Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze Conversational search and hazard reporting and more detailed maps, all thanks to AI. arstechnica.com/cars/2024/10/g…
Good morning to you all. Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it. A very blessed Samhain to us who celebrate that one. If you celebrate neither, I hope you have a brilliant day. It's hard to believe that October is at its end for another year. May life be kind, may peace and serenity surround you. May you always remember that someone cares, you are not alone. It may feel that way at times but you are very muched loved and wanted. Have a grate time tonight no matter what you are doing.
Most adorable : the conductor had a printed sign "Tickets please" they hold in my sight in the silent area of the train rather than loudly asking for it. They said that'd be more comfortable for everyone than shouting and half of the people in the train were wearing headphones anyway.
I really, really like that idea and their commitment to just print these tiny signs.
Cool, but if you're blind or low vision, you're basically screwed. when a conductor does the old thing (i.e., speaking normally), I have time to slowly open my bag, grab my wallet, put my disability card and tickets, if needed, out of it, and be in time. If a seemingly random person comes to me in silence, I won't react.
#windows store important update. Greetings everyone. Just letting everyone know in the latest update to the microsoft store app on windows 11, they have changed where you now download store updates. You used to go to the library tab in the microsoft store app however, this has now changed so to check for app updates open the microsoft store app by searching for store on the start menu. Then tab over till you hear home. Then arrow down till you hear downloads and hit enter. Then tab till you hear get updates button. sometimes focus will not always land on this get updates button so if this happens, just shift tab back till you find this button. Hit the space bar on get updates and follow the instructions. I hope this helps. I was a little confused at first because I did not know this had changed.
A friend of mine, also blind and a very advanced user, tried to send me a Zoom meeting invitation with a Mac. Here's what happened: 1. Instead of a meeting at 4 pm the meeting was set to last from 8 PM previous day to 4 PM next day; 2. the appointment location contained only this: "[Name Redacted] is inviting you to a Zoom meeting."; 3. The appointment body was totally empty, so no Zoom link was available. That's all you need to know about #Accessibility and usability of a Mac with #VoiceOver. To prevent a holy war of devoted Mac fans, I am not telling you this is completely impossible. I'm just telling you that on Windows it's a breeze for a blind user and I even don't know how to achieve such messy results here.
I've scheduled a bunch of Zoom meetings with Mac OS over the years, really wonder how this person went about it cause unless Zoom changed something recently it really shouldn’t be that hard with VO. I wonder if the crazy amount of hate VO on Mac gets is because of people coming from Windows expecting it to behave the same? Been using Mac OS for about 15 years at this point and just don’t have many of the problems I see a lot of people complaining about.
Somehow I can no longer get my Braille display to talk to NVDA. I've no idea what I did, or if I pressed some random keystroke that disables it, in the same way you can turn off speech or something. Very confused.
I guess you tried most of these already but if not, change NVDA to specifically use your display if you haven’t. Restart Windows. Check device manager to see if your display is recognized by Windows correctly. Swap USB ports. Windows braille support has in my experience been really temperamental and at some point or another I had to do one of the above to get it working, having to change the USB port being the most recent and I have no idea why.
@pitermach I haven't connected via USB in forever, I'm using Bluetooth at the moment, and it worked a couple of weeks ago but not recently. It shows as connected in windows settings but that's it. I'll keep trying things.
@pitermach Aah, having it tethered automatically seemed to have been chosen, instead of to cursor. An annoying but simple fix. How stupid. Been trying to solve this for about the last two hours.
@pitermach I always have to reconnect my Brailledisplay because it is not recogniced from the Start by NVDA, only Exception is restarting, then it always connects directly
@svenja Yeah, NVDA display detection is definitely not as quick as Apple platforms, but either an NVDA restart or selecting the display typically gets things going
@cachondo Orbit Reader 20+, and I fixed it by setting the tether mode to focus, not automatically. Maybe that breaks things. Must have lent on that key by mistake one day and didn't realise.
I like the orbit. Despite the high repair rates mine's never had a problem, and from a cold start it's the quickest braille device I've used for taking a note, despite being the cheapest.
Die letzten Monate war es Social-Media-technisch hier eher ruhig, weil das Leben zu viel war. Ein enger Freund, mit dem ich seit 40 Jahren befreundet war, ist verstorben. Ich selbst hatte auch noch eine kleine OP. Dann die Arbeit und der ganze Rest. Hoffe, jetzt wird‘s mal wieder etwas aufgeräumter!
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