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by jscholes 8y ago
> Except that I know if it pronounces certain names or words wrong over and over it would make me crazy and I would have to stop. Most decent TTS or assistive technology systems have a pronunciation dictionary. This is a very real probl
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From an accessibility point of view this can be more than an annoyance. If your video means I can't hear my screen reader, and I'm the sort of user not to plan for this inevitable sort of event, my computer is unusable until it f
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by jscholes 8y ago
> A lot of this work is legally defensible (if you do it correctly) Could you expand on the correctness aspect? I'm currently working in this space for what I believe to be good reasons (to improve the accessibility of a particular
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by jscholes 8y ago
I only disagree with this for one reason: many websites have RSS feeds, but don't link to them in an obvious place. Clicking "Subscribe to This Page…" in the Bookmarks menu and get the feed URL is something I do quite a lot.
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The article raises some good points, but it's worth considering that even if you take note of everything written here and everything ever written about striking the right tone of voice as a customer service agent, you may still end up
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by jscholes 8y ago
Thanks for adding captions/descriptions to your images. As a screen reader user I appreciate it.
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> Makes me wonder if you would outperform seeing people in recognizing audio cues, like the tone of the voice to interpret emotion? By necessity I have to be tuned in to the sounds in my physical environment, to pick up any clues which g
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> Do you have any interest in learning other cues you could send? Of course, I'm always interested in communicating as best I can. Not sure what you had in mind though.
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> are there poker competitions that use braille cards ? I did once enquire at the local casinos (UK). They were concerned about cheating or card tampering, even though they would obviously be purchasing the brailled cards, not me. I gu
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> Facial expressions, body language, and eye contact are the bones of communication and it’s quite difficult to build and maintain relationships without the ability to read them. As a blind person this was quite difficult to read (emotio
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by jscholes 8y ago
This sounds like it could be potentially useful, as an alternative to unopinionated productivity tools which force you to make far too many decisions upfront. On the other hand I've never heard of Kanban and I'm not the only one.
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Found the article content quite interesting but the tone of the writing (emojis and exclamation marks everywhere) really put me off. Sounded forced and added nothing.
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I'd be more than happy to discuss this further with you or your organisation. Feel free to get in touch, my email is in my profile.
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> A consideration if you're making an accessible website When would you not be?
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I'm a screen reader user and, hands down, date pickers are the controls which cause the most frustration for me on the web because of their almost universal lack of accessibility. In some cases, far too many to be considered reasonabl
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by jscholes 8y ago
I find this single comment alone quite inspiring, let alone the project itself and its scope. You took a complex project from idea to working prototype in less than a month, while keeping the discipline and interest high enough to work the
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by jscholes 8y ago
Sure, I played for a short while in Leeds. Good exercise but not enough opportunities to practice, leading to nobody really developing their skill unless they had the time and money to travel around the country to different clubs. Realist
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> Not all the matches are broadcast on radio Yup, this sums it up. Now that we're in the second week of the tournament there are less matches to cover and the radio becomes a good option. Before that, there are too many good match
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I haven't been watching the football, but I have been streaming another live event for the past two weeks: Wimbledon. My advantage comes from two things: I'm blind, and the BBC's CDNs have audio-only variants for every HLS s
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by jscholes 8y ago
Did you read the blog post at all? It's a little bit ridiculous how many of the things you mention here were also mentioned there. You: > I believe that Hugo (and others) take Markdown in precisely their expected format, and layout
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I'm sure the blog currently being down wasn't a part of the monetization strategy.
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Appreciate the tutorials, thanks. I understand that the core concern of them is to demonstrate React, but it wouldn't hurt to use valid HTML. None of your pages have a html, head or body tag. Speaking as someone involved with access
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by jscholes 8y ago
> Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification. Definitely going to look into this. I'm a blind screen reader user and, when I had a phone with physical buttons, I could have it in my pocket connected to
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Google Cloud announces Beta of dedicated hardware server instances(techcrunch.com)
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Do you have any experience of how easy it is to add accessibility information or attributes when using style-elements? If it generates its own HTML and doesn't give you access to things like ARIA, that is a concern.
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> I think the problem is more about resources. My local hairdresser use his phone and a notebook to take bookings. It takes a bit of his time and could easily be replaced by a Web interface but he doesn’t have any resource for that By &q
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> If anyone asked why, they said they're driving, and that was it. Exactly. Why do they need to ask? Why do I need to invent some reason why I prefer to drink X over Y? If it was coffee over tea, coca-cola over lemonaid, or water
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> React-Native for WPF already exists. WPF and Win32 are not the same thing.
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> React Native for desktop is... React Native. It isn't mobile-specific in any way. In fact, it is already possible to make Windows (UWP) and macOS apps with it. And what if you want to make a non-UWP app for accessibility or other
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by jscholes 8y ago
> Use Ivelope with your current email adresses. adresses -> addresses

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