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by ndarilek 8y ago
As a blind software developer, I'm kind of sad to see how much Matt is getting pissed on in this thread. It really didn't seem like he was all that inflamatory, either. He just pointed out the accessibility challenges that I mysel
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Thanks, super happy to hear that! If I sound harsh, please understand that it's from the perspective of someone who starts out excited about how the latest and greatest startup will disrupt my life, only to realize that half of their a
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Man, I don't know if I'm going to regret posting this tomorrow, but if folks at ZenHub are going to pop into this thread and promote themselves as a product developers are encouraged to switch to, as a blind developer, I wish they
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Or the instant messaging transport, which is what I thought this was related to when I first saw it. :) https://spectrum.im/
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by ndarilek 8y ago
I use Fedora. Most of my issues seem like potential leaks/performance degradations in the accessibility stack. Performance drops over time, and doesn't seem to improve when apps are killed/restarted. The only components I can
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Man, I feel like half this post was my sysadmin playbook. I eventually got sick of explaining why it was such a pain in the ass to crack open vim and edit remote files, and why it was much easier to edit locally and scp back. I credit inter
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Blind developer/sysadmin here as well. I completely agree with the above comment, and would add to it: I'm not sure what platform you currently use, but if not Windows, you're in for some challenges if you're blind or vi
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by ndarilek 8y ago
What's the deal with this? The Atlantic, Wired, and dev.to all tell me I'm offline on first load. I have to use ctrl-shift-R to get any page content, and I've never been offline when this happens. I mean, I'm assuming th
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by ndarilek 8y ago
My screen reader, Orca under Linux, read those as "sigma" and "almost equal to." So I suppose those work, though I'd have to hit Google to find out how to type them. :)
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Haven't thought much about line length. I tend to write longer lines just because I don't see the point on the screen where they'd logically break, and when I'm arrowing through code, I generally prefer to hear as much o
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Hey, kudos to you for thinking about this! Background: I'm totally blind, have programmed for nearly 3 decades, kind of do the in and out of half a dozen languages thing these days. Today's favorites are Rust anywhere I can get aw
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Does SSB still make it impossible to share a single identity across multiple devices? (I.e. I'd like to log into my identity from my laptop but see that same identity's feed on my phone.) I want to participate, but periodically I
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by ndarilek 8y ago
"Seventy-two new “fast radio bursts” from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away" Wait, what? I thought space is big. Really big. This mysterious distant galaxy is practically in our backyard.
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Second this. I'd ask that any dependencies in node_modules/ override whatever is cached. For a work project, I'm updating a dependency written against an undocumented specification. Much fun is being had doing this, I assure
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by ndarilek 8y ago
I have a related question. How do you bypass them in the context of an RSS reader/podcatcher? I was building a service to parse some podcast feeds into JSON, and noticed they were failing on NPR podcasts. Pulled up the URL fine on my l
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Right, but opening from the keyboard is only a tiny fraction of what is needed. If I tab around on the display, I get a bunch of buttons that are likely column headers (I.e. "Status", "Transferred", etc.) but I never rea
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by ndarilek 8y ago
I hope this means the developer tools themselves will actually become accessible. As a blind web developer running Linux and Orca, bunches of things have been broken for a very long time, to the point where I'm considering switching
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Got it. I assume the unknown target will never be able to link against native libraries beyond those provided by Rust's core itself? I assume the answer is no, but a few years ago I assumed I wouldn't ever be able to do what wasm
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by ndarilek 8y ago
Does any of this tooling (I.e. wasm-pack, wasm-bindgen) work with the wasm32-unknown-emscripten target? All of the examples I see use wasm32-unknown-unknown, which is (I think) of limited use to me since I'm linking a fairly complex ch
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by ndarilek 9y ago
Oh man, makes me so happy to see the accessibility concerns at the top of this thread. I hate Slack so much. Nothing has made me say "is 10 AM too early for a beer?" quite so much as that absolute pile of uselessness. I thought th
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by ndarilek 9y ago
If that's how you feel, making your company a cooperative or a platform cooperative is probably a safer bet, albeit possibly more work. Giving away shares, while it appears easy, is illegal and has other disadvantages. https:/&#x
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by ndarilek 9y ago
Got it, thanks. Do other platforms support 5.1+? Also, can Resonance be used in wasm projects? Wondering how practical it would be to use binaural output for the web, then recompile and port to native platforms if 5.1+ is needed. Wasm at le
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by ndarilek 9y ago
I'm poking the docs, can't find an answer for this, so am hoping someone smarter than me can help. For years I've wanted to build audio games on the web (see http://audiogames.net for examples of what I mean.) The
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Eclipse Soundscapes(eclipsesoundscapes.org)
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by ndarilek 9y ago
As a blind person myself, I think I get from where you're coming here. But, as has been suggested by others, my first read of this was "non-native English speaker" rather than "offensive." I can't count how man
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by ndarilek 9y ago
As a blind person...wow, what a pile. First of all, Berkeley didn't have to take down their courses. They elected to, then threw a tantrum about it. And yes, they could have spent money making their videos accessible, but let's
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by ndarilek 10y ago
1. The div is not keyboard-focusable by default, so you need to add `tabindex="0"`. 2. By default, the div does not trigger click on Enter/Space, so you need to add a keyup handler to make it do so. 3. Screen readers won&#x27
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by ndarilek 10y ago
As a blind web developer, I want to like Semantic. My usual mode of developing HTML, once it's at the "I need to make this look good" stage, is "show it to my girlfriend and ask her various questions." She says thin
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Flavor: Desktop Headline: A real commitment to accessibility for disabled users About ten years ago, I was a happy Ubuntu user. At that time, it stuck fairly close to the GNOME stack, which is good for me as a blind user since GNOME is reas
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Here's something I'm curious about. First off, I understand that few of you are lawyers, and any of you who are aren't being paid by me so none of this constitutes legal advice. :) I'd certainly talk to a lawyer before a

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