Re: can't install linux
Re: can't install linux You can kinda access notifications by binding a key to "present notification messages list", but you can't really act upon them. Mate doesn't have that feature. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/620613/#p620613 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Hi, from linux!
Re: Hi, from linux! Well this system has 8 gigs ram already, so I'm not starving for resources. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/602639/#p602639 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Hi, from linux!
Re: Hi, from linux! I wish I had a few RAM sticks. I have two empty RAM slots, according to LSHW, that need filling! I could have 32 GIGS ram! of course this is only an I7 with, I believe, 2.6 GHZ processor, but yeah that'd be good I suppose, but wouldn't really make the thing run faster necessarily. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/602499/#p602499 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: any opinions about the new macs with the m1 chip
Re: any opinions about the new macs with the m1 chip I'm hoping with Apple's renewed focus on the Mac, that VoiceOver for Mac will just be replaced by VoiceOver for iOS, lol. Might as well, right? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/602498/#p602498 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: is android becoming more restrictive?
Re: is android becoming more restrictive? What's this topic about again? Oh yeah, Android. Yeah, I think Google is starting to see Android as an actual money maker, and so of course would want to emulate Apple. Of course, they just won't emulate Apple's accessibility commitment. Although, Apple Arcade and Apple Fitness Plus show that Apple is kinda not paying as much attention as they should these days. They just have so much going on at once. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601667/#p601667 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: linux users, what do you like about it
Re: linux users, what do you like about it For me, it's a few things.- The package managers :: I seriously love having just one stop to install everything, well just about everything, update just about everything, and remove everything. And once something is removed, it's pretty well gone, nothing left by maybe the config files.- Emacs :: I love Emacs. Well, mostly because of:- Emacspeak :: Emacspeak is pretty amazing, and makes computing actually fun and rather easy once you get used to it.- It makes sense :: Once you dive in, the file system, system processes, and everything that makes your system tick, makes sense, and it is open to you. Don't want something starting up when you boot the computer? Systemd has you covered. Want something starting up? systemctl enable something. Of course, there are issues, lack of a great sound enhancement system, lack of a good system-wide spell checker, all that, but all in all, it works great.- Configurations are easily reproducible :: If you find someone's config file on the Internet, you can just install the program and copy the configuration file to wherever the program expects it, and you're good. This is really great for getting back up and running if you have to reinstall your OS, too.- All the tools :: You may be able to get by with WSL, and if so, shoot for it. But I like to have one unified system, not Windows and a Linux kernel on the same computer, with communication at the barest of essentials needed to get a little stuff done.So yeah, that is some reasons why I love Linux, and keep coming back to it time and time again. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/595307/#p595307 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well
Re: Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well Yes, you can run it in VMWare. If you don't have much experience with Linux, don't be surprised or worried if it doesn't make sense or work for you at first. And you may find it easier to start with Ubuntu Mate or something else, but you can start with Arch if you want. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/593422/#p593422 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well As a few here know, Arch Linux is a powerful distribution of Linuxthat many blind people use. Main reasons are:* Bragging rights: gotta keep the self-image up by showing off the OS one installed by following instructions; Linux folks might be good cooks. Mostly joking here.* Up-to-date packages: While with Debian and Ubuntu, you're left with old versions of everything, and with Slint you're left with newer accessibility packages but older versions of everything else, Firefox ESR for goodness sake and freaking NodeJS 8! 8 I tell you! Arch has everything as up-to-date as possible. While other distros mistrust developers when they say something is ready, Arch gives you current stuff. Not stupid "bleeding edge" as it's said, that's Alpha code, but *current* stuff!* Blind-specific stuff is first-made for Arch: This is probably a bad thing, because most new users use Ubuntu Mate and such, and no matter what people tell you about "It's all Linux under the hood," Arch and Debian do things differently. They have different package managers, with different versions of packages. They have different versions of core utilities, and Arch may have packages that Debian doesn't, particularly in the Arch User Repository.* The AUR: The Arch User Repository is basically where packages that users make go, which is different from the "official" Arch package system. Packages from the AUR are built from source, rather than Pacman, the Arch package manager, which are binaries. You will want to install "Yay", a manager that actually does both the official packages "pacman" and the AUR, once Arch is installed.* Retroarch goodies: if you use Retroarch, Yay has a few nice things, like a build of the PPSSPP core that has all needed assets. That's a relief, although it does take a minute to build, since it's from the AUR.* Better support: If you go on the linux-a11y.org IRC, it helps if you use a distribution that other people use. Many there use Arch, so can help with that. It's not that they can't help with Ubuntu and such, but if you find yourself in an interestingly awful situation, or want the latest packages, or want something in your distribution's package manager, someone on there is bound to say "Use Arch."It's not that the community is bad, they're just specialized and havefound the distribution that works for them. Maybe Arch will work foryou as well, but you'll need a lot of patience and dedication, and abetter outlook on life than I had a few years ago when I tried Linuxfor three months or so. Then again, that was Fedora though, Ithink. Anyways, if you want to easily have all the goodies, like OCRDesktop, Fenrir, and anything else that comes from the linux-a11yfolks, then you may want to just bottle up any anxiety you have, closeyour eyes, take a few Breaths, and jump in! This post won't go intoflashing an image or anything, but it will go into installing Archthrough Anarchy.Anarchy is basically an Arch installer ISO. The regular Arch ISO justputs you at a prompt and leaves you to it, but Anarchy has an actualinstaller. I won't say that it is 100% accessible, but it works wellenough with Speakup. Since Arch ISO's now come with an Accessibilitymode, you can use Anarchy, without needing a special version of it.Now before we begin, let's get some things out of the way:* I am not a programmer. I am not even a system admin thing. I'm not even a type 1 or 2 Invested Entity. I'm just a user that can't keep his hands off Linux for like a year, so might as well give in and do the thing and feel free in at least one area of my life.* Look around, ask questions on IRC or here I guess, and don't give up. That's how you get stuff done. I think. But don't expect me to have all the answers. *Grumbles about retroarch** Drink lots of coffee. So much so that you see CoffeeSpren all around you, or hear the rhythms of Roshar. Oh wait maybe that's just my heartbeat. Never mind. Well besides coffee. Coffee == Investiture. Or something.So let's get started. Read about Anarchy and download it from:https://anarchyinstaller.org/Flash or burn or SurgeBind the ISO to a flash drive and boot thecomputer from the flash drive with Anarchy on it. Give the thing about10 seconds; it would be helpful to have Seeing AI or Envision on aphone, scanning the screen. Then, press Down arrow, then Enter. Afterabout 30 seconds, you'll hear Speakup suddenly talking about loadingthe screen reader and all that jazz. Although, I prefer alternativerock, with no vocals. So all that alternative rock with novocals. Choose a language, the language you speak hopefully shouldswitch Speakup to that language. If not post an issue to their Gitlabrepo. They seem nice enough, although you'll have to code the fixyourself. But they're nice when they tell you that.Anyways, go through the installer, maybe choose advanced desktop stuffto install just Mate, as it's not in the main desktops list, justGnome. But even if you cho
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well As a few here know, Arch Linux is a powerful distribution of Linuxthat many blind people use. Main reasons are:* Bragging rights: gotta keep the self-image up by showing off the OS one installed by following instructions; Linux folks might be good cooks. Mostly joking here.* Up-to-date packages: While with Debian and Ubuntu, you're left with old versions of everything, and with Slint you're left with newer accessibility packages but older versions of everything else, Firefox ESR for goodness sake and freaking NodeJS 8! 8 I tell you! Arch has everything as up-to-date as possible. While other distros mistrust developers when they say something is ready, Arch gives you current stuff. Not stupid "bleeding edge" as it's said, that's Alpha code, but *current* stuff!* Blind-specific stuff is first-made for Arch: This is probably a bad thing, because most new users use Ubuntu Mate and such, and no matter what people tell you about "It's all Linux under the hood," Arch and Debian do things differently. They have different package managers, with different versions of packages. They have different versions of core utilities, and Arch may have packages that Debian doesn't, particularly in the Arch User Repository.* The AUR: The Arch User Repository is basically where packages that users make go, which is different from the "official" Arch package system. Packages from the AUR are built from source, rather than Pacman, the Arch package manager, which are binaries. You will want to install "Yay", a manager that actually does both the official packages "pacman" and the AUR, once Arch is installed.* Retroarch goodies: if you use Retroarch, Yay has a few nice things, like a build of the PPSSPP core that has all needed assets. That's a relief, although it does take a minute to build, since it's from the AUR.* Better support: If you go on the linux-a11y.org IRC, it helps if you use a distribution that other people use. Many there use Arch, so can help with that. It's not that they can't help with Ubuntu and such, but if you find yourself in an interestingly awful situation, or want the latest packages, or want something in your distribution's package manager, someone on there is bound to say "Use Arch."It's not that the community is bad, they're just specialized and havefound the distribution that works for them. Maybe Arch will work foryou as well, but you'll need a lot of patience and dedication, and abetter outlook on life than I had a few years ago when I tried Linuxfor three months or so. Then again, that was Fedora though, Ithink. Anyways, if you want to easily have all the goodies, like OCRDesktop, Fenrir, and anything else that comes from the linux-a11yfolks, then you may want to just bottle up any anxiety you have, closeyour eyes, take a few Breaths, and jump in! This post won't go intoflashing an image or anything, but it will go into installing Archthrough Anarchy.Anarchy is basically an Arch installer ISO. The regular Arch ISO justputs you at a prompt and leaves you to it, but Anarchy has an actualinstaller. I won't say that it is 100% accessible, but it works wellenough with Speakup. Since Arch ISO's now come with an Accessibilitymode, you can use Anarchy, without needing a special version of it.Now before we begin, let's get some things out of the way:* I am not a programmer. I am not even a system admin thing. I'm not even a type 1 or 2 Invested Entity. I'm just a user that can't keep his hands off Linux for like a year, so might as well give in and do the thing and feel free in at least one area of my life.* Look around, ask questions on IRC or here I guess, and don't give up. That's how you get stuff done. I think. But don't expect me to have all the answers. *Grumbles about retroarch** Drink lots of coffee. So much so that you see CoffeeSpren all around you, or hear the rhythms of Roshar. Oh wait maybe that's just my heartbeat. Never mind. Well besides coffee. Coffee == Investiture. Or something.So let's get started. Read about Anarchy and download it from:https://anarchyinstaller.org/Flash or burn or SurgeBind the ISO to a flash drive and boot thecomputer from the flash drive with Anarchy on it. Give the thing about10 seconds; it would be helpful to have Seeing AI or Envision on aphone, scanning the screen. Then, press Down arrow, then Enter. Afterabout 30 seconds, you'll hear Speakup suddenly talking about loadingthe screen reader and all that jazz. Although, I prefer alternativerock, with no vocals. So all that alternative rock with novocals. Choose a language, the language you speak hopefully shouldswitch Speakup to that language. If not post an issue to their Gitlabrepo. They seem nice enough, although you'll have to code the fixyourself. But they're nice when they tell you that.Anyways, go through the installer, maybe choose advanced desktop stuffto install just Mate, as it's not in the main desktops list, justGnome. But even if you cho
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well As a few here know, Arch Linux is a powerful distribution of Linuxthat many blind people use. Main reasons are:* Bragging rights: gotta keep the self-image up by showing off the OS one installed by following instructions; Linux folks might be good cooks. Mostly joking here.* Up-to-date packages: While with Debian and Ubuntu, you're left with old versions of everything, and with Slint you're left with newer accessibility packages but older versions of everything else, Firefox ESR for goodness sake and freaking NodeJS 8! 8 I tell you! Arch has everything as up-to-date as possible. While other distros mistrust developers when they say something is ready, Arch gives you current stuff. Not stupid "bleeding edge" as it's said, that's Alpha code, but *current* stuff!* Blind-specific stuff is first-made for Arch: This is probably a bad thing, because most new users use Ubuntu Mate and such, and no matter what people tell you about "It's all Linux under the hood," Arch and Debian do things differently. They have different package managers, with different versions of packages. They have different versions of core utilities, and Arch may have packages that Debian doesn't, particularly in the Arch User Repository.* The AUR: The Arch User Repository is basically where packages that users make go, which is different from the "official" Arch package system. Packages from the AUR are built from source, rather than Pacman, the Arch package manager, which are binaries. You will want to install "Yay", a manager that actually does both the official packages "pacman" and the AUR, once Arch is installed.* Retroarch goodies: if you use Retroarch, Yay has a few nice things, like a build of the PPSSPP core that has all needed assets. That's a relief, although it does take a minute to build, since it's from the AUR.* Better support: If you go on the linux-a11y.org IRC, it helps if you use a distribution that other people use. Many there use Arch, so can help with that. It's not that they can't help with Ubuntu and such, but if you find yourself in an interestingly awful situation, or want the latest packages, or want something in your distribution's package manager, someone on there is bound to say "Use Arch."It's not that the community is bad, they're just specialized and havefound the distribution that works for them. Maybe Arch will work foryou as well, but you'll need a lot of patience and dedication, and abetter outlook on life than I had a few years ago when I tried Linuxfor three months or so. Then again, that was Fedora though, Ithink. Anyways, if you want to easily have all the goodies, like OCRDesktop, Fenrir, and anything else that comes from the linux-a11yfolks, then you may want to just bottle up any anxiety you have, closeyour eyes, take a few Breaths, and jump in! This post won't go intoflashing an image or anything, but it will go into installing Archthrough Anarchy.Anarchy is basically an Arch installer ISO. The regular Arch ISO justputs you at a prompt and leaves you to it, but Anarchy has an actualinstaller. I won't say that it is 100% accessible, but it works wellenough with Speakup. Since Arch ISO's now come with an Accessibilitymode, you can use Anarchy, without needing a special version of it.Now before we begin, let's get some things out of the way:* I am not a programmer. I am not even a system admin thing. I'm not even a type 1 or 2 Invested Entity. I'm just a user that can't keep his hands off Linux for like a year, so might as well give in and do the thing and feel free in at least one area of my life.* Look around, ask questions on IRC or here I guess, and don't give up. That's how you get stuff done. I think. But don't expect me to have all the answers. *Grumbles about retroarch** Drink lots of coffee. So much so that you see CoffeeSpren all around you, or hear the rhythms of Roshar. Oh wait maybe that's just my heartbeat. Never mind. Well besides coffee. Coffee == Investiture. Or something.So let's get started. Read about Anarchy and download it from:https://anarchyinstaller.org/Flash or burn or SurgeBind the ISO to a flash drive and boot thecomputer from the flash drive with Anarchy on it. Give the thing about10 seconds; it would be helpful to have Seeing AI or Envision on aphone, scanning the screen. Then, press Down arrow, then Enter. Afterabout 30 seconds, you'll hear Speakup suddenly talking about loadingthe screen reader and all that jazz. Although, I prefer alternativerock, with no vocals. So all that alternative rock with novocals. Choose a language, the language you speak hopefully shouldswitch Speakup to that language. If not post an issue to their Gitlabrepo. They seem nice enough, although you'll have to code the fixyourself. But they're nice when they tell you that.Anyways, go through the installer, maybe choose advanced desktop stuffto install just Mate, as it's not in the main desktops list, justGnome. But even if you cho
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well
Anarchy, an arch Linux installer that works pretty well Buffer has 139 lines, 1602 words, and 9109 characters. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/593212/#p593212 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub So, how many of y'all have gotten this to actually work, like after installing? I'd like to know how successful it actually is. I mean, I don't want to break my computer with this. Although, I'm thinking of just using Anarchy, then CHRooting into the installed system and just installing Orca and Fenrir and all and see how badly I break things. Ugh it's so hard to get up enough energy to try this all out again. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/592516/#p592516 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers Oh man you should really read all of the Cosmere. Then you'd have to reread it, to catch all the references to other parts of the Cosmere. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591919/#p591919 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Manjaro talking is now part of the manjaro community editions!
Re: Manjaro talking is now part of the manjaro community editions! To set up accessibility, a user has this in their .xinitrc:export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridgeexport GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591918/#p591918 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers Be sure you've read Elantris, you'll see something cool from there, and Mistborn Secret History, you'll see a small thing from there. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591773/#p591773 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world?
Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world? When Dawnshard came out, i told myself I'd read it in braille. And I got maybe five pages in, using the Books app on my iPhone with my Focus 14. But braille eventually gets tiring, and I read slow, although using both hands effectively, reading quickly with my right hand and using my left hand to fill out anything I missed, really helps to speed me up. Even then... I just have to read more. But I love it. The ability to think while reading, rather than having a voice pulling me along.And then, when Rhythm of War came out, I told myself I'd read that in Braille too. I still might. But nope, read almost all of it using speech. Just gotta read more, storm it! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591768/#p591768 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Manjaro talking is now part of the manjaro community editions!
Re: Manjaro talking is now part of the manjaro community editions! So, is this good enough to use now? I mean, has anyone installed the "talking' imag? Does Orca come up after installation? Are all the accessibility flags set? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591767/#p591767 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers spoilerblankblankblankblankIt will get much, much better. Keep an eye out for Taravangiun, he'll be important! Oh and read all the eppigraphs, the things at the beginning of chapters. Those are awesome too! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591764/#p591764 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub I'd just try that Manjaro Talking or whatever. If that doesn't work, come on the linux-a11y.org IRC, and there will be someone, at some point, who can help. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591762/#p591762 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers spoilerkittenYeah, she's set apart Dalinar, Lyft, and Terravangian. For some reason. It looks like Terravangian is done, but Dalinar and Lyft... I think Dalinar will fix Honor, who was slintered by Odium, and become Honor's vessel. Maybe Lyft will become Cultivation's new Vessel? I mean, I don't know, maybe Cultivation knows that the Intent of the Shard is making the Vessel less able to actually control it? Hmm. Gosh the Cosmere is amazing! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591425/#p591425 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers Yeah, she's set apart Dalinar, Lyft, and Terravangian. For some reason. It looks like Terravangian is done, but Dalinar and Lyft... I think Dalinar will fix Honor, who was slintered by Odium, and become Honor's vessel. Maybe Lyft will become Cultivation's new Vessel? I mean, I don't know, maybe Cultivation knows that the Intent of the Shard is making the Vessel less able to actually control it? Hmm. Gosh the Cosmere is amazing! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591425/#p591425 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub Phoenix, if it's not working for you, it's not working. Take a deep breath, smile, laugh some, relieve stress, and try another accessible distribution, line Slint Linux, from:https://slint.fr/wiki/doku.php?id=en:start URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591372/#p591372 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers
Re: Rhythm of War - major Spoilers Storms, now I'll be up all night trying to get to that part.spoilercatCultivation is awesome! I mean, can you imagine how much future sight that must have taken, how much planning to get Nightblood on Roshar and into Szeth's hands, getting Teravangian or however you crem you spell it, all prepared... Wow! Now I'm even more excited about the book. I'm at a very low point in the book, so I'm glad it ends so well but wait a storming minute, if Raiz dies in this book, what will... Ah, book five must be about splentering Odium itself, the Shard. Raiz is dead, the Vessel, but the Shard is still around.endspoilercatSo yeah I'll be up all night. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591368/#p591368 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub
Re: Jenux OS -- News And Discussion Hub I tried the Virtualbox image, downloaded yesterday, and it seems to be a very old version, as there are some dependency locks and such when trying to update, many things are dependencies of other things that are blocking upgrades, sorry I don't have exact messages, I tried this on a work computer. Staying abreast of new technologies, it's in my job description. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/589796/#p589796 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover Because that's Google TTS for you. That's how much Google cares. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579196/#p579196 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books @44 try Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Specifically, books 1 to 3. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579193/#p579193 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: IOS14 i hate it
Re: IOS14 i hate it Citations needed.Boo15mario wrote:@1 android is way better then the trash that is iOS URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579182/#p579182 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: a bit more than usually eargent(sunshine waterfall error)
Re: a bit more than usually eargent(sunshine waterfall error) Wow, is this program that hard to use or buggy? Gosh, I just use Hugo and Github Pages, to host my site. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579181/#p579181 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election You know, I think we need more jobs that doesn't require a college degree though. I mean like, I didn't like school growing up, and I don't see the need to spend four or eight more years just to get an entry level job at many places. Now, Apple and Google, or was it Microsoft, have taken down the need to have gone to college from some of their job applications. That's a step in the right direction, and shows how, if a company is good enough, they can change themselves in a capitalistic environment without having to be forced. That's what I like to see. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579180/#p579180 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover @60: I agree. I mean, if my laptop were more portable... I know I know but it's like a 17 inch or something, but I don't know but definitely not like my MacBook, 13 inches, it's just so big! But if it were more portable I'd use it a lot more. I mean, give me Windows 10 on a phone. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579112/#p579112 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts From the project page on that site:> Virtual Appliances for Virtual BoxAs Discussed later in this page, I have developed many different operating systems for both standard PC hardware, as well as single board computers like the Raspberry Pi.Oh wow, Ethin, you should really talk to this guy. He's developed many operating systems! Like, er ma gerd, he should be a celebrity among us poor and lowly blind people! No wonder Trenton takes him seriously!In all seriousness, this is a load of bull crap, just bull crap! This is just a guy trying so hard to sound like he knows what he's talking about. And you know, maybe he does a little. But "developed many operating systems?" That's a lie. He has configured Arch a little, making it install with Mate and put Wine on there, but he did not develop Linux, and he did not develop Android, and he did not develop Arch Linux, the distro. Bull crap! There's all the respect from this guy, gone. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579109/#p579109 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election You know, over the last few months, I've gone more left, mostly centrist, than I've ever been. I mean, not like I've been into politics before, but I've met some one who lost their job due to COVID layoffs and such, and they have no income. None. They go days without eating because there's nothing else that they can do. They're working on getting food stamps, but because government is slow at everything, they live off of what money I can give them. Let's be clear, if there wasn't people like me who care, these kinds of people, who are now unemployed, would be dead. I mean, not even the churches around this person cares enough to help. People in America are starving, yes, starving, and these ass hole politicians keep on playing their stupid game of seeing just which one of the two old, rich, white men get elected in their continued game of political entertainment. And that's what it is. Just a show of chaos and all that on TV, to be watched and fretted over, and talked about. But it shouldn't! It effects people, real people! I could get behind universal income if there was a source of money to fuel it. And I could get behind taxing the rich, because Sanders doesn't need freaking 2 or 3 houses, neither does Bill Gates or anyone else, and Biden doesn't need millions of dollars, either! But if we tax the rich, they'll probably just go to Europe or China or somewhere else. hat doesn't excuse it, and it'd show just how awful they are, but what do I know. I was raised here in Alabama, by, pretty much, the government, and didn't learn much in school. I am, was... very underdeveloped in the mind department. I probably still am. But if normal people can live without two houses, three cars, a millions of dollars that is unneccisary, then the rich can do. I mean, not even the old kings had what rich people have today. And that just shows that, in every age, the rich keep getting richer, and the more struggle to stay alive. Granted, there are far less very poor people today than there was in the old days, but nowadays we *can* help the very poor far better than we could before. All these politicians make me so angry because they're all like "I care about you," while not giving us a single cent! Neither Biden nor Trump would give the person I know a job. Obama, Bush, or Clinton wouldn't have either. And Trummps whole message is "make America great again." Again? When has life ever been, materially speaking, greater than it is now. When, in the past 6000+ years of recorded human history, have we ever had this much free time, money, and food as a society? When have we ever had this much entertainment? never. Now, mentally, we're pretty messed up. Depression, anxiety, all that is through the roof, and COVID has only intesified that. And we're all so loney and in need of... something. I belive we're in need of God and forgiveness and Love, but that's just me. We are *not* in need of politicians filling us up with their hatred for "the other side," or their cheap entertainment shows called debates and rallies. If they actually did work, and made things better, and gave a single crap, I'd be fine with them. But none of them do. None of them!And there are so many people who go on and on and on about abortion. You know what, I want to see them asked about people who are starving, in this literal land of freaking plenty, where you can get a burger, for a dollar or a little more, where /school lunches/ are just thrown away because we're all so very wasteful! Instead, you know what? The food that isn't eaten during school lunches could be given to people who are unemployed. And I just now thought of that! I mean, I'm *not* the smartest person here, and definitely not in America. But I care about these people! I mean, here I am with a job, can afford to order food delivered to me because I've eaten microwave meals for four months and I'm so tired of it, and I'm doing two staff members worth of work every week and I'm coming to my breaking point. And yeah, I'm not that great of a person. I'll say it right here. I'm selfish, I'm lazy, and I hate myself for it. But there are people, even if I'm not rich and losing money trying to help others, and need to start saving, who are even worse off than me, who eat raman noodles and rice every day or two or three because that's all they can afford, and no that's not three meals a day. Fortunately, this person is starting to find work. Not a job, just stuff that other people are paying them to do, but maybe, oh my God, just maybe it'll turn into something more.I'm a Christian. I take my faith as serious as I can. In this world of distractions, where ones sexual feelings and happiness and instant gratification bleaches every moral choice to dirty gray, and where ones happiness is seen as the top priority of life, it's very hard. But there are organizations which preach the sanctity of human life, and over-preach the importance of the
Re: programming, the one power, and the wheel of time
Re: programming, the one power, and the wheel of time Oh man, just wait until you're finished WOT and think "Oh hey, that Brandon Sanderson guy, who finished it, maybe I'll check out his books..." You want deep magic systems that have actual sense and logic to them? Just check out his books. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579077/#p579077 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover Of course. And on iOS we have that... Bright Guide... thing. And I seriously hope TalkBack gets a rotor type thing. No freaking menus! That really slows me down, when swiping down or up is essentially a menu and I don't have to then find the menu on screen, find an option and double tap, or swipe left or right and then double tap, hoping focus is moved to the menu and touching the screen doesn't unfocus it. It's a productivity thing for me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579072/#p579072 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I have a computer, I have time, and I am smart! Where is the money!!
Re: I have a computer, I have time, and I am smart! Where is the money!! I mean, if you're in the states, you could try working at one of the rehab agencies or the other government agencies that do blind training or whatever I do is actually called. They hired me, somehow. I mean I'm good, just, there are way smarter people than me on these forums. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579065/#p579065 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover
Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover You know, it's because they let the developer of Emacspeak, who has drank his own coolade for too long and doesn't see anything wrong with just using a keyboard or track pad and a bunch of "eyes free" apps, then angle gestures to get around the Accessibility API's and is way too programmer-ish to see that it's crap, handle TalkBack for too long. Then you had Victor and his folks bumble through Android 5 through 10, and now they're getting to the real stuff, the actual changes needed to make things good. So while iOS 14 adds actual AI to VoiceOver to allow it to try its best to understand inaccessible apps, TalkBack is now, supposedly, getting the ability for users to configure multi-finger gestures. I don't think Google have gotten as far as "oh let's define a good set of gestures from the start," yet, but they're doing the best they can guys, I mean it's Google and these underdog developers are doing the best they can and we should all feel so sorry for them and just use Android because it's good enough and if you don't agree you're an Apple employee or something!Look, I care about accessibility from its roots. i care about the correct implementation of things. And TalkBack pausing speech to wait for an angle gesture, and the fact that we've had these limitations on Android, Android itself, not just TalkBack, for Android, shows that Android is simply going to be behind, for a long time, in actual, correct accessibility. I don't care that you can access apps. yeah. Even Ubuntu Touch can do that with whatever it works with, and some one could probably hook up ESpeak to some touch events and make a pseudo screen reader, but that wouldn't be tue accessibility would it? The same thing, to a much lesser extend, could be said about TalkBack and Android's API's. Yes TalkBack allows you to read the screen. Yes, Android Accessibility even has a thing where non-native controls, like QT, or SDL2, or whatever can be made accessible by defining stuff. That's according to [This PPSSPP issue](https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/11696), so maybe that's an advantage. But the screen reader's interaction model determines how productive I can be on a phone. That's what users see when they use the screen reader. And for TalkBack, it's really much slower than with VoiceOver. Could it be better in Android 12, when they have the multi-finger gestures by default? Sure. And maybe that'll fix a lot of the issues we have with TalkBack. But then you have the web view issues talked about plentiffully on the Anatad email list. And people are just like, numb to it. Like they feel like Android is their only option or something. It's really sad. And I'm not saying iOS, or VoiceOver, is perfect. I'm not an Apple fanboy, I just agree with their approaches in mobile accessibility. I'm typing this post on a Windows computer, and I've not touched my MacBook pro in weeks. And do y'all know how much easier it'd be to have an Android phone right now? To get texts, calls, and notifications on my PC? Shoot yeah! I'd love to love Android, as I've said *countless* times on here and elsewhere. But because of my commitment to actual accessibility with a *strong* foundation, I will not choose an Android phone until Google takes it seriously throughout Android. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579063/#p579063 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I think this just blew my mind.
Re: I think this just blew my mind. Mozilla's inflection is okay. Still sounds slightly concatenative, like Vocalizer, but I'm used to the smoothe precision of Alex on iOS and Mac. I think it'll take a few more years for any TTS to rival his ability to inflect clauses and repeated text in paragraphs. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574297/#p574297 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: High quality Google TTS voices
Re: High quality Google TTS voices Okay, yeah, I understand that. iOS does have Fred, and Alex is more responsive than the Siri voices. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/572316/#p572316 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: BrailleBack Now
Re: BrailleBack Now Okay, you want more than just the simple explanation of it being crap? I'll explain to you then, since I've *used* Braille Back. I've wanted to *love* Android. I spent close to a year with Android, so stop assuming crap!First, the supported devices. Imagine this. You're a person who is deaf-blind, and you have a braille display that you like, but it's not exactly the top 10 most common ones, but it works for you. You don't have that much money, so you decide to get an Android phone. So you get a Google Pixel because updates and gotta have labels accessibility API's so your screen reader is worth using. So you then look into Braille Back, because if it's anything like JAWS or even NVDA, it should support your braille display.•APH Refreshabraille•APH Orbit Reader 20•Baum VarioUltra•Baum VarioConnect•Esys EuroBraille•Freedom Scientific Focus Blue (14 and 40 cell models)•HandyTech (Basic Braille, Active Braille, Braille Star, Braille Wave, Braillino, Easy Braille)•Harpo Braillepen 12•HIMS (BrailleSense, Braille EDGE, Smart Beetle)•Humanware Brailliant (1st generation and BI models)•Optelec Alva (BC640, BC680)•Optelec EasyLink 12 Touch•Papenmeier Braillex Trio•Seika (notetaker and 40 cell display)Meanwhile, the iOS list contains many more commands, the full list is here: https://support.google.com/accessibilit … 5226?hl=enNow, after you even get the phone, you have to *install* the app! Yes, it doesn't come with TalkBack! For us who are blind but not deaf, that's fine. But for those who are deaf-blind, that means using an assistant that much more. This is a huge slap in the face for people who are deaf-blind, and thera re more that I'll get into. So you have to have TalkBack enabled, and install BrailleBack, set up the display through Bluetooth, and then set it up to be used in Brailleack settings. At least in iOS, there's just one place you go to set up braille, and it just takes that one setup process.next, there's no way of muting just TalkBack speech or sounds. Yes, you can *work around this* by turning down the volume. Sure. But that's a sorry excuse for bad user experience and design. I don't give a freaking crap what anyone else says, what excuses they give to all-mighty Google who can do no wrong, that is very poor and very unprofessional. This means that a deaf-blind user will have to keep their phone muted, or, as told to me by a Google employee, "just plug a pair of headphones in." That's stupid. That's another slap in the face. And that's why i believe that no blind people should use Android because of their mistreatment of braille users.Next, the commands. I'll put forth here that I used BrailleBack with a Vario Ultra 20 braille display. This *is* supported by BrailleBack. The commands are very non-standard. It's like they didn't look at any previous system for braille entry besides BRLTTY, which is just as non-standard. Space with L goes to the top of the screen in just about every other system, even in iOS. What does it do in BrailleBack? It opens Learn Mode. Okay, I could get used to that I suppose. But there are commands like pressing up on the navigation stick and pressing a dot that's rather awkward to press.Next we have the fact that you cannot read Google Books with it. I don't think you can even read Kindle books with it. Even if you can read Kindle books, Google books is the thing you'll look at first probably, as it's the thing installed. All you can do is have Google TTS read the book to you. You can't even read the thing with TalkBack. I may be wrong here, but for Deaf-blind people, who cannot hear, text matters, a lot, and not having access to a built-in service is just another nail in the coffin. Even for me, as a blind person with mild hearing loss only, when I have headaches, I can't stand hearing much of anything, but I can read a bit. So being able to just sit in my rocking chair with a book reading on the braille display, it's very freeing. Also, I can concentrate on materials far better with braille. So if I'm reading a book on programming, I *need* to have the ability to read that in braille. Also again, there's the fact that you can't mute speech. So, if I want to listen to music and read silently, nope. The accessibility volume helps, yes, definitely. But what if I then want to check text messages with speech? i'd have to turn the volume back up again.Now, typing. Reading Braille is wonderful, but typing it is even more freeing when using a touch screen device. You have to set BrailleBack's keyboard as default, as it can't just interact with the text field itself through system methods or anything, it needs its own keyboard. That's just one more step you have to go through to set it up. Compare that to iOS, where it acts just like any other modern screen reader. Just pair and go!Now, listen. I *want* to be proven wrong, on **all** of my points. I would ***love*** to be able to go to my boss Monday and say "You know, I was wrong about android. We c
Re: High quality Google TTS voices
Re: High quality Google TTS voices You know, the fact that people want higher quality voices, like iOS has had for *years* now, should tell Google something. That 6 MB of voice data doesn't cut it! But no. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/572217/#p572217 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Gaming Headsets are people Using?
Re: What Gaming Headsets are people Using? So, for those with surround sound headphones, how does the surround sound in the driver/headset hardware/Windows app compare to stuff like Windows Sonic, Boom 3D, and all that? Oh and some ... Razar thing... I had the Logitech 430 headphones, which were really good with the surround sound, but it was really finicky if it would work. I remember having to reinstall the driver through the INF file all the time to get the thing to work. Now I just use this Turtle Beach Recom headset, for like $59 it isn't bad at all. It doesn't come with surround sound itself, but it does have plenty of base, and it has an XBox mode, which you can use with PC/mobile as well, and a PS4 mode. You can tell which mode it is in, or rather, if it's in the right mode, if the sound is louder than in the other mode. I think. I hope. Ugh I could have been doing this wrong all along. Anyways, it's pretty good, except it has to charge for some reason. I thought it may be Bluetooth as well, but nope, just uses power for... The Base? Lights? I don't know. But it sounds good, works well for about 16 hours, and sounds good plugged into my XBox one controller's headphone port since my laptop's one is very loose, lol. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/572050/#p572050 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: BrailleBack Now
Re: BrailleBack Now Same as it always was, crap like the rest of Android accessibility. As I've always said, if the accessibility API's are crap, then what comes above them can't be much better. The OS is the *foundation* of all accessibility on that OS. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/570142/#p570142 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Might switch to Android
Re: Might switch to Android If budget is all you're worried about, get the iPhon SE, the new one, for about $400. I mean, you can get a $200 Android phone, but it'll feel like a $200 Android phone and shoot may not even come with TalkBack. For best accessibility, go with Samsung. For updates fast, go with Google. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/570138/#p570138 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better?
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better? Mmm, BLT32! 32 inches of bacon, lettuce, and tomato!SLJ wrote:Hi.I'm sorry to be late on my reply.Regarding what I wrote in post 7: Yes, I am talking about the Braille Note Touch Plus. It's running exactly like I described. It is currently on my desk next to me.Regarding the Braille Note Touch 18: This is exactly the same size of the BLT 32. It is exactly the same case, but the Braille display is just smaller. All other products which have smaller Braille displays are put into smaller cases.Regarding Keysoft:If you wanna run Android apps which are self voiced or which for some other reasons require you to turn off the accessibility screenreader:You can easily turn off Keysoft. No problem. But when you do that, you are thrown to the Android home screen. That means, if you, for example, launch A Blind Legend and turn off Keysoft, then the app is closed and you need sighted help to launch the game again.I'm not sure if it's possible to run Talkback on the BLT. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/569600/#p569600 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Question about an iOS 14 Voice Over OCR
Re: Question about an iOS 14 Voice Over OCR turn on image descriptions, it could be completely graphical, no text. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/568423/#p568423 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better?
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better? Definitely, other languages have improved, and NVDA does show italics... although that seems to be all i shows nowadays, unfortunately. And yes, I love braille formatting so much that I put EPUB files, fanfic and all that, through BrailleBlaster to turn them into braille. Of course, I then miss the table of contents, links, all that navigation, but my gosh seeing proper italics and headings and paragraphs is so worth it, so satisfying, so delightful that I don't even care. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/568421/#p568421 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better?
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better? The *only* thing the old notetakers have for them is formatting. Yeah you all can fall asleep now, I get it.So, with the old Braille Note MPower and Apex, if you opened a document in the word processor, or a book in the book reader, it actually showed it in formatted braille! Headings were at the center of the display, no stupid formatting symbols which just makes braille feelable speech from a screen reader. Italics, bold, underline, it all was shown in braille formatting depending on what braille code is being used. I mean, it was amazing!Of course, now we have great Android with its pitiful accessibility API's, and a lazy Humanware who can't even add auto-scrolling to the braille notes now because ... well some European markets didn't like it and what? What's this "boolean" "toggle" thing you speak of? We've never heard of that! So yeah, it seems like Humanware have just gone down the tubes, or been Splintered by Odium, or something really bad because they just look extremely lazy now. Italics? No matter what braille code you use, it's always just $i. Heading? Just $h1 or something. It's turned braille into a drab, lifeless experience. And they could have freaking just storming handed it all off to Liblouis as XML or HTML, or Duxberry because Dux has to have some way of reading this crap to turn it into formatted braille! Rust and Ruin they could have! But no! Now braille is little more than, as I've said before, just a written representation of what the speech says. No life, no formatting, no spacial feeling of actual freaking text! We don't even get paragraph indentation anymore! Then again, we don't get that in Braille Extender addon for NVDA anymore for some reason, so maybe there's something going on there, but still! We had this in the MPower! 2001 era tech! And they took it away in 2019 era tech. I mean, it's crazy. You'd think braille tech would get *better*, not worse! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/567832/#p567832 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better?
Re: braillenote touch and braillesense u2, which one is better? The *only* thing the old notetakers have for them is formatting. Yeah you all can fall asleep now, I get it.So, with the old Braille Note MPower and Apex, if you opened a document in the word processor, or a book in the book reader, it actually showed it in formatted braille! Headings were at the center of the display, no stupid formatting symbols which just makes braille feelable speech from a screen reader. Italics, bold, underline, it all was shown in braille formatting depending on what braille code is going used. I mean, it was amazing!Of course, now we have great Android with its pitiful accessibility API's, and a lazy Humanware who can't even add auto-scrolling to the braille notes now because ... well some European markets didn't like it and what? What's this "boolean" "toggle" thing you speak of? We've never heard of that! So yeah, it seems like Humanware have just gone down the tubes, or been Splintered by Odium, or something really bad because they just look extremely lazy now. Italics? No matter what braille code you use, its always just $i. Heading? Just $h1 or something. It's turned braille into a drab, lifeless experience. And they could have freaking just storming handed it all off to Liblouis as XML or HTML, or Duxberry because Dux has to have some way of reading this crap to turn it into formatted braille! Rust and Ruin they could have! But no! Now braille is little more than, as I've said before, just a written representation of what the speech says. No life, no formatting, no spacial feeling of actual freaking text! We don't even get paragraph indentation anymore! Then again, we don't get that in Braille Extender addon for NVDA anymore for some reason, so maybe there's something going on there, but still! We had this in the MPower! 2001 era tech! And they took it away in 2019 era tech. I mean, it's crazy. You'd think braille tech would get *better*, not worse! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/567832/#p567832 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I'm thinking of trying the IOS 14 beta for the text recognition.
Re: I'm thinking of trying the IOS 14 beta for the text recognition. Text recognition is pretty good. Image recognition is amazing! Like, I was in r/cosmere on Reddit, and some one posted art they did of a character, and I gave them the result, and they were surprised by its accuracy. Of course, the thing doesn't know who Kelsier is of course, or the context of Mistborn or the Cosmere, but it did great with the context it has.Screen recognition: I'm able to play FF Record Keeper and GOT: Tale of Crows well with it. I'll have to try FFRK again because it had started lumping some things together, but in like beta 4 and 5 I was able to play it perfectly with screen recognition on and such. Although, I never figured out how to get to the missions and such, not just the dungeons. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/567217/#p567217 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: How can the blind community use Googles Hang Out?
Re: How can the blind community use Googles Hang Out? Yes. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563833/#p563833 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Dolphin now inaccessible???
Re: Dolphin now inaccessible??? And considering... Oh wait, doesn't Dolphin automagically work with XBox controllers now? If so, yeah I'm going with Dolphin. Retroarch reverses the A and B buttonsbuttons, or A and X, something like that, and I don't think I should have to go in and fix such a noticable issue so it must be something they chose and it's weird, so I'll see how Dolphin is working these days. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563792/#p563792 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible games that can be played on Linux without wine.
Re: Accessible games that can be played on Linux without wine. That's an interesting point. Maybe I'm missing something, but I just can't use Linux with any productivity, even with command line apps, at its current accessibility level, so I don't want someone else having to go through trying and trying and trying to use Linux, from Arch to Fedora to Ubuntu and shoot even Cloudready, for around half a year and finally come back to Windows because Windows has all I need, including all kinds of games and sound packs for Muds. It was really frustrating and offputting because blind Linux users make it look so easy, and so great, and so productive. But once you dig deep and wonder why that pluggins area of Audacious... I think that's fixed now but that table didn't used to speak so i didn't know I could arrow up and down the list to deal with effects. VLC is better in my oppinion with its audio effects though. But I like messing with stuff so that's just me. But if you can use it not just for the simple stuff but heavy web browsing and getting work done, that's amazing and I wish I could learn to accept its accessibility flaws. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563791/#p563791 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: complete full oboontoo mate tutorial request
Re: complete full oboontoo mate tutorial request Debian has a thing where if you press s when the computer starts in the installer, after the speaker beeps, and press Enter after s, it'll come up speaking. You'll have to get Talking Arch if you want Arch accessibility. Really, though, Ubuntu Mate is fine, just get to know the Terminal, and if you find Apt's selection of old packages hindering, checking Homebrew. It works on Linux as well as Mac, and is a much more up-to-date package manager. Just make sure no packages from either conflict. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563776/#p563776 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible games that can be played on Linux without wine.
Re: Accessible games that can be played on Linux without wine. I mean, there's MUD's, but you won't be playing Manamon or anything like that without Wine. Linux is just a bunch of workarounds strung together. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563725/#p563725 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: complete full oboontoo mate tutorial request
Re: complete full oboontoo mate tutorial request No. GUI support doesn't work in WSL, although they're supposedly working on that. Just command line stuff for now. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563713/#p563713 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: How can the blind community use Googles Hang Out?
Re: How can the blind community use Googles Hang Out? It works fine with NVDA and Google Chrome. The iPhone app also works fine. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563712/#p563712 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: complete full oboontoo mate tutorial request
Re: complete full oboontoo mate tutorial request If you want to *be* good at Linux, you have to buckle down and get used to using the Terminal, because graphical interface accessibility on Linux sucks and probably always will. Shoot I'm just gonna use WSL instead of dealing with full Linux because I don't have time for all that crap with graphical programs, and if I'm gonna be using the Terminal anyways, I might as well use it with NVDA and such. But that's just me, if y'all want to bash your heads against Linux that's fine.Now, if you want to just *look* like you're good at Linux, sure, find keyboard commands for Ubuntu Mate, pronounced Mah Teh because people didn't get the idea from SQL, pronounced Sequel, that "clever" naming like that just makes normal people exhausted... And get to learning. But don't, please I beg of you don't, come on here whining about how when you start up the desktop Orca doesn't land on anything useful, or you have to press some key for keyboard access, or you have to set some flag in Chrome to get Orca working with it, or you have to set some accessibility flag in the X11 thing, or you have to do this and that and so on. Because Linux desktops weren't made for us, and will not cater to us, or even try to be accessible for us like Windows. You won't get any sympathies, or any help, from Linux folks like you would from Microsoft's accessibility folks. Oh they'll say they care, and they'll demand that you use open source projects even if it's not accessible for the good of tma Internet, but besides that, no. No, they don't care.So learn the keyboard shortcuts, read the freaking manual as more nice Linux users would say, and acclimate yourself to learning everything by yourself. Because Linux is not a common OS, so there aren't many tutorials on it. There aren't many people to help you, and many who can help you won't be very helpful because Linux is all about figuring stuff out by yourself. It doesn't need to be, it could be more welcoming, but Linux is all about "power." Because somehow being hard to use is powerful, lol. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563569/#p563569 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!"
Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!" Thanks so much for updating Jennux still. I really like the idea, although it's still just Mate underneath all the icing. Still, the icing is delightful! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563178/#p563178 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Do not install the Watch OS 7 Public beta right now
Re: Do not install the Watch OS 7 Public beta right now Okay, a point in Chris' favor, have any of you watched Apple's little ad eppisode on AppleVis? They *tell us* to test these betas. They want us to test all this. So, yeah, I could see many blind people taking their advice and testing, onl to come up to this. Of course, it's still beta, and of course, we do have Microsoft who, somewhere, I'll find the link if needed, said that they *test* even their betas to make sure stuff *can* be tested by AT users. So, I mean, hopefully they blow Apple away with Windows 10 X, and we can just switch to the platform that, at least for now, do seem to care about us a tad bit. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/561748/#p561748 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is the most accessible email client for windows 10?
Re: What is the most accessible email client for windows 10? I mean, I'd tink I don't have *that* much, maybe 2000 at the most nowadays. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/561627/#p561627 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides I mean, sometimes throwing money at something doesn't matter. Look at AltStore. Well, I mean, the guy probably has a lot to do, but as it becomes more popular--they said that over one million people have downloaded it so far--I'd hope that accessibility would be higher on the list of stuff to get done, and the app wouldn't take much to be accessible, just make the download button a "loading" button when that happens, work on the "My Apps" sections, but it otherwise works. So I mean, developers have to *want* to make things accessible. Now, this one does, but my cynicism won't allow me to not imagine that it'll just be pushed to the bottom of the ToDo file and then in a few years "well I've not even done this thing and I've got Fortnite, Microsoft XCloud, Facebook Games, and many other apps on this very lucrative store of mine, so I'll just let some blind developer handle this. I mean, after all, I'm not an accessibility expert." Of course, he probably doesn't think like that, but there's cynicism for you. He has promised that he's not forgotten us, but... You know. It's open source. It's how open source is. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/561626/#p561626 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Do not install the Watch OS 7 Public beta right now
Re: Do not install the Watch OS 7 Public beta right now So, I could see this being an issue if Apple *hadn't* told us that it is. I mean, they could have, and there would *still* be the thing about "you installed a beta, it broke, and you knew the risks." Now, I'm not saying Apple is perfect. I wish they'd tell us every accessibility bug they know about or have fixed, so that efforts aren't duplicated. But even then, some blind people just cannot read warnings, instructions, or any pertinent information to save theirs lives, so shoot it wouldn't have mattered if Sarah Herlinger came onto AppleVis podcast herself and warned blind people to not install the beta, because some blind person would have Overcast set to 16X speed and be playing Manamon and skip over that tidbit. Lol. Yeah, I know, I'm pretty cynical. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/561622/#p561622 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: SNES mortal kombat playthrough with Shang Tsung!
Re: SNES mortal kombat playthrough with Shang Tsung! This is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/560885/#p560885 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is the most accessible email client for windows 10?
Re: What is the most accessible email client for windows 10? I've tried Thunderbird, but it makes my laptop really slow when fetching mail. I tried Windows 10's mail app, but when I set it to conversation view, which I prefer, any conversation I move to with arrow keys is automatically opened, whether I want to read it or not. This is annoying and I find it inexcusable for Microsoft to not have fixed this in the years Mail has been out on Windows 10. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/560020/#p560020 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: is it worth jailbreaking?
Re: is it worth jailbreaking? Yep, runs up to Nintendo DS games, but no PSP or Ps1 yet, mainly just Nintendo and Sega stuff, for now. And you can even play games using your hardware keyboard! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/560019/#p560019 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides @124, the use of corpse is intentional. @125: I'm just starting Free Code Camp's _javascript_ course. I know I was trying to learn Python before, but I find Free Code Camp's class-style interactivity, and small lessons, very helpful at grasping things through structured repetition. But that still doesn't make me able to understand code. Maybe in like a year, but that's just more waiting I'll have to do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/560003/#p560003 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides @124, the use of corpse is intentional. @125: I'm just starting Free Code Camp's _javascript_ course. I know I was trying to learn Python before, but I find Free Code Camp's class-style interactivity, and small lessons, very helpful at grapsing things through structured repetition. But that still doesn't mak me able to understand code. Maybe in like a year, but that's just more waiting I'll have to do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/560003/#p560003 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides @dagonite, crap forgot how to spell it, do you prefer being called Rachael? I saw that previously but I don't know. Anyways, I kinda think you are a bit impatient. I am, especially about open source and how on one end you have the carrot, "We care about you! We aren't like the big corpses (corporations)! We want to make things better, more free, more good! We care!!!" But then you look at it and try Linux with Orca and try CLI Email clients because you've heard the CLI is literal Investiture that'll do anything with just your Intent! And you find that it's hard to use, made basically for developers and such. Yeah. Biggest let down I've ever experienced in tech, because at least with Apple and Google and other corpses you understand that their reason for existing is to make money. But people? Nonprofits? Yeah, they're the same too, and even worse because they don't have to follow a standard. They don't have to deal with the ADA I don't think. And even if they do, they don't have to worry about being sued. The FSF and all will slam you down just like a corpse. Of course, there are good things that come out of open source. Retroarch, Final Fantasy 1 being made accessible through machine learning, NVDA...And accessibility stuff anywhere takes time. Lots of time. So long that you think it'll never happen. And then, in a few years, it finally does. In iOS 14, braille readers will finally be able to have their displays scroll automatically. And for a one line display, of 80 characters or usually a lot less, that's a big deal. And it took like 10 versions for that to happen. And then you get surprises like the VoiceOver recognition. And if you want to see what it'd be like if Apple didn't, on some small leve, care about accessibility, just try Android with TalkBack. But I've already talked about that. Really, my points are that free and open source doesn't matter much for accessibility, and that stuff takes time, and sixteen times that for accessibility. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/559946/#p559946 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides
Re: pissed off about accessibility guides @daigonite, I understand somewhat your position, and agree that as a blind community, we often settle for so much less than what the big tech companies give us. Like, even text formattiong. Yes screen readers can be set to narrate the bold on formatting information bold off but it all comes out as a huge stream of information that just goes in one ear and out the other, as it were. I won't get into that here because no one gives a crap about that because for them formatting just doesn't exist because screen readers don't speak, or braille in most cases, it by default. That's just my pet thing to bring up about blind people not even wanting all that sight gives. And yes, I've brought it up to Apple and Microsoft; I've not brought it up to Linux folks because they have a hard enough problem getting accessibility as even a low priority. The blind people who have commented on it don't find a need for it. But formatting is used in books, articles, forum posts... and if some one uses it, they've used it for a reason. In Fanfiction, for example, it shows thoughts or telepathy and such, and if you don't know that italics was used, or where, it's harder, not impossible, to follow. But that's just me, I'm different, I know. It sucks.Now, about Apple and their dominance of smart phone usage, they've gotten there for a big reason; iOS is easy to se. You don't have to go looking for a third-party reading app, (on Android you can't even use TalkBack to read a book in Google Books, that's Google TTS reading it to you, so no way to have it spell stuff, or read in braille), no third-party mail app, just grab it, set it up, and you're off. With Android, you practically have to replace the whole OS with more accessible apps. Yeah go ahead and say I've not used Android since 2.3, sure. The last Android phone I had was a Google Pixel running 8.1, and it hasn't changed much since then. As I grow older, I'm only 26 so I shudder to think how I'll be at 35, I just want my stuff to work. That's why I'm on Windows or Mac, and use an iPhone and not an Android phone. I just want to use my devices quickly and *effectively*, not having to freaking mess around with config files, or ask the Anatad email group, because Google was oh so kind to freaking make their Eyes Free list announce only, meaning only Google can post. Assholes all of them. And for the "AI first" company, they sure as heck hasn't brought any of that Investiture to TalkBack. It's still, as the Android lovers call it, a "basic" screen reader. Meaning it's a lot like Narrator on Windows 8. Yes, it's frustrating. Yes, I'd love to run emulators easily on my phone. Yes, I'd love to have more TTS choices. But, I also have altStore, making sideloading possible, so I can play Dissidia Final Fantasy on my phone all I want. So really, even though I hate Apple more and more for locking me into their OS, I can't fault them for having such great accessibility. I mean, with iOS 14's image recognition, I'm able to play the new Game of Thrones, a tale of Crows game. Yes, it's just a sort of point and click adventure, but if this were on Android, I'd have to pay $40 per... month? Year? For a third-party screen reader to play that game, and even then it would not be as smooth an experience as iOS with Voiceover.Also, I'd love to see. I'd love to be able to confidently use Linux, Android, just everything. Programming, IT work, taking apart and putting back together a PC, learning from Youtube videos, all of my work would be so, so much easier with sight. I don't *need* blind experience. i don't *want* blind culture. If i could choose, I would have surgery in a moment's notice to gain sight. Thousands of games would be open to me. Many operating systems would be not only barely accessible, but possibly even productive in a heartbeat. I could drive! I could do anything anyone else could! I would be free! I don't care about some scientific studies that have benefitted from disability. No one would learn anything from my life or my blindness other than sheltering a person does a good bit of harm when they must face the actual world. In my view, since sight is the norm, it is the ideal. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/559729/#p559729 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: is it worth jailbreaking?
Re: is it worth jailbreaking? For me, not really. Now that we have AltStore, and I can play PSP games on my phone, I don't need jailbreaks. Besides, I like having all the accessibility features and bug fixes. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/558733/#p558733 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Creating a website with no web design experience
Re: Creating a website with no web design experience Jekyll or Huog, and Github Pages, is what I've used. And it's free. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/558732/#p558732 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? Definitely. But, the unemployment has ended, because as usual, the government can't agree on anything because everything just *has* to be political. Nothing can be agreeable to both sides. America divides. And, woefully, neither side is right, and those who are trapped on one side or the other, just shout and ring their hands at each other and nothing gets done, while China and Russia just laugh. They don't even have to do much to get us all riled up. Just ship over a few bricks, some seeds to see how we do, and we're all up in arms at each others' throats again.I mean, even on the masks thing, there's the side that says they won't wear a mask because ma freedom, and there's the side that says you must obey, wear a mask or else. We can't just be peaceable and quiet about it and just not fight. As we become more and more lonely because of being physically apart, as we become more depressed, we should be working together, looking hard at each other's viewpoints and viewing each other as humans, as fellow people deserving of respect, not shooting down each other and treating one another like we're some lower life form. That's how Nazism took off, because to them the Jews were just about animals. And neither the Trump supporter or the Alt-Left liberal are animals. They both are humans, and should be equally treated with care and respect and warmth. Maybe with that outlook we can understand each other, smile at each other with kindness even if we vote differently and think that either justice or mercy should be emphasized in government. Do we really want to live in a world where one must hold certain believfs or be outcast? Because that will be a world in which more and more and more types of people are outcast, and I dare say that there would be a time when all of us wouldn't be left, or right, enough to be acceptable to the "more holy than thou" crowd. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/557789/#p557789 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? I think we're seeing, more and more, that the government isn't some machine full of Investiture and can just make everything better. The government is full of people, and people can be greedy, uncaring, mean-spirited, and just plain useless as a worker. Trump just makes it look all the worse, a highlight to the corruption. Eventually, we're going to have to demystify it all: the government, media, science, all the "experts" and such. It's not magic, and I hope that one day we as a people demand answers and to actually be a part of being governed. Right now, from at least my point of view, so much of all this is just a "black box" of oats to many people. They've not been raised to check facts, do research, or anything, so they let whichever side of politics they're on guide them. Fox News, CNN, all have their slants and biases. I don't think that, as humans, we can be without bias when talking about a subject we really care about, unless we're doing technical writing, and even then we choose words based on how we feel about the subject. It's just how it is.I've so far met two people who personally have lost their jobs due to Covid. And both of them aren't well supported by the community, and definitely not by the government. It makes my formerly very conservative, stony heart break apart just imagining going without feel for days, or not having enough to feed children, and knowing that I have so much: a home, Instacart for food, steady pay from a government job. So I help them how I can, probably more than I need to, but shoot, I don't even use that much money, so it's well worth it helping at least a few people continue to freaking live while the government prances around asking Facebook and Google if they sensor conservatives, while not even giving Apple a slap on the wrist for not officially allowing side loading of apps, and not giving people the money they need to buy food, or shoot just even sending food directly. But of course, the right have their talking points, and the left have their's. Just like freaking robots, sticking to their script, predictably growling at each other but just for show.I hope that at some point, the people realize that it doesn't take a scientist, or a genius, or any of that to be President. Really, all it takes is a person with a good heart, who wants to actually freaking help instead of putting on a show. Because Republicans are stone cold with their supposed facts and rage at Democrats, and Democrats are all about passion, but they aim it at those they disagree with instead of aiming it at helping people, most of the time. Sometimes they manage to get something done, and they finally have something they can crow about for a while. But both parties are bullcrap, and I can't wait to see someone come in who actually cares. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/557785/#p557785 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: From The Verge: Mac OS 8 is now an app you can download and install
Re: From The Verge: Mac OS 8 is now an app you can download and install It's not supposed to be productive. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/557483/#p557483 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reposted; Accessible News just for us and our lives
Re: Reposted; Accessible News just for us and our lives I'm going to make a pun about Pun BB one day. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/556979/#p556979 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!"
Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!" I mean, I'd like to see a Linux distro that's as customized and... Ah who am I kidding, Orca's speech is customized well, but under the hood, it's still Linux. Still the Mate Desktop. Still the thing where it just says "screen reader on" and nothing else and you're expected to know how to get to the desktop and such. Ah well. Linux just has so much potential. But in execution, accessibility just sucks. I mean, I'm first and foremost a user, focused on how things work and how it feels to use it, not really a kind of person like many blind Android users that would just use anything machine no matter what because its just a computer. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/556811/#p556811 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reposted; Accessible News just for us and our lives
Re: Reposted; Accessible News just for us and our lives What is this and why would I want it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/556575/#p556575 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!"
Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!" Okay, so I've tried the VirtualBox image, and it's not bad. I mean, it's really well configured, accessibility-wise. The hints, the pitch changes for system messages, all that is really good. I really appreciate all that. Just, I can't update it because the Jenux repo cannot be found. And if that's not the latest image, on the projects page, then it needs updating. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/556574/#p556574 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: How to make music with out midi keyboard?
Re: How to make music with out midi keyboard? Lilypond or Musescore. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/556376/#p556376 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS Why the crap should you be banned from using a screen reader? Like, what the crap! What if that's all you have on at the moment and you start up your phone and no speech? That's... really bad and I feel bad for blind Android users. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553720/#p553720 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: MacBook
Re: MacBook Quad-core means four, right? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553706/#p553706 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS I mean, if I, a not-yet-programmer, can make a site using Hugo, or even Jekyll, and GitHub Pages, then I'm sure these developers can do so too. Having people need to use Telegram is stupid and unprofessional. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553705/#p553705 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: MacBook
Re: MacBook They say they've improved Xcode for Xcode 12 and MacOS Bir Sur, but I don't know if they're just rehashing the small improvements from last year or not. The big thing there is that the Playgrounds live execution will finally be accessible. I talked about the lack of that in one of my blog posts, so maybe I have some secret Investiture that not even I know about, which allows me to change things. Ah who am I kidding.I don't think I'd want to use Swift for putting out apps on the App Store, even if it finally has the secret formuoli that gets code across to me as more than "okay, print. Yeah, I get that. Wait, functions? Okay well how do you even arrive at this method of building this?" kind of thing. Even if I did learn Swift, I'd probably publish my app to AltStore or something, in protest of Apple not allowing console emulators on their App Store. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553316/#p553316 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Android? or Apple?
Re: Android? or Apple? I mean, I'd just rather have something that I can get work down on, my iPhone, rather than the endless experiment that is Android. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553245/#p553245 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Bible Program for Windows
Re: Bible Program for Windows I like Youversion, but dealing with footnotes in the Bible is frustrating, especially when using a braille display. And I do wish they has the ability to turn off verse numbers. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553033/#p553033 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: why is my brane doing that
Re: why is my brane doing that @2 can confirm, writing a blog article when I don't really feel like writing and just writing because I feel like I have to, yeah it comes out crap. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553030/#p553030 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Any tips for user moving from windows to linux?
Re: Any tips for user moving from windows to linux? I ran Linux alone for three months two years ago, and have it on a Pi 4 now. No, not much has changed. Ideals are great. Wonderful even. But they will only take you to what the sighted developers want. The whole GNU accessibility statement, which sounds like it was updated like in 2005:https://www.gnu.org/accessibility/is just... I mean, who still uses Flash and Microsoft Silverlight? They don't even deem it important enough to update this page. So why should we deem them important enough to feel loyalty for? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/553027/#p553027 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Need help on making menu guides.
Re: Need help on making menu guides. Reading? Comprehension? What's that! LolLook at my menu guides for Dissidia. Ugh gotta do the character select and... Oh that's gonna suck, the battle setup screen.https://github.com/devinprater/accessible-retro-games URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/552950/#p552950 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Android? or Apple?
Re: Android? or Apple? Choose Apple for the complete accessibility, Android for the customizability and... Kinda variety of phones. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/552949/#p552949 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Here's Why I'm Inclined to Believe Rory and Others
Re: Here's Why I'm Inclined to Believe Rory and Others Some people just are never taught to be any better, to strive to cultivate themselves. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/552318/#p552318 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: MacBook frustrations
Re: MacBook frustrations Just tried the steps in #26. Didn't work. Ah well.Emacspeak basically knows what it's doing, unlike all screen readers. Emacspeak looks at not only the system calls and such, but the actual buffer (file) that it's working with to get a sense of what's going on. Screen readers don't have that, just what the system tells them. And, Emacspeak expresses formatting info, through speech. Only Narrator can do that with minimal configuration, and JAWS can be made to do this with a lot of messing with sound schemes and such. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551397/#p551397 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Bible Program for Windows
Re: Bible Program for Windows The iOS app is okay, just takes a bit o fiddling around with. I did donate to them, so hopefully things work out and they get audio description. I'll hold off on watching much of it until then. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551378/#p551378 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I'm leaving, for now.
Re: I'm leaving, for now. There's just more discontent because what? Blind people have to follow these rule things? What are rules anyways? ma audio description! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551289/#p551289 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover I've given feedback, so it should be improving as the betas progress. Still, this is pretty amazing. Video: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjJG465MXzivhcQ2Vzv … Q?e=dNa6T1 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551282/#p551282 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover I've given feedback, so it should be improving as the betas progress. Still, this is pretty amazing. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551282/#p551282 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover I've given feedback, so it should be improving as the betas progress. Still, this is pretty amazing.Open my shared movie:https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0Jvx … 1594350569 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551282/#p551282 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Bible Program for Windows
Re: Bible Program for Windows Bibler Gateway already has an option to turn off verse numbers. And I didn't say that verse numbers were a stumbling block, just that generally websites of religious things have accessibility issues. Also, look at The Chosen, a crowd funded TV show trying to show the life of Jesus' followers. They are not described. But I did contact them about that, and they said they'll look into adding it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551281/#p551281 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover
Re: ios 14 bea and voiceover This works great for emulation, at least for newer games. It's not perfect, getting some letters, like I and 1 mixed up far more than Seeing A I does, but my goodness I can *navigate* PPSSPP! I mean, again, not perfectly, but this wasn't *designed* for games. This was made for iOS apps. And yet, I'm able to play Dissidia with much more certainty now, and it even describes the stage very well, when I can find that tiny image element VoiceOver decides to put in there sometimes. I mean, I now know that, in Order's Sanctuary, there is a body of water somewhere. That's more than I got with Seeing A I. This is going to be a game changer, and Google had better cobble some beta up for TalkBack or it will be beaten at it's own "AI first" game. Just saying, Apple proves again that what even Assistive Technology companies fiddle fart around with the idea of using Machine Learning to "see" user interfaces, Apple actually goes and does it. Spectacularly. Even for a beta! I am just blown away. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551268/#p551268 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Bible Program for Windows
Re: Bible Program for Windows If you get into WSL and all that, there is Bible-fetch. And, it doesn't use the verse numbers unless you ask for it, thankfully. I used it to compile the book of Genesis using my favorite translation, CJB, into just paragraphs, no verse numbers to get in the way, or anything. Just the good, simple text, not a reference material as so many bibles look like to me. It can't get whole books at a time, I might ask about this when I'm no longer burnt out on community help and giving... But you can definitely grab things a few chapters at a time for your own study. There are plenty of commentaries online, like Enduring Word which along with the author's commentary, uses commentary from other historical commentators as well.Bible Fetch is at:https://github.com/covode/bible-fetchIdeally, Bible Gateway would be usable enough for me to turn off verse numbers, but I've found that religious organizations often don't know about blind people besides Jesus healed one or two or whatever once, and, just maybe, the commandment about not putting stumbling blocks in front of the blind and not cursing the deaf. I'll reach out to Bible Gateway about accessibility at some point. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/551267/#p551267 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? Careful Accman, you'll be labeled now as an Anti-vaxer and anti-science and anti-everything! Lol. Because progression trumps caution every time. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550762/#p550762 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
