weirdwriter

@weirdwriter@tweesecake.social

I'm a Blind, and gay, author and essayist. Former journalist turned Romance writer. I have a literary agent, and freaking love cats and diverse audiobooks and fiction podcasts.

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weirdwriter,

What about Discorse? https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624 @maegul @ajsadauskas @lemmyreader

weirdwriter, to journalism

Always happy to see that reports on issues. https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/new-sonos-app-breaks-accessibility-for-visually-impaired/

danirabbit, to random
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Something I’ve never heard someone who works with accessibility say, but have heard a number of times from people who don’t work with accessibility: “AI is gonna be so valuable for a11y”

weirdwriter,

Thank you! Here's a great podcast on, well, what people are now calling AI and why it doesn't work so well. Inclusive developing will go a long way but the podcast episode is here https://www.livingblindfully.com/episode-105-the-accessibe-controversy-can-ai-make-the-web-fully-accessible-in-a-few-short-years-or-might-it-make-matters-worse/ A@danirabbit@mastodon.online @matt

weirdwriter, to accessibility

I encourage everyone to comment on this New #Sonos App and #Accessibility https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-and-music-services-228995/new-sonos-app-and-accessibility-6892068

weirdwriter, to RSS

Spent a week trying to improve the RSS on my new test Hugo site, because the one they give you is second class, and I had no luck. I broke it 3 times, made it worse twice, somehow erased it completely, so I finally thought hey there's far better nerds than me out there so I looked around, found this, and forked it! https://gist.github.com/LorenDB/2faa2bb78885806c8d4c914d01130e1e

weirdwriter, to books

Pass the Salt is on yay! https://compassivistepublishing.com/product/pass-the-salt/ @bookstodon

weirdwriter, to ai

Here is an affiliate booklist, not my list, of books critical of tech and tech culture and AI https://bookshop.org/shop/parismarx https://bookshop.org/shop/parismarx?ref=disconnect.blog @bookstodon

weirdwriter, to tech

Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

weirdwriter, to hosting

New managed for projects https://spacehost.one/create?step=1&size=SINGLE_USER&software=CASTOPOD&name=&description=

miki, to random
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The fundamental problem with the concept of alt text is that it's language specific, while pictures are not.

There are plenty of social media accounts that post pictures and videos that are universally funny, beautiful or interesting, regardless of the language you speak.

This is one more reason why fixing accessibility problems by inventing better technology for ourselves is a better approach than fixing accessibility by advocating for it. Even if you teach every single content creator on the planet to write alt descriptions and write them well, which is a monumental task in itself, this still won't solve the problem for the creators that have a multilingual audience. If you teach an AI to write good alt descriptions for those pictures, the problem will be solved for everyone.

To be clear, we're not quite at that point yet, as good as GPT Vision now is, it still doesn't beat a skilled human describer, but I think we'll get there quite soon.

weirdwriter,

@miki This might blow your mind, but did you know that multilingual people can write alt text in more than one language?

weirdwriter,

@miki you should look at mastodons translation feature! You know that whenever alt text is written in one language, you know that apps can already translate it into any other language right?

weirdwriter, to disability

‘Disabled’ is Not a Dirty Word https://scribe.rip/@paperstainedink/disabled-is-not-a-dirty-word-7b30dc4b881b

weirdwriter, to Pubtips

Is it just me, or is self/indie publishing having it's midlife crisis tech bro moment? https://robertkingett.com/posts/6564/ @bookstodon

weirdwriter,

I actually fully agree with you! I love most indie work, like, genuine indie work! It started with that whole viral nobody buys books anymore and that's a side of indie publishing I'd rather never touch again! I do love buying from indie bookstores, online and offline, because that's how I find some really amazing works! @Rhube @bookstodon

weirdwriter, to random

I want to move my GitHub repositories to and my question is, github seems to have a robust terminal/Cli program. I tried to register for a codeberg account, but they’re accessibility solution for getting around the captcha is to send them an email with registration details. Has anyone else done this? And if you have, and if you got an account, what is their terminal support like on windows?

weirdwriter,

Thank you! I was wondering why not go with a magic link via email or similar instead of a captcha. I wasn't super keen on emailing anybody my registration details so it's great they listen! @menelion @Codeberg @forgejo @fnetX @Gusted

weirdwriter, to KindActions

Because the ACP program, Affordable Connectivity Program, ended in the US, I need help paying for my full internet bill, which is $90 monthly! Many ways to give at https://robertkingett.com/donate/ @mutualaid

weirdwriter, to webdev

Other take a look at this. Never make each letter in a word an additional heading. I don’t know how this looks visually, but on iPhone running voiceover, this is a nightmare https://www.notjustfatigue.org/

weirdwriter, to ai

Trust me, you will save thousands of dollars if you never got excited about hardware and nor go out and buy an AI hardware thing that would have been better as an app. Same for phones. Seriously, save the money. It will go far past the honeymoon phase faster than you will know. If your phone still works, you honestly don't need a new one. If you use you don't have to upgrade your laptop every year. Best thing I ever did was save my money and give it to writers and audiobook narrators instead of AI hardware.

weirdwriter, to KindActions

The Affordable Internet Connectivity program ended in the US, it's a US thing, so I need help covering my internet bill. $90 monthly but other donations will go towards food and bathroom products https://robertkingett.com/donate/ @mutualaid @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaid

weirdwriter, to tech

Delete. Your. LastPass. Account! This will not help you https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146205/lastpass-independent-company-security-breaches

weirdwriter, to audiobooks

Alexandria House has a new #Romance Novela out and I’m not sleeping tonight! https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D2YFB3G5?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow #RomanceLandia @romancebooks @romancelandia @audiobooks #Audible #Audiobooks #Audiobook

weirdwriter, to mastoblind

I also went back to Semaphore because the focus issues are increasing for me. I do think a blind developer should fork Enafore or even Semaphore. I understand that the main web interface is usable, I just really like theSemaphore kind of interface @mastoblind

weirdwriter,

@kaveinthran @mastoblind Too many to list, so no, but it involves context menus and the compose edit field

weirdwriter, to mastoblind

Is there a screen reader guide for OBS? If the documentation is open source, I could write documentation no problem. I just don’t want to start from scratch. I also just can’t get the hang of scenes without sighted help so if anybody has any audio or written screen reader tutorials, that would be super helpful! I am very techy so any level will do @mastoblind

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