Mariano Guerra 2024-09-09 09:30:39 Christopher Shank 2024-09-09 19:27:16 Thanks for sharing, I’ve been slacking a little updating it and hosting meetups! Also
happy to accept and contributions, papers or otherwise.
Ivan Reese 2024-09-10 23:49:00 Periodic reminder — I have it on good authority that for folks using screen readers, it's nicer if links are attached to text like this, rather shared as a bare URL like etc. Thanks everyone!
Konrad Hinsen 2024-09-11 05:48:35 Wondering: are there sandboxed screen reader setups that would help authors to "preread" (rather than preview) their work without perturbing their standard work environment?
Ivan Reese 2024-09-11 15:35:27 Not sure what you mean by "sandboxed". One thing I've heard is that it's worth testing with whatever accessibility features are built-in to your OS (so on Mac that'd be VoiceOver), since that'll be what a lot of people use. Buuut these OS-native features also have quirks and shortcomings, so testing just with those is not exhaustive.
Kartik Agaram 2024-09-11 16:39:57 As I understood it, sandboxed = easy to turn screenreader on and off.
I'm going to ask an expert on Mastodon.
Konrad Hinsen 2024-09-12 06:32:41 "Sandboxed" means "not perturbing my standard setup". I'd like to go into screen reader mode for a while and then back to normal. Not just "screenreader off", but "no screenreader present", as I assume that the mere presence of a screenreader can cause compatibility issues with other software.
"Whatever is built into the OS" is... probably nothing, under Linux.
Kartik Agaram 2024-09-13 04:34:38 Ivan Reese: I'm converted. I just went through and switched the last year+ of posts on my site replacing bare URLs with some descriptive text.
Konrad Hinsen: I spent some time researching it yesterday, and it's definitely not nothing under Linux. There's OS integration built in for say the Orca screenreader, which the OS will use if you install it. You do still have to install it, though. Also I ran into an error, so there's that.
Konrad Hinsen 2024-09-13 07:58:35 Thanks Kartik Agaram for investigating!
I didn't mean to imply that there is nothing for Linux. One screen reader I have been aware of for years is EmacSpeak (for Emacs). But there is nothing "built in", and thus no obvious default that people would turn to.
Orca looks more mainstream than EmacSpeak, being part of the GNOME universe. I don't use GNOME, but I could easily set up a second account on my machine using GNOME and Orca, and use that for testing. So... you have answered my question!
Konrad Hinsen 2024-09-14 12:14:05 Thanks @Eli Mellen! You answer a question I didn't know I should have asked!
Konrad Hinsen 2024-09-15 07:21:40 @Eli Mellen The question of how screen readers work from a user's perspective, and how they hook into the OS.
Kartik Agaram 2024-09-12 16:36:38 📝 Containers
[Title text] "All services are microservices if you ignore most of their features."
Konrad Hinsen 2024-09-13 08:22:46 Reminds me of a remark I made yesterday on the Guix issue tracker (for those who haven't encountered it: Guix is a package manager for Linux): every program becomes a component of a larger system one day, even a package manager like Guix. And of course that holds for physical stuff as well.
Jasmine Otto 2024-09-13 22:37:09 There might be a turnkey solution for making inline canvases as a Jupyter extension. Good luck identifying logical objects, but there must be some advantages over drag-and-drop. I'd use this for my current prototype but that my target domain's existing DSL is not (yet) graphical. For any other paper tool, diagram, nonlinear algebraic notation, what have you, there is a lot of potential.
Paul Tarvydas 2024-09-14 10:50:26 brainstorming:
- a Lisper might imagine that a "canvas" thingie can contain: (1) pixels, (2) canvas thingies
- some shape recognition is certainly possible, my Mac can recognize some hand-drawn shapes, my neurons want me to say Ink-and-Switch
