Is there a way to turn off the ability to hide the window in TweeseCake? I've done it a few times now, and it is incredibly annoying! Plus, one of my keyboards can't handle certain key combinations, including ctrl+shift+w or h.
It has just come to my attention that there is only one developer of Friendica. It's a truly wonderful site, with a lot of potential, particularly for those of us coming from Facebook. It allows for extremely long posts, local posting, and you can follow and interact with people from various sites in the Fediverse. But there are a few issues regarding screen reader accessibility, and perhaps some things that I'm not aware of. I have therefore decided to create a Friendica development tag, in order to find people who are willing and able to help resolve these issues.
#accessibility #accessibilitytesting #Android #blind #blindness #Facebook #Fediverse #Friendica #FriendicaDevelopment #html #NVDA #screenreaders #Talkback #websites #Windows
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Friendica seriously needs to do something about their accessibility. I was able to edit one post directly on the site, but it was apparently a lucky click. I keep trying, but though there is an "edit" option,, when I hit it, it never sends me to an edit page. There is some kind of dialogue and I can never get into it. Even the homepage doesn't have normal links. It's some kind of menu bar, and if I go to profile, for example, it reads as a link, but I had to tab through everything else to get out of it. Why can't people just make normal links! This is why I use TweeseCake.
#accessibility #blind #blindness #friendica #html #menus #NVDA #technology #TweeseCake #websites
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@Elena Brescacin @informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: Wow. That is truly sad. It's a wonderful platform, overall. I'm sure many people would be willing to help with development! Perhaps, we can start a friendica development tag.
@Elena Brescacin @informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: Perhaps, that's where we need to start. We should find the original developers. I've already started the tag to help us find developers. Such a wonderful site should be promoted and also improved if possible. I've met some amazing people after joining.
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I do not know if this is helpful but at one point there was a blind dosemu user who was running dosemu in terminal mode. He ended up reaching out through the mailing list despite most of the current development and related discussion taking place on github nowadays as part of the dosemu2 project, possibly due to accessibility problems with github.
Maybe the knowledge that dosemu2 is getting a lot of development helps. If you have trouble to find info on it, we should solve that.
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@Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус I will need to research this! I have never heard of Dosemu. Thank you!
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If I truly need to research something and ensure that the answers are accurate, I do so on my own. But for many things, I use Perplexity. It has helped me in numerous situations, from simple things to writing code to help me use Supermium more efficiently. But I do have a few questions.
- Why isn't it possible to delete conversations from the website? It forces me to use my phone.
- Why, when I try to search my threads for keywords that I know were used, it never finds them? I do this on the site.
- Finally, why is their Android app so inaccessible? I can do basic things, such as delete threads, with it, but I certainly couldn't replace the website with it.
#accessibility #Android #ai #artificialintelligence #NVDA #Perplexity #searching #Talkback #Windows
Can anyone recommend an accessible course to learn html? It must work with NVDA. I've heard of Code Camp and W3Schools, but how accessible are they and how do they differ in content and style? I like courses with a structured approach, where things are explained i.e. a deductive and not an inductive approach. I usually don't need a tutorial, but I am fine with general instructions. In this case, though, exercises would be very beneficial. I am using this prior to beginning Part 2 of the Web Developer's course at Deque. I am not a developer, but they don't have one for accessibility testers.
#accessibility #blind #blindness #computing #DequeUniversity #html #learning #NVDA #programming #screenreaders #W3Schools
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@NV Access Thank you. These are excellent suggestions, especially the first one, as they have courses directly related to accessibility testing, working with NVDA (which I've done for many years, anyway), etc. But for right now, I'm seeking an accessible course in html itself.
That's fair enough. I would be surprised if there isn't something, but hopefully others can share their thoughts too
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Two ideas, if I may. I'm almost sure you've already thought of both, but wanted to throw them into the pot just in case. First, as to size, what about the small gaming machines? Steamdeck/Aya Neo/GPD series? They're certainly small, and generally quite powerful. They also have batteries which will either save you getting a power bank at all or make the bank an accessory, not a must-have. Secondly, if you want to keep the price down, what about refurbished gaming units? I have seen that Valve is selling refurbished steamdecks, which may be of some use.
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@Tech Singer I know next to nothing about gaming machines, other than that they have controllers. I know a lot about umpcs, and that is what I originally wanted, since the keyboard, speaker, and batteries are built-in. The GPD Pocket 3 would be great. But it, and most other modern ones are either well above my budget of $300, or they have lower specifications than my Dell, with a Pentium N6000. I don't mind that, but if it's slower, it should have an older version of Windows to compensate. I do own a real umpc (Fujitsu UH900). I adore the form factor, and even the layout is decent, since I replaced the keyboard with a U.S. model. But it's slow, even for me! I also want something that can handle virtualization if XP or 7 isn't installed natively. I can even do this with my Acer Travelmate 8172, with 4gb of ram and a Intel Core i5-560UM, but that's a big laptop (11.6 inches) not a umpc or tablet.
I agree with you on the UMPCs, but sadly, they're just not being made to a reasonable level anymore. I know the refurb steamdeck is being sold for a bit under $300, though I'm not sure how much. It does have controllers but, if you're using an external keyboard anyway, you can disable them. I killed them in device manager myself. Two problems with it, though, are that it comes with Linux so you have to install Windows yourself and that it has only one USB port. That is not a typo, it has one USB port which is a USB C port and which is used for charging. The installation of Windows isn't a huge deal but the USB port drove me to tearing my hair out in large handfuls. It does, however, work with VMWare and Virtual Box, so you can install virtual machines if you like. It works with a Win 7 VM, I've used it and had no issue. The processor is, of course, fairly reasonable, it is meant for light to medium gaming, after all.
@Tech Singer The Toughbook also has only one usb port, so they have that in common. I would definitely need to use a hub in both cases. I wouldn't usually use an external keyboard if one is built into the machine, unless I were sweating a lot (I have hyperhydrosis). I've been known to short out many keyboards that way, so maybe, that wouldn't be a bad idea, after all. I'll check the specifications of these. As for Linux, I would love a machine with Debian Mate installed, but I don't know of any. However, if I have to install Windows, this would mean extra money, but it might or might not be a lot, depending on which version I chose and where I purchased the key.
I haven't seen your particular toughbook, but I have seen a few and all the units I've seen had at least one charging port in addition to the USB ports. The Steamdeck has one USB C port for everything, charging, peripherals, docking... It has one port! A USB hub with charging pass through does work well, though, in my experience. Sorry about the external keyboard, you mentioned in your first message that you would be using all of them with an external keyboard, which is why I brought that up. I am typing this on an external, I have yet to see a built-in keyboard I liked, prefer not to have my machine in harm's way, and don't want to keep the screen up if it's a laptop. It's a good deal easier to recover from spilling something, just for example, on the $15 Logitech K360. The Steamdeck supports Valve's own Steam OS, I have never tried installing Debian on it directly. Given the availability of Win 10 OEM keys, I don't think you'll have to spend too much to install Windows on the unit. I assume, because you mentioned Windows 7 earlier, that you're not desperate to upgrade to 11.
@Tech Singer Yes. The Toughpad is a tablet, so it would require a keyboard, since I don't use touchscreens. An actual Toughbook wouldn't, since those are laptops. This is the one I'm considering.
Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 MK3
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In any case, no harm done. We all get confused every now and then. smile
Teaches me to either use braille or read better, I misread toughpad as toughbook with some sort of weird pronunciation. Honestly, this looks like a very nice unit. You can use any BT keyboard with it, too, so you're not restricted to some sort of proprietary keyboard/cover/whatever. The only thing I'd be a bit hesitant about is running a virtual machine with that processor and RAM. I'd be happier with 16 GB and a more powerful I5 or an AMD unit. I can't judge, though, I have never used that particular I5, and have never used XP at all on a VM. It's Amazon renewed, you have a chance to return if it's hopeless. Keep in mind that the LTE modem is not available on the Steamdeck. Though the steamdeck is a bit cheaper, I suspect you'll end up with more or less the same cost if you're going to buy a key for Windows 10. You get Windows with the tablet. Keep in mind, also, that the tablet is going to be a good deal thinner than anything else, and that the tablet has a separate charging port. The Steamdeck doesn't.
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@Tech Singer I've run virtual machines with 4gb of ram on the host, but that was with 7. With 11 as the host, I want at least 8gb, which works very well. Right now, I'm using a Del Latitude 3120 with an N6000 processor, a 128gb solid state drive, and 8gb of ram. I have Tweesecake, about five browser windows, and two Notepad windows open in 11, plus an XP machine with three more open windows, all running concurrently without a problem.
Most interesting, I'm impressed. Is it VMware or Virtual Box that you're using? Also, if I may ask, how much RAM have you assigned to the XP machine? I ask since the day is coming when we can run XP on a VM hosted by a phone, and that will make life a good deal simpler for those of us who want to read comfortably and portably.
@Tech Singer XP on a phone! Now that I would love to see! But it must be accessible. From what I know, it is possible to run Windows on phones, but there's no sound. Anyway, my XP machine is currently using 2gb of ram.
It will come, eventually, probably faster on Android than on iOS. Yes, it has to be a full machine, audio, keyboard, everything. As I said, it may well happen, though I'm not sure how soon.
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@Tech Singer I would absolutely love that! Just thinking of it is making me smile! It would solve all of my computer problems!
Another thing, if I may raise it. Is there a reason you're running 11? I ask because you do seem to be familiar with the fact that 7 and XP are still usable if you have good security practices. I'm always a bit hesitant about 11, and even 10, on any sort of resource limited system because Microsoft takes the view that they own the machine and can run whatever they want on it, including updates which slow things down, break things, and so on. I'm running 10 on this machine, but it never sees the internet, there's a 7 VM which is connected to the internet through its own network card.
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@Tech Singer I've never had any trouble with resources on this machine, even with 11. I just don't care for the operating system itself, the changes in interface, etc. Unfortunately, TweeseCake only seems to work on 11. I even tried it on 64-bit 7 and it didn't work.
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Windows 7 API Extensions . Contribute to vxiiduu/VxKex development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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I'm intrigued by this little machine. It's small (even smaller than the Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 MK3 that I was considering), light, has built-in speakers and a microphone, several ports, including a 3.5mm, a usbc pd port, and even a built-in battery! This may very well be what I need. Oh, did I mention the price won't kill me, unlike the $600+ umpcs? Keep in mind that I don't care about screens or graphics, since I'm blind.
To make a very long story short, I am considering entering the field of accessibility. More specifically, website testing. For those interested, I wrote about it here. If you can offer any suggestions, recommendations, etc. either here or there, please do so. I would love to hear from you!
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/214…
The long story, for those who are interested in my background in technology and how I came to this decision, can be found here. My blind peers, in particular, may enjoy this, though it may also take you on a trip down memory lane.
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#accessibility #blind #BlindInstituteofTechnology #blindness #coding #computers #DequeUniversity #education #FreeCodeCamp #html #NVDA #screenreaders #technology #W3Schools #websites #Windows
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(Update. I can't hit return to go down a line and add tags, links, etc. in TWBlue, either! It looks like I'll strictly use them for reading favourites.)
TweeseCake and TWBlue have many things in common. The one thing that TWBlue lacks is the ability to edit my posts. This is why I can't use it as my permanent client. Does anyone know if they intend to resolve this issue in the future? It also doesn't have the conversation thread option, but I'm not quite sure how that works. Seriously, though, why wouldn't such a basic thing as editing one's own posts not be included in a client that is supposed to be accessible to the blind? I am not sure I can edit my profile here, either, which I can do on TweeseCake. But I can't view my favourites there! They keep disappearing!
#accessibility #editing #editingposts #Friendica #profiles #TWBlue #TweeseCake
My favourites list just disappeared from TweeseCake. I was viewing it, then it stopped reading them and said "list" with numbers (6 of 210) as an example. Now, the list is completely empty! How do I view them on Friendica, or is there a way that I can get them back in TweeseCake?
#accessibility #favorites #favourites #Friendica #TweeseCake
It just did it again! It appeared, and as soon as I started going down the list, it said numbers, and then everything was gone.
I found a work-around by using TwBlue. It consistantly shows my favourites. However, it does not allow me to edit my posts, which is why I don't use it normally. If they changed that, I could easily use it as my permanent client. Both it and TweeseCake seem to share many features, other than this all-important one.
Hi Georgiana, thanks again for your helpful feedback.
It sounds like you're trying to follow Communities using the Newsmast app which will ask for you to create an account.
As we spoke about the other day, we know there's issues here that we need to fix and hopefully will be able to soon!
If you want to follow our Community Feeds on vanilla Mastodon, you can do so by follow them directly from your current friendica[dot]world account. (1/2)
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There's a list of Community Feed accounts available here: newsmast.community/about
Or you can see them in a post here: newsmast.social/@newsmast/1118… (2/2)
Newsmast Community Feeds
Welcome to Newsmast Community Feeds. Easy-to-follow curated feeds of posts from all over the Fediverse, organised into knowledge-sharing communities.Mastodon hosted on newsmast.community
Newsmast Community Feeds on MastodonSee hand-curated, topical, feeds no matter where you call home on the Fediverse. Just add to a list, exclude from your home feed, then dip in and out whenever you want.
We’re working hard to connect knowledge across the Fediverse.
#newsmast #newsmastfoundation #mastodon #feditips
@The Newsmast Foundation I was using your website, not an app. The same was true the other day. It was from the communities page. Now, whenever I try to go to the main page, I'm greeted with the form.
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We have apps on iOS, Android and on the web.
newsmast.org is a our web app which has a number of accessibility issues and bugs which we'll work on soon. For now, our Newsmast app has been placed to the side until we finish our Channel.org service (which we hope will bring in more funding).
To visit the Community Feeds on a plain Mastodon UI or through whichever application best suits you, you can access and follow them from this thread of posts: newsmast.social/@newsmast/1118… (1/2)
Newsmast Community Feeds on MastodonSee hand-curated, topical, feeds no matter where you call home on the Fediverse. Just add to a list, exclude from your home feed, then dip in and out whenever you want.
We’re working hard to connect knowledge across the Fediverse.
#newsmast #newsmastfoundation #mastodon #feditips
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To visit our website which explores our mission as a charity, you can visit our site here: newsmastfoundation.org/
The site is currently under a bit of maintenance so if you spot any accessibility bugs (or otherwise) please let us know! (2/2)
The Newsmast Foundation - Newsmast
A social media charity The Newsmast Foundation is an educational charity, supporting the use of social media for good. We’re at the forefront of new, open social media.Newsmast
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How do I turn off the political posts in my Home timeline? Is there a way for me to hide them, or at least, certain conversations so that I don't have to see them?
I followed the Social Media feed from Newsmast. Now, I wish to unfollow them, but I can't figure out how to do it. I tried "Unfollow" on Tweesecake and also went to the page of the feed, but I keep seeing posts from them on my Home timeline (not the Federated one). I usually don't mind seeing such things in my timeline. I love the Food and Wine one, for example. It's just that this one is going a bit mad at the moment. I may follow it again at some point, or even check it.
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I know on the actual friendica.world interface, you can follow someone but take them out of any circle, or you can add them to their own that way you only see them when you want to. This is under the "Contacts" area.
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Now, I no longer see them in my timeline. Either they manually removed me after seeing my post to make things easier, or my unfollowing them wasn't instantaneous and took a little while. I will need to test this is if I ever find something else that I don't want to follow.
I really love Tweesecake. The more I use it, the more wonderful things I learn about it. I am now able to view my Local Friendica.world timeline, Home (which is basically the people whom I follow), the Federated Timeline, my Favourites/Likes, my mentions (when people Mention me), etc. all in one place! Everything is customisable, too! I only wish they made a 32-bit version, so that I could use it on all of my machines, both physical and virtual. Still, as long as I can use it on one, it's good, since I can just use NVDA Remote to access it with another. Oh, and it doesn't try to insert nonsense when I write tags! I hate when I write in text fields and receive suggestions.
#accessibility #blind #blindness #friendica #NVDA #Tweesecake #Windows
Yay!!! I got Tweesecake to work! I couldn't understand, for the life of me, what was going on! I thought the folder was corrupted, so I redownloaded it, and whenever I started it, it kept saying "Welcome to Tweesecake", and then "Config". Then, when I tried to navigate through the window, it completely disappeared. So I thought, maybe, they had discontinued their service, but that was not the case. It turned out that this is not a fully portable app. Unlike the ones at portableapps.com, and like both Serpent UXP and IceDove UXP, it stores information in a separate folder and not just the main one. I may change this behaviour in the future. For now, I deleted the separate Tweesecake folder (in App Data), and restarted the program. And now I have a perfectly functioning Windows client, including the ability to edit my posts!
#accessibility #blind #happy #portableapp #Tweesecake #Windows
Look! I can reply from the same interface! haha I'm way too happy right now. I need to calm down! This is such a relief.
Update. I can read my posts (and some others) on the Local page and option of both Semaphore and TWBlue. However, I cannot reply on Semaphore. It shows a reply button, but when I press it, there is no edit box for me to type into. I also can't edit my posts there, but I already knew that. It's one of the things that Enafore was supposed to have fixed.
@Robert Kingett I'm a very happy Friendica user and I use Tweesecake which works well with it. Do you mean that a client should be on a Friendica instance? If so, I agree.
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Since I've been writing a lot about accessibility and the annoyance of modern websites and programs today, I wanted to show you a perfect example of a website that is accessible! Every single thing here reads perfectly. Everything makes sense and is usable. I have never had a single headache using this site. I wish these developers could be hired to work on other things, since they very clearly know what they're doing!
This is my specific journal.
If any Dreamwidth developers are here, thank you for making at least one technological thing in my life easy and enjoyable! At least I don't have to worry about your site suddenly becoming a nightmare, like Facebook. Now could you please consider making a social networking site or at least client for Friendica/Mastodon?
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I have no idea why on Earth this had a sensitive content label, but anyway. That explained a little. I am not a programmer, just a blind user of NVDA who is sick of this rubbish. But yes, even then, things weren't standard. There are many programs, even from the past, that were far from accessible. But many were, and most did use the standard menus. Many still do. As for websites and certain programs that have adopted this other approach, Firefox was the first one I saw doing it, after version 28. The last version of Thunderbird with normal menus was 60. On both, menus can still be accessed with the alt key and navigated with arrows and tabs, but they are read like webpages, and the options look like links in some cases, all with no buttons to confirm or cancel things. Unfortunately, I don't know of a browser that doesn't do this, including Serpent UXP and Supermium.
Does anyone know what is going on with Tweesecake? It worked well until today. Now, when I start it, it shows the welcome screen and says "config", but when I try to use the arrows to select my Friendica profile, the whole program disappears. Then, when I try to restart it, I have to go to the Task Manager and end the task tree, or it will tell me that it's still running, even though I don't see it when I alt+tab through my open programs. For the first time in my life, I have to say that a phone application is better than a Windows client or even website, as I have full access to everything on Friendica with Pachli and not on Tweesecake, Semafore, or Phanpy. Obviously, I can edit things, from posts to my profile on the Friendica site, but it's not as intuitive as it could be and has strange menus and such, instead of normal links.
That is why I was seeking a simpler alternative.
#accessibility #Android #blind #Friendica #Mastodon ##Pachli Tweesecake #Windows
That is why I was seeking a simpler alternative.
#accessibility #Android #blind #Friendica #Mastodon ##Pachli Tweesecake #Windows
Yay! This is much better!
"I'd use blue but right now it doesn't support edits to my knowledge, which is a dealbreaker. Cake and Enafore are the only accessible Windows clients I know of that do. Enafore is pinafore which merged in all the accessibility fixes of Semaphore and is more compatible with Glitch, which is what places like the cave have switched to anyway. So unless Semaphore starts to have a major uptick in development it should be regarded as superseded by Enafore."
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Okay. So how am I supposed to edit thing? I thought it would be decent, with a normal edit link or button. But of course, no one thinks with common sense these days! I tried the menu and selected "more" and "edit" but it did nothing! I tried looking for an edit box and found nothing. Then, I selected the checkbox and still nothing. But of course, it had a delete button. I guess it was too difficult to make an edit one, too.
Well, it finally happened. Facebook did, in fact, discontinue the Basic Mobile site. So I will be posting on here and Dreamwidth a lot more from now on. Speaking of which, I wrote alot there over the last few days, filling in entries from earlier in the month. Anyone can read or comment on my entries, whether or not he is a member. I also have an extensive profile there, as well as a post containing links to essays on various topics. I will be sharing particular links with all of you that you may read or ignore, as you wish.
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#accessibility #blind #Dreamwidth #Facebook #Friendica #friends
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •I am not sure how much Friendica has diverged from Hubzilla, Streams, or Forte, but they are all from the same family tree. They all come from Mist Park and Friendika (the MIT licensed version of Friendika before it was renamed Friendica and switched to AGPL).
There are some opportunities for collaboration, but the biggest obstacle is incompatible licenses. Hubzilla is MIT licensed and Friendica is AGPL. That means that Friendica can use code from Hubzilla, but Hubzilla can never use any code from Friendica. The exception being addons, themes, and widgets, that can be any license.