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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 1h

HTTPX may be the #python HTTP client of the future, but I miss the documentation practices of Requests and its surrounding ecosystem.

Can you pass headers to HTTPX as a sequence of tuples? What is the default chunk size when iterating over the bytes of a streamed response? In exactly what […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 1d

La palabra del día del RAE: bombardinista: m. y f. Persona que toca el bombardino.

La palabra del día mía: defenestrar: tr. Arrojar a alguien por una ventana.

Por ejemplo: Señora, he defenestrado el bombardinista como me pidió.

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Could it be? The return of Eloquence TTS to Android:

https://groups.io/g/androidaccessibility/topic/codefactory_eloquence_tts/115569380

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This is standing ovation stuff by @sundress. Not a single word wasted, and so many quotable bits.

A threat model for #accessibility on the web: https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The usability antipatterns in software that is both built by and aimed at screen reader users never ceases to amaze. Like the Tiflotecnia voices add-on for NVDA being given its own top-level entry in the NVDA menu, but having the same mnemonic as "Tools" so I can no longer open the "Tools" menu […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@ner There are numerous examples on Reddit and elsewhere of people showcasing their LLM-coded apps built with no previous development knowledge or experience. Most of them are pulled to bits within minutes in terms of people finding security errors and such.

Other than the inability to review […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Ah, I see what was wrong: NSFW content isn't shown while I'm connected to a UK VPN, presumably because of the Online Safety Act.

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Update: it's working again.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Anyone else noticed their Dystopia app not showing NSFW content anymore as of this morning?

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 14d

You search the internet for "shareable or sharable," aiming to determine the correct spelling of the word.

The AI tells you the correct spelling is "transferable" via a 300-word block of text, so you scroll, and scroll, and scroll...

The first result is titled "Sharable vs. Shareable – What’s […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 16d

@FreakyFwoof I think it's too quick; I only know what it's saying because of the speech history. But maybe I can make NVDA log it somehow.

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 16d

And while I'm here (unusual for me as of late): who the heck is Jimmy Truth, why do they follow me seven times a day from different accounts, and how can I make it stop?

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 16d

I have a shortcut to a batch file on my desktop. Since a Windows 10 update a few days ago, NVDA now says "Window Dialog" when I run it, before quickly transitioning to the standard Command Prompt screen.

Anyone know what that's about? It does not happen if I run the script directly from the […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 18d

In iOS 26, is there a trick to get rid of the lag when typing on screen with VoiceOver? I've already set the "Keyboard Interaction Time" setting to 0.00, but that must control something else because the typing experience is still painful.

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12

#accessibility Posture Profiling as a service

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6

Do we have any further clarity on why the Freedom Scientific online store still lists two subscription options for JAWS, but with one being at least 5.9 times the price of the other? I.e. JAWS Home Annual for $104.50 with instructions to "call to order," and JAWS Home Subscription starting at […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Aug 5

Thanks to everyone who responded. For now, I've disabled TalkBack's gesture handling under advanced/developer settings. Double taps seem much more reliable, and nothing else seems broken.

It does raise questions for me about exactly what the setting does, why it's necessary, and why it's not […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Aug 5

Has anyone experienced #talkback failing to register a single-finger double tap, particularly when using the phone in one hand or tapping with the same finger used to swipe?

According to a post on AppleVis, a possible fix might be to turn off TalkBack's own gesture handling. But that also […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 29

Is there a new version of the Neural Voices add-on for #nvda floating around? The version I have installed doesn't function with NVDA 2025.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 27

Example of something that might be technically #accessible with a keyboard, but in reality is probably unusable: 141 consecutive checkboxes in the tab order. #accessibility

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 21

Ridiculously, I seem to have fixed it for now by adding a speech dictionary entry to replace "al" with "al" (i.e. the string "al" with the exact same string).

James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 21

Is anyone else experiencing an issue in #voicedream for iOS whereby certain words ending in "al" (A L) are mangled in the speech output? For example, "professional" gets spoken as "profession el" or something like that.

This is happening with or without my pronunciation dictionary in place, and […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 18

#nvda Speech History version 2025.1 has been released, to be compatible with NVDA 2025.1. Additionally:

* There is now a setting to control what happens after copying a speech history item: nothing, beep, speak, or both.
* The post-copy beep frequency and duration are now configurable.
* In […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 18

#nvda Speech History version 2025.1 has been released, to be compatible with NVDA 2025.1. Additionally:

* There is now a setting to control what happens after copying a speech history item: nothing, beep, speak, or both.
* The post-copy beep frequency and duration are now configurable.
* In […]

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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · May 24

Lovely how Google engineers now blame accessibility people for their sub-optimal CSS carousel invention. Build “shining demos” they say so they can improve their stuff. Of course unpaid in free time at half the earnings of developers who came up with that shit.

Gas lighting and victim blaming […]

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