Just got my hands on a Brailled Speak 'N Math. These things were super interesting, the Braille was literally embossed into the board! And, ah, good old EBAE/Nemeth, I missed you. No UEB. I shall have recordings tomorrow, when I'm not non-24ing and likely to wake everyone up.
It's awful. No dropped numbers, plus is dot 5 then dropped f, minus is dot 5 then dots 3-6, you put spaces around all your operators, blech! Blech blech blech! Get it away! I actively refused to read UEB math in school, if they gave it to me I would just sit there and refuse to do my work. They gave up after about a week lol
Even if they're logical I'd probably still refuse to use it. I've seen Nemeth equations take up 60+ characters in some of my higher math courses. I do not want to imagine that in UEB.
yeah, there does come a point when a compact code is better than an unambiguous one. But for math that the general population are likely to encounter...
Yeah, that is a fairly niche issue. The number of blind people encountering those sorts of equations is probably depressingly low. Don't think I'm ever gonna stop hating on UEB math though :D
A woman who is a Braille expert here in Wisconsin told me that Nemeth is way better than UEB for mathematics, that UEB kind of falls apart in higher math.
@kevinrj @mcourcel falls apart is putting it politely, with all the extra indicators you need. But they're different in purpose, I think. Nemeth is a specific adaptation of Braille for those versed in the subject. UEB is a universally readable format, applicable across data types, with additions in fields that matter (like math), without losing the initial structure.
LaTeX and markdown are used for different things, y'know?
Constantly persisting everything in a web form to localstorage in case of browser, tab accidents is such a cheap and effective trick! mastodon.social/@timbornholdt/…
Big shout out to @simon@simonwillison.net and his "annotated presentation creator" tool.
I was several hours into using it to annotating a talk I gave a couple days ago when I fumbled my mouse and accidentally refreshed the page, losing all that wo…
took a survey today in a fairly serious context which included the following question: "Do you identify as having a disability?" WTF? I'm confused. You either do or you don't in almost all cases. Fuck off with that.
I dislike wokeness, but this makes sense to me. Imagine a person not legally classified as disabled because of bad laws, but still considering themselves as such.
To me, the question of whether you are legally considered disabled and whether you consider yourself as such are distinct, and it's worth emphasizing this distinction IMO.
It’s almost like #Israel has a Dahieh doctrine, first developed in #Lebanon, in which targeting and destroying civilian infrastructures is literally the military strategy.
Does this break international law? Well, of course.
thanks for educating me on this. It was clearly happening but I had no idea that it had been formalised to this extent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_d…
„Lidem v sociální nouzi pomáhá stát formou příspěvku na bydlení, která se odvíjí mimo jiné od výše nájmu. Systém tedy funguje tak, že majitelé ubytovny nastaví nájemné kolem dvaceti tisíc korun za pokojík, který obývá pětičlenná rodina, a tuto částku prakticky celou uhradí příspěvek na bydlení. A tento byznys a s ním i existenci ubytoven hradíme všichni z našich daní. Nejsou to tedy Romové, kdo zneužívá dávky, ale podnikatelé obchodující s chudobou.” denikreferendum.cz/clanek/3680…
Vystěhování obyvatel z ubytovny na Jarní ulici v Brně opět připomnělo, že to nejsou Romové, kdo zneužívá sociální dávky, ale podnikatelé obchodující s chudobou. Politické strany a místní samosprávy jim v tom mnohdy čile asistují.
Seeking advice from those who are familiar with the Wordpress.com desktop app for Windows with a screen reader. I'm running Windows 11 23 H2, the September build of JAWS 2024 and NVDA 2024.4 RC1. For years, I had successfully used version 6 of this app with JAWS with no accessibility issues. As it had been a long time since the app alerted me about any updates, I went to wordpress.com to see if newer versions were available and, as I suspected, there was a new version, that being 8.0.4. I downloaded and installed it over my older 6.0.3 installation. After installing it, I noticed that, while the JAWS virtual cursor was enabled, JAWS was not able to detect any readable text, even after maximizing the window and doing a screen refresh. The only way I could get the virtual cursor to behave in an expected way was to activate the touch cursor and click on an element with numpad enter. This would allow me to read text using the virtual cursor and everything would appear to be back to normal until I exit and restart the app, once again with no readable text. NVDA exhibits similar results. I decided to uninstall v8.0.4 and reinstall v6.0.3. After doing this, JAWS couldn't even read any of the screens, even with the touch cursor. Has anyone seen this behavior with the Wordpress.com app and are there any possible solutions?
My baby wasn't having a great sleep I tried to get her back to sleep but she keeps crying and it's going to wake the neighbors #baby #cryingSubscribe to the ...
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Dog toy squeaky sound for your dogs, Squeaky toy dog toy 10 hours version.#squeakytoy #dog #dogtoy Thank you for watching! If you like what we're doing, plea...
#TIL in Polish, the word "łoś" (literally a moose or an elk) can also mean "sucker", "loser", "not good-looking person" (like wearing outdated clothes). Interesting enough, Russian has a totally unrelated but very similarly sounding word Лох (Loch, identical in sound to the Scottish word for Lake, in Polish letters it would be approximately łoch) with a similar meaning: a sucker, a simple person, a person easy to trick. This word was borrowed into several geographically neighboring languages like Ukrainian and Armenian. #Languages
I don't know if it's just me, but I've noticed a growing trend of drivers (who I call 38's) who feel 'safe' driving at 38mph. They do this in 20mph, 30mph, and 40 mph limits and the odd 50mph - because they feel safe at this speed. I think it's the same people who hog the middle lane even when the left-hand lane is clear. They sometimes accelerate to 50 on Motorways and dual carriageways, but only when it's safe to do so. Has anyone else seen this?
This is where it really kicks off. Rebuilding the team, figuring out what is happening, of course Jack was involved! And then bang in the middle of the season, halfway through the episode: First contact.
It’s so well written and you always know what’s going on and who is doing what. Gwen is superb here, with the police skills.
That said, I always wondered why the Home Office would not scout old Torchwood locations. 🤷♂️
It's quite hard to look at the current situations with Musk and Twitter, Bezos and the WaPo, and the LA Times as anything other than evidence that the extreme consolidation of wealth is itself a grave and direct threat to society
Called Bookshare because I realized I actually had a few questions they could help me with, and of course had to leave a message. Ah well, I still feel alright about things. Even if I have to start from scratch, it won't be that bad. Hardest part will be getting and sending proof of disability. It's $79 per year, which sounds scary, but it's really not. Free would be better, obviously, but it's a lot less than Audible!
If you're from the U.S. and a patron of NLS, wasn't there a way that you could just indicate that you are an NLS patron and Bookshare could verify that and that would then be accepted as proof of disability? I'll admit it's been over ten years since I first signed up with them but I thought I remember doing this.
@DavidGoldfield I called NLS, and the person I talked to said no. I think it goes state by state. I told her I wasn't surprised Florida didn't have it, lol.
That's too bad. They should have a way of allowing you to specify that you're an NLS patron. With the Internet Archive, they made it very easy to prove that someone has a visual disability by providing a link to the BARD Web site and, once you log in with your credentials, you're instantly approved.
Anyone can use the Internet Archive. However, they have a section to allow people with qualifying print disabilities to borrow copyrighted books. If you want to use that feature, that's when proof of disability is required.
I'm so thrilled! Newt is all fully loaded with books, set up and ready to go! He works like a charm and is wonderfully easy to use. Things I like: the sound quality is wonderful, lovely and clear. There's none of that bleeping when you press a button. There's no silly warning message when you turn up the volume. The file exploration setup makes it very quick and easy to find things. The Ivona voice is miles better than anything the stream ever had! The only thing it doesn't have is a ten minute time jump which is sometimes useful, but that's a minor thing with which I can deal. All in all I'm just over the moon and so thankful.
Yes, it is great that there is no message when you turn up the volume. I also like iVona Amy. She reads my text books to me so it's good the messages are spoken in her voice as well.
@DerryLawlor @brian_hartgen Not drm protected ones, of course. No kindle books or Kobo files direct, but if you can strip the DRM off them and get regular unprotected ePub you'll be good, if you're an Ivona fan.
@brian_hartgen @DerryLawlor one thing I can't see from the sales literature is if you can download extra voices on the device itself, given that it has wifi, or if you need to do that with a computer.
Also is there a way of adding content wirelessly outside of something like a talking book service?
@cachondo @DerryLawlor I don't think you can do the things that you want, but we're not interested in using the players in either of those ways so I've not investigated it.
@brian_hartgen @DerryLawlor just curious, really. I'm happy enough with my old rockbox stuff for me, but I always like to know what the things in the market can do.
@cachondo @brian_hartgen @DerryLawlor You do have to hold it, but it doesn't usually take ten seconds. With my wonky hands I thought I'd have trouble powering up and down, but I honestly don't.
@DerryLawlor @brian_hartgen Not downing on evo but if price is an issue and you want Ivona, a fire tablet is much cheaper. As in 60 quid for the 7 inch one. Obviously buttons are far better than a touchscreen and you won't get the battery life, recording quality etc etc, but if you were looking just to listen to ebooks with that synthesizer, it's a thought.
#mona web browser tip. Greetings everyone. Here is an awesome tip that I feel will help people who view websites in the Mona app. If you like the Safari reader mode, access settings in the Mona app. Then tap on web browser and turn on safari reader. This will open any link within Mona and will invoke reader mode. This saves having to tap on page options then tap reader mode. This has made browsing links much faster and I love this particular feature within the Mona app.
It is the public timeline, where everyone sees, everything that has the public privacy from different instances. Like your post for example. It's public, it showed on my federated timeline. Say, you have home, which is like your little house and you choose who to invite, meaning, whoever you follow, you'll see their posts. The local timeline, is the place I'd call your city, you live in a city, meet people, etc. Now, the federated timeline is where all the softwares connect. Say on a scale that is, different countries connected, who each have their cities, and houses, or neighbourhoods. So yes, there are four privacy options: unlisted, which are posts that will show up on your profile but not in the public/federated timeline, there are local_only posts, that will only show up on your instance's local timeline, the city, and not all instances have those, so it's a bit different, then you have followers-only, which only shows the posts to those who follow you or you follow. and they can't boost them. Then, there is direct, which is like a DM. the local_only option I mentioned above, is like an emoji, it is not a standard option in general. For example, my sintance and software, give the ability to only show public posts in my profile, not even unlisted, however, Mastodon does not have this option, but I am not using Mastodon. All these different softwares connect via a protocol, called activity pub. Say like, the internet connects the world. Haha I hope this helped.
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in reply to Kevin R Jones • • •@kevinrj @mcourcel falls apart is putting it politely, with all the extra indicators you need. But they're different in purpose, I think. Nemeth is a specific adaptation of Braille for those versed in the subject.
UEB is a universally readable format, applicable across data types, with additions in fields that matter (like math), without losing the initial structure.
LaTeX and markdown are used for different things, y'know?