Just had a sighted person tell me they often use features, clients and programs that were made for us, they don’t use screen readers, but they use accessibility features, even when they do not have disabilities, but also clients like a blind Mastodon client, or a text editor designed with screen readers in mind such as the ones I list on my Tools page at the end, as an example, because they said, the interface is 1000 times cleaner, there’s a lot of keyboard shortcuts, clutter free interface, even though the UI is basic, speed, less bloat, and a whole host of other things including, but not limited to, and never having to put up with distracting animation nonsense. You know software development has vastly sank in quality when sighted folk are using blind clients. To see the tools and stuff I use, go to sightlessscribbles.com/tools/ #Programming #Software
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there's the curb-cut effect, where everyone benefits from an accessibility improvement, and there's sometimes just a nicer aesthetic, like a wristwatch where you feel the time.
I've never heard of a Mastodon client called SonarPad. Now, I did just find this program called SonarPad, that's apparently a modern Notepad plus document reader for Windows: github.com/Ambro86/Sonarpad
From their page Sonarpad is a modern, feature-rich Notepad alternative for Windows, built with Rust. It extends traditional text editing with multi-format document support, advanced accessibility features, and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. It also includes an integrated MP3 audiobook player, a bookmark system for both text and audio, and the ability to create audiobooks directly from text using Microsoft voices (Edge Neural) and SAPI5,
I can see this. Far too many developers forget how detrimental things like animations can be. And these days they'll make a, oh lets say web browser that requires your device to have good specs and all because of some fancy scale-altering feature that you might not be able to disable even, or some fancy drawer opening animation thing. All that requires good resources to function and if you don't have them, said thing lags or breaks in other fascenating ways.
Software development was sinking in quality for a while from what I've been gathering. But sighted folk using blind clients might just convince people to keep things accessible, seeing how when blind people say there's a lack of accessibility in something, we're pretty much ignored.
I always look at alt-text of images when those are available in spite of being sighted, just because it helps me understand the image's context. If I have to give one single reason why the Fediverse is so awesome, it is alt-text culture.
Ah, the good ol' curb cut effect in action. I'm of the belief that accessibility should be also understood as future-proofing (so you can also keep using your apps whenever you eventually have an accident), so testing the app with disabled focus groups, or at least attempting to dogfood the app while running an accessibility suite test, can allow users to find optimizations that can be useful for both disabled and average-abled people.
🇺🇸 USA (continued) @houstonpublicmedia - Houston, Texas PBS & NPR @azpm - Arizona PBS & NPR affiliate @RadioKansas - Kansas public radio @PBSNewsHour - PBS News Hour @WJCT - Florida PBS & NPR @KPBSPublicMedia - San Diego, California PBS & NPR @Gothamist - New York news site run by New York Public Radio @KNPR - Nevada NPR @wnpr - Connecticut Public Radio @MTPR - Montana Public Radio @cascadepbs - Seattle, Washignton PBS
p.s. All of these accounts have posted recently! If an account looks blank to you, it's probably because no one on your server has ever followed it. If you follow an account, its posts will start gradually showing up on your server too.
For Germany there is also @3sat who are very active here in the #Fediverse Not directly broadcasters but additional accounts are @Archivradio and @br_data
British grandmother with valid tourist visa locked up for six weeks by ICE.
Imagine being shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles and locked up on your vacation in your mid 60s. The scariest part is that you know this is just the tip of the iceberg of all the shit they are doing.
Nice. "Alysa Liu became the first American woman to win an individual Olympic figure skating gold medal in nearly a quarter of a century." Her father left China as a political refugee following Tiananmen. They were targeted by spies later and she's a protester herself. youtu.be/uR3QcMTwNmg?si=JXALZI…
interesting detail here is that this is all intentional: the area is a floodplain that gets flooded naturally in periods of heavy rain or melting snow. When the rail line was constructed, the rails were built on top of a dam. Apparently that was in 1880!
studio Ghibli image irl right here 🙀😹 I love how it looks, but it must be hard for people living there. (And yes I know that this general area has *historically* seen lots of flooding in the past, but I don’t think this has been normal in the last few decades, and of course, people can correct me if I’m wrong, it certainly has been getting worse since climate change)
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"Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is in prison for plotting a coup. Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison today for insurrection. Prince Andrew was arrested today for misconduct in Jeffrey Epstein's world. It's time for America to hold Trump accountable for the same crimes."
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is in prison for plotting a coup. Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison today for insurrection. Prince Andrew was arrested today for misconduct in Jeffrey Epstein's world. It's time for America to hold Trump accountable for the same crimes.
"A South Korean court ordered life in jail on Thursday for former President Yoon Suk Yeol, after holding him guilty on charges of abuse of authority and masterminding an insurrection, stemming from his December 2024 attempt to impose martial law."
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in reply to Robert Kingett • • •there's the curb-cut effect, where everyone benefits from an accessibility improvement, and there's sometimes just a nicer aesthetic, like a wristwatch where you feel the time.
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️
in reply to Trammell Hudson • • •A sundial you wear on your wrist might actually be cool, but would you not have to readjust it every time you moved.
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in reply to Robert Kingett • • •GitHub - Ambro86/Sonarpad: Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks.
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in reply to Robert Kingett • • •Sonarpad is a modern, feature-rich Notepad alternative for Windows, built with Rust. It extends traditional text editing with multi-format document support, advanced accessibility features, and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. It also includes an integrated MP3 audiobook player, a bookmark system for both text and audio, and the ability to create audiobooks directly from text using Microsoft voices (Edge Neural) and SAPI5,
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in reply to Robert Kingett • • •I personally prefer #CLI / #TUI tools because they are faster, cleaner, work on #narrowband connectivity and barely sip system resources.
That's why I'm workibg on a CLI/TUI-centric, mininalist #Linux distro: @OS1337
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in reply to Robert Kingett • • •lynxand yes, it’s my favourite webbrowser. For these reasons. Also, speed.