devinprater,

So I don't know if Android will ever catch up to iOS. And the constant questions of how to use dictation and Google Assistant talking over TalkBack for others when they use headphones, and all that definitely doesn't help, along with how snappy some people in the blind Android Users community are. Now what was I gonna say? Oh yeah. I don't know if Android will ever catch up to Apple accessibility, but I'm really getting use to using my PC for everything. Emacs is turning out to be more than good enough as a writing environment, with company-mode suggesting words, mostly correctly, way before Apple's word suggestions would have popped up. There's no lag in Internet browsing, I can use Gmail or Outlook for email, yeah I have a good setup here. And with Beeper (which isn't completely accessible), I can text from my computer and read texts in full, including the conversation.

#accessibility #blind #android #windows

jstark,
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@devinprater my primary work pc is a PC not a phone too lol

JStark,
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@devinprater are you using the touchscreen in windows?

devinprater,

@JStark I don't have one.

TRodick93,
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@devinprater I don't know a thing at all about using Emacs. Care to point me in the right direction?

devinprater,
TRodick93,
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@devinprater Is that going to teach me how to use it from a blindness perspective? And do I need to use it via, say, WSL?

devinprater,

@TRodick93 No, it won't. You should read that first, and then read the Emacspeak manual. It takes a lot of work to get used to and understand. And yes, you should use it with the latest WSL2 and WSLG. Prerelease version of WSL2 is best since it's less laggy. Emacspeak manual:

https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/

TRodick93,
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@devinprater I'm on the Windows 11 beta channel; will that have the prerelease WSL?

devinprater,

@TRodick93 I'm not sure. I'm on release.

devinprater,

Oh, I should say, I use Beeper to get iMessage on Windows.

keao,

@devinprater is beeper accessible?

devinprater,

@keao Kinda.

keao,

@devinprater ah, does it work with nvda?

devinprater,

@keao It's about as accessible as Element, maybe 25% less accessible.

keao,

@devinprater wow, hope it works well with screen readers

keao,

@devinprater how did you get it to install, I'm getting not responding messages

devinprater,

@keao It worked for me, sorry. Try closing the program and trying the installer again, or making sure there's no windows security dialog or anything else up.

keao,

@devinprater got it, so what email des it need?

devinprater,

@keao you need to sign up for the service and be in a waiting list.

keao,

@devinprater ah ok

keao,

@devinprater ok, in a waiting list now

ElementalEcho,

@devinprater Is that complicated to set up?

devinprater,
ElementalEcho,

@devinprater Oh that's sad.

NightDrake,

@devinprater I love Beeper so much. I just don't like that sometimes my conversation loses focus when I'm reading. Like I think I'll be at the bottom of the thread and it will jump me back up to something that was said days ago. Other than that I'm absolutely loving Beeper. Have you messaged the developers to work on accessibility? It is pretty amazing out of the box so there is that.

devinprater,

@NightDrake Yeah, I've messaged them. They said they'll take a look.

NightDrake,

@devinprater Sweet. I should do the same. Especially if they're nice. Words are just hard for me somedays.

devinprater,

@NightDrake Yeah, I understand that a lot.

NightDrake,

@devinprater I thought you might. It's not that i don't want to help. Quite the contrary in fact. It's funny though because when I do explain things people say I do a good job at it. So I could be underestimating myself. The important thing is that it's being worked on. You'll be hearing me screaming from wherever it is that you live when this becomes a thing. Haha. And I'm not at all asking for your location. I'm being kinda silly.

devinprater,

@NightDrake I'm all the way in Alabama, so you'll have to scream really loud. :)

vol4life8657,

@devinprater wait ther is an emax speak for windows?

devinprater,

@vol4life8657 Nah I just use it through WSL2.

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