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Everyone should be doing what Home Connect is doing and we all would have a much easier time picking our household devices. Home Connect is a common smart household appliances platform for everything by Siemens, Bosch and Guggenau. They let you, without creating accounts and anything, add a virtual device of any type, to play with its control interface via the app. A great way to evaluate the accessibility, which by the way is a great and is 100 percent a planned endeavour, while playing with a fantasy coffee or washing machine. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
#a11y #Accessibility #blind
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Paweł Masarczyk

@jakobrosin Agreed. I think you can actually do that with those. They let you actually setup a dev account to play with their stuff as far as I know. Interesting, how supporting universal standards might improve accessibility, for example if TV providers allowed access over IPTV, as in the actual protocol with playlists and stuff, you would have a myriad of ways, including building your own tools, to access your TV.
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Jakob Rosin

Yeah. Imagine if everything netflix, spotify, audible, any of those services sells is access to their catalogue through lets say an APi key. They could also sell you the output of their recommendation algorithm. But the actual frontend UI and the implementation is open source. THere is a million and one reasons this is not a valid way of doing things, but one can dream and imagine of a world which is interesting, not locked in and allows great things to happen
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Jakob Rosin

I think the home automation front is heading somewhere that way. Currently, home assistant relies heavily on users reverse engineering technology, some manufacturers have catched on to that, done everything to throw the HA community out, and received boycotting users. THe others have openly said that they will make an effort to support Home assistant. And home assistant itself is so open you can decide yourself how do you control it. Create your own dashboard on the HA interface, use homekit, alexa, google home, ssh command line if you want.
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Mikołaj Hołysz

@jakobrosin This is a significant advantage of Web DRM.

Before Web DRM, you'd usually get some kind of proprietary player you had no control over. Web DRM lets you do almost anything except actually getting at the video stream, and that includes changing the speed, replacing, speaking or changing the font of the subtitles, pausing etc.

There are browser addons that will translate Netflix subtitles for you on request, and that automatically stop when a new subtitle appears. This is useful for learning languages.

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