So I was just playing a game from 2010. Danki Rompa or something. I got an English patched version.

I was just thinking about how in 2010 I could never imagine playing a visual novel. I didn't even know what those were, besides Blazblue. Of course, most of the story was spoken, but I didn't know a thing about the silent parts. I found out later that those were either choices, or narrative text, and stuff like that.

Now, not only am I playing it on my phone, I have AI to not just read the text, but also describe the characters, locations, stuff like that.

#tech #accessibility #blind #gaming #game #emulation #AI #Android #psp #ppsspp #TalkBack #GeminiAI

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@garo for me the most important is that it must answer calls in all the messengers, from bare phone to WhatsApp to Telegram to Teams to Signal, you name it. And on Android it's a freaking quest to answer a call, each and every time. It's a good system, I like its openness and stuff, but while it doesn't allow me to simply answer a simple call reliably and while it has those atrocious keyboard issues… sorry, no. #Android #Accessibility #TalkBack
I feel like the android keyboard is really bad with talkback at the moment. Like, really bad.
This morning when I was in the car I had an issue with my Pixel Buds. I wanted to google it, but this is where the issue appeared:
As you may know, typing on Android devices with Talkback is already a quite slow experience even using direct touch. But imagine even if your finger is on the proper letter, if you lift it it chooses one that is next to it basically every third letter. If you have at least some bit of imagination, this will probably be very bad in said. And let me tell you, it infact is as crappy as it sounds.
I sincerely hope this is something which gets fixed as soon as possible. I already noticed it two or three days ago. If this won't be fixed, my phone simply isn't workable with and I will need to use voice messages and dictation for everything.
#accessibility #a11y #google #android #pixel #googlepixel #talkback #blind

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Just got a Google update. TalkBack no longer interupts Gemini. We'll see how long this lasts.

#Android #TalkBack #Android #geminiAI #accessibility #blind

Uh oh, help me #Pixel friends I'm stuck in some #Talkback gesture tutorial and don't know how to get out.

The attached screenshots show where you'll see it. The pronouns might be too long for the available space, so you can always tap the grey chip to show a message at the bottom of the screen to see them (as demonstrated in the first screenshot).

If you use #Android #accessibility features like #Talkback or similar a new "Show pronouns" action has been added so you can do this too.