So it looks like we’ll need to do some #accessibility advocacy next week. I’m not looking forward to it. But not because of advocating for my needs, or working with large companies. That doesn’t bother me. No, what bothers me is the interactions I will inevitably have with the #blind people who are supposed to be my allies. At least one person will say it works fine and I’m a whiner who needs to shut up. Eight or nine will tell me it’s my fault for purchasing the product at all. Several will tell me that it’s unreasonable to expect a multi-million dollar company to make things accessible on release. I’m tired. Not tired of advocacy, but tired of the lack of support, respect, and community spirit amongst my fellow blind people. We saw it during the #reddit advocacy, and we’re going to experience it all over again #a11y
Unfortunately, the copy of the Andre 44.1k sound scheme in the github repo for this project is missing a bunch of sounds. Here's the fixed version. https://share.interfree.ca/upload/sloth-lion-crow
Also, @FreakyFwoof are you aware that your website doesn't have a link to download the sound scheme installer anymore?
Even if you don't upgrade to the new #Sonos app, or upgrade your speaker firmware, the #accessibility of the old app has now been degraded. Browsing Apple Music this morning, and all of the items are images without alt-text. FYI @podcast
So apparently #sonos is releasing a completely redesigned app in May. Has anyone heard anything about #accessibility? Do we know if any #screenreader users are in the beta program? #a11y
I don't use them, but just for fun, I decided to try #tweesecake and #twblue on #pleroma. They both fail differently. First off, both require that you log out or authorization won't work. But if you log out then log in again while authorizing, they will. But at that point, #twblue will just crash. The error in the log says it's trying to do something with Pleroma that it doesn't implement. Tweesecake, on the other hand, pretends to work. It loads the messages and mentions buffers just fine. Then it adds exactly 160 items to the home buffer, all of them blank. If you leave it open, new items will stream into the home buffer. They, also, will be blank. I didn't expect either client to work; I just find the wildly differing failures amusing.
So last week I had a laptop with 16 gigs of ram. In general, I used about 70 percent of RAM in day to day operations. My swap file was around half full. Today, I have a laptop with 32 gigs of ram. In general, I use about 70 percent of RAM in day to day operations. My swap file is about half full. WTF? I'm doing EXACTLY! the same things. Same software, same version of Windows, same everything.
And so it begins. Rusc and stingray, two services I use daily on #sonos are unavailable. I assume because the new app will only work with the three major streaming services. Already hearing that adding custom streaming urls will be forbidden after the upgrade. Goodbye to the dozens of those I have.