I've found another new thing I can't get enough of. They're pizza rolls, accept they're triangular and filled with things you'd put on nachos. meat beans cheese. They're sooooooo good!
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I mean... most everyone's got a number eventually. But I suspect they assume a lot fewer zeroes than anyone who has made that their lifelong project would accept...
I am hoping, assuming I can do it properly, to tinker with the IDL/ACF so that we can still get this functionality but allow multiple instances to be present if people need this. If people tell me not to though, then I'll keep it as is.
@Bri Heh, I wasn't sure but ultimately changed it to allow it just because all the other backends do so it seemed a bit inconsistent to disallow that for one backend. Even if backends are given a loooooot of freedom in what they can and can't do
You know, I was kind of surprised but just for the hell of it, I gave Claude Prism and went OK, implement this into a cpp project I'm working on and it just figured it out. Was kinda cool. I checked it out after it was done and yep, it did it right
I don't even think it used the docs lol. For the record, if you're curious: // Prism state #ifdef USE_PRISM static PrismContext* g_prismCtx = nullptr; static PrismBackend* g_prismBackend = nullptr; #endif
and in the init funcs: // Initialize Prism for screen reader support #ifdef USE_PRISM bool InitPrism(HWND hwnd) { PrismConfig cfg = prism_config_init(); cfg.hwnd = hwnd;
g_prismCtx = prism_init(&cfg); if (!g_prismCtx) { return false; }
g_prismBackend = prism_registry_acquire_best(g_prismCtx); if (!g_prismBackend) { return false; }
@Bri That code was almost right. You need to check if the error code is specifically PRISM_ERROR_ALREADY_INITIALIZED and ignore it; acquire/acquire_best may return an initialized one, so that shouldn't be a fatal error. Also, since it passed in the window handle, you can use the UIA backend
@Bri So... Idk what page I was viewing before but yeah, that's apparently a win 10 thing. I'm amazed you got it to build for windows 7. I can't target it so just target win 10 and move on.
@Bri Hey, it's not junk. :D And yes, it is, but apparently it loads and gets to the point of initializing backends? So libs must exist on that system already. OneCore is bypassed already (I can use ApiInformation::IsTypePresent for that). UIA I think might have a workaround, I'm looking
@Bri I mean fair. Most accessibility interfaces are lik that though: full of hacks instead of "well maybe we should build this from the ground up to be robust"
@Bri Uh... I... Think that was either MSAA or IAccessible2? Windows supports all three of them. I actually think it also supports IAccessible. So four different interfaces... No wonder it's not the best...
@Bri You have me curious now. Lmfaooo. Though the code to do it is going to be painful. I had to do a bunch of annoying shit ot get UIA to actually be safe enough for me to be comfortable with it
@Bri Did the docs have a vaguely relevant emoji prepended before the title of each section? That's like 50% of how I score good docs now. As in, if those exist, knock off 50 percent no matter what else I find lol.
@Bri I had to get atomics, and then I had to get closing all the handles right which lead me to std::stop_callback (which I didn't even know existed)... So so much fun!
@Bri Has it? I could have sworn when it was new it didn't, but it might have just used direct speech controllers. NVDA and UIA weren't behaving too nicely together yet.
@Bri As for building for win7, as long as you can get the tools installed, cmake actually has some kind of platform toolset argument you can ultimately pass doesn't it? Or is it feeding ninja? Unsure if vcvars has an argument for that but it might.
Well, Prism has gotten some great new functionality! I think the biggest is that Prism can now act in place for the NVDA controller client! It does not need the DLL present to communicate with NVDA since it performs the internal RPC binding automatically. The current downside to this is that there may only be one NVDA backend active at any given time, which is abnormal and inconsistent with all the other backends. If you currently try to do this, it will (safely) overwrite the existing one.
@Bri No, it doesn't. The controller client is (L)GPL license, and I have done everything I can to comply with it. Even if the (L)GPL code is combined into the larger prism.dll library, I don't see how I could possibly be violating it given that the project is entirely open source and so complying with the "allow people to modify/relink" thing is from what I know automatically satisfied. I'm not sure how else to comply other than what I've already done.
@x0 @Bri I honestly don't know. Right now I force dynamic linking unless yoru building for Emscripten. For the problems that might create, I keep finding conflicting interpretations about those problems all over the place. Which for something like the LGPL is never a good sign. Some people say it's a problem, others say that that's just a widely misunderstood clause. I really don't like the ambiguity
@x0 @Bri Hence why I force dynamic linking. If you patch CMakeLists then yes it technically can support it. I just would love for an expert in the field to tell me what would be an "official" interpretation because I really don't like the ambiguity and confusion/misunderstandings around that
@x0 @Bri And to make this even more confusing, you're not really using executable code from NVDA, you're just implementing their interface. And the copyright situation of interfaces is even more unclear, especially with all the different countries involved.
The easiest thing to do would probably be to do a git blame on the ACF file and get an explicit okay from everybody involved in its implementation. There can't be that many of these people.
@miki @x0 @Bri I just wish the damn license was cleare or 17 U.S.C. 102(b) clearly applied to interfaces. APIs and machine-generated code should never be copyrightable IMO. And And it's not as if I could just handwrite the implementation either, because MSRPC is completely undocumented from what I know as to what midl does.
@miki @Bri Would NVAccess actually give a shit? As the organization that owns the code, though I don't know what their contribution agreement is like, they would have the ultimate authority to say I don't care, you're not flagrantly violating it so go ahead yeah?
The only thing I wish FastSM could do, which I currently don't see is to filter boosts from home timeline. Some folks boost endless amounts of things I don't necessarily hold interest with. I don't think TWBlue can do this either, but TweeseCake can. FastSM takes less ram than both of the aforementioned two though.
Tomorrow's my big development talk y'all, I'm gonna stay real quiet and hunker down. Nervous as hell, I hate dev talks. So. No speech player updates, let's give language packs time to change a bit. I already see a few improvements coming, can't say what, but yeah, this will keep evolving the more folks try it and are honest. We now restored the UK English sound in this pack very close to the sound it had in the original IPA rules, which were much smaller and sparce in comparison, but I understand how we were contaminating phonemes with each other, which was the huge huge downside before I moved things into the frontend. Honestly, building that frontend was the best decision I made early. AI would have kept on piling in Python code, specific language variables, and stich me a 300 kilobyte Python file by the end. No no. We are not doing that. It's funny how real work changes you. I used to be a spaghetti-code type guy, all day I'd just throw my code in a single file. Today I shutter at the idea of zero abstraction. If it's not modularized well, it's not worth reading as code, period, unless it's clean small code. Yes I'm that much of a snob. Gosh. AI will happily spaghetti all day, unless you're Google Gemini, which can (sometimes) do better at helping you abstract it, but you are still the architect, if you don't know coding fundementals, it's hard to use AI to code something not considered "AI slop."
āEurope is a regulatory morass that is built on bureaucracy, and the layering and layering of rules that constrain economic activity.ā
Scott Bessant, US Treasury Secretary
To which Europeans say:
Flint, Michigan East Palestine, Ohio Uniontown, Alabama
These places are global bywords for the poisoning of people and nature when you have no regulatory oversight of business and you prioritise āeconomic activityā at all costs over health and safety.
Everyone is going to Threads. My professional community - iOS developers, AI researchers, accessibility advocates - they're all there. I'm completely locked out, missing networking opportunities and professional conversations. This is disability discrimination. I cannot access Threads without assistive technology, and their systems automatically suspend me for using it. ADA compliance issue.
I've noticed that some client, maybe FastSM? Is doing this thing where it will add you to a thread even if you just boosted a post in it, not actually replied, and I'm not sure yet if I like it or find it annoying, maybe a bit of both?
Phewphsh! We had a frying on this instance that lasted about 20 minutes. With the help of Gemini, we're back and successfully updated to 4.6.0-alpha.3+glitch.
Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?
edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!
This is a test of using Fast-SM with our J-Say technology. This application is quite timely, because I would like to demonstrate to somebody how we can use the programme with bluesky. He has always wanted to use Bluesky and now he has an ideal opportunity of doing so. Dragon is working exceptionally well in this application, and I can easily correct errors such as the name of the social media network that I have just described. It treated the name of the social network as two separate words with no capital letter, so I had to put that right. There was absolutely no problem in doing so and there is no deterioration in terms of responsiveness on the computer while we are using Fast-SM with Dragon and JAWS. I am even able to proof read the post that I have just dictated with no difficulty. All good stuff!
I'm currently using js-sequence-diagrams[1], which looks like it has similar syntax as PlantUML.
Putting the code/text representation of the diagram feels like it'd be helpful for a small diagram, but maybe too much to keep in ones head for a larger one?
First of all, let me tell you something: we appreciate every move like this. You know, every blind person struggles. They may tell you it's fine, we're good, someone will even say "I'm proud to be blind" (sic!), butā¦ we struggle. And if a person comes and tells like: "I'm posting a diagram, I want it to be seen by my blind readers" ā woosh, like a wave of warm air in a cold winter street. Why am I saying this? Because it's not even better than nothing, it's quite enough for a technically or scientifically inclined person to decipher what you're saying. I'm not proficient in this at all (JS-Sequence-Diagrams looks also good, also there's Mermaid supported by GitHub, I think) but if I need or want it, I'll read the docs and cope with it. Orā¦ drop you a message and ask for help š Anyway, thank you so much. It's really heartwarming.
I guess I'll just say that I want to live in the world where we all look out for each other's needs, and where we can ask each other for accommodations or help when we need to. Where we all get those warm breezes when we're cold :)
I have a blind friend studying data science, he says he found it very useful. I know plenty of blind folks, one internationally known mathematician among them, who use LaTex, for example, to read and write maths. Not the simplest thing in the world, but it works. I believe, it's the same with PlantUml/Mermaid/solutions alike.
SpeechPlayer update: Huge one. This update removes all the "frame:" settings from the voice dialog. If you liked them, toggle " exposeExtraParams = False " to true in the driver's file. These are fun settings to play with and make it squeak in weird ways, but also, it's 47 sliders, and this way we only add the 16 for language settings. - new: settings no longer say "langpack:" but have human understandable names. This should make it easier to know what does what. - New: Croatian language. If Croatian sounds off, please suggest fixes to HR.YAML - new: Engine setting, segmentBoundarySkipVowelToLiquid That new setting only affects the boundary gap we insert when stitching two separate chunks (two separate āsayā calls / queue items). - new setting: semivowelOffglideScale. Useful where you want the glide to join better with the vowel in your language, test with different values (default is 1.) Added in language editor only. - Fixed: The driver works on NVDA 2026.1 again, fixed to set argtypes and restype right after initialization for Espeak phonemizer. - Language updates to Portuguese (thanks @clv1), Polish (thank you @patricus). English glides should be less noticeable and more smooth. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦
Thanks. I couldn't open the pack root after upgrading, because indentation was wrong in pt-br.yaml from line 40 onwards. I fixed the indentation, and it opened normally.
ok yes, the v6 add-on is updated with this fix, thanks for noticing it, that's what I get by hand-editing the field at the time xD will be more careful. Yeah, the phoneme editor bails when it can't parse the indentations in the file, the driver is more leaniant on this and allows it in technicality but a more strict YAML parser will throw a fit. I'm getting used it to it now though, 4 indents for the outer blocks and 6 for the various replacements.
Also, although the alternative schwa is in the phonemes list, and the mapping is present for it to be added before r, it sounds as if it wasn't being inserted there. Can you double check it please? For example: when I command the editor to speak "tra", the IPA output is trĖa. when I mark the input is IPA checkbox and change it to tįµrĖa, the sound is clearly other.
@spacepup ahaha, a setting for the settings? What an idea! :D Ironic though in a way. I thought of it but it's tricky because settings are enumerated when the driver loads, so like, we can't magically make checkboxes appear in NVDA's panel, they're precalculated. So while I could, they wouldn't show up until the person reloads the driver again, and then I'm sure some people might say "there's a bug!" xD
oh, i understand. Setting for the settings? What was i thinking, I must be just waking up. Also i noticed en-ca? Canadian english, perhapse? Also would it ruin the sound if i update some broken sounding phonemes with my own formants i calculated in praat?
@spacepup oh yeah. I was scared to add en-ca into the language list. People say ESpeak's Canadian is already horrendous, so I just don't know if we could ever make it sound good. I didn't want to anger the Canadians over there, even if they are hard to do so, best not test it. :D
@spacepup lol I always tell people to experiment, if you can send me your packs folder so I can also hear it and judge how it sounds better, well, even nicer. LOL. That's why I made this pack system, it makes it very easy to zip up the packs folder and just send it as a small file, or just like some people here have, tell me what value they changed to what and how it made it sound for them, then I usually will fold it into the main pack if it's really a nicer sound. That's what I'd really like from this, a community-driven sound. But it'll take time, which is why I built the phoneme editor. Speaking of which, I have to update it with the new values we added to the engine, gosh. Ah well, not hard.
@spacepup I've considered updating in the phoneme editor to add brackets next to the values with a one to two wrod explanation of what the value does to the sound, so they can change them even more easily. Things like: "Widens nasals" or "strengthens coupling with the Nasal" could really help people know, oh, I need to adjust this to get that.
@spacepup oh gosh I know, especially in a formant synth, I think we do have a good sound for it now in foreign languages but it'll get better. Once someone mentioned it was sounding more like a Z though that could actually clue me in on which way to tune it to make it slightly rolled. I definitely know ESpeak didn't get that one right until like the mid-2000s or later.
@spacepup oh actually good question, but yeah, it was in the Espeak-NG side days I first spotted it. I don't know if they had it in original Espeak though, probably not.
šŗšø We were asked for this in the past, and now it was done: our Liberapay account has been revived, find it at liberapay.com/IzzyOnDroid/
As @Liberapay has no option to upload a project avatar (or I haven't found it), and we're not using any of the hard-coded services, I hope you forgive us keeping my personal one in there for now. Should a change become possible, we'll of course update accordingly!
The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known ā¦
Da Liberapay leider keine Option bietet, ein Projekt-Avatar hochzuladen (oder ich habe es nur nicht gefunden), und wir keinen der dafĆ¼r hinterlegten Services nutzen, hoffen wir Ihr vergebt uns, das derweil mein eigener dort zu sehen ist. Sobald mƶglich, werden wir das anpassen!
The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known ā¦
@donno Not before the drop-down shows Codeberg, sorry ā as I wrote, "we're not using any of the hard-coded services" ā except for Mastodon, and look what the avatar here is (yes, when I started this account, it was still "only me" ā but now it's my account incl. personal things, while IzzyOnDroid is a teamā¦)
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TƤnƤƤn tipahti perƤkkƤin Les Misin Do You Hear the People Sing ja perƤƤn Elina Salo alkoi vetƤƤ Kolmea iloista rosvoa :ā-D
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Very excited to see #Droidify implement the #IzzyOnDroid download statistics!
This means 2 out of the top 3 #FDroid clients now show download statistics for apps downloaded from IzzyOnDroid. Hopefully this convinces more repositories to adopt this!
The part I love most is the different directions Droidify and Neo Store took it. Droid-ify went for simple, just showing the total amount of downloads, while Neo Store went for detailed graph.
@donno Hopefully we can convince them to adopt the system, I think it would be great for users to have general popularity info for apps. We purposefully kept the system extremely simple to make adoption easy :)
Thanks to @threlm4280, it just so happens that you do not need to move the box onto every single switch in Oghma's Hideout. I'll be updating the guide to reflect this.
Face the facts: AI is here to stay. Don't like it? You anti? Sorry but, bye Felicia. This stuff's existed for years now, it just wasn't so exposed. And it isn't going to receed. It'll continue to build. Your anti-barriers shall crumble. Your computer will be artifcialified, and if you don't like it, might as well use ancient ones. Even those processors! Wonder why prices are rocketing up? AI. Run as much as you like. But it'll catch up. It's everywhere. It's been everywhere. That wonāt change.š¤
I can't tell if this is satire... I've never appreciated the "it's inevitable, get used to it or <insert consequence>" framing. Nobody knows if this stuff is inevitable. All the boosters say it's inevitable then provide no evidence that it actually is. Hasn't Star Trek and many other Si-Fi shows tought us something about supposed "inevitability" yet?
@draeand Most of that was me screwing around, but from a serious perspective... yes. We don't know what's truly going to happen. There are theories, hypotheses, conspiracies, that sort. What we do know however, is that it is altering the balance. What was once locked in a box has been unleashed, and is flying high in the sky. The more serious part of my ridiculous post is that we're nearing that boundary where AI is sort of the new norm, and only so much can be done to suppress it.
Fair enough. Time will tell the real story, I suppose. For my part, it's rather hard to take anyone seriously when they claim that something like AI is inevitable, because right now AI is pretty much propped up by vibes and people with wayyyyyy too much money. But we'll see how the future plays out
They say AI isnāt profitable. Thatās not true. Twice just this past week, Iāve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
I really love this one bug where Firefox dev tools' right-click Inspect Element button works reliably for a bit, then inexplicably stops and pulls up the browser console instead, meaning the item doesn't actually inspect the element. It pulls up the browser console input area instead, which is of course what I wanted to do in the first place when trying to inspect an element.
Related, I like this other bug where tabbing from the browser console switches focus between the text input and console messages, but shift-tab lives in its own world with its own unique list of elements, navigating instead through the console messages area and what looks to be a long list of CSS selectors and styles. I tried using this to reach the element inspector but can't do that either.
Becoming less and less apologetic about my AI use by the day. Want me to not use the water-and-power-guzzling mechanoid? Don't make it so difficult to use every basic tool that I have to ask another tool to use it for me.
Greenlandās government unveiled a new brochure on Wednesday offering advice to the population in the event of a ācrisisā in the territory, which U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to seize from ally Denmark.
During the early pandemic, everyone was using online tools for lessons, work, & events. As soon as hegemons wanted not just "essential workers" but everyone back at the grindstone, the accessibility that online can offer was yanked back from disabled ppl.
We warned at the time that the lesson to take from how "horrible" people thought online schooling was was to *improve* it. That the years of ableist underinvestment in creative accessible online tools & training for presenters/teachers was largely to blame. Abled ppl ignored this or wrote op-eds saying online was inherently bad.
Just this week alone, we've heard how schools in Minnesota are trying to instruct students online and doctors are doing telemedicine because of ICE kidnappers. A rail crash in Catalunya resulted in a university cancelling exams because students can't commute to school.
Even if you're naĆÆve enough to assume there will only be one pandemic, there are other reasons for accessibility.
Reading about #Nvidia CEO crying about people not liking #AI, though it was a good time to recover this historic piece of art from the Copyright wars of the start of the century. Cc'ing @pluralistic
In episode 1 million and 1 of Google breaking accessibility, someone decided to slap aria hidden on basically the entire page on google drive public link pages, but here's the weird thing, only in Firefox. I don't know if chromium and Safari browsers just have a workaround just for this kind of developer/AI stupidity and bypass it and firefox doesnāt, or if something in google's code only breaks this on firefox.
Either way recovering out of this is fun. I have to use AXSHammer to kill all aria hidden. But, this doesn't always work. If I get lucky and the right thing gets focused Shift+F10 will give me the firefox context menu and I can do it. If not, well, just gotta keep refreshing the page until it does because due to the whole invisible to the screen reader problem NVDA/VoiceOver won't let me bring the mouse to anywhere useful to pop up the menu.
@zersiax I do get an object, though it's not a document, but either using OCR then rooting the mouse or just doing that on the navigator object moves it to the top left corner and clicks on a firefox toolbar.
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