My main speech dictionary now has this new rule to suppress the following since I've been encountering it more and more.
"A D V E R T I S E M E N T"
In case you were wondering,, each letter is pronounced every time a frame opens where an ad is supposed to go and the end of the frame. It's as annoying as it sounds. Nothing like interrupting the reading flow.
Wishing ad blockers were smart enough to remove the frames along with the ads.
Hi everyone! Can anyone who depends on a screen reader read this for me and tell me if it works? I'm making a tutorial on how to make a Roguelike for my blind accessible game engine, so just wanna make sure it's in a good format! It will have informational and instructional content split up to hopefully make it easier for screen readers to find what is needed. Download .txt sample file here!
@Ericbomb@talon I am waiting for this engine, I will play with it when it comes, I'm happy that we will have something actually workable and I hope that I will be able to redistribute games made with this thingy.
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This might be an unpopular opinion, but after two years of using a Mac with Voice Over, I have absolutely no regrets. There are issues for sure, really big ones, sometimes it really seems like the grass is greener on the other side, but it usually takes me 10 minutes with my Windows laptop to want me to go back. My Windows computer is not a bad machine on paper, the specs look great, Iโm pretty tech-savvy and I knew what I was doing when I was buying it, but it just has too many little and not so little hidden problems to make it almost unusable. There are use cases where I'd choose Windows for sure, if I was dealing with Google Docs or Salesforce, for example, I wouldn't be as happy as I am, but for what I do, the Mac really works. If you use your computer for fun and you don't mind things breaking once in a while, Windows is great, and Linux might be even better. If you need a machine that is going to work tomorrow in exactly the same way that it worked yesterday, go for the Mac. Mac OS has bugs, but they're bugs I know how to handle, I can postpone updates all I like, and I can make sure that it works when I absolutely need it to work.
First reaction after installing Apple Beta 2 on Mac (iPhone is still updating): Pitch changes are still broken with VO and multi case strings are still strung together with Eloquence, and I still can't control VO through Applescript. On the other hand though, we got even more per-voice settings for Eloquence. The pitch base parameter now works, and we got 2 new switches. Phrase prediction and abbreviation dictionary. Very happy about that last one!