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by jareds 8y ago
Facebook automatically creates alt tags for images and describes them with text such as "three people outdoors with a tree." As someone who's blind I found it interesting for five minutes and have not visited Facebook again.
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by jareds 8y ago
I'm a blind developer and my job is all back-end database and REST api development. I have done UI development on internal applications where function mattered more then looks. It's pretty easy to create basic UI's using HTML
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by jareds 8y ago
I'm a totally blind developer and have never gotten Linux to work very well. What distro do you use? I'm also curious if you run Linux in VM's with speach? I think part of my problem may be bad audio support in Virtualbox and
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by jareds 8y ago
It depends on what the code is. If I'm working on writing unit tests for relatively simple code taht didn't have any tests when it was origionally written I can do 30 hours a week with out to much trouble. If I'm doing new de
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by jareds 8y ago
The link should be changed to the following. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glyphosatan/
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by jareds 8y ago
I created an itunes account for my daughter when she was two months old. The phone stays on a charger in her room and is used for nothing but playing apple music when she's sleeping.
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by jareds 8y ago
The end of the article also said to use Keto if it works for you which does not match the article title. I"m sad I fell for uninformed click bate.
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by jareds 8y ago
Thanks for linking to that comment. I'm glad to know I'm not the only blind person who doesn't understand how I don't get into a fatal car accident at least once a week.
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by jareds 8y ago
I'm a totally blind programmer who saw this start to develop based on email list postings. As far as I remember originally the plan was to make Netbeans more accessible with screen reading software. This was done by creating Sodbeans,
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by jareds 8y ago
Still need more money for the James Webb space telescope.
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by jareds 8y ago
Several reasons. 1. If you live in a terminal it's easier to stay in that terminal instead of switching to a new window to deal with your task manager, then switching back to your terminal. 2. It's quicker to type one command with
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by jareds 8y ago
I've been working on Mainframes for the passed 8 years full time, and several internships before that. I often go several days with out needing to use ISPF. I use https://compuware.com/workbench-mainframe-modernization&
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by jareds 8y ago
At least with my work Java EE 6 and WebSphere 8 brought pretty decent annotation support. WebSphere Liberty looked pretty nice from the little I used it, but that was several years ago.
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by jareds 8y ago
We are no longer living in the days of EJB 2 and Websphere 6. Springboot allows you to get started quickly with out spending a week configuring your app server and Java beans. The article should have been titled "Using enterprise Java
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1 reason I should stick with windows. I've never gotten Linux screen reading software to run properly in a virtual machine. About once year I grab the latest Fedora or Ubuntu distro, fire up Virtualbox, and install Linux. Then I reboo
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by jareds 8y ago
Markdown with pandoc. I use it to generate basic PDF's and it works fine. Links don't appear to work though.
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by jareds 8y ago
I'm totally blind so I'd trust the call center employee more then my self. I'd love to have a self driving car that could get me where I wanted to go 99% of the time, as long as the 1% failure mode aborted the trip and sent m
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by jareds 8y ago
Articles like this make me worried about my future as a blind programmer. I enjoy back-end database and web services development, not accessibility work. A lot of the I'm a blind programmer articles I've scene appear to be blind d
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Ask HN: What are good alternatives to Postman?
5 points by jareds 9y ago|1 comments
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by jareds 9y ago
I use Remember the Milk for everything. https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ I use both the iOS app as well as a command-line client found at https://github.com/dwaring87/rtm-cli
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by jareds 9y ago
I bought Jaws 15 years ago before NVDA was out. Because of this it doesn't cost me $1000 to keep using it, it costs me $200 every two years to keep up to date. IT's the only software I know of that offers good 3270 emulator suppor
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by jareds 9y ago
What do you use instead of Slack? I'm a blind developer and find it usable enough, but I'm also on a fairly small team with out a tun of slack traffic.
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Depending on how complicated your spreadsheet is yes. I enter my fixed expenses a month ahead of time. I can then see how much money I expect to have on a given date with something like ledger -e 2017-12-15 bal checking
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by jareds 9y ago
If it's true that touch id was expected to ship until a couple months ago they may not have found an alternative. If they are expecting touch id to be in next years model I could see them not making face unlock accessible since you can
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by jareds 9y ago
I'm not sure. It was truly bad in the Android 2.3 days. I own a Moto E since it was cheep and I was curious if Android had improved. Running 5.1 was pretty accessible, but was slow which is expected since it's a low end phone. And
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I'll be surprised if this works for me as a blind person. There's no way I could directly look at the camera. I don't need the iPhone X since I don't care about camera quality, but if touch id starts being removed from a
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by jareds 9y ago
I haven't had a chance to actually run through the tutorial but looking at it I don't think I'll have problems following it. It's well written and the graphics are not required to understand what's going on.
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by jareds 9y ago
The site appears to generally be accessible with the exception of the interactive tutorial. I'm not a web accessibility expert so don't know the details. There are two major issues. The biggest one is my inability to arrow through
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I also "watch movies".
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by jareds 9y ago
I have not found an introduction tutorial that assumes you go from no iOS knowledge to a working app with just code instead of storyboards. DO you know of a tutorial that does this?

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