I kept seeing a blank live activity at the top of my iPhone's notification center, VoiceOver's feedback being limited to, "activate to expand". I figured it was some third-party app that just hadn't added proper labeling. Today I finally "activated to expand", instead of just clearing it.
It was the clock app after multiple alarns got stuck.
I spent a lot of time in Linux terminals today. Open-source free software continues to infuriate me less than my 2000-dollar iPhone.
@simon I feel like this about REAPER too. It isn't free or open source, but it's cheap, has a total of 2 full time devs, and mostly just gets out of my way and let's me do the job without friction or fighting, which is more than I can say for the vast majority of other things I use on a daily basis largely made by big companies with huge budgets. Firefox and NVDA mostly fall into that "actually nice category for me too, though there are a few bugs I need to squash related to both of those to make that fully true.
@jcsteh Oh, and belatedly, NVDA and Firefox do make an amazing combo that seems to just work. Genuinely the only problem I can remember having since version 60 was the pesky off-screen bug, and you fixed that. It's officially snappier than Chromium on slow hardware. And with all the times I have to pick the commercial/enshittified/big tech competitor because the FLOSS version doesn't work, this is the complete opposite and I sometimes forget how important that is. So thanks for being such an integral part of making sure that continues to be the case.
@simon Thanks. I'm really glad to hear that. Would you mind if I pass this along to my team? I'm sure they'll be happy to read it also.
@jcsteh Definitely feel free to pass that along. I know a lot of work went into the accessibility and I don't want it to go unappreciated.