Notices by Brandon Tyson (btyson@dragonscave.space)

@tspivey I wanted to mention @NVAccess on this so we can discuss this as I'm not in favor of completely disabling add-ons on secure screens at all and I will not update my NVDA if this happens. Apart from Remote, we need to think about people who prefer a certain speech synthesizer due to, for instance, hearing loss, or cases where the built-in synthesizers do not have very good language support for a given language (for instance, I heard that eSpeak has some foreign languages that are not good at all and there are some OneCore voices that also do not have high quality support for certain languages). Please consider these points before enforcing the inability to use add-ons on the secure screens. The correct approach is to either allow the add-on developer to indicate in the manifest whether the add-on is allowed to run on a secure screen, or to allow a user to individually select which add-ons to copy to the secure screen. The fact that the plan is to just completely disable all add-ons on the secure screen, instead of allowing users to selectively copy add-ons over to the secure screen, when users express that they want this, is not good and it is not in the user's best interest. I am hoping that this thread can start a dialogue about this so that this can be discussed further, as opposed to completely disabling add-ons on the secure screens without considering the possible ramifications.

I didn't know this until now, but at least in Edge, from anywhere in the window you can apparently hit ctrl+f6 to immediately jump to the web content area so you don't have to worry about hitting f6 to move through the panes to get to it, or hitting tab several times to focus it.

@Kaliah Oh, and can I add to this to not do the thing where you question if a blind person actually knows who you are/if you're there, even if they haven't said something to you directly? I.e. One of my Uncles was sitting next to me talking to someone else and I knew he was sitting there next to me, yet he felt it necessary to ask, "Who am I? What's my name?" It tempts me to purposely say the wrong name just to get him to react. I have no idea why he does that but it really bothers me.

Happy pi day!

It really says something about the "improved Discord interface" that even my brother, who can see, got confused when trying to find the friends list.