Are there any Mastodon clients for Linux that are fully accessible? If Tweesecak ran on Linux, that'd be great--I love the screenless UI. Also, how can I get the exact same Espeak that NVDA uses by default? I think I'm using Espeak-NG, but it never sounds as good. My laptop decided to boot into Fedora this evening, so I'm playing around a bit.
@mcourcel @DavidGoldfield Hi, do you have the IBM voxin or the Vocalizer Voxin? I have the IBM, and it's good indeed, but I was wondering if Vocalizer is better. Oralux doesn't offer any demo unfortunately.
@Cleverson @Martin @David Goldfield @Alex Hall I think those voices from oralux are the same voice, tyflotecnia has for NVDA, oralux has made these compatible with speech-dispatcher on linux and negotiated proper licensing.
As for the original question, NVDA uses variat called max for its built-in eSpeak-ng, so if you like this one, reconfigure your screen reader preferences of orca.
Trump says he is sending the military to an American city that is not under any threat except from his regime. Here’s #Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on the situation in #Portland, posted on Bluesky at about 10 am pacific time.
Gauging user interest! Over the last few weeks I have been working on a website that can auto describe YouTube videos. I am aware that the solution has already been created for windows, however, I don’t want to leave mobile users and non-Windows users out in the cold. I have already experimented with a desktop app and it works quite well. Would this be of interest to the community?
What I find most odd about ads for AI products is that they think "just let the software take notes, read and summarize your mails and reply for you" is in any way a good selling point that doesn't come off as extremely fucking respectless towards the people you're in contact with
I never reply to emails nor summarize them with AI, but I do draft emails to various state institutions with it. No need to say I check afterwards and add my style and personal data, but it helps with drafting a skeleton in that "administrative" style all European institutions expect: "Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hiermit bestätige ich, dass...", you know the song as you're German. Speaking of German, I still need to communicate with German authorities, and as my deutsch is not perfect, I prefer to draft with AI to drop in less grammatical errors. Again, I reiterate, it's _drafting_, not "AI, copy, paste, send" which is highly disrespectful indeed.
@menelion damn, German institutions still don't accept English messages? :/ I'm not surprised, but Germany has the 10th highest EF EPI. The only reason not to accept English forms and letters nowadays is discrimination against foreigners, but I guess that checks out, even though we're strongly dependent on immigration and should open up as much as possible
@menelion on the topic of LLMs though, this is one of the rare use cases that I can understand. LLMs are heuristic models for predictive text synthesis, so constructing a template is something they are actually designed to do. However, considering the energy cost for that template, I'd recommend looking for existing templates first. Even native speakers use them all the time because official letters and forms are a pain in the ass
I really need to write a Firefox extension that will put warning signs on links to the various mega socal media silos and fascist sites. For the latter it's a bit more complicated as they allow custom domains.
- Motorways… by the bucket load - Motorways... falling apart - The A440 motorway leading into a wall - Some stupid idea by the provincial government in the City - Complaints about a mayor of a different City - "But, but… *something, something* tram" - Fake castle
@EdwinG last time I drove through Quebec it was construction, construction, construction. And I live in Montréal so I'm aware of the orange pylons being the native species. But this took a new level...
(no it wasn't even the tram construction - which we are acustomed here too with the REM)
It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.
Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.
You can't say that about Discord. Or BlueSky. Or TikTok. Or whatever the new corporate run social media of the day is. We can just talk to one another.
Even Signal. It has one central point of control to it and relies on telephone numbers and SMS. Take over their servers, compromise their apps and force it out through the app store with forced updates, stingray the SMS verification, whatever. It's toast.
Those posts that are like "we used to have phone apps like the one that makes your screen look like a beer glass and has fluid simulation so you can pretend to drink it, we just don't even know how to make apps like that anymore"
Ok sure that was a custom thing maybe even using APIs that don't exist anymore but we absolutely can make that with a game engine
I seriously hope that all these DA and LEO that got fired in the purge will put their abilities to take down the fuckers. I know ACAB so I'm not holding my breath.
But I can't find anything recent there. I can't find Spring or Sprite Fright, for instance.
I just want a little library of high quality 4k stuff to add to my jellyfin and peertube to demo on nice monitors and projectors, but all their links go to Youtube. Even their official peertube doesn't have high quality anything outside of big buck bunny 🤔
Where did they put the other films (for download)? I am happy to torrent them, but I'm also happy to just download a zip somewhere. I just want them ideally in 4k, but I'll settle for 1080p if they REALLY don't exist in 4k for the public.
I am unstoppable! I found every single film except one called Heros, but honestly it really really warms my heart to see such dedication to open source. Every single one of these is completely open source. You can download the assets and re-render it yourself if you want. The world is your oyster. They used to laugh at people using blender and say that it would never be a professional tool and now it is one of the tools to use for 3D work, and it's free! I love FOSS so much
#Firefox unterstützt nun unter #Windows die Einrichtung einer Website als sogenannte #WebApp (support.mozilla.org/de/kb/web-…). Dafür gibt es rechts in der Adresszeile einen neuen Button: „Tab zur #Taskleiste hinzufügen“. Danach taucht die Website unten in der Taskleiste (und nicht mehr im Browser) auf und wirkt wie ein eigenes Programm. Wer das grundsätzlich nicht möchte, kann diese Funktion auch deaktivieren: about:config aufrufen, dann nach browser.taskbarTabs.enabled suchen und auf false stellen. 💡 Momentan gibts die Web-App-Funktionalität nur unter Windows. #MacOS und #Linux sollen aber folgen.
#Linux folks: I have a patch that I'd like to get merged into `Kconfig` - the GTK4 port I was working on while back. Sadly, it looks like the subsystem has went orphaned recently, and as much as I'd like to step up to maintain it I lack the deeper knowledge about the configuration subsystem (it's pretty out of my field of expertise). What do we think, is there still a way to get the patches merged? If I want to do so, do I send them to the general build system maintainers?
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Is Bluesky gaining any significant popularity among #blind people yet? I know a lot of us flocked to the fediverse when Musk canned the old Twitter accessibility team. Now that Bluesky has gained momentum in the mainstream, and even among some techies who weren't happy with the fediverse, I wonder if it's time for us to at least give Bluesky a try. And I wonder if some blind people already are.
I use an iOS app called Skeets that is very accessible. I don't know how many other blind people are there but I mostly just follow people who are on there and not on here.
There are some people apparently, but ngl I see absolutely no sense in it at all. Nothing interesting afaik, so why really. I mean I won't stop you, but if you wanna hear my opinion that's probably just wasted time. I won't go there.
I haven't tried it so far (I think I was going to a while back, had trouble with the supposedly accessible HCaptcha, and gave up). I know of at least three blind people who have accounts. Not sure if all of them are still using it.
@MikeGorse Ah, good to know that HCaptcha is part of standard Bluesky sign-up. I avoided that the hard way by setting up my own ATProto PDS (personal data server). So I don't have an account on the Bluesky service as such, but the Bluesky app has access to my PDS (I'm not sure if it's actually the front-end or back-end connecting to my PDS).
so, so. to you all Linux nerds. It has come to my atention to even Linux fusses at not having a display connected with some apps. Case in point: Tuba. In Linux, how can I make it have a dummy software-based display if at all? how can I trick apps like Tuba into thinking one is connected? thanks! For now I made a grub edit: /etc/default/grub, adding to the Grub_CMDLine_linux_default= "... video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60e" - this appears to force it well. Looks like some GTK apps just don't synchronize A11Y events well without one, and that's just so odd.
@sektor hmm, yeah I'm still on X11. So that would work too. For now I made a grub edit: /etc/default/grub, adding to the Grub_CMDLine_linux_default= "... video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60e" - this appears to force it well. Looks like some GTK apps just don't synchronize A11Y events well without one, and that's just so odd.
All I can add [1] to @pluralistic's latest is that Apple are the primary force keeping us from having powerful, interoperable apps on phones through suppression of the web. It's not an accident, and @owa has the receipts [2]:
I am unstoppable! I found every single film except one called Heros, but honestly it really really warms my heart to see such dedication to open source. Every single one of these is completely open source. You can download the assets and re-render it yourself if you want. The world is your oyster. They used to laugh at people using blender and say that it would never be a professional tool and now it is one of the tools to use for 3D work, and it's free! I love FOSS so much 
unterstützt nun unter #Windows die Einrichtung einer Website als sogenannte #WebApp (support.mozilla.org/de/kb/web-…). Dafür gibt es rechts in der Adresszeile einen neuen Button: „Tab zur #Taskleiste hinzufügen“. Danach taucht die Website unten in der Taskleiste (und nicht mehr im Browser) auf und wirkt wie ein eigenes Programm. Wer das grundsätzlich nicht möchte, kann diese Funktion auch deaktivieren: about:config aufrufen, dann nach browser.taskbarTabs.enabled suchen und auf false stellen. 💡 Momentan gibts die Web-App-Funktionalität nur unter Windows. #MacOS und #Linux sollen aber folgen.
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But would they have been elected? We will never know. The current one is a cult. And the line of succession might be worse.