Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space), page 3

The thing where YouTubers replace the audio of words the algorithm doesn't like with crackling or whatever but show them on screen... Surely that's going to get them demonetised anyway? Why not just keep the bloody words in anyway so I don't have to use OCR to attempt to read them and sod the bottom line.

The amount of times I see AL (short for Alan) in image descriptions about AI (artificial intelligence) is bizarre.

If you use TinySpell with NVDA and notice that choosing a correction doesn't replace the word that's being typed, uncheck NVDA's option "Handle keys from other applications" in keyboard settings.
Note you need that setting checked for NVDA remote to work properly.
Thanks @tspivey for the tip.
@FreakyFwoof you'll probably find this useful.

Our apple tree has apples on it! We bought a golden delicious tree on impulse a couple of years ago and we didn't think it'd grow any. Apparently you need more than one for them to grow apples, but there's six on it.
I can't wait to try them.

We've just been for a lovely swim and the fucking burglar alarm's still fucking going off.

the burglar alarm's still going off.

The power went out earlier, so now someone's burglar alarm's going off and no one's home to stop it.
It's one of those annoying ones that stops every now and again just long enough to make you think it's been switched off. Then it starts up again.

I know about the third-party tutorials in the App Store, but the huge problem with that is you need to know how to use voiceover to download them in the first place.
Imagine if JAWS or NVDA didn't come with any built-in help and you had to learn how to use them through cobbling together what you read from various third-party websites and whatnot.
There is an iOS manual buried somewhere with a small VO section but it's next to useless.

I was thinking yesterday while setting up my mum's new iPhone, if that was my first time typing on a touchscreen and I didn't know any better, I'd probably give up to it and just use the dictation function like I see a lot do. It really is a horrible experience typing with VoiceOver in its default state.
There's literally no information during setup or even in settings to tell you what the various typing modes mean, or even how to choose one. When I started to use voiceover in late 2009 not long after it was first released,there was just "standard typing mode", not even any dictation so I just had to put up with it, and it was annoying. Then "Touch typing mode" came out sometime in 2010. There's still no built-in VoiceOver tutorial or any help at all apart from the VoiceOver practice function, and that's just like keyboard help mode in any other screen reader. That's another kettle of fish entirely though.

Two cats yowling outside woke me up. At least I hope it was two of them because the second one always started its howl halfway through the first one's so it sounded like there was one cat with two voices pitched about a third apart. I don't think there's any two headed cats about.

I think it'd be awesome if there was an interactive fiction interpreter that had an interface similar to Mushclient or VIPMud with input and output edit fields you could navigate like any other edit control.
I have no idea how to even begin making such a thing, so if anyone wants to take that idea and run with it, feel free.

What are your favourite Foobar2000 components?
Mine are FFmpeg Decoder Wrapper which can play all sorts of random file formats that FFmpeg can support (bit of a pain to set up), Game Music Emu Decoder, and MIDI Player. youTube Source is quite cool as well but I don't use it much.

Edit: only on the Monobook scheme.
Wikipedia articles read so much better with VO in safari now they've finally took the edit section links out of the heading tags.

@jscholes If I move by heading it doesn't include the edit links.

@jscholes King and queen of the ring.

@jscholes Here's a screen recording.

@jscholes If you can get that bloody captcha filled out it's worth creating an account just to switch to that. It's the old layout before they started arsing around with it.

I tried Copilot for maybe the second time yesterday. I had to launch it a few times before I could use the UI with NVDA, and after finally beating it into submition, turns out I could've found out what I wanted to know by just googling for it.
I still don't get why it needs a dedicated key or these new Copilot+ laptops. They call them PCs but to me that's a desktop.

Is there an online group for blind musicians that isn't Facebook? So an e-mail list, forum, discord server etc?
I don't mean one dedicated to your favourite DAW of choice, I'm in a couple of those already. I mean just a general musicians group if that makes sense.

@jscholes @Caoimhe Agreed. I didn't bother getting Nightshade as an audiobook in case he did it again.