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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:23 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   • always tired (moved to chaos)
   • Wren Reilly
   • vriesk (Jan Srz)

   @vriesk @project1enigma @akareilly

   Your screen reader choices are basically Orca + either eSpeak voices (which grate on me in sensory terms but can managed to repeat letter input and are the default on install) or Orca + Piper voices (sounds significantly better, great for reading passages, but you cannot command line with it.) Orca now works on Wayland (or specifically, Wayfire, at least -I can't speak to other compositors)

   I'm not an every day screen reader user, but my eyes sometimes become non-usable, at which point I'll need one at short notice.

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     vriesk (Jan Srz) (vriesk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:24 JST vriesk (Jan Srz)

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     • always tired (moved to chaos)
     • Wren Reilly

     @project1enigma @akareilly No, sure, that's totally different aspect. Of that, I have no idea.

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     always tired (moved to chaos) (project1enigma@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:25 JST always tired (moved to chaos)

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     • Wren Reilly
     • vriesk (Jan Srz)

     @vriesk @akareilly xmonad works well enough for me in terms of nearly no mouse. But I don't think that implies screen reader/braille accessibility.

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     vriesk (Jan Srz) (vriesk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:27 JST vriesk (Jan Srz)

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     • Wren Reilly

     @akareilly Back in the days, some window managers (like `awesome`) could be scripted (and some scripts were readily available to download) to make an (almost) mouseless experience.

     But that was 15 years ago last time I checked, and then they got harder and harder to integrate to the everbloating GNOME/KDE ecosystem.

     How is it now these days?

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     Wren Reilly (akareilly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:28 JST Wren Reilly

     Before you select Linux, spend a day trying to get simple tasks done without a mouse.
     Try Linux with speech to text.
     Try Linux with a screen reader.

     Frustrated? Either pick up some issues from an open source accessibility project or give them money.

     ...and stop being an ass to disabled people.

     Oh sorry, *GNU/ass*