@kdj8 I have heard about orca for Linux… I’d really like to have a bigger thread with people using screen readers on various platforms such as iOS (whether they use the apple one or if there’s another solution), macOS, android, FreeBSD (yes). Linux with wayland (may be more difficult.) Although most of my blind friends fully disabled their computer’s screen. I assume a bare minimal tiling wm would actually be a great thing since you can navigate fairly easy with the keyboard. Mouse positioning is super hard. Maybe I ping @alttexthalloffame to start this thread. One of the hardest parts about this that no one acknowledges is the difference between blind from birth and sighted before being blind. Blind from birth folks typically have a hard time organizing things in their head as they have no concept of two or three dimensions while ex sighted folk may be able to understand dimensions.
@kdj8 by itself this doesn’t sound too bad until you realize blind from birth folks are expected to be taught the same concepts in schools. You’ll find they often times struggle heavily with math that requires you to visualize it. There’s little to no accommodations for things like IT work either. Windows Server is not exactly accessible, professors get frustrated with the noise of screen readers or people taking too long. It’s really sad. Describing CS concepts with hierarchy and all those visual representations means nothing to a blind by birth person. Despite this I know people who still make the best out of it but often times they have to spend a significant amount of time figuring things out on their own because nobody is patient enough to work through it with em. Imagine trying to explain something like an iterative loop to someone who doesn’t understand the very concept of top or bottom.
@AmyIsCoolz@kdj8 I mean… my thoughts come and go. I do get it though I wish there was a way to limit the speed in which my posts leave? Does everyone need to be instantly updated? Can it just take a couple of seconds to give people a break in between? My adhd does not like trying to form coherent thoughts. I constantly leave out things I meant to include, find myself editing the post just to run into the same issue of "oh no this notifies everyone again". I also run into the problem of what’s a big post? What’s a small post? On tumblr the format was to reply to yourself, you do reblog chains to continue a conversation. Sorry. I need to get better at organizing my thoughts
@h@kdj8 signal has a plausible cryptography architecture, following common best practices and always encrypts, while telegram has optional encryption which nobody really understands.
I would argue, this is a lot more important than minor UI differences.