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Pratik Patel
@ppatel@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2I am a blind technologist, humanist, a voracious devourer of books, speaker, writer, and a thinker, who finds himself championing #accessibility for fun and necessity. I'm currently exploring the complex world of AR and VR worlds to find best ways to achieve full accessibility for disabled people.
Oh and give me your fun book recommendations: be it nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy, romance, mystery, and more.
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Joined November 28, 2022
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Dear Humanware,
Good god! How many emails do you need to send out to tell me that You'll be increasing your prices? And, since you're being "transparent" and all, how about you tell me what the prices will be for your products. I mean you do want to serve us poor folks *transparently!* Don't you?
#accessibility #a11y
Your feedback is important. This year's survey includes questions about AI usage. This only took me a few minutes.
WebAIM's Screen Reader User Survey is open now through August 31. If you are a screen reader user, your responses help shape more accessible digital experiences for everyone.
Take the survey here: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey11/
#Accessibility #ScreenReader #NVDASR
Oooo. I'm being recruited. This time, it actually looks genuine. Now to decide whether I want to take a job at the company for which I'm being recruited. Hybrid versus the freedom to not go to an office at all? Hmmmm.
RE: https://mastodon.stickbear.me/@ablade/116893609899668043
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com In this case, I agree with NVAccess. They're trying to balance trust versus easy availability versus cost. There are a large number of addons with dubious code because of people using AI. This is not meant to be a personal reflection on you by the way. Frequent updates cost quite a bit as well. It requires them to ensure that the store doesn't become a source of complete anarchy.
Hiya all. Good to be back here.
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@darrell73@mastodon.online The fear is real. people are actively and Vociferously working to shun people who use these glasses. I agree with Jonathan. At times, I hesitate to wear them outside right now. The problem gets multiplied if we consider that these generalized sweeps are likely to affect *specialized* solutions that some blind people will have. @JonathanMosen@caneandable.social
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@prism@infosec.exchange @NicksWorld@mastodon.stickbear.me It's a lot of work creating a terminal app. I'm working on it. For now, I can only offer the Terminal Access add-on for NVDA that I created.
https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/
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@NicksWorld@mastodon.stickbear.me @prism@infosec.exchange Sounds like they're exposing an API for agents. It gives us possibilities.
@NVAccess@fosstodon.org posted:
In-Process 22nd May 2026
@NVAccess@fosstodon.org posted:
In-Process 11th May 2026
@NVAccess@fosstodon.org posted:
In-Process 27th April 2026
@NVAccess@fosstodon.org posted:
In-Process 10th April 2026
There are some popular masto posts that I am just not meant to boost or talk about because I don't want the subject to take any more space in my brain than it already does due to our current culture.
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@prism@infosec.exchange Totally agreed on Seven. Apparently my brother fell in love with the show because of her. She's a great actress but more than half the reason for her hiring was her looks.
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@mattmay@mstdn.social My friend died 6 months later; I didn't have the time or the financial support for a venture by myself. The domain was gone in a week. We were going to start with an affiliate program, which would then turn into a credit card provider. We'd eventually become a bank, starting as a loan broker followed up by becoming a depository. We were aiming for what would now be termed a neobank.
Gremlins anyone?
@mektastic@kind.social It's good to see you here.
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@prism@infosec.exchange Ya. I'm not sure about the auto-tune part of this cover. @TheVoiceGuy@mastodon.au
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@prism@infosec.exchange @NicksWorld@mastodon.stickbear.me yes. But Someone more steaped into the Doordash world could create a nice shell on top of the cli. Things are more predictable than the web UI or the horrible, terrible, no good mobile app.
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@joslee@mastodon.world I feel that those prompts are mostly useless since LLMs are nondeterministic. You're never going to get the same results twice with one prompt. We're better off establishing best engineering practices so as to avoid bad code. @serrebi@serrebiradio.com
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@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca Working on it. It's bloody annoying. I should have an alpha build in two to three weeks. That thing gives the phrase "it's complicated" a whole new meaning.
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social And other things that enhance the cheesiness of the pizza like veggies?
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@prism@infosec.exchange Lol. They mean to say that, since the newer cards are more expensive, we might as well settle for the older ones.
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@twynn@mas.to It looks like the addon file was pulled from the releases page. The tag and the changelog is still there. But the addon isn't. @serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca
India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/
Harry Potter gets a Nundu as a pet at age 8? There's a new concept for you. Seems like the fic is still ongoing.
After working for weeks on my Wixen Mail app—what I hope will be a brilliant Outlook Classic replacement, I'm finally comfortable enough to have attached an email account to the app during testing. I'm most of the way there for my alpha testing. I can't wait for you to see it. I've identified a bunch of issues I'm working through. Right now, I'm focusing on good documentation. Just a few more days before you have it in your hands.
#accessibility
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@alexhall@mastodon.social Even though the name for my new folder is the first three letters of my first name, it broke so many things when I transferred over files from the old computer. things that relied on the old folder name had to be edited. I finally ended up writing a script to go through files and change references.
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@jdking92@dragonscave.space Here you go. Try it and let me know if it works properly. I don't have McAfee installed so I can't verify it personally.
https://github.com/PratikP1/Wixen-Uninstall/releases/tag/v0.4.0
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@SeveraSnape@mastodon.social Oh nice. I discovered it independently. I'm glad it's in the collection though. It looks like it's going to be a really long one. Quite good though. I've read the first couple of chapters.
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@Tamasg@mindly.social I returned my watch the first time I encountered this problem. There was no way I was going to put up with this type of shoddy work. I wasn't going to compromise on security.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/117076688416367298
"Gone Girl" at the top of the list? People have some strange ideas. I found it disgustingly misogynistic.
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@zersiax@cupoftea.social I knew it sounded familiar. I just couldn't remember. @sjtaylor@tweesecake.social
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@paninid@mastodon.world It's not only that. But they're slowly giving him a mental disorder, which is meant to detract from the action. It also blames people with mental psychiatric disabilities.
Love the snark here!
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/isps-long-nightmare-of-having-to-list-all-the-fees-they-charge-is-finally-over/
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@mattmay@mstdn.social you know. It's really funny. I think I would have been incredibly rich. I had the chance to buy x.com domain for $200.
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@jdking92@dragonscave.space In case you have trouble with sound in safe mode, this will help.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/690992/booting-into-safe-mode-with-sound-how-can-it-be-done/
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@jdking92@dragonscave.space Hmmm. Not sure what's going on there. But, try using the uninstaller again to se if it gets rid of the remaining drivers.
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@menelion@dragonscave.space I used to use the built-in Word keyboard command all the time. MDash was a valid grammatical punctuation, not tjust the way LLMs use it. In most cases, they use it incorrectly. This keyboard command is nice to have though. I can get rid of one of my NVDA addons. @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com They're not limiting you from submiting at all though. I think limiting to beta and stable is fine.
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@jdking92@dragonscave.space Every time I'm given one in the name of saving the planet, I wip out my handy dandy plastic straw deliberately. I've recently seen straws made from pasta. Now those are pretty good. @prism@infosec.exchange