User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
Admin
completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
xmpp fastfinge@im.interfree.ca
keyoxide aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@talon @jscholes And yet, at least in my experience, NVDA is the screen reader with the fewest number of these sorts of bugs. Apple isn't interested in fixing anything; they have fifty new features to ad to voiceover. Jaws needs to add AI everywhere to justify making the software a yearly subscription, and have started regularly just listing bug fixes as new features to justify a new major version. Narrator gets one or two new features a year, and maybe a bug fixed every once in a while. And if NVDA doesn't add stuff like this, people will complain that they're falling behind. Honestly I hope they can add extra optional AI features like translation, image description, cloud preferences syncing, etc, as a subscription feature, to make NV Access a bit of money. The NVDA Spanish guys are doing it right with a paid subscription to access their LibreTranslate. The model also seems to work for ZDSR and jieshuo: offer a free screen reader, with subscription AI addons. In all of these cases, the payment and licensing infrastructure is awful. But NV Access could get this right, and hopefully unlock a funding model that isn't just begging for donations.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@tjolsen @Jage @jscholes @jcsteh @talon The problem is I'm pretty sure this is Microsoft's fault; I experience excel freezes with Narrator pretty frequently, ttoo. The only place they don't happen is jaws, so they're obviously doing something custom to work around it that they're not going to share with the rest of us.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Uh, Amazon? Your AI is drunk! Take it home and let it sleep it off!

Recommended for you in Religion & Spirituality:
* Succubus Summoner 3: A High Fantasy Romance by Virgil Knightley
* The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality by Tyler Staton

One of these books is not like the other one...
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@J3317 @alexchapman It doesn’t. It also doesn’t seem to see them all. Like I can’t get to the full app list the way I can in talk back.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@dhamlinmusic @JamminJerry It does. But I never just hit it perfectly the first time. So it's no faster than face unlock.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@mcourcel @dhamlinmusic @JamminJerry It's a pixel 9A. So new!
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@dhamlinmusic @JamminJerry While I'm complaining about stuff: is there a trick to reliably find the fingerprint reader? I can't feel it at aall. My ancient six year old android phone had it on the back of the phone. But now it's on the screen and I never ever get it right the first time.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry Oh, I figured it out. The default settings are just silly. You want global granularity navigation 2 as your gesture style and then you can swipe up to actions, and swipe left/right through the actions.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry How do you make it use talkback actions? From my first fifteen minutes with it, it looks good. But no actions makes it unusable with gmail.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry Yeah so I’m trying csr or whatever it’s called now. With it, explore by touch sometimes freezes for a few seconds but it comes back without me needing to do anything. It’s also significantly faster. So something is obviously wrong with my talk back.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry I could also try the beta I guess.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry I thought of that. But why would flick and double tap work perfectly?
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@alexchapman One would hope. All there games are major bug fests. That’s why I decided to try csr first.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@alexchapman Does it have fewer bugs than ranger legend? Lol
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry Maybe i should factory reset the phone?
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@alexchapman Is prudence better? It looks less feature complete?
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry Significantly more responsive than it is for me.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@alexchapman I’m looking at csr. But it looks like it doesn’t support talk back actions?
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@alexchapman Tomorrow I’m going to investigate third party screen readers. There has to be a way to make this better.
User avatar
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@JamminJerry I wonder if it’s the sounds? iOS speaks at the same time as the sounds. Android seems like it doesn’t.