NoahCarver

maxleibman, 4 months ago to linux

#Linux has come so far!

I used to spend hours reading how-to’s, scouring package managers, compiling from source, hand-editing configs—only to learn that some critical dependency didn’t support my system!

Today, that only happens with arcane power-user features.

Like “sound.”

NoahCarver, 4 months ago to mastoblind

Every time I pull out my BrailleNote Touch Plus, I'm reminded of how pitifully stagnated blindness-related products are compared to mainstream systems. Turns out I can no longer install Box because HumanWare has backed themselves into a corner and will not be updating past Android 8.1. This would not be a big deal... except for the fact that it's the only #Braille display I have at the moment, and literally every BRF file I need at Eastman is stored in Box. Way to keep up with the times, guys. /s

#Blind #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind @main

NoahCarver, 4 months ago to random

Having a negative opinion of AI is perfectly fine, but if you use that opinion as justification to call disabled designers, engineers, testers, etc. of image description tools based off of AI that they are ableist, I will set you straight extremely quickly. Folks'' ignorance and willingness to talk to disabled people as if we're deeply naive fools who need saving from the big bad AI machine that's taking advantage of us when our community was deeply involved in creating said AI machine has to be the height of entitlement, hubris, ignorance, and assumption.

NoahCarver, 1 month ago to mastoblind

PSA to blind and low vision travelers!

whenever using sirens and lights, emergency vehicles (ambulances, fire apparatuses, etc.) ALWAYS have the right-of-way. Be hypervigilant when crossing streets. PAY ATTENTION! Do NOT cross when sirens are barreling towards you. They likely cannot stop/swerve in time to avoid hitting you. Do NOT be the person who learns this fact the hard way.

PS: I am physically fine. Deeply shaken, but am not hurt. I have no idea how, but I somehow tuned out the siren coming at me until someone yelled for me to stop crossing. Had I not heard the person yelling, I likely would have been hit and at the verry least seriously injured. In other words, I made a serious mistake that could have killed me. I still don't know how I did it. I am posting this in the hope that this does not happen to someone else. Please, learn from my mistake.

#Blind #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind @main @podcast

ppatel, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to android

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.

#Talkback #Android #Google #Accessibility #a11y

NoahCarver, 5 months ago to mastoblind

#BlindMasto / #BlindMastodon / #BlindFedi / @mastoblind peeps, if you're going to write multiple sequential replies to a post (i.e. write a reply thread), please reply to your own reply so that it actually threads and others can read both of your replies.

NoahCarver, 2 months ago to random

When you've managed to crash word 5 times within 15 minutes, it's probably time to take a break.

NoahCarver, 4 months ago to random

Woke up this morning and called congressman Mike Johnson as well as my own senator Susan collins regarding the border deal and how it’s killing will have disastrous consequences for America and the western world. If y’all have a few free minutes, it might be worth it to do the same.

NoahCarver, 2 months ago to random

It has taken me 4 or so hours of studying to rid myself of the notion that the German word for towel, "das Handtuch," is neuter (das) rather than masculin...

NoahCarver, 2 months ago to random

IF there was just one thing which I could tell my younger self, it would be read more #Braille and get your reading speed up. #Blind Braille learners, practice makes better. Don't put it off. Read with both hands, and get that speed up. You will thank yourself later.

NoahCarver, 13 days ago to random

Gotta say, I appreciate PayPal. Getting an email both when Walmart debits the initial charge for grocery delivery as well as when they inevitably refund me for items which the store doesn't have adds a certain piece of mind that all is as it should be. It's perhaps superficial, but still greatly appreciated nevertheless.

NoahCarver, 4 months ago to random

I'm consistently sending emails containing lengthy lists of my free time for meeting scheduling purposes, and creating said lists drives me irrationally batty. Someone has to have created software which will connect to my personal and work/school Google Calendars, extrapolate times when I have nothing scheduled, and present those blocks of free time in a reasonable format, yet I have searched the Web and came up empty. If such software does indeed exist, I would love to know about it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

PS: Please feel free to boost for reach.

PPS: If you know of hashtags/groups where I can post this, please let me know so I can add them.

mckensie, 1 month ago to random

Hey everyone! I've got some very good news! So did you guys think that the natural voices would be exclusive to narrator? Did you guys think the natural voices wouldn't even make it to other screen readers? Well, you all thought wrong! Because guess what? Thanks to a video on YouTube, I found out there is an NVDA addon for these voices! And it even works on windows 10! You can get this addon at datajake.braillescreen.net, TTS, synthesizers for NVDA, and titled neural voices. The rest of you guys can thank me later! Feel free to boost this post! It deserves one!

TheQuinbox, 1 month ago to random

Stupid and dumb discovery of the day. Having a Foobar2000 FooYoutube window open will completely 100% make both firefox and chrome not send proper accessibility events to my NVDA. Furthermore, it doesn't happen in a devbox VM to try and repro, because of course it doesn't; it wouldn't be a day without technical bullshittery.

FluidEscence, 1 month ago to random

So, Talkback has accessibility actions right, so why in the hell does literally no app use them? That's annoying! Rar!

NoahCarver, 1 month ago to random

In future, I will never, ever, ever, ever again by anything from Western Digital or any of its subsidiaries/brands. Just had a year-old top-of-the-line NVMe SSD die for no good reason. Honestly, I have no idea how much data I’ve lost. In future, I will also be much more militant about taking off-line backups.

menelion, 11 days ago to Youtube

There is a polyglot on #YouTube that keeps calling Latin alphabet "American" and Spanish language "Mexican" (for humorous purposes, of course). Like: "The language X is easy to learn because it uses the American alphabet". Comments are always priceless.

drew, 5 days ago to random

I'm old enough to remember when Chrome rolled out automatic alt text descriptions, in the ancient past of 2019. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/get-image-descriptions/

So controversial! We faced immediate backlash. "How dare you?" they said. "Google is taking all the good alt text production jobs!" they said. Nevertheless, we persisted, in the face of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Wait, I'm sorry. Actually, nobody said anything like that. Man! That would've been so stupid, right?