ndarilek

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by ndarilek 10y ago
Came here to ask exactly this question. Further, and I don't even know if this question is a meaningful one, but are there any curated lists of libraries known to work with wasm, or do you just compile something and hope for the best?
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Haven't read the article, but as a blind person myself, nope. Much of the infrastructure designed to "help" us is so inconsistent, non-intuitive or broken that I don't bother using it, far preferring my own skills and kn
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by ndarilek 10y ago
I have, and it's nice, but I like installing Bootstrap via NPM/some other package manager so I can track new versions and include its JS components, and I wish these shipped as a diff or something so I could install stock Bootstra
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by ndarilek 10y ago
No worries, I get that we're probably not a demographic you've considered, and like I said, I don't even know if in the end this tool will work for me. To give you an idea of what I'm thinking of, I've looked into
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by ndarilek 10y ago
This is interesting. I'm blind, and while I can think of ideas for products/side projects, designing a nice-looking website is such a huge momentum-killer. I mean, I know that I could just focus on features, keep the site design
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by ndarilek 10y ago
I'm blind and prefer Fedora because it tracks GNOME more closely, and GNOME seems to reliably get accessibility right whereas Ubuntu/Unity doesn't. So admittedly my development workflow isn't super high-tech. I do lots o
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by ndarilek 10y ago
I feel like you and I have had a vaguely related conversation before, but do any of the remote desktop access protocols support piping sound in addition to graphics? That might be a quick-and-dirty way to prototype something. I've been
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by ndarilek 10y ago
"Ethereum has always marketed itself as a complete working solution, which it is obviously not." Really? I recall them having 3-4 stages before they called it done, the first of which called itself "frontier" precisely t
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by ndarilek 10y ago
In my experience, granted a bit limited but probably more than the average person has, these types of bullshit charges are generally thrown out. That, or they're held over someone's head, used to intimidate them into not doing oth
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Yes.
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by ndarilek 10y ago
I'm blind. Would you not rent this property to me because you fear for my safety therein? Would it make a difference if I've said I've skied, biked solo, rock-climbed? If so, why should I have to do so when others don't,
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Haven't delved deeply into this, but does it let you do everything programatically, including track/catch pokeymon? I'm blind and would be interested in there being an accessible version, but it's just not ever going to
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by ndarilek 10y ago
http://escapepod.org/2010/07/29/ep251-unexpected-outcomes/ might have some ideas on that.
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Make it a co-op. Build restrictions into the corporate bylaws such that classes of members can check and balance acts like this. Implement profit-sharing, so not only would that 1% increase in fees help fund development, but it would also b
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by ndarilek 10y ago
Huh, will definitely do that, and will also file an issue for Java support in Realm. Thanks.
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by ndarilek 10y ago
I'm looking for a good geospatial data store that works on mobile devices. Ran into an issue where Spatialite used to corrupt databases larger than 2GB on Android (as in, run md5sum on the database, open it read-only, run another md5su
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by ndarilek 10y ago
"If i say "find me a good ticket for Chicago tonight". How will it know that i'm talking about the rock band that's playing tonight in Paris, France, since there's absolutely not a chance that a human being ask
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by ndarilek 11y ago
He mentions some smart glasses in that video, but says it kinda quickly and I can't ID them. Anyone know what they are? As a blind developer myself, I've pretty much been wanting to build this kind of app for a while. Even if faci
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by ndarilek 11y ago
Actually, probably better, aria-label: https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/using-the-html-ti... Edit: FWIW I as a blind user didn't notice the bar. Glad this story pointed it out. Kind of wish HN
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by ndarilek 11y ago
Thanks, I know it wasn't. Likewise, my intent wasn't to make you feel bad. I imagine this landscape is all very new to you, and recognize that it's probably lots to come to grips with and navigate. To that end, kudos for find
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by ndarilek 11y ago
It's interesting to read that you conceptualize screen readers as rendering a 2-D environment as audio. I'm a very visual/spatial person, but I've always conceptualized them as rendering a tree of GUI widgets, rather tha
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by ndarilek 11y ago
That's fair, but my takeaway from this article was that screen readers were this whole other kind of thing that was so much more difficult to use. I could see that being true for someone who never used computers, or for someone used to
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by ndarilek 11y ago
Agreed, thanks for saying this. I'm always a bit weirded out when someone tries to tell me I'm not disabled because I'm successful, so of course I'm able. I get that, probably from a pure linguistic perspective, the word
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by ndarilek 11y ago
So I'm not trying to discount the author's company or experiences, but as a blind person myself, the tone of this article is confusing. My takeaway is that apps, screen readers and our current concept of computing are supposed to
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by ndarilek 11y ago
It's hard to answer your questions definitively but I'll give them a shot: What device do I use?: I don't use any one device. My main computer is a laptop running Linux and the Orca screen reader, but I've used Windows a
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by ndarilek 11y ago
Sure, but you can't necessarily know that automatically reading any new piece of text is any better than not reading new text at all, and even if one screen reader can handle this particular case just fine, it seems like anyone targe
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by ndarilek 11y ago
As a member of this product's target market (blind myself) I wish they'd put a bit more effort into making their site accessible. There appear to be various images with no useful alt text, for instance. I also wish the front page
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by ndarilek 11y ago
I use Sandstorm daily. Private/company projects are run in Gitlab instances, though I may switch to Gitweb if a minor cosmetic issue is resolved (Gitweb in Sandstorm can only host one repo by design but you still have to click through
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by ndarilek 11y ago
HTML rendered via what? nw.js? Electron? I feel like the former is a bit more solid by virtue of having been around longer, but unfortunately both ecosystems are such a mess a11y-wise that I haven't really delved into them. In any case
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by ndarilek 11y ago
Cool, glad to know this is on the radar! Out of curiosity, what are you using to render the current GUI? Toolkit/framework choice unfortunately has pretty significant a11y ramifications.

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