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AT Instructor interested in accessibility, weather, space, and of course cats. (Willow and Athena are babies).
websitehttps://www.stevend.net
I like the idea of this post, but I can also see how the changes outlined aren't all that significant. I could realistically see that if it were reviewed by any Apple developers, them seeing the (mostly insignificant) grade drops as no big deal. Almost everything got pretty high grades. https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-vision-accessibility-2025-applevis-report-card
Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2025 AppleVis Report Card | AppleVis

AppleVis is pleased to unveil our 2025 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card. The only report of its kind to focus specifically on the needs of people who are blind, DeafBlind, or who have low vision, the Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card provides valuable insights into the lived experiences and opinions of people who rely on VoiceOver, braille, and/or low vision accessibility features on Apple products.

@MostlyBlindGamer Interesting. I use my pinky on my left hand. Thumb is number 5. Thumb of right hand is 6, and 10 is pinky on my right hand. It makes sense to me to do it like that since it's straight left to right.
Oh no, my woman went home. That's certainly turned this Saturday into a sadder day. She'll be back in a little over a week for my birthday, so I'm glad for that. I think the kitties noticed because first Willow popped up, and then Athena popped up a second later and both gave me head bonks.
@bscross32 @musicalman Yeah I do the same thing. Water by itself doesn't work for me because it just makes the thick wax wet, but usually if I do peroxide and then water after that it flushes mine out pretty good.
Had fox brains, pork ear salad, and fried stringy pvc sticks for dinner. Something I ate didn't agree with me though, so I don't think I'll be repeating that one. Oh god.
@nixCraft One of my biggest turnoffs from a Windows 11 laptop is the number of laptops that no longer have a right control key. I've always used it to perform keystrokes where the other key is using the left hand. I refuse to learn to keyboard differently for sucha superfluous and quite frankly stupid reason. On a computer where there are at least 7 or 8 ways to access... what... built-in Chat fucking GPT? I don't need such an important key taken away to provide yet... another... way.
I have a link for you all. Want to try out a very early beta of TeamTalk manager? Have at it!
Please keep in mind that as stated earlier, this is early software. Things will be broken or may not behave as expected.
We have tested it for a few weeks now, most functionality works and there are more features planned.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/56t32fQa
Join the TeamTalkManager beta

Available on iOS

Last year I announced gamedeck, my upcoming card / dice game platform.
I have an exciting update. I recently got a new client running on mobile, so I can officially tell you all that development resumes and we have mobile versions of the client in production! I've been able to play a couple of games on my iPhone without many issues. You can read more about this game at https://ims-productions.com/gamedeck
gamedeck

Gamedeck IMS Productions is proud to finally announce the upcoming release of Gamedeck, 2 years in the making! What Is Gamedeck? Gamedeck is a small but quickly growing collection of multiplayer games

IMS Productions
Athena popped up
Paperback version 0.8.0 is out! For those that don't know, Paperback is a fully accessible and blazing fast ebook/document reader that supports an insane number of formats. Changelog:
Added Japanese, simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese translations! #300, #326, #335.
Added an automatic updater that will now replace your currently installed version of Paperback instead of just downloading the new version! #323.
Added optional sound feedback for reaching a bookmark or a note, thanks Andre Louis for the sounds! #110.
Added RTF document support! #26.
Added support for DAISY XML documents. #136.
Added support for Flat Open Document Text files!
Added support for Flat Open Document presentations!
Added support for separators with s and shift+s. #294.
Any movement of greater than 300 characters will now automatically add to your navigation history. #179.
Fixed restoring Paperback's window from the system tray. #284.
Fixed Markdown documents showing raw text instead of rendered HTML in the Web View.
Fixed tables not rendering properly in Markdown files. #303.
Image only PDFs will now warn you of their existence when you attempt to load one. #89.
It is now possible to check for new dev builds instead of stable releases when checking for updates. #333.
Properly embed version information in the Paperback executable. #204.
Split the options dialog into tabs for ease of use and navigation.
Switched to Hayro for parsing PDFs, leading to more reliability, speed, and fewer DLLs.
Rewrote the entire app in Rust. The new codebase is safer, loads documents faster, and is easier to maintain and extend.
The text control's context menu will now include reader-specific actions instead of generic items such as cut and paste. #114.
Downloads page: https://paperback.dev/downloads/
Donate on PayPal: https://paypal.me/tygillespie05
Sponsor on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/trypsynth
Enjoy!
Downloads – Paperback