Notices by Brian Hartgen (brianhartgen@tweesecake.social)

@tinygirl I'm with you there 100 percent.

@jamminjerry @tinygirl I count myself as being very lucky. If I have to take a taxi somewhere, which I do sometimes, all the drivers here are local and speak well, and they know the routes they are taking. It must be awful hard if you're blind, you are in an area you don't know, and you cannot communicate to the driver because he cannot speak English well. Frightening really.

I was using the Mona app again today. The more I use it, the more I like it. It could have been made for those of us who are blind; so accessible. @MonaApp

@lulu_bear Well it's my fault for not checking that on your machine. I admit that. But as to the point, it seems I am almost a lone voice. I keep saying to Vispero that Unified Keyboard Processing is simply not working as they think it does. And that is why it is enabled now by default. You have just proved the point again that it doesn't work properly. For the past two weeks it has caused me a great deal of stress because I've had to help hundreds of people with this very issue. I'll do everything in my power to help with anything I've created. But it's crazy to do this for something which is really bad.

@remixman @lulu_bear So it is meant to do two things as I understand it: to provide better interaction between JAWS and ZoomText. It also gives access to JAWS reporting information when various media keys are pressed, such as volume keys on keyboards. The problem at the moment is that a lot of keys are not being passed through either to JAWS or applications as a whole. For example, you may not be able to move through lists of items. You may not be able to deploy the menu bar of an application because pressing the ALT key does not bring it into focus. That's the kind of critical thing we're talking about here. It is made more complicated by the fact that as to whether you receive a problem can depend upon your keyboard language in Windows or indeed the keyboard itself I believe, which makes it hard to pin down the problems. But while I understand what this thing is meant to do, I'm not sure there is justification quite yet for enabling it by default when the product is installed. All it's doing is causing difficulties for many.