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Incoherent game accessibility ramblings, mostly about Forza
Having a lot of fun with Forza Motorsport right now and that once again made me realize that there are people out there who actually care. I'm pretty sure none of this was actually necessary to do, but whether it was PR or employees that actually care or both, the fact is that even while it's not perfect, this is a huge, huge step in blind gaming. This is incredibly fun, even if it's ridiculously difficult and has a very steep learning curve. I'm not actually sure when I felt like this for the last time. I've played the last of us but somehow I feel like this is even bigger. I imagine that implementing blind accessibility into the last of us was less work than getting a fast paced racing game playable, but I'm also sure that one might not have happened without the other. And I'm pretty sure that this wasn't some kind of business incentive either. I can't imagine that adding blind assist features to Forza would be the thing that made or broke the games sales, and I can't imagine that outside of a pretty niche player base, anyone would care if Forza did have these features or not. But it does. And I'm very grateful for it. This is actually incredible. Very, very difficult and hard, but incredible. I wouldn't fault anybody for getting frustrated and giving up - hell I got frustrated too. But then I close the game, step away for a few hours, and find myself opening it again and trying again. The amount of settings you can tweak to get the most out of the accessibility features that are there is actually quite surprising and by all the gods I want this trend to continue. I can even play fucking multiplayer with other people! Sighted friends if I wanted! How friggin' cool is that shit?
So yeah. Are there things that could be improved? Of course. When isn't there? There's always room for improvement. But considering where we came from, basically a game where you held and released one button with the previous Forza, to this? This is amazing. I can only imagine what they could do if this accessibility mindset continued. And I really hope it does. And not just for racing games. For all games. Sorry now I'm seriously just rambling.

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Ensuring negative numbers are available for everyone. "The minus character (−) yields great support in most screen readers, and suffers less situational gotchas than the hyphen-minus character"

deque.com/blog/ensuring-negati…

Great article written by 2 of my favorite comrades.

#webdev #webdesign #a11y #html #tips #screenreaders

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Hey all music lovers especially those of us who are using #screenreader apps to control music playback. #Foobar2000 for #android now features so called Non skinned playback controls view that can be activated by unchecking the Skinned playback screen checkbox in its advanced settings. This improvement is available in the beta version so far. See the mobile changelog at wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?…
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Frog is such a neat little Linux desktop app to extract text from images.

You can give it an image (file selector, drag & drop) or let it take a screenshot. And you can even paste an image from your clipboard!

This is great for adding alt text when posting an image or copying text (as text) from a screenshot for sharing (or adding to UI mockups, as I often do).

It also reads QR codes and supports several languages.

flathub.org/apps/com.github.te…

#Linux #desktop #app #Gnome #OCR #Flatpak #Flathub

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Good news for #DoctorWho fans, the launch of the Doctor Who archive on IPlayer is finally happening, according to doctorwho.tv/news-and-features…

This is also a historic event for the blind and visually impaired, as well as deaf and hard of hearing fans, because the article states: "Every episode on iPlayer from the back catalogue will be available with multiple accessibility options, including subtitles, audio description, and sign language."

Classic Who audio described to me is a dream come true, and I am sure it will be appreciated by many. Allons-y, Jelly Babies await!

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I've written a #tutorial on how to program #accessible #native #gui #windows applications in #rust using the native-windows-gui library: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg/

Also available in Spanish: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg-…

#a11y #programming

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“I am so thankful for the creation of NVDA. It has really changed my life. With NVDA, I do not have to worry about spending tons of extra money on third party software to use a computer. I can purchase any new computer that I want, and I can use it for the same cost as a sighted person” – Reina, United States.

We believe every blind & vision impaired person deserves the right to freely & easily access a computer. With our free screen reader, there is no extra financial burden on users.

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I switched to conhost instead of Windows Terminal yesterday. Today, I closed a command prompt window and immediately received ... wait for it ... 6463 identical NVDA errors. The error tone played continuously for about two minutes while NVDA struggled to play 6000 instance of the wave file, each interrupting the last, and write all the errors to the log file.
Additionally, if I try to invoke a tmux or screen session, NVDA stops automatically reading output and I can't find a way to fix it.
On the other hand, if I switch to Windows Terminal again, my entire machine becomes unusable after about 15 minutes of having any terminal window open, and the memory usage slowly climbs to ridiculous heights until I close all terminal windows and start over. I've seen it hit 1.2 GB.
So I can switch to macOS where I'm pretty sure terminal output still interrupts itself, or use TDSR on either platform, which is looking like a really nice idea, or switch to Linux, where terminal works great but lots of other things don't. Or I can smash all my computers with a hammer.

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A reverse TCP shell using cURL only ❤️ (and optionally via SOCKS/WEB proxy). Not our idea but we made it cooler and and pragmatic.
👉github.com/SkyperTHC/curlshell

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For UK disabled followers and friends:

Google is recruiting people to become members of the #accessibility Trusted Tester Program. So far, members have been from U.S. and Canada. Testing of Talkback and other studies take place through this program. You can be a tester for on-going products like Talkback or take part in research studies that will be posted. You'll be paid for your time for most of the studies.

Signup here to express your interest (UK only). g.co/a11ytt

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What makes an accessible date picker? Is it even possible? #ID24 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=D2Gy2WN4Iy… with Russ Weakley #a11y #webdev #webdesign #accessibility

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Related: 4 examples of web-accessible date pickers...

WAI: w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/d…

Deque: dequeuniversity.com/library/ar…

U.S. Web Design System
designsystem.digital.gov/compo…

Tommy Feldt: fymmot.github.io/inclusive-dat…

#date #calendar #UIDesign #webdesign #webdev #a11y

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with all the unpleasant news around bandcamp, I found a nice script to download and sync the collection of your purchases to your HDD. I hope that everything will be ok with bc, but it's good to have a backup of my collection in flac anyway

github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

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Mohl by někdo doporučit lightweight alternativu k #Redmine? Která by uměla jednoduchý task tracker (v podstatě pouze jednoduchý todolist se statusem jednotlivých tasků a přiřazením k určitým lidem), ovšem důležitá je taky možnost propojení s emailem, aby šlo odpovídat na maily ze systému a ty by se pak objevily buď jako komentáře tasku či nové tasky.

Jde mi o to, aby systém dovedl používat BFU. Ten email proto, aby se do systému ani nemusel přihlásit a přesto ho mohl používat.

Redmine je fajn, ale na jednoduché projekty je krkolomný, většina featur je zbytečná a z hlediska BFU není zrovna přívětivý.

(vím že existuje Trello a spol, ale rád bych to instaloval na vlastní server, čili nejlépe nějaký opensource projekt)

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TS kolegove, urcite pracujete s linterem. At uz styl moc neresite, nebo jste dogmatik a pridavate pravidla po kazdem rejectnutem code-review.

Dnes si povime o jednom extreme uzitecnem pravidle:

@typescript-eslint/no-floating-promises

Floating promise je nenapadna, ale zakerna bestie. Vystavujete se s ni v produkci (treba na Vercelu nebo AWS) race conditions, kde runner vas kod vesele zabije, nez neboha funkce dobehne. (zapis do DB? 🙈)

A na lokale se to nedeje! Peklo!

#typescript #vercel

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Big #keyoxide mobile app update 🚀

Most notably, the app can now also verify the new ASP profiles! See the screenshot for an example!

Also, nice and helpful icons for each claim!

More in @Berker 's blog post: berker.substack.com/p/08c15539…

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A repair shop in Germany has invented a tool that breaks Apple's repair DRM on MacBook Pros, allowing independent companies to fix a common issue that Apple charges > $1,000 to repair

404media.co/diy-tinkerer-inven…

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Hi everyone! I made a an audio game 3D platformer where you can edit the map just by editing the included CSV files. Would love to know what you all think of it as I'm thinking of having other projects have editable CSVs!

ericbomb.itch.io/unseen-platfo…

#GameDev #IndiedDev #accessibility

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Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves

I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

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The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your #Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your Gmail email, contacts, and calendar data.

The "Learn More" link confirms:

"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."

WOW.

Good time to switch to @thunderbird, folks!

#Privacy #Outlook #Email

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A question to the #Tech bubble: I would like to use #Thunderbird with a bunch of shared calendars over Caldav. I had this issue two years ago and now here it comes again: Thunderbird becomes very slow as soon as all these calendars are added. They contain plenty of events each, many of them are reoccuring and I have tried both with and without offline support and also disabling autorefresh on some of those. I recall that back when I had the issue last, switching the view to show just one calendar at a time would help but to no avail now. Is this something I have to live with in 2023? ###Mozilla #OpenSource

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Máte Nextcloud? A znáte aplikaci Music? Pomocí ní můžete vaši hudební sbírku (nebo sbírku podcastů) přehrávat přímo z Nextcloudu (přes web) nebo publikovat Subsonic protokolem. Na mobilu pak můžete mít třeba přehrávač Ultrasonic (najdete na F-droidu). #opensource #nextcloud

apps.nextcloud.com/apps/music

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Not sure if this site is well known outside the niche community of researchers of late Russian Empire klezmer. It gives free access to streaming versions of the Ukrainian National Library's reissue CDs of wax cylinders of #klezmer, #Yiddish song, #nigunim, etc. from the 1910s through the 1930s. Most of these were recorded on folklore collecting expeditions in the Pale of Settlement or later in Soviet Ukraine and Belarus. Some very scratchy, fascinating stuff.
audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html
#WaxCylinder

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New article posted by Hasan Çimen: For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. While object recognition apps provided some assistance, they were limited in their ability to describe images comprehensively. However, recent developments in AI have brought about a groundbreaking solution, making detailed image descriptions accessible to the community. Let’s look at the brief history accessibleandroid.com/detailed… #Android #AI #GPT4 #Bing

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There we go, matridge first public commit!

It's an #XMPP server component acting as a #Matrix puppeteering gateway, based on slidge. It only supports public unencrypted group chats for now, but has cool features such as emoji reactions, rich replies and message retractions.

git.sr.ht/~nicoco/matridge
git.sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge

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Let's make LibreOffice accessible for everyone! Say hello to Michael Weghorn, our new Developer, who'll be focusing on accessibility improvements – like making LibreOffice more usable for people with visual impairments: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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This is great! I use Libreoffice for much of my work, though there are some aspects that make it difficult for visual accessibility reasons.

The first issue: the flip point where text becomes white or black based on the cell color in the spreadsheet is incorrect, as a result, a lot of mid range cell colors end up with text that's not readable (unless the text color is overridden).

Another: the highlight color for certain buttons in the UI when the system is in dark mode makes the text unreadable on the button.

I'm at your disposal if you have any questions about any visual accessibility issues.

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We have a major announcement: Tenacity 1.3 has finally been released! Check out the release notes here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…

If you are upgrading from previous betas, we strongly recommend you read the Release Advisories section as that contains important information.

We thank everyone who contributed to this release. Your contributions are invaluable and we simply cannot express how thankful we are because we would not be at this point without them.

Here's to our first stable release! 🎉

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