Florian Beijers

In about an hour, I will go live on #twitch to talk about the "#games for #blind #gamers" jam, an #itchIO where devs have a month to code up a video game playable by the fully blind. It should be a fun one :) https://twitch.tv/zersiax

@crfs.bsky.social Turkish also has a verb tense that indicates what is being discussed is hearsay, not something the speaker themselves experienced. You see this a lot in fairytales for example.
Very fascinating language :)

@abletoplay.com @playhilltop.bsky.social If it's accessible to fully blind gamers I'll happily wishlist. If not ... well ... :)

@chemdrv.bsky.social I'd say VS Code is a particularly accessible code editor these days, particularly on Windows and to a degree on Mac. Some of Jetbrains' offerings, on the other hand, are anywhere from relatively usable to outright shit, depending on the tool. Does that help at all? :)

@chemdrv.bsky.social I learned from books as a teenager and went to college after. Ironically, a lot of the educational tools (Processing, uCertify, etc.) are a lot less accessible than their proper "this is what folks actually use' counterparts, particularly these days.

@chemdrv.bsky.social I have a youtube Channel, ViewpointUnseen, where I do a bunch of coding/hacking/general tech stuff with a screen reader, particularly in the Live tab. Not sure what of that would be useful but it's a start! :)

@therabbit84.bsky.social From what I have seen there is far better, not to mention cheaper, ways of doing that :)

Very true. Can be frustrating, can even be a grind, ut consistency is key here

@juicyartz.bsky.social Babbel is pretty good if your language is covered, Memrise isn't bad either. I use WordDive myself because the other two don't cover what I'm learning :P

@chemdrv.bsky.social Oh hi :) I'm a blind computer programmer/accessibility professional, can I help?

@suitti.bsky.social the user's from, and screen readers use TTS voices that expect a certain language. So while I am a fully blind language enthusiast and would LOVE the greek symbols, many would not, so names would probs be best :) Disclaimer: Screen reader user :)

@suitti.bsky.social I believe I am needed here :) Braille displays and screen readers CAN generally parse and display/read non-Latin glyphs, it's just that most users have them set in such a way that they WON'T, as in, braille displays are set to use certain braille tables depending on where

@orangethief.bsky.social That DOES sound interesting. Then again, a blind-accessible game definitely doesn't need to equal audio-only, I streamed a Digimon, Diablo and GTA game this week alone and I'm a screen reader usssssssssssssssssser :) pretty sure you're aware, just making sure :)

@orangethief.bsky.social Oh wow, yeah... I may have entirely missed it was on the Play Date :) I do believe I've seen some screen reader users explore that device but ehh ... to make it speak would be quite the undertaking :)

@oliviaappleton.com I'd say the text becomes less important at that point and you can focus on describing any visual characteristics that you figure are important to know about to go with the text. Screen reader user's perspective :( Not sure what that would do for findability on BlueSky and such

@boazhsan.bsky.social i'm a screen reader user and looked into the accessibility of Jupyter Notebooks on a series of streams I did last year. Long-and-short of it is that you're correct, definitely not adhering to WCAG, and best bet is to allow people who need it to use VS Code's notebook support

@orangethief.bsky.social @danielwsimon.com Congrats! :) This looks like a game that might work well for #screenReader users as well, si that something you're looking into at all currently? :)

We're very happy with this nomination for Lolife kicking off the #Playdate awards season! Thinking about accessibility helped us make a better game in general, especially in providing the choice of real time or turn based gameplay #indiedev

To mental health day or not to mental health day that is the question?

Ahh, that time in your #languageLearning journey where you start pinning down what vowel and consonant clusters grind you to a complete stop and make you make odd noises for half an hour to practice them :P In my TL of #Finnish I'd say it's currently t's or p's rapidly followed by k's that do it

@jacklikesfilms.bsky.social It depends on the document type, really. On the web generally a footnote would be a link that takes you to the footnote and a way to take you back to the footnote's mention so you don't lose your place. I'm a screen reader user.

No sight. No screen. Yet, I #stream #videoGames on #Twitch. In half an hour, checking out #monsterTrain on #twitch. See you there: https://twitch.tv/zersiax #selfPromo #gaming #streaming #accessibility

@bbsheartbreak.bsky.social Not familiar with the AO3 editor, but if there's any way you can see/edit the HTML of the chapter you can just do
<img src="image.jpg" alt="Fancy alt text"/>
Your solution works too, though :)

@bbsheartbreak.bsky.social no problem :)

@bbsheartbreak.bsky.social For a fic I think this is fine :) does AO3 not just let you add alt text on the image itself? That sounds like it would be easier

@nickcharlesyt.com You could take a glance at the r/learnjapanese subreddit. While the people there can at times be rather competitive or even toxic, there's a great many resources there for selflearners

@bbsheartbreak.bsky.social I'm a screen reader user, do you still need help with this?

@davidneilhamilton.bsky.social Yup :) Alt text's main use is to describe what's in an image if that image cant be seen for whatever reason, either because viewer = blind or because image isn't loading. Web guidelines say to convey all info in image through alt text. I'm a screenreader user.

When words migrate from one language to the other, their meaning is often altered. It is a totally normal phenomenon that can sometimes give interesting results. Two or my favorite ones are from English to Japanese.

Here are the definition of two Japanese words borrowed from English: ⤵️

@kurayamirin.vtubers.social Feel free to ask :) Generally, screen reader users read line by line, with a number of ways to zip across a page or app depending on what they're trying to get done, like skipping to the next link/image/form/section etc., as well as a key to shut up current speech:)