Notices by Tech Singer (techsinger@tweesecake.social)

@Fragglemuppet @Mendi_Tech @gtbray @Bruce @mcourcel Well, to be fair, she might feel she's stuck in it. Sometimes you don't want the suffering but do want the result, and sometimes it's worth doing just to keep the peace, sadly.

@simon @Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof Indeed. I honestly think each Masto instance is a bit like a developed forum with the local timeline being a kind of main area and all the different conversations being like threads.

@Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof @simon Multiple email accounts for one person have been more or less standard for decades. Is there anything dishonest about that, in your view? Obviously, I don't mean if you use your secondary email account to scam people, I'm just asking if the having of multiple email accounts is dishonest.

@Fragglemuppet @gocu54 Keep in mind, if you will, that the screen reader has nothing to do with the voice. Speech synthesis is one thing, screen reading is another. Almost all voices can be used with almost all screen readers.

Just in case anyone is interested, I recently found that #Yunohost https://yunohost.org can be installed and run by a totally #blind user, at least on VMWare Workstation. The install process is more usable with OCR and the Chat GPT descriptions of what is selected, but it is doable without a sighted assistant. Even with out OCR/LLM, hitting enter to accept the defaults is doable for English users who want to select United States and a US keyboard. I believe all this can be changed from the web later. The server's interface on the web is, in my experience, fairly accessible, I'm not seeing any major issues. The applications, of course, vary, but it's a very simple way to run a few server applications on one machine, whether virtual or physical, and I find that it just gets out of the way and works, and that's sufficiently unusual to be commented on. #a11y

This is a weird request, but I figure the worst I can get for it is silence. I'm totally #blind and have very bad hearing. To set up a device through its inaccessible software, I'm in need of a sighted person for about an hour and a half to two hours who can access a computer remotely, speaks and reads English, and can describe images and graphs. The person needs to be quite patient with follow-up questions, needs to be willing to repeat if needed, as well as be able to click on items and describe what happens on the screen. The person needs to be fairly detail oriented because some of the images appear to have arrows and other ways to expand them, according to the manual. Though I'm happy to be reasonable, I have no clue how much to offer as payment, this is my first request of this kind. I'm posting it because I know we have some blind people here who may be able to point me towards someone who has done this before and may be willing to do it for such a short period. Boosts welcome, indeed, they're appreciated. #hearingimpaired #software #A11Y #accessibility #remote