Stuart haxell1d ago

New tech docs Podcast Episode!!!

🎙️ April FOOLS!!! We have an episode for you!
Whats up Docs!
Jade survives CSUN with four interviews from the exhibition floor. The rest of the team rant about technology that has personally wronged them. Nobody is put in jail, but it’s a close call.
Siri hates the Cavan accent. Alexa won’t play Cork 96FM. Two HomePods are now doorstops. YouTube Studio caused actual suffering. You’ll have to listen to find out who’s responsible for what.

Listener Challenges
What is Jackie’s mystery new toy? Email your guess!
How many smart devices does Jackie have in her Sligo house? Closest guess gets a shout-out!
Send us your best text replacement shortcuts — we promise we’ll try not to steal them.

Listen now:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=Ek7778GAcGM5Ok7U&v=sXhz-nobqgQ&feature=youtu.be

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-tech-docs/id1881374183?i=1000758641386

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4VbeUT8k4GLAEH7uwJjOmf?si=3iApN6bVQ66R2CtnUu07qA

Email: [email protected]

The Tech Docs are not responsible for Google-related trauma, HomePod incidents, or spontaneous Alexa/Siri rage. Happy Easter!

#A11y #BlindMastodon #AssistiveTech #CSUN2025 #Podcast

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Stuart haxellMar 2

🎙️ Hey everyone! Exciting news — I've just launched a brand new podcast with some brilliant people, and I'd love for you to give it a listen!

🎧 THE TECH DOC PODCAST 🎧

What's up DOC?!

Meet the power-hungry Doc. The commander Doc. Two rebel Docs constantly plotting technological mayhem. And the captain Doc desperately trying to stop it all going off the rails.

Minor detail: they're all blind or vision impaired. 👀

Once a month, Stuart, Jackie, Jade, Ken and Pat gather their collective wisdom (and questionable decision-making skills) to poke, prod, test, break, and occasionally understand the tech that's meant to make life easier.

From apps that behave… to gadgets that absolutely do not… nothing is safe.

It's tech talk. It's chaos. It's lived experience. It's TECH DOC! 🔥

📱 Episode 1: What's Up Docs? is out now!
👉 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-tech-docs/id1881374183
👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4jfreP6I7i2HNsg6OjRjRf?si=qRWEmWJ-QfOTkrfwZ8UTlA

Also coming soon to Amazon & YouTube!

If you use Overcast, Castro, Pocketcasts or similar apps, you can paste in the Apple Podcasts link directly.

💬 Got tech questions or topic suggestions? We'd love to hear from you!
📧 [email protected]

If you enjoy the show, please rate and review — it really helps us out! 🙏

#NewPodcast #PodcastLaunch #TechPodcast #TechTalk #Tech #Gadgets #BlindCommunity #BlindMastodon #AccessibleTech #A11y

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IanTwentyJan 21

This lemmy post didn't get the audience or response it deserves:

Is there any hope for accessibility on Linux?

https://lemmy.world/post/41912475

Poster is trying to move off Windows to Linux. Currently using Mint but frustrated with the Orca screenreader. They ask: "are there distros that people have actually used that make an effort to be accessible?"

#AskFedi #Blind #BlindMastodon #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Linux #Orca #LinuxMint

Is there any hope for accessibility on Linux? - Lemmy.World

TL;DR: Is my statement below incorrect? Are there in fact meaningful efforts to improve accessibility on Linux? Are there distros that people have actually used practically that make an effort to be accessible? I have used desktop Linux on and off since 2009, mostly flavors of Ubuntu with occasional detours into things like Arch or CentOS (RIP). I currently have Mint installed on a separate drive but I can’t fully break away from Windows because as a blind user the experience is not only unsatisfactory it has gotten worse in the years I’ve been using it. Orca hasn’t improved at all, and the magnifier has actually lost functionality at some point, my guess is the move away from GNOME 2. Among other things you used to be able to assign arbitrary modifier keys to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel but this is no longer the case. I have little faith that things will improve. Any given Linux distro isn’t one product, it’s a bunch of different projects. One group makes the kernel, another makes the shell, another the window manager, yet another makes the desktop environment, audio, bluetooth, graphics drivers etc. All these make the assumption that the user is able-bodied, and bolting accessibility on top of all these disparate systems after the fact is very difficult. It’s no accident that MacOS and iOS are frequently cited as the most accessible platforms. Apple controls the entire stack from hardware to UI and even many of the apps and has the resources to devote to serving a comparatively tiny portion of their userbase.

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