10 months ago to accessibility

I seem to remember seeing something about a more accessible field recorder the other month, believe it was by Zoom. I might be thinking of the portable microphone they released that also functions as a recorder, but I seem to recall there was another more high-end one that worked using an app or some such. ANyone know what I'm thinking of? #blind #accessibility #audio

zersiax, 11 months ago to random

Had some fun getting a #framework laptop ready to go over the weekend. I have definitely rediscovered that I'll probably never be a hardware guy, but I did manage to get it to work in the end :) Curious to see how long i can make this one last given practically everything's replaceable :)

zersiax, 1 year ago to random

Curious ...is #docker for #windows and #mac still so incredibly slow compared to running it on Linux? I particularly mean with IO-heavy tasks like running a test suite