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simo, 11 months ago

Welcome to the fed guys. Out of interest, how do you guys consume content? This big app war made gave awareness of how bad reddit was for you guys, so i’m just interested in learning.

Are you able to have text posts be read out to you and such? Glad you have the tools here to enjoy the content! Welcome.

NoConfigence2192, 11 months ago

Are you able to have text posts be read out to you and such?

I cannot tell you what they use for administration and moderation but for reading Jerbao has been working great with TalkBack on Android, Chrome has been doing well with JAWS on Windows, and Orca okay with Firefox on Debian…but Orca can often be more of a stretch for a lot of things.

The only thing that would be on my wish list would be better defined key bindings/shortcuts for the web UI…maybe even have the bindings listed in the labels of controls…they are absent for me when using carat browsing on Chrome Canary

MostlyBlindGamer, 11 months ago

The apps have to properly support accessibility APIs, but the text to speech (or Braille!) part is handled by software called screen readers. All OSs have them built in.

AlmightySnoo, 11 months ago

Also related to the Lemmy software: good support of the Markdown language means everyone can add alt-text to images (which wasn’t possible on Reddit, Reddit was by design not blind friendly).

MostlyBlindGamer, 11 months ago

Absolutely. While alt text for image posts is still necessary, you can add it in images in text posts.

NoConfigence2192, 11 months ago

good support of the Markdown language means everyone can add alt-text to images

Nice! I want to try an experiment to see how it sounds:

rBlind.com logo

What is above should be the rBlind.com logo. I am curious how different screen readers will pick it up. Below is the markdown I used:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">![rBlind.com logo](<https://rblind.com/pictrs/image/3c46ae70-6ceb-4e6d-bb6e-5822e9426176.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96> "rBlind.com logo")
</span>

poweruser, 11 months ago

For me it just says “unlabeled” :(

I’m using Android TalkBack on Thunder, which is very much still in beta. It would be wonderful if the internet was more accessible.

I’m not actually visually impaired, but I find tts much more comfortable for reading in bed. Accessibility features improve things for everyone!

NoConfigence2192, 11 months ago

For me it just says “unlabeled”…I’m using Android TalkBack on Thunder

Might just be Thunder. Jerboa seems to read it okay with TalkBack on Android, for me at least, as does Jaws with Chrome on Windows

Haily, 11 months ago

Works on iOS with Safari as well.