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Google publishes the source code for their TalkBack screen reader. GrapheneOS maintains a fork of it and includes it in GrapheneOS with the help of a blind GrapheneOS user who works on their own more elaborate fork. Eventually, we'd like to include more or all of their changes.

TalkBack depends on a text-to-speech (TTS) implementation installed/configured/activated. It needs to have Direct Boot support to function before the first unlock of a profile. Google's TTS implementation supports this and can be used on GrapheneOS, but it's not open source.

We requested Direct Boot support from both prominent open source implementations:

RHVoice: github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/iss…
eSpeak NG: github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng…

eSpeak NG recently added it but it's not yet included in a stable release and their licensing (GPLv3) is too restrictive for us.

RHVoice itself has acceptable licensing for inclusion in GrapheneOS (LGPL v2.1), but has dependencies with restrictive licensing. Both these software projects also have non-free licensing issues for the voices. Neither provides close to a working out-of-the-box experience either.

Google's Speech Services app providing text-to-speech and speech-to-text works perfectly. Their proprietary accessibility services app with extended TalkBack and other services also works fine. However, many of our users don't want to use them and we need something we can bundle.

There aren't currently any usable open source speech-to-text apps. There are experimental open source speech-to-text implementations but they lack Android integration.

We also really need to make a brand new setup wizard with both accessibility and enterprise deployment support.

GrapheneOS still has too little funding and too few developers to take on these projects. These would be standalone projects able to be developed largely independently. There are similar standalone projects which we need to have developed in order to replace some existing apps.

AOSP provides a set of barebones sample apps with outdated user interfaces / features. These are intended to be replaced by OEMs, but we lack the resources of a typical OEM. We replaced AOSP Camera with our own app, but we still need to do the same with Gallery and other apps.

Google has started the process of updating the open source TalkBack, which only happens rarely. We've identified a major issue: a major component has no source code published.

github.com/google/talkback/pul…

Google has been very hostile towards feedback / contributions for TalkBack...

This is one example of something seemingly on the right track significantly regressing. Another example is the takeover of the Seedvault project initially developed for GrapheneOS. It has deviated substantially from the original plans and lacks usability, robustness and security.

In the case of Seedvault, GrapheneOS designed the concept for it and one of our community members created it. It was taken over by a group highly hostile towards us and run into the ground. It doesn't have the intended design/features and lacks usability, security and robustness.

All of these are important standalone app projects for making GrapheneOS highly usable and accessible. What we need is not being developed by others and therefore we need to the resources including funding and developers to make our own implementations meeting our requirements.

#grapheneos #privacy #security #android #mobile #accessibility #texttospeech #speechtotext #talkback #blind #backup


#Tusky je výborný klient pro sociální sítě Mastodon a Pixelfed

👉 infoek.cz/tusky-mobilni-aplika…

#mobileapp #mobile #phone #android #androidphone


Automated Accessibility Part 2: Mobile Web Testing dev.to/steady5063/automated-ac… by Mark Steadman #a11y #mobile #testing #webdev


I hope they continue to build this out — A guide for making iOS & Android apps accessible beta.appt.org/en #mobile #a11y #ios #android


phosh 0.22.0 is out 🚀📱 :

A bit later than usual but with more style improvements, better battery indicator and more:

Check out the full release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p…

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #linuxmobile

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#Introduction time!
My name is dos; some call me Sebastian. I made dozens of small silly video #games and some slightly less small ones too. I'm one half of @holypangolin studio. Sometimes I pretend to be a musician, but don't get fooled. I'm also a living encyclopedia on a Polish rock band "Perfect". Trams are cooler than trains. The more caramel, the better. I've been using GNU/#Linux on #mobile phones for ages, which led me to work with @purism on the Librem 5. btw I use Arch, but I ❤️ Debian!


In dieser #Anleitung für blinde Menschen nutzen wir für #Android übrigens @AntennaPod

kom-in.de/156/podcasts-via-rss…

#Podcast #RSS #Audio #Player #App #mobile #a11y #accessibility #blind #FOSS #OpenSource #AntennaPod
@jamescridland


phosh 0.21.1 is out 🚀📱 :

A new minor release: mostly to catch up with calls 43 and glib 2.74.0 but there are more fixes and lots of translation updates too.

Check out the full release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p…

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile


phosh 0.21.0 is out 🚀📱 :

It was supposed to be bug fixes only but also got improved screen shot support and a (experimental) widget to show
upcoming events on the lock screen.

Check out the full release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p…

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile


phoc 0.21.0 has been released, more stable than ever, paving the way for the imminent release of phosh that will bring a lot of goodies in :) Grab it at ➡️ gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p… @purism #linuxonmobile #mobile #gnu #linux #gnome #purism #librem5 #phosh #floss #wayland


phosh 0.20.0 is out 🚀📱 :

After three beta releases we've finally tagged phosh 0.20.0.

Check out the full release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p… . This also links to the release notes of the beta releases which have more details.

And the good news is we already have new merge requests pending for phosh 0.20.1 and 0.30.0.

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile


It's pretty ☀️ here at #debconf22 so let's have automatic switching to HighContrast theme in #phosh (based on the ambient light sensor) so one doesn't have to toggle it manually when moving to the talks inside.

#librem5 #linux #mobile #gnome @purism


GNOME 42 Mobile Apps On Pinephone


In this video, I will showcase some of the recently updated core GNOME 42 apps that use libadwaita and GTK4.

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#gnome #pinephone #linux


📱 On my way to #Debconf22 and it was the first time I could show the QR code of a train ticket on #phosh's lockscreen to the conductor (had to resort to unlock ➡️ nautilus ➡️ evince so far).

For that I stitched together a lockscren plugin that leverages #evince's libevince. Hope the other tickets will works just as well tomorrow.

#librem5 #linux #mobile #gnome @purism


phosh 0.20.0~beta2 is out 🚀📱 :

It fixes most of the things for 0.20.0 but there's more.

Check out the full release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p… for details.

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile


A sensible choice! I love k9-mail despite its flaws on Android, and I love #Thunderbird on the Desktop. But, what am I going to use on my #mobile #linux desktop... mmh


📢 📢 📢 Today we publish an Open Letter from developers to the #Linux #community regarding shipping unfinished patches to users.

Shipping unfinished patches harms the user experience and slows down the review process in #FOSS projects to improve the patches.

You can read our Open Letter at: do-not-ship.it

If you agree with this letter, you can support it by signing it, see: do-not-ship.it/sign

#donotship #openletter #community #mobile #development #userexperience #opensource #PSA


Linux life hack: say you have a page open in Firefox on your Linux machine and you want to view it on your phone (and you don’t have some fancy integration between the two)…

Instead of typing in the URL, get the FxQRL extension that shows you a QR code of the current tab’s URL and aim your phone’s camera at it.

Boom! :)

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

#linux #lifeHack #firefox #extension #web #QRcode #mobile #browser


We'll be having a (virtual) #phosh contributors get together at #fosdem2022 this Sunday. The jitsi room can likely handle some more people so if you're a #phosh contributor (designer, translator, bug reporter, developer, distribution packager, …) and want to meet the other folks just sign up at fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event…

See you there!

#linux #mobile #gnome