Hey so Claude Code got DecTalk working in Termux on Android and got Emacspeak working with it. Very little lag. Emacs. Android. Org-mode. Bluetooth keyboard. Nov.el. Markdown-mode. Org-export. Calendar. Emacs. Mind blown.

#emacs #accessibility #android #blind #termux

I recently bought an iPhone SE 2022 and am switching back to IOS from Android. One of the things I liked about my Galaxy A15 is that it told me when my battery reached eighty percent and then stopped charging. My iPhone doesn't do this. I also don't have a regular charging schedule, since I use my phone more on some days than others, so the optomisation feature doesn't really help me. I want to charge my phone when the battery drops to twenty percent, or ten percent at the lowest and stop charging it at eighty percent, unless I really need the extra charge. I downloaded AllMyBatteries and set up notifications, but I often don't hear them and it's charged to a full 100% several times already. Can anyone please help me find a solution to this? I am a VoiceOver user and strictly use an external keyboard. I have both an Orbit Writer and a regular qwerty keyboard, so directions with either are fine. I know there is a way to create automated shortcuts, but the last time I tried it, it didn't really work for me. Is there a better program that I can download? Some of the features of AllMyBatteries aren't fully accessible.

#accessibility #battery #blind #IOS #iPhone #technology #Voiceover

The packaging of the Fairphone and it's accessories has braille! I have never seen any packaging other than medicine have braille. I'm so impressed. Even the location of the qr code is highlighted with embossing. It seems to say "scan qr code for help".

#fairphone #braille #phone #smartphone #packaging #accessibility #a11y #blind

Today being World #Braille Day, I acknowledge that to most, it's a series of random-seeming dots on elevators or ATM's. To me, and other #blind people, it's the gateway to literacy, education, and success.

My parents made me learn it and print simultaneously, suspecting my usable vision wouldn't last forever. They were right.

But thanks to Braille, I'm functionally literte, and I attribute much of my life's personal and professional success to this dotted code.

The Kuloran Players show you around their residence, and they’ve got unwanted company! Listen to a new early gameplay demo for our audio MMO in development, Kirandur, and get some insight into our team spirit!
Listen through the pub: audiopub.site/listen/fe33cdd7-…

#Kirandur #audiogame #blind

#SelfHosting week 0, phase 1B: DNS records settings. Performed @_elena 's instructions on her "self hosting for newbies" part 2. Except for the post-install as I run it through terminal and not through web UI. For an ms-dos-born it's easier to perform a simple command such as "yunohost tools postinstall" rather than go to web, then type, then search for the various UI elements.
Everything went smooth, except for letsencrypt at first. But in the end it seems to have worked. It got stuck because hostinger panel didn't get one suggested parameter, the numeric 3600, every record has a parameter which is 3, 4 or 5 numbers.
Created the domain and subdomain to point it to yunohost admin interface, and then obstacle came.
Opening browser to subdomain, just returns "connection timed out".
Checked for nginx parameters through yunohost terminal, using the desired Sudo commands.
Then, "sudo yunohost diagnosis run"
"sudo yunohost diagnosis show --issues --human-readable"
and I got explanation on reverse dns which was wrong.
After that, I searched on the web (and on AI, I admit) the position on hostinger panel to set them, and I found "set tpr record"
placed the desired domain name.
And now it's time to wait for propagation. But what about the "connected timeout", in the article posted in blog.elenarossini.com no such obstacle was mentioned.
I'm back to my 20s when I spent the night (it's almost 4 in the morning), learning commands.
Last but not least, accessibility issue: I'm using an app called WebSSH pro, downloaded on app store. Set it up, and VoiceOver for iOS does not read the keys I press on keyboard so I'm very slow to type commands there. Pc is better. In a few hours I'll try hostinger's terminal.
UPDATE: I have just found I set one DNS wrong, now I'll wait for it to propagate. Next update in some hours. I placed a useless number. Such as 72.162 (wrong) instead of 72.62 (right).
Like when you start developing on your own and everything crashes due to a missing semicolumn in a string of code.

#accessibility #yunohost #selfhost #blind

New Accessible Book and Document Reading app to try. This was posted by the developer on an email list I am on. Please pass it on... Hello everybody,

I’d like to share my new iPhone and iPad app I’ve just released: Vox Libri.

App Store link:
apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-libr…

Vox Libri is built to help people read books and documents in a flexible, personalized, and fully accessible way. It is designed to work well with VoiceOver and braille displays, and to support different reading preferences: on-screen reading, braille reading, or high-quality text-to-speech.

The interface is available in English and Spanish, and you can use any device-supported language for voices.

Key features include:
• High-quality text-to-speech for natural read-aloud.
• A braille reading mode compatible with braille displays.
• A highly customizable reading screen (font, size, colors, spacing, themes).
• Support for common formats: TXT, PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, and EPUB.
• Accessible navigation through chapters, headings, pages, bookmarks, and sections.
• Hands-free reading using headphone controls.
• On-device AI translation, summarization, and simplification when supported by the device.

I am working in versions for MacOS and WatchOS…

If you try Vox Libri, I would sincerely appreciate any feedback from BlindApple users—especially around accessibility, braille workflows, navigation, and overall reading comfort.

Thank you and regards
Jonathan Chacón

#New #Accessible #Book #Document #Reader #Blind

Vox libri App - App Store

Download Vox libri by Jonatan Chacon Barbero on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Vox libri.

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i want to hear from people who use screen readers: what makes alt text useful to you? what doesn't help?

#accessibility #a11y #blind #alttext

RE: wetdry.world/@micr0/1158046481…

NO NO NO

#WarAgainstAltbot

"the vision stuff"

#blind

Really annoying Orca behavior: you have to navigate by word to find spelling errors. rather than by paragraph or sentence. This is a massive productivity killer. If any #Blind #Linux users know how to change this, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll write to the Orca list and see if this can't be fixed.

Update: have written to the Orca list about this and hoping it's something that I can simply configure.

I'm so glad NVDA, Narrator, Orca, VoiceOver, TDSR, and Fenrir exist. I'm so, so glad JAWS is not the only desktop screen reader, and that FS did not persue JAWS for Mac.

I'm so glad that NVDA not only supports addons, but shows them off with the addon store! I'm so glad that NVDA is so inescapably popular that even big corporations support them, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office and countless others that say in their documentation that NVDA is supported.

#accessibility #blind #nvdasr #nvda #technology

Just helped someone on Be My Eyes, he was walking from his house to a shop about 10 minutes away.

Helped him navigate the streets and cross the road and so on. Luckily he lived in the UK so I knew what I was seeing 😅

He was wearing Meta’s AI glasses, which help him a lot but don’t currently describe things like lamp posts/scaffolding etc, which was where I was needed.

He made the call from the glasses also, and it was great that I could see what he could see also.

One of my favourite things is helping people on Be My Eyes 😍

Such a great app.

#blind #blindness

I’ve built a few Braille-related apps, and I’m learning the hard way how difficult this space really is.

Discoverability is hard, onboarding takes time, and even motivated users often need practice before the apps become useful. Some software concepts are innovative, powerful, but slower compared to hardware tools.

I’m still iterating and listening carefully to feedback.

#Blind #Braille #Accessibility #a11y

Hello Mastodon 👋

I’m Stefan, an indie developer working on accessibility-focused apps for blind users.

My current work explores how light, color, and structure can be translated into sound and haptics without being overwhelming. A lot of it is learning by listening — to users, not just to code.

I’m here to learn, exchange ideas, and hopefully contribute something useful.

Happy to connect, and grateful for thoughtful feedback along the way.

#Accessibility #a11y #Blind #IndieDev