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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@matt @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @GamingWithEars @mcourcel Nope. Direct TTS output is available if you want that. But both NVDA and jaws present kindle ebooks in some sort of custom virtual buffer. It supports pressing enter on links, autoscroll during say all, etc.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@matt @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @GamingWithEars @mcourcel Whatever it is, it only works with NVDA and jaws, not narrator. So it's something custom. It also pretends to be a virtual buffer of some kind, but isn't quite a webview.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@matt @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @GamingWithEars @mcourcel IMHO those are larger problems than bookmarking. We can get close enough (nearest paragraph) bookmarking in a webview. And that would be fair exchange to have working links, footnotes, endnotes, media, math content, and all the rest. But I can think of no way with current screen readers and API's that we can do autoscroll. Kindle manages it, but they're doing...something custom that I don't know anything about. And I'm just not willing to give that up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@matt @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @GamingWithEars @mcourcel I mean that I want to press NVDA+down arrow, start reading, and not have to press next page or next chapter constantly. But doing that requires loading the entire book into the HTML webview control, and now you get massive lag for various API related reasons. You can't do some sort of autoscroll to load content as you need it, because screen readers doing say all don't always update the focus position correctly, so you can't tell when they're about to hit the end of the currently loaded content. This is a thing I've thought about, and chatted with some folks about over coffee/beer.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@matt @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @GamingWithEars @mcourcel This is also why none of the accessible open source ebook readers support Math content, or cope with footnotes and endnotes correctly. Modern ebooks really, really need to be loaded in an HTML webview. The issue is that I want continuous reading, and none of the HTML implementations like Thorium support that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@FreakyFwoof @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @GamingWithEars @mcourcel Sign them on my phone.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@GamingWithEars @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @mcourcel I’m not sure if the library they use even supports forms in pdf.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@lynessence @quanin @dhamlinmusic @pixelate @jonathan859 @mcourcel Yup.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@J3317 @quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence Okay! I have disassembled all of your bodies into their constituent atoms and made them into a pepperoni pizza.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@GamingWithEars @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @mcourcel Also, paperback can't sign documents or fill forms.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @jonathan859 @mcourcel Just don't forget to unzip!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @jonathan859 @mcourcel Just vibe code. Then you can say you're an AI first startup. You should have a billion dollars by Monday.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @jonathan859 @mcourcel Yeah, whatever. I bet even your wii is microsoft.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @jonathan859 @mcourcel This is why Google needs to disable third party apps completely unless they're signed by Google and Google has photo ID of the developer on file and fingerprints and has done a background check and a credit check on the developer. Think of the children! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @jonathan859 @mcourcel It could also just be an ad in a game she already plays that links out to an app that's not through the play store.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @jonathan859 @mcourcel Don't threaten me with a good time! LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @jonathan859 @mcourcel Look at this guy, assuming it's a "he" just because it's good at computers. Burn him at the stake! LOL. Anyway, this has been more than enough silliness from me. I have an actual job to accomplish.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel {shocked, awkward face} Oh! I'm sorry! Uh, well, photosynthesis...is that offensive? Because you're blind? I guess that's offensive! You can't even see photos! Sorry, sorry! I said "see". I meant hear! You can't hear the photos! I will now spend the next five minutes awkwardly apologizing while I do absolutely nothing else to make anything easier or more accessible for you.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @jonathan859 @mcourcel Also, children and tweens have more time. As a parent, you have to set up the web filter and go to work and get the groceries and clean the house and so on. Your tween can spend all day other than homework and school bypassing the web filter you set up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @jonathan859 @mcourcel Now you've made me wonder if my instance is blocked by WebSense, the old content firewall my high school used. Running an http proxy for everyone at...research.dns2go.com/get/paper.php?url was I believe the address I used, so everyone could get past the firewall and look at whatever they wanted while eating up all of my home internet bandwidth. Good times!