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In case anyone's interested, now that #NVDASR has moved to 64 bit, we can use py-spy (a sampling profiler) to get performance profiles of NVDA while it's running. I wrote this (admittedly rather crappy) profile viewer web app to make analysing those profiles easier. It lets you switch threads, it sorts the samples by count (highest to lowest), it shows percentages of the total count and it lets you see the inverted stack for each sample (collapsed by default). There's a demo profile in the app if you just want to see what it looks like.
There are much better profile viewers of course. py-spy can output Speedscope profiles, but Speedscope isn't screen reader accessible. There's the Firefox profiler for which the call tree is very accessible, but it can't load Speedscope or raw py-spy profiles, and even though it can load chrometrace profiles which py-spy can generate, they don't seem to show the call tree. So this at least makes NVDA profiles accessible to those of us who are screen reader users.
files.jantrid.net/nvdaProf/

NVDA Profile Viewer

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Jamie Teh

As an amusing side note, as an experiment, I originally tried to get Gemma 4 (local LLM) to write this profile viewer for me, since I don't particularly care about the quality of this project. But the code didn't work at all, and when I tried to get it to fix things, it just broke it further. So I ended up just writing it myself. A bit over an hour and a bit over 100 lines of HTML + JS.

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So you don't particularly care about quality but you rewrote it because you wanted it to work. Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like the start of a nuanced thought to me. No room for those here buddy, decide whether AI is here to save or kill us all and stick with a choice please.
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@Scott Heh, the annoying part is that I really wanted AI to work here; I didn't particularly want to spend time writing this when it's just a diagnostic tool. But it just wasn't worth trying to figure out where the bugs were in the several hundred lines of code it vomited out, and it wasn't being helpful in fixing it itself, so... such is life. Probably would've worked better if I'd used a commercial model, but I don't have access to one of those outside of work, so... 🤷‍♂️
@Scott
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@vick21 To be fair, the fact that a multi gigabyte model can't solve a relatively simple problem like this does remind me how inefficient these things are. Sure, given the right situation, these things can be super helpful... but they are still highly inefficient in doing so.
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Unfortunately, Gemma4 was trained to be a multi-purpose model. It is not expected to be good at writing code. Perhaps reading, summarizing and analyzing, but that's about it. I can't guarantee, because I didn't try, but you might have had better success with qwen-coder, Deepseek-coder or GLM. These have been trained to be good at writing code.
I agree with you though that for someone like you it may be a waste of time trying to figure out which model to use.
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I just tested nightly build of tuba with unifiedpush implementation.
Huge thanks to everyone and especially for @GeopJr

#unifiedpush #Tuba #plasmamobile #postmarketOS #fairphone5 #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

I kinda like my low quality video, so you know it's authentic 😁

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Tuba app with unifiedpush implementation.

I just tested nightly build of tuba with unifiedpush implementation. Huge thanks to everyone and especially for @GeopJr@tech.lgbt #unifiedpush #Tuba #plasmamobile #postmarketOS #fairphone5 #linuxm...
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Negative harmony is a #MusicTheory concept that involves inverting the notes and chords of a melody or progression around a central axis. By flipping these pitches over this mirror point, major chords become minor (and vice versa), creating a unique, dark, or "upside-down" emotional character while maintaining a similar harmonic function. For example, this cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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Negative Harmony Cover - Bohemian Rhapsody

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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How many people know about this cool navigation app? Indigo Nav | American Printing House aph.org/product/indigo/

Indigo | American Printing House

Independently, I go! Discover the great outdoors with Indigo, a fully accessible GPS app with rich descriptions of your surroundings. Download Indigo Nav fo ...
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It is with deep sadness I have to inform the #nvdasr community of the passing of my friend, our friend, Rui Fontes. For the ones long enough in the #a11y community, namely the #nvdasr screen reader, you most likely knew Rui Fontes from some the first vocalizer for NVDA add-ons and a bunch of other colaborations. He will be missed, a lot.
#a11y #nvdasr
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A few days ago, I enabled tagged PDF generation in #Firefox Nightly! So, whenever you create a PDF from a web page using the Save to PDF option in the Firefox Print dialog, it will now be (mostly) accessible with assistive technology, assuming the original page was accessible of course. I say "mostly" accessible because this isn't perfect yet, but it's a massive step forward from producing completely inaccessible PDF documents. It also generates a document outline (table of contents) from the headings in the document.
This is very new code, so it's only enabled in Nightly for now and we'll probably let it bake in Nightly for a few weeks at least before we consider shipping it to release.
#accessibility
#Accessibility #firefox
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@BussedDuck Yeah, I was thinking about MathML a bit earlier. Need to look into whether SkPDF supports tagging it. If not, I'll need to figure out how to implement that. Doesn't help that there's like 3 ways to tag MathML in PDF and varying levels of support for each of those across readers.
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@BussedDuck I had a play with this today. I have a local branch which kinda works, but I got snagged by a rendering issue which I'm consulting colleagues about. You can track the progress here if you're interested: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

2055405 - Support MathML in tagged PDF generation

NEW (nobody) in Core - Disability Access APIs. Last updated 2026-07-16.
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Hey guys, haven't posted my own shit in a while so figured I'd send along this remix I did of an Ellie Goulding track. Here's the original: youtu.be/zr9CYpgPueI?si=i7OzfC…

#Music #MusicProduction #Ableton #NativeInstruemnts #EllieGoulding #Pop #Indie

Ellie Goulding - Black Prada Dress (Visualiser)

Listen to Black Prada Dress: http://elliegoulding.lnk.to/blackpradadress‘I Know Too Much’ - my new album, coming 4th of September. Pre-order: http://elliegou...
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#music #indie #musicproduction #pop #ableton #elliegoulding #nativeinstruemnts

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@cordova5029 Yeah I feel the complete opposite about Taylor Swift, I think she's only gotten better as she's matured, and I actually really don't like a lot of her earlier stuff now. Especially around 2008/2009, I feel like her voice was kind of squeaky and not really well developed yet. Now it's very warm and easy to listen to in my opinion.
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I can't agree more. ANd then let's talk about Jojo. Considering she literally was Coko from swV's doppelganger in 2004, and that stimmed me out, that another girl my own age coudl sing like that, and now... she sounds older than coko, and is only 35... sad faysh lol.
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Finally took the time to test the new interactive music/Live learning platform Ableton has been building at learn.ableton.com and it's a beauty with screen readers. Everything is explained clearly and there's really good use of keyboard shortcuts.

Ableton Learn

Learn the fundamentals of music making right in your browser.
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how was the actual application itself? I’ve been wondering about that thing for a while. A friend of mine keeps telling me that I should use it instead of reaper. I haven’t looked into it, because my friend is cited and doesn’t really understand a whole lot about accessibility. But that’s a whole other story.
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Today/Tonight's #stream will be special folks. Pulling the wraps off a secret project I've been working on. You better be there, dood!
7 PM CEST, 6 PM for the brits, 1 PM EST for them pacifics. twitch.tv/zersiax and heck, I'll toss out an audioPub stream as well, why not.
#accessibility #blind #shamelessTeaser #blind #gamedev #gaming #twitch #hype #toomanyHashtags

Zersiax - Twitch

Fully blind coder, hacker, gamer and overall oddball. I pioneer accessibility efforts in various spaces. Come watch me do so! :)
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For those who missed it, the secret lil project was an #accessibility helper for the game Disgaea 5: alliance of vengeance that was demoed on stream. Still loads of work to do, but already in a pretty decent state. Test builds will be going up on Patreon soon.
#Accessibility
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whereas yesterday I showed off my own mod for a somewhat cult Japanese roleplaying #game, tomorrow we're going mainstream. A blind person shall be streaming #cyberpunk2077 with #accessibility enhancements, same time, same channel
#Accessibility #game #cyberpunk2077
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If you are producing audio in REAPER, I might have a new toy for you. ReaLackey, your personal AI assistant directly and tightly integrated into REAPER. Its an extension that connects your favourite AI provider (Anthropic or anything OpenAI-compatible, no matter if its online or OLLama offline) directly to REAPER, including access and control of inaccessible FX. Its in very early stage and needs feedback from Mac users particularly, so if you want to try, go here: github.com/Timtam/ReaLackey/re…

Release ReaLackey v0.1.0 · Timtam/ReaLackey

Added Native REAPER extension with an AI assistant: a modeless chat window — an embedded HTML pane (WebView2 on Windows, WKWebView on macOS) with a native edit-control fallback on Linux — and an E...
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@EdenLinnea @jaybird110127 There are really alot of resources to learn using REAPER. Obviously it really depends on the time and effort you can and/or want to invest, but the tools are there, and several groups where you'll always find someone who's willing to help. So basically, it all comes down to: if you need help, just ask.
@Jayson Smith @Eden Linnea
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Today, I thank god for the people who are with me. Today, I also want to post a little news from my desk. The prototype of the slovenian RHVoice is here.

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There is a modern Klatt formant synthesizer in development called SharpVox. If anyone is interested in playing around with it, a web UI can be found at bytesizedfox.dev/sharpvox.

SharpVox TTS

A fast experimental Text To Speech and singing engine
SharpVox

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Nick Giannak III

I do hope some real development muscle is put toward this so that it sounds less drunk in the future. It, however, is the closest thing we have to the old synths we love that's truly open source.
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In shocking news for the NVDA community around the world, the Portuguese NVDA team announced the death of Rui Fontes, one of the most prominent contributors to the development of the NVDA screen reader, after years of great contributions that left a clear impact on the user and developer community. While using NVDA, you must have tried or are still using one or more of the add-ons developed or contributed to its development. He was involved in translating NVDA into Portuguese, and was primarily responsible for Tiflotecnia, the popular Vocalizer add-on. He also developed a wide range of add-ons, including: Accessible Agenda, Application Dictionary, Dictionaries, ClipSpeak, Count Elements of the Selected Text (WordCount), Dropbox, Favorite Folders, NVDA Recorder, Remap Applications Key, SysTrayList, TesseractOCR, Add-ons Documentation, Virtual Review, AddonsTools, FrequentText, Poedit More Accessible, and others. He also developed the official Vocalizer plugins from Tiflotecnia. In addition, he managed a number of NVDA community mailing lists, and was constantly present in answering questions and providing technical support and assistance to users and developers, which made him one of the most active and influential figures in the community. His last post on NVDA's mailing lists was only four days ago, and his last activity may have been sooner than that. The NVDA community saw a wave of condolence messages, with many members offering their condolences to the NVDA Portuguese team, and the NV Access Foundation also extending its condolences to his family and friends. As a reminder of his significant impact, Joseph Lee encouraged NVDA add-on developers to mention Rui Fontes' GitHub account in add-on updates coming out this week, in honor of his career and contributions. and to the NVDA community around the world, wishing them patience and strength in this tragedy, and appreciating the great legacy he left through his contributions to serving the NVDA community.com/ruifontes Rui Fontes' death was announced here: groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.o… There are also other posts here: nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-a… And here too: nvda.groups.io/g/nvda/topic/12….

Death Announcement

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Supertonic TTS can now speak various european languages such as bulgarian, croatian, czech, estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hungarian, latvian, lithuanian, polish, portuguese, slovenian, slovak, spanish, ukrainian and more.
The voices sound the same but the accent adapts to the selected language.
It's not usefull with a screen reader though.
github.com/supertone-inc/super…
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… just brought you 28 updated and 1 added apps:

* ImageType Accessible Editor: add custom text to any image with a fully accessible editor (specifically designed for blind people) 🛡️

3 apps were removed (outdated/no longer maintained):

* Moxxy XMPP
* SMSCode
* Xpensor

RB coverage: 930 apps (67%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg), with additional screening applied.
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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SoundWave 1.1 is out with 19 new fixes. Way too long to post here, so check out the release page instead: github.com/OnjLouis/soundwave

GitHub - OnjLouis/soundWave: Render text to WAV files through NVDA speech synthesizers.

Render text to WAV files through NVDA speech synthesizers. - OnjLouis/soundWave
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TIL that we actually have 2 2038 problems. There's the January 19th thing we all know about, but there's another problem that will happen about 3 months later that is to do with digital TV broadcasts. Included in the metadata of MPEG-TS-encoded broadcast data is the current date, the time, and shows currently being broadcast. Because of bandwidth limits at the time DVB, the digital video broadcast spec suite, was developed and standardised, the date, using the Modified Julian Date (MJD) that counts the days passed since November 17th 1858, was stored using an unsigned 16-bit integer. An unsigned 16-bit integer only allows values from 0 to 65535,. On Thursday April 22nd 2038, it will be 65535 days since November 17th 1858. This means that as of midnight on Friday April 23rd 2038, electronic program guides (EPG's) and other services that rely on DVB-supplied dates will stop working because that unsigned 16-bit integer will have wrapped back to 0, meaning they'll be trying to fetch data from a time when television didn't even exist yet. It also means that the internal time clocks of unpatched TV's will reset themselves since they are often syncronised with DVB broadcast times, meaning your TV won't be able to connect to the internet anymore; the internet and security systems like SSL/TLS didn't exactly exist back in 1858 either.

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Pocket TTS? More like possessed TTS. Listen to what happens when I perform the steps listed below:

1. Pick voice 'Fantine'.
2. Set 'End of Sentence Sensitivity' (EOS) to 100.
3. Enter Input Help with NVDA +1.
4. Try different characters repeatedly, but don't press the same key immediately, as sometimes the craziness isn't instant.
I used 0 and dash (-) for my characters, you may find plenty of others that go a bit mad. Other voices may also exhibit the same behaviour, I haven't tested yet.

If you don't have this and want to download it, go here: github.com/timonvanhasselt/poc…

Releases · timonvanhasselt/pocket-TTS-nvda-screenreader-addon

Contribute to timonvanhasselt/pocket-TTS-nvda-screenreader-addon development by creating an account on GitHub.
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My wife is watching some films in Drama shorts app. I was just reading some articles and suddenly I heard my Piano jingle from the film. Thei used my free music. What an interesting feeling.

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boost all who you know. Who uses libreoffice and replaced microsoft office with it? Who uses Libreoffice more than six months?

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I was pulling the numbers out of my ass the other day, saying that 80% of this slop is not going to stay maintained in a year, but I wasn't that far off!

> Of the 120 unique repos, 32 were maintained and 88 were abandoned. No seriously, a big portion of them was completely deleted, nowhere to be found, others stopped 6 months ago, right after submitting to Flathub.

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Democratizing Abandonware - Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis

I'm not digging through this cemetery - Disclaimer I am not part of Flathub, I do not represent Flathub or anyone but my...
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Hubert Figuière

@deimoshall the thing that waste time is not the reviews, it's fending off the abuse from the sloppers. Getting threats by email through anonymous remailer. Getting told that it's unfair to label AI slop "I reviewed it all -- generated by Claude", or even spamming your repo because their account was blocked so they use a puppet one (blocked too)

So if you want to really get onto that, be my guest. I will also not try to second guess reviews.

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Hubert Figuière

@deimoshall and then maybe you'll delete your account like that other admin that did, and the only reason I learned about it is because I correlated, not because I got told (they were not on Matrix either, so I couldn't even guide them on what to do or not).

And yes people are free to do whatever, but sometime it's good to at least people know.

@Deimos Hall
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WOW decentralized and ENCRYPTED social media over #chatmail this is such an epic prototype!

the fun part is that by using chatmail:

- DMs are already end-to-end encrypted
- your identity is your encryption key and doesn't depend on a single home server
- your profile is basically uncensorable

since you need to give people your invite link it is kind of like private social network

github.com/lambadalambda/delta…

#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #chatmail #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon #encryption #e2ee

GitHub - lambadalambda/deltanet: Single-user social network that federates over encrypted email (Delta Chat/chatmail) — Mastodon-compatible API + web UI

Single-user social network that federates over encrypted email (Delta Chat/chatmail) — Mastodon-compatible API + web UI - lambadalambda/deltanet
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#fediverse #Mastodon #encryption #socialmedia #deltachat #e2ee #chatmail #arcanechat

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I recently found on Github, an NVDA addon for Pocket TTS. It is another one of those open source neural synths, like Supertonic and Sonata. But here is what makes Pocket TTS special. You can clone voices directly from the addon itself! And it does not use any command line thing or other complicated things. All you do is go to the Pocket TTS section of NVDA settings, select the "Convert audio file" button, select either a .wav or .mp3 file, and wait about 30 seconds to a minute. Done! You have a cloned voice. It only uses the first 30 seconds to make it. The addon comes with some pre-made voices. You can even change the display name of the voices in the list as well. However, as is typical of Neural synths, it is not as responsive, and there are only two parameters, volume, and end of sentence sensitivity. Plus, it's ENglish only.

github.com/timonvanhasselt/poc…

Release Pocket TTS nvda-addon 2026.x · timonvanhasselt/pocket-TTS-nvda-screenreader-addon

Pocket TTS onnx - 64 bits version for NVDA 2026.1 Version 1.1.1. with update for memory leak with dynamic texts.
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Pozoruji, že v dnešní době plné algoritmů a AI je čím dál větší problém narazit na zajímavé blogy. Asi nejen z tohoto důvodu scéna osobních webů v posledních letech prořídla...

Pojďme si zde udělat vlákno #TipNaBlog s odkazy na blogy, které rádi čtete nebo vás něčím zaujaly! 👇

#tipnablog

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I several hours ago installed the Google TTS addon for NVDA, and I really love it. It has all the languages from Google's Android TTS, with some voices I never heard before in the various languages. You have to download voice data, similar to Sonata. Each language contains two synthesis methods, HMM, which is refered to as "Chrome OS", and neural, which is refered to as "Google". For most languages, you get equal amount of voices for both methods, but some contain fewer voices for neural, if you download all of the languages for both methods (which I have done because I am me), it totals 727 MB, which is not that big. My favorite voice is Chrome OS US English Voice 1, since she is the classic Google Assistant voice, also known as the "Red" voice, that was used on things like the Google Home, as the main default, so hearing her in HMM form is quite interesting.

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It appears that it is possible to use Siri AI in the EU, provided you sign in with an US based apple ID to app store. Its actually pretty good and is among other things, apparently able to pull data from unsuported languages, such as Estonian too. Made a little demo. Transcript: dropbox.com/scl/fi/t19ot7my44y…

siri-ai-demo-transcript.md

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Florian

I'm curious, did "normal" Siri interactions suffer a performance hit? I have Gemini on my pixel 10 pro and it always strikes me how much slower it is at, say, just opening an app now than Siri is. Siri, it's instant. Gemini, it takes a good 5 seconds if not more. Not a huge issue, but I'm always pleasantly surprised by pre-AI siri in this :)
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@zersiax Not massively. Its a beta on a device I don\t use daily so its hard to judge, also I rarely have used siri for opening apps. But I don\t see a huge difference. Perhaps a little, because logically somewhere in the chain it has to decide now wether to engage the big llm or can it just open an app or do another quick iOs action
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It's #diday again and I recognised that #conversations_im by @daniel seems to be temporarily available for free in the Play Store.

What a great match and a great opportunity to invite family members and friends to #xmpp !

If you need a tutorial you might have a look at: imday.de/

And don't forget: It's also available on #fdroid .

Independent Messaging Day

Rezept für Digitale Freiheit und Souveränität
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#xmpp #fdroid #conversations_im #diday @Daniel Gultsch
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As Independence Day approaches in the United States, many of us are also preparing for some of the biggest blindness-related gatherings of the year, including the #ACB and #NFB26 national conventions in the United States and the UK’s #SightVillage Exhibition.
At Pneuma Solutions, we can’t think of a better time to celebrate a new level of independence for blind and low-vision technology professionals and consumers.
For a blind technician, trainer, teacher, or support specialist, independence is not just about using your own computer. It is also about being able to help someone else use theirs.
That is where #RemoteIncidentManager changes the game.
With RIM, a blind user can connect to a sighted end user’s computer, even when that computer does not already have a screen reader installed, and still perform a fully accessible remote support or training session. Whether the user is on Windows or Mac, RIM gives blind professionals the ability to work directly, efficiently, and independently.
To celebrate this milestone, Pneuma Solutions is offering unlimited access to Remote Incident Manager completely free for the next 27 days.
Whether you are at convention and get asked to help a friend, colleague, or family member with a computer problem, or you are traveling and need to reach back to your own machine at home, RIM is ready to make the process quick, painless, and accessible.
For the rest of the month, it will not cost you a dime!
Download Remote Incident Manager, start a session, and experience remote desktop access built for the independence of blind people from the ground up.
Visit GetRim.app to get started.
#remoteincidentmanager #nfb26 #acb #sightvillage

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New free app for my blind and low-vision friends: ElevenLabs TTS Studio — an accessible desktop app for ElevenLabs text-to-speech.

Keyboard-first and screen-reader-first: searchable voice picker, generate, play, save, history. Every control announces properly. Bring your own API key.

Built by a blind dev, tested with a real screen reader — because accessibility is the point, not an afterthought.

github.com/tonygeb23/eleven-tt…

#a11y #accessibility #NVDA #ScreenReader #TTS #OpenSource

GitHub - tonygeb23/eleven-tts-studio: Accessible ElevenLabs text-to-speech desktop app for screen-reader users (wxPython, NVDA/JAWS-friendly)

Accessible ElevenLabs text-to-speech desktop app for screen-reader users (wxPython, NVDA/JAWS-friendly) - tonygeb23/eleven-tts-studio
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This is so cool! Do you have an estimated date as to when the first downloadable release will be published? Only asking because the page shows none published as of yet. I'm looking forward to trying this. Thanks for your hard work and al you do. :)
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Was just able to install #Windows98 in #VMWare fully independently as a #blind person. To make life a bit easier, no, a lot easier, I made an unattended setup script, msbatch.inf, which is the Win9x equivalent of an answer file for you modern folk. Then it was just a case of placing that msbatch.inf file inside the win98 folder in the CD image, booting into an MS-DOS boot floppy to go through fdisk and other stuff (I know my way around a DOS prompt so this was practically nothing), copying the win98 setup files from the CD to the hard drive, applying patcher9x because put simply my hardware is too new, pointing setup.exe at my msbatch.inf file and boom! A virtually automated Windows 98 install! The only thing I was asked for was my name, company and Windows 98 product key, which were already filled out anyway (OCR confirmed that), and installing the audio driver that VMWare needs for Windows 98, which is pretty much unattended itself anyway other than a license agreement which is just a case of Tab and Enter. VMWare Tools and JAWS 7.0 (2005) are now installed too.
#blind #vmware #windows98

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My initial impressions of the BrailleNote evolve as a product still aren't 100% glowing, but the fact that HumanWare support helped me get my braille back (by reinstalling Windows), on a weekend, especially the weekend of July 4th, says something incredibly positive about their support team. That's something you don't get many places. The evolve's going through OOBE again over there.

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That's nice. I'm glad they helped. I just think there's too many things in Win 11 that can break it if you're adventurous. I mean, you fubared it the first day. That's an issue. The hardware is also for me not sufficiently fast. The other issue for me is I'm a lap user. That meant I had to be really ingenutive to give the air vents breathing room. I had to put a hard surface on my lap. But as stated before, besides customer service trying to make me feel like I was doing a bad thing, tech support is great. my issues withthe Braillenote Evolve have more to do with the handshaking between Windows, Nvda, and Keysoft. Think about it. An NVDA change can screw things up. Windows can screw up KeySoft. Windows 11, as my husband said, has always been a pile. I'll be interested to see whether you keep it.
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Screen reader users using a free and open-source calendar app on Linux, what do you use? I'd like to use one as a reference to make GNOME Calendar more screen reader friendly.

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#a11y #accessibility #accessible #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #Linux

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while not blind here, I use remind(1), a command-line application for my calendar and occasionally use it within a screen reader (last time I tested, I used yasr+flite in a console). A few of the remind features I appreciate in a screen-reader:

• the ability to customize reminder output makes a world of difference. Even simple things like ordinal determination ("John's 21st birthday" rather than "John's birthday, born 2005")

• the ability to use any text-editor to edit the calendar, whether vi/vim, emacs, ed, nano, or something in the GUI

• the ability to separate reminders from their metadata presentation. I can make my reminders more terse depending on context. I can include certain calendars ("I just want my personal calendar, birthdays/anniversaries, work, and my family members' calendars, not finances, chores, etc")

• and because it's all text, I can pipe output to other programs to mail my agenda to my phone or grep it, or use the machine-readable output format to pipe to grep or other programs to ingest it

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As I prepare for my talk on the accessibility benefits of well curated POI data in Open Street Map for the upcoming State of the Map 2026 conference, I think I found a way, sort of, to play a game similar to Geoguessr for a completely blind person. There's a random GPS coordinates generator at random.org/geographic-coordina… which shows you a piece of our planet on OSM. You take the latitude and longitude it spit out and feed it to Seeing Assistant Go, then pull the POI for the matched location and have fun while taking a virtual walk around a neighbourhood somewhere out there, browsing the different establishments, infrastructure etc. Spent a bit of afternoon yesterday exploring the different churches serving various language communities around the Main Street in Ottawa, visiting websites and Wikipedia articles - so many questions to ask if I ever speak to anyone from that area. Ach yeah, Piracema is a town in Brazil. Just letting you know since the thickets of trees alongside the car road leading there weren't much of an indication and I actually had to look the place up. #OSM #Cartography #Accessibility #Blind

RANDOM.ORG - Geographic Coordinates

This page will pick a random location on the planet using the true random number service RANDOM.ORG.
www.random.org
#Accessibility #blind #OSM #cartography

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@Paweł Masarczyk Fun thing and nice initiative.
I believe you already know all of this but just to remind, these two tools are #OSM powered too. First one is fully exclusive with #a11y from the start, the second one has some screen reader accessibility built-in too.

audiom.net/

mapcomplete.org/blind_osm.html

#a11y #OSM @Paweł Masarczyk
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@pvagner Thanks! Yes, I'm aware of those. Audiom is great, I guess I just lack the spatial awareness that would help me to understand fully the structure at hand. I might play the Geoguessr with that once I'm at a computer again. I tried Map Complete the first time the developer introduced accessibility improvements and I recall it generating an aria-live alert each time I pressed an arrow key so that NVDA said "Alert" every time I moved. Has that changed?
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Paweł Masarczyk

@pvagner I understand that mapping the datapoints to some kind of native control is not feasible, still not having the word "alert" for every step would reduce verbosity. Maybe the new aria-notify API is the right match for this kind of purpose or else another type of live region.
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Paweł Masarczyk

@pvagner Meanwhile: there's a Windows software similar to Audiom which was written by a Polish developer who I believe is also helping out with Seeing Assistant Go or was at least consulting it. It's called Grmapa grmapa.zlotowicz.pl/ - at the moment I'm also trying to convince the developer of Street Complete and Every Door to make these tools accessible so that blind OSM users can also contribute data, not just consume it. That's my biggest hope for my State of the Map participation.

Grmapa - talking map

grmapa.zlotowicz.pl
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@Paweł Masarczyk I think I have used EveryDoor on Android to rename one of the pubs around here once and it worked.
I can't remember how consistent the accessibility of the app is but I was able to manage that.
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Want a #GNOME #email app "between Evolution and Geary"? Check out @jeb2's "Stamp" app, unveiled at #OpenSUSE conference 2026:
gitlab.gnome.org/jbrummer/stam…

He's been working on it for the last 2 years. It reuses the Evolution Data Server backend, combining its reliability with an adaptive GTK4+libAdwaita GUI.

It also handles contacts and calendaring (by embedding GNOME Calendar as a widget)! Future versions will allow using it not just as a PIM but also as a standalone mail app.

#LinuxMobile

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Together with the Clovernook Center, we have created some 3D printed accessible biology study tools. Currently we have 11 models, and we are working on more. These tools are now freely downloadable.

evengrounds.com/3d-printed-acc…

3D printed accessible biology study tools - Even Grounds

Over the last couple of years, Even Grounds has been working on a very rewarding project with the Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Tom (Even Grounds)

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There is an official #MusicAssistant client for #Android in the making. I just installed it and it works perfectly. Love it, recommend it. ❤️

#MusicAssistent is the audio hub in my home. It can connects to multiple audio providers (Tidal, selfhosted GPodder sync on Nextcloud, selfhosted Jellyfin, …), searches, maintains playlist and stream content to multiple audio sink providers (Chromecast audio, Chromecast, Heos, …). It can play your playlist on multiple players in sync over different protocols. It's just cool. 👍

#android #musicassistant #musicassistent

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#Czech coverage of our #antisurveillance campaign.

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A new application called TD Sound manager has been released!
Because Microsoft made easy access to the old audio management panel more difficult in Windows 11, and a few people complained about it, I decided to create a small application that makes it easy to open several classic audio options.
TD Sound Manager is a lightweight Windows application that allows you to quickly open several Windows audio panels and unmute your playback using global hotkeys or the menu.
The application can run in the background while minimized and can also start automatically with Windows.
It allows you to open these shortcuts or do these actions:
Playback settings (which opens the playback tab in the old mmsys.cpl panel like on Win7, 8 and 10);
Recording settings (which opens the recording tab in the old mmsys.cpl panel);
Sound mixer (which opens the old easy-to-use sound mixer "sndvol");
Redirect selected apps to another sound card (which opens the new audio redirection panel on Windows 10 and 11, where you can change the sound card used by the specified app from the list in this window);
Unmute playback (which will unmute the default playback device).
Link:
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/SoundMan…

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