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by bramd 11y ago
> What I'm interested in is taking that sensory input and making it less immediate by giving it a memory -- letting it build up a picture of an environment rather than needing to point a device at something in order to know somethin
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NVDA Remote Access – Indiegogo(indiegogo.com)
2 points by bramd 12y ago|0 comments
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by bramd 12y ago
Hmm, the reply button to submit this comment is just reachable with tab as it should be, so I don't see any issues there? Have you looked at something like BigBlueButton? I recently used it to give a webinar. They don't have an HT
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by bramd 12y ago
> With speech output instead of Braille devices? Interesting. Both. The one doesn't exclude the other. I'm a heavy user of text-to-speech at high rates to digest content easily, but prefer braille when coding or doing some work
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by bramd 12y ago
Just pressed left shift five times to enable sticky keys on my Macbook running Windows 8 (native, no virtualization) and got no beeps. does anyone know if this has changed since Windows 7? I'm sure this generated a beep sequence in old
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Let's Encrypt(letsencrypt.org)
3 points by bramd 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple are losing their edge also in accessibility quality(marcozehe.de)
1 points by bramd 12y ago|0 comments
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by bramd 12y ago
You mean making the IDE itself accessible? Eclipse is already quite accessible out of the box.
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by bramd 12y ago
> At what speed do you replay text->audio (ie realtime, 1.5x,2x,...)? Approximately the speed that the guy at the beginning of this video uses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pM6hJG6Wo > Lastly, if you disregard
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by bramd 12y ago
> Have you ever tried something like the vOICe http://www.seeingwithsound.com/ ? Yes, I have played with it. However, I'm not convinced yet if I should invest a lot of time learning it. Another useful and interestin
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by bramd 12y ago
I'm not a native English speaker either. > Is the technology so advanced today? Are you using a screen reader and a regular keyboard? (e.g. typing and than playing it via the reader) how do you know if you made a typo? (e.g. who&#x2
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by bramd 12y ago
First of all, be aware that the group that's actually totally blind is relatively small. Most people who are legally blind have some form of light perception, or can see something. I've been totally blind since birth. Blind people
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by bramd 12y ago
I don't post often on HN, but today couldn't resist. Just tested Utox on Windows as well as Toxy, also on Windows. Both programs are totally inaccessible for people using a screenreader and I'm quite sure as well for people u
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Programming Sucks(stilldrinking.org)
4 points by bramd 12y ago|0 comments
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Global positioning down to 1 centimetre – Electronics Eetimes(electronics-eetimes.com)
1 points by bramd 13y ago|0 comments
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by bramd 13y ago
> I'd say 95% or more of the web is accessible if you are good with screen reading software. True, however 80% or more of the blind users I've seen are not good with there screenreading software at all. Many people don't e
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by bramd 13y ago
Interesting that some commenters here seem to have an attitude of "let's build an app for the blind", "there is no hope for the blind" etc. I'm born blind and build software and do some accessibility consulting
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Running a Utility Cluster on CoreOS · CoreOS(coreos.com)
1 points by bramd 13y ago|0 comments
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Warning for changes in Arch in your Terminal(pepijndevos.nl)
1 points by bramd 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon, Kobo and Sony petition FCC to exempt e-readers from accessibility laws(gigaom.com)
3 points by bramd 13y ago|1 comments