Don't know who needs to hear this, but like what you like. If people don't like it, that's on them, but don't let other people gatekeep your interests just because they don't agree with them. Life's too fucking short to live it by what other people think you should do or no't do.
Someone's going to be pissed off and miserable either way, so get your happy and fulfillment where you can and fuck the noise.
Here's a little demo of Sandfly on my Galaxy S10E with LineageOS and MicroG. Seriously this is the 1st time ever I could see Android actually replacing iOS for me. Sorry about the various unpleasant noises, but that phone really didn't like my aux cables
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@Aryan/117539876763028272
Oo I can't wait to try this out.
Yep, this is why they went after ScribeMe.
Scribe for Documents Makes Its Mobile Debut!
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Finally!
After 10 days of "waiting for review"...
The café is officially open!
🎉☕ POCKET KITCHEN: COZY CAFE IS FINALLY ON THE APP STORE! 🥞🍳
After about six months of development, testing, debugging, rebuilding, accidentally making food float where food should definitely not float, and preparing an unreasonable number of virtual coffees... Pocket Kitchen: Cozy Cafe is finally out. ❤️
Pocket Kitchen is a cozy, accessible cooking game where you run your own little café kiosk.
Choose ingredients, cook food, assemble sandwiches, make drinks, serve the finished order, earn coins, and unlock more recipes as you play.
🥞 start with simple recipes, earn coins, and use them to unlock more recipes and ingredients, or buy decorations for your kiosk.
🍔🍟🥤 prepare combo meals,... once you find the unlockable that activates them.
🔥 Pay attention while cooking — food can go from ready to burnt if you leave it too long
Pocket Kitchen includes VoiceOver support, clear sound cues and haptic feedback, high-contrast options, and a dyslexia-friendly font. The goal is for blind and sighted players to be able to play the same game.
There are no ads, subscriptions or in-app purchases. You buy the game once and the café is yours.
And this is only the beginning. Pocket Kitchen has already started demanding future recipes and features from me, and apparently it has very strong opinions. 😂
For any feedback or support, use the "feedback and support" option in settings. For home delivery orders of actual food directly from our café, I didn't create that version, yet.
https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/pocket-kitchen-cozy-cafe/id6761682033
#games #blind
this needs to be said, people. this is a post from someone, which is followers only so I trimmed their name from it so, full disclaimer, yes I am pro AI, why? because we need to get accessibility somehow. and for now, sadly or not, AI will give us accessible games
reposting this post from someone it was set as followers only, gonna strip their name of so they won't get backlash
probably delete later but jfc. you know what, fine. Give disabled people no path back into "your good graces" after having used some kind of AI. Not like we were ever really in your community to begin with. Accessibility only really matters if it somehow furthers your goal or w/e and suddenly you're disabled too and everyone leaves you behind. Fuck off. I can count the amount of people with an anarchism tag in their bio that actually make me, a disabled person, feel safe on one hand. Maybe think on that. Or don't and just block me, like you were already doing by not imagining a world that doesn't hate people for taking accessibility where they can get it because life is hard enough as it is. Do you honestly think we fucking want this? Don't need your able bodied grandstanding. why do I even come on here again? Why does it always feel like I'm defending myself from the people that pretend to care the most?
RE: https://caneandable.social/@technocounselor/117533217938699994
Ah, blind people.
One thing I remember most strongly about Patrick Stewart was when I learned that, in preparation for a scene on TNG when his character was to undergo torture, he had intentional conversations with victems of torture, who he connected with through his work with Amnasty International, because he wanted to honour the terrible reality of what he was to enact. He insisted on having the scene filmed with him naked, because that is so often one of the tactics used to demoralize. A human of such integrity.
I've been sitting here, trying to think of something deep and profound to say about #PatrickSteward and keep coming up short. So I'm just going to write and you'll get my typos and bad spelling and all.
#TNG was my introduction to Science Fiction. I can't tell you what episode was my first, but I remember hearing Picard's voice and thought to myself, "wow, this guy is so cool."
And he was.
TNG was a huge part of my childhood. I learned all the things people out here have said in abundance; How to be kind, fair, the difference between moral right and wrong, and so much more that I could spend hours writing this post and still come up with more. In X-Men, he taught us how to look pass the things that make us different to see the things that make us all similar and that is something I've carried with me my entire life since.
Outside of acting on screen, he was an acomplish actor on stage, and his efforts in humanitarian causes should never be overlooked.
He was a captain on screen and off, a teacher, a philosopher, and as someone who comes from a broken home myself, I've always had a certain love and respect for him and how he chose to go a different path than the one set forth by his homelife growing up where domestic abuse was the norm.
Truly, he was a shining example of the grace and poise we all hope to reach in our lives and it had nothing to do with that smoothe voice that instantly made one feel calm and at peace.
Fun fact, TNG is only a couple days older than me in age, something I've always had a quiet little chuckle for simply because of how much of an impact it's had on me. Science fiction came to me because of that show, and Science Fiction has been the life blood that has sustained me for the whole of my life.
Losing Patrick feels like losing a grandfather in so many ways and I'm having a hard time coming to grips with the loss and grief of his final departure.
My final thoughts as I wrap this post up. Let's all strive to make it so. A better future, a more tollerent humanity, compassion and kindness before arms and violence, and let us remember that we all have it within ourselves to change the paths of our own destinies.
Rest in peace, power and love, you most wonderful angel. Thank you for all the many years you gave us. Thank you for all the adventures. Thank you for all the important life lessons a damaged kid from the trailer park couldn't get from those around her as she tried to find herself. Thank you for so many memories. Thank you for all these things and so much more that my heart is too heavy to process tonight. You showed all of us what it means to age with dignity and may we all carry on your mission to give aid where it's needed the most, to speak for those who have not the voice to speak for themselves, and may we never forget that the most important thing we have in this world is the time we have within it and how we use that time.
You were my first captain, and you were the greatest of all who came after you.
God speed sir. Engage. 🖖
@technocounselor Sorry you’re having to deal with people like this. I have no idea why open source projects are held to absurd standards while VMware Fusion and Parallels can happily go months without updating a thing. Unless this person is enriching your life or increasing the numbers in your bank account, you owe them nothing. That’s been the mantra for me lately.
“A Place Beside the Fire” is causing a lot of people to be in touch. Someone this morning who was moved by its lyrics asked me the most thoughtful question I’ve been asked in a long time. With the importance of the job you’re doing and the constant firefighting, how do you not get overwhelmed and have it take a toll on your mental health.
I do think we should discuss that sort of thing more, because for many, it feels like we’re constantly fighting for the most basic of things. I’ve got great strategies and support mechanisms in place, but it wasn’t always that way. And I know some people struggle and find it hard not to be angry a lot of the time. a conversation about how to advocate without losing your equilibrium, your composure and your positivity is a very important discussion to have. I need to think about that some more.
Welcome to another, even bigger audiogames.net monthly digest! This month you’ll find some appropriately scary halowheen games as well as a bit of everything else. Whether you want to play cards, dice, rogue likes or perhaps combine the 3, do some cooking, sort everything imaginable on your phone, you’ll find all of that. Maybe you think all these cosy sorting games are nothing like what you used to play on your phone back in the day, or perhaps you heard from your friends about some cool games that were lost to time? Well, we got more modern ports of some cult iOS classics. Or perhaps you wanted to play the newer Pokemon games, or the old trading card game for the gameboy? How about Xcom and Fallout? Maybe you watched Star Trek voyager and thought you could have done things differently? Or maybe you’d rather have some hack n’ slash action? All of that and much, much more!
i never thought I'd see so many people cry about other people building things and doing so while sweating less than they did. Especially if at the same time they say that they are doing it for the love of the craft.
To me, making things more accessible is the whole point. I'm not gonna lambast other people to not follow my own intellectual path or interests, nor am I feeling much if someone uses an LLM to clone something I painstakingly assembled by hand. Whoever thinks that you get any stolen valor people out of cloning something with an LLM doesn't realize that none of it will matter in 3 weeks when it truly percolates that some people draw stick figures and others don't.
I don't expect everybody writing rust to know the innards of the rust compiler, or anyone using an operating system such as linux to know how their power management works. It's fine! I'm still gonna give them credit if they spent 3 h copy pasting stuff from the internet including mine until their deep sleep works, even if I did spend months learning that stuff in more detail. They can be proud of their afternoon, they are not "stealing my knowledge" or "not giving me attribution".
Instead I really wish we could focus on tackling broader goals like: replacing all that legacy nonsense we have accumulated, we have so much legacy that it really took me "strip mining" a hundred different apps to realize what actually is possible once the wool of "software is hard" falls from your eyes. We can literally replace most of "user-facing" apps out there with a nice html document, no dependencies, no cloud, no whatever. We can actually boot desktop computers in 1 second. You can do something other than "windows and file folders". We can replace the firmwares of all the locked out "legacied out" "obsolete" hardware and realize just _how ridiculous_ it is to have 8 GB of RAM in a phone.
I wish we could go past the "but my puzzle-solving is worth of admiration" stage and organize a bit better, and get over ourselves and lock in.
We are getting slapped left and right every couple of weeks with new models and it seems like the opensource community is just running behind the truck lamenting it is being left behind.
SandFly 0.3.1 is available.
Screen recognition (SandFly Pro): SandFly finds buttons, text and other elements that apps and games draw without making them accessible, and shows them as items that you can swipe to and double-tap. To recognize the current screen, open the SandFly menu and choose Recognize screen. To recognize every screen of an app, open the app, open the SandFly menu, and choose Turn on screen recognition. To buy SandFly Pro or enter a code, go to Settings > SandFly Pro.
Desktop screen reader keymaps: you can choose the NVDA, JAWS, Orca or VoiceOver keymap for a physical keyboard. These keymaps are mostly for Googlebooks, but they work just as well on a phone or tablet with a connected keyboard. In the NVDA, JAWS and Orca keymaps, you use the arrow keys, Tab, Enter and Escape as on a computer, without the SandFly key. They also include object navigation, a review cursor that reads by line, word and character, and Recognize text on screen. These commands can be assigned for other keymaps and gestures as well, under settings > commands. Each keymap has its own SandFly key. Go to Settings > Keyboard shortcuts > Choose a keymap.
Also new:
- Gesture profiles: switch between sets of commands for your gestures.
- Gestures in apps and Keyboard shortcuts in apps: assign different commands in one app.
- Swipe and hold: a second gesture for each one-finger swipe.
- Speech dictionary: change how text is spoken, in all apps or in one app.
- Clipboard history, with text copied in other apps when Shizuku allows SandFly. No text marked as sensitive is added.
- Type an app's name in braille to open it.
- Japanese braille.
- New commands: Submit text, Turn magnification on or off, Rewind, Fast forward, Activate with a tap, and Accessibility shortcuts.
- Reset accessibility audio after calls, for speech that stays on the earpiece after a call.
- Use SandFly as the wallpaper, for phones that stop background apps or accessibility services.
- An interactive keyboard tutorial.
- Scripts can touch the screen, press keys, run SandFly commands and open their own windows.
SandFly also has new sounds, and every sound has a vibration. These sounds will be replaced as defaults soon, but will remain an optional theme.
To update, go to Settings and choose Check for updates, or download SandFly from GitHub:
https://github.com/aaron-gh/SandFly/releases/tag/v0.3.1
Edit: Link replaced with 0.3.1, which is just a bug fix release.
#SandFly #Android #ScreenReader #Accessibility #a11y #Blind #NVDA #JAWS #Orca #Googlebook
New app added to Accessible Android apps directory: SandFly accessible https://accessibleandroid.com/app/sandfly/ @fireborn
My phone is progress_update_id percent through an update. Lovely.
I just bought a Galaxy S10E recently to fuck w/ LineageOS and possibly boot iOS on it because I'm insane. It arrived today, so I unbox it, set the thing up, and check about phone. Turns out it's running OneUI1 with a security patch from like oct2019.
This isn't the 1st time I've gotten an Android device from a non techi person which ran essentially it's rtm build. Update your devices people. At the very least you'll save people like me from now having to sequencially install like 1000 updates, and at most you'll actually protect your self from malware and other nasty things
ACB recently partnered with the Washington Council of the Blind (WCB) to host a Meta smart glasses distribution event for blinded veterans in Seattle!
Veterans who are blind or have low vision received free Meta smart glasses and hands-on training to help them get started using this exciting technology.
Learn about upcoming distribution events and locations: http://acb.org/glasses-blinded-veterans
similarly, I don't care if an audio mastering friend vibes "make me a sequencer plugin where I can assign rhythms according to $weirdAssSystemOfTheirs" is doing a "intellectual theft" or stealing something of mine because I wrote oh so many sequencers by hand. Nah man that shit is awesome, they can finally use their computer the way they deserve to be able to use it. And they should be proud of their sequencer plugin, and maybe I might be a bit annoyed at their overenthusiasm until I remember what it feels like to do something you thought you would never be able to do.
To me, that's what opensource has always been about, have people be able to run the software _they_ want on their computer, and if it so happens that whatever established opensource project doesn't cut it, then well, it doesn't cut it and they're perfectly allowed to summon their own version, and letting the absence of a little (c) attribution in the depths of a readme file of a personal project stand in the way of that is ridiculous.
What should we do? Defend the status quo? Bloated broken software everywhere, with mildly better software usually coming with predatory practices and can't easily be modified by their users?
I"m definitely not. Fuck the status quo, fuck the software of the last 30 years, that's not where "knowledge lies". By now at least LLMs are good enough that I don't have to suffer being called deluded and we can actually talk about these things factually.
I do feel bitter about basically us losing 3-4 years where we had time to prepare for the current onslaught, but I guess it was better spent yelling at your own instead of sitting down and figuring what the technology will bring. Well there you have it. Let's lock in.
My weary body awakens from its slumber, my bony hand out-stretched in hopes of finding my phone. It sweeps this way and that in an unstable fashion, seemingly doing its best attempt at mimicking a fighter jet trying to avoid enemy fire. My addled brain surmises the phone is just a centimetre out of my reach, so I flex my fingers as strong as I can. Still having no luck in locating the whereabouts of my handheld telephonic device, I scoot my sack of flesh ever closer to the edge of my bed. Closer... closer... closer... Smash!
In my attempts to engineer a perfect reaching angle, I'd forgotten about physics and the edge of my bed. So here I am, lying crumpled on the floor, my head throbbing having crashed into my nightstand. It's only after I recover that I notice I'm sat on something distinctly hard and uncomfortable that very much does not feel like the soft carpet my rough skin is accustomed to.
Rolling off of the object, I reach a hand under me and find my phone. Tada!
I flip it over and tap the cold glass...nothing. I adjust my grip with trembling hands and press the button designated to turn the device on. ... Still nothing. By the limited light the screen is emitting (along with my broken sight) I can just see a long, thin icon in the centre of the screen. I groan and press my palm to my forehead. I must've forgotten to put the blasted contraption on charge.
Scrounging around me for the 2nd time in a minute, I manage to find a cable that miraculously fits my phone's charging port and is also plugged in to an outlet. Click. In it goes. Now I'm just sitting there, hands trying to remove the sleep from my eyes. Evidently the beauty of slumber won't reclaim me tonight.
BADING! My phone chimes, alerting me that it's starting up. It makes me jump so hard I drop it, immediately dislodging the charger. I cry, frantically trying to turn on the torch so I can just find my AirPods, when I hear the worst thing of all: three words that shall forever haunt the rest of my days and invade all my nightmares.
Unspeakable English Text