KaraLG84

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

Just been playing PCS' old games in DosBox, some of the first blind accessible games I came across in 1999. Ah the bad old days of audio games that could only play one sound at once and you had to wait for it to finish before they'd accept any input.

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

I'd love it if there was a website of 3d printable models of things so blind people could get a good idea of what they look like.
So you'd have different categories such as buildings, and from there you could download a model of e.G, Buckingham palace or the Taj Mahal,send it to your 3d printer and you'd have a good enough tactile model of it to look at.

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to mastoblind

I've never got anywhere with NetHack and other rogue-likes. What's the best way to play them using a screen reader these days?
#Blind @mastoblind

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to mastoblind

Edited with Michael fair's Mastodon username.
I'm re-reading issues of Audyssey. It was a Magazine created by Michael Feir that was dedicated to games accessible to blind people that ran from 1996 until 2008 . He edited it for the first few years before passing it on to Ron Schamerhorn.
I think it's fascinating to look back at to see how things have progressed, and of course we still have a long way to go.
Michael Feir's on Mastodon @mfeir.
You can download all 54 issues individually from the below page as well as a zip file with them all in.
There was also an e-mail discussion list. I wonder if that got archived anywhere.
https://ksapergia.net/audyssey/
#blind @mastoblind

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to RPG

Found this interesting series of blog posts about fallthru, a text adventure game I tried playing for the first time I think in 1999. I've never had the patience to get very far in it because it's literally huge, but I've often wondered what it would be like if I did.
Now I don't have to, since this person completed it and went into quite a lot of detail about it.
Note that most of the in game text is shown in screenshots with no alt text.
Nice to see that Michael feir and the Audyssey magazine got a mention because that was pretty much the only place I saw anything about it before this, and I forgot that he interviewed the developer.
https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/search/label/Fallthru
#InteractiveFiction #RPG #textAdventure

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

I love this video of someone accompanying a Samsung washer on piano while it plays its tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAoVDOkNq3k

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me's playing on the radio and my dad's kitchen timer's ticking in 16th notes perfectly in time with it.

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

I'll do a predictive sentence thing.
On your predictive keyboard, type "My cat likes sitting on" and let it finish the rest.
My cat likes sitting on my keyboard too and it makes it look good.

datajake1999, 1 month ago to random

For those who don't know, Inform is a language that is used to write ZMachine compatible interactive fiction games.
Apparently, the Inform 6.21 command line compiler was ported to Windows CE, and compiled for ARM. Anyone who knows me probably knows where this is going.

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

In case there's a chance a TweeseCake instance admin sees this, the request archive function is broken. it just sits there and does nothing. I sent them a post about this the other month but got no reply.

simon, 1 month ago to random

On Mastodon, we have countless sighted people taking valuable time out of their day to describe their images wonderfully, just in case a blind person runs across it.
On Facebook, the practice of posting undescribed images is so common that it's normalized among blind people,many of whom fill their timeline with image after image of text shared from meme pages. Sometimes Facebook and VoiceOver both fail to describe the images, or I'm on Facebook web. How are people so apathetic that they'd rather support a page filled with inaccessible posts than take the extra 5 seconds to copy/paste the text they can clearly read? I don't understand. I see people who preach inclusivity on all levels but still do this. And yet the moment someone posts a heartwarming piece of fiction that ends with a call to action telling you to repost it if you don't support terrorism, they'll happily copy/paste.

TheQuinbox, 1 month ago to random

Knowing how to code can be such a double-edged sword at times. Anyone can come up with an idea, that's the easy part. But it's probably very easy for someone who's not a programmer to think of a program idea, think about it for a second, go "not my field, let's hope someone does it" and move on, just like I do with so many other fields. But it's so frustrating as a programmer when you know that you won't be able to do something due to lack of time/energy/etc., even if you know how it should work. I came up with a random idea a few minutes ago that I have absolutely no time or anything to work on or finish, but I can see the code in my head, I can see the UI, I can see the DB schemas... and it's frustrating. Because I know I could in theory do it.

TheQuinbox, 1 month ago to random

I didn't see this advertised very many places, but it's saved my ass so many times. One of my friends wrote a C program for Windows that works like a pipe, and puts any output from a command line application into a multiline text field that you can search through and read. For example, astyle -h|show. https://github.com/samtupy/pipe2textbox

KaraLG84, 1 month ago to random

I lost it a bit on Facebook yesterday and ranted that one of the reasons they hardly hear from me is the majority of what they post is "maybe an image of one person and text". I went on to say that I'd be forever asking them what that even means and I can't be bothered.
So contrast that to here where the majority of images are described. It really makes me feel like I'm welcome here.

datajake1999, 1 month ago to random

The first time I was exposed to DECtalk was in a Sendero GPS audio tutorial demonstrating how to download maps from the Sendero website. If you want to listen to this, it can be found at https://senderogroup.com/mp3/tutorial/3downloading.mp3.
After I listened to this for the first time, I was curious about that mysterious speech synthesizer, and I wanted to use it with JAWS if I ever got it on my computer. Little did I know that I would obtain the synthesizer's source code over 10 years later.

jcsteh, 1 month ago to random

Just switched back from Enafore to Semaphore. I love that Enafore has additional features like post editing, etc. Unfortunately, it also breaks a bunch of a11y focus stuff - dialog focus, re-focusing posts when returning to timelines, etc. - and I don't have time to chase it down at the moment.