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I'm quite annoyed that ollama folks thought it is an absolutely brilliant idea to use braille dots to make a fancy progress bar for *everything*.

Grabbing a model? You'll have that spamming the screen reader. Chatting? The same.

No, I absolutely don't find it enjoyable to get told something along the lines of,
braille dot 1 3 6 braille dot 4 2 5 braille dot 6 8 3 hello, braille dot 3 5 6 braille dot 4 5 6 how braille dot 1 2 3 are you today?

People. Just stop with the braille dots for fancy progress bar. Just stop it right there and get rid of this, right now.

#accessibility #blind #fail #rant

#Accessibility #blind #fail #rant
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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This is not just them, I've seen this in quite a few places recently. Probably a library of some sort. It's the only way to make a nice-looking TUI progress bar afaik.
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Casey Reeves
Casey Reeves
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@miki Hmph. Who cares about nice? Give me percentage or let me turn it off.

I know they are not alone, docker-compose does that too, but I'm actively annoyed now, as I use ollama a lot more often than docker.

@Mikołaj Hołysz
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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There are projects that look nice and projects that nobody uses. This is not a battle we can win I think. It's not something that actively prevents us from using the program, and there's no way to make things better for the extremely tiny minority without making them worse for the 99.999% of people.

IMO the best we can hope for, and something we should actively push, is a standardized SCREEN_READER environment variable, just like we have things like NOCOLOR now.

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