ndarilek

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by ndarilek 5y ago
This is cool. I just posted the link on a blind gamers' Discord. I don't do much D&D--really want to change that at some point--but they're frequently complaining about D&D Beyond being an accessibility dumpster fire
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by ndarilek 5y ago
Because I want it to look good (or at least OK) and work on mobile.
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by ndarilek 5y ago
Blind screen reader user and game developer here. As of a recent release, egui pushes out some events that I'm able to consume and provide TTS feedback for. You can find a simple Bevy example with a bit of event coverage here: https:&
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No Video Jam 2: an audio game slow jam where graphics aren't the focus(itch.io)
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by ndarilek 6y ago
Same. I've been using Bevy to experiment with some accessible game mechanics for the past few months now. The speed from which I can go from "I really want map exploration to report this and that detail on an entity, based on this
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by ndarilek 6y ago
Funny you should say that. I'm a blind screen reader user, and assumed this was some new 7-inch laptop. Since I don't need a huge screen, I'm always on the lookout for small, performant laptops. Seems this one is anything but
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by ndarilek 6y ago
This is a surprisingly personal legal battle for me. I'm totally blind. For a long while now, iOS has been the mobile accessibility leader, and unless you as a blind person have some specific reason to use Android, you're encourag
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by ndarilek 6y ago
Will it be possible to temporarily turn off example.com, let its absence propagate across the network a bit, then turn it back on under a new server? Synapse has been good to me, but I know Rust more than Python, and Conduit's use of S
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by ndarilek 6y ago
Wow, native English speaker and I didn't even get the pun until this comment. I thought it was a stupid play on "What app should we message each other on?" and thus kind of a silly name. But folks use it regardless.
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Careful about calling something a dumb justification. It's often the simplistic-seeming features that expose unforseen privacy issues, in large part because today's internet is such a complex place. In the end, it may turn out tha
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Do you have an automated way for turning it off when you're on home wifi? Trying a similar setup, and it isn't immediately clear other than via manual activation how to not use Wireguard in that situation. Thanks.
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Nice, should be good enough for now for me. Is there a GitHub issue or something I can watch for updates?
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Haven't looked at Ghost in a while. The subscription system looks neat. I'd recently considered launching an indie game development site for a very niche style of gaming (audio-only) that could probably benefit from a Patreon-styl
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Sometimes it's about taking what you can get, even if the solution is only partial. As a blind woodworker, I can't route a pattern laid out on flimsy material, but make a wooden template and I'm fine. So for more complex proj
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by ndarilek 7y ago
They're just so easy to work with, and while directions are great, they're not strictly necessary to at least make something. Compare that with the handful of model cars I tried playing with, which had so many screws/bolts&#x
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Minor nit, but as a blind person who does various types of crafting (woodworking, most recently) I do care how things look. If I was building a lego set for fun only, I may not, care, but I wouldn't say it is "obvious" that
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by ndarilek 7y ago
My girlfriend uses a wheelchair. She is physically incapable of turning on and off most of her lights, meaning if someone leaves a light on, she's stuck with that light left on until someone can turn it off. She can sort of use her the
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Oh good, glad RLS performance got a boost. Unfortunately my Postgraphile implementation for that project was replaced with Drupal, but I'm glad RLS performance is less of a concern under version 10 and up.
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Thanks for this. Lots of developers fall into the trap of discarding concepts because they aren't Facebook/Google scale solutions. The app on which I used Postgraphile/RLS was likely to have only a handful of users, so I thou
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Thanks for these explanations! As a blind person who works more productively in a text editor than a web interface[0], here are a few things that might help: * Give me the ability to enter JSON directly in the permissions screen. I'm
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Good points, thanks. I keep forgetting that RLS is a fairly recent Postgres feature--2016 or so if I'm not mistaken.
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the rationalle for abandoning RLS? In a previous project, I used Postgraphile and enjoyed it. Sure, RLS and PLPGSQL were a bit awkward, but I knew they were well-tested and had lots of eyes on them, so I felt comfo
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by ndarilek 7y ago
That's fair. I accept that isn't what you meant. Thanks for confirming it, and apologies for the implication.
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Fair point. On one hand it makes me a little sad to see parades rained on. On the other, I assume folks want some degree of criticism if their ideas have some sort of flaw. On the gripping hand (such a useful metaphor, that) if we're
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by ndarilek 7y ago
I don't think it'd be salt in a wound--or at least I wouldn't see it as such. I do wish someone smarter than I am could come up with an accessibility backend to map GUIs to accessible HTML interfaces. So just as QT apps pus
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Thanks, a thousand times this. :) Even though this particular codebase doesn't bother me at all, my perception of the responses in this thread does bug me, and I appreciate that someone less emotionally attached than I am has both go
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Can we just agree that Matt was pointing out a gap and leave it at that? I know more than most people that there is a cost to making things accessible. Do you not think that I get the dumbed-down, PR/support-filtered version of tha
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by ndarilek 7y ago
And again I ask, when someone else produces some technically great achievement and people pile on about the design looking bad, why is that treated any differently? Why isn't that raining on the parade? In a parallel universe, so
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Also, on a note directly applicable to this example, if you think hammers are unusable by folks without arms, might I suggest the documentary Right Footed? I can't say whether or not she uses a hammer without arms, but she flies a plan
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by ndarilek 7y ago
Sure, but in the context of building a visual layout tool, for someone to say that it shouldn't or doesn't need to be accessible to a blind person because OMG, visual! completely misses the point that it can be, and that oth

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