MostlyBlindGamer

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

A recall is the legally defined process to address a safety issue. From NTSHA’s documentation.

Manufacturers voluntarily initiate many of these recalls, while others are either influenced by NHTSA investigations or ordered by NHTSA via the courts. If a safety defect is discovered, the manufacturer must notify NHTSA, as well as vehicle or equipment owners, dealers, and distributors. The manufacturer is then required to remedy the problem at no charge to the owner. NHTSA is responsible for monitoring the manufacturer’s corrective action to ensure successful completion of the recall campaign.

There was a safety issue and it was addressed by the manufacturer: huzzah!

Even physical mechanical changes don’t usually require the car to go back to the factory, they’re often addressed as part of routine maintenance.

The term may feel misleading, but it exists and is used in a specific context.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Something something monopoly, something something gatekeepers. They don’t need a war chest big enough to sue Apple, they just need to convince the EU to do it. I’m sure they saw this coming from the start.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

No doubt, but MagSafe turning into the Qi 2 standard is… interesting. It may or may not be part of a broader shift.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Lemmy supports alt text via image caption notation, so images in the body of a post can have alt text.

Your text description is very good and adds clarity for people who may not have the full context, so it’s good to have it in the body.

In this case, I’d actually make the image alt text very brief: “graph representing Big O performance, description in body.”

As for rblind’s activity, Lemmy in general isn’t very active (compared to other platforms) and we’re sort of a niche within a niche.

By the way, the use of color in the graph is not accessible to colorblind people. Labeling the regions with numbers, letters or patterns would help with. It even the names in the legend, actually.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Screen readers have robust navigation tools that allow you to go back a word or reread a paragraph, but alt text is read as a single block, so it’s always best to keep it reasonably short. Having a description in the body also helps low-vision users, who may not use a screen reader, and other users with cognitive disabilities.

Captions are a non-standard Markdown feature, but work on Lemmy the same way as link text.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

I have. I’ve accidentally initiated NameDrop between my personal and work phones, just by having them in the same pocket. Both set to Contacts Only.

Imagine a scenario where kids put all their phones in a bad before class or something.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Thanks an excellent wishlist!

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Have you tried it on PC at all?

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Yeah, this is one of those games where you don’t want lag. If I didn’t have a PC I’d also go for an Xbox.

MostlyBlindGamer, 6 months ago

Yup, I’m paying for Nebula which is creator-owned. It doesn’t do everything YouTube does, but it’s a cool direction for the medium to go into - at least to try.

MostlyBlindGamer, 7 months ago

A “technical limitation” is just a feature with a poor ROI on engineering hours on a spreadsheet. I mean, on Microsoft 365 Excel.

MostlyBlindGamer, 7 months ago

This sounds both very interesting and very challenging. The more out there possible outcomes would be incredible, but sound way out of reach.

Ultimately, whenever the word “standardization” comes up in FOSS circles, I start assuming the worst. Still ver cool though!

MostlyBlindGamer, 7 months ago

Ah, that time I magnified the screen with my phone to get my NAS back up. Conversely, that time I did unspeakable things to my Mac and got it restored just fine.

Yeah, it’s not about the specific issues, it’s about assumptions and lack of out-of-the-box accessibility.

MostlyBlindGamer, 7 months ago

I completely agree. It wasn’t built to be a desktop OS.

MostlyBlindGamer, 7 months ago

Besides the interesting discussion on the fundamentals of Linux for accessibility, I think it’s also worth examining some of the points raised.

I’d say the biggest risk in this line of reasoning is that creating purpose-built systems for a specific group of users often leads to a lack of support for relevant apps and even for the OS itself, since it’s not self-sustaining.

The underlying principles and best-practices are there to make apps and the web accessible, and stripped-down versions are often limited in functionality and support, even if they’re easier to make accessible.

CLIs and things like Markdown can be super accessible, but they’re also intimidating to lots of users. They’re also often harder to get help with.

Anyway, this discussion on Stack Exchange will tell you most of what you need to know about blind-focused Linux: abandoned and discontinued.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

What an interesting concept for an event. It really does make sense not to waste those bottles, particularly with how eclectic of a set they are.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

That was a great write up, nice.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

We did, but Lenny was more stable and offered a better path forward for development. We got some accessibility improvements implemented, before we even started up the instance.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

It sound like you may need reading glasses, right? It’s not unusual for sighted people to use them while working on a computer. Regardless, it’s probably a good idea to discuss this with your optometrist: mention specific examples so they can better understand your needs.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

Looks like the long-lasting tradition of focusing blind accessibility products, and mainstream app features, on iOS devices is alive and well.

It open right up in dark mode on my iTelephone. I’ll see what I can do on Android later.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I can only do math while on the clock and I’ve realized that also stands for complicated bug reports/feature requests/whatever this is exactly. Meaning I’m likely to miss something, but I’ll take a haphazard crack at it.

Anyway, my understanding of Markdown is that the content between square brackets is the alternative text and that captions aren’t explicitly universally supported. See Markdown Guide.

Lemmy-UI renders alt text from the content between square brackets, which is just perfect. Reddit, for what it’s worth, renders that - where it is supported - into alt text and a caption. That does lead to terrible alt text, where people (Reddit admins, specifically) only see the caption and forget where else that text is going. So yeah, having a separate caption sounds like a great idea.

That being said, you (or OOP?) may enjoy getting into the weeds of accessible name calculation. Will a screen reader read alt or title? Both? In which order? (VoiceOver on macOS read alt and then title. Who knew!?)

Now, I can’t imagine interface icons missing alt text will have anything at all to do with Markdown rendering. In fact, it’s possible they don’t need alt text at all, if the functionality is already accessible some other way, like through an adjacent text link. You can’t just leave out the alt attribute, you should hide the node, but I haven’t looked into kbin’s interface to find out if that’s the case. In fact, I haven’t looked into how kbin renders Markdown for images.

So… does any of that help? Does it help formulate specific questions, perhaps? Who should I address the bill to? Hehe.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

Right, text between brackets should really go into the ‘alt’ attribute. If we boil this down to that, it’s a good clear place to start.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

We’ve successfully centralized decentralization.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

When you pick the wrong column for your primary key.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

You’ll likely want to see an ophthalmologist - that’s a medical doctor who specializes in eyes and vision. An optometrist is specialized in things like corrective lenses.

Either way, you don’t need a diagnosis to use tools that make your life easier.

MostlyBlindGamer, 9 months ago

With the healthy second-hand market for iPhones, that would be great. Let buyers decide how they feel about previous repairs, offer transparency.

The unhelpful move is requiring a connection to Apple’s servers to calibrate replacement parts.

MostlyBlindGamer, 9 months ago

Have you tried installing homebrew?

MostlyBlindGamer, 9 months ago

Floppy drive. That’s why you malt it first.

MostlyBlindGamer, 9 months ago

There are no colors. OP has spoken.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

Yeah, there’s quite a difference between regular people and experienced voice actors who’ve been properly recorded and edited. Like how there’s a huge difference between regular people and big actors with personal trainers, makeup and cinematography on top.

There’s nothing wrong with any of that, but I agree that this could be an issue.

In general, I think it’s important to understand people as complete and complex and not to narrow them down to a single characteristic or element. You always want to look for broader compatibility in a partner.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

I think I know some of the people who wrote this. Unless more than a few people work this way. That can’t be true, right? Right!?

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

Thank you, highly appreciated! I’m not used to using archive links, but I also didn’t want to force people to go over there.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

I believe it would be both and I agree with your assessment. I makes me incredibly uncomfortable and I have received no clarification.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

Thank you very much! I’ll be sure to do better next time.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

You’re not missing much, apparently. Just your typical corporate double-speak.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

Good news? They replied to my message. I’m linking and transcribing my comment on this Reddit thread.

www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/…/jwcfm6s/

About 11 hours after this post, I received the following reply:

Thank you for sharing your concerns with us.

You expect specific actionable contributions, without consideration. That sounds too much like working for free.

While we encourage participants to be actively involved in the Accessibility Feedback Group (AFG), we do not require that you complete specific tasks. Your participation is optional. The purpose of the program is to inform participants of the work we’re doing on accessibility and to give you the opportunity to give feedback and ask questions. You will also have the option to test the accessibility improvement but this is not required.

You expect participants to contact Reddit for help in preventing information from being provided to legal authorities. Offering some kind of support would be nice, but this is an actual requirement.

We’re not quite sure we understand this comment. We are clarifying here that this agreement doesn’t prevent you from disclosing information if you are legally required to do so, but if this were to happen we would want notice and the ability to prevent further disclosure (which may in some instances require your assistance).

You have language on staying on topic. My experience has been that Reddit Inc narrows the topic with little notice and to such an extent as to be useless.

The admins working on this project are only focused on accessibility improvements and have limited visibility into other areas/products. So this inclusion is to let you know that admins in the AFG will not be able to speak on other areas across the organization. However, we may be able to direct you to mod support or the help center depending on your inquiry. Please let us know if you have any other questions and if you are still interested in joining the AFG.

End quote.

In the interest of transparency, I’m sharing it and also publicly reiterating my stance - in fact, my reply will be a link to the comment.

I’m not comfortable with these terms and will not be joining the group. I would like to hope Reddit Inc. would instead have open interactions with users and hire disabled people to do the work that needs to be done here.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

For what it’s worth, they were not very good at accommodating for different disabilities in a meeting, not having complied with requested and agreed to accommodations for different disabilities. This would support your inference.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

Well, Ergot is certainly interesting: Speculated cause of hysterics and hallucinations - Wikipedia.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

First, the idea of holding the elbow is that you and the guide are walking with a more natural posture and communication can be streamlined through natural body movement. Give it a try.

Second, I go from gently and politely asking them to let go and explaining I don’t need help, to assertively ordering. It’s great to assume it’s all well-meaning ignorance, but you may end up needing to protect yourself.

MostlyBlindGamer, 8 months ago

It’s the third button. Insurance, communities, then Set Home Instance.

MostlyBlindGamer, 10 months ago

Good idea!

MostlyBlindGamer, 9 months ago

Sorry, kind missed this. Yeah, there’s some weird stuff going on.

It’s more than fair to focus your perspective on Humble on how they deal with charity and move your resources elsewhere.