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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.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@munchkinbear In theory yes. But I haven't tested that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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YubiKey And Screen Readers: I couldn't find any real information about how Yubikeys work with screen readers. So I decided to publish some. stuff.interfree.ca/2026/05/13/yubikey-with-screenreaders.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@sclower The best thing is how it’s so much longer than it needs to be. I started laughing when I was sure it was over and it just kept going and going and going and going and going. Instead of ending it just continued to go on and on and on and on and on and on. It wouldn’t stop.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @matt And with all the bloated markup, fonts, and so on included in modern Microsoft Word documents, I bet the picture wasn’t even that much larger a file than the original document!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt One thing I find is that as the general public becomes more and more removed from how computers work, accessibility gets worse. Today’s interfaces completely hide the file manager from you, never mind just hiding file extensions. And as interfaces become more polished, I’m finding people have much less understanding of the difference between text and a picture of text. Especially as stuff like AI copy text features blur the difference even more for people. When they’re not being shown file extensions, file sizes, or often the filesystem at all, how does a non-technical person easily and quickly tell if they’re dealing with text or an image of text?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @rlegowski1 But for the record eloquence does not phone home. It has no home to phone lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @rlegowski1 Because eloquence is not 64 bit, NVDA connects to a small 32 bit helper program that runs eloquence. Your machine is blocking that connection. Check your firewall or security software.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @alexhall @FreakyFwoof When the API finally times out, it does print an error at that point.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof @alexhall Quickest fix is just time out quickly on the API. It's just on 127.0.0.1, so if it's taking more than a few seconds you can assume it's broke.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof @alexhall I verified it by shutting down the windows service it uses, and then I had the same problem. Restart the service and it's all back.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @alexhall @FreakyFwoof Wait about three minutes and all the readings come back. What's happening is: if it detects you're on a framework, it looks for the framework control API. It waits to display anything until it finds the API. If it finds it quickly, all good. If it can't find it or it's not there, you don't get any readings until the API times out, including the ones that don't require it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @alexhall @FreakyFwoof Fan temps wouldn't have been there at all. Everything else would have been fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof @jaybird110127 Also, if you find another open source program that can see it, let people know. It should be possible to get AI to figure it out if it has an example of the working code to do it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof This should be most of what the AI needs to add a battery section: gist.github.com/StevenJDH/c66655967e21072b1d8644456129efc0
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof So now that it works on my laptop I can nag you about stuff I want LOL. Battery info when? I want battery health and charge cycles and capacity and things.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof All framework laptops (12, 13, 16, etc) are supported. The desktop is not, but the desktop just uses the standard way of reading fans so it should already just work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof You'll also want to update the documentation to have a section for framework owners. Before running your program, they need to:

* make sure they've updated the BIOS (it comes from the factory with an old BIOS, but the update process is fully accessible): knowledgebase.frame.work/bios-and-drivers-downloads-rJ3PaCexh
* download and install the tool: github.com/ozturkkl/framework-control/tree/main

If the tool runs and you can see the stupid unreadable sliders for fan control, it's now ready for your program.

You don't want bug reports from people who haven't done those steps.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof Yup, it's working! I can see and control rpms of both fans!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof Or tweesecake being weird about http links with ports in them. We're so close. I can see it in the log trying to call all the right things, so it looks good once it gets the right port.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows @FreakyFwoof Yup, that's correct LOL. I didn't realize TC hid the port from you.
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