I just encountered a datepicker on an airline website that I could actually use with a keyboard plus screen reader with zero issues and now I feel like everything I know is a lie.
My new Mastodon/Bluesky client, FastSM, which is based off the old work from me and @TheQuinbox, is now available in really, really early alpha! You can download the latest build, which gets updated with each new commit, at github.com/masonasons/FastSM/r…
@wardrick @TheQuinbox Agreed. I'm fine with GitHub, but a lot of people aren't, and if it's not immediately obvious beyond question how to download the program, they'll just move on to something more interesting.
Is BlueSky meant to function currently? I am feeding it my handle and app password but keep getting a 401 back. things I've tried:
- Try clearing the instance URL as i's set to bsky.social, not blank as the hint implies - Use my handle with and without @ and with and without the instance url appended.
401 reason is invalid identifier or password, but I just grabbed the app password from bSky five minutes ago and even granted DM access. Any clue what might be happening?
I will say that our puppy socks has the cutest little bark ever. I’ve got a recording of it sitting in my Voice Memos. But I think he’s gonna be one of those dogs that likes to be around people. He tends to whine or follow us around the house when we’re moving around and doing other things. He just loves being around all of us. and he loves to play first thing in the morning when we all wake up.
@Bri yes. Never owned a dog before so this is our first time. He’s only two months old. But when he gets playful, he’s pretty crazy. Every time my mom puts him on the couch. He just loves to jump off it. Plus, he’s at that age now where he’s starting to chew on things.
Grimalkin's Fall Festival Virtual Day is now archived for all to see!! Catch many new artists, the youth of Girls Rock Camp D. C. and my own band Rainbow Portal in this multimedia extravaganza! #music #live_music #musician #musicianLife archive.org/details/grimalkin-…
Okay so tonight I have to brag. So with Termux, Emacs, and Emacspeak, there were 2 big problems I still had from when I got AI to rig DecTalk up. First, the tone used for "blank line" and indentation was not working. Second, after a while the Emacspeak sounds would stop working even though DecTalk still was. So, Claude Code, Opus 4.5, fixed the tone issue, something about sox and Termux specific stuff, and made the Emacspeak sounds thing less of an issue than it was. It still happens, but on first launch without putting Termux in the background and such, it stays alive.
The coolest part, I was using Claude Code inside of Termux on the bus going out to eat. And by the time I got home, it was all fixed!
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I am curious, so today, lets do some Mastodon research on typing verbosity on your #ScreenReader, when typing on a physical keyboard. What is your Typing echo set to? #accessibility #a11y
I voted "Characters" because it's what it's set to right now, but I change it extremely frequently. Always between characters and off, though; never words in any form.
I should say that my previous explanation was for NVDA. On iOS I usually have it set to words to detect when autocorrect has changed them.
I absolutely feel faster with it set to off as well though. I just turned it off to type this reply, but like to have character echo when doing anything with numbers, dates, etc.
@jscholes Indeed, my iOs braille screen input is set to words, because making typos there is less obvious than on a physical keyboard. No autocorrect for Estonian on iOs though so it doesn't change what I type.
@jscholes very limited sample size and not with any allusions of it being scientific, but I have found through teaching both children and adults how to type, that one of the biggest ways they improve their speed is by turning offany sort of typing echo.
You cannot just write "potato is being blocked on my laptop" as the subject of your support request, and then just leave it at that. I don't know, either. Knowing computer people though, there are probably seven different incompatible versions of potato, and "potato" could be anything from a word processor to a network diagnostic tool. You thought I was joking, huh? So did I! But googling for potato software reveals an AI tool for biologists, some kind of audio mixing tool, an instant messenger, a text annotation tool, a background transcription tool, and more. All of these programs are all called just "potato". Also, the AI answers above the search results happily tell me, with no context: "Start using potato in your project by running npm i potato. The children components of your potatoes may themselves have components and your potatoes might rapidly look like small tree-like structures of components." I'll...get right on that. Potatoes that look like trees and have children is the one thing all of my projects are missing!
@MostlyBlindGamer But I'm not disappointed that the package description does nothing to explain why the package exists, why it's better, or why it should be used over the dozens of other ORM-like options.
@Bri It seems like their focus is really on the invisible interface, the GUI has lots of access key conflicts and for instance I can't tab to reply on the notifications buffer, it just has a post button and dismiss button.
@Bri Also, I can't figure out, when I get mentions, I'm hearing mention sounds plus what sounds maybe like a added to favorites sound? Or is there a general event sound? It's like 3 sounds at once and hard to discern.
@Bri @Kaliah Ok, I hit view conversation on this, to see if I can view the whole thread, and it played the noise, but I can't see it in the list of items in the tree.
@Bri @Kaliah Ok, I just tried it again, and now pressing view conversation doesn't even work, it just brings me back to the window and doesn't pull anything up in the tree, and it doesn't make a noise either.
Last boost, okay, this is messed up. Look, I don't like ICE as much as the rest of us but still, these people are going to be fighting for their lives. Would yu like it if someone doxxed you so people could potentially do bad things to you? My guess is no. #UsPol
@fastfinge Where are the consentration camps? No, I'm serious, where are the *actual* camps? and I'm not talking about the detention facilities. There are no people being murdered outright in there.
This is exactly what the Germans said during world war II. If you don't believe Alligator Alcatraz, and the detention centers ICE is running in Honduras, are concentration camps, you are just like the germans who claimed they were "just following orders". Your president is actively planning an armed invasion of my country of Canada, so don't expect any simpathy from me. Let's hope there will eventually be an equivalent of Nuremberg trials, and all of you enabling the modern SS will also get the justice you deserve.
I've gone through @bce 's product purchase process, including product browsing, configuration, adding to cart, viewing cart, and checkout pages to make sure they are accessible to screen reader users. I've replaced all tables with hierarchical headings, and made sure all inputs are labelled. I'm testing with LibreWolf on Debian with Orca. If any blind users out there could test with their setups and have any feedback, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
I don't have a reliable way to reproduce, but NVDA sometimes activates the audio ducking and never releases the volume until I restart NVDA. I even have no ducking mode set in Audio Settings. Anyone has this issues? I'm using NVDA 2025.3.2 on Windows 10. @NVAccess
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My poor computer! I don't know why it's been so sluggish and weird lately. It's acting like tasks that it used to be able to perform no problem without even batting an eye before are just so much of a bother for it now. This is even a pretty fresh windows install.
@serrebi I have a slow system downstairs that I don't really care for. I turned off restore points and now I like it again. I also made the page files static instead of dynamic. Just less background crap happening. I used to turn off indexing, but can't remember if I did that on that rig.
Social identification is private, between people though ephemeral #P2P #E2EE messages.
Servers see messages with random sender and recipient addresses, but those can not be mapped to a phone number or public handle. Servers see IP addresses. But you can use Tor, or a VPN, if you want to hide that.
i created an account on a laptop, and logged with my phone trough QR, but my desktop (i logged trough backup), don't seem to take in things like contact that add picture etc, when both mobile and laptop do.
I used it a little bit now for testing and so far it works quite well for private messaging - although I noticed by design the use case seems to be for communicating with people you already know, right? Like public online community chats like irc or matrix does not seem to be in scope if I understand it correctly? (hence no public delta chat group exists, I assume?)
do you have an official New Zealand digital identity? did you know that our super private details aren't stored on sovereign NZ servers?
"The government stores our most important data on US-owned cloud infrastructure, making it subject to US laws.
It's interesting to listen to NOAA Weather Radio and the WWV time station through an actual radio after so many years of hearing them through online streams. I also learned through this that the Weather Radio stream I was listening to was several minutes behind the radio broadcast. I'm glad it exists though.
@cordova5029 Yep. It's a weird multi-function radio thing that can access AM, FM, Shortwave and VHF bands, play audio files from USB drives and MicroSD cards, and act as a Bluetooth audio device among other things.
if you want to deport another 3M people using the exact same processes and procedures Obama used, go for it. Random people weren't being kidnapped or shot in the face
boaf. Meanwhile we received a vuln report from a vendor that found XSS injections in Go code, and hardcoded password for every occurance of the word "password". Slop is not AI exclusive. Unless....
I am trying to get TW blue on my Windows 11 laptop. I get it into the downloads folder, but Microsoft defender is giving me a warning that it isn’t commonly downloaded and to make sure I trust it, but it won’t let me get past the warning, even though I do trust it. What do I need to do so that I can try it out?
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox Ahahahaha I just went to look into series 4000 to find where that ow is and I immediately ran into the JAWS forms mode sounds.
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox Literally the very first track of the whole library, bonk snap, among its first 10 variations, has the sounds used for forms mode as well as the components of the layer gesture sound, and later in it are some other bonks that JAWS ships for scripting usage.
Big challenge for me on Sunday was helping a local pal learn to use a laptop. This man is older than me and has never used a computer. He uses his smartphone for everything and wants to get a computer so he can, among other things, go to recovery meetings on Zoom (there aren't enough local in-person meetings). I have, as you might expect, many extra laptops. Figured we'd start with the basics (point, click, double click, click drag) and go from there....
@matt Right now he's got the free laptop I am ledning him just to see if Laptop Life is good for him. If it is, he'd like to buy his own laptop and it would probably be a Chromebook. I do not know much about Chrome OS Flex, I'll poke around a little. Thanks.
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- Try clearing the instance URL as i's set to bsky.social, not blank as the hint implies
- Use my handle with and without @ and with and without the instance url appended.
401 reason is invalid identifier or password, but I just grabbed the app password from bSky five minutes ago and even granted DM access. Any clue what might be happening?
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