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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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alexhall, to random

I didn't really feel the time change. I'm pretty much always tired, so it doesn't make much difference to me.

pixelate,
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@alexhall Oh, I thought that was just me. I rarely have energetic days.

pixelate, to random
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In lighter topics, why not ThunderKitten? ThunderBirdie? Meow!

pixelate, to random
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From Applevis, which follows my thoughts on things like this perfectly!

> Some have claimed there will always be bugs. As someone with 30 years experience in the software industry, I would like to clarify this misconception.
If you develop software with clear goals and a solid functional spec, it is easy to produce a bug free product. On the other hand, If software is treated like a blob of malleable butter that you can barnacle new marketing-driven features onto with each release with no clear long-term roadmap, then the underlying integrity of the software, if there ever was any, will oxodize like iron in the rain. Bugs aren't an inherent consequence of software, but they might be an inherent consequence of corporate and engineering process decisions.
Someone asked me where I got the idea that there are no bugs in the UI designed for sighted people. I submit it as given. There are no cases where a sighted user would tap or select a function visually and somehow activate an entirely different item. If this were the case, it would be identified early on and resolved before release. Yet VoiceOver focus is a constant issue in both MacOS and iOS, in which focus is announced for a particular item, users perform an action on that item, then discover the action was performed on some other item. Sighted users never encounter controls that are invisible; but VoiceOver users constantly encounter controls without labels. Sighted users never move there mouse to the left only to see the mouse pointer move to the right. The sighted WIMP UI is basically unchanged for 40 years with trillions of man-hours of testing. I'll repeat what I said before. The sighted UI doesn't have any bugs.

https://applevis.com/forum/accessibility-advocacy/apple-employees-aren-t-using-accessibility-full-time

pixelate, to linux
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Accessibility improvements in GTK 4.14: https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/08/accessibility-improvements-in-gtk-4-14/

pixelate, to random
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Kittens are all you need.

Meepercat, to random
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To that last thing I just boosted, shut up. Shut up, me. You don't need any more excuses to partially jump the Apple shark.

pixelate,
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@Meepercat Yeah, it all looks great, until you try to use your new Galaxy Watch with TalkBack and find that it's sluggish as crap.

pixelate, to random
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Sometimes, I feel kinda bad for the Voice Dream devs. For like the 5th time in a few months, release notes say: Fix bug when loading content

pixelate, to random
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From Twitter:

> So many people hate confronting the idea that they may be acting ableist, racist, etc, but instead of acknowledging their mistake, they just double down, because the possibility of doing something ablest is worse in their mind than actually being ablest.

pixelate, to random
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If I ever suddenly grow a brain and learn Python for real, and create a large language model, I'm gonna call it "language is blind," cause it'll be trained on tons of accessibility stuff, manuals, along with everything else to round out general understanding. So, it'll be called Lib for short. And then, I'll make language bindings and such, so they'll be called Lib libs.

evilcookies98, to random
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Confession time, I hate, loathe, and utterly despise the texture of raw meat. Could I be forgiven for using rubber gloves to deal with the stuff if I can ever find a way to cook without damaging half the planet?

pixelate,
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@evilcookies98 It's so icky and gross and slimy!!

halisonjl, to random Portuguese

Is anyone out there able to use Obsidian at all with a screen reader on Windows or Ios?

pixelate,
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@halisonjl Tried it, not very successful. Sorry.

pixelate, to accessibility
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Oof!

> Respondents without disabilities were nearly 3 times more likely to use Mac OS than respondents with disabilities.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

matt, to random

I know that Chrome OS can run Linux GUI apps under a custom Wayland compositor. Does anyone know if the Chrome OS team has done any work on supporting accessibility for these apps via ChromeVox? If not, then I think my new free desktop accessibility stack (still in the prototyping phase) might be a better fit for Chrome OS's existing accessibility architecture than AT-SPI.

pixelate,
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@matt We have to still run Orca.

pixelate, to random
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> Google Chrome’s new AI can finish your sentences for you

But can it finish my sandwiches?

pixelate, to accessibility
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Anyone know what's new in Android 15 for ?

pixelate,
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@evilcookies98 Yeah I'd never install developer previews. Just wait till the actual betas.

pixelate, to accessibility
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So uh, the Mac has this interactive fiction client, called Spatterlight. And it’s amazingly accessible! Anyone with a Mac should seriously check this out. It even has Voiceover actions!

https://github.com/angstsmurf/spatterlight

pixelate, to random
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From the Orca mailing list:

Hey all.

The GNOME Foundation, in collaboration with the Sovereign Tech Fund, has
sponsored the contribution of Spiel support to Orca. Spiel is a new
speech synthesis API that works with eSpeak and Piper, with other
synthesizers planned.

Orca still uses speech-dispatcher by default, and I have no plans to
remove Orca's use of speech-dispatcher. But having a second option is
always a nice thing. And now you can give Spiel a try as this feature
just landed in Orca's main branch. Orca's README.md file has
instructions on what you need to do.

Feedback and questions are welcome. But please note that the developer
who contributed this change is (AFAIK) not on this mailing list. Thus
the best place to file bugs is in Orca's gitlab repo, where I can assign
them to that developer.

Happy testing!
--joanie

pixelate, to random
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So, has anyone used BBEdit? What do you think of it? What's it good at? It seems kinda complicated.

Pawpower, to random
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I use my Mac to write invoices, everything else I do on my phone. My Mac is almost 10. Eventually it's going to die so I've been thinking about what I want to do. I have a windows laptop but I hate windows and I am not using it unless it's to teach a student. My choices are 1. Buy another Mac. 2. Buy a notetaker like the braille sense VI. Or 3. Buy a refurbished Braille note for far cheaper. I can't write invoices on the phone bc of the braille translation fuckery that happens with longer docs.

pixelate,
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@ppatel @Pawpower I know there's someone there that uses Braille. But I guess no one listens to them.

soundshadow87, to random

New drinking game: every time iOS VoiceOver jumps to the top of the screen, even though you've already touched somewhere else that's not the top of the screen, take a drink. You'll be drunk in no time at all.

pixelate,
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@evilcookies98 @soundshadow87 @GamingWithEars How are you reading long email threads?

pixelate,
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@evilcookies98 @GamingWithEars @soundshadow87 @dhamlinmusic Awww so tiny!

weirdwriter, to Discord

Holy banana bread. Just used on mobile after months of not using it, and I’m just consistently amazed at how sluggish a chat app is. It’s even so sluggish that it slows down my actual iPhone and screen reader. How does a chat room application get to be so Bloated that it feels like there’s malware on my phone until I force quit the application. The website is just marginally better. Can we go back to or forums again please?

pixelate,
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@weirdwriter Awww, well my phone doesn't have much storage. Oh wait, did you say you use cloud storage? So I could just dump Libation output into like Dropbox or something? Or Nextcloud maybe? Mmm, not sure if @nextcloud works with the Filex app as a storage device.

pixelate,
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@weirdwriter Ooooo, now that's cool! I have maybe ... Wow, 200 or so Audible books. I kinda started late. As in, a few years ago. LitRPG stuff. Got a lot from Kindle Unlimited promotion thing. Where you buy a Kindle Unlimited book, and the Audible version is just $7.50 or so.

pixelate,
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@weirdwriter Oh wow. I'll have to look into this at some point. Having a library among friends sounds like an amazing way to read in a group!

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