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jscholes

@jscholes@dragonscave.space

Digital #Accessibility Engineer/Analyst, #ScreenReader user, and occasional #software developer. #a11y

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bryansmart, to random

I know ChatGPT 4O is amazing, but I'm beyond revolted and offended by it's fake caring enthusiastic attitude. I expect to ask it about my friend's cancer, and it either tell me how amazing it is I'm getting this first hand experience, or to tell me how sorry it feels I'm going through this. Either is infuriating in a way hard to explain, and inspires fantasies of kicking OpenAI devs in the balls! The world is full of fake. Do we really need an LLM pretending to care? Fucking revolting!

jscholes,
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@bryansmart Try changing your system prompt to tell it to be less nice.

jaybird110127, to random

Tonight I go into a sleep center to do a sleep study which will almost certainly diagnose me with sleep apnea. Forty years ago today, on Saturday, May 19, 1984, some CBS executives probably had a sleepless night after Michael Larson won an unprecedented $110,237 on Press Your Luck. That was when the show was taped. Press Your Luck was a thirty-minute show, but this particular episode went on so long that they had to split it into two episodes, which aired on Friday, June 8, and Monday, June 11, 1984. They were never seen again until a GSN documentary in 2003. You can doubtless find both the original episodes and the documentary, "Big Bucks: the Press Your Luck Scandal" on Youtube.

jscholes,
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@jaybird110127 I struggle to sleep in a new setting, and would imagine that reaction is quite common. I wonder how they factor that into sleep studies?

jscholes, to random
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There are many "classic" (in intentional quotes) works of Harry Potter fanfiction I've never read. This weekend, it's the turn of the Sacrifices series by Lightning on the Wave. 80 thousand words down, only a cool almost three million to go.

FluidEscence, to random

hmmm. Udio playback in tc... How?

jscholes,
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@FluidEscence Do you have an example link? Sounds like a nice task to wind down with while ignoring work on a Friday afternoon. @matt

jscholes,
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@FluidEscence Here you go, mostly untested. No page parsing required. https://gist.github.com/jscholes/0bc329ba2451897364513bc21fbe32c3 @matt

aardrian, to random
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I’m tthinking the guy next to me on the plane does not approve of my mask since as soon as the wifi became available he loaded The Drudge Report on his phone and looked for stories about masks (the NC law being the first hit).

jscholes,
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@aardrian Mile-high passive aggression.

aardrian, to accessibility
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With Chrome announcing support for UIA, it might be worth retesting some of your patterns with Narrator, Voice Access, Magnifier: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/windows-uia-support?hl=en

I didn't think UIA was quite mature, but I am also old enough to forget Windows’ prior but somehow also current #accessibility APIs. So I may simply be wrong.

#a11y

jscholes,
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@aardrian UIA performance still often looks like heavy traffic moving inexorably towards a pile-up. So the real test will be whether screen readers opt into it in Chrome by default. E.g. NVDA doesn't use it in Edge unless you explicitly ask for it, even though support has been present for a while.

alexhall, to random

Wow, ChatGPT 4o is fast. I'm asking it some PHP questions, and the responses are far faster to generate than I'm used to with 3.5. I'm not even talking about images yet, just text.

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@alexhall It's also noticeably faster than GPT4. Be My Eyes sometimes barely gets through four loops of its tune before the description comes back.

jscholes, to random
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Most mornings, I wake up ahead of my scheduled alarm. It is never not surprising to me that Apple, even with all of their focus on sleep data, haven't introduced a feature that says: "Hey James, it looks like you're awake! Would you like your alarm to be disabled so that it won't go off the moment you put down your phone to use the bathroom?"

jscholes,
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@pitermach I tried a watch, and we didn't get along. Still, good to know. @rooktallon

jscholes, to accessibility
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Yesterday was Global #Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Today, some companies will be considering switching away from #Slack to a less #accessible alternative due to #AI bullshit.

jscholes,
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@matt I think 37signals is partially owned by David Heinemeier Hansson, who is a pretty controversial figure. I also didn't think much of the accessibility of Basecamp. Still, being able to buy the code is an interesting move.

jscholes, to random
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Writing this on the Clicks keyboard case for iPhone. Not sure what I think of it yet... its certainly gonna take some getting used to.

jscholes,
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As far as I can tell, it doesn't have Option or Control keys, only Command. So VoiceOver commands are out of the question.

jscholes,
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Also no Caps Lock or arrows.

jscholes,
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According to the documentation, it does have caps lock functionality, but it must not be via a dedicated key. It has a Left Shift, Enter, Delete, Tab albeit on the bottom row, Fn, and the letters. In the bottom left corner is a Clicks-specific modifier which offers access to symbols and numbers, in the same positions they'd be on the onscreen keyboard. Finally, there is a key for Siri or dictation, and one for toggling the visibility of the onscreen keyboard.

jscholes,
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So far, the most weird and annoying aspect of this keyboard is how often it randomly switches to a layout I don't understand. Quite a few times now, I've landed in a text field, started typing, only to come out with a bunch of unicode gibberish. The only way I've found to reliably fix it is to disconnect and reconnect, but safe to say a keyboard that doesn't type what I want it to is not the sort of variety I'm looking for in life.

jscholes,
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Meanwhile, it keeps mistaking a single press of space for a double, causing a period to be inserted in the middle of a sentence. These seem like basic things a keyboard should not do.

jscholes,
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What else? Ah yes... the fact that VoiceOver automatically turns quick nav off in text fields because it detects that I'm using a keyboard, but the lack of arrow keys makes it inconvenient to re-enable it if I need to. The VO cursor positions in the text are different with quick nav on and off, so if I position the wrong caret and then want to edit, its a painful experience.

jscholes,
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Overall, you may be able to tell that as first impressions go, I'm not enamoured with it. I did type this entire thread on it though, so that's something. Imagine the typing efficiency bar being so low on mobile for screen reader users that typing a detailed Mastodon thread on a crappy little keyboard is something of note.

jscholes,
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@KaraLG84 I'd like to say it was a convenient way to quickly tap something out. But its a huge case I have to stick my phone in each time, so it just... doesn't work. I'm also not convinced its very good for my wrists, and it did the weird layout thing again before I wrote this reply so needed to be reconnected.

jscholes,
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@fireborn Yeah, I thought I remember them mentioning an app. @KaraLG84

jscholes,
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@simon Yeah, basically all of that. Add on top the general approach which will make it obsolete as soon as I buy a new phone, their attitude to MagSafe which boiled down to "we might make one that's compatible in the future", the crappy shipping, and the inaccessible documentation, and I'm just not very impressed.

I also have no idea why they thought anyone would want to either keep their phone in this thing, or put a huge case in their pocket/bag separate from the phone itself.

Fair play to them, they made a product happen, and got it out the door. It's just not a very good one. The packaging was nice, though.

jscholes, to random
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I hope this email finds you wherever you get your podcasts

Piciok, to random Polish

In an amazing twist of fate, within one evening I have made several calls from an actual, albeit slightly modernized payphone and taken over the first phone number we have owned and consequently I have ever memorized. This GAAD was a good one.

jscholes,
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@miki I use Bria Mobile. Haven't noticed any of those problems, although I don't use it much. Never had a problem receiving calls after having it backgrounded for months. @Piciok

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