Notices by James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space), page 3

@KaraLG84 That's a semi-protected page, so doesn't have any edit links at all for me.

@KaraLG84 Right, that's also how that article would read for me, because there are no edit links at all. But if I go to an article that isn't protected, the edit links are still in the headings. I'm trying to work out if you're seeing edit links after headings on all articles, only on protected ones, only because you're logged in, or something else.

@KaraLG84 Somewhat surprisingly I'll admit, ChatGPT solved the CAPTCHA, and my account has been created.

@KaraLG84 @Caoimhe LOL. I had forgotten about this, but it was pretty bad. Bring back Dan Steven's.

Also no Caps Lock or arrows.

Writing this on the Clicks keyboard case for iPhone. Not sure what I think of it yet... its certainly gonna take some getting used to.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't have Option or Control keys, only Command. So VoiceOver commands are out of the question.

Meanwhile, it keeps mistaking a single press of space for a double, causing a period to be inserted in the middle of a sentence. These seem like basic things a keyboard should not do.

According to the documentation, it does have caps lock functionality, but it must not be via a dedicated key. It has a Left Shift, Enter, Delete, Tab albeit on the bottom row, Fn, and the letters. In the bottom left corner is a Clicks-specific modifier which offers access to symbols and numbers, in the same positions they'd be on the onscreen keyboard. Finally, there is a key for Siri or dictation, and one for toggling the visibility of the onscreen keyboard.

Overall, you may be able to tell that as first impressions go, I'm not enamoured with it. I did type this entire thread on it though, so that's something. Imagine the typing efficiency bar being so low on mobile for screen reader users that typing a detailed Mastodon thread on a crappy little keyboard is something of note.

So far, the most weird and annoying aspect of this keyboard is how often it randomly switches to a layout I don't understand. Quite a few times now, I've landed in a text field, started typing, only to come out with a bunch of unicode gibberish. The only way I've found to reliably fix it is to disconnect and reconnect, but safe to say a keyboard that doesn't type what I want it to is not the sort of variety I'm looking for in life.

What else? Ah yes... the fact that VoiceOver automatically turns quick nav off in text fields because it detects that I'm using a keyboard, but the lack of arrow keys makes it inconvenient to re-enable it if I need to. The VO cursor positions in the text are different with quick nav on and off, so if I position the wrong caret and then want to edit, its a painful experience.

@menelion It doesn't work in an interactive SSH session, because you'd be running that command in your remote shell. Even assuming the system you were connected to had a `clip` command, it wouldn't have access to your local clipboard. However, you could run one-off commands over SSH and have the session immediately terminate afterwards, and pipe that output to this. @JenMsft

Number of days since I forgot that I'd sent Google Chrome through a non-default audio device, and assumed YouTube was broken when I couldn't hear the playback: zero.

If you're wondering, an appropriate response to someone posting about their #accessibility issues with a product is not to point out that the maker of the product considers it to be #accessible.

@seraph I don't get it. If it replaces twitter dot com with x dot com, how does "netflix" become "netflitwitter"? For that to happen, they'd have to be replacing x dot com with twitter dot com. @BorrisInABox

#SpeechHistory for #NVDA has been updated for 2024.1 compatibility, and even includes a new feature!

You can now capture multiple speech history items in realtime, which is useful for e.g. bug reports without copying from the Speech Viewer. Press NVDA+Shift+F11 to start recording, use NVDA as normal, and then press NVDA+Shift+F12 to stop recording. All recorded speech will be copied to the clipboard, with items separated by a line break (`\n`).

Download: https://github.com/jscholes/nvda-speech-history/releases/download/v2024.1/speechHistory-v2024.1.nvda-addon

One hope I have for the web #accessibility industry: we can all agree that the title of a modal dialog should be marked up as a level 1 heading, and stop arguing for anything else. Not because it is an issue of earth-shattering importance, but because the reasons against it are bullshit. When you spend cycles arguing over bullshit instead of against it, it's your users' time you're wasting.

I'd like to post a legitimate criticism about a company's conduct, and a suggestion to community members about how to deal with/avoid it. Unfortunately, I don't feel able because of that company's actions to date, and the amount of energy it would take to protect myself via careful wording. But sure, everything in the #accessibility industry is going fine.

Do any #FanFicFare users have a working method for downloading #fanfiction from #fanfiction.net at present? #FlareSolverr doesn't seem to be working right now. The story I want is over 500 chapters long, so loading each URL and having FFF pull the pages from my browser's cache could take a while, but exists as a last resort.