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objectinspace

@objectinspace@freeradical.zone

Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet! I'm an accessibility specialist for WhatsApp, which is about the least exciting thing about me. I also play video games--while blind! I hosted a politics podcast with Matt Cooper called The Game Is Rigged from 2017-2018. I've produced and acted in the Worm full-cast Audiobook project. I host a weekly show called Thoughtfood on Venom.FM from 12 to 3 PM PST on Sundays. I also sing and play drums. I'm even a snappy dresser--though this is disputed!

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objectinspace, to random
@objectinspace@freeradical.zone avatar

I don't feel quite like myself. Turning into someone else is killing me. Something has to change!

stefan, to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Do NOT, under any circumstances, link to any of the websites listed here!

"You may not provide a link to this website from any other website without first obtaining Associatedโ€™s prior written consent."

"You may only link to our Web site or mobile application with Our express written permission."

"Users may not link any other website to the Website without obtaining the prior written consent of Office of His Majestyโ€™s Coroner for the City of Sunderland."

https://malcolmcoles.com/no-linking/

dyani, to accessibility
@dyani@social.coop avatar

Are Microsoft and Adobe really the only ones making software that can create tagged PDFs?

I would rather not use either of them!

Please boost this question ๐Ÿ”

I can't find any alternatives :(

dyani,
@dyani@social.coop avatar

@objectinspace i know!! they're already very accessible before you export. Why don't they just translate that into the export process??? It seems easy to me. But what do i know!

andybaio, to random
@andybaio@xoxo.zone avatar

404 Media is doing a great job at getting tech companies to moderate bad actors on their platforms, impressive for such a small indie publication. Their reporting directly led to action at two major tech companies this week: Discord shut down the Spy Pet search engine that sold access to user messages. https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

And Apple removed multiple AI โ€œnudifyโ€ apps from the App Store.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/

(Note: 404 Media articles are all free to read, but you have to register.)

mdekstrand, to random
@mdekstrand@hci.social avatar

If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)

JoshuaHolland, to random
@JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social avatar

Obviously the delay was the point.

"Trumpโ€™s lawyers donโ€™t expect the Supreme Court to bless his absurd immunity claims. 'We already pulled off the heist,' says a source close to Trump."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-celebrating-supreme-court-immunity-heist-1235009838/

GreenFire, to random
@GreenFire@mstdn.social avatar

Hamas is attacking Americans while holding Americans hostage yet Uncle Sam is still spending billions to help aid Palestine in case you're unclear on who the good guys are in the region.

filmroellchen, to random
@filmroellchen@chaos.social avatar

there's a reason we call it a cat cable

it's the main tool of the networking catgirls, after all

accessibleandroid, to random
@accessibleandroid@mastodon.social avatar

Testing 6 Image Description Services on Android: Observations and Thoughts https://accessibleandroid.com/testing-6-image-description-services-on-android-observations-and-thoughts/

r000t, to random
@r000t@fosstodon.org avatar

Upon detection of a land-based nuclear missile launch, there would be 26 minutes and 30 seconds until impact. (Submarine launch would be under 10 minutes)

What would you do with your 26 minutes and 30 seconds?

chikim, to llm
@chikim@mastodon.social avatar

VOLlama v0.1.0, an open-source, accessible chat client for OLlama
Unfortunately, many user interfaces for open source large language models are either inaccessible or annoying to use with screen readers, so I decided to make one for myself and others. Non screen reder users are welcome to use it as well.
I hope that ML UI libraries like Streamlit and Gradio will become more friendly with screen readers in the future, so making apps like this is not necessary!

https://chigkim.github.io/VOLlama/

GlitchyZorua, to VintageOSes
@GlitchyZorua@wetdry.world avatar

THIS IS NOT A DRILL
JUST GOT OFFICIALLY OPEN-SOURCED

HOLY SHIT

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

mush42, to rust
@mush42@hachyderm.io avatar

๐Ÿ‘‹ Career change alert!

Looking to pivot into tech & leverage my 10+ years of programming experience

๐Ÿ Python
๐Ÿฆ€ Rust
</> Web Development
๐ŸŒ CMS: WordPress & Wagtail
โœจ Machine Learning: Torch & Tensorflow

My passion for code shines through my open-source projects! Check them out:
https://github.com/mush42
https://github.com/blindpandas

batterpunts, to random
@batterpunts@mastodon.social avatar

I'm going to look up why they called it vue dot js but want it pronounced view dot js.

i'm steeling myself for the stupidest possible reason

WebAxe, to accessibility
@WebAxe@a11y.info avatar

Observations on Squarespace Accessibility, by Amy Carney

https://theamycarney.com/2024/04/02/observations-on-squarespace-accessibility/

What you can do, and what Squarespace should do, to make the platform's websites more accessible.

podcast, to random
@podcast@livingblindfully.social avatar

Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

simon, to random

New audiobooks of all seven titles in JK Rowlingโ€™s Harry Potter series will be released exclusively on Audible in late 2025. More than 100 performers will be cast to voice the booksโ€™ various characters and โ€œbring these iconic stories to life as never heard beforeโ€.
A joint statement from Amazon-owned Audible and Pottermore Publishing, the audio and ebook publisher of the Harry Potter series, said the new audiobooks will not aim to replace the much-loved single-voice English-language recordings by Jim Dale and Stephen Fry, but โ€œsit alongside and complementโ€ them.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/25/audible-all-seven-jk-rowling-harry-potter-books-full-cast-audiobooks

jscholes, to random
@jscholes@dragonscave.space avatar

#VoiceDream apparently now has beta Kindle support in the main app, i.e. a beta version isn't required. There are reports on the mailing list that you need to be a subscriber to see it, that there should be a "Kindle beta" option in the "Settings" menu, and that you can't lock the screen or background the app while reading a Kindle book. I subscribed and updated the app, but it isn't showing up for me, so I don't know any more than that.

jscholes,
@jscholes@dragonscave.space avatar

Here are some initial comments:

Kindle doesn't appear in #VoiceDream as a standard content source. Instead, Amazon's web reader is embedded into the app, and the book text is extracted from the web page to be spoken.

This means that Kindle isn't deeply integrated into the rest of the app, and results in the majority of Voice Dream features being unavailable. You can choose a book and start audio playback, but not access bookmarking, text highlighting, annotations, full-text search, the built-in dictionary, etc. More fundamentally, standard book navigation (e.g. by heading) is not possible either. You can skip by page, and that's all.

I don't know if the features aimed at other audiences, such as finger reading and word highlights, work or not. I would suspect not, given the webview-based architecture, but I haven't been able to verify either way.

Meanwhile:

  1. Playing a Kindle book doesn't register it as your "currently reading" item. If you relaunch the app, or close the Kindle viewer, you have to locate the book in Amazon's web interface from scratch.
  2. Speaking of Amazon's web interface, selecting a book to read happens entirely within it, bringing all of the accessibility issues along for the ride that you may expect from Amazon in 2024.
  3. While Kindle content is playing, the #VoiceOver magic tap gesture causes whatever non-Kindle document you were reading elsewhere in Voice Dream to resume.
  4. You can pause the playback of a Kindle book on AirPods. But when you try to resume, you also trigger the previous non-Kindle document.
  5. On the two books I've tried, there are large pauses in the speech stream at frequent intervals, lasting almost a second. These don't seem to line up with page changes, and I'm not sure what causes them. Maybe something related to scrolling.
  6. I pressed "next page" four or five times in quick succession, to jump past all of the copyright information in a book. Unfortunately, this caused playback to completely stop working, no matter how many times I toggled it.
BlazieTech, to random

This is a great overview of the
The Tech Doctor Blog and Podcast: BTSpeak Offers the Simplicity of a Braille โ€™n Speak and Adds the Power of a Modern Computer https://www.dr-carter.com/?p=569
DG

Matthew2468, to accessibility

Hi everyone hope all is well. Just wanted to say that for those interested, the Wewalk Smart Cane Version 2 is now available for preorder starting today. Super grateful to have worked with the team on design and features. I can't wait for y'all to use it. Here's a link to a video I did with them. Hope you enjoy! https://youtu.be/InFduStmgxM?si=O06Bj0pIvfFpjbaZ

ernie, to random
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They sold The Onion to a bunch of people that donโ€™t appear to suck, thank God. https://www.businessinsider.com/twilio-founder-jeff-lawson-bought-the-onion-2024-4

zigg, to random
@zigg@queer.garden avatar

It is unfair that this shirt exists and I have declared a personal moratorium on shirt purchases https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/59681673-ocean-breeze-soap

zigg,
@zigg@queer.garden avatar

God bless Blu-ray (something I never thought Iโ€™d say, but then we ended up in the nightmare world where streaming rights just disappear or get tied up weird)

TechCrunch, to random
@TechCrunch@mstdn.social avatar

Boeingโ€™s Starliner set to fly astronauts for the first time on May 6 https://tcrn.ch/4aNpE3a

bermudianbrit, to random

I had ocasion this evening to show someone else this. So for those nerds who might find it interesting: The bermudian accent. A deep dive, including slang and common phrases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBDXjKZB08

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