I have found out there is now an #orca remote compatible with #nvdasr remote.
What do I do in order to add --install-extension command to my installation of orca built from the main branch?
Please @Brandon or anyone else, do you know?
The orca remote repository is at
github.com/serrebidev/orca-rem…
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When viewing any OSM node with @MapComplete it displays QR code and a link so this exact focused place can be opened on a different device.
Is there a way to display any OSM node in mapcomplete given its ID without knowing what theme is suitable please?
Or similarly when looking at an OSM node, is there a way to construct a link mapcomplete can understand from its data?
Thanks for any hints you may have.
With other bugfixes, some screen reader #accessibility related improvements (1, 2) are coming to the @GrapheneOS new SMS / MMS messaging app.
Huge thanks for making your best for trying to eventually reach inclusive design.
Hey @Gadgetbridge
I just wish to thank you for improving screen reader #accessibility a little by labelling some of the unlabelled controls in v0.94.0 recently and letting everyone know about it in the changelog. I do really appreciate that.
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@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 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.
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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 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)
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@André Polykanine The public instance is at mov.im/
The github issue with the screen reader accessibility related comments is here: github.com/movim/movim/issues/…
Thanks for potentially looking into it too.
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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…
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
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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.
Keep on chatting!
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@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…
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Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android - stsaz/phiolaGitHub
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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…
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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
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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.
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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
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@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.
@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.
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in reply to Peter Vágner • • •No, cause there simply might be no suitable theme for an #OpenStreetMap POI, or cause there might be multiple matching themes all with a wildly varying interpretation. A street might for example be opened with mapcomplete.org/maxspeeds , with mapcomplete.org/etymology or with mapcomplete.org/cycle_infra
Whoch should be used? Picking one at random would result in completely different views and facts
Bicycle infrastructure
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in reply to MapComplete • • •Peter Vágner
in reply to MapComplete • •@MapComplete Thanks for the hints.
I am not sure I am understanding it correctly. I write down a node ID into the search locations edit field while the theme is already selected. It displays as a search result under Locations heading, however when using enter key to activate the search result it does not focus the node displaying its tags. Does it only scroll the node into a view in the map and should I still focus it manually then?
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in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Peter Vágner
in reply to MapComplete • •MapComplete
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •No, cause if you'd accept 'any' node, it would also _show_ any (and thus all) nodes. That would crash the visualisation.
Also: what 'questions form' would you show for any node? Ask for a name? Most nodes are just corners from a building or a street.
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in reply to MapComplete • •Perhaps you can remember a few weeks ago we had some follow up discussion after @Paweł Masarczyk made a presentation about maps, OSM data and screen reader accessibility for the blind and partially sighted. One of the open points at that time was an ability to select near by points of interest from a list rather than manipulating the map view as that would be easier on mobile. And I am just experimenting with that. In practice the points might be restaurants, fastfoods, pubs, bars, drinkingwaters, cinemas, theaters, libraries, cafees, crossings, parkings, bus stops, atms, banks, schools, kinder gardens, hospitals ... and a lot more that can serve as an orientation aid near by. If my thinking is not compatible with how mapcomplete operates, then I should just accept that and try to come up with a better idea, I just wanted to find and verify that.
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in reply to Peter Vágner • • •@Piciok
I lost track of this thread, sorry for this!
No, your thinking is pretty much compatible. This would basically boil down to a specific map theme on mapcomplete that just shows all the layers you mention - most of those layers already exist anyway.
The spirit of MapComplete (at least the 'official' version) is to not have a thematic map with too much different types of POI, as that can be a bit confusing/cluttering the map.
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in reply to MapComplete • • •@Piciok But that doesn't mean that an _unofficial_ theme isn't allowed to work like this.
In fact, anyone can build one (somewhat) easily with studio, and that is what I've done:
mapcomplete.org/theme.html?use…
Note: it limits loading POI, you must zoom over zoom level 17 to load anything, but as it is for local orientation, I guess that'll be no problem
MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
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in reply to MapComplete • •@MapComplete Huge thanks! It turns out You just created a suitable theme for me as it lists all the features map complete can handle. Opening an URL like this opens the node listing all the details. Thanks once again I really appreciate the help.
mapcomplete.org/theme.html?z=1…