Do you know someone who might have Eureka A4 note taker in a working conditions these days? I'm interested in other than czech language variants. Or alternativelly do you know where to look for ROM dump from such a device?
Hey friends, open source / screen reader accessibility enthusiasts. Do you know an #XMPP web based client / blogging / social / video / audio conferencing / community / social platform called @Movim ?
Featurewise it's very feature rich web based app written in PHP, HTML, javascript, leveraging both server side and client side web development specific technologies however its screen reader accessibility could benefit from thoughtfull improvements. A few months ago even the main author blogged about screen reader accessibility features for visually impaired and his desire to improve the platform in this regard. I would like that to happen as well and I'd also like to find more people who might like this too and also who might potentially be able to comment on my attempt at user facing screen reader accessibility review or even help with suggesting more improvements or fixing some of the screen reader accessibility issues. I would like any kind of community contribution and discussion that would contribute to screen reader accessibility improvements to happen.
I've really considered writing such a post as once screen reader accessible it might greatly improve independence, device compatibility, privacy and even more. There are features from traditional messenger style apps, blogging features, social network like features, audio / video voice messages, audio / video calls. Imagine having facebook / discord / blog / whatsapp / insert your similar service here consolidated into a nice privacy oriented self-hostable, independent, federated solution. The work required to make it accessible is substantial, but the work that has already been done and is being done now is enormous, so I am still thinking about this as being approachable.
Screen reader accessibility review hoping for more improvements in the future · Issue #1581 · movim/movim
Screen reader accessibility work is one of the keypoints introduced in the latest movim release and I have took a stab at it from the real screen reader users perspective. When navigating movim UI ...pvagner (GitHub)
reshared this
Can't promise I'll do it fast but count me as interested. Any demo instance to play with? We could also sit at it together if you'd like.
@Paweł Masarczyk The default @Movim public instance is at mov.im/ . It's possible to login with your existing #XMPP account no matter where it's hosted. Or you can register for the movim account if you like.
Today, while doing the dishes in the kitchen, I discovered a metal container filled with water. I had to record it right away.
Peter Vágner likes this.
What a surprise #reaper #osara is now a thing on #linux as well. So far it makes focused reaper controls accessible to orca.
I've just got it installed, imported the keymap, tested recording is working and now I have to learn a lot to do something usefull with it.
I'm just wondering if I have missed it or it's not as hot within the blindness comunity as I'm feeling about it.
github.com/churst90/osara-linu…
GitHub - churst90/osara-linux: A port of the accessibility extension Osara for the Reaper digital audio workstation. It provide speech output to Orca via speech dispatcher.
A port of the accessibility extension Osara for the Reaper digital audio workstation. It provide speech output to Orca via speech dispatcher. - churst90/osara-linuxGitHub
reshared this
No need for apology. There's no harm in prototyping and experimentation; I just wanted to be sure the status was clear. As well as the pull request you found from Robbie, there's also an effort by Leonard linked in the discussion of the PR. I think they differ slightly regarding how they do accessibility exposure (raw ATK vs AccessKit). There are some limitations because of the way REAPER statically links GUI widgets or something like that, and that may be a barrier to a clean port. Anyway, more info in the PR discussion.
@Jamie Teh Thanks, I'm looking into building this now although I am having difficulties matching accessible build of libSwell.so to my install of Reaper. I need to read more on it and figure it out.
If you upload something to Youtube via web browser and Some buttons are reported as unavailable, just try pressing the button. Mostly it just works. Today I noticed this during uploads and video editing. Save button or create button when creating playlists is reported as unavailable but after pressing it it just saves and creates as expected.
Yup, lost a video description that way. Thought the save button was unavailable because it was auto saving... Lol nope.
Yes! @pancake has just shipped massive screen reader #accessibility related improvements for Native multiplatform @Delta Chat client build with @GNOME technologies called #parla in v0.8.8.
- Message list can be navigated with the keyboard with all the message details being reported with a screen reader. It's popup menu is now reachable with the keyboard too.
- Conversation list in the sidebar is now more pleasant to use with a screen reader running.
- Message typing is no longer interrupted by announcements of conversation list updating.
- Windows and Mac OS binaries include #accesskit, backent for #GTK accessibility so this might be one of the pioneer apps where GTK windows accessibility might be tested easily by the end users. CC @Matt Campbell
- If you are screen reader user and you were looking for an accessible app besides electron based deltachat-desktop, I am now considering parla to be more than viable choice.
Keep on chatting!
reshared this
Having just had a brief poke around with #NVDASR on #Windows, the UI has a few label issues. I've got nobody to message, though!
i.delta.chat/#312783E0B371648A…=
i.delta.chat/#312783E0B371648A…=
@Sean Randall I've started a chat with you to test it more.
Also a few months ago, I have created a screen reader users chat on deltachat. There are very few people joined, so it's mostly quiet there but still if you or anyone else would like to join, you are welcome, here is the link:
i.delta.chat/#6FE1642916908F1A…
i'm shipping back with more accessibility improvements in 0.9.0 :) feature wise is quite solid right now and I would like to start working on localization
Peter Vágner likes this.
I've just discovered #tvheadend now has a new web UI and it's much better in terms of screen reader #accessibility when compared to the legacy one. Tabular data such as recordings, channels and others can be navigated with screen reader table navigation commands, and row selection and actions can be performed from the keyboard, so no mouse emulation is needed any longer.
Do you know an very lightweight multi-platform audio player / recorder / converter app called #phiola?
Since version 2.9 released on github some 20 hours ago, rrecording functionality of its #android variant can be controlled by executing intent actions. So we can use our automation apps of choice to map buttons, gestures whatever to these actions. For example with #corvus, I can now start and stop audio recording even from the lock screen with proper custom screen reader actions setup to call these intents.
See here for command line examples: github.com/stsaz/phiola#starti…
Since version 2.9 released on github some 20 hours ago, rrecording functionality of its #android variant can be controlled by executing intent actions. So we can use our automation apps of choice to map buttons, gestures whatever to these actions. For example with #corvus, I can now start and stop audio recording even from the lock screen with proper custom screen reader actions setup to call these intents.
See here for command line examples: github.com/stsaz/phiola#starti…
GitHub - stsaz/phiola: Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android
Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android - stsaz/phiolaGitHub
ondrosik reshared this.
@Steffen Incidentally I have never used windows / linux versions of #phiola. Android version is fully accessible it uses native UI controls almost everywhere, even those having no text are clearly labelled for accessibility. I am not sure easy recorder pro is available for installing on latest android versions such as android 16 and android 17.
Phiola is really very very lightweight it can record long sessions to MP3, flac and other audio formats. A future improvement for Phiola might be ability to prelisten the microphone when setting up the microphone gain.
Phiola is really very very lightweight it can record long sessions to MP3, flac and other audio formats. A future improvement for Phiola might be ability to prelisten the microphone when setting up the microphone gain.
Oh indeed, it looks much better than the last version I tested. It also appears to have more input sources than Easy Voice Recorder.
Peter Vágner likes this.
does someone here uses foo_youtube? It stopped working with Youtube recently. I am getting foo_youtube: [error] Invalid data found when processing input
foo_youtube: [warning] [audio] opening, decoder
foo_youtube: [warning] [audio] opening, decoder
Tonight in Kraków with @ondrosik and friends.
Got a stormy weather alert so I hope it will be okay.
Got a stormy weather alert so I hope it will be okay.
Welcome to Poland. You'll be alright, they send these out constantly and nothing ever happens.
Peter Vágner likes this.
Sonniss offers two FREE SFX libraries until September 3
bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/…
bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/…
On the 13th of august this year Česká spořitelna, a.s. have published an update to their #George banking app for #Android. that completelly disables #accessibility support when no white listed accessibility service is running on the device.
Thus #czech blind users who have updated their George app to the latest version can't run other accessibility services on their phones besides white listed apps such as TalkBack. I don't know which other apps are white listed yet.
I am afraid other Erste Bank subsidiaries or partner banks might do the same thing in the future. So this might potentially affect #austrian and #slovak blind people.
Here are the version numbers:
George Österreich 26.22.21 - appears to be accessible
George Slovensko 26.22.19 - Appears to be accessible
George Česká republika 26.26.21 - No longer accessible with 3rd party screen readers.
reshared this
@Matschmuck It's been a while since I used Android as my main driver but are the systems provided by Google secure enough? I mean, I know the security is tighter when submitting accessibility services into the Play Store but what about sideloading them from apk?
@Paweł Masarczyk @Mathias Schmuckerschlag When side loading before the system allows you to enable the accessibility service you need to go to the settings app, then look for the app in question under applications, expand the more options under so called three dots menu and first allow secure settings from there. Afterwards system will allow you to enable the accessibility service. Also when side loading any app not just accessibility services you have to enable unknown app sources per application where you are installing from e.g. your web browser, your file manager and similar. So for non play store distributed apps you have to pass three layers of system security before the banking app protection has a chance to even do its job. If this trend will continue then we are likelly to get more layers of security and verification. Also next year google is tighting ability to side load apps even more difficult by waiting 24 hours in order to enable side loading at all.
My thinking is that if the accessibility service would not be so usefull people would rather choose not to pass all these extra hoops in order to get it installed and operational.
Gmail annois me so much recent days. I am using Thunderbird and Fair Email. I am getting long delays when retrieving message list or opening messages or can't access the inbox at all. I tryed resetting the accounts inside email clients with no luck. I know two people around me with the same issue. No idea what to do next.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Try a VPN. I don't know why that should work by the way, I'm just throwing an idea out there. I also use thunderbird with GMail and don't have that issue over here, so I wonder if it's ISP-specific?
@Andre Louis Interesting idea. I am now at Slovakia where I am 99.9% of year. On fryday I trawel to poland and then to Romania. Maybe Google forces me to check my email on holydays and not at home :D
Oh after all these years I have finally connected my multi function printer Epson ecotank L3150 to the wireless network, installed epson-scan2 on linux and got scanning over a network working. I should have done this maybe 5 years ago.
Hello @Oriol Gómez Sentís
Recently you've added Shared notes backed by #NoteLab into the #SonicRoom.
Is the NoteLab also self-hostable? I am unable to find its code repository. Can you please point me to it?
For others SonicRoom is a nice, self-hostable audio sharing app running in the browser. The instance I am hosting for my-self and friends is at c.pvagner.sk and the source code is at github: ogomez92/sonicroom.
@jmdaweb wow, thanks for telling me about this. I thought it was already a repo, but it wasn't. I will create ogomez92/notelab, check back in a bit.
Just for fun, I've asked #claude to generate a #webxdc mini app for playing the UNO cart game in a @Delta Chat conversations. It can be played with keyboard or mouse or touch screen and includes screen reader #accessibility. It has machine translations of its prompts to various languages.
Since it's not my original work I am not particularly keen about uploading it to code hosting services.
But still if you would be interested to take a look at it, here is the resulting file: s.ondrosik.sk/d/b99143b31a6446…
@Peter Vágner
this is sick! I've been contemplating exactly this for a while, but I was thinking about how to prevent cheating by using a commutative encryption system
BUT you should know the colors are really bad. I'm colorblind and I can't tell what color the cards in my own hand are. the colors ought to be brightened significantly
@تُرکترین زمزمەگر Oh, I apologise regarding visuals I have simply trusted AI and it turned not to be okay. Can you rework it or suggest color codes we need?
@تُرکترین زمزمەگر Regarding cheating every only sees his own cards, game state is updated incrementally old states are discarded.
I can't think of a way on how to cheat.
I can't think of a way on how to cheat.
@Peter Vágner
Right, exactly. And that absolutely suffices when you're playing a casual game with friends. I was stuck thinking about something that doesn't really matter that much.
Right, exactly. And that absolutely suffices when you're playing a casual game with friends. I was stuck thinking about something that doesn't really matter that much.
@Peter Vágner
But hey, cryptography could be used one day to leverage anti-cheating if everything's got more competitive. Because probably with the way that it currently works, everyone's client technically has access to the contents of everyone else's hand, and the contents of the drawpile. It's just that the app does not display other people's hands nor the drawpile. The app knows the information, it just doesn't display it to the user.
That means that if someone really wanted to, they could inject some code into the app to get it to show that information so that they could cheat.
The idea then is to use a commutative encryption algorithm so that only the situation-appropriate cards are known, and only known to the people to whom knowledge of them is appropriate, and only fully decrypted once the appropriate time comes, and this would be cryptographically ensured by all the other players.
Like all that crap could be cryptographically shuffled commutatively by each player so that nobody CAN know what's the next card EXCEPT the user who's actually drawing it.
Peter Vágner likes this.
#vaultWarden as packaged in @Arch Linux no longer supports #mariaDB, so I have finally migrated to #postgresql.
Raise PostgreSQL reshared this.
What a nice little moment from my life:
* On sunday I have meet with old friend. We were talking about tech things including computers, networking, IP TV and similar. That friend lives abroad and is on a holiday in slovakia.
* I wanted to share some local shows and stuff so I've sent him a shared folder with some files on sunday.
* Today morning I've got a message from him asking if I am using whatsapp or telegram or something to stay in touch.
* My reply was somewhat conservative saying I am reachable by email, over XMPP, matrix and deltachat too.
* A few minutes ago I've received a message saying "How cool decentralized app. I did now know deltachat".
* Huh and now we are talking through @Delta Chat .
* This is a random unexpected moment with such a positive wibe.
* On sunday I have meet with old friend. We were talking about tech things including computers, networking, IP TV and similar. That friend lives abroad and is on a holiday in slovakia.
* I wanted to share some local shows and stuff so I've sent him a shared folder with some files on sunday.
* Today morning I've got a message from him asking if I am using whatsapp or telegram or something to stay in touch.
* My reply was somewhat conservative saying I am reachable by email, over XMPP, matrix and deltachat too.
* A few minutes ago I've received a message saying "How cool decentralized app. I did now know deltachat".
* Huh and now we are talking through @Delta Chat .
* This is a random unexpected moment with such a positive wibe.
seems that it is possible to make calls via whatsapp web. Good bye whatsapp for windows.
Not sure how usable and accessible is it but maybe it is useful for someone: IZotope Japan is giving away VEA, the Voice Enhancement Assistant plugin, for free until July 31st at 23:59 Japan time. The giveaway is part of the Japan-limited iZotope Mix & Master Sale 2026, which celebrates iZotope joining Boris FX. bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/…
Peter Vágner reshared this.
not sure how accessible and usable it is but maybe useful for someone
This entry was edited (Sunday, July 26, 2026, 6:30 PM)
that moment when you have a track in your head and the result ends in different way.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Before i start to vibecoding: Do you know service which presents information about fligths in an accessible way? I am interested in the location of the flight to the nearest city or state.
I am working on my new track called Burnout. Work in progress, mastered with Optilab core by @Derek Lane
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
It's windy here and as i opened windows and doors across the building, I get this.
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
I am trying to contribute slovak translation to some projects using #transifex for coordinating translator work.
Transifex has an editor where the screen reader accessibility could be improved, however most of the functionality can be used by combining the keyboard shortcuts with advanced screen reader features.
For navigating to previous / next string there are keyboard shortcuts alt+down / alt+up.
To copy the source string there is shortcut alt+g / ctrl+g.
What I am unable to figure out is how to fill all the variants when translating strings that have plural forms such as one / few / many / others.
Do you know someone who is also using transifex and can possibly try to assist with this?
Thank you
@Zvonimir Stanecic My personal choice for linux distro is @Arch Linux however I think if you choose #fedora for your daily work or #gnomeos for testing which I haven't used yet, they will also have up to date packages when it comes to accessibility. What I like about arch linux is its rolling release nature, getting apps very soon after they are released.
Zvonimir Stanecic reshared this.
This reminds me about my music lessons when we transposed christmas songs from major to minor on piano.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 6:21 AM)
@Peter Vágner another test I now just ignore the language field in Fedora
@Peter Vágner aha, tak problém bude asi aj v tom, že ja som nechtiac pošťukal niečo v jazyku pri prvom príspevku a ostalo tam nastavené en, normálne to býva prázdne
@ondrosik Podľa mňa to bude tým language filtrom vo friendica.
Spoľahlivo filtruje len príspevky, kde je nastavený jazyk.
Ja som tam mal skratku angličtiny obklopenú medzerníkom a preto mi odfiltroval angličtinu, čo bola moja chyba.
Tak že výsledok z tohoto experimentu je taký, že ak to aplikácie umožňujú, |mali by sme si správne nastaviť jazyk.
I have some free time so I decided to test Fedora on our Friendica server. Let'see if i am able to attach audio file to this post @Peter Vágner
@Peter Vágner there is no CW in my account and also when I open our instance in Firefox in private profile I see the text without CW.
@ondrosik Okay, I've figured it out.
On the Account settings page of the friendica there are links to different areas such as Account, Two factor authentication, Additional features, Display and more. Select Addons within these links and then there are some expandable tab pannels on the resulting page. One of them is Language filter. Once this is expanded there is a text entry labelled as "Language selection". It's a comma seperated list of language code abbreviations I speak. I have put cs,en,sk into that box and my issue was that before fixing it today I had spaces there after each comma. And that was filtering english posts for me.
Now it's all fixed.
My friend recently opened a massage studio, and I wanted to create a relaxing musical backdrop for massage sessions. Along with sounds from RFX Nexus, I used some of my own recordings: an improvised kalimba performance, as well as the sounds of rain and birdsong recorded from my balcony. I also found an old recording of a rainstick that I made about twenty years ago.
Perhaps you'll enjoy listening to this recording while practicing mindfulness or doing some breathing exercises. audiopub.site/listen/1b156b84-…
Perhaps you'll enjoy listening to this recording while practicing mindfulness or doing some breathing exercises. audiopub.site/listen/1b156b84-…
My brain again started to play random songs to me until I noticed that thei have something in common so here is the mashup featuring also @Andre Louis audiopub.site/listen/871285a0-…
Peter Vágner likes this.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
@Andre Louis
It's your short 127, Viva Forever by Spice girls and Ain't That Just the Way by Lutricia Mcneal.
It's your short 127, Viva Forever by Spice girls and Ain't That Just the Way by Lutricia Mcneal.
Supertonic TTS can now speak various european languages such as bulgarian, croatian, czech, estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hungarian, latvian, lithuanian, polish, portuguese, slovenian, slovak, spanish, ukrainian and more.
The voices sound the same but the accent adapts to the selected language.
It's not usefull with a screen reader though.
github.com/supertone-inc/super…
The voices sound the same but the accent adapts to the selected language.
It's not usefull with a screen reader though.
github.com/supertone-inc/super…
browsing stuff on Audiopub. I think that @Peter Vágner will like this audiopub.site/listen/7ed5de78-… Check out also her other recordings.
Since I'm celebrating my 35th birthday today, I wanted to give you a little birthday gift. 🎉
I've launched a brand new interface for my music library! You can now download tracks in both FLAC and MP3, or grab the entire collection as a FLAC or MP3 bundle.
Hope you enjoy it! I would like also thankt to all who donated. The content is the same, I will add more stuf later. ondrosik.sk/music #cc #freemusic
I've launched a brand new interface for my music library! You can now download tracks in both FLAC and MP3, or grab the entire collection as a FLAC or MP3 bundle.
Hope you enjoy it! I would like also thankt to all who donated. The content is the same, I will add more stuf later. ondrosik.sk/music #cc #freemusic
like this
reshared this
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please log in.
My wife is watching some films in Drama shorts app. I was just reading some articles and suddenly I heard my Piano jingle from the film. Thei used my free music. What an interesting feeling.
Peter Vágner likes this.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Damn, spent a few hours trying to scrape a website using python requests to find out error 104 connection reset by peer is caused by their server software only speaking ancient TLS ciphers. Ended up writing custom SSL adapter accepting all the protocols.
It's a pity it took me so long to figure it out.
It's a pity it took me so long to figure it out.
@Peter Vágner is something broken on our instance? I see last posts from yesterday 2 pm.
Maybe @Stéphane (Dr. P) would be interested to see this: gigasoundproject.com/projects/…
When I cant sleep during spring and summer time, I sometimes record birds on our balcony. I live in Banska Bystrica, city in the center of Slovakia, so the best time to do this is about 4 AM. Here is my compilation of recordings from last years. audiopub.site/listen/b9ef9a42-… #AudioMo
Jonathan reshared this.
@Jonathan😪 I had a 4 hours train ride today so I played Bat Out Of Hell. Run time: 22:38
Hide Statistics
Statistics
Average speed: 112 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 159.
Near misses: 11.
Crashes: 2.
Gas tanks collected: 26.
Wrenches collected: 1.
Total power-ups collected: 45.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 22.2%, Rocket 48.9%, Horn ball 28.9%.
Fired 58 horn balls, hitting 33 and missing 25, for an accuracy of 56.9%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 9.
Sink holes traversed: 2.
Hit 19 ramps and missed 8, for an accuracy of 70.4%.
Total air time: 212.7 seconds.
Coins collected: 247. I am really addicted. For those who don't know, here it is files.jonathan859.com/tools/BO…
Hide Statistics
Statistics
Average speed: 112 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 159.
Near misses: 11.
Crashes: 2.
Gas tanks collected: 26.
Wrenches collected: 1.
Total power-ups collected: 45.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 22.2%, Rocket 48.9%, Horn ball 28.9%.
Fired 58 horn balls, hitting 33 and missing 25, for an accuracy of 56.9%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 9.
Sink holes traversed: 2.
Hit 19 ramps and missed 8, for an accuracy of 70.4%.
Total air time: 212.7 seconds.
Coins collected: 247. I am really addicted. For those who don't know, here it is files.jonathan859.com/tools/BO…
@jonathan859 @ZBennoui It's not a skill issue, it's a don't give a damn issue. Also I may have to do something since I'm thinking of how to make this mobile friendly. I mean it already works on Android with a controller, but there's more than could be done for a native experience on both.
@jonathan859@someplace.social @bscross32@tweesecake.social @ZBennoui shouldn't you be working at work? You know, cause, well, it is work,
@bscross32 Ok, Jonathan stop being a teenager. That's all I've got, gonna go make something in Ableton and be a depressed blind guy now goodbye.
Juan CBS
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Peter Vágner
in reply to Juan CBS • •Juan CBS
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Juan CBS
in reply to Juan CBS • • •Peter Vágner
in reply to Juan CBS • •@Juan CBS It needs more powerfull AC adapter in order to get the floppy drive to work. One of my friends is using 2A 9V adapter that came with his huawei wifi router instead of the original Eureka one. If the battery is broken in a way so the machine turns off completelly when the AC power is unplugged it's safest to disconnect it by using the hidden switch in left hand side corner.
I am not sure about the Eureka memory layout for making the rom dump so I would have to lookup the technical manual online for attempting doing that.
Also we would need some app such as dosread in order to copy the data from the eureka disk format to the IBM PC compatible disk format.
So it's all quite involved.
Still I would appreciate going through all of this as my friends already have a prototype of windows based Eureka A4 emulator working.
Juan CBS
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Peter Vágner
in reply to Juan CBS • •@Juan CBS The attitude has been quite the opposite over here in slovakia and czech republic. Everyone enjoyed using Eureka, there were loads of tiny applications coded in both basic and turbo pascal. Built-in music editor was used extensively for creating poliphonic music.
When braille'n'speak came as the potential successor, despite being more powerfull it was not as feature rich when compared to Eureka A4.
I did my first attempt at simple programming using Eureka back in the days.
Even this conversation is interesting to me, so huge thanks for your replies so far.