"You're correct; there is a project that facilitates compatibility between applications designed for JAWS and NVDA. The Jaws Access Bridge is an open-source project that acts as a bridge, translating calls from applications using the JAWS jfwapi.dll to NVDA's nvdaControllerClient.dll. This allows applications originally developed for JAWS to function with NVDA without requiring significant modifications.
You can find the Jaws Access Bridge project on GitHub.
By integrating this bridge into your application, you can achieve compatibility with both screen readers, enhancing accessibility for a broader user base."
Uh, buddy. You're confusing Java Access Bridge maybe? The repo it links to does not even exist: github.com/Elv1s42/jaws-access… - that's right. There goes GPT hallucinating links again, conflating information it may have little data about. This is why I don't yet trust it as a search tool, not for everything, that is. Sure, finding info about hotels? Airlines? A software component's purpose or something? Yes.
Using it to find an obscure function call or what overridable method calls a certain DLL supports? Forget it! This is proof, do your homework, because such a thing does not exist either, and if I would have trusted GPT I would have been duped.
When they first launched their Search GPT thing, I stayed quiet, and now you know why. While people keep raving about it in mainstream media, I don't.
Thanks in advance!
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I’ve told LF (and others) repeatedly that “education” as the leading point is insulting. Many maintainers know exactly what they need to do, but they lack time and energy for it. Lecturing them, I mean “giving them skills”, is… rarely the need or solution.
But “education” allows LF (and friends like GH) to continue elephant-in-the-room-ing the actual solution, which is paying maintainers for the trillions of dollars of value they create.
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Don McCurdy (@donmccurdy@fosstodon.org)
I've been expecting something like this since the XZ hack, but still ... frustrated/annoyed/sad to see Microsoft and 13 (!) partners jointly announcing that their answer is to “educate” open source maintainers.Fosstodon
Or to put it a different way: open source maintainers are some of the most verifiably self-taught people in the history of the world, *when they want to be*. Happy to dig into tools, Google, books, mailing list archives, source code, stack traces, whatever. *If they’re motivated and have time for it.*
Saying “what they really need is… an online course” is… actually a tacit admission that what’s actually missing is time and motivation.
No music yet this morning, although storm Bert has derailed the wife's planned shopping trip.
I'm also considering opening up a debate about the size of a 'Large' breakfast, as my box this morning, despite having plenty of food, was not, according to my stomach, large.
I also indulged in 2 pints of cider with my main and an Irish coffee along with the White chocolate and lemon posset. It had pistachio praline and a blackcurrant sorbet. Delicious all round. Very satisfied stomach thereafter. That's why breakfast was a bit of a letdown I think!
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