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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
6mo
@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
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@MariahL @pixelate @jonathan859 It does. I just find dealing with QR Codes so, so fiddly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonathan859 @pixelate @MariahL Yup! You have to scan the QR code though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonathan859 @pixelate C:\Program Files\Miranda NG\Plugins
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@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
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@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
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@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
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@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
6mo
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
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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
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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
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Do you use with 64-bit ? If so, release v7 is now available, fixing bugs with say all and skim reading. An attempt was also made to handle unicode paths, but I'm unsure if it worked completely. github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v7
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn @jscholes Yup. I have a test build that I believe fixes the issue. Waiting for the original person who opened the bug to test and verify before I release. share.interfree.ca/app/open/8ULnfDwVFaD-NQETJUxJg4b-s5nBdPpomrm-CXWs2ADbWpE?view=1
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn Huh. I'm baffled. Sadly, I have other things that need investigation first. Like how sometimes say all doesn't work if allow skim reading is on.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn so if that character isn't in Shift_JIS, GBK, KS_C_5601-1987, or big5, it won't work. It's possible some Vietnamese characters are in there, but not others.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn I'm glad it mostly worked. Text encoding scares me and I don't really understand it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn Yes, good idea! Note that if you use "create portable copy" you might need to copy the eloquence_host32.exe file manually, because NVDA won't copy those for security reasons. Thanks for the idea though! I really didn't want to make a new windows account just so I could try and test my fix for that. Also now I can just copy your character to the clipboard. I'm a sheltered English speaker so I don't even know how to type accents.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn Not surprising. Eloquence itself doesn't support anything but the English alphabet. For Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, it actually has separate DLL files that turn all those characters into letters from the English alphabet, and then reads the text that way. That's why if you switch the Eloquence language to Korean, it can suddenly read hangul, and when you switch back to English, it can't anymore. We can't really fix that without the eloquence source code.

However, the problem I'm trying to fix is with eloquence loading at all. If you have any unicode or non-English characters in your Windows username, the addon will fail to load, because Eloquence can't read those characters, so it can't find its own .ini or .dll files because it can't access your user folder. That means you can't even use Eloquence in English. I need to figure out how to encode those paths so eloquence can deal with them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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A bit of a long shot: Do I know any users who use , and also have unicode or accented characters in your Windows username? If so, could you try this addon: share.interfree.ca/app/open/BgrEksRM198-cPJtG4zRyz4-FXRWw6MoQXJ-htrEFTubCy1?view=1

And let me know if it works for you? If you know anyone, please do ping them.
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