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by mlang23 7y ago
It is already 6 years old. I had a great time reading it when a friend recommended it to me about 3 years ago: The Circle by Dave Eggers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel) And do yourself a favou
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by mlang23 7y ago
Nope, I actually do refer to fonts as you know them. Long story short, prior to linux kernel 4.19 and brltty 6.0, only those characters that are mapped to a glyph in the currently loaded console font can be backtranslated to the actual cod
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by mlang23 7y ago
As a braille user, I was always fond of "laptops" without a built-in display, simply to save ssace, weight and power. I found a braille display which features a small compartment with micro-USB inside. Used a Pi Zero (these days
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by mlang23 7y ago
I terminated all my TV related subscriptions over the past two years and now also finally sold my TV. One of my best moves ever. I am not missing anything, have a lot more useful spare time, and save around 1k a year.
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by mlang23 7y ago
I couldn't agree more! https://modular.blind.guru/images/foobarion.jpg
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AI powered stray cat shelter(dailymail.co.uk)
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by mlang23 7y ago
No, but realisticly speaking, you are not the most liked person in a company if you had to sue the company for discrimination. Additionally, I am a tech person, and not a lawyer. Sueing my employer to allow me to work productively doesn&#x
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by mlang23 7y ago
Oh, you are indeede refering to automatic text crippling? No, thanks, I wouldn't touch such a thing. That is not what accessibility is about.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Good luck enforcing this and keeping friends at work.
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by mlang23 7y ago
To answer that, I'd need to know what you actually mean by summary. Most screen readers present an overview of the number of HTML elements in a page when it just loaded. Something like "5 headings and 28 paragraphs".
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by mlang23 7y ago
Before a case like this would ever go through and have a positive effect, thausands of vision impaired people worldwide have already lost their job or could not begin a new one because of lack of accessibility of these platforms. The damag
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by mlang23 7y ago
Blind users already have their favourite screen readers. There is almost zero need for custom audio summary or alike features. Those are feature from sighted people for sighted people. But they have almost zero relevance to people relyin
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by mlang23 7y ago
Blind user here. I find Slack impossible to use. With more and more communities moving from IRC to Slack, I also feel the exclusion these days. Technologies/Companies like Slack make me wonder how long I will be able to usefully par
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by mlang23 7y ago
Agreed. And, there is a lot of dishonesty when it comes to how childcare money is spent. Case in point: My parents received about 100000 EUR in disability care money over the 14 years I was living at home. In that time, my family didn&#x
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by mlang23 7y ago
I submit that people with a sleep disorder dont have a need for a speep tracker either. Just because there is technology to do something doesn't mean it is the best choice to use it.
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by mlang23 7y ago
I have one golden rule: Where I sleep, there are no electronic devices. I am surrounded by techy stuff all day long. I want a break from all of it altleast 8 hours a day. I would never let a device track my sleep on a regular basis. F
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by mlang23 7y ago
I experienced pretty much the same thing during the time I went to school. I specialized in IT during school already. We had about 2/3 women and 1/3 man. AFAIK, none of the women actually started to work in IT. Two or three ma
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by mlang23 7y ago
Absolute equality is not realistic. People are not equal, individuals are different from eachother. And I say that as someone belonging to a minority group. However, I am convinced that equality can not be forced. Differences are what m
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by mlang23 7y ago
Interesting. Small world. It is just a few hours ago that I listened to Naval @ JRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44
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by mlang23 7y ago
Thanks, I was just about to comment something along those lines. It is relatively easy to get back into society if all you need to do is stop declining offers. It is a completely different game if offers happen very rarely. In my case, I
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by mlang23 7y ago
Does that explain why I am not allow to foolow the original link with Lynx? 403 forbidden. Now I am guessing I am hitting a sort of paywall that refuses to cooperate with plain text browsers?
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by mlang23 7y ago
Everyone should have the right to terminate their life. We kill animals that lived with us as pets because we dont want to see them suffer, but we refuse to do anything and have someone starve themselves to death just because... well, I wil
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by mlang23 7y ago
Russia prepares to drop Windows as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
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by mlang23 7y ago
As a blind person, I have to disagree with your assertion. Do you actually have experience with this stuff, or are you just guessing?
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by mlang23 7y ago
Yes. I am the author of diagrams-braille and am blind myself. I actually use it to "visualize" graphical things on my braille display.
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by mlang23 7y ago
ImageMagick can convert to Braille already. Just use convert and the ubrl extension.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Interesting staccato writing style. I wonder if the target audience of this article is actually non-english speaking people...
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by mlang23 7y ago
Apple was the first company to take accessibility seriously. And that is definitely a market where it likely didn't make a lot of revenue, if any at all. Just consider this, if you think every niche market is irrelevant.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this!
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by mlang23 7y ago
No, I ultimately think reliions should be banned as the scams as they are.

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