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🏳️⚧️PepperTheVixen🇵🇸
@PepperTheVixen@meow.social
mastodon 4.7.3+glitch🔞 Blind Gentoo nerd, tranarchist, poly, therian, Chicana, radical leftist, extraordinarily queer two-tailed vixen. I post and boost NSFW. Also I swear a lot
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Joined April 25, 2022
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@quinn@social.circl.lu Greetings from California! When I visited other parts of the US, I experienced culture shock that I was not prepared to experience within my own country. Even in the poorer parts of California, lifestyles are dramatically different. Head out to other states and you see even more of it. The US is 50 countries in a trench coat
We're really good at building places that hate people. We should stop doing that
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You may be wondering how us blind folk got along before AI. We had 3 options: find a sighted person, find a different app, or don't do the thing. Option 3 usually wins out. This is a near-daily occurance. Encounter these barriers for a few decades, and you too may start to get desperate for a better alternative. Again, I hate AI as much as you, but the reality is that blind and disabled people are going to use these until we have a better solution. That better solution is a fundamental change in how societies view disabled people and how their priorities are considered in relation to the priorities of abled people
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imagine waking up and thinking to yourself "I could use my enormous wealth to effect positive change upon the world, buuuuuuuuuuut I gotta go put down a unionization effort at one of my stores today"
portland update: the chance that you will walk into the park on a sunny day and hear a band playing Bella Ciao is significantly greater than zero
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@fullfathomfive I'm blind, and I'm sick of being used as a shield by these corporations. I do not agree with their idealogical stances, nor do I consent to being used to make their goals more palettable to the general public. FOSS community, you have a golden opportunity to win over a large portion of the blind and disabled communities. We hate this corporate surveillance garbage and would gladly take an alternative
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@pojntfx Over here, we require the use of super ultra mega secret secure hardware inside the SOC in order to make payments... even though you can just do them within a browser without any of that crap as well. Truly mystifying technology that only the techbros have the wisdom to understand /s
"Dude, this AI is awesome! It makes me want to git rebase -i without looking! Hey, where did all my commits go? Help me, github!"
Any blind iOS users know of Telegram clients that are at least somewhat more accessible than the official one? To be blunt, the official telegram app on iphone is the worst chat client that I've ever used that's not just straight up blank to Voiceover. I have a few groups I talk to on Telegram and I'd like to make that experience a little less painful
#blind #telegram #ios #iphone #accessibility #a11y #voiceover
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Oh. I can move all of those muscles with surprising precision. Fuck. Time to relearn how to put one foot in front of the other.
"This page is displayed in , but your browser is set to .
Would you like to switch to the version?"
button 1: "Switch to"
Button 2: "Stay in"
Oh you silly little web extension you
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@gen It also screws up screen readers which is plain-old rude
PNW update: I'm tripping over queers, there are so many up here. I have literally tripped over a fellow queer at least once
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billionaires just really fucking hate the world, huh. All that money is just numbers to them and they can only feel good about themselves if everybody else's number goes down. Everyone else gets angry. The billionaire gaslights everyone into thinking that this is normal and okay
So I pulled out my old Origen G2 amp DAC and I'm now using it since I no longer have a mixer to plug into. It sounds decent, but there's one critical problem: the internals shut off when there's silence and cut off several words of my screen reader. I've tried using those silent audiostream addons with no luck. As far as I can tell, this thing will shut off its internals if there is silence. It doesn't care if there's a silent audiostream. As far as it's concerned, that's the same as silence, and I lose screen reader output as a result. I can solve the problem by playing music, except the problem briefly returns when the music goes silent. It's incredibly annoying. Any blind or audio people know how I can get an audiostream going that's very nearly, but not quite, silent and just keeps humming away in the background as long as my computer is on?
Better yet, is there a way to turn off the power-saving feature of the Origen G2 so I can avoid this problem altogether? I want it to just pump out sound so long as its powered on. Power-saving features be damned.
#blind #audio #origeng2 #a11y #screenReader #iHateAudioShenaniganry
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@phf Oof. In that case let's keep it figurative and keep a bottle of champagne ready for totally unrelated reasons :3
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@MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space I do :3C
Real fucking tired of voiceover focus jumping as I'm performing an activation gesture. Stop it. Stop moving my focus every time a new screen pops up. I do not need you to baby me around the phone. It's actively hindering my ability to get around the phone.
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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @JenMsft@mastodon.social holy shit I thought I was losing my mind. I'm gonna go and try uninstalling this update
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@tommorris The worst variation of this are buttons that are raised to look like physical buttons but are still capacitive. Washing machines are guilty of this and I hope the product manager responsible has been fired
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@raphaelmorgan @fullfathomfive You're going to get wildly different answers based on who you ask. I think it could be useful for knowing who's near you if you don't have vision. The only blind-focused company I know of that's doing it in a non-creepy way is Orcam. You explicitly have to show their devices a face and assign a name to that face. Everything is done on device and can't be exported without dismantling the thing. My info is several years out of date, so it's possible that OrCam have changed their ways. Also, I'm not a big fan of OrCam in general. They spend more money on marketting than on their actual products and I've heard nothing but horror stories from their customers. When I attended a presentation in LA, the speaker did a steve jobs schtick and spent half the presentation patting the company on the back. The tech itself is pretty cool though
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@raphaelmorgan @fullfathomfive Fuck facebook, fuck meta, fuck every single company under the meta umbrella, and fuck mark zuckerberg in particular. He belongs in prison for crimes against Humanity
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@brianbilston You forgot "expresso", but this will do for all intensive purposes. Now get along, little doggy :3c
But srsly though this was funny and I love it!
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@cassolotl I will never willingly purchase any appliance without touch controls unless there is no equivalent alternative
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@seabass@social.seabass.systems @kde@floss.social You could also move files around with SyncThing across multiple computers if you want something simplere. No AI gubbins necessary
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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space just ordered a pixel 10 and this is on my top-reasons list. It's leagues ahead of anything apple has. Do you know if can be made to work with grapheneOS?
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I'm debating whether I want to replace my phone battery and suck it up for another year, but the more I think about it, the more I realize I just absolutely despise voiceover for ios. It would infuriate me even if it wasn't abysmally slow. I need a phone that doesn't insist that there are no other elements on screen or move my focus mid-tap
I do not like habanero. It tastes like cilantro and metal. Give cayenne instead
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@igb Gimme their eyes! I'll make much better use of them
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@codecat Narrator is the screen reader I use to install NVDA
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@det I'm a Gentoo user. I'm running with openrc. It's a ballache to get up and running, and it's now the only distro I'm completely comfortable running. You manage nearly everything. If you configure your own kernel, you get even more control. Portage is an incredibly powerful package manager. Just prepare for pain
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@OliviaVespera@spacey.space Sadly no. Linux has Speakup on the command line and Orca on the desktop. Orca is in rough shape and needs a lot of work on the package itself and the accessibility APIs it hooks into
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@OliviaVespera@spacey.space Hmm... okay now I need to do some testing on this. I might not be using the specific features that break with that option
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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social The desktop client is a bit of a faff with NVDA, but it's navigable with some practice. If you want, I can give you a hand with it. I use it every day on Win11 with NVDA
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@molly0xfff Split ortholinear boards, my beloved!
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@OliviaVespera@spacey.space I'm not, but I can spin up a VM without too much trouble
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@MostlyBlindGamer I either need to get a new battery or get a new phone. I'll probably do both and keep the iphone as a camera/airtag machine
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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social When you build software with accessibility in mind from the start, everyone wins. Good accessibility usually requires that you have good UX in general
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@MostlyBlindGamer I have been using my phone with lockdown mode off. Voiceover is a tiny bit faster, but not by very much
I expect my iphone's performance to degrade, but my battery is at 75% with 79% health and it's taking multiple seconds to open a menu within the settings app. Either performance drops off way more than I think or something else is up
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@MostlyBlindGamer I have to check. I wouldn't be surprised if lockdown mode ends up making voiceover intolerably slow. If so, I'll need to push up my efforts to switch to Graphene
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@bigpawedbear I'm on windows. I'll give that a try if nothing else works
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@TheZooLady What do you mean? I've never heard of this feature being built into NVDA
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@OliviaVespera@spacey.space @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social I just checked my running copy on windows, and that setting isn't interfering with NVDA. I've been using the app fine for months with that option enabled