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zersiax

@zersiax@cupoftea.social

I am Florian, florian is Dutch and Florian is he/him. I tend to talk about a myriad of different things, including #accessibility, #linguistics, #infoSec, #music, #programming and #gaming. Also #books, loads of books. Twitch streamer, LGBTQIA+-friendly and, oh right, fully #blind, as well. Anything more would be telling.

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KaraLG84, to random
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I love this bloke's laugh.
"Guy laughs like a horse".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xf_ngX3drI

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 lol how do you find this stuff?

simon, to random

I haven't used Twitch outside of iOS in a long time. It's gotten a lot worse. Some pretty stupid keyboard usage and associated hints that make no sense if you have any idea how screen readers actually work, and at least with NVDA and Firefox, activating the chat tab seems to not work. The unlabeled button to open the player--and its subsequent disappearance after a few seconds--is the icing on the cake. You can tell there's lots of development work going into the accessibility and absolutely 0 testing.

zersiax,
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@simon wait ...are you sure you have your screen maximized? Player's always open at least on Chromium at least. THings are pretty awful, just haven't seen that particular issue

jcsteh, to random

Oh awesome. Significant pieces of 1Password 8 for Windows (like the sidebar) still aren't keyboard or screen reader accessible despite it being released... let's see... 2.5 years ago. It's good to know that yet another vendor clearly doesn't give a shit.

zersiax,
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@jcsteh my guess would be ...because it looks fancy/cool/fresh/different than the competitor/exactly like designer X likes it to look

simon, to random

Do we have anyone in the blind android world with a One Plus 12 or 12R? I really want to know if either of them run Eloquence. I have a suspicion that the 12R might run it and the 12 will not, because the 12R is one chip generation behind. But it could be disabled in software on Samsung/Google's end, in which case it should still run on all their phones.

zersiax,
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@simon isn't there a modded version that runs on 64-bit android? Maybe on a particular website you go to when you're blind and you need help?

zersiax,
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@simon eep, yeah that sounds bad. And yeah I honestly don't recall if theirs runs on modern, I'd have to go grab and try

zersiax,
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@jscholes @simon I ...think so. I think if someone were to just recompile for x64 systems it'd be just fine, not sure how hard that is with these old binaries

zersiax,
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@simon @jscholes I have no idea if there's some kind of bridging layer or emulation layer Android apps can use to translate somehow but yeah ...if a recompile from the actual source is needed then ...good luck :)

zersiax,
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@FluidEscence @jscholes @simon I personally wouldn't care all that much if it's slightly different, long as it talks as fast and smooth as OG eloquence does I'm no nostalgia nut. I'd rock eSpeak or similar and I even do on occasion but it tires my ears

zersiax,
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@FluidEscence @jscholes @simon I liked that thing. some consonants were harder to distinguish but on the whole, not awful

zersiax,
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@FluidEscence @jscholes @simon I mean ...I'll take it over some random recreation from 20-year-old notetaker voices any day :)

zersiax, to accessibility
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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?

scy, to accessibility
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Hey users: How problematic is it when people abuse alt texts to add image credits, license information, or URLs?

Of course I'm aware that it's not what they're intended for, and that, given the choice, you'd rather not have people do this, but how much of an issue is it in practice? I have never really used a screen reader, but I'd imagine you can just skip over an alt text like that, and that it's maybe just confusing for a moment?

zersiax,
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@scy if it's just the credit, and nothing else, it, quite frankly, is a misuse of alt text. Alt stands for alternative, so basically this would indicate that knowing who created/provided the image is analogous to knowing what the image depicts. It just doesn't add up.
It is absolutely skippable, you're right, but it's skippable in the way putting a logo over the " eat before" date on a food product is skippable. You probably won't be bothered too much, but an important field has been co-opted for an arguably less important datapoint at that given stage in the, let's say, image-viewing process

ppatel, (edited ) to android
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Re my last boost, looks like HID support for Braille displays via bluetooth is coming in Android 15. This should let devices like the Brailliant BI 20X, 40X, The Mantis, and the Humanware NLS EReaders connect to devices running Android 15 via bluetooth. Fantastic news.

Clarification: These devices can be connected to Android devices via USB cables right now. The new support is for HID over bluetooth, enabling us to use our displays wirelessly.

zersiax,
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@ppatel curious about how well this will work with my Mantis come beta 2, will have a look

zersiax,
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@ppatel I could, I'm just not sure how much would break on a first beta. No idea how breaky android betas generally tend to be

zersiax,
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@dhamlinmusic @ppatel I haven o idea, I'm on a pixel 8 pro

miki, to random
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In the last few months, we went from AI music being a curiosity you needed a good Linux box to play with, to something pretty crappy but looking somewhat interesting, to... this.

zersiax,
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@miki damn ...sounds like proper country redneck :P

FluidEscence, to random

I'm a complex being! Leave me alone! Giggles

zersiax,
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@FluidEscence I shall now refer to you in all further correspondences as being called Mew

KaraLG84, to random
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Going swimming in a bit. I love that the health club we use has a pool just for casual swimming about as well as one with lanes. the casual one is like my happy place, and it's usually lovely and warm in there.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 I read this as swinging for a brief second and blinked :P

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 Well, I hope your swimming, or swinging, went swimmingly. Please don't take a swing at me :P

weirdwriter, to random

Anyone got any blogs from a blindness or a physically disabled perspective on what setting up a Framework is like? I have physical disabilities too but they are, quite literally, the only PC manufacturer that doesn't have bloat when you first use the machine forcing me to use my custom, slimmed down, Windows ISO so I want to know if it would be worth getting if I have physical disabilities too.

zersiax,
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@weirdwriter You can get preassembled ones. If you'd have to do maintenance on them, that does require some pretty precise movements as you essentially need to angle components in just the right way for them to slot into place, I'm talking a 25-degree angle for example. Placing the storage involves removing, and then replacing, a very small screw. So if you intend to tinker with it, physical disabilities might make that a little tricky but if you get a non-DIY version that shouldn't be required all that often, if at all. Replacing the expansion-socketed ports doesn't require screwdrivering, but it does require quite a bit of finger strength to get them loose once they've been placed, at least on the 13-inch model

zersiax,
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@weirdwriter thats a tricky one ...they kinda seem to try to outdo each other every other generation ... so its really a bit of personal preference I say. Some people say Intel's been backsliding lately and have throttling issues, but even so, CPUs are so fast these days that you really wouldn't notice that all that much unless you consistently ask the maximum of the CPU which is unlikely

ilumium, to Skydiving
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Holy shit, I thought I knew how evil the industry was but here we are:

Two-thirds of European websites just ignore your choice and track you anyways, researchers from found. 🤯

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf

zersiax,
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obviously no idea if this is true but it would not surprise me. And we get these cookie popups a lot. an awful, awful, awful lot

simon, to random

What are people using to read audiobooks on Windows? I've transitioned almost entirely over to mobile reading apps, but occasionally I wonder if I'd get more things done if I wasn't constantly switching devices, and I am on Windows a lot. Also, I sometimes encounter people who like to use their computer for various reasons.
I know Foobar has a bookmarks plugin, and I know about Easy Reader, though I don't know if the Windows version does audiobooks or whether it's an actual good experience. Ideally, something that supports folders of audio files as well as M4B books would be great. And Foobar is the only thing I know that does that. There's a bookmarks plugin, but I'm not sure if it's maintained. That would probably suffice for me, except there's no good time compression in Foobar.

zersiax,
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@lucas @simon there's a setting you can switch on in PotPlayer to remember multiple positions actually. Bookmarks ...not sure. Generally just remembering my place is all I need

eric, to random
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It's 4/04, and I'm celebrating by continuing my annual tradition of re-sharing this: https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-to-make-an-ineffective-404-page/

zersiax,
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@eric at like 25 years doing this you should literally replace that blog post with just a 404 page that does everything the article suggests, with a big " LIKE THIS" banner up top. Just for a few hours.

pixelate, to accessibility
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My boss just showed me his 13-inch Framework laptop. Does anyone know if I get a 16-inch Framework, if I can just put Optima's Braille display part into it and that'd work, or if I'd have to buy the Optima? :boosts-okay:

zersiax,
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@pixelate I sincerely doubt that would work. I am going to naively assume the Optima uses a custom case, there'd never be enough space otherwise. I own a 13-inch, and the innards are very cramped even without a braille display. 16 inch is a little biggerbut not that much bigger

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