bramd

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by bramd 2y ago
Thanks, will keep an eye on your progress. If you want to discuss this kind of use cases in the future, feel free to get in touch.
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by bramd 2y ago
Congrats on the launch. Have you thought about assistive technology/accessibility tasks as well? Would love to use such a device to control the touch screens on inaccessible coffee machines at my clients offices for example that I can&
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by bramd 3y ago
Braille tablets/multiline braille displays are finally coming. The traditional piezo-electric cells are not well suited for them, due to the space the cell + driver+ electronics need. Putting the four rows of pins in a cell does alread
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by bramd 3y ago
I disagree. To "solve" their CAPTCHAs I had to register by providing a working email address. I don't encounter HCAPTCHA problems that often, so when I need to solve a new one usually my cookie has expired and I have to reope
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by bramd 3y ago
Totally agree. Buying new appliances is hard if you are blind. It's either very cheap stuff that still has buttons, expensive stuff with touch screens which are unusable to me or expensive stuff that has touch screens and an app to con
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by bramd 4y ago
Marijn has done much to make CM6 an accessible code editor. Now with Monaco (editor component of VS Code) and CM6 both being accessible, online code runners/playgrounds and interactive code examples in docs/courses are almost guar
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Digital Ocean API and control panel are down(status.digitalocean.com)
1 points by bramd 4y ago|0 comments
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by bramd 5y ago
Yes, a nested list would clearly be the better structure here. Or even a description list (dl) with the comment's metadata in a dt and the comment in dd.
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by bramd 5y ago
My thought exactly. An open source version could be nice in it's own right or lead to good improvements on other open source speech synthesizers such as Espeak. I think current TTS research/software is only focused on sounding nic
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by bramd 6y ago
The engine behind that add-on, Axe core, can be called from JS and there are some open source tools around to integrate it in your CI. I would say Axe is kind of the gold standard at this time when it comes to automated accessibility testin
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by bramd 6y ago
Yes, I would like to publish some lessons in the future somewhere. However, a few quick takeaways: * The microcopy matters, a lot. We had a button stating "I've got a notification: read what you should do after getting a notificat
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by bramd 6y ago
Before doing screen reader testing on complex web components, what I see as some kind of lack box testing where you test your whole screen reader + browser stack, it is useful to have a look at what the browser passes to a screen reader. Es
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by bramd 6y ago
No time to read the whole thread right now, but feel free to get in touch (email is in my profile). I'm blind since birth and have had various software development jobs. These days I shifted a bit and started my own company doing digit
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by bramd 7y ago
+1 for this advice. Identifying the issues is just one part of the work, finding a correct and usable solution might be lots of work if you don't have much experience with accessibility. I also do full-time accessibility work. Don&#x27
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by bramd 8y ago
I'm still looking for a service like this, but that creates a nicely tagged PDF and conveys the HTML structure in the PDF tags. Tagged PDFs are a requirement in many processes for accessibility or archival reasons.
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by bramd 9y ago
What's the standard really depends on which slice of the world/market you're looking at. NVDA[0] is a very capable screenreader as well and does some things even better than JAWS. It's totally free and open source. [0]:
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by bramd 9y ago
Well, in this case I was quite glad that they have targeted the web platform. At least that allows me to code my own stopgap solution using userscripts and stuff. That's harder for native.
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by bramd 9y ago
> Here's a thought: how about you write a native app for each platform? I can guarantee that the hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers working on AppKit and Windows APIs are a lot better at getting this to work than your team. No
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by bramd 9y ago
Pretty cool. And if people are wondering, yes, screenreading software can output this to a braille display. However, mainstream displays only have one line of braille making 2d images somewhat more difficult to understand.
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by bramd 9y ago
Your question is very generic, but in situations where this device might be used most (e.g. walking, getting around) I usually use the following: * Guide dog (still the non-technical, living and breathing version) * iPhone for GPS nav
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by bramd 9y ago
Congrats on your launch. As a potential blind user, I've some questions. How can I reach you? Your email doesn't seem to be listed in your profile.
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by bramd 9y ago
Yes, you are right, but things like face recognition in this app run locally already. I tried it in airplane mode. Also, check this blog from a blind user and some interesting comments: http://chrishofstader.com/seeing-ai-fi
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Aira – Instant Access to Information (for the Blind)(aira.io)
1 points by bramd 9y ago|0 comments
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by bramd 9y ago
Yes, if you make a mess and bring in some accessibility compliance people that have to suggest all kinds of shitty workarounds it will cost you money. If your devs don't know why those shitty workarounds are there they will break it al
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by bramd 10y ago
Sounds familiar. I had only the former kind of education. Often I'm pondering if I should pursue a masters degree in anything CS related. It's not that I really need it for my work. So, my options are to either do a CS master, and
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by bramd 10y ago
First, I don't think that "enabling sight" is the right term to use here. It's just making a certain device usable to the blind. And yes, there are open source and free options available. iOS' accessibility APIs are
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by bramd 10y ago
Related longread[0] on how the west tried to build a similar device after discovering "The Thing". [0]: https://thecorrespondent.com/3789/operation-easy-chair-or-ho...
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by bramd 10y ago
Hmm, I don't remember any such prototype/demo. However, the NVDA remote protocol is pretty simple, JSON messages over a TCP socket. Putting those messages on a websocket should be fairly straightforward. With the web speech API la
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by bramd 10y ago
> Though sadly it will be a while until we will hear: "You are visiting Hacker News, in a simple look and without any images, it features a list of links to articles and a menu at the top. Do you want me to read the articles titles,
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by bramd 10y ago
Another interesting project written in Erlang is LeoFS: http://leo-project.net/leofs/

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