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By day, I'm the Accessibility specialist at Desmos Studio. Otherwise, technology, music, fitness, amateur radio, and bad television from the 90's occupy the rest of my time. Dictators and Nazis not welcome.
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.
Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech
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Bug fixes Fixed touch passthrough breaking other keyboards when TalkBack is active. Passthrough now only activates when TapType is the current keyboard, and clears immediately on keyboard switch, ...

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#uspol #trump #HabitualLiar

Surprising no one, the man who said he graduated top of his class at Wharton -- or later backpedaled to "the highest grades possible" when his name wasn't found on any published class honors list -- the current US President, actually graduated two spots from the bottom of his class: 364 out of 366 according to Penn's archives.

Donald Trump didn't graduate top of his class, he barely made it out of college at all. According to Prof. William Kelley (by way of attorney Frank DiPrima) Trump was "the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!"

"For the record, the President of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year." -- Daractenus

#USpol #Trump #Iran #war

Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are.

It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us into dust.

We're crazy and scared all the time, and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's a reason dying of opiates seemed like a rational choice to a lot of people.

Another #Suno cover, this time of the ending music for Blart Radio. I'm surprised how much of the original it recreated-- even down to the harmonies in the main melody.

"I'm Peter Thiel, and I know about the Antichrist. I'm Peter Thiel, and I know about the Antichrist. I'm Peter Thiel, and I know about the An-ti-Chriiiiist."

What a loon. https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/technology-uvt65hdqz/-/a-0fkQ-oTyQbuxx_X8IA0tow%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican’s backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The invitation-only conference in Rome, from Sunday to Wednesday, has proven so controversial that the Catholic …

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Thought I'd see how #Suno would cover the original Blart Radio theme over my lunch break. Given the source material, I don't think it turned out too badly.
Just learned of another victim of today's right-wing techno-fascism: Code 2040 is closing its doors at the end of May. https://www.code2040.org/blog/2026/3/9/h4uynvb9k2kxgujn56jsw4fqeqyumq
After 14 years, Code2040 has hosted our final program. The fight for racial equity continues. — Code2040

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The combined and still uniquely distinguishable odors of fresh mulch and dog fart permeate my office this afternoon.
So ... the #CSUN list of exhibitors page is now a bunch of buttons that, when pressed, tell screen readers absolutely nothing and add a modal to the end of the DOM that you have to go find, which in turn has buttons that go to a website for said exhibitor.
Premier #blindness conference in the US and we can't even follow basic #web #accessibility practices I see. Great look guys, incredibly impressed. /s