Glenn
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Anyone got experience of screen readers on fedi? I can't really see since to eye surgery I want to keep up with you all and have some mental stimulation.
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Screen reader coaching?
👩🦯The Blind Fraggle@vlrny @LevelUp @bmoore123 @JustGrist @FrostPoem Hi, what OS do you use? I use NVDA for Windows. It's free.
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I am currently on MacOS and I have Windows too. I also have an Android phone.
I will try NVDA thank you.
Tim ChaseOn OSX you should have VoiceOver built in. Depending on your settings, you should be able to toggle it on/off with either F5 or command-F5. It's impressively integrated/supported/usable.
On Android, you have TalkBack built in. It's usually toggled by holding the up-volume and down-volume buttons at the same time for 3 seconds.
In both cases, if the shortcut doesn't work, you might have to dig into your accessibility-settings to enable it (or enable the shortcut).
Unfortunately they each have distinct user-interactions, so I'd recommend learning one or the other deeply rather than trying to learn both concurrently. While I'm not an OSX fanboi, I suspect your experience will be smoother there since application developers there tend to be more respectful of accessibility than on Android. And having a full keyboard is a lot easier than attempting to do everything with a touch-screen.
@vlrny thank you for your help.
@LevelUp my pleasure. :)
Alao, check the accessibility settings in your phone, there should be screen readers you can just turn on.
Alao, check the accessibility settings in your phone, there should be screen readers you can just turn on.
@vlrny I asked my phone's assistant about accessibility setting. It lead me to talkback so i have that on now which helps a lot. I can see light and colours but not shapes so this stops me so much. Thank you.
Its showing me how good and how bad some platforms are with assistive technology. Fedi is nice and readable so far. This makes me happy.
I will try voice over on MacOS when I get my laptop back from my family members. I asked them to take care of it for me while I was in the hospital since there were also men coming into my room to install a new bed. I will give that a go soon.
@LevelUp oh that's excellent! Yer figuring it out. Glad family is helping you get a leg up on it.
Hope the healing goes quickly for ya. 💖
Hope the healing goes quickly for ya. 💖
A feral Kass (they/she)@LevelUp As has already been mentioned, NVDA is a good free option for windows. I recently saw that somebody is working i'm coding a tutorial ad on for NVDA that might be helpful in learning how to use it. Mac OS has VoiceOver built-in, and there is also a built-in tutorial for how to use voiceover, though it is a bit limited.
@JustGrist I will give voice over a try. My laptop runs macOS so it will be easier for me to use than my windows desktop computer for now. Hopefully it does the trick. Thank you for your help.