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I'm so glad NVDA, Narrator, Orca, VoiceOver, TDSR, and Fenrir exist. I'm so, so glad JAWS is not the only desktop screen reader, and that FS did not persue JAWS for Mac.

I'm so glad that NVDA not only supports addons, but shows them off with the addon store! I'm so glad that NVDA is so inescapably popular that even big corporations support them, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office and countless others that say in their documentation that NVDA is supported.

#accessibility #blind #nvdasr #nvda #technology

#Accessibility #blind #technology #nvdasr #nvda

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Lukáš Tyrychtr

Okay, but then, either provide the logs from Orca's debug, tell us what is wrong via bug reports or mails on Orca list, or you'll have always the thing which annoys you, so you'll be posting these posts. For example, without any specifics, I can not reproduce (or anyone) your Orca responsiveness issues, which I, except for huge web pages (say a table with tens of thousands of rows) can not reproduce. And yes, it might be also hardware dependent, so hardware specs along with the Orca debug log would be best.
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Lukáš Tyrychtr

It of course can. Yes, you do not get a completely pythonic API (you'll have to look for the docs and likely for the Orca source), but the usage after you get hold of the proper DBus interface will be, say, using the dasbus library, quite Pythonic. Of course, when one person works on a project, don't expect polished docs and client side libraries, but of course, you are more than welcome to contribute them.
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the esoteric programmer

do you know what dbus is and what it can do? also, that would be true if we didn't have dbus introspection. I recommend you use a dbus python library, then maybe you'll see it's not that bad. There are performance issues with orca for sure, especially when you compare it to like, jieshuo on android or zdsr for windows, but for one, that's one of the reasons for which we're trying to get odilia off the ground, and for another, in most cases you wouldn't actually notice the orca latency because your system will generally be slower than orca by an order of magnitude. So yeah, there are issues with linux, accessibility, orca and all that stuff, but let's not invent issues where there are none, there are enough existing ones already.
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@esoteric_programmer @tyrylu even if there's a dbus lib that a mediocre dev can use, ok that's cool
I don't have a linux box so that'd be not feasible ATM.
and the perf hit is bad, on wayland. on x11/xorg it seems to work on par with NVDA
but let's be honest, not everyone wants to run old stuff that isn't supported anymore.
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Wayland can not introduce any performance differences, the a11y layer basically did not change between them (except for small differences), so, I'd vote for the audio emulation, some Vmware or Virtualbox sound drivers (I can not now remember which ones exactly) are quite bad with Pipewire without some obscure changes, so, yes, try some live distro, like Fedora with Gnome, or Ubuntu, but on a physical system.

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Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity/contin…

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') and Improper Input Validation in Conduit-derived homeservers

### Impact This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to force the target server to cryptographically sign arbitrary membership events. The flaw exists because the server fails...
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Fengshen Tale CONFERRED GODS: I felt bad about kind of trashing the last Chinese mobile game I played. So I looked around for something better. But did I find it? stuff.interfree.ca/2025/12/22/confered-gods.html#a11y#accessibility#audiogame#blind#screenreader

Sam's Stuff - Fengshen Tale CONFERRED GODS

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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #AudioGame

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For the love of Bob I'm begging people to stop putting unnecessary electronics in fucking everything.

My new fridge has a screen, with capacitive buttons that don't even seem to always do the same thing. So no adjusting the fridge for me. Then, more egregiously, I got a water filter jug, and it has a tiny screen in it, for some reason. Presumably because sighted people are incapable of tasting when the filter needs replacing, or god forbid putting a note in their bloody calendar to change the damn thing.

I love gadgets, but this is just fucking silly. Mountains and mountains of ewaste and it's all this sort of useless shit.

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This episode of the Change, Technically podcast examines the psychological research literature on gender differences in achievement - especially in mathematics and mathematically-intensive science and engineering disciplines.
buzzsprout.com/2396236/episode…
#MathematicsEducation #gender

Math is for girls - Change, Technically

The story from Janet Hyde about her motivations to get a grant and "fight with data" can be found here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/janet-shibley-hyde-sinks-stereotypes-with-data Cat summarizes a ton of research for thi...
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#gender #mathematicseducation

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Ein wenig Feiertagslektüre in Form von 21 #eBooks macht sich gerade auf den Weg zu ebooks.qumran.org/

Ich wünsche allen Leseratten schöne Feiertage – sei es das Julfest, das Fest am "extrem beleuchteten Nadelgehölz mit Religionshintergrund", oder welches andere Lichterfest das Eure ist. Möge es Euch Licht, Wärme, Ruhe, und Frieden bringen!


Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#eBooks

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RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

THE CAQ GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF ITSELF.

#CAQASTROPHE #YOUAREEXPENDABLE #polQC #QCpoli #COVIDISNOTOVER #WEARAMASK #cdnpoli #polcan

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https://mastodon.world/@somecanuckchick/115765402750274305 And, it's free! Except, if you do not meet the eligibility! Then, you have to pay 180$ out of pocket.
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#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #cdnpoli #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #youareexpendable

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Shit is getting weird out there... oh wait, I mean same as it ever was.

"Two young #Jewish #children at #Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport were harassed by a man who called them ‘pig,’ ordered them to dance, and threatened to snatch their #kippas if they did not ‘#freePalestine,’ according to footage circulating on social media this week.

The man who accosted the children filmed the video himself and addressed them in both #French and #English.

“Are you gonna free #Palestine, bro?’ the man asked, adding, “If you don’t free them, I’ll snatch your hat, bro.”

jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis…


Man harasses Jewish boys at Charles de Gaulle, video shows | The Jerusalem Post

“Are you gonna free Palestine, bro?’ the man asked, adding, “If you don’t free them, I’ll snatch your hat, bro.” the man said to the children.
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
#french #paris #jewish #palestine #english #Children #freepalestine #kippas

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By Russ Weakley:

How does the Shadow DOM appear in the accessibility tree?

Browsers flatten the shadow tree when building the accessibility tree. Flattening removes the accessibility boundary of the shadow root and exposes the internal nodes as if they were normal children in the accessibility tree, not the DOM tree.

#HTML #WebDev #Accessibility

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How does the Shadow DOM appear in the accessibility tree? - Max Design

Learn how browsers build accessible names using the idea of an accumulated text bucket, and why some naming rules empty and replace it
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#Accessibility #webdev #html

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арахнофобия - это расстройство и его лечат. но в ходе лечения арахнофобии людям не рассказывают, что каракурты безопасны, их нужно развести в доме как можно больше, играть с ними и чесать им спинки.

а вот с исламистами почему то не так.

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Here's todays #video. Some #synth doodling over some #lofi chords and #guitar. youtube.com/shorts/62GOohmDcJE

12/22 Synth improv over lofi chords and guitar #maschinemk3 #kontrols61mk3 #beatmaker #lofisynth

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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#video #guitar #lofi #synth

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Under the ADA, state and local governments, public schools, community colleges, and public universities will soon have to conform to WCAG 2.1 AA. Depending on the size of the population served, entities have until April 2026 and April 2027 to comply.

ada.gov/resources/2024-03-08-w…

Fact Sheet: New Rule on the Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps Provided by State and Local Governments

The Department of Justice published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on July 20, 2023 explaining how we propose updating the regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to add more specific requirements about web and m…
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Fun with Codex this weekend.
Updated my goofy little AI Space game, now renamed Space Junk. Now invaders will move around as they fall on higher levels, also centralized a lot of game logic between this and the music scale game. i.e. screen reader buffers, music/game volume.
Goal is to build on this structure and add more silly little timewasters. Ideas welcome.
Games at
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Game List

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There should be a law that prohibits online service companies from *requiring* phone numbers to create an account. Have you noticed how difficult it is to sign up for any online service these days unless you have a phone number? Why do I have to pay a subscription to a third party to use your service? Why is a tithe to a phone company a requirement to access your online product?
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Really like this version of All Too Well by Taylor Swift. Kinda reminds me of #christmas for some reason, no idea why. youtu.be/6gQRGcMlOQI?si=5USjo5…

#music #piano #pop #acoustic


All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version) - Recorded at Long Pond Studios

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAll Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version) - Recorded at Long Pond Studios · Taylor SwiftAll Too Well (Sad Girl Autum...
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#music #piano #pop #christmas #acoustic
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This is for any screen reader users who also do code review, merge/pull request management, that kind of thing: how do you do it? I'll slowly get more and more of that sort of task in the coming months. Merge conflicts are bad enough to deal with, and that's for code I wrote. How do I deal with blame, conflicts, diffs, change history, and the like efficiently?

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Today I checked elementary OS's website, because I was curious if elementary OS 8.1 had released yet. And nothing. It turns out I just checked two hours early, because it just released right now!

It brings fractional display scaling. Finally! I have been whining about this for way too long. And now it's here. The Wayland session is now the default session, and a lot of other goodies, and as always with elementary, a huge focus on accessibility, which couldn't be a bigger deal.

Huge props to the @elementary team, and congratulations to them!

My laptop is giving me the side-eye right now. It knows what's about to happen. :D

#linux #elementaryos

#linux #elementaryos @elementary

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I've considered doing a pre-recorded Let's Play of RimWorld where I describe how the game works, and as much of the mechanics as I can. that being said, I imagine the mod will get updates and so some older videos may be slightly out of date. I've got a post running with a poll asking if people would be interested in a Let's play. The poll is split exactly 50 percent down the middle. Please vote if you haven't already. youtube.com/post/UgkxNZKLfQ_oO…

Aketa uživatele Liam Erven

Would you be interested in a pre-recorded let's Play of RimWorld? Please vote.
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