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by devinprater 10mo ago
What are you trying to sell me again? :)
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by devinprater 10mo ago
AI features you say? They could start by taking the alt-text generation model and making it browser-wide if blind people want it, not just for PDF's.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Wow, I never heard of that before today. Sega Genesis was my first console. I still remember the six button controller. It worked well for Mortal Kombat 3.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Can the tables have column headers so my screen reader can read the model name as I go across the benchmakrs? And the images should have alt-text.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Emacs and Emacspeak make me feel something. A lot of something. This kind of "playground" feeling where I can dive into a manual that's just sitting right there. The the entire Emacs is a manual. C-h m and boom, all keyboard
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Wow, just 32B? This could almost run on a good device with 64 GB RAM. Once it gets to Ollama I'll have to see just what I can get out of this.
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Vosh – a third-party screen-reader for the Macintosh (WIP)(applevis.com)
2 points by devinprater 10mo ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Holy crap it even felt like the HN front page with my screen reader. I thought I'd clicked the wrong link until I read the LLAMA 12 and such.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
I, myself, as a singular blind person, would absolutely love this. But we ain't there yet. On-device AI isn't finetuned for this, and neither Apple nor Google have shown indications of working on this in release software, so I&#
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Thank goodness for emulation. With OCR, and now AI screenshot descriptions, I can know what menu I'm in, what menu option is selected, dialog on the screen, stuff like that. Case and point, Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the Pla
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Accessible AI part 1: moving fast and breaking things(devinprater.substack.com)
1 points by devinprater 10mo ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Yes, they can. NVDA has a Speech Viewer. VoiceOver (Mac) has the caption panel. NVDA Speech viewer: https://download.nvaccess.org/documentation/userGuide.html#S... Caption Panel: https://support.apple.com&#x
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by devinprater 10mo ago
There are thousands of blind people on the net. Can't you hire one of them to test for you? Please?
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Lol the Copilot app isn't even that useful on iOS for a blind person. On Android, you type something in, hit sent, and the app pipes the pure output of the AI, Markdown formatting and citation markup included, to the screen reader. Tha
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Audio described Youtube please? That'd be so amazing! Even if I couldn't play Zelda yet, I could listen to a playthrough with Gemini describing it.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Yep, they're nice. There are even online versions.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
I suppose I should write about them. A good few will be about issues with the mobile apps and websites for AI, like Claude not even letting me know a response is available to read, let alone sending it to the screen reader to be read. It&#x
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Image descriptions. TalkBack on Android has it built in and uses Gemini. VoiceOver still uses some older, less accurate, and far less descriptive ML model, but we can share images to Seeing AI or Be My Eyes and such and get a description. V
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Nah, best pun ever!
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Mainly realtime processing. I play video games, and would love to play something like Legend of Zelda and just have the AI going, then ask it "read the menu options as I move between them," and it would speak each menu option as t
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by devinprater 10mo ago
Apple has a video understanding model too. I can't wait to find out what accessibility stuff they'll do with the models. As a blind person, AI has changed my life.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
I hate it when it does that.
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by devinprater 10mo ago
> Moments like these are truly a testament to Emacs' dedication to an accessible editor. Ah, accessible. Word with a different meanings, and for me, in this sense, it's not helpful at all. Fortunately I managed to get Emacs tal
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by devinprater 11mo ago
Android accessibility is so not ready for PC. Navigate with keyboard and TalkBack and you'll hear "selected" everywhere which is redundant, since if TalkBack is speaking a UI element, it is selecting it for action. Apps aren&
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by devinprater 11mo ago
Steam has even added accessibility to their machines. Sure it's just Orca and ESpeak TTS, but I mean Steam Big Picture works.
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by devinprater 11mo ago
If accessibility gets much worse, I'm moving to Linux even if Orca isn't as fleshed out as NVDA and its dozens of addons.
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by devinprater 11mo ago
I love Emacs. My first intro to it was on the Braille Plus Mobile Manager back in like 2008 or so. That was a beautiful device that ran Linux and was developed for the blind. There's been nothing exactly like it since. The BT Speak is
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Screen reader accessibility mod for Final Fantasy VI(github.com)
1 points by devinprater 11mo ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 11mo ago
Yes please!
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by devinprater 1y ago
Accessibility of free software is more important than ever.

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