mltony

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by mltony 2y ago
Could you guys fix this accessibility bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126072... - it's been open for years.
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by mltony 3y ago
My two cents: learn VoiceOver for iPhone yourself, turn on screen curtain for further realism, and spend tons of time with your relative practicing simple things. I am blind and a couple of years ago I was trying to help a friend to learn V
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by mltony 3y ago
iOS VoiceOver is better than Google TalkBack on Android. Although I've heard recently that Android is catching up fast. I mean it's amazing that blind people can use such a portable device; but I don't quite like that there a
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by mltony 3y ago
Blind developer here. I could never recommend VoiceOver on MacOS to anyone. 10 years ago before I lost my eyesight I was a huge fan of Apple - everything was just working so much smoother than in Windows world. And much more visually appeal
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by mltony 3y ago
Very interesting idea. I think it depends on precision with which that implant can communicate heading. If precision is 10 degrees or less, this can actually be extremely useful to visually impaired people.
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by mltony 3y ago
I got the idea when I was learning to cross a wide street with a white cane. three lanes in each direction - and it proved to be a challenge because I would veer left or right and frequently get confused and lost. Then I thought a compass w
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by mltony 3y ago
I use NVDA. Here is that add-on if you're interested: https://github.com/mltony/nvda-browser-nav/
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by mltony 3y ago
Blind developer here; I often write tools for myself to perform some task that is not well supported by my screenreader. For example: * I wrote an add-on that allows me to read HN comments in a structured way. A typical screenreader would p
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by mltony 4y ago
I do use it with bluetooth headphones - bone conductance headphones, so that I can also hear the street. I tried to put my phone in the pocket, but then heading fluctuates with every step. I assume this might be enough for someone, but I pr
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by mltony 4y ago
iOS app Blind Compass https://github.com/mltony/blind-compass I am blind and I developed this auditory compass for blind people that communicates your heading as two tones - musical interval between them encodes your h
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by mltony 5y ago
Blind developer here. So surprised to see so many negative comments here. Wondering if wheelchair users were hated back in the days when the law about wheelchair ramps was passed. Accessibility of websites is a real problem for blind people
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by mltony 5y ago
Blind developer here. Even though web technology might move fast, things move slowly in the world of accessibility. You're saying it's too hard to catch up with the latest technology - I wouldn't agree with this in the conte
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by mltony 5y ago
Ah, you're right, CodeMirror 6 appears to be more accessible. However it still only shows one line at a time. So that's still worse than Monaco. Monaco can show one or two hundred lines at a time. So with CodeMirror 6 I still wou
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by mltony 5y ago
One more point to consider: CodeMirror is not accessible for blind users with screenreaders, as it just presents an empty text area. While Monaco is acdcessible, at least VSCode is. This used to cause a lot of pain for blind people using Ju
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by mltony 5y ago
Could it be that Boeing engineers made this presentation vague and confusing on purpose? I mean the article presumes that the engineers had poor PowerPoint skills, but it seems to me that this could have been cover-your-ass type of situatio
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by mltony 5y ago
10 years ago I found even more outrageous bug in Windows 8. I was working in MSFT back than and I was writing a tool that produced 10 GB of data in TSV format , that I wanted to stream into gzip so that later this file would be sent over th
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by mltony 5y ago
Blind developer here. If anyone wants to use computer without a mouse, I can also recommend screenreaders for the blind, such as NVDA. Blind people have to use screenreaders,, but if anyone sighted has such an aversion to mouse, why not try
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by mltony 5y ago
Just having raw Tex code for the formula would be already immensely helpful. Right now we're in the situation that the information about formulas is lost for screenreader users. Once there's raw Tex formula, then screenreader deve
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by mltony 5y ago
Could you elaborate on this? Like a link to a concrete project/discussion? I am visually impaired too and I did my own research on this topic a while ago. It appears that in the past decade or two there have been a few attempts to imp
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by mltony 7y ago
I had a 5 years gap in my career - all medical. Recently, right after that gap, I was intervieweing with multiple companies - most of them didn't even ask me, even though I was worried as hell. In the end I got almost all job offers I
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by mltony 7y ago
I come from Russia, where the idea of gifted classes is taken to the next level: instead of gifted classes we have entire gifted schools. If this is true, that children who coudln't make it into gifted class are so much demoralized by
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by mltony 7y ago
> The new engines were too big to fit in their traditional spot under the wings. To combat the problem, Boeing mounted them forward on the wings. Moving the engine position forward shifted the plane’s center of gravity, which altered the
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by mltony 7y ago
I actually work more in backend area, so I am not that familiar with accessibility standards in HTML. I am only a user there. But looks like others have already answered some of your questions.
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by mltony 7y ago
You don't need any non-standard input elements to make web site accessible. In fact the opposite is true: if you only use standard HTML elements, chances are your web-site is going to be fully accessible. It is when developers decide t
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by mltony 7y ago
Microsoft Word is fully accessible. As for PDFs, as long as they are not scanned, most likely they are accessible. Sometimes forms in PDF files are not very accessible. And also every now and then I need to read a science paper in PDF forma
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by mltony 7y ago
I appreciate this feedback, I'll keep it in mind for my future comments. And by the way, it is very common that people can't find words to give me feedback - happens pretty often. So I encourage people to give me feedback - no nee
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by mltony 7y ago
None that I'm aware of. The problem is checking whether a web site is accessible is a manual operation and therefore time-consuming. And it often happens that companies break accessibility, and then they fix it, and then they break it
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by mltony 7y ago
The big three are Jaws and NVDA for Windows and VoiceOver for Mac. You probably don't need to test with all three every time since they are similar in terms of what kind of content they can access on the pages. But each of them has its
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by mltony 7y ago
Yes, touch-typing. I feel when my fingers hit two keys at the same time - that's the time to go back and check the previous word for spelling mistakes. And I use screenreader to read things for me.
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by mltony 7y ago
I work in a big IT company and often times internal tools are not very accessible. Sometimes when I talk to their respective maintainers, they are willing to help me, but they don't know what is accessibility and what is screenreader.

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