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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
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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long, my mind is melting inside of a reality that is also itself melting @jonny There's going to be a really funny history book about this in 75 years or so, if we all live that long.
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@bscross32 Set Role announcements to "speech only", then spatial speech to "panning and hrtf", then press okay or apply. I just tripple checked, and it does exactly what you want.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@bscross32 A setting exists that will cause the addon to not make sounds. So you could turn off the sounds, but turn on HRTF for speech.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Seems like you need to install PGP maybe? LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mattsheffield I wonder how JKR feels about all of this? Given she has opinions about people's "correct" genders, it seems a little ironic.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg I'm not actually sure how I could fix that. When speech is generated, NVDA doesn't give me a way to know if it's from something like a system notification, rather than because the user is tabbing around or something. You can know for say-all, but as far as I'm aware, that's about it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg I have it set to do nothing by default. It only patches if the user changes the setting to ask for panning or HRTF. So by default, just installing the addon and using it as normal won't break anything. And if it can't patch NVWave, it will fall back to not doing anything, so users shouldn't lose speech. In theory.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If you use the unspoken-ng addon for , release 2.6 is now available! It contains a new feature you didn't want and that nobody asked for. It's, uh, really cool, though! You can learn more on the release page: github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/2.6
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg It has been done. It should not have been done. But it does work! github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/2.6
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What I wish is that NVDA addons could mark themselves as conflicting with other addons. So an addon can't install if another addon you already have marks it as conflicting. This already happens with some translation addons, as they all want to shove their paws deep into NVDA internals. If I do this horrible thing to unspoken-ng, it'll also probably conflict with the sound recorder addon by @FreakyFwoof and any of the NVDA equalizer addons. Because all of us are doing terrible, horrible things to NVDA's guts that nobody intended or should do.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Yup, they can. But...I can do it better in unspoken-ng, for every synth. I use openal for HRTF stuff. I can just grab the audio any synth generates and shove it through my existing pipeline that I use for unspoken-ng's earcons. Then the voice can come from the same place as the earcon, perfectly in sync. For any synth that sends audio through NVWave, anyway. The real reason this is a bad idea is because once I do it, someone else is also going to want to do it. What happens when someone installs two different addons, and they both are messing around with NVWave? Bad things happen, that's what happens.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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This is a really, really bad idea. But the way Dengjen Neural Voices can pan the text to speech audio, based on the on-screen position of the object being read, is so cool! And NVDA addons can patch NVWave. And unspoken-ng is a 3d audio addon that I already maintain. Man, addons shouldn't do this. Addons shouldn't be allowed to do this. But they can do this! This is going to break so many things. This feature shouldn't exist. But it's so neat! Someone convince me not to do this.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jstark Just the regular one. I'm not employed, so I can't access the enterprise one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jstark Yes. That was the first thing I tried.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jstark Right. They'll help you use the store app. But submitting apps to it as a developer isn't something they can help with.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jstark No. Supporting developers is out of scope for them. They support users of existing apps.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey, fediverse: Do I know anyone working on the Windows Store over at Microsoft? I'd like to publish an app to the Windows Store; unfortunately:
* the ID verification process for a personal developer account requires taking live photos and scanning QR Codes, and I can't get through it with a screen reader
* There is no way to get information about an alternative process during the developer onboarding flow
* This is out of scope for the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk
* There is no accessibility contact listed on the Windows Store developer page where I can request this information
* There is no accessibility information available during the onboarding process about how to complete this ID verification with a screen reader; or if it exists, I was unable to find it.
Have any of the blind folks I'm connected to completed this process? If so, I'd love any advice. Or if anyone knows who I should get in contact with, please do let me know!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Rosalyn Yup. And maybe figure out one function you want to get working, or one task you want to complete, and focus on that. As with anything that has a million plugins and extensions, it's easy to try and do everything all at once, and then end up with everything half working. My Hermes handles hundreds of little things for me at this point, but I added them one by one. Happy to answer questions as they come up. Maybe start with deciding what chat app you want to use to communicate with Hermes (discord? miranda? IRC? iMessage?) and get that working. Then give it an email address as well, because forwarding an agent emails and saying "handle this" is really useful.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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sarcasm @pezmico Hey, I'm a good liberal, I'll have you know! I support all protests, as long as they don't inconvenience me personally!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Lino0876 @Rosalyn Yup! Once we knew what was wrong, and that it could be treated, things were much better though. But still, dealing with hospitals is never fun, either for the sick person, or anyone else who needs to be involved.
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