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I'm Devin, previously devinprater@tweesecake.social. I'm back, trying to take everything less seriously. I love relaxing, reading, eating, chatting, and learning about technology.

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appleinsider, to random
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While a release date isn't clear, OpenAI is debuting its own app for ChatGPT generative text for macOS users.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/13/openai-is-releasing-a-chatgpt-app-for-mac?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

pixelate,
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@technocounselor @appleinsider @mikedoise Yeah, sad. But they probably develop on Mac so that's expected these days. Apple just needs to get VoiceOver up to the quality of Windows, and add more scripting support.

pixelate, to accessibility
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Well, this is awkward. I'm having to restart NVDA today, on my laptop, due to WASAPI probably, more than Orca, using Pipewire probably on Fedora 40 Mate spin yesterday.

pixelate, to accessibility
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Anyone ever had to OCR a webpage to find a link? I did today. On a supposedly accessible college site, with nice fluffy captions on tables telling us poor simpleton blink blinks what the table will contain. Well it didn't contain the one link we were looking for! So yeah, thank goodness for OCR.

#accessibility #blind #college

pixelate, to accessibility
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Just spent today at work with Linux. Fedora's Mate spin still works well generally, and Orca is much more stable. And, according to Orca, the system never even ran over about 3 of the 16 GB of RAM on that Intel NUC. I set up Emacs and Emacspeak, Firefox, Bitwarden, VS Code, and never even took my laptop out of the bag. Of course, I really miss a lot of NVDA addons, like the OpenAI one, sounds for entering browse and focus modes, and the Thunderbird addon most of all. But I was able to log into, and use, Salesforce and Google Sheets. So now when I get a good workflow with Markdown and such, I think I'll just about, maybe, be able to start using it more. Packages are all up-to-date, Orca will alwasy be current, and hopefully I can one day move to a desktop environment with a proper notification center! Oh, and I'll have to see if Pidgin still takes up more RAM the more I use it.

Note that I still wouldn't expect a regular computer user to get into Linux, as far as setting it up. But, honestly, having the #BTSpeak out on the market makes me hope that more power users and programmers will hammer Linux into more of a shape that blind people can be at home with.

#accessibility #blind #Linux #Fedora #foss #Orca

pixelate, to random
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Oh my gosh why can't book stores use freaking headings! One heading per book result! Jesus! Is it that freaking hard?

TheQuinbox, to random

It just occurred to me that come June 22, I'll have had a phone for 10 years. Getting my 4S was truly my entrance into online communities, and so I'm very close to having been on the internet for 10 years. I definitely, definitely had access too young. In June of 2014, I was 8. That's just a tiny bit insane.

pixelate,
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@cordova5029 @TheQuinbox Yeah, I've been online since like 2010 or so. First social network I was on, well maybe besides Facebook, was Klango.

fireborn, to random

State of iOS Braille support in May, 2024. Still shit. Nothing has been fixed. Nothing has changed. Cool.

pixelate,
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@TheQuinbox @fireborn Try playing Diceworld with only Braille.

pixelate,
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@menelion @TheQuinbox @fireborn Because it's not an actual magic tap, it's just the play/pause signal, I'm pretty sure.

pixelate, to accessibility
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Please boost for reach if this kind of stuff interests you. Will post more on this later.

Once upon a time, there was a cool emulator frontend called Retroarch. This emulator wasn't accessible until I and a few other gamers went to them and asked about adding accessibility. An amazing person known as BarryR made it happen. Now, if you turn on accessibility mode in settings, or pass the "--accessibility" (or something like that) flag on the command line, you get spoken menus, including the emulator's pause menu, good for saving states and such. Then, using PIL and other image processing Python utilities, running a server and hooking into Retroarch, the script allowed players to move around the map, battle, talk to NPC's, ETC. The only problem was, no one wanted to test it. The blind gaming community pretty much spoke, saying that we want new games. We want cool new, easy accessibility. So that's what we have no, follow the beacon or get sighted help in the case of diablo and such. It's sad, but meh. It's what we wanted I guess. No Zelda for us. So, this is about as far as he got:

To expand on what devinprater was saying: I am working on an accessibility pack/service for Final Fantasy 1 for the NES (this was what was shown in the latest RetroArch update). The idea is similar to how Pokemon Crystal access works, but it's using the RetroArch AI Service interface to do so.
Right now, the FF1 access service is mostly done, but I need more testers to try it out and give me feedback on how it's working. Right now, you can get up to the point where you get the ship, but there's no code to deal with how the ship moves, so that still needs to be done. Likewise with the airship later on.
The service works the latest version of RetroArch, on linux and mac, but not windows. This is due to how nvda reads out the text and until the next major update to nvda (which will have a feature to fix this), it'll have to wait. If you have those, I (or maybe devinprater) can help you set it up on mac/linux to test out. The package itself is available at: https://ztranslate.net/download/ff1_pac … zip?owner=

pixelate,
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So, I get that old games are, well, old. I get that new games are really cool. And I know, I'm the biggest hypocrit of them all because I can't code and should be spending 24/7 learning to code so I can be the change I want to see in the world and all that FossShit. And honestly, I don't know how hard it was to make that project, I really don't. But if that can be done, I kinda have the feeling that modders that make Super Mario hacked ROMs, or decompile Super Mario 64, maybe could spend a bit of time on accessibility of these old games.

And here we come to a sad truth. Just because a community is small, does not mean accessibility will be prioritized. Just because a game studeo is huge, like Netherrealm Studeos, doesn't mean accessibility will be forgotten, either. I've gone to several different emulation communities. I asked for audio cues to be added into PPSSPP, and that's why they're in there now. Since the GUI can't be made accessible, I can still navigate it on mobile with a controller. I'm currently trying to get Provinence and Ignited made more accessible. I've kinda given up on Delta because that team has all the hype so is less likely to listen, at least that's kinda how I feel.

But seriously though, there aren't many activists among us. And there's just not much the few of us can do. But my dream, and I know how pathetic dreams are in this age of everyone looking down on everyone else, is that a blind person can enjoy and preserve in our own culture, what sighted people have been able to access for the last 20 years or so. Thousands of games, just sitting there ready to play. And I mean, this was like 4 years ago, with less blind programmers out there, less resources for ROM hacking and emulator scripting, and less devs. Now that emulation is on iOS, I seriously hope that this improves. I mean, imagine a blind person that uses their iPhone as their only computing device, being able to just download an emulator, already having scripts pre-installed and ready for a ROM, being able to just plop in Chrono Trigger and playing it like anyone else. That's my dream. Stupid, yes. But equal access has probably always seemed stupid before it's a thing.

pixelate,
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And honestly, I wouldn't even start with the huge projects, like Zelda. I'd start with Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, all that. Make the menus talk, read tutorials, move lists, pause screens, all that. I mean, I don't know how easy that would be, since their graphics are going to be different than Mario or Final Fantasy, but surely if we can do cheat codes that mess with memory ingame, we should be able to track the cursor in menus.

evilcookies98, to random
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Is there anyway to get a longer neck/shoulder strap for my Braille display case? It’s short enough so that if I put it in my lap, it tries to get away, but if I hang it around my neck, it won’t sit flat on my lap. It’s a non-issue when I have a flat surface to put it on, but that’s not always the case. It’s adjustable, but it’s stretched out as long as it will go.

pixelate,
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@evilcookies98 Oh, I thought I was the only one that did that. I hate short neck straps. I barely used my EReader when I didn't have a strap for it. But yeah, just look for stuff like lanyards and stuff like that.

pixelate, to random
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Oh appleInsider, never change.

> While AppClips and Widgets both made their debut later in 2020 with iOS 14, the Wallpaper Collections feature was only introduced with iOS 16 two years later. This serves as an indicator of how careful Apple is when it comes to quality control.

Careful. Right.

pixelate, to random
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Do people really just repeat talking points this much?

Person 1:

What Apple's done is also violating antitrust laws, which has gotten them in trouble with the DOJ recently. And it's about time. They are a business, but an abusive anti-competitive one that has serious lock-in that bars competitors from their platform for no good reason other than to make even more money. They also forbid some apps because Apple releases something similar, and they don't want any competition. If they did allow competition they might not have made so much money, but they also wouldn't be the subject of major lawsuits in the US and in the EU.

Person 2: Um, there’s something called Android. No need to be on the Apple platform at all. You can switch to it if you’d like. When I walk into a Tesla dealership I don’t expect to be able to buy a Chevrolet.

Person 1: Um, whataboutism isn't a valid defense with the DOJ. Go read the many counts the DOJ is suing Apple for. It's extensive and points to a systemic problem at Apple stifling competition in many ways. Microsoft lost their antitrust case and they weren't doing 1/2 the shady stuff Apple is doing.

Person 2: You’re right. They make Android bubbles green. The horror.

I mean, LLM's could definitely fill up comment sections with that, lol. Boring.

pixelate, to random
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Can someone please turn me into a kitten? I'm tired of being a person.

pixelate, to foss
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Okay y'all, I can officially say that Fedora 40 Workstation is inaccessible. After you install the OS, the first start window opens, allowing you to choose a network. I cannot move around in this window. I cannot use Orca commands in this window. Alt + Tab only leads me back to that window. Control + Tab, F6, F10, Super + F10, do nothing.

Linux evangelists may say "Well there are different spins, dude! Use the Mate one, dude!" That's not the point. What do people see when they go to download Fedora? Do they see Mate first? KDE first? No. They see the Fedora 40 Workstation, using the Gnome desktop. Their flagship is not accessible. I cannot say that I'm surprised. I might try the KDE spin next. Or I might just go to Mate where at least I know it can't get any worse than that.

aral, to random
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Fedora Silverblue 40 is out today. If you have rpm-fusion layered so you can’t upgrade through GNOME Software, run these commands in Terminal:

  1. Pin current version:

sudo ostree admin pin 0

  1. Handle rpm-fusion nastiness:

rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release

  1. Rebase to Fedora Silverblue 40:

rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/40/x86_64/silverblue

pixelate,
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@aral Wow, really? That's really disappointing.

pixelate, to accessibility
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Hey, just clone the Github repo, I thought.
Just edit one simple file, I thought.
Dude, you can surely add an accessibility label to that one button, it's easy, I thought.

Nope. There are contributor guidelines. There are tons of files, and maybe a storyboard I probably can't access on Windows. Ugh. I need to start with actually small things lol.

https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta

objectinspace, to random
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You can message Meta's AI assistant on WhatsApp in 12 countries!

"Now, people will have access to Meta AI in Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe — and we’re just getting started."

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-with-llama-3/

pixelate,
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@objectinspace Have you tried meta.ai? Looks like it doesn't allert the screen reader when a message is done generating, or read the response. Everything else seems to work well though.

pixelate,
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@objectinspace Oh, Windows, NVDA 2024, Chrome browser.

pixelate, to accessibility
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Honestly, since the fast variants of the voices are a thing, I think I could really switch to the Sonata Neural Voices in NVDA full time. Now remember folks, these are AI voices. Scary, untrustworthy, AI voices that will smear your reputation all over fedi for using these voices! See, they even react to exclamation marks! Isn't that scary? :) Nah, the worst that'll happen, mainly with the HFC male and female, is that big numbers are garbled together. But every other voice does fine. I use Amy for work, and HFC for reading because those are among the most lively voices I've ever heard. And amazingly enough, we can make our own new voices. So, some people, from the Github repo's readme, are building more professional voices. And there are already versions of old TTS engines from the past that have been brought back to some semblence of life with this tech.

pixelate, to random
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New Piper TTS NVDA addon! https://github.com/mush42/sonata-nvda

pixelate, to rant
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Okay, so I get that news is mostly for non-technical people. I get it. But my goodness, can we not get a little better than "6 rumored iPhone 16 camera upgrades?" The camera? Again, and again, and again! Like is that all people think about?

pixelate,
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@jookia Well, that's good. I'm sure people use it a lot during watersports. :D

onepict, to random
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For an idea of what it's like with brainfog.

My talks page on my website, needed one final thing to finish my migration from hugo to just straight flat html. Move the pdf folder to the new site.

Today is a good day and it literally took me 2 minutes to find the folder, upload them to the new location. Not a hard job at all.

Its been over a year since that job needed to be done.

pixelate,
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@onepict Oh my goodness, that’s exactly how I am! And I only had COVID once.

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