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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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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)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@MariahL @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @jonathan859 So it handles them pretty well. The problem is the awful hCaptcha thing. As usual with discord. If it fails, you need to log in with your browser, do the captcha crap, then log in again with Miranda, and it should work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@MariahL @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @jonathan859 Heck it even supports Microsoft Teams now. And has a plugin for voice calls.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@pixelate @MariahL @jonathan859 time to get @FreakyFwoof to start updating his accessible Miranda distribution again. With Whatsapp and Discord and all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@MariahL @pixelate @jonathan859 It does. I just find dealing with QR Codes so, so fiddly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@jonathan859 @pixelate @MariahL Yup! You have to scan the QR code though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@jonathan859 @pixelate C:\Program Files\Miranda NG\Plugins
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@jonathan859 Remember that it wants to manage its own letsencrypt certificates. So you have to proxy both http and https for it. You can't just rewrite https. That got me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@pixelate @jonathan859 It's so refreshing to use a thing that's not a bloated web app honestly. And if you set up the contact list for blind folks during install it's fully accessible. Even reads out messages as they come in.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@jonathan859 Add me if you want. fastfinge@im.interfree.ca.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate @jonathan859 It's still maintained and updated. It can do Discord and Steam now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@jonathan859 The web console is fully accessible. For apps, I'm using miranda-ng on Windows, and Monal on IOS and mac.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
Wow, Microsoft! You sure saved me! This file was obviously extremely dangerous, and it's sure a good thing defender flagged it four times and then deleted it!
file: C:\Users\samue\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadLine\ConsoleHost_history.txt

What ever would I have done if I had been exposed to that dangerous, dangerous text file, full of...a history of commands I'd previously typed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
So I never could get on with Matrix. It's slow, the clients are annoying, and the servers are hard to run. Back to it is! Feel free to add me for some old school instant messaging: fastfinge@im.interfree.ca.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
Wanna read something I got published for work? 'Course you maybe do: uxarmy.com/blog/measuring-accessibility-in-ux/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@andrew @menelion @JessicatheVIArtist Only try this if you're using built-in Widnows magnification, though. When we tried it with Zoom Text the authorizations got all messed up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion @JessicatheVIArtist Yeah, the place where I work, Fable (www.makeitfable.com) just uses HDMI capture cards. We actually have a thing that can record from HDMI onto an SD Card, and then we can pull the video from the card. That's the only way we've found to capture magnification.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@nolan @modulux @svenja And the sad thing is any one of us in this thread could do better. But that doesn’t matter for chat apps. We have to use whatever everyone else picks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@collectifission @nolan Sure, there’s always Jaba. Or gtk, where accessibility only works on Linux. Or qt, where accessibility is broken by default. Wx is the only cross platform library that does accessibility for most controls, most of the time, on most platforms. A native app will always be faster, lighter, feel more like the os, and more accessible. And it can use native os features like the system keychain.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT @nolan @svenja Ah yes, mumble. Another app where accessibility has been broken for years.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@modulux @nolan @svenja Because everything else is worse.