Timothy Wynn

@Tamasg@mindly.social @Jage@mas.to @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space In case anyone wants a direct source for this change:

Insert dashes with new keyboard shortcuts. You can quickly insert an en dash (–) or em dash (—) while typing. Press Windows logo key + Minus (-) to insert an en dash, and Windows logo key + Shift + Minus (-) to insert an em dash.

Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/10/16/new-experiences-currently-rolling-out-for-windows-11/

@oceane@gotosocial.social @ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca I don't work in the accessibility field and don't know where you got the 80-character limit datapoint from, but I don't think that's the case for anyone. While braille displays may average 20, 40, or 80 cells in size, each one has the ability to pan, i.e., read the next X characters in the line as needed.

@micr0 While I haven't used altbot, I just became a sponsored. Not much, but hopefully it will help collectively.

@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat What's the opposite of belated? Early congratulations to the two of you on 17 years of marriage. May there be many more for years to come.

@zersiax Oh I am glad. I didn't find anything off about the game, but I'm not easily offended, and it's just a hodgepodge of various strategies used to navigate and interact with the inaccessible world around you. I thought it was a neat concept.

@matt@toot.cafe Re your last boost from @Vordus@chitter.xyz, while I get it, I also think this post does a decent job for its defense: https://ericwbailey.website/published/a11y-is-web-accessibility/

@matt@toot.cafe @Vordus@chitter.xyz @JonathanMosen@caneandable.social Like I said I get the arguments, but if you want a counter to that from a blind person, then @arush@indieweb.social had a post. Not sure if she still agrees with it, but there you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20190428135203if_/https://www.customerservant.com/defense-a11y-hashtag/

Re threaded and boosted post, while some may tell us to stick to mailing lists and other legacy methods, when Yahoo!Groups went under without much time or recourse, that sours me on that solution too. That said, I don't actually have any solutions in mind, as having your own email server is getting harder and harder to pull off nowadays.

@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat I... uh... did not know that. I feel like there are glaring holes in my body of knowledge.

@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca Uh... please don't use that link. I don't think it will work for long, if not gone already. Try editing your post and pasting an URL like: https://github.com/nguyenanhduc09/Google-TTS-For-NVDA/releases/download/v0.5/googleTtsForNvda-0.5.nvda-addon

@KaraLG84 Most Pad Thai is generally sold at restaurants with a spice level, and while I am a Vietnamese, my taste buds can't handle the heat. In my experience though, most instant Pad Thai are also spicy too, which is hwy I have to look to see if the pepper flakes is in a separate packet.

@simon@procrastodon.net For sure. Another thought is to use Aira's Access AI and get it verified by an agent.

@aaronareed@mastodon.gamedev.place Thank you so much for taking the time to answer. I hope to reread one day, but I'm not able to handle sad at this point in time. I would love to purchase an idealistic ebook version if that's ever possible. @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space

@jscholes@dragonscave.space @simon@procrastodon.net You've been hiding your birth name and age quite well then. 🤣 The problem with me is that I don't know how to take good pictures never having had vision before.

@zersiax I'm curious if there's a way for you to submit feedback to the dev, so they can at least feel that not everyone is being hostile? You can also link the video if they wanted longer-form feedback.

@simon@procrastodon.net Would something like a Be My Eyes volunteer be helpful if you can't get OCR to work? LLMs usually do okay, but I suspect it's not as useful for these cases though you never know.

@JamminJerry @jscholes To be fair, I think the trend nowadays is to say something annoying when done. Notification on the app I use reminds me to clean, so I don't think it's specifically because of infantilizing PWD. Now if the volume of the voice prompts can't go down to a decently quiet level, then there's a big issue for sure. Also, if you tell it to turn off, how do you turn it back on? Unplug and replug?

@LWorksGames Last also, because this is ridiculous, but I feel like the movements of enemies have increased too, but I can't tell for sure. Here's an audio recording of me playing, badly, the first level.

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca I did too, and it's still flagged, so I guess the definitions are poisoned eventually from the ML-based definitions?

@doskel Whoof, I just went down a rabbit hole, and it's amazing that it's still available for download on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: Direct link: https://web.archive.org/web/20150407122158if_/http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/special/opus_number_one.mp3 Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150406221217/http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/553/stuck-in-the-middle-2015

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca Interesting, as unzipping the add-on and scanning is perfectly fine. I also have cloud protection disabled because gross ML definitions, but it also was flagged in add-on form. I don't know about coding or the like, but your theory of false positive does hold more weight.

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca Now that I have an add-on for the Microsoft Neural Voices from nvda.ru and Southern Vietnamese voice data, I don't think I'll willingly use Google TTS, but I'm glad people have options for use with their screen reader of choice though.

@KaraLG84@dragonscave.space Not sure how to interpret the FAQ, but part of the differences question's answer says that "each chapter has essentially the same beats: there's no branching paths or radically alternate endings. You might think of each version as a different draft of the same book." Source; https://subcutanean.textories.com/faq.html @aaronareed@mastodon.gamedev.place

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca I don't use the add-on, but good to know.

@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat As in what? You both go furniture perusing together?

@fesshole What an evocative phrase "rich patina of orange earwax" is. Now I know yellow earwax darkens to orange the more concentrated it is, but later I'm sure I would have forgotten that tidbit, for good or for ill.

@Lprazdnik @simon You're probably thinking of Virtual Display Driver: https://github.com/VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver Easy download page if you're not used to GitHub: https://gitrls.com/VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver/

@LWorksGames Also I'm playing the lava lake levels, and has the mud sound before the pits been boosted intentionally? If so, it makes it far easier to hear now when the fire sound would otherwise mask it

@gluejar@tilde.zone You may wish to contact [Richard Rieman over at Imagination Storybooks/Videobooks] (Richard@ImaginationVideobooks.org), as I think they did an audio described version of this book along with other children books: [1]: https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/577834/Imagination-Videobooks-Makes-Illustrated-Childrens-Books-Accessible-to-Visually--Hearing-Impaired.htm [2]: https://www.audible.com/search?searchProvider=Imagination+Storybooks

@alpuzz@mastodon.social While amusing, I hope you know you can turn off the abbreviations in the voice's settings, unless they broke that toggle in the beta of 27...

@pitermach @simon @accessibleandroid They essentially said they pulled it from the store because when it was cracked, sales dropped to virtually zero. That logic doesn't make sense to me, because that would mean sales would literally be zero if you pull it from the store, but there would definitely be higher chances of more purchases if it remained available. I'll take a wait and see approach for sure.

@DJDarren There is no way for you to get a regular ticket then go through their accessible accommodations process, if they have one in the first place? That really sucks...

@KaraLG84 Very interesting. I guess it depends on what Thai restaurant you go to, and how many westerners there are? All the ones I've been to, I had to explicitly ask for no spicy.

@austinnix You can do the same thing with the AirPods as well.