Notices by Talon (talon@dragonscave.space)

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Something I learned very intimately lately is just how variable disabilities can be. And this extends not just to mental disabilities but physical disabilities as well. The main disability I had before was static. Each day was like the last more or less. I always knew intellectually of course that this isn't the case for everything. And going through it is something else. So don't judge disabled people on their good or bad days. Sometimes it can be almost completely ok. Other days it'll be beyond a struggle to keep going. And often you don't know what it's gonna be until you're there. Don't be so quick to judge people one way or the other. If you see them then it's likely because they could manage then. It doesn't mean tomorrow will be the same.

Click a Mailto: link using Firefox on windows 11.
Outlook opens even though it is not my default mail client.
Outlook closes.
Outlook opens.
Outlook closes again.
Outlook opens.
it closes again.
it's back.
And gone again.

I eventually decided to just reboot.
#JustWindowsThings

I'm sure that my TV's screen reader reading out minified JavaScript source code whenever I open up the YouTube app is not part of bug fixing and performance improving. Is it?

@Kaliah The very unconventional way I do it is: Punctuation level all, speech rate very fast, then control right word by word. Get to about 3 to 5 words ahead, then speak while pressing ctrl right all the while. lol. It did take quite a while before I got it though. It's not easy.

Nice that Androids Talkback has AI in it now but the keyboard experience is still not so great. Google. Please...

@piggo on windows you press control windows enter, and on mac you press command f5. On most linux distros you should be able to turn it on with super s, or super alt s. Anything after that is actually using the screen reader itself, which is sadly necessary to test functionality meant for screen readers. Building one into Chrome probably won't help you here as it would need to be similarly complex. Otherwise, the functionality you're testing for would be missing in the screen reader. But in Bitwarden's case, turning on any screen reader, focusing the website and pressing tab a bunch would have caught this problem.

@piggo it actually used to have one! But really, windows has one, mac has one, linux has one that works with chromium and firefox browsers. So I doubt having a screen reader in Chrome would have made them care enough to try before production.

Oh no bitwarden what the hell did you do to your website?
<a aria-label="go to https://bitwarden.com/products/personal/" data-testid="cta-link" class="plausible-event-name=navigation+drop+menu+click plausible-event-button=products+pm+personal ......

It keeps going on and on. And the result? A menu that reads like this to a screen reader:

link go to https://bitwarden.com/pricing/business/
link go to https://bitwarden.com/download/
link go to https://bitwarden.com/developers/

Can we collectively add a thing to VS Code that pops up a really big warning when you control s any file that has aria-label in it that says "You probably don't wanna do this!" and won't let you proceed until you enter a very good reason for why you did this, which is then inspectable in the html source for all of us to see?

But seriously was it always Haskell? Why did I think it was Python and why was I so convinced? Weird stuff.

I have committed a grave error. An egregious mistake. I thought Pandoc was a Python thing. It was not. It is, of course, a Haskell thing. I am forever sorry for all the functional gods I may have angered with my false beliefs and I will attempt to recategorize Pandoc as not a python thing in my mind, though I fear it may be difficult.

@BorrisInABox @KaraLG84 I haven't had this problem for years. And now it just suddenly kinda started happening.

@KaraLG84 I can tell my Mac never to automatically connect to them. I can tell my phone to never automatically connect to them. The only one device I have that I do never want them to connect to automatically I can't tell not to automatically connect to them. I just... aaaaarrrgh. Am I missing something here?

Apple. No. We need to talk. We have a big big problem. That problem is AirPods. I never, and I do mean never, want my AirPods to connect to my watch. Ever. So stop aggressively pulling them away from my phone even when there's clearly audio playing on said phone. Also, when I press forget this device on the watch, who in their absolutely right mind thought that this should mean forget them on *all* devices connected to my iCloud account? No seriously who? I need to talk to them. Nicely. And explain to them that this is just wrong. It's wrong. That's not what that option should do. Nobody thinks that's what that option should do.

It seems like I've reached that stage of programmer life where I'm building my own note taking app because I don't like any of the existing ones.
I assume it's going to go just about as well as you would expect.
It's fun though. I'm having fun.

I still just don't get braille screen input on iOS. I don't get it. In screen away mode, why would you have the dots horizontally and not vertically? My fingers want to automatically press them vertically. Like I would read them. I don't even know how I'd position my hands to do the horizontal inputs. Why not have your fingers from top to bottom? Like am I missing something here? That just feels very natural to do. But holding your phone, screen facing away, and then you have to place your fingers along the entire width of the thing in a straight line? If I hold my phone between two hands, screen facing away, my fingers automatically just orient themselves in two rows from top to bottom. On either side of the screen. Why can't I have it like that?

The one mode where it is like that is in tabletop mode. Except tabletop mode is just... the wrong way around? I don't know how else to explain this but no matter which way I flip my phone, the dots are never where I expect them to be. What is wrong with me? So many people are doing this just fine but I struggle so much with this. I know braille! I can read and write braille! Why is this so entirely unintuitive to me?

OK. In settings, you have a toggle to reverse dot positions. So that fixes it? Except that's still tabletop mode. And I have to force it into tabletop mode while holding it as if I'm using screen away mode. This is just... bad? I'm so confused.

Hahahaha nevermind reverse dot positions reverses them in the exact way that I don't want. It doesn't mirror them. It just swaps the top and bottom dots. I'm going back to the normal direct touch keyboard I think.

Oh wait. OK. Reverse dot positions, and then flip the phone the opposite way that people tell me to flip it. That works.