Notices by Andre Louis (freakyfwoof@universeodon.com)

@HauntedOwlbear Aah man, I wish I had all my disks from when I was younger.

Dog has basket ball. Dog gets pissy at basket ball for being too big to carry. Dog makes angry growling noises when you kick basket ball away from her.

If last week's live-stream wasn't long enough (2.5 hours) yesterday's was over 3, and it was all about #Pianoteq. If you haven't heard much of what this has to offer, well now you can. Despite it's name, it's much, much more than just pianos. Rhodes, Wurlis, Harps, Harpsichords, Vibes, Hang and Steel Pans, Clavs, you'll see. It has a lot to offer and may just surprise you. https://youtube.com/live/x0DMURYAOUY?feature=share

I'm restarting my new/favourite #HarryPotter #Fanfic thread here, since #BirdSite is well, that... Let's start with this incredible thing, which is keeping me so engrossed that I cannot put it down, other than to type this. I will add to the thread with subsequent reads, and perhaps some old favourites.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11651617/1/A-Tale-of-a-Tail

A tale of two phoenix

Author:
Rahmota

Summary:
Harry and Hermione. Die together but are reborn together as Heart's blood bonded Phoenixes. Their world was strange enough now they have to learn to adapt to the changes in themselves as they learn the secrets Dumbledore kept. An unexpected ally helps them out though. Rated M for descriptions of violence, sexual situations, language. No harem. Weasleys are neutral.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13928414/1/

@BrailleScreen @MariahL It's fantastic! Genuinely. I've found a new top-10 author I'm sure. I've already read a lot of their other stuff in the last three weeks or so.

Only 90 blind people say they benefit from alt-text. Can't we get that to at least 100? If you haven't voted, please follow this thread back and do the thing. All the things. It'd be 91 but you can't vote in your own polls don't ya know?

@jupiter_rowland Alt-text shouldn't be a burden, hopefully it's something you can quickly knock out in a few extra minutes without cutting into your day too much, otherwise people just won't add it.

If you're a #blind #Mac user, you may have never found a use for that bizarre combination of keys which is VO+Shift+F3. this disables cursor-tracking. Let me show you why this may in fact, be one of #VoiceOver's best hidden features you didn't know about.
Why_Turning_Off_VoiceOver_Cursor_Tracking_can_be_Really_Useful:

@BethanyBlack I'll likely get flamed to hell and back for this, but I believe ChatGPT can now accept images, so perhaps you could take a picture of the page (or pages) and have it write out the formulae needed to make your spreadsheet work, then you just copy/paste it in and boom. Could be showing my utter ignorance of the situation here, but I'll put that into the world to see what happens I guess lol

Today I am disappointed and disgusted to say that #WesternDigital have sent me an email that has very important content in it, but it's inaccessible.
They've suffered a data breach, but the information about said breach has been put into the email as an image.
A #ScreenReader user without some level of tech knowledge would be unable to read that, and may actually think it's spam. To us, it goes straight to the line that says 'Copyright 2023 Western Digital' and skips all the salient points.
Utterly disgusting behaviour from such a large company about such an important topic.
If you're of a mind to do so, please boost to raise awareness.
This email is seemingly *not* a drill.