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A big part of my job is to make sure our applications are accessible. You wouldn't believe how, even though legally required to do so, I have to prove time and

by keyle 3y ago

A big part of my job is to make sure our applications are accessible. You wouldn't believe how, even though legally required to do so, I have to prove time and time again that further work needs to be done in order to make our application accessible. Please keep complaining out loud, I feel so many people are suffering in silence.

abwizz 3y ago
technologies to make information less accessible seem to be in high demand (drm anyone?)
- devinprater 3y ago
  Oh yes. Several blind people have a Victor Reader or some such device that's a portable book player, basically, made for blind people. Amazon, of course, would never let their Kindle content onto that player, although Audible is okay for some reason. Kindle on Android still uses an instance of the Android speech engine to read books, and still won't continue reading while the screen is off, which is honestly one of the only good uses for spawning another speech engine and not using TalkBack to speak. Oh and Kindle for Mac's speech function is complete broken as of Ventura cause Apple changed a lot about the speech engine. I mean I know there's more on DRM than books, but that's what I've been dealing with for the past like year. Kindle has all the stuff I like though. sigh
  - dizhn 3y ago
    I am not sure if Librera HD is usable in terms of accessibility but it seems to handle text to speech pretty well when I tested it just now. It works with the screen turned off too. The software is available in F-droid without restriction.
devinprater 3y ago
Thank you so much. A lot of the time, in blind culture, a lot of people feel like developers are tired of hearing us. Others are like "well we should just be greatful for what we have." And sometimes I feel like a lot of feedback I give, either on social media or through dedicated feedback forms (Apple, Google), are just not seen or actioned by anyone, or got lost somewhere up the chain.
- kps 3y ago
  Please keep complaining. Many developers want to do better, but aren't able to put in the work because management does not see accessibility as important. Feedback forums are generally useless. They are barely monitored by low-level contractors who only pass up the most common complaints.

by keyle 3y ago

abwizz 3y ago

technologies to make information less accessible seem to be in high demand (drm anyone?)

devinprater 3y ago
Oh yes. Several blind people have a Victor Reader or some such device that's a portable book player, basically, made for blind people. Amazon, of course, would never let their Kindle content onto that player, although Audible is okay for some reason. Kindle on Android still uses an instance of the Android speech engine to read books, and still won't continue reading while the screen is off, which is honestly one of the only good uses for spawning another speech engine and not using TalkBack to speak. Oh and Kindle for Mac's speech function is complete broken as of Ventura cause Apple changed a lot about the speech engine. I mean I know there's more on DRM than books, but that's what I've been dealing with for the past like year. Kindle has all the stuff I like though. sigh
- dizhn 3y ago
  I am not sure if Librera HD is usable in terms of accessibility but it seems to handle text to speech pretty well when I tested it just now. It works with the screen turned off too. The software is available in F-droid without restriction.

devinprater 3y ago

Thank you so much. A lot of the time, in blind culture, a lot of people feel like developers are tired of hearing us. Others are like "well we should just be greatful for what we have." And sometimes I feel like a lot of feedback I give, either on social media or through dedicated feedback forms (Apple, Google), are just not seen or actioned by anyone, or got lost somewhere up the chain.

kps 3y ago
Please keep complaining. Many developers want to do better, but aren't able to put in the work because management does not see accessibility as important. Feedback forums are generally useless. They are barely monitored by low-level contractors who only pass up the most common complaints.