I just heard from the developer that it is not possible to make FastSM compatible with Windows 7. This leaves TWBlue, unless there is another client I'm missing. I know that TWBlue does have an older version that works with 7, so I'm guessing it's just a matter of updating certain things to give it the features of the latest version. Sadly, as I said in the past, TweeseCake is not open source, so that's not an option. As for why I don't do it myself, I am not a programmer.

#accessibility #blind #computers #Mastodon #MastodonClients #OpenSource #programming #software #TWBlue #Windows7

*If anyone can help me with this, I would sincerely appreciate it. I have no interest in discussing whether Windows 7 is supported or not. I know it's not, and I am choosing to use it. I have everything I need, except a Mastodon client, so right now, I am using 11. And no, I have no interest in Linux either.*
I normally use TweeseCake, but it doesn't work on Windows 7, and it's closed source, so there is no way of changing that. Apparently, there is a version of TWBlue that did, but I can't find it. I just tried a client called Fast SM, and it's wonderful. However, it doesn't work on 7 either. Judging by the Github page, it seems to be written in Python. I am not a programmer, but would it be possible to get modern TwBlue or Fast SM to work with Windows 7? Both of these are open source. If not, then does anyone have the old version of TWBlue?

Finally, it seems that, unlike TweeseCake, the others have some sort of retrieval limit. If, for example, I'm not on Mastodon for a day or two and have 400 notifications, TweeseCake shows all of them. But the others only show a certain number far below that. Why is this, and can it be changed?

As a side note, I tried Whalebird and it was an absolute disaster with NVDA.

#accessibility #blind #clients #FastSM #Fediverse #Mastodon #NVDA #programming #Python #technology #TWBlue #TweeseCake #Windows7

I want to view my timeline without all of the nonsense that I worked so hard to filter out. TweeseCake does not respect my filters but TWBlue does. However, every time I try to start it, it says that it quit unexpectedly and it won't start. I then have to close it from the task manager. Despite appearing to be portable, it's not, and some information is stored on my machine. But I can't figure out where so that I can delete it and try to start the program again. Can anyone please help me or suggest a better accessible Windows client for Mastodon? I really hate this, since TweeseCake allows for editing of posts, but I don't want to see these things in my timeline.

#accessibility #blind #filters #Mastodon #technology #TweeseCake #TWBlue #Windows

I am now on piefed.social as, of course, dandylover1. I just joined a few days ago and haven't really started using it, other than to unsubscribe from a huge list of instances? accounts? topics? that I was subscribed to without my knowledge, all because I said I liked a few things. It might be a good idea to give people a list of these so that we could choose for ourselves. Also, when reading comments, every time I hit the down arrow, NVDA says "comments tree view' even while reading a single comment! It gets very annoying very quickly, and I'm not sure how to stop it from occurring. Other than that, the site seems to be quite accessible. It seems, also, that I can subscribe to some of the same places with this account here on Mastodon, but that might be confusing, since I receive so many things in my timeline from other people and pages, or whatever they're called. There are too many names for the same thing. Anyway, does anyone know if PieFed works with TweeseCake or TWBlue?

#accessibility #blind #fediverse #PieFed #NVDA #TweeseCake #TWBlue