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by devinprater 1y ago
I love Android, besides a few accessibility issues, especially when typing to Gemini and TalkBack not speaking the reply, but I don't like how sluggish TalkBack is on Pixel phones. I had the 8 and hated that.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Piracy also offers audio description, allowing blind people to enjoy described media, for shows movies that don't have them on streaming services, like Doctor Who. An audio description site offers audio description for the original and
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Beyond Parity: The Case for True Accessibility Affordances(devinprater.micro.blog)
1 points by devinprater 1y ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 1y ago
Good. Maybe if everywhere else makes them do things right, they'll just give up and not region-lock the good stuff. Apple.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Lol Apple is too prideful to do that.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Not only speedy emulation, but more efficient too, since it doesn't have to struggle so much through interpretation. That would help battery life and keep phones from heating up just playing a game from 2008.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Oh good, maybe we'll get LLM-based image descriptions in VoiceOver (Apple screen reader) next year. Meanwhile Google has had them for a year in TalkBack now. So when my mom sends me a picture of our cat, on Android I can simply tap and
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by devinprater 1y ago
We'll see how well, or not, it works with the TalkBack screen reader.
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by devinprater 1y ago
I wish accessibility was a part of the list. I love MacOS, but accessibility issues turn m away real quick. https://www.applevis.com/comment/188371#comment-188371
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by devinprater 1y ago
Lol and yet, Google has AI image descriptions in their screen reader, TalkBack, before Apple. Apple is supposed to be the accessibility king. But with AI, they just can't, even if they obviously have access to ChatGPT which has vision
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by devinprater 1y ago
They've been slipping, especially on Windows.
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by devinprater 1y ago
I play video games through emulation, mainly because if I were playing, for example, Dissidia Final Fantasy on a regular Playstation Portable, I wouldn't be able to scan the text with my screen reader, or get AI image descriptions. I t
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by devinprater 1y ago
Oh, that explains the Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer. No power.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Most blind people don't even use a Mac, they use JAWS or NVDA on Windows.
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by devinprater 1y ago
I wish the menus were more accessible to screen readers on Windows Terminal, Powershell. NVDA just says "blank" when I arrow through, for example, the authorization choices.
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A Beginner's Guide to Samsung TalkBack and How It Differs from Google's Version(accessibleandroid.com)
4 points by devinprater 1y ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 1y ago
This will be pretty nice for accessibility too. Hopefully this leads to Markdown everywhere in the OS, and that follower-OS' add it too. For accessibility, it's great because I can have my screen reader announce punctuation, so it
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by devinprater 1y ago
claude.ai still isn't as accessible to me as a blind person using a screen reader as ChatGPT, or even Gemini, is, so I'll stick with the other models.
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by devinprater 1y ago
I hope it at least has accessibility features.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Ooo I know, Cybermen! Yay.
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by devinprater 1y ago
Kagi is pretty good. Accessibility in the assistant mode could be cleaned up a little, but it's getting better. I know there's not many people working on Kagi though, but I pay them so I'll give them time.
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by devinprater 1y ago
It's not the best at helping me play video games yet, lol. Ah well. Blind people are used to waiting. :)
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by devinprater 1y ago
Really? I thought I was the only one. Everyone around me seem to do fine with a good 3-5 hours of sleep. Before I lost weight, even if I had a good 7 hours of sleep, I'd still fall asleep at work. Now, even if I do get sleepy, a little
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by devinprater 2y ago
Thank goodness for Calibre. I was able to convert my Kindle library into EPUB for reading on any device or app I want, since Kindle for Android is just awful with TalkBack. Instead of reading the book with TalkBack, if I want the book to au
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by devinprater 2y ago
Yes, this is how blind people who voted for Trump are. Surely they can't get rid of the ADA...
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by devinprater 2y ago
I moved to Android this year. iOS accessibility just doesn't make the iPhone worth it anymore. Braille becomes more and more unstable in VoiceOver every year, and Android works way better with Windows and Linux than iOS does, and Mac a
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Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2024 AppleVis report card(applevis.com)
3 points by devinprater 2y ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 2y ago
Ah, fond memories of using it on the BraillePlus 18, an old, discontinued Android-based Braille device that, since it didn't have a screen, couldn't be Play certified. Of course this was around Android 4.
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OnePlus 13 and Oxygen OS 15 Accessibility: Persistent Challenges for Blind Users(accessibleandroid.com)
1 points by devinprater 2y ago|0 comments
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by devinprater 2y ago
sigh I can't wait for Windows to annoy blind developers enough so that they switch to Linux, and hammer it into shape for us users. Windows just has the best support for blind people. I mean it's falling to entropy with every re

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