🎉 Castro 2024.7 is live in the App Store, featuring a major podcast artwork makeover along with many bug fixes.

Read more about this update on our blog: https://castro.fm/blog/summer-update-2024

My semi-anual reminder to turn on braille mode in Google Docs/sheets/slides if you are a screenreader user. You can do this by pressing ctrl+alt+h, or by enabling braille mode from tools > accessibility settings.

Do this even if you are not a braille user. It does far more than enable support for braille displays. What it actually does is place the document in an off-screen content editable. This allows you to use normal screenreader commands to access things, E.G. insert+down arrow for say all. With braille mode off, the content is in a black box that communicates state changes via live regions, relying 100% on the browser to do so correctly. Despite it being the default, this mode is considered legacy and is no longer developed,.

This has been the case for 8+ years but Google is bad at branding, leaving it to me to inform the good people of Mastodon.

You’re welcome!

The next update to Leasey will contain support for the Enafore social networking web-based client.
This will work in a similar way to the Leasey support for X.

Easily browse through posts with the Up and Down arrow keys.
Abbreviated Mode removes a lot of verbal clutter so you only hear the author and post.
More logical shortcut keys.
Sounds when appropriate to indicate events.
Nicknames for users, perhaps when the author's username is long or complex.

The developers of Enafore have done an excellent job of ensuring the service is accessible. But it often comes back to the argument of accessible and usable. This support makes it more usable and efficient. Improving efficiency is one of Leasey's targets. #LeaseyLove