jscholes

talon, 3 days ago to random

Non-disabled developer working on accessibility doesn't put keyboard/usage instructions in aria labels challenge 2024 (Impossible)!

jscholes, 5 days ago to accessibility

#Accessibility tip: if sharing an image of text on social media along with a link to some original source, that link is a lot easier for people to reach if you place it directly in the post instead of the image's alt text.

jaybird110127, 6 days ago to random

I've played a bit with NVGT (https://nvgt.gg) which is a brand new audio game development system. A primary objective of NVGT is to be able to revive old BGT projects in a new environment. To that end, with almost no effort, I got my implementation of the Memory Train game from the BGT manual going in NVGT. Here's an audio demo.

jscholes, 6 days ago to accessibility

Headline: "I Don't Understand why we Need This!": Sighted User Furious at Accessibility Feature for Blind People.

Reginald Cavendish, of Castle Combe in Wiltshire, today made an impassioned plea for a technology company to reconsider their new #accessibility feature for #blind and #lowVision users, aimed at creating visual descriptions of images in a privacy-preserving way.

Speaking to reporters from his 1,800-acre estate, Reginald communicated his confusion about why the feature was being considered in the first place.

"I'm not clear on exactly who asked for this," he said. "When I need something, I ask one of my staff, and it just tends to get done. I take great Solace in that human touch, and I can't really comprehend why people would want computers doing things for them! My son has some friends who've seen disabled people on the television, and he didn't understand it either."

When asked whether he supported increased independence for people who are unable to see, he responded: "Look, some people have the money to pay people to be at their beck and call, to describe images or pick up their eyedrop bottles or what-have-you. I understand that doesn't go for everyone, but if someone can't afford human help, I'd suggest they'd be much happier making peace with the scraps they're thrown by society."

Editor's note: Reginald was asked to describe the featured image for this article. "Man on lawn," he offered over one shoulder, before moving off for a spot of afternoon shooting.

jscholes, 7 days ago to python

Needed to rename a test fixture in a #Python file, and find/replace wasn't up for the job. So I decided to give #VSCode a go:

I started by pressing Ctrl+F2, for "Change All Occurrences". I think that is basically find/replace, and hence didn't do what I wanted.

Instead, I installed the recommended Python extension, and pressed F2 for "Rename Symbol". That claims to have only made one change, and the references to the function are still using the old name.

So, consider me confused. I'm using #pytest, whereby the test fixtures are referenced as function arguments rather than being called directly. Maybe that's what VS Code is struggling with? Either way, I've now spent more time on this than just manually editing the text.

#VisualStudioCode

b0rk, 9 days ago to random

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datajake1999, 10 days ago to random

the existence of a watch dog implies the existence of a watch cat.

FluidEscence, 10 days ago to random

Wellp, perfect timing, Keychron, thanks for releasing keyboards on the day I decided I needed a new keyboard. Pretty fucking cheap too. Grabbed their new numpad one, the B6 Pro Ultra-Slim Wireless Keyboard. Am excited. It has everything I want in a keyboard, USBC, 2.4 ghz wireless and bluetooth. Boom! Job done.

joelanman, 11 days ago to javascript

given delete is a keyword in JavaScript, what word do you use for a function that deletes in your own code? del, destroy, other?

#javascript

menelion, 11 days ago to github

Hi #blind folks, especially software developers! I'm taking part in a #GitHub research meeting and I hope to raise as many #accessibility points as I can. I was told this fact is not at all confidential, so I may gather feedback.
Here's what I remember: multiline comments are inaccessible (eternal story); sometimes menu roles are used where they shouldn't be (watching repos, reactions etc.). Anything else that really bugs you at GitHub? Thanks!

jscholes, 11 days ago to random

Someone at work typed "devs", i.e. the shortening of "developers", as "DEVs" in some documentation. It's a sign of the times that when another colleague brought it up, I didn't have to work hard to convince them that it stands for "Digital Engineering Vehicles", a new corporate term being used throughout Silicon Valley.

Disclaimer: it doesn't.)

jscholes, 11 days ago to random

The joys of auto-translated technical text: "A DNS or Domain Name System, as its name indicates, is a domain name system."

jscholes, 11 days ago to random

When using @MonaApp with #VoiceOver, is it possible to share an image attached to a post with another app? When I use the "view media" rotor action, and then triple-tap on what VoiceOver claims is the image, I get sharing options related to the alt text, or detected text, or something, but not the image itself. In the end I had to take a screenshot of the image and use that instead.

bryansmart, 12 days ago to random

In the last 2 months of selling and buying a house, I've created more accounts than in the last 4 years. Everyone, from agents, to lenders, to inspectors, to appraisers, to insurance and tax whatever have a portal. They all seemingly use different E-document providers. Everyone loves sending secure messages, only delivered via different secure e-mail portals. Everyone wants to setup 2FA. Everyone is a fucking special snowflake. I'm so burned out on it all.

glyph, 12 days ago to random

It suddenly occurs to me that tremendous amounts of programmer culture are just various, mostly-failed attempts at managing the work associated with keeping pace with a changing world. Specifically: SemVer, LTSes, “commercial support” funding models for OSS, Win32’s “Old New Thing”-style compatibility, SaaS interface versioning, and, arguably, the popularity of the x86/amd64 architectures themselves are all aspects of a fantasy world where you build something once and have it work forever.

FluidEscence, 12 days ago to random

Heya @HeavenGames, cool program you've got, flash files. Two things. The most major one, is that I caught your program using 2.5 GB of ram on my machine. Second, you have files for handling OPUS playback but it doesn't actually seem to work, it just opens them in my default player. Third, I can't seem to get reverb or anything like that to work as well. Finally, it would be cool to have, say, control shift and letters to switch to that drive letter if possible. That's something xplorer2 does and I like that. But very cool program. I'm a fan.

mahryekuh, 12 days ago to python

I've finally started using and liking Poetry for Python, and I'm considering replacing my somewhat complex pip-tools setup with it.

However, Astral's uv is also around the corner. The speed boost aside, it doesn't tempt me yet, though.

Choices, choices.

#Python

jscholes, 12 days ago to random

Audient EVO 4 question: a colleague has just picked up one of these, uses NVDA, and isn't finding the software to be very accessible. When they open EVO Control, they can't initially tab around, and have to manually move focus to one of the sliders with object nav before tabbing will work. But they're then finding a lot of unlabelled radio buttons, buttons with labels like "M" without context, and so on. Are we missing an updated build or something?

simon, 12 days ago to random

Has anyone here ever rendered video files in Reaper?
I'm having no issue with the editing part, but i'm having a surprising amount of trouble rendering it into a format that works well.
Several of the lossless formats I tried using produced really low colour depth with no way to change it. When I used Lossless, I couldn't get Hand Break to convert the file to a usable format; it just produced an empty video file regardless of the format I chose. I suppose I could use ffmpeg for that, but that requires a lot of knowledge of video formats I don't have.
I have to record demos quite often for my job, and I really want to be able to do it without trying to get it exactly right in one take. It feels like a problem I should be more than capable of solving, and i'm 90% there with Reaper already.

joelanman, 13 days ago to accessibility

An #accessibility take: people are too quick to use an empty alt on images to declare them 'decorative'. This means you can't easily know an image even exists on the page, for example to copy or download it, or discuss its existence with others.

There are some valid cases but for the most part blind users deserve equitable access to information that the images exist at all (and what they are)

jscholes, 14 days ago to mastodon

How do people meaningfully search and/or export their #Mastodon favourites? I've been favouriting (not bookmarking) a bunch of useful and/or interesting stuff since I came here, but the data seems difficult to access in a useful way.

When I use my instance's website, there's no search facility on the Favourites page. It only loads a subset of favourites upfront, so without pressing the "load more" button hundreds of times, I can't use my screen reader's find feature either.

When I try the favourites timeline of Semaphore, it also only loads a subset of my favourites, but apparently without a means of loading more of them.

In Mona on iOS, I would likewise have to keep finding, and then pressing, "load more posts".

When I try to find information on the internet about possible qualifiers for searching my own favourites, I get results about API calls and installing Elasticsearch as an instance owner.

In the "import/export" section of my account preferences, it doesn't say anything about favourites, and doesn't make it clear whether my posts archive would include them.