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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…

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-linux
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#linux #reaper #osara

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Jamie Teh

Just so you're aware, no attempt has been made so far by this fork's author to figure out how this could be cleanly contributed upstream (incorporating it into the official build system, polishing the code, etc.), while there are a couple of other people working on a Linux port who are being a lot more careful about it. That's not to say that this fork won't work, that it isn't useful or that it won't get polished later; people have different starting points and that's fine. Just making sure you're aware of the status as I see it (as the upstream maintainer).
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Peter Vágner

@Jamie Teh Yes it looks as if multiple projects from this author are either personal optimizations or experiments without attempting upstream polishing. I don't know if someone else is actively working on an osara port for linux with some public code for testing and great progress. In the description it mentions speech dispatcher but it actually uses at-spi.

Still I was able to rebase these patches on the top of osara main branch this morning easily. Other than making sure I've got fetched all the submodules it built cleanly over here just by running scons.

So upcoming days I will be learning reaper a bit and I'll see if I can make something usefull out of it.

@Jamie Teh
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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.
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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.

  • 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!

github.com/trufae/parla/releas…

Release 0.8.8 · trufae/parla

Fix version number
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#Accessibility #gtk #accesskit #parla @Delta Chat @Matt Campbell @GNOME @pancake
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Sean Randall

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!
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#Windows #nvdasr
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Peter Vágner

@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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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.
#Accessibility #tvheadend
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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…

GitHub - stsaz/phiola: Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android

Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android - stsaz/phiola
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#android #phiola #corvus

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@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 @Steffen
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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.

#Accessibility #android #czech #slovak #George #austrian

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Paweł Masarczyk

@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?
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Peter Vágner

@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.

@Paweł Masarczyk @Mathias Schmuckerschlag
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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.

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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.

#NoteLab #SonicRoom @Oriol Gómez Sentís
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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…

XDC

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#Accessibility #Webxdc #Claude @Delta Chat
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تُرک‌ترین زمزمەگر

@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

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تُرک‌ترین زمزمەگر

@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
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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.
@Delta Chat
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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/…

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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

#transifex
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Peter Vágner

@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.
#fedora #gnomeos @Arch Linux @Zvonimir Stanecic

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Peter Vágner

@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.

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Peter Vágner

@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.

@ondrosik
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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-…

Home | audiopub

An open audio sharing platform.
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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-…

Home | audiopub

An open audio sharing platform.
audiopub.site
@Andre Louis

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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…
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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
#cc #Freemusic

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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.

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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.
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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

Home | audiopub

An open audio sharing platform.
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#audiomo

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@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…

Bat Out Of Hell

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Jonathan

@bscross32 @ZBennoui I'm not illegally hosting your AI code, I'm just fixing your skill issue of still fiddling around with Dropbox links instead of properly hosting it yourself. I needed a convenient way to play it from work, you know?
@Zach Bennoui @bscross32
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bscross32

@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.
@Zach Bennoui @Jonathan
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I have found out recently that it's possible to add call recording to modern android versions by using shizuku with some 3rd party apps. The one I like the most is Call recorder by skvalex from callrecorder.skvalex.com/get . Tested on android 16.

However this is not yet tested, I'm also thinking it might be doable to repackage the OTA image by adding BCR (basic call recorder) as a system app using github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroo…

This sounds kind of scary as I don't want to break security of my @GrapheneOS install. But I'd enjoy having BCR as a system app.

GitHub - chenxiaolong/avbroot: Tool for manipulating and re-signing Android A/B OTAs

Tool for manipulating and re-signing Android A/B OTAs - chenxiaolong/avbroot
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@GrapheneOS
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A bus ride on a rough, damaged road in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. You can hear the vehicle shaking, engine noise, passengers talking, and public transport announcements in Slovak. audiopub.site/listen/2bab37c3-…

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An open audio sharing platform.
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@Paweł Masarczyk and friends from @metalab have their stand at #Agora 2026 in #Brno czech republic today. I've been notified to that by @ondrosik and recorded the presentation.

Huge thanks guys for everything you are doing for us.

s.ondrosik.sk/f/91bd70f6f36e4b…

Agora 2026 - Pawel Masarczyk - Hackerspaces - inkluzivní laboratoře inovativních přístupných technologií.mp3

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#brno #agora @metalab @Paweł Masarczyk @ondrosik

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Paweł Masarczyk

Thanks for the shoutout. There's so much happening right now I didn't got around to doing the socials stuff. Everyone is welcome to our meetings, Monday evenings at 7 PM in our Big Blue Button room. We would be happy to speak some English. www.oskars.org