I think #Anki holds a great deal of potential for #blind learners of #languages and other subjects:

The desktop app uses Qt 6, so isn't entirely unusable. It's also fully open source.

The iOS app is extremely usable with VoiceOver, albeit relatively expensive for a mobile app at £24.99, and not open source.

The web interface is usable, but would currently cause people to think more about how to use it than the actual subject they were studying. Still, with some user scripting, it could be workable.

And finally, all Anki functionality is available via their Python library, which could be used in a command line app or more #accessible frontend.

Of course, the issue is always the time needed to take things from where they are now to where they need to be. And I suspect a significant challenge would be having screen readers speak/braille things in the correct language as hopefully declared by each flashcard.

#accessibility #language #languageLearning

Things Your Spanish Teacher Didn't Tell You
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@videsnelson is teaching a friend of his Spanish. He's a native speaker, not a language teacher.

I had 9 years of Spanish classes & 5 years of self-study, and I found answers to plenty of things my past teachers under-explained or explained in ways that caused predictable mistakes.

I started telling him what to tell her, so she could skip those frustrations.

The result is this blog post.

#Spanish #LanguageLearning

Things your Spanish teacher didn't tell you

A friend of mine (a native Spanish speaker) just started teaching one of his friends Spanish, and the first thing I said was: Explain to her that ser is essence/identity/characteristic and estar is status, and that’ll go SO much better than the stupi…

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