Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space), page 2

NVDA's native selection mode is handy when you have Firefox add-ons that do things to selected text. I have one that looks up selected words in Wiktionary that wouldn't work without it.
@NVAccess

I had a rubbish night's sleep again. When I eventually went to sleep I dreamt I had got a load of blind people I met at RNC in Hereford into playing showdown, and we were walking to our local club or something.
We got lost and ended up in a sewer, and I took charge and asked someone for directions when the rest didn't want to.

And yes I did say planet as it really does seem like a completely different world. Maybe the people that say "in real life" actually have a point.

Apparently TikTok is inaccessible when using screen readers to the point where you have to use workarounds to do something as basic as upload videos to it.
I know I have no desire to be on that planet, but surely the thing to do would be to not use it in protest, and yell at ByteDance about making it accessible. To me, using it with the workarounds just gives the impression of everything's ok and that they don't need to do anything. Or maybe they are yelling at them as well.

I'm not an influencer so what do I know.

I love being that bad at spelling that I confuse spell checkers. Another one of my talents.

I can't think of anything that I'd want ChatGPT and the rest to help me with apart from describing images when that's the only option I have.
Asking it to code things for me just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen because I don't know enough to know if it would end up spewing out complete nonsense.
I don't want it to improve my writing because it'd just come out sounding soulless and corporate. I'm a crap writer but at least it's my own words.
And please do not get me started on what I think about AI music as I'd be here all day.

Every other YouTube ad I'm getting on my phone right now is for crypto bullshit.

Facebook post that to me is a video of some random pop song with the caption "Stay aware!" And the sighted people in the comments are going on about a poster.

Bandcamp's play buttons are still unusable with Firefox and NVDA. I've reported this to Bandcamp probably half a decade ago now but they clearly have done fuck all.

I have a lot of good memories of using Skype but I'm glad they're finally getting rid of it.

@amir Oh excellent. I didn't know they were still working on it. My version's way out of date. Thanks for letting me know.

@amir Agreed that it's disappointing. Another issue I've have with Bookworm if it hasn't been fixed yet is that book sections are arranged in alphabetical order rather than using the book structure. So if you have an epub where chapters have file names of chapter x, they'll appear before the preface.

Good god have attention spans gone that bad? In Tom Scott's latest newsletter he tells you to give a video 20 seconds to get to the good bit.

I'd love to listen to some modern reggae but I'm not sure where to start. The style I like is artists like Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Beres Hammond, Janet Kay, that kind of thing.
Any recommendations welcome.

A photo of a beaver lodge from Wikimedia commons. The description is LLM generated from me asking Be My AI to describe the lodge specifically, and my wife confirmed that it's pretty accurate.

I've just been reading Wikipedia's article on Beavers (the rodents before you lot get any other ideas). I didn't really appreciate how amazing they are before.
Their dams and lodges are proper structures. I didn't know they build lodges, and they've learnt how to ventilate them.
Also beavers are way larger than I thought. I imagined them being at most as big as a rat.

When creating an account on Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, you still have to fill in a captcha with no accessible alternative, apart from asking someone to create one for you.
The issue ticket about this will be 20 years old next year and still nothing's being done about it.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845

Really regretting telling my wife about the "One does not simply walk into Mordor" challenge.
She is adamant we do it, and has spent most of the afternoon using her work-life Excel skills to make a ridiculously complicated spreadsheet to track our progress.

@steter Awesome. They're beautiful instruments.

I love the sighted bass players who debate if fretless bases should have lines on them or not, when there's blind fretless bass players like Rachel Flowers that don't need silly stuff like that.
Rachel playing Jaco Pastorius' Portrait Of Tracy, followed by an oddly non-descriptive tutorial on how she plays it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZUriJ6hMpq0