If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution […]

[USSR] So according to Reddit, the Soviets had something called the Fonemophone-4 speech synthesizer, based on the Elektronika-60 computer, developed between 1978 and 1991. C'mon, #nvda and #tts guys. Where's my Fonemophone-4 NVDA addon? All you'd have to do is emulate an Elektronika-60 […]

Sometimes I hate being a #blind person. I went out to the local Dairy Queen for an ice cream. Of course, because it's hot, the place is packed and the line is enormously long. As I'm standing there waiting for my blizzard, I hear a loud female voice, apparently in conversation with someone else […]

#a11y #blind #accessibility #gaming Someone should make an accessibility mod for raid shadow legends, just so blind streamers can get all that sponsorship money.

Does anyone else feel the urge, when you want something strange from AI, to explain and justify why you want it? Like it might judge me for wanting this answer or something.

I contain multitudes. A year ago, I wrote a quick script, "just in case" I ever needed to do the same task again. This year, I need the script I wrote. But did I document it in any way? No, of course not! It just amuses me that I went to the trouble of writing myself a script, and keeping it […]

I...what? This woman has...many auto parts in her warehouse, apparently. And engines. At first I thought this was some kind of racist joke! But the internet tells me that Auto Parts Tina is the charismatic face of Guangzhou Xinwangda Automotive Parts Co., Ltd., which has been in business since […]

Subject from an email that just landed in my inbox: "All of the sweaty, moist wetness your ears can handle". What? No! Why? It's like a marketer spent months crafting a subject line to make people press delete as quickly as possible. For the curious, it's from a website called dlsite, some sort […]

Hey #encryption experts: has anyone thought about something similar to what three words, but for key fingerprints? This would be a huge #accessibility win. Right now, we have long hex strings we have to compare by hand, and a few visual/barcode type systems. I would love to be able to just […]

For the public record: Nope. Turns out @Monal doesn't do OMEMO:2 at all, and I'm the one doing it wrong. The key I thought belonged to Monal actually belongs to me, created in an earlier round of testing that I forgot about, added to the fact that comparing key fingerprints between multiple […]

Also @Monal I _think_ I might have found a bug in the way you do OMEMO:2. You're doing prekey via Curve25519/Montgomery + XEdDSA. But the specification requires identity keys are encoded per RFC 8032 (Ed25519) while prekeys are RFC 7748 (X25519). I may be confused, however.

Yay! We can now send and receive both OMEMO versions! It only took, like, three days to exchange basic text messages via #xmpp, using an already developed library. On the other hand, we now have a really solid base for...the nine billion other things we need to do. At some point I'm going to […]

Yay! Completed 2 milestones in the roadmap! But added 4 more. This...this is progress, right?

I'm not even remotely sorry.

Isn't interesting that before #AI could code, assistants were always gendered #female (Siri, Alexa, etc.) As soon as AI became able to code, it got #male or non-gendered names (Claude, Chat GPT). I'm not saying explicitly gendering assistants as female was a good thing. I'm saying it's […]

Huh. Looks like we're in for some interesting weather here in Ottawa. My weather app just notified me: Weather alert for Ottawa (Environment Canada): 502 Proxy Error Details: weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?onrm104 Can I still sit on the porch if it's 502 proxy erroring outside?

Today I get to learn things about MSIX and WinUI3. I'm really not loving how WPF feels with a screen reader, and I don't want to use the ancient winforms.

Proofread your dictation, people. Pneumatic doors open and close automatically. Nomadic doors move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Only one of these is a real thing.

So because I have gone temporarily off my rocker, I'm working on an #xmpp client using #dotnet 10 and WPF, with artalk-xmpp for XMPP, libsignal for #OMEMO, and prism for screen reader output where needed. I'm only an evening into it, and I can already tell that OMEMO is going to be the source of […]

[religion, hard drugs, blasphemy, dream] Time for a #fedidreams after the weirdness of last night. I dreamed that I was attending an emergency church meeting to deal with the fact that after a sudden flash, every single bible in the entire world had been updated with a new page. The page was an […]

You know your screen reader is too fast when you hear "The gamemaster will decide the turn order" as "The gay master will decide the turn order." I...didn't think I was reading the rules for _that_ kind of TTRPG?

The best thing about quickmail by @kellylford is that it doesn't try to sync and search all of my email like thunderbird does. I'm a data hoarder who has every email I've ever sent or received since 1998. It does say "mail, connected, 2050591 unread" because it's counting messages I archived […]

Super quick micro-review of StartTesting.net from @@mikedoise@@techopolis.social. Note that I've only spent maybe an hour with it, so I may have missed features. The Good: * I love the "accessibility issue" type, complete with WCAG sections right there, easy to search and attach * Has Jira […]

Angry hot take: If you are an expensive "accessibility professional", and the reports you're generating and sending to your clients are inaccessible, you should just get a new job. There is no hope for you. I've encountered that three times, from three different people, this month. WTF? #a11y […]

I would love a native, screenreader #accessible, fast, #matrix app for Windows. I would also like not to create it, because Matrix is even more vast, complex, and incomprehensible than #XMPP and #IRC. Anyone? No? Didn't think so. Sigh.

Quick #fedra test.

Yes! #fedra fixed the bug where refreshing didn't happen on timelines without streaming support! Woohoo!

@kaleb@fedi.haugenh.us Just so you know, web finger is not working correctly with your split-domain setup. Webfinger fails on haugenh.us, but because you announce that as your domain instead of fedi.haugenh.us, your posts never end up in people's inboxes on your subscribed relays. Here's a snip […]

Today in things I didn't want to figure out: why my #iceshrimp inbox had a giant queue of several thousand statuses, just sitting there, unprocessed. So I didn't figure it out. I just restarted the database and the server and then it processed the queue just fine. Go figure. Computers, amiright? […]

My powershell aliases really confuse any AI agent that tries to work on my computer. Nano is an alias to notepad because I got tired of typing the wrong thing when I was working on the windows command line. Docker is aliased to a script that spins up a wsl distro and starts the requested […]