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by zersiax 2y ago
That is pretty much my dayjob :P Although I'm also a developer myself so can argue from both the blind person's view of "This button doesn't tell my screen reader what it's meant to accomplish", as well as the
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by zersiax 2y ago
As a blind person I can confirm that the braille does not, in fact, say anything in particular. It'd be an amusing experiment to sneak in a couple easter eggs into this that spell out actual words ;)
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by zersiax 2y ago
Accessibility in both Notion and Confluence is absolutely abysmal. Any chance you have thought about this while working on Docmost so far? This is a pretty important thing for companies to adopt this, with ADA in the US and the upcoming EAA
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by zersiax 3y ago
Location: Europe, NL Remote: Yes, please Willing to relocate: no, but completely ok working US Eastern or even Pacific Timezones Blurp: First and foremost, I am an accessibility consultant. Next to that, I am a developer. A screenreader-usi
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by zersiax 4y ago
thanks @clawsOnPaws for sharing this here.
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by zersiax 4y ago
Hoo boy, this is a fun one :) Disclaimer: Fully blind programmer, have been for several years,learned as a teenager, later went on to teach various blind individuals as a side hustle for a while, culminating in a 2 month course done for the
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Video: Installing KaliLinux on a VM Using a ScreenReader(youtube.com)
1 points by zersiax 5y ago|1 comments
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by zersiax 5y ago
Disclaimer: I made this video. To get this OS installed while dependent on a screen reader, some esoteric workarounds need to be employed in order to work around the barriers that currently exist in the installation process. I figured some
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by zersiax 5y ago
It's honestly a bit hard to say I think. Rails, maligned by many, loved by loads, is doing some pretty ambitious things that I can see appeal to a lot of smaller eams in the future, particularly because of hotwiring: https:/&#x2F
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by zersiax 5y ago
Can't really go wrong with https://portswigger.net/web-security , which is a spiritual successor to the Web Application Hacker's handbook 2nd edition. If you want more practice, take a look at things like TryHac
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by zersiax 6y ago
Just had a quick look at this, and I think a lot of accessibility wins could be made with relatively little work here. This is another thing most of the competition gets wrong, so if you guys are open to it i'd love to work with you to
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by zersiax 8y ago
Another blind developer chipping in, although most things really have already been said. I have only recently (over the last 4-5 years) started programming professionally, and I have certainly run into my fair share of hurtles along the way
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by zersiax 9y ago
By tools, what do you mean exactly? The only tool you require on the OS-level is a screen reader, and it talks to the native Windows APIs depending on what application you are using. If you are referring to the different accessibility API i
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by zersiax 12y ago
Number of questions :) I'll see if I can answer them, at least how I think about it. :) For me, color is abstract enough for me to be unable to imagine it. Asociating colors with objects is something a lot of blind people do, but it tu
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by zersiax 12y ago
The sort answer to your question is no. Just like dreams being unable to use any visual imagery, the same goes for concepts like bright, dull, color, etc. are abstract concepts that I really can't put any particular image to. Rule of
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by zersiax 12y ago
Oddly enough no, I can read the vote up buttons just fine and should in fact use them more :) maybe some JS behind the scenes that is taking care of it
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by zersiax 12y ago
There is absolutely nothing preventing blind coders from using Python. Indentation can easily be reported by any screenreader I am aware of and it is a very clean, screenreader-friendly language for the rest. I really enjoy working with tha
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by zersiax 12y ago
Mainly if you are working with others, this approach would fall on its face rather quickly. People actually do this, doing all their work using emacs modes and Emacspeak. It can be done, but in this day and age it is not the most elegant so
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by zersiax 12y ago
it might work, but the nerves found in the fingertips are far more sensitive than anywhere else on the body. This might be trainable though, I don't know
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by zersiax 12y ago
Please, elaborate on this. I tend to use Eclipse as my primary IDE and am wondering what the blind person had trouble with, what screenreader they were using and how long ago this happened.
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by zersiax 12y ago
Even though the built-in screenreader mac OS X uses blows Narrator out of the water currently, it has a long way to go to compete with 3rd-party screenreaders on the Windows platform, especially when it comes to productivity and actually ge
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by zersiax 12y ago
Please come find me on IRC or twitter for this :) any list I could draw up will leave you with a lot of questions, and asking those would just get frustrating in a medium like this. If you rather use another form of communication, please le
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by zersiax 12y ago
that question is both very easy and incredibly difficult to answer. Yes, I visualize code the way you guys do, but not with pictures. Let us take a 2-dimentional array as an example. I tend to visualize this as a table. A table, for me, is
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by zersiax 12y ago
It might. You are putting your finger on a rather experimental way of browsing through code, something which Emacspeak currently does reliably as the only editor I am aware of. Rather than using sound fx, it uses difference in the TTSvoice
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by zersiax 12y ago
I tend to use 8-dots US braille, simply because I am used to it. Working with other tables would work just as well though if that's what you are used to, there's no 7 and 8 dot features that set it apart
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by zersiax 12y ago
No, I have to read through all the comments over and over and quickly arrow along when I notice its a comment I've already seen. As for your editor questions: Brackets is sort of usable, but too much of a pain to actually be useful. Vi
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by zersiax 12y ago
I am afraid I didn't understand most of the sentence. I am not familiar with the notation you are referring to, not the type of expression you mean :(
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by zersiax 12y ago
come talk to me on IRC. your questions are too involved to answer in one comment
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by zersiax 12y ago
To be very honest with you, I never really think about the stack and the heap. I know the concepts, but I tend to zoom into my code far closer. I work with the current function only, its inputs and outputs. Someone on Twitter recommended TD
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by zersiax 12y ago
I actually had to go through that line by line to even see the difference since as I said I tend to ignore braces, brackets and parens unless I need them. For this, working with audio only would just be a bad idea and braille display would

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