Mastodawn

If you're a Windows user of FastSM and getting error 41 (unsupported format) when trying to play YouTube audio, here's the fix!

FastSM has full VLC support built in, but the Python VLC bindings aren't bundled in the Windows installer. Without them, it silently falls back to BASS audio, which can't handle WebM/Opus streams from YouTube.

The fix is simple:

Install VLC if you haven't already

Run: pip install python-vlc --target

Copy the vlc.py file from that folder into C:\Program Files\FastSM_internal\

Restart FastSM

YouTube audio will now route through VLC and work perfectly. Note: you'll need to redo this after FastSM updates. Hopefully @mewproj will include the missing .py file in the next release so it just works right out of the box.

#FastSM #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader #NVDA #Windows #PythonVLC

Jonathan 3h ago

Anyone here having keyboard-cleaning experience? Especially storing keycaps so you know which one belongs where later on, but also other methods, such as using compressed air, etc.?
I want to get a bit more independent with my tech hardware stuff, and my keyboard definitely needs a cleaning session, so yeah, any experience is welcome.
#keyboard #blind #keychron

Kaveinthran 7h ago

It is very refreshing and interesting that @hartgenconsult Leasey features and controls are slowly transitioning from the classic jaws scripts approach to application interfaces and programming. That means it is completely possible for Leasey to make it screen reader agnostic. Let's hope so that even other screen readers say from the NVDA universe get to benefit from Leasey.
#jaws #nvda #screenReader #Blind #Leasey

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Marcos Dione 9h ago

@BlahajBlast #LinuxMint #blind ^^^

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦10h ago

If you are #blind and still use #irc there's a new adispeak release for you! This one includes the latest adiirc beta, with the fixed and fully accessible settings and server list. It also includes sounds thanks to @FreakyFwoof. If you've never heard of adispeak, it's a script to make adiirc read out IRC messages, in the spirit of sjams or mircspeech, but supporting #NVDA, and based on a more modern IRC client. Get it at: github.com/fastfinge/adispeak/releases/tag/v_0.4 #a11y #accessibility #screenreader

Release adispeak 0.4 · fastfinge/adispeak

Release 0.4 bundles the latest AdiIRC 64-bit beta from https://adiirc.com/AdiIRC64_48.zip with the current adispeak files. Changes: Default network is irc.rblind.com on port 6697. Default autojoin...

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Devin Prater :blind:11h ago

In my endeavour to boil the oceans for accessibility, I've forced Codex to create Private Eye, a continuous (live) description addon for NVDA, using Ollama. That means if you have a good enough GPU, you can run Gemma4 or other models on your local machine or AI server. If not, ollama pull gemma4:31b:cloud and you can use Ollama's cloud models. They have a free teer that gives a good hour or so of AI per five hours, and $20 per month which gives 5 times that and I've never hit that limit. Also this is very new. Still, you can edit the general system prompt. It has a general, video, and game description mode. The video and game mode automatically enable when the window title has YouTube, Dizney, Prime Video, ETC. in the tital bar, and game runs when you're using RetroArch, PPSSPP, PCSX2, ETC.

Commands:

* NVDA Alt V: Start and stop. It takes a minute to stop if it's already requesting a description, I'll see if I can get that fixed. Probably see if network requests can use their own thread.
* NVDA Alt Shift V: Clear context.
* NVDA Alt Control V: Open settings.

Will I put it on the store? Maybe. I don't feel like it's good enough for that honor yet, but I'll let other people be the judge of this. Note that this is literally like an hour old.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hk26jsoi8kfm6764jx44x/Private-Eye-0.2.2.nvda-addon?rlkey=o1j5oy2gfvy9t5zl256cjzk3x&dl=1

#NVDA #accessibility #ai #blind #ollama

Nicks World 11h ago

Paramount plus has Startrek, deep space 9 audio described. I only just found out. This is really cool. #StarTrek, #Blind

Fubsepude 21h ago

Just discovered Agram by App-suite, and I'm absolutely loveing it.
It's nice to finally have an #accessible and fully featured #telegram client on #MacOS so I can get rid of Tweesecake once and for all.

https://app-suite.eu/agram
#accessibility #Blind