devinprater

@devinprater@tweesecake.social

I am blind. Because of course I have to mention it in my profile. Accessibility drives me. I use all the major operating systems in some way, and find great things about all of them. I also enjoy reading, eating, relaxing, eating more, and chatting. I want to be a cat when I grow up.

My opinions are my own, and definitely do not reflect those of my employer.

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pixelfed, to Pixelfed
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⚠️ Why am I seeing this post?

Tap the 3 dots menu, then "Why you're seeing this post"

If you see posts in your home feed from accounts you do not follow, it's because you follow a hashtag used in that post!

Please boost this PSA!

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neurovagrant, to random
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Fortify.

I dig it.

18+ devinprater, to accessibility

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    18+ notabene,
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    @devinprater Not offending at all.

    I must say that, being a keyboard-first user, most of Windows + Microsoft apps do a good job, once one wraps one's head around shortcuts.

    But yes, I've tested so many apps with a screen reader that I can only concur.

    As I've become prone to say lately, accessibility is often added to the seventh sprint of any agile process that goes through cycles of six sprints.

    seedy, to random

    So, it's December again, so I'm gonna pull out a little something I wrote last year. It's the Twelve Days of Christmas... but with #RetroTech! This is: the Twelve Days of Techmas! https://www.seedy.gq/writing/Twelve_Days_of_Techmas.txt

    lashman, to pixelart
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    Another #PixelArt daily done! :) Mycelium metropolis skyward.

    You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IY8Y8RSDM7

    ENJOY!

    #mastoArt #digitalArt #fediArt #art #landscape #wallpaper #creativeToots #gameDev

    Pixel art of an enchanted glade beyond the realm of the known, where chlorophyll dreams paint the sky in hues of jade and chartreuse. Here, colossal mushrooms rise like sentinels, their caps broad and grandiose, dwarfing the imagination with their architectural mimicry. The verdurous firmament, a canvas of celestial green, whispers secrets of an alien ether to the land it cradles. Beneath this viridian canopy, bioluminescent fungi scatter their lambent glow, casting a phantasmagoric luminescence upon the forest floor. The air is thick with the perfume of an otherworldly nature, where every breath is a voyage into the fantastical. The symbiosis of organic and monumental creates a symphony of silent spires, a forest of silent sentries in a world untamed by human touch. In this cosmic grove, the very essence of life seems to hum with the vibrancy of the unseen, a melody of mysterious origins played for an audience of stars veiled by the evergreen sky.

    purplepadma, to random
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    Wow, complaining about ableism on here really brings out… more ableism. I’ve just been treated to “people are over sensitive these days” and “I can’t be ableist because I grew up with disabled kids”. Absolute peak

    geraldew, to random

    Bearing in mind that even I consider it a tedious piece of writing, I did some time ago write up "My Coding History" as two blog posts.
    Nonetheless, it was interesting to research the details versus my memories and is, perhaps, a bit of a time capsule.
    https://dev.to/geraldew/my-coding-history-part-1-3onb
    https://dev.to/geraldew/my-coding-history-part-2-4h1j

    mcc, to random
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    Me: I wonder if there is a way to mount a zip file as a drive using FUSE.

    Me: I should ask Mastodon.

    Me: Wait, no, I should just look on Google.

    [After two minutes of Google searching]

    Me: I need to ask Mastodon which of the three separate modules for mounting a zip file as a drive using FUSE is the one I should actually use

    Kaliah, to random

    Okay so... Am I the only one who hardly ever uses music streaming services? I just download all of the music I like and store it locally with multiple backups. Avoiding ads, having access to all of it offline and on whatever device I want it on, it just works. Unlike most everything nowadays

    DMDan, to DnD

    D&D Character Idea:
    You are a spy. You’ve been tasked by your agency to form an expert adventuring party, and win fame, all to gain entrance to an exclusive event for nobles. There, you are expected to make contact with an extremely reclusive noble to try and learn their sinister plans. Your adventuring party was formed out of convenience, but you can’t help growing fond of them over your adventures. #dnd #characterIdea #ttrpg

    purplepadma, to random
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    A few days after Alice’s birth, I put up the Christmas tree. My son was two, so it was the first Christmas tree he’d really been aware of. He pointed at it and opened his eyes and mouth very wide and said, “Is this my Christmas tree? Are you make it for me?” He was so impressed. He was showered with gifts by doting relatives but really would’ve been more than content with the contents of his stocking. I still do a stocking for Alice, but Max said I didn’t need to do it any more when he was about 16. Shopping for and assembling stockings is my favourite part of Christmas, when my stepdaughters spend the festive season with us I do stockings for them too, even though they’re in their 30s. This year we’re not seeing them until mid January though so it would be a bit OTT.

    18+ mkdjy12, to accessibility

    For anyone who is interested or who feels that someone would benefit from this, here is a link to an accessible advent calendar for blind users. Be good now and don’t open all the days at once. Day 2 so far is my favourite but then you never know what’s coming next. #christmas #accessibility 🎅 🎄 https://games.tactiletimes.org/advent.html

    RickiTarr, to random
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    If you go to a restaurant with someone, and they say "All I had to eat today was..." they are about to consume two thousand calories.

    A11yAwareness, to random
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    Make sure alt text conveys an image's intended message. Imagine a weather forecast. Helpful alt text might say, "Forecast showing temperatures in the high 20s on Sunday and Monday before jumping to 40 on Tuesday." This is much more informative than "Picture of weather forecast."

    seeingwithsound, to Neuroscience
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    (flashback, 2008) A what/where visual-to-auditory sensory substitution fMRI study: can blind and sighted hear shapes and locations in the visual cortex? https://web.archive.org/web/20140812030845/http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v080153 (web archive, ECVP 2008); #neuroscience

    BorrisInABox, to random

    My screen reader reads the following emoji ⛄️ as snowman without snow.
    So... like, is it just a man?
    Note, this is semi-rhetorical.

    davidGoldfield, to random

    Employment Opportunity: BLIND Inc. is Seeking our Next Executive Director: Minneapolis, Minnesota https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/5728

    jeridansky, to animals
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    Tennessee, heading off to explore the rest of the house once I stop taking his photo. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

    thememesniper, to random
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    is there a single good gallery app for google pixels with OCR search

    that's like the one thing i miss about samsung phones

    Woody, to random

    So International Disability day - its only one day, so we can get back to our usual programming.

    pianomarian, to random

    MY apple watch: "Time to stand. Stand up and move around for one minute ..." ME: Checks time, then stretches arms above head. ... WATCH: "You did it! You've earned another hour towards your stand goal!" lol! #WatchFail

    18+ pitermach, to random

    I was reminiscing with friends about phone memories and my first actual smart phone, the Sony Xperia Pro which had an amazing keyboard, which then led the conversation to how no-one is making iPhone keyboard cases anymore, which seemed to have stopped around the iPhone 6. Doing some Googling and it turns out in 2015 Blackberry settled with one company making such a case on patent infringement, around the time they were about to release an iPhone 6 model and that’s mysteriously when everyone else seemed to have stopped. I wonder if these patents are still the reason no one has tried since, wonder who owns the rights to them in the first place since the brand is basically dead. Is it TCL still? If so I wonder if they would still go after people. I’d still love if such a product were released.

    anna, to random

    Last boost reminded me that I ended up not being able to make it to that appointment at my university’s accessibility center. I sent them an email about it… And never heard from them again. 🤷🏻

    eric, to random

    Is there a day for international people who prefer identity first language?

    Asking for a friend.

    #UN

    zersiax, to accessibility

    Halfway considering doing streams/videos where I go through 2023 with a to illustrate what challenges exist and how we our way around them. Honestly not sure if literally anyone would be interested in seeing that though

    zersiax,

    Ok, the halfway became a whole way, and I have now started this project: The 2023 showcase: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoI1JGnSzOVKWI2fOpymnWcQtgxPLoW4X

    Basically, the idea is that I go through the tasks with a , make sure the content is for as many viewers as I can. That means I narrate what I'm doing, the screen reader is audible when required, and the screen reader output is also visible on the screen.
    Subtitles and transcriptions may not be up yet by the time this goes live, as it takes a minute for the autocaptioning to catch up. If it turns out these are really, really bad, which is possible, I will transcribe the videos myself using Whisper and make sure they get added to the videos.
    My aim with these videos is to show off the accessibility issues that exist, point out easy fixes to them, give people who are curious about this field an introduction they can actually consume in a way that works for them, as well as just create awareness that we're here, we're not leaving, and we'd like to be part of the conversation is pursued.
    Any feedback is, of course, more than welcome, and I wil incorporate it in videos going forward.

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