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jscholes

@jscholes@dragonscave.space

Digital #Accessibility Engineer/Analyst, #ScreenReader user, and occasional #software developer. #a11y

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menelion, to accessibility
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Hi #accessibility specialists! Do you have in mind an article about HTML email accessibility best practices? I was almost sure @aardrian wrote something about it but couldn't find it straight away. It's for a friend :) Thanks!

jscholes,
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@menelion Use mostly text. Don't use ARIA. Add alt text to your images. Keep it simple. Probably offer a link to read the email on the web. Let me unsubscribe without a CAPTCHA or any other bullshit. Don't put emojis in your subject line because they annoy me. Follow all other best practices of web accessibility, like link text, but also make sure people can copy URLs if needs be. Assume that nothing will work. Hope it helps! @aardrian

jscholes,
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@menelion Ah yes. The appeal to the apparent authority of people with enough experience to put a web page or video on the internet, which is really hard work. @aardrian

weirdwriter, to SmallWeb

On TTS audio description https://robertkingett.com/posts/6567/ #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #NoPaywall

jscholes,
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@miki Do you have any reading material on how widespread this is in practice? I've never encountered any satellite systems in Europe that actually choose to do mixing at the receiver. Terrestrial, yes, but I only have experience of the UK system. Whereas I've tuned into multiple satellite channels from various countries where the AD is just mixed in at the source. @jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter

jscholes,
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@miki It does cause bitrate issues, e.g. a number of primetime channels on Sky UK just sound terrible if you opt for AD. Or at least, they did, and I have a hard time imagining they've improved the situation. @jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter

jscholes,
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@miki A few months back, a British broadcaster trialed a more descriptive, blind-friendly audio stream for a televised rugby match[1]. Of course, they only had the mono, low-bitrate AD channel to use, and presumably couldn't manage the fade values in realtime. So we ended up with US-SAP-style, crappy stadium audio.

[1] https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/news-and-resources/guinness-and-itv-make-sporting-history-by-trialling-live-descriptive-audio-commentary-for-the-guinness-six-nations

@jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter

jscholes, to mastodon
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How do people meaningfully search and/or export their favourites? I've been favouriting (not bookmarking) a bunch of useful and/or interesting stuff since I came here, but the data seems difficult to access in a useful way.

When I use my instance's website, there's no search facility on the Favourites page. It only loads a subset of favourites upfront, so without pressing the "load more" button hundreds of times, I can't use my screen reader's find feature either.

When I try the favourites timeline of Semaphore, it also only loads a subset of my favourites, but apparently without a means of loading more of them.

In Mona on iOS, I would likewise have to keep finding, and then pressing, "load more posts".

When I try to find information on the internet about possible qualifiers for searching my own favourites, I get results about API calls and installing Elasticsearch as an instance owner.

In the "import/export" section of my account preferences, it doesn't say anything about favourites, and doesn't make it clear whether my posts archive would include them.

jscholes,
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@listless @GreenSkyOverMe Thank you both for this suggestion! Unfortunately, that returns no results for a very common term, so I suspect that my instance doesn't have full-text search enabled or something. CC @admin

jscholes, to random
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@MonaApp i'm encountering an extremely disruptive bug. I'm browsing my home timeline, and open a link from a post. When I come back to the app, focus has moved all the way back to whichever post I interacted with previously, before opening the link from this one. That previous post may be tens or hundreds of posts behind my reading position, requiring a lot of swipes to get back there. Hope i've explained this in a way that makes sense.

jscholes,
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@simon @MonaApp Yep. I despise in-app browsers so it's been set that way for awhile.

TheQuinbox, to random

A few years ago, I wrote a program in Go that would get the RSS feed out of an Apple Podcasts link. I've been using it the past couple years, but I didn't like dragging around this 4.1 MB executable that's not stored anywhere convenient and I was bored, so ended up rewriting it this morning. Usage is pretty simple. Run it, paste in URL, get shown RSS feed link. https://quinbox.xyz/files/Podfeed.exe

jscholes, (edited )
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@TheQuinbox @matt I started learning PB once, but had to file a bug on their forum indicating that accelerators and pneumonics weren't working correctly in their Win32 GUI implementation. For instance, I'd create a text field with a label of "&Username", the screen reader would report a shortcut key of Alt+U, but pressing it would just cause the default beep rather than focus moving to the field. The response was that I needed to implement that behaviour myself which is just not supposed to be a thing, so I dropped it.

jscholes,
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@TheQuinbox @matt Fair enough. I think I reported it in 2015 or so, hopefully you have better luck getting it changed than I did.

jscholes, to windows
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I updated (the ebook software) the other day. I don't use its graphical interface, and only have it around for its command line tools. Nevertheless, every time I've opened a text-or-document-adjacent filetype since, has asked me which app I want to use. It hasn't set my file associations to calibre, just unset all of my existing ones so that I have to answer a pointless prompt multiple times per day. How does this make any sense?

chikim, to random
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VOLlama v0.1.4-beta.1: System Prompt manager; Import Awesome ChatGPT Prompts; Partial support for GPT-4O (Throws an error for token counter in some cases but just ignore for now); Able to attach entire document and feed for long context model. https://chigkim.github.io/VOLlama/

jscholes,
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@chikim The API uses pre-purchased credits, same as OpenAI, and is not subscription-based. @simon

jscholes,
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@chikim Sounds like nonsense; plenty of people use it via their own tools. More to the point, if you only give someone a field to enter their own API key, then you're not the one using the API and potentially violating the terms. While developing an integration yourself, you're not using it purely for individual purposes. @simon

jscholes,
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@chikim And even more to the point, what's the risk profile here: @simon downloads your app, puts in his API key, uses it for his own purposes, they ban him, and he loses seven dollars worth of credits? Who cares?

jscholes,
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@chikim Cautious of what, though? I don't understand what you think is going to happen. @simon

jscholes,
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@chikim According to Reddit, some people are being asked for business registration details, and tax IDs upon signing up for the API. But I also know people who use it via NVDA, the LLM CLI, and so on.

So... not sure. Maybe they ask for different things based on location? Seems like another business who literally don't want people to pay them.

I will say, offering five dollars of introductory credits somewhat contradicts claims that they only support business users. Businesses are less likely to need five dollars of handouts. @simon

jscholes, to apple
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Costco had #Apple #AirTags on sale. Having never used one, I decided to buy a couple. I now have two smooth, round things on my desk that apparently don't stick or attach to anything without additional hardware, that I guess I can... put in a box that I might lose? Not really sure I understand this product.

jscholes,
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Even if they stuck to things, they're way too big to put on an AirPods case, way too expensive to attach to groceries, and so on. I could put one in my suitcase... except I don't travel that often and only take hand luggage when I do.

Note that I'm not looking for "why did you buy it if you didn't know what it was?" responses. I'm not complaining about the money spent, which was my choice, only saying that I don't understand the utility.

jscholes, to random
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iOS just unnecessarily corrected "filename" to "file name", but not "ghat" to "that". How useful.

jscholes, to random
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Nice job, Audible:

<button aria-label="Buy Sum: Tales from the Afterlives now ">  
 <span>Buy Now for £7.99</span>  
</button>
simon, to random

I just realized that the iPhone SE battery is smaller than the Jelly Star battery. Not by much, but it is. The Jelly Star battery is half the size of almost every Android phone battery, even the cheapest Samsung phones from several years ago. So when I say Apple could have tried a little harder, I can back that up with actual examples. Hopefully the next SE has a much larger battery, or Magsafe, or both. I hesitate to recommend them to anyone at this point because you basically can't function without a power bank. Meanwhile, the Jelly Star is turning out to be an amazing media device, especially now that I figured out how to make Foobar2000 for Android more accessible.

jscholes,
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@simon Meanwhile, I usually have to charge my 15 Pro twice a day.

bryansmart, to random

I know ChatGPT 4O is amazing, but I'm beyond revolted and offended by it's fake caring enthusiastic attitude. I expect to ask it about my friend's cancer, and it either tell me how amazing it is I'm getting this first hand experience, or to tell me how sorry it feels I'm going through this. Either is infuriating in a way hard to explain, and inspires fantasies of kicking OpenAI devs in the balls! The world is full of fake. Do we really need an LLM pretending to care? Fucking revolting!

jscholes,
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@bryansmart Try changing your system prompt to tell it to be less nice.

jaybird110127, to random

Tonight I go into a sleep center to do a sleep study which will almost certainly diagnose me with sleep apnea. Forty years ago today, on Saturday, May 19, 1984, some CBS executives probably had a sleepless night after Michael Larson won an unprecedented $110,237 on Press Your Luck. That was when the show was taped. Press Your Luck was a thirty-minute show, but this particular episode went on so long that they had to split it into two episodes, which aired on Friday, June 8, and Monday, June 11, 1984. They were never seen again until a GSN documentary in 2003. You can doubtless find both the original episodes and the documentary, "Big Bucks: the Press Your Luck Scandal" on Youtube.

jscholes,
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@jaybird110127 I struggle to sleep in a new setting, and would imagine that reaction is quite common. I wonder how they factor that into sleep studies?

jscholes, to random
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There are many "classic" (in intentional quotes) works of Harry Potter fanfiction I've never read. This weekend, it's the turn of the Sacrifices series by Lightning on the Wave. 80 thousand words down, only a cool almost three million to go.

jscholes,
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@simon They're very well known, and almost two decades old by this point. I'm surprised I haven't read them until now. Some people have theorised (or in some cases claimed to have outright proof) that Lightning on the Wave now writes under the pen name of Lomonaaeren: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Lomonaaeren/pseuds/Lomonaaeren

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