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Name is Ka (pronounced Kai). Accessibility advocate, Krav Maga practitioner, avid book reader, and tech enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
Join our next Tactile Talk with Julian Nauta, Enrica Polato, and Hoëlle Corvest-Morel exploring how global efforts in tactile publishing are expanding access to high-quality, accessible books and images and what it will take to make this access more widely available. https://gatech.zoom.us/meeting/register/yMJj-WpjQpOK7dgr3GzPyA#/registration
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My Whack A Braille game is now live on the #iOS App Store! Whack moles with #Braille Screen Input, an external braille display, or a bluetooth keyboard! Practice your touch typing and your braille entry and win silly prizes! Lots of general gameplay updates from my original web version, so have fun playing! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whack-a-braille/id6760976367
Whack A Braille! App - App Store

Download Whack A Braille! by Marco Salsiccia on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Whack A Braille!.

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using Thunderbird and want to create a different email sound for each account that you have? Well, now you can, with Filtaquilla. You can also do many more things with this banana of an extension: https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/En-US/thunderbird/addon/filtaquilla/
FiltaQuilla

Adds many new mail filter actions - launch a file, suppress notification, remove star or tag, mark replied or unread, copy as "read", append text to subject.

Multiple people have asked me to add support for reading QRead's .qrd files into Paperback. However, I didn't really want to do this, because it would require dragging in an SQLite library, there's very little useful structured info in those files for Paperback, and it would add an extra item to the installer. So instead, I wrote a little program I call qrd2txt. Usage is incredibly simple, you just run it and select one or more QRD files from the open dialog you get shown. After pressing open, every file will be converted from <filename>.qrd to <filename>.txt. Original .qrd files are preserved too, and it tells you if it fails on any of them. Download: https://github.com/trypsynth/qrd2txt/releases/download/0.1.0/qrd2txt.exe enjoy!

TapType is out. It's a keyboard for blind Android users.
There are no visible keys. You tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial prediction algorithm figures out what you meant. It scores nearby keys using a Gaussian proximity model and runs a beam search against an 80,000 word dictionary. You don't need to be precise. That's the whole point.
Swipe right to commit a word. Swipe down or up to cycle through suggestions. Swipe left to delete. It learns what words you use most and ranks them higher over time, and you can add your own words to a personal dictionary.
Every letter has its own unique sound, from Andre Louis's keyboard sound recordings, so you can learn to identify keys by ear without relying on speech. Each swipe direction has a distinct sound too. TTS is there when you want it, adjustable speed, and you can turn it off entirely if you prefer sounds only.
It has emoji search with skin tone selection and favourites, a number pad mode, an upper case mode, and full punctuation support with a customizable quick list. Two-finger gestures handle things like send, close keyboard, switch keyboard, and voice input.
Everything works with TalkBack. I built this because FlickType was a fantastic keyboard for blind iOS users and then it was gone. Nothing like it existed on Android, so I made one.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no metrics. I'm not evil.

Edit: Now on 2.0 with multiple languages supported.

If you find TapType useful, consider supporting its development:
https://paypal.me/aaronhewitt
https://github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh
https://liberapay.com/fireborn/

Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech

Eloquence 64-bit for NVDA now supports a 44 kHz mode. It’s currently in preview and still being fine-tuned.
You can use the Sample Rate combo box in the Voices dialog to increase the default rate from 11 kHz to 44 kHz for clearer speech.
Unlike the 22 kHz mode in IBMTTS and ViaVoice, this mode doesn’t introduce pops, jitters, or unexpected voice resets.
Try the 16.1 upsampling preview release:
https://github.com/hozosch/eloquence_64/releases/tag/upsampling_preview
For more on the upsampling preview and author discussions check here:
https://github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/issues/88#issuecomment-4091293709
Release v16.1 upsampling preview · hozosch/eloquence_64

This version introduces the possibility to change the sample rate between 8, 11, and 44 KHz. 44 KHz is achieved by upsampling the 11 KHz signal externally via a CDLL. This is marked as preview unti...

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Today's update to the Dot Pad Braille apps page, a live March Madness scoreboard that can show up to 10 games at a time.
This is the type of stuff I've dreamed of when multiline was first being talked about.
https://braille.atguys.com
A T Guys Braille Apps

Alright, we have a confirmation about how sideloading things on android will work. I already boosted like 2 articles about this, and here is the official blog post from google.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Here's something a lot of companies could learn from Nintendo of all companies. The Switch 2 console has had a text to speech feature, but not for the first time setup. The newest firmware fixed this and now you can hold down a button to turn on speech. Except, any units in the wild won't have this for a while and be on an older version. So what'd Nintendo do? They have a gigantic article on their website detailing how to do the setup blind up to the point where the console will download the update. It even goes into details on how the language select screen looks like, or how to connect an ethernet cable or USB keyboard to enter a wifi password. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68477/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNzczNzM0MDQ1L2dlbi8xNzczNzM0MDQ1L3NpZC9mVUpLWHM3VlVyS1Q0QkpIVXZOMm9hSndZV05LNWslN0VmakVIcUx3MjFQYkV1bE5pUnQzVE9rTFc3a0t1QkI2azZFUWIyTTZibW9qd2UlN0VITm01NUo3UmlfNFlXVjF6QjFZYzBLblNVTkhZeklNRWptenNBUjlwcTR3JTIxJTIx
How to Perform a System Update and Enable Text to Speech During Nintendo Switch 2 First-Time Setup | Nintendo Support

Follow these steps to set up your Nintendo Switch 2 and perform a system update to enable Text to Speech.

ElevenLabs pledges to restore 1 million voices with AI at SXSW 2026 https://mashable.com/article/elevenlabs-eric-dane-1-million-voices-initiative-sxsw-2026
ElevenLabs pledges to restore 1 million voices with AI at SXSW 2026

One good use of AI: helping people with permanent voice loss all over the world.

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