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It bothers me quite a lot that in the `ariaNotify` explainer, relating to a more robust mechanism for web apps to fire #screenReader messages, #braille is demoted to a "future consideration". Even there, it's listed under a heading of "Braille and speech markup", as though it doesn't even warrant a devoted section of its own.

Braille being treated with the same priority of speech is long overdue. We're clearly not there yet.

github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdg…
#accessibility

MSEdgeExplainers/Accessibility/AriaNotify/explainer.md at main · MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers

Home for explainer documents originated by the Microsoft Edge team - MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers
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#Accessibility #screenreader #braille
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Does anyone know where to report #a11y issues with the #Ubuntu Mate installer? I just tried to install ubuntu-mate-25.04 and sadly, it's pretty much a no go with Orca. Alt+Windows+S works to bring up the screen reader. The first screen of the installer appears to be the language selection screen; but after that, Orca is pretty much dead in the water, utterly unable to read anything else except "next" buttons. Pretty sad. Looks like they're not a11y testing this at all.
#a11y #ubuntu

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We published a guide showing how to use Matrix bridge from ejabberd, demonstrating how you can talk with Matrix users from your XMPP client.

Let us know if you still have questions !

process-one.net/blog/hello-fro…

Hello from the other side: Matrix ↔ XMPP via ejabberd 25.03

In this guide, you'll learn how to send direct messages between Matrix and XMPP users, and even join public Matrix rooms using your favorite XMPP client.
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I've been in talks with #TheCrowHillCompany, makers of The Vertical Piano, Vaults (free), String Murmurations and so on.
They wanted to find out about people's use of accessible music-making tools such as NKS, so I said I'd forward their email to other VI musicians.
Your feedback would really help them, so if you've a mind, please do fill it out.

The Crow Hill Company are readying a re-launch of our entire catalogue.
As such as are looking to improve our accessibility across our full instrument and effects range.

We would love to discover more from the community on how they interact with software based instruments and the tools they use to do so.

We have included a short survey link below, and as a token of gratitude have included a £20 (GBP) off coupon code for anyone who takes part in the survey.
The coupon has no expiration date and we have plenty of instruments under this limit coming out in the months ahead for you to enjoy.

Thanks again
The Crow Hill Company

Survey Link
forms.gle/yzBq56AZidNUA2cw7

You can also reach us directly at help@thecrowhillcompany.com

Accessibility Feedback

Thank you for taking the time to help us in our continual endeavour to improve accessibility in music-making. As a token of our gratitude, we have also included an unrestricted coupon code at the end of this survey. Thanks The Crow Hill Team. x
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@pitermach It's using Juce, but with a lot of unlabelled buttons. They do know about it, as I had a meeting with them this morning and was able to screen-share and let them know that lots of stuff doesn't work.
It seems that they're using the Ujam libraries, so it's up to Ujam to modify their code to allow accessibility, but they can pass this feedback to them.
Rodes also use the same framework.

If you've got any libraries where the main sample content uses the .blob format, then you've used Ujam's UI's.

@Pitermach
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The NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?

nomouse.org/

The #NoMouse Challenge

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People were asking how to use Ableton Live with a screen reader so last night I recorded this very impromptu little audio demo. I just make a little loop and try to explain what I'm doing as I go as best I can. I'm also still learning so I might be doing some things inefficiently. Hopefully this gives people a little inspiration. Sorry if my speech rate is too fast, this was a very spontaneous thing. I wasn't sure whether I should post it, but I figure anything is better than nothing.

iamtalon.me/ableton_demo.mp3

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Zach Bennoui

I'll be taking a look at this. I'm planning to start a podcast related to using Live and other production stuff with accessibility in mind very soon, just need to look at hosting options. If anyone has recks, please let me know. For the people who are a bit scared to jump in, Ableton was really thoughtful with the design of Live's UI from a keyboard user's perspective, and the shortcuts make a lot of sense after you sit with it for a few weeks. I would never go back to another DAW at this point, and I've only been using Live for a little over a year. I love it, best DAW for electronic music production IMHO.
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If you want to learn how to edit audio, how to mix, how to change your voice, how to create and arrange sound effects, my DMs are open. I've been working professionally in audio since 2017 and one of my favourite things to do is teach, to help other people achieve their goals, whether audio is a means to an end or the end itself. Get in touch. Let's talk!

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Three men died in a car accident and found themselves at the Pearly Gates, where Jesus welcomed them personally.

He said, “To enter Heaven, I’ll ask each of you one question. Tell the truth, and you’re in. But if you lie… well, you know where you’re headed.”

He turned to the first man.
“How many times did you cheat on your wife?”

The man stood up proudly and said,
“Lord, never. I was completely faithful my whole life.”

Jesus smiled. “Well done, my son. For your loyalty, you’ll get a mansion and a limousine to enjoy eternity.”

Then He turned to the second man.
“And you?”

The man looked sheepish. “Uh… twice, Lord. I messed up.”

Jesus nodded. “At least you were honest. You’ll get a nice four-bedroom house and a BMW.”

Finally, He looked at the third man.
“And you?”

The third man sighed and confessed,
“Eight times, Lord… maybe more. I lost count.”

Jesus raised an eyebrow but said, “You’re forgiven. But your heavenly home will be a studio apartment, and your ride? A Yugo.”

A few hours later, the second and third men saw the first man—the one with the mansion and limo—sitting on a cloud, crying.

“What’s wrong?” they asked. “You got the best deal!”

He wiped his tears and said,
“I just saw my wife go by… on a skateboard.”

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Microsoft Windows Recall is not mandatory (yet) but starts in the background by default. It can be turned off by typing the following commands with admin rights:

DISM /Online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall

DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

This is for your info. It is upto you whether to disable or keep it running. "Recall" refers to the controversial AI-powered feature for Copilot+ PCs. This feature takes periodic screenshots of your screen including everything you type

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Ok I love Ableton but the Logic pianos are just unmatched in my opinion. Take a listen to this, I've got some compression and EQ, along with a little reverb.

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Vzhledem masové popularitě Bluesky nezbývá než poprosit všechny Fedivesmířany, kteří tam mají známé, aby jim vysvětlili, jak se zviditelnit i pro Fedi.

Opakování matka moudrosti: musí follownout Bluesky účet (@)ap.brid.gy - zatím jich to bohužel dělá jen zlomek.

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In case you missed this from a month ago, Lisa Salinger compared the BT Speak from Blazie Technologies @BlazieTech and the Orbit Speak on Tek Talk.
accessibleworld.org/podcast/te…
#BTSpeak #blind #accessibility

Tek Talk welcomes Lisa Salinger to compare and contrast the Orbit Speak and the BT Speak, two small audio-based notetakers with braille input. 03/03/2025 – Accessible World

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#Accessibility #blind #btspeak @Blazie Technologies

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@techsinger And, btw, it's no bother. I'm sorry I can't point you to a finished transcript. If you follow @BlazieTech I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have about the BT Speak. Also, Blazie Technologies' Web site has tons of demos as well as all of our documentation.
www.BlazieTech.com
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Open Protocols and APIs: The Overlooked Key to Accessibility: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/09/open-protocols-and-apis-the.html

Open Protocols and APIs: The Overlooked Key to Accessibility

Note: the following are my personal opinions, and should not necessarily be taken as the opinion of my employer.Back in the day, when I was a larval teenaged geek, one of the first projects I ever created was called mircspeech.
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Cool, Fennec is interested in #UnifiedPush support

[1]We will probably have it on Fennec before it gets upstream (if it does 🤞).

That means UnifiedPush will be available for "installable web applications". So we'll have push notifications with some new apps !

[1] gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-…

#FennecBrowser #Firefox #PWA #UnifiedPush

Add UnifiedPush support - patchs D243458-D243461 (!78) · Merge requests · relan / fennecbuild · GitLab

This PR adds a new patch to add UnifiedPush support. To test the feature, you need to install a distributor first...
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#firefox #UnifiedPush #pwa #fennecbrowser
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EBU promotes braille and braille literacy as essential tools for the autonomy of blind and partially sighted individuals.
youtu.be/2qfjFn0UB0E

The importance of Braille

A white layout with the word “Braille” in blue letters. After that, the word appears in Braille, displaying several combinations of dots.Then, the numbers 6 ...
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I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.

However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.

I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.

PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.

#Element #IM #Messenger #Email #FOSS #opensource #freesoftware #free_software #decentralization #decentralized

#FreeSoftware #foss #matrix #email #element #opensource #messenger #decentralized #decentralization #deltachat #im #e2ee #free_software

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I think I’ve found a relatively nice solution for #FediLinks in #Conversations_im.

You can put web+ap URIs into a message (or room description) and ideally a click on those will open your Mastodon client. However if no installed app supports those (the only app that I’m aware of is Fedilab) Conversations will open a browser instead.

Currently no app will create web+ap links but it is fairly easy to handcraft them.

cc @SoniEx2

#XMPP #ActivityPub

#xmpp #activitypub #conversations_im #fedilinks @Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L.

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Estoy impresionado con la rapidez de respuesta que tiene la voz de Mateo de RH Voice en NVDA. Lamentablemente no es muy fácil poder usarlo en Fedora 41.

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Takhle vypadá root v robotickém vysavači. Motivace je nepustit ho do cloudu a nechat všechna data včetně záběrů z kamery a data z lidaru uvnitř. Zatím pecka.

valetudo.cloud

Valetudo

Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
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Your data. Your rules. Your digital future.

monocles launches its crowdfunding campaign on StartNext today! 🎉

monocles offers the solution for European independence from big tech. Be it the end-to-end encrypted chat, the secure email service or the privacy-friendly smartphones with our own operating system. monocles creates a decentralized, fair and ethical digital ecosystem for everyone.

Be part of it!

startnext.com/en/monocles

#privacy #sovereign #dataprotection #encryption #monocles

monocles - Privacy is not a feature. It is a right.

Secure communication, fair cloud, ethical hardware - monocles offers a digital solution without tracking, without surveillance, without compromise.
startnext.com
#privacy #encryption #DataProtection #monocles #sovereign
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There are no known security issues with "Siacs OMEMO" / OMEMO v0.3¹ despite of what some very loud Signal fans would like you to believe. It has been audited by a third party² who took a longer look at it than all of the Signal fans combined.

Yes, #OMEMO v0.7+ (or TWOMEMO 😜) is a cleaner spec with more features (most notably Stanza Content Encryption). That’s why we wrote it. I’m a co-author. That doesn’t mean v0.3 is insecure.

¹: xmpp.org/extensions/attic/xep-…
²: conversations.im/omemo/audit.p…

#XMPP

OMEMO Encryption

This specification defines a protocol for end-to-end encryption in one-on-one chats that may have multiple clients per account.
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I recently developed a thing to turn a Conversations chat* into a PDF.

codeberg.org/moji/typst-conver…

That story began with a friend of mine that had got a XMPP group chat where they shared updates and pictures of their latest travel adventure. Now chat is rather ephemeral and they wanted to preserve those memories in an easy accessible format that is PDF. And so I put something together.

* actually any chat as long as you can get the raw data in the expected format

#typst #conversations #chat #pdf #xmpp

typst-conversations

A parametrized Typst document to visualize a chat conversation with text and image messages — closely matching the design of Conversations.
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#xmpp #conversations #chat #pdf #typst

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About a year ago, my parents made the switch to Linux on their home machines because they really hated Win 10... Today I got a call from my mother to help her out with something, but I did not expect that "something" will be figuring out a sed pattern for a shell script she wrote to bulk rename files.

When I asked her why she didn't use some GUI program she said "I was an accountant in the DOS era, this makes more sense to me than a ribbon menu in Excel".

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Interesting #Mastodon bot that turns RSS or Atom feeds into Mastodon accounts: rss-parrot.net/

(Following feeds would also be useful as built-in Mastodon functionality.)

RSS Parrot

Home of RSS Parrot, a free Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into an RSS or Atom feed reader.
rss-parrot.net
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Metabraille ist im Make zine erwähnt worden 😎 , weil wir eine Open Source Hardware Certification bekommen haben und wir haben es erst jetzt, nach fast einem Jahr, bemerkt! 🤦 makezine.com/article/technolog…

Open Source Hardware Certifications for July 2024 - Make:

Take a look at open source certifications for the month of June.
Sid Drmay (Make: Community)

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just made #deltatauri compile for #android :android:

github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/

#deltachat_desktop #tauri #nlnet

make tauri compile for android by Simon-Laux · Pull Request #4871 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop

make it compile again for android and attempt to make locales work logs on android hardcode locales on android switch to esm modules for runtime and bundle.js make locale loading ...
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#android #nlnet #deltachat_desktop #tauri #deltatauri
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Movim offers a feature-packed social and chat alternative to the big centralized and proprietary platforms. ✨

It is decentralized, fully built on the #XMPP Internet standard and can easily be deployed on a simple web server.

Which social or chat platform do you think Movim replaces the best? 🤔

#alternative #madeineurope #decentralized @european_alternatives

#xmpp #alternative #decentralized #MadeinEurope @European Alternatives
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The XMPP Software Foundation has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support true messaging interoperability using the XMPP protocol.

Meta had previously integrated this protocol, and WhatsApp is actually built on XMPP for its message routing system.

We support this initiative as it represents the best approach for genuine interoperability. Federation is the way to go !

Learn more by reading the open letter: xmpp.org/announcements/open-le…

#XMPP #federation #FederateTheWorld

XMPP

XMPP - The universal messaging standard
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Welcome to the RB family, Rattlegram 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.a…

Rattlegram lets you transmit short text messages over COFDMTV encoded audio signals.

Thanks to joined efforts with its developer, Rattlegram (along with its 2 sister-apps) is now RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Rattlegram - SMS via audio!“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Transmit short text messages over COFDMTV encoded audio signals
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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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An excellent concise three minute overview demo of the features contained in the monarch version 1.2 update. And a great reminder that visual mode can be turned on with an external HDMI monitor to reflect what is on the tactile array. youtube.com/watch?v=DkSy8gRLoL…

Monarch Introduction Firmware V1 2

Webinar introducing version 1.2 firmware. Hosted by Peter and Andrew, they walk through the most recent update available to Monarch.
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Man, Joplin is so good. The issue is just remembering to use it! I'm just so used to opening notepad and writing random notes and saving them to a textfile somewhere and then losing the textfile.

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I have always been satisfied with Framadate and derivatives for quick and accessible event planning when it comes to finding a date that fits everyone. Well, the Austrian government has a tool of its own which is as accessible and it also offers the ability to book appointments, similar to solutions like Calendly or Fantastical. It's called Termino and like all things run by European governments should, it's got its own accessibility statement. Apart from the table where the number of participants voted for a given date choice being tricky to read due to wrong header cells' association, it lives up to the promise of compliance. I have reported that issue and received a response that they will look into it. Some texts, including the email messages, are also in German. I hope they can smooth that one out but otherwise it's there for everyone to use. termino.gv.at/ #Accessibility #Blind

Termine abstimmen und teilen | TERMINO

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Drew’s Reaper #protip of the day:

select “preserve source media sample rate if possible” from the rendering dialog

Speed up your renders by 1000%

Use the time saved to do literally anything

The world is your oyster!

#protip

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Someone here suggested WERO, we read about it and have just activated it in our bank. It was very simple and took 2 or 3 clicks.

An all-in-one digital wallet solution:

Wero is a new European payment system designed to modernize the way we handle transactions across the continent. Launched in 2024, it aims to unify various national payment solutions into a single platform.

Wero is the brainchild of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), a consortium of 16 European banks. The initiative was born out of a need to create a sovereign and unified payment solution for Europe, reducing dependence on non-European payment systems like Visa & Mastercard.

With Wero, sending money to friends and family will be much easier because it allows you to send and receive $$ instantly using just an email address, phone number, or QR code. No more IBANS, 3 days of waiting to receive 💸 etc.

It's also a good alternative for Paypal 🇺🇸 and it is designed to replace several national payment solutions, including Giropay 🇩🇪, Paylib 🇫🇷, Payconiq 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 and iDEAL 🇳🇱 which not always work cross-borders.

The roadmap is full of features to be implemented like online and in-store payment.

For the moment, it's available only in Germany, France and Belgium.

Website: wero-wallet.eu

#europeanalternatives #wero #paypal #BuyFromEU #bank

Wero - Digital payment wallet

Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
wero-wallet
#paypal #europeanalternatives #wero #bank #buyfromeu

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I am wondering if it is possible with #NVDA to search for text in specific colours.

Let's say a co-worker sends you a document and tells you that they have formated some sentences in red and others marked with a yellow background.

How would I quickly find such sentences?

With #JAWS the skim reading feature comes to mind. But I don't know if there is a way to do the same thing with #NVDA.

#nvda #jaws

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NV Access

If the document is in Word, you can use Word's own find feature to search for text of particularly colours (press control+h for find / replace, then alt+m for more, then alt+o for formatting, select font or paragraph etc and choose the formatting to search for. Press control+page down or control+page up to find the next or previous occurance of text with that formatting.
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Uploaded from my Facebook account, this is a small video of me playing Forza Horizon 5 and starting a mission and finishing a mission. Blindness accessibility features have been enabled.
#gaming #games #Disability #Video games
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streamed yesterday: one-hour german #chaosradio @cccfr freiburg feature at @RDL with a deep-dive conversation about #deltachat origins, what it has and hasn't to do with e-mail, protection against server compromise, phone based compared to e-mail networking, how to conspire for baking cheese cakes, authoritarianism and sovereignty, protest and organization, how to arrange for shopping and checklists in chats ... and fun music :)

rdl.de/beitrag/chaosradio-frei…

rdl.de/sites/default/files/aud…

Chaosradio Freiburg 0xAC

Termine28.2.
Radio Dreyeckland
#deltachat #chaosradio @CCC Freiburg @Radio Dreyeckland
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Tonight's weird tech question: Is there a DOM API/JavaScript hack of some sort I can use to track, save, and restore the screen reader's position in a relatively static HTML document? Say, for instance, you were reading a book in an HTML document with your screen reader, then closed the window. Now imagine that window was an app, and I wanted to make certain your position was restored when that app opened again. Is there an API I could hook into for that?

It's not quite focus, because that'd require tabindex. It probably isn't one of the text properties, right? Because you're not exactly in charted territory when you're arrowing through a paragraph not in a writable element like an input or textarea. Can I track that at all?

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James Scholes

No. The closest thing to an automatic solution to that is probably tracking scroll position, and you may or may not be able to make that more granular by making the text quite big (I haven't tried). But even then, the best you're gonna be able to achieve is to track the closest element and put focus back there to restore the position, without character-level accuracy.

I know that Mozilla and NV Access have done some work to allow selection of text within the NVDA browse mode buffer to be communicated to the browser for on-page actions that require a selection. But:
1. That doesn't work across browsers; and
2. your use case seems targeted at reading, not selecting.

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Nolan Darilek

Thanks, that's what I was thinking. And just to check an assumption, setting the scroll position won't update the screen reader's position in the doc--I'd have to use focus shenanigans for that?

For context, this is my attempt at a document reader that saves/restores position when the document is closed/reopened. I don't think I need character accuracy, or even paragraph accuracy, if I can open books or longer documents to roughly where the reader closed out.

FWIW I'm not just being lazy and asking, I'm trying right now and it isn't working, which I suspected it wouldn't. It's also possible I'm using my web framework wrong or that something is behaving silly under Linux.

Thanks again!

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Quin

You can sort of try and hack this by giving all your divs a negative tabindex and then calling .focus on them, we tried this a few years ago when thinking about QRead web, but the biggest problem is the inaccuracies. I'm okay with being a paragraph back in a book, but not a paragraph forward, and because of the nature of screen readers and the DOM we'd likely get the latter in a lot of cases.
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James Scholes

That's mostly correct.

There are some instances in which a webpage can move the scroll position without explicitly setting focus to the target element, and have the screen reader's reading position follow. But that can be less reliable, particularly if the target element is visually obscured, and setting focus is a more explicit/guaranteed way to do it.

Note that if you're setting focus to things like headings and paragraphs that aren't focusable by default, you'll need to dynamically inject a `tabindex="-1"` for the best results.

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