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Learn Six Ways to Increase Productivity with Braille and JAWS

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Ahahaha y'all wanna know why some people hear whispering and others don't? With the latest NV Speech? I know who might. @@radiorobbe who reported it first.
The Root Cause: "Dot" vs. "Comma"
NVDA Sets the Locale: When you set NVDA's interface language to Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, etc., NVDA configures the Python process's global locale (via setlocale) to match that region. In the US/English locale, the decimal separator is a dot (e.g., 0.5, 60.0). In many European/South American locales (the "supported languages" you noticed), the decimal separator is a comma (e.g., 0,5, 60,0). The DLL Inherits the Locale: The nvspFrontend.dll is loaded into the same process space. The standard C++ string parsing functions (like atof, strtod, or std::stringstream) often respect this global locale setting. So, all the YAML files become invalidly parsed because they use a period. Ha. Wow. What a bug.
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The weirdest part of self-hosting isn't the control, it's the silence.
I logged into my dashboard tonight via the tunnel. No banner ads. No
"suggested content" algorithms designed to doomscroll me. No tracking pixels firing off to a data broker in Utah, lol.
Just my tools, sitting there, waiting.
We really forgot what the internet feels like when it isn't trying to extract value from us every single second. It’s quiet here. I like it.
#digital #minimalism #selfhosted #SmallWeb #AdFree
#digital #SmallWeb #selfhosted #minimalism #adfree

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Feeling sad again, nothing's compiling, I broke my frontend, oh no, and not even GPT is fixing it, and I don't have pro mode anymore, and I'm just so out of options I could cry from frustration over all of it. Ugh. Stupid C++ and its cast types. I hate cast-typed languages Hate them.
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:PleaseReblog:
Question for people relying on alt text: When one posts contains multiple images, should each alt text be written independently, or does it make more sense for one text to refer back to previous ones?
Like, when the first describes shape and colour of a flower, should the second copy that description and add to it (independent alt texts), or refer back, like "the same flower [from a different angle, showing xyz]"?

#altText #imageDescriptions #Blind #questions

  • independently (16%, 13 votes)
  • refer back (45%, 36 votes)
  • just show results (38%, 31 votes)
80 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

#blind #AltText #imagedescriptions #questions
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Jak se z nás stali geokačeři
Přemýšlel jsem, jak v pochmurném prosincovém počasí dostat děti ven, až mě napadl geocaching, který se ukázal jako trefa do černého. Pár řádků o tom, jak se z nás stali geokačeři.
#děti #geocachingblog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/17/j…(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Jak se z nás stali geokačeři

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#děti #geocaching

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yes, yes. The output for "level" seems incomplete, possibly missing leading "l" and "və." This might be happening because the pointer iteration isn't handled properly in the script. espeak_TextToPhonemes might modify the text pointer internally, and I may need to adjust this to correctly handle wide char pointers (wchar_t*) instead of using c_void_p. Let's fix that. Why not, let's fix it all. All the bugs. Fix fix fix. No breaks.
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Tamas G

@clv1 nah, I updated them just recently :) the instructions should be recent. It now talks about the formats for the various pack files, so definitely do a control+shift+R just to make sure you get the latest version.
Espeak is able to speak many of them, but you have to like, read them as individual letters sometimes. Yeah. I think JAWS is the only one I know where there's a way to get Eloquence to speak IPA, and supported posts about this (ruf.rice.edu/~reng/jaws-ipa.ht…) but it's tricky for sure. I will switch to Espeak sometimes in this workflow (or Speechplayer) and see how it speaks the symbol and compare as it's the only one I've seen in NVDA doing some interpretation.

Using Jaws with Unicode IPA Fonts

www.ruf.rice.edu
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Tamas G

@clv1 kind of. For language-specific tweaks: don’t edit a shared IPA key in phonemes.yaml unless you want every language to change.
Instead:
1.
“copy the closest phoneme to a new key (e.g. y_hu / ᴇ) in phonemes.yaml”
2.
“in your packs/lang/<lang>.yaml, add a normalization rule that maps the IPA symbol to your new key”
That keeps the phoneme table centralized, and language packs only decide which key to use.
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Tamas G

for sure strange! Looks like it has to do with Espeak launching and maybe not finding espeak-data in the same path. We try to now find it more explicitly, and also if the error comes up again it should pass any Espeak errors through too. So if it appears again, it'll be more descriptive, LOL. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE… is the link, else the original one is the latest now too anyway.
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I listen to someone recommend portfoliocharts.com and portfoliovisualizer.com and wonder if they're going to be accessible to me. I hope so, at least in terms of doing the things that I'd want to do, but they have "charts" and "visualizer" in their names, respectively... So we'll see. A lot of things out there weren't really designed with someone like me in mind. That's just my life. If I'm going to be using a new thing for some reason, then I'll wonder, am I going to run into any accessibility-related trouble with it?

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I just discovered (and tried) this wonderful piece of software

github.com/houmain/keymapper

It allows remapping your keyboard in many ways, and it's controlled from a simple configuration file (so, you can prepare one for your disabled friend).

You can, for example, remap the keyboard to only use its right half, if the left hand is dysfunctional (similar to the mirrored keyboard I made, github.com/clackups/qmk_firmwa… ).

Also, it should be useful for #disabledgamers , to map, for example, AWSD to different keys.

#disability #keyboard #accessibility


qmk_firmware/keyboards/nuphy/air60_v2/ansi/keymaps/clackups_mirrored/README.md at onehanded_nuphy_air60_v2 · clackups/qmk_firmware

Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families - clackups/qmk_firmware
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#Accessibility #Disability #keyboard #disabledgamers

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social Hey, I love what you do and I appreciate it, but please take the flatpak package more seriously. I hope you do this year.

Using an AppImage is not really a universal solution. For example, for those of us on musl distros (Alpine, Chimera Linux, etc.) that package is useless.

I really hope you consider treating flatpak as a first-class package because in musl it is our best and probably only option ​:neofox_laptop_owo:​

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Aha, how fitting for NV Speech Player. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… is the first version to hit the 10th file milestone for my synthesizers. It's also the first time I'm using the new directory link. This copy fixes memory corruption problems in the frontend, Post-stop aspiration block was made non-brittle now, and the applyRules allocation performance fix. No new versions for awhile until we have tweaked more languages, so I'm done with new files at least until way later in my evening or tomorrow.
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People asked for it, and I do think it's a great idea! All of my Speech synthesizers live at eurpod.com/synths - easy to remember URL, and if you want to check it for updates, easy to look at for a version difference. At most, we are only keeping the last 2 versions of a synthesizer, so they will not pile up here. Still uploading some of the larger files, but in the next hour this will all be updated.
The old URLs will work for now, a little bit. As time goes on I will remove them from their old locations and update the blog page to point to this folder too.

Index of /synths

eurpod.com
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Jak zní tepelné čerpadlo v -15 ℃
Hlučnost tepelných čerpadel vzduch-voda je předmětem mnoha debat a panuje o něm mnoho mýtů. Když u nás bylo po ránu -15 ℃, využil jsem toho a nahrál jsem si naše tepelné čerpadlo Nibe F2120-8 při teplotě, při které už si opravdu mákne. I při takto nízké teplotě se jedná jen o šum, který už pár metrů od čerpadla nijak výrazně neruší. Tento model podle výrobce dokáže pracovat přes kompresor až do teplot -25 ℃, ale technik říkal, že ho mají vyzkoušené i při -28 ℃. To je na českou zimu dostatečná rezerva.
#renewables #heatpump #tepelné čerpadlo
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Jiří Eischmann

ano, chladíme do podlahy. Podlaha je chladnější, ale jsme na to zvyklí, případně si na nohy něco dáme. Je to příjemnější než klasická klima, která dělá průvan. Ale taky to nemá takový výkon. Sníží to teplotu max o několik stupňů, ale i to je často rozdíl mezi pohodou a přehřátou místností.
Jinak musí se tam hlídat, aby teplota vody nešla pod rosný bod, případně nastavit trvale bezpečnou teplotu.

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We will be doing some performance tweaks in the C++ wrapper next update. I can already see people complaining that there's a slight hit. You want to know why? I made a mistake. Or maybe GPT. Well one of us did anyway. I wrote the base C++ outline for it and then it helped me. But uh, at the moment we are allocating memory for out and copying the entire text string for every single rule, even if the rule doesn't match. If we have 50 replacement rules (common in phonology), we are re-allocating and copying the full text string 50 times per function call. Ouch ouch. I'm fixing this.
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Jonathan

@flyingpenguinMwauthzyx @jscholes Unpopular opinion these days, because not everything has to be open source. I don't know anyone who'd contribute to it and I don't see the requirement. Tweesecake also wasn't OSS and people loved it. I like OSS software yes, absolutely, but it's also work to respect kinda. I know that wasn't your intention just saying my thoughts. Of course Quin can and probably has a different reason.
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The great thing is, people should not notice changes to existing sounds and tonality. What did change were expansions of rules we can define per language, but to everyone else, this update should not introduce changes in UK and US English, or how the voice sounds. That was not the goal. The goal was to decouple the IPA rule tokenizer into a nice, beautiful frontend.
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OK. Huge huge refactoring of NV Speech Player is now complete. Download: eurpod.com/nvSpeechPlayer-2025…
We now have per-language files in the packs folder. Check it out. It is currently defining 22 languages. I would like help improving these languages, now that everyone is able to modify rulesets for them. This has decoupled the rules from the IPA.py engine itself, allowing anyone to freely update and modify voice prosody, tonality, and inflection per letter and phoneme creating it. That is, huge.
Languages supported: English (US, UK), Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Swedish. Speakers of these languages are invited to modify their language files and test to make it sound more native.

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@x0 @jaybird110127 yep that's coming next. So for secure sandboxing I'd have to include my own Espeak, and for just including a compiled copy of Espeak.exe, I think that's not breaking GPL V2/V3. What is would be is integrating it with the DLL more directly, or including Espeak's phoneme compiler so that the engine reads the phondata and phontab files Espeak uses directly + language dictionaries. That's the no-no line. So at first, going the included espeak.exe route isn't bad, just less direct. Haha I know US English will definitely get worse with 2007 Espeak, but maybe some of that was sound too, if we can get things to have better pronouncing then maybe the downgrade won't be so bad.
@Jayson Smith @x0
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Tamas G

@x0 @jaybird110127 unfortunately yeah. At least the re-write effort on the community will be a large one. I think they plan to give tools for sandboxing, I heard they were going to make a compatibility layer that lets you run any add-on with it or add-on devs can utilize it, but I have no idea how that's going or if it'll be ready by 2026.1, there's talk of it pushing to 2026.2. So, who knows RN LOL
@Jayson Smith @x0
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Tamas G

@NikJov @x0 @jaybird110127 oh? This is why Eloquence was moved onto using it as well, I'm glad they delayed this then. Whew. That's for sure disaster averted, though I do think they could do it chunk by chunk, giving devs enough of an API change for something that big to prepare for a very specific future release very publically in each What's new so nobody has an excuse. Then I think it'll be acceptable :D
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Nikola Jović

@x0 @jaybird110127 There's only one updated Eloquence release I'm aware of, which was just updated for compatibility with the new 64-bit NVDA releases by adding a separate process to communicate with the synth. I'm talking about github.com/fastfinge/eloquence…
It wasn't moved to any new add-ons API however, because it isn't even out yet.

GitHub - fastfinge/eloquence_64: Eloquence synthesizer NVDA add-on compatible with 64-bit versions of NVDA

Eloquence synthesizer NVDA add-on compatible with 64-bit versions of NVDA - fastfinge/eloquence_64
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Nikola Jović

@x0 @jaybird110127 Yep, a lot of synthesizers are affected. As far as I know the plan is to eventually have a compatibility layer, for example Mick is working on one for SAPI 4 and SAPI 5, see github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…

Support for 32 bit sapi4 and sapi5 via a 32 bit synthDriver runtime by michaelDCurran · Pull Request #19432 · nvaccess/nvda

Link to issue number: Replaces pr #19412 Summary of the issue: With the switch to 64 bit, NVDA no longer supports sapi4, or 32 bit specific sapi5 synthesizers. NVDA should somehow continue to supp...
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Tamas G

@NikJov @x0 @jaybird110127 I honestly wish they'd just keep building separate 32 and 64-bit builds, but that ain't gonna happen. Although, this does make things at least somewhat easier, since as long as the DLL itself is 64-bit it can still be loaded into NVDA, which at least means SpeechPlayer could be recompiled (other legacy synths, even like BestSpeech will still need a wrapper.) Definitely staying away until February / March at least, it's a terrifying mess :D
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It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).

What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.

theguardian.com/technology/202…


‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI
Dan Milmo (The Guardian)
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LangerJan

This could be a theatre play:

“Drop the AI”

“I sincerely apologize, you are absolutely right”

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“Say Potato!” Stream on Apple and Spotify!! #funnysong #tinder #dating #music

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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Ondřej Surý

But Wait!

Anyway, BIND 9 now also has Bug Bounty program via #YesWeHack (fosstodon.org/@iscdotorg/11576…) and we got exactly one genuine issue out of 15 (and that's issue that has been previously independently reported). The rest was:
⁃ Cryptographic Weakness in BIND 9.20.15 PRNG Enabling DNS Cache Poisoning (Bullshit AI Slop; it just proved lack of randomness in provided PoC :facepalm:)
⁃ Multiple EC/TLS Private Keys Committed to Public Bind9 Repository (yeah, in system tests) (1/2)

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When the European Commission approached us about funding a bug bounty for BIND 9, we were impressed with the proposal. We have a policy against bug bounties (because we were frustrated with people wasting our time), but under this proposal, the YesWeHack team would do initial triage, and use their expertise to minimize the 'slop' reports. This is a game-changer for a small development team.

The bounty program is active, and we are looking for our first valid report.

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YesWeHack #1 Bug Bounty Platform in Europe

#yeswehack
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