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Updated mine and @arfy's SendTo with latest encoders and now a quick and easy cmd installer that puts all the encoders in-place for you, along with the send to shortcuts, also adds it to your path so you don't have to.
3.onj.me/programs/SendTo202605…
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The National Federation of the Blind has been advocating strongly to Microsoft on this issue, and we're pleased with this outcome. Microsoft admits Windows 11’s dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows: Confirms plans to let users restore "Right Ctrl" or "Context menu" key later this year windowscentral.com/microsoft/w…

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Regarding development tools and data, it's interesting to me that some of us have spent years with certain things being inaccessible or difficult for us to access; e.g. charts, cluttered reports with weird and wonderfully inaccessible web interfaces, other complex visual representations of important data. But now, all of a sudden, people are making APIs and tools (often command line tools) to retrieve that data with the primary goal of making it more digestible by LLMs, yet those tools even by themselves just make the information so much more accessible. I feel kinda conflicted about this. On one hand, it's great that it's more accessible to me now. On the other hand, it's weird to feel that our struggles never really mattered enough for anyone to solve them, but now that we have LLMs, we suddenly have this urgent need to make information more easily accessible and digestible and folks are willing to put work into that.
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Just saw this in someone's email signature:

"Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off."

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I just added an option to App2Clap to capture the first process matching the filter when reloaded. For example, if you type nvda.exe into the filter and check the "Capture first matching process when reloaded" check box, when the plug-in reloads (e.g. opening a saved project or FX chain), it will search for the first process named nvda.exe and automatically capture it. Even if you don't use this check box, the filter and radio button states are saved to make restoring common configurations faster. app2clap.jantrid.net/

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@Scott Yeah, that was my thinking too. I have this annoying setup where I want to use one pair of headphones for mixing and another (much crappier but less isolating) pair for recording vocals. I have two headphone outputs, but NVDA only comes out the first one and there's no way for me to change that with my particular interface. I can just unplug and replug, but that's annoying and I'm lazy, so it'd be much nicer if I could just fire up a quick App2Clap template to capture NVDA and shove it out the second output. More than you wanted to know, but there you go.
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'the history of iconic sounds' youtu.be/Bkt6-iCbI0o?si=s9Qmlv…

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Want to see what browsers share about you without your consent when you visit a site? It's pretty impressive... and scary: sinceyouarrived.world/taken

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@FreakyFwoof I can’t remember if it was you that posted that really interesting recording from inside a suitcase as it was being loaded onto an aircraft, I don’t know what happened to it and I’d love to get it back and any other interesting recordings.

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Meet Rabbit, the REAPER Accessibility Bootstrap & Bundle Installation Tool, your one and only tool to keep REAPER and all its extensions up to date.
Rabbit does make sure to update REAPER, OSARA, SWS, ReaPack, ReaKontrol, JAWS Scripts and FFMpeg on Windows and Mac, no matter if ARM or x64. It comes as a single executable that you can run and forget whenever you want. For nerds it also contains a CLI application that can be used to automate mass installations etc.
github.com/Timtam/rabbit/relea…

Michaela dlha, Slovak accessibility consultant, created a nice project - Github release search. You just put the name of the project and it shows you latest release files. Now available in english too: technologiebezzraku.sk/github-… @Paweł Masarczyk @Peter Vágner
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows

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I've just put out a new build of Fastwin, my small Windows utility to apply various registry tweaks to make your system run better. This version adds new options for things such as explorer customization, allowing you to get rid of the new right click context menu in Windows 11, turning off Bing in the start menu, etc. and also now allows you to toggle settings between states instead of just setting them in one state. For example, now I can turn back on bing in the start menu, if I ever want to do that for some reason. Download for x86_64: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/r… Download for ARM64: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/r… enjoy!

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Be My Eyes CEO Mike Buckley reacts to concerns about sighted people recording their interactions with users of the app - watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/0EIzs7xwRyI?si=GwEjMh… #Blind #BlindTech

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It’s not our ability to love that makes us human—it’s our ability to select all the pictures that include a bus.

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But "bus" is also slang for 'kiss', do I include the kissing picture? Wait, a 'bus' in the electrical sense is a distribution block, there is sure to be on in that power substation, so do I include that?
Do I REALLY want to log onto that website? I am so tired now.
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This is a reminder to check everything AI produces, unless you want to waste time and resources you didn't expect were necessary. Such lazyness on my part did create a new language though.

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Meet and greet my new tune called Emily, youtube.com/watch?si=m_BaTfqV_…
I'm quite happy with how it came out! Hope you will like it too!

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A new release today : mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/berk…

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Hi! Latest release of music separator is up!
You find it at the usual place
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Mu…
More stems, more models and now each output will be in its own folder.

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Introducing, the Magic Switch! mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=202604…

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Hello! Here is the new Release of Music separator
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Mu…
Mac version is ready and compiled as well. Feel free to test it.
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Gianluca, @Leowyatt88 has made a very easy-to-use, accessible stem separation tool for windows.
One uses CPU, another uses GPU so simply download the version you need.

dropbox.com/scl/fo/jnicbs8cjc8…

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Now live with the Super Liam 1.5 Release Party. Come party right along. youtube.com/live/kIRs9H-zq5I?f…

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Auphonic CLI release: Auphonic is now available from the command line.
Process, manage, and automate your audio productions without leaving the terminal. Free, single binary, no dependencies.
Read more here: auphonic.com/blog/2026/03/26/a…

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Abaddon: an alternative Discord Client with Voice Support made with C++ and GTK 3, without Electron #OSS #Discord github.com/uowuo/abaddon

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A gong vibrates with far more complexity than the air around it reveals. Some of its deepest motions stay mostly in the metal itself. By placing contact microphones directly on the surface, I captured vibrations that conventional microphones usually miss...

mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/gong…

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I got super tired of Microsoft seemingly being determined to make the app you turn to when your computer locks up and is laggy laggy itself with screen readers, so I wrote my own task manager. It's pure C ,not even linking against a CRT, meaning the current binary is around 20 KB including a complete, sortable process list. You can also customize what columns the list shows and how often you want it to refresh, if at all. I personally keep auto refresh off and just manually refresh with f5, and the list keeps your exact place whenever it refreshes. Pressing escape minimizes it to the system tray, while alt+f4 closes it. I want to do much more with this, such as binding it to a hotkey, but I think it's good enough for a first release. Source code: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon , 0.1.0 release: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r… , Enjoy!
Edit since this is blowing up: if you like all the hacking I do in my downtime, please consider donating on PayPal or GitHub sponsors so I can keep making teeny pieces of software that just work exactly as they should. GitHub: github.com/sponsors/trypsynth PayPal: paypal.me/tygillespie05 Thanks everyone!
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I had to come back to your timeline just to send you this video from Mr Task Manager himself.
He followed a lot of core principles that I'm pretty sure you also believe in.
'Why the Original Task Manager Was Under 80K and Insanely Fast – By Its Creator' youtu.be/OyN4LGyPwxc?si=_M_nft…
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@ondrosik @NV Access Also there is Equalize editor that is a web app. It allows linear editing of math in various input modes including braille mode, qwerty mode, home row mode that allows entering braille on a computer keyboard. It works with screen readers to provide speech and braille, it can generate nemeth braille, mathml. For browsing mathml output screen reader support or mathjax in the browser can be used. As input it takes ascii math, latex, and mathml. It looks very robust.

The equalize editor is at lakepinesbraille.com/ee/

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This is fantastic.
'Top 15 recording mistakes in famous songs'
youtu.be/sEsHWXeQw6c?si=AxpSfw…

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I’ve said this before but I love helping #blind people via Be My Eyes.

Just helped someone find his lunchtime soup: pea, leek, and watercress if you’re interested ☺️

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Made on the web at onj.me/nc.
If you select all the text in this post, go to the site and press CTRL+Shift+V or use the toolbar, then press Enter to play, you should hear a thing.
Will render there, or with standard composer. Silly, short but fun.

#NVDAComposer
NVDA_COMPOSER_CLIP v2
# tempo: 180
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Interesting nvda add-on from Tony Gebhard, Interactive NVDA screen reader training add-on — guided, hands-on lessons built into NVDA
Submitted for addon store review, you can check out the Github repo here,
github.com/tonygeb23/nvdaCoach…
Thrilled to share something I've been building: NVDA Coach is now available —

a free, interactive training add-on for the NVDA screen reader. 🎉

As an assistive technology instructor, I've worked with a lot of people who are

just starting out with screen readers. The hardest part isn't finding the right

resource — it's the gap between reading about a command and actually using it.

NVDA Coach closes that gap.

Instead of reading a manual, students practice real NVDA commands step by step,

inside NVDA itself, with spoken instructions and instant feedback.

📚 Version 1.0.0 includes 24 lessons across three chapters:

→ Getting Started — the 10 essential commands every beginner needs

→ Reading and Moving Through Text — character, word, line, and selection navigation

→ Browse Mode and Web Navigation — heading, link, form, and landmark navigation

What makes it different:

✅ Everything happens inside NVDA — no PDFs, no videos, no switching context

✅ Live practice forms for hands-on Tab and control navigation

✅ Practice text embedded directly in the lesson window for reading drills

✅ A practice web page auto-opens for browse mode lessons

✅ Completely free. No account. No internet required after install.

✅ Built for beginners, usable independently or with an instructor

If you work with people who are learning NVDA, or if you're learning yourself,

I'd love for you to try it and share it with anyone who might benefit.

This is a beta release with plenty of room for feedback, comments, and suggestions. Please feel free to flood my email inbox. :)

🔗 Learn more: tonygebhard.me/NVDACoach

📧 Questions or feedback: info@tonygebhard.me

#NVDA #ScreenReader #AssistiveTechnology #Accessibility #AT #BlindTech

#DigitalInclusion #AccessibilityTools #A11y #AssistiveTech

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almost 20 years ago, I played with, and made, a model talker voice; now, I just made a voice with Piper-TTS. dropbox.com/scl/fi/boi8aqlthka…

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For winget users, did you know you can install your screen readers through that service? Just type winget search then your flavor of screen reader: like NVDA or JAWS. You'll get a list of possibilities. What you need is the ID. So for example, to install/update JAWS you would type: Winget install FreedomScientific.JAWS.2026 to install the latest NVDA, you would type: winget install NVAccess.NVDA .Or you could just check for updates I guess.

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For a school project, my son wants to do a live looping performance involving keyboard, vocals and maybe violin. Looping pedals that support vocals and another instrument are surprisingly expensive; several hundred dollars at least. So, I looked into software options and couldn't find anything that quite did what I want.
He wants to be able to quickly toggle overdubbing of loops. He also wants to be able to mute parts of the loop - e.g. mute a set of instruments and bring them back later - which means the looper has to be multi-track.
REAPER's Super8 almost does the trick, but aside from its inaccessibility (my son has sight, so that's okay for him), it doesn't seem to work the way we want with MIDI control. When you assign record and play to MIDI CCs, it works the first time you trigger it, but not after that, which is weird.
GLoop is quite nice, but although it supports undo and redo for overdubs, it doesn't support multiple tracks that you can take out and bring back in at will.
I even looked at Ableton Live's Looper device, but that is only single track.
In the end, I gave up and wrote my own audio-only looper from scratch in #REAPER JSFX. It's very basic. It has a single stereo input and a single stereo output. It doesn't pass through input, so you put it on a track and send other tracks to it that you want included in the loop. It supports 4 stereo internal loop tracks and has separate record and play/stop triggers for each track, plus a reset trigger (9 triggers in total). The triggers are exposed as FX parameters which trigger when the value changes to 1, so you can map them to MIDI buttons or pedals using REAPER's parameter learn function.
I have them mapped to the 8 buttons on my Komplete Kontrol keyboard in MIDI mode. Kontrol MIDI templates allow you to expose multiple pages of buttons, so the reset trigger is mapped to the first button on the second page. If you're doing this with Kontrol, you'll want to change the buttons to gate instead of toggle, as otherwise, the buttons send on for the first press, off for the second press, etc.
I probably won't do much more with this - it serves its purpose - but I thought I'd post it here in case anyone might find it useful.
You can download it from here:
raw.githubusercontent.com/jcst…

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