I’m aaron, a #blind person from #England, #Uk. Interests include #tech, #gaming, #reading, #music, #science, and #writing. This is my main account, I have another that only is focused on #a11y. Only accepting follow requests from accounts with bios (must interact first)
i just got my clicks keyboard. First impressions are good. I like the feel of the keys, but I would have preferred a landscape layout. Can't have everything though I guess.
No arrow keys is a bit of a downer as is no control and option keys.
About an hour in and I still really like it. I was able to get navigation keys working by remapping some stuff in VoiceOver settings that seems to have really helped. changing the FN key into a caps lock key and then setting up as a VoiceOver modify was the first step.
A few hours later, I think this will be my primary typing method. Having remapped enough keys to get the VoiceOver navigation i need working, plus easy typing and still having access to the screen makes for a really fluid user experience.
@Meepercat@FluidEscence@sclower Most manufacturer installs of anything suck. This is why I appreciate being able to by my computers with no OS installed.
I finally found something I don't like about ESpeak: it says "mister" when it reads "mr", regardless of whether there's a period after the r. My company recently switched to Gitlab, so merge requests are now a common topic of text-based conversation. "I'm having trouble creating an mister for this." "Can you make an mister for that?" "Let me go approve that mister."
@FluidEscence It's such a fun device to hack on. Especially when those hacks have the potential to get polished and then other people get to enjoy them too.
@FluidEscence They are, they just don't want the responsibility of users breaking their units by modifying them, and rightly so. If they were against it then the code wouldn't be available on device.
@FluidEscence They could deliver updates via an apt repository easy enough. The only thing that they are required to make open source is the nano modifications because nano is under gpl. The rest of it I'm fairly certain they could lock down and no one could dispute it.
@sclower@FluidEscence In that case, he wasn't incorrect. Users sometimes assume that because something was safe once it will be again. So if they ran what I was sharing as root, as I suggested, and then someone else tells them to do the same thing, they are far more likely to do so. I would hate to be the person on the other end of that support call trying to figure out exactly what the user installed, and now I actually could be. Lol.