kaveinthran

@kaveinthran@disabled.social

Disabled, Curious #earthling, native #Blind, secular naturalist, #autodidact, Universal #HumanRights, curator of #curiosity #OpenKnowledge #OER #commons #wikipedian

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kaveinthran, to random

I'm here to look at two recent Living Blindfully episodes more critically. These are specifically @podcast episode 280 on Perplexity and 282 on "A Lot Is About to Change in Our Lives, Thanks to ChatGPT 4O." (1/17)

kaveinthran,

@JonathanMosen has been very critical of technology and always tries to present various viewpoints well. Case in point is his coverage of accessibility overlays and even his own shifting perspective on the open-source movement and NVDA screen reader viability. (2/17)

kaveinthran,

I don't aware of any publicly available audio description guideline, maybe @ChristineMalec have some pointers, but there is an extensive document from Diagram Center on producing good . It contains hundreds of images with strategies that can be used to describe those images well. http://diagramcenter.org/table-of-contents-2.html (4/4)

kaveinthran,

@weirdwriter @JonathanMosen Thanks
I learn about the article from your mastodon sharing and I certainly learnt a lot about the training data that goes into these models. The magazine overall is great. (1/4)

kaveinthran,

I guess another aspect that's pointed out in the talk description to me podcast episodes is about the difference between expert human describer and AI description. The models are not taught explicitly on the guidelines of a human describer workflow or decomposability of these workflow step-by-step reasoning. (2/4)

kaveinthran,

How a typical human or expert human describer will look into a picture or video, reason intuitively and provide context sensitive description to a scene, augmented by a blind persons need. There is a lot that goes into a human generated description that we taken for granted. It takes practice and manual iteration to Master the art of describing image and video. (3/4)

researchbuzz, to random
@researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host avatar

Stract! @Mojeek !

re:

https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe/112489509183056891

kaveinthran,

@researchbuzz @Mojeek These both also bing derivatives?

emilymbender, to random
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This is tomorrow!

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, guest host @mmitchell_ai and I will look into claims that "AI has learned to deceive humans". Join us live at noon Pacific, May 20, 2024:

twitch.tv/dair_institute

kaveinthran,

@emilymbender Is there any episodes on AI as search assistant/creator?

kaveinthran, to random

Few weeks ago, I listen on @podcast to a listener's issue where they lost their music that they have previously purchased. I think this kind of thing also happened among audible users. This article sheds some light to the conundrum,
Surprise du jour (not): if you "purchase" something and it stays on someone else's server, it never really is yours :
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/14/my-whole-library-is-wiped-out-what-it-means-to-own-movies-and-tv-in-the-age-of-streaming-services

MishaalRahman, to random
@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social avatar

I'm starting a newsletter called Android Decoded!

On this week's Android Faithful podcast, we launched our new website alongside some new newsletters. I've been told I should start a newsletter a few times, so I'm finally doing one!

What's it about?

Android Decoded is a weekly newsletter that explains the significance of each week's news as it pertains to the Android ecosystem. I'll be picking the news that I think is important and analyze what I think it means for the Android ecosystem.

kaveinthran,

@MishaalRahman Do you have the length subscribe to the newsletter? I the website is not that screen reader accessible for me to find the newsletter

aardrian, to random
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I finally sat down and read this, which is not a short read, not about social media alone, and not good for bedtime:

“How social networks prey on our longing to be known”
https://janmaarten.com/polywork/

Fuck. If you weren’t already wary of tech, you will be. If you were wary, well, lots of good reference links all laid out in one place.

Might take that notice at the end for my own site.

kaveinthran,

@aardrian Great article, any other piece from him that you love?

weirdwriter, to mastoblind

I also went back to Semaphore because the focus issues are increasing for me. I do think a blind developer should fork Enafore or even Semaphore. I understand that the main web interface is usable, I just really like theSemaphore kind of interface @mastoblind

kaveinthran,

@weirdwriter @mastoblind I want to understand more, can you describe the focus issues that you're having?

kaveinthran,

@weirdwriter @mastoblind Understand, no worries

kaveinthran, to books

What are some of legal non-drm ways to own and ? I know of and . Are there any other services?

kaveinthran, to random

I thought eloquence is no more on android officially? Then I find this on the code factory Faq. On what other platforms do you offer Eloquence? Code Factory also offers “Eloquence Text To Speech” for Android. It is available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.codefactory.eloquencetts&hl=en.

Does it work well? @evilcookies98

kaveinthran,

@evilcookies98 Thanks for the clarification, I didn't even check the link, my bad, as it displays very confidently in their epic FAQ page, I thought it's still available

deconspray, to accessibility
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Understanding and implementing the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for even trained experts. Catherine helps us with WCAG 2.2′s newest guideline by explaining the requirements and providing examples of how to improve our user interfaces.

https://buff.ly/3UbC65F

@WebDevelopment

kaveinthran,

@deconspray @WebDevelopment Do we have articles like this for every success criteria of ?

kaveinthran, to accessibility

how you move to next elements, e.g. headings, comments, footnote in a google doc? here goes! ctrl+alt+n, ctrl+alt+c for next comment, except when you press ctrl+alt+n, nvda starts/quits,
so what's the alternative?

kaveinthran, to random

why @aardrian is not in this list https://a11y-webring.club/

kaveinthran, to random

What are the differences between the eloquence driver that people are using on android versus the iOS? I know the android version is 32bit and not compiled for newer processor, as it is not maintained anymore by code factory. do we have a list of phones in which it will not run? I don't think so it's depend on the operating system. So people still can use eloquence with android 15, but we need list of the devices that do not support it anymore.

evilcookies98, to random
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Do you guys know if I can find a User guide for the braille display I’m about to have landing in my lap? I would really rather not blow it up the day I get it, especially since I got it for roughly an eighth of normal price if I read the webpage correctly.

kaveinthran,

@evilcookies98 @TSchulte That's great, is that a discount program or something else?

kaveinthran,

@evilcookies98 @TSchulte Amazing, I'm very happy for you. How old is the device?

kaveinthran,

@evilcookies98 @TSchulte Oo amazing, do keep us posted

kaveinthran,

@evilcookies98 @TSchulte I understand, 500 usd is still expensive, in my country it's about 2500 Malaysian ringgit, like buying a high end Samsung device .

kaveinthran,

@evilcookies98 @TSchulte Yeah this can be the cheapest deal for any notetaker

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