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Hi, everyone!

As you may know, we run a number of communities as part of the OurBlind community. We have this Lemmy, our legacy Reddit community, a Discord community, an IRC server, etc. In order to make sure that moderation is transparent, fair, consistent, safe, and predictable across all of our various community platforms, we have been working to put together a centralized set of rules for all of our various communities. The first version of those rules is now available, and linked above as well as here: https://ourblind.com/comunity-guidelines/

We are completely open to feedback! Did we miss something? Do you think something is unfair, difficult to understand, or incomplete? Comment below! This is version 1.0 of the centralized rules, and we would love to engage in discussion and feedback with all of you, to perfect them as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For those of us using screen readers, this is a way bigger deal. Honestly I probably shouldn't use a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth keyboard for my banking. We focus so much on SSL/HTTPS and wifi security, but I wonder how much effort goes into wireless keyboard security? Not nearly as much, I'd bet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the fact that credentials go stale immediately upon leaving.

One of our moderators is also having this problem. Unfortunately, I'm not, and no matter what I do, I can't replicate it. Once I log in, I stay logged in. So as the admin of the server, it's quite difficult for me to fix. Could you let me know what browser and version of Windows you're using? I'm not sure that will help, as I've tested on both Firefox and Edge on Windows 11, and stayed logged in for days at a time. But the more data the better!

about 9 downarrows to get to the the content.

So once you get to the h1, almost everything up until the content is a link or button. So in NVDA, you can just press n (skip to next block of text) once or twice, and you'll be there.

The reason we're still listed as Alpha is because we need someone to retheme Lemmy, and nobody has had the time or money to find and pay someone to do it. If you think screen readers are hard, try using Lemmy with screen magnification. It's not ideal. We'll be remaining in alpha until we can find a designer to work on these issues.

However, in the meantime, Thunder on IOS and android is an excellent mobile app for Lemmy. There are also a few desktop apps, but none of them are more accessible than the web interface yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Problem was that I usually only discovered the issue when I went to read the book lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never did that, my connection was too slow to want to take up someone's DCC slot for like a day to get an entire movie. Remember all the frustrating idiots who would share .lit files, but forget to remove the DRM from them?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Ah, good to know. Back in my day, when we had to walk a hundred miles to school in the snow, up hill both ways, IRC was the only place to get ebooks. I'm guessing it's just the old users clinging on now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Man, I’m getting flashbacks to my days running omenserve on undernet. I had no idea people were still doing this! How does the content compare to places like Anna’s archive these days?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Also the features it ads are really nice. Cross-platform, SSL support, JSON, etc. If I actually had any game ideas, NVGT is what I'd use.

 

This looks like the replacement for BGT. For those of you who haven't heard of BGT, it was a game engine for creating audiogames that was developed throughout the early 2010's. It's possible to migrate old BGT games to NVGT with just a little bit of work. Here's hoping that NVGT brings on a new golden age of cross-platform audiogames.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Prophecy approved companion is excellent! It gave me all the feels. It’s both extremely funny, and extremely poignant as the main character learns who she is, what’s really going on, and her intended roll in it all. It’s one of the few series where the reader knows exactly what’s happening from the start, but the fact the main character being slow to catch on isn’t frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I’ve sold two systems used with no issue. Just factory reset and it’s fine. Yes, I could lock the buyer out. Best thing to do is transfer system ownership to them in person. In a public place of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I dunno, the sub I got 9 years ago is still going strong. The play fives they quote unquote bricked still work on the s1, for Spotify connect and Apple Music. The only unusable equipment is some 20 year old zone controllers. Sonos stuff is supported for years longer than literally any other tech brand. And I’m sure I’ll get a pretty decent price when I start selling off my Sonos stuff on Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Also, if you don't feel comfortable building bookworm from source yourself, and you feel like you can trust me, Here's a build of the latest bookworm code from github for 64-bit Windows: https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/rd388d

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If you use Bookworm and use the built-in support for espeak, you can get up to 600 words per minute or so. Dectalk can go well over 900 words per minute. As far as I know, cocoa tops out at around 500 words per minute. So all of the options accept piper should be fine for you.

 

We're still testing this out, to see if people want this and if it works well (secure, usable, accessible, etc.). We support SSL, SASL, and all of the latest IRCV3 features.

To connect:

  • server address: rblind.com
  • port: 6667 (plaintext) or 6697 (SSL)
  • login method (if you have a registered account): SASL, SSL client certificate, or NickServ
  • channel: #main

If you're looking for an accessible client:

We're missing accessible android and mac clients thus far.

To answer some possible questions:

  • No, we won't bridge with Discord; it would cause too many moderation issues
  • The server we're running is Ergo
  • It's on the same box as Lemmy, and fully dockerized etc, so I don't anticipate any server stability issues
  • No, your Lemmy account doesn't sync with the IRC server; maybe someday!
  • We don't yet have a Lemmy post bot, but we might someday.
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11303446

I appreciate Lainey highlighting the inequities of this panel session. It is important when creating a panel to include a wide range of diverse perspectives and people from different backgrounds.

 

So for those of you who have been having issues getting two-factor to work, uh, (blushing) you should try that again. I forgot to configure time syncing on the server, and it had gradually drifted about 90 seconds out of sync with the actual time. Thanks to fellow server admin and mod MostlyBlindGamer for performing the incantations required to tell the server that we do, in fact, need it to keep the correct time. As each two factor code is only valid for 30 seconds, this could have been an issue for you if your computer's clock wasn't off by a similar amount as our server's clock. Turns out the clock on my laptop is also off by 50 seconds or so, so it wasn't causing any problems for me, meaning I couldn't reproduce the bug whenever I got complaints. Anyway, it's fixed now, and it will stay fixed in future! These are the adventures you have when you run servers for other people, but only do it as a part-time hobbyist rather than a professional system administrator. I'm really glad I didn't file a bug on the Lemmy github complaining about how two factor still doesn't work. Yikes.

 

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So I went through about 10 iOS apps on the App Store to see what worked well with voiceover. Thunder is my new fave! customizable accessibility settings, fully labeled interface and easy to tell what you’ve read and voted on. My only wish is that we could have the voiceover actions in the roter.

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