Holy crap y'all, Sandfly officially has more features than VoiceOver. Just needs more Braille stuff, but I'm sure that'll come in time. 😊 See? I just inserted an Emoji, just by searching for it in the onscreen Braille Keyboard's Emoji search. No more typing con) and then having to remember to put dot 5-6 before the colon, lol.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@searls/117575233141667896

Good to know the new frontier of "oops, oh right, #accessibility, uhh what was that again?" for the next five years I suppose. Don't get me wrong, web hasn't been stellar but it was easy to compensate for. This ... will not be.

@pawpower That's literally amazing. And I mean, Beethoven did something similar when he was composing his piano music. Granted a doggo didn't press its throte against his hand when it barked, but he did glue a rod to the soundboard of his piano and, I think, clamp the end in his teeth so the vibrations of what he was playing would be transferred to the bones of his skull. First use of bone conduction technology! I think? Either way it's hella neet how we people, and indeed animals in general, adapt to things.

@vick21 @Onj @ZBennoui @Matthew2468 Yes, of course you can do it, but that’s not the point. Many people even used to use non-speaking analog hardware into their workflows. But not everyone has the patience, skills, or focus to struggle with an inefficient UI. That’s what I’ve observed over 16 years of teaching students at many different skill levels. They should make it easier for everyone to use, not just those with the sheer willpower to push through accessibility struggles and adapt.

Asahi Linux Makes Progress On Gaming, More Apple Silicon Upstreaming https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-7.3-Report

Sam's Club Is Selling A CyberPower Gaming PC With An RTX 5080 GPU – Here's What It Costs https://www.slashgear.com/2309755/sams-club-cyberpower-gaming-pc-rtx-5080-gpu-prie-how-much-cost/

Big Earshot beta update! 🎧 Version 1.2.6 (311) brings a standalone Apple Watch podcast player: browse shows, stream, download for offline listening, manage Up Next, and move playback between watch and iPhone. We’ve improved two-way queue sync and VoiceOver feedback, too.

External testers can join here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/u8dj5UTr

Please tell us what works—and what needs fixing. #Earshot #AppleWatch #VoiceOver

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

Link: https://nfsu2.xyz/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403052

Someone used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the Apple AirPods 3, and now head-tracking works on Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-used-claude-code-to-reverse-engineer-the-apple-airpods-3-and-now-head-tracking-works-on-linux/

Apple has a huge undisclosed multilingual censorship list of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type. It includes in English, ‘Auschwitz,’‘Sleepy Joe,’ ‘Tibetan independence’ and ‘United Ireland.’ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/apples-predictive-text-restrictions-include-dictator-trump-sleepy-joe-researcher-2026-11-06/

“Hey, how come it’s taking so long to count votes for the MS Senate seat?”

ONE Mississippi TWO Mississippi THREE Mississippi FOUR Mississippi FI—

Oh god. AI tts is pretty good, but the mispronunciations it makes are so frigging commical. This is why I've questioned the idea of having AI learn everything. It will easily say things like zero point one hundred seventy nine percent. Okay then. Or how about how it talks about a suspect who possesses Marry Wonna. Poor ms. Wonna! And the thing is, classic synthesizers from last century were fine with this stuff. Rofl

Ich recherchiere so viel Kram und es passiert so viel politisches in der digitalen Barrierefreiheit und in der Behindertenpolitik, aber wenig davon ist zusammenhängend oder groß genug für einen eigenen, großen Artikel.

Besteht Interesse an einem ca. zweiwöchentlichen Newsletter, in dem ich diese Sachen berichte und einordne soweit das geht? Würdet ihr sowas lesen? Oder ein anderes Format lieber, weil ihr den ganzen Newslettern überdrüssig seid?

Lasst mal hören.

so i'm playing with Turnover, working on a PR for an onboarding issue, but impressed! https://github.com/TurnOver-For-Mac/turnover/

Damn I ate being incapable of inserting an m.2 ssd!

For those that use Phonon, which voice (or voices) did you choose?
For UK I like Elodie-Rose and US, harper.
With so many to choose from, it's nice to have so many options.

I know my cat secretly understands English, because he only ever knocks something off a table or cupboard after I call him Chonky.

[Forum Topic] Getting started with OpenClaw using Mac as a front end on a VPS in an accessible way. https://www.applevis.com/forum/mac/getting-started-openclaw-using-mac-front-end-vps-accessible-way?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Creative!
Looking at Xbox, You Can See Everything
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/looking-at-xbox-you-can-see-everything/

So. I should definitely get this "Enough phone", so I can say that I have both a Nothing phone and an Enough phone, but that the Nothing Phone really wasn't enough until I got the enough one.