If you rely on assistive technologies (TTS, Braille display, enlarged fonts), what would be your preferred terminal output from a compiler or other CLI tool telling you where an error occurred? If you'd prefer a different option, please elaborate. #Accessibility #Programming #A11y #Rust #RustLang
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In the Telegram group of a podcast I really love a listener brought this: github.com/github/spec-kit. And it seems, it's a thing I've been searching for since I started using #AI assistants in my development. Even before AI I always wrote a spec first, even if it was quite rough on edges, — I've always thought in lists and headings (yeah, screen reader user habits!). It's even more trustworthy because comes from #GitHub itself. Although it's still in version zero, I'm trying it now and it seems a very interesting concept.#SpecKit #SDD #SpecificationDrivenDevelopment
For 11025 Hz, we kept the original symmetric cosine glottal waveform because the new LF-inspired one sounded "constrained" / "like a small cell phone speaker" at low sample rates. At higher sample rates (16000+), use asymmetric LF-inspired glottal waveform with sharp closure (sharpness=3.0) for richer harmonics and "grainier" Eloquence-like character. This is based on the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) glottal model from 1985 - the same research that informed Klatt88 and likely Eloquence's DSP!
real vocal folds close faster than they open, and this asymmetry is what gives natural voice its "body". Now, SpeechPlayer 11025 and 16000, 22050, sound the same voice, just less sharp and compressed at higher sample rates. Feels like magic.
In most email clients (outlook, Thunderbird ETC), you can copy files from your file explorer directly into the message body of your email. Saves trying to go through the browse dialogue and add attachments that way.
@Bri I tried that just yesterday. I copied the file in Explorer, went to the email I was writing, and pasted. Nothing happened. I figured it just wasn't a thing. You mean it should have worked?
@alexhall @Bri That works perfectly in Outlook and GMail Web. Thunderbird you still have to envoke the attach dialog with Ctrl+Shift+A, but can then paste as you otherwise would.
@alexhall Yes. Copy the file to the clipboard, paste it into the filename box of any Open dialog and it will be converted to a textual path with proper quoting. @jackf723 @tired_and_wired @Bri
@alexhall @jscholes @jackf723 @Bri Once you copy a file from File Explorer, in Outlook you don't even have to create the message before initiating the paste. From the inbox, instead of pressing ctrl+N, press ctrl+V. This invokes the New Message dialog and takes the file that you had copied and automatically attaches it to the message. Just fill out the relevant fields, to, cc, etc., type the message and send and the file is already attached.
@GrapheneOS You can add another app to your list of apps banning GrapheneOS: The AGOV access app from the swiss federal authorities (play.google.com/store/apps/det…)
"No one running a so-called Home edition of Windows should be forced to manually edit the registry or run PowerShell scripts to manage updates or turn off features they don't want to use. Those users shouldn't have their files moved to OneDrive without their informed consent. If they choose an alternative browser or search engine, that choice should be respected."
Hitting 1 billion monthly active users should be cause for celebration in Redmond. These days, though, it feels like every one of those users is complaining. Does Microsoft have what it takes to address the many pain points in Windows 11?
Mikhail Okunuga was born in Soviet Azerbaijan to Armenian parents. When the USSR collapsed, he became stateless. He spent 18 months stranded in American Samoa, trapped in a place that "looked like paradise but felt like prison." He's now a US citizen. His memoir tells the story.
Systemic white supremacy is when an utterly incompetent 23-year-old white boy can fabricate an entire story about Somalis and get personal praise from the President—but two seasoned award winning Black journalists who have decades of unassailable reporting behind them get arrested for reporting on an actual protest with facts and receipts.
Alex Pretti's shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis has prompted a DOJ civil rights probe. Renee Macklin Good's death by federal agents has not. #news #NPRnpr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-56943…
I've made getting to both the web and iOS versions of my Fast Weather app easier. Just visit FastWeather.online to use the web version or use the Try iOS link at the bottom of the page to join the iOS Test Flight and get the program. Table view on the web is a favorite of mine for quickly browsing temperatures in either my set of cities or the prepopulated lists of cities for a state or country. Change the view to table, pick a state and use screen reader table commands to quickly read.
A person just walked by in sturdy shoes, a face mask, and a backpack with a protest sign sticking up out of the back. They walked with purpose and resolve (heading toward the nearby transit station to get downtown, I assume), and it was all I could do not to run out and thank them for protesting.
Thanks again, a million times over, to everyone out there showing up, on behalf of those of us who can't do that right now. 💜
#Meshcore seems to really work as a countrywide network. Today, I chatted with people from Liberec and Krkonoše, which are hundreds of kilometers away, and their messages went through just fine. All of this was possible with cheap, community-built devices.
@stepan Definitely it has integration with MQTT or there is an integration into Home Assistant. The question is if there is coverage. If there is, all you need is a small companion, if there isn't you'll have to install a repeater in some good location to cover the area for yourself and others. Urban areas such as Prague, Brno and Ostrava are well covered. Countryside, you still have to be lucky. You can check the current map of the network here: mapa.meshcore.cz/ You can use the Propagation function to see what coverage you would get from a spot you pick on the map.
I really should know the answer to this, but I can't find it anywhere. On Apple Watch, how do I set VoiceOver to use touch typing instead of standard typing?
Undiagnosed neuro-divergence is like playing a video game on the hardest settings, whilst everyone else is gaslighting you by saying it's on the easy mode.
When you are diagnosed (even self diagnosed) it's like realising you are on the hard setting, it doesn't make the game any easier... But you know you're going to struggle and can find ways to work around the problems to better suit your abilities.
trying to find a local radio station threw fastplay isn't working. if I could figure how how to listen to it in say winamp, I could save it as an m3u file and use fastplay to listen to it that way, but searching for it isn't working. if anyone wants to help me figure out how to find them, it is Power 96.5 WQHH.
Wow, I tried to search all three directories for that station, and it's apparently not on any of them. That's ... Highly unusual. Are you sure you have the station name correct?
@Bri I don't know if this is possible, but is there a way to make it notr announce song changes when a station starts playing another song, but it still shows up in the title bar if you want to look at what song is playing? it not, it is ok, but just thought I would ask.
@Bri hmmmmmm. I wonder why my winamp isn't announcing title bar changes? I mean, no big deal, just go away away from a players window and you don't hear them, but you don't know if you don't ask, right?
@Bri now why do I all of a sudden see you listening to one of my show at least for a little bit with some sort of pitch change on it? smile. I could just see you doing that.
@Bri I just wish my fucking body would let me do shows! I haven't done one sense november first of last year, so almost three months! although a big chunk of it is the weather, but still.
@Bri you know it is all your fault I barely use winamp anymore? lol. I have been using that program religiously for over 20 years. you come along with your fast player program, and I like it, and use it 99 percent of the time now! damn you! damn you to hell! ROFL! seriouly though good job on a program that you anitially made for yourself.
@Bri I haven't actually seen that myself yet, and you know jme, I will put something to the test, and yes, I have tried to crash it, or make it at least stall out a bit, and I haven't been able to yet.
It seems that radio-browser.info which is the site that Tweesecake uses, and likely FastSM as well, does not carry a stream for that station. Not saying it doesn't exist, just saying it doesn't exist on a popular open source radio listings platform, and its probably unlikely that the blindy apps will find it. If you do come across some sort of live stream like something on a web page from them, and want to attempt to extract a source, let me know, and I'll do some source code diving and see if they haven't entirely wrappered it. But probably most likely its not as easy as it once was. But if a stream exists that you want to see if can be turned into a Winamp or FastSM compatible stream, I welcome the challenge.
@adam someone actually found it for me. I don't know how, but it is on some funky streaming thing. not that you would want to listen to it, but here is the URL. I now have it saved in my favorites in fastplay.
@countrymetalhead @adam fastplay is a windows program that @Bri wrote. I don't have a URL where you can read about it, or download it, but it is a really cool very small audio player that is rather nice.
@adam @Bri Nice...I'd love to check it out. I mostly use Winamp, but if this is more streamlined, that'd be cool. Admittedly, for online radio, if I can't tell Alexa to play it, I often don't bother. You and @evilcookies98 are the exceptions to that.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 My app has three options including iHeart Radio and Tunein for searching for radio streams. It has a full featured radio dialog where you can import and export your stations list and search for new stations.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I really don't wanna toot my own horn here but, fuck it. The app is damn fast. It has a podcatcher dialog that if I say so myself, is faster than any other podcatcher I've ever used.
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I haven't tried it for that purpose, as I have been using luna rss for that, but I just might have to give yours a go to see how it does. I can conferm that it is a very fast program though, and like I said really small!
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 you have every right to brag about it! I didn't think I would like it, as I haven't liked a lot of players I have tried threw the years, but yours has actually caused me to stop using winamp lately. the only thing you don't have is support for DSP effects. lol.
@Bri @countrymetalhead I took two people out, as I am sure they don't want to stay in this conversation. smile. so was trying to be nice. actually did you know that octimax was actually part of a program? for what I heard years ago, when someone left the company they took that part of the code, and turned it into a dsp effect.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 No. I don't even want to touch that. SiriusXM is really damn stingy about what can play their streams. A SiriusXM app for Mac and iOS recently got shut right the fuck down because of SiriusXM blocking the app, so ... I could maybe get it working and it might work for a bit, but eventually it would just get shut down.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I don't understand why they shut it down. It's not like the app was stopping users from paying for a subscription. You had to be subscribed to use it. So like, I don't understand what gain/motivation they had for doing that.
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I was one of his first beta testers too! he was like you, and actually listened when you either found a bug, or you thought something might work better if done a different way.
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 the person doing the development for it was a hell of a person too! that makes me want to seriously consider getting rid of there service just for this reason. I mean I haven't been listening to them a lot lately, and when I did, it was on my google speaker, or an echo in the house, but still. to jsut do that after 10 fucking years, that is completely bullshit!
@winduptoy whatever thing Mozilla is doing or the way they (mis)communicate things, it has nothing to do with people applying to jobs. The majority of the applicants know nothing about Mozilla nor Thunderbird, they just use AI tools without any safeguard or awareness of how terrible they are and everyone in the world is dealing with the consequences of this unmitigated and unchecked cluster fuck that a bunch of billionaires unleashed on the web
Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.
You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening
Is it still common for screen reader users to miss incoming messages in a text chat while they're typing? Seems like it would be, since typing interrupts speech.
@ChrisDuffley Ideally, a script should be able to look for incoming messages and should provide a user setting to always speak them, at least as an option.
If the app in question makes it quick and easy to edit, delete, and send followups, I don't consider it much of an issue. E.g. Slack works well in these areas for me.
If performing those actions is laborious because of accessibility or other issues, I worry about it a lot more.
Yes, this has often happened to me, since some apps will make a noise or speak a message when one comes in, and some do not. Also sometimes I am just using Braille and not speech, and then any incoming message notifications are even easier to miss if my fingers are typing and not reading the display.
Definitely. If an app has no setting to allow playing sounds for incoming messages even if the chat is already open, I consider this a major issue. In 90 percent of cases I will go and check what is above my message if I sent it, but the 10% when I forget to do so could be crucial.
Probably. I have Slack and Element on my phone now. I like getting notifications there when I get messages, although it might easily get annoying if I'm in too many chat rooms.
Yes, especially in apps that don't even announce them, assuming that they don't even need to make a sound and fire a system notification if you're already in the window.
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