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Nick's world 🌎 👨‍🦯

I seem to have a problem with my USB, my brother reformatted my USB for his 3DPrinter and now it won't work with my book player, all i get now whenever I insert the device inside the player is cartrage error, and my brother @rook has tried to fix it but no luck, and I don't understand why. Can anyone help him out? #Technology, #Blind

aaron

You’ve seen my posts about Linux accessibility. You’ve read me scream about broken screen readers, unusable bootloaders, and the sheer volume of stuff that only works after three undocumented hacks and a blood sacrifice. That’s from someone who already knows how to deal with this mess.
But what happens when someone new tries to step in?
My partner just published the first post in a new blog series called “Linux: Helpful or Headache?” It’s a personal account of what it feels like to stare into the abyss of Linux as a blind user who hasn’t even installed it yet. This isn’t a “how to” guide. It’s not a technical tutorial. It’s a moment of honest vulnerability and curiosity in the face of a system that’s infamous for treating newcomers like an inconvenience.
Part One – An Introduction
reading4life.mataroa.blog/blog
She’s totally blind. She’s used to Windows and iOS — platforms where accessibility is at least visible, documented, and supported. Linux? From the outside, it looks like a twisted obstacle course: too many distros, zero onboarding, no centralized help, and a community that can't agree on anything except that "you should have read the wiki."
And yet… she’s jumping in anyway.
This first post talks about that pre-installation limbo. The “what the hell even is a distro?” stage. The existential dread of picking between MATE and GNOME when you don’t even know how to pronounce “Flatpak.” The raw, unfiltered feeling of not knowing what you don’t know — and doing it anyway, because the itch to explore is stronger than the fear of breaking stuff.
There’s no cheerleading here. No “yay open source!” No tidy beginner tutorial with copy-paste terminal commands. Just one blind woman staring down the reality that Linux doesn’t come with a support number, and deciding to try it anyway — not because it’s easy, but because she wants to learn, grow, and maybe even call bullshit where it’s due.
And if you're wondering — no, I didn’t write or co-write it. This is her voice, her experience, her story. But it does tie in beautifully with the nightmare I’ve been chronicling in my own posts, from a totally different vantage point.
If you’ve ever tried to onboard someone to Linux, especially someone disabled, this is what it actually looks like. And if you’ve ever told someone “Linux is great, just pick a distro,” read this and realize how much we take for granted.
Go read it. Boost it. Follow the series. She's only just getting started.
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #DisabilityInTech #Blind #NewUserExperience #Debian #UX #TechBlog #DigitalInclusion

reading4life.mataroa.blogLinux: Helpful or Headache? (Part one, An Introduction) — reading4life
Matt Campbell

Do any #blind people reading this either own the (expensive) Monarch tactile graphics device or have access to one through school or work? If so, is it at all open to third-party apps running on the device itself? Failing that, has anyone figured out the specs of the computer that's certainly inside it? It's expensive enough that it would be great if it could serve as a blind person's general-purpose computer.

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aaron

GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People

I chose to write this.
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#GrapheneOS #Accessibility #FOSS #Blind #DisabilityTech #Inclusion #GPLv3 #espeak #a11y #Security #FreeSoftware #DisabilityRights #Android #Rant #TechShame

**update**: If you are using this post as some kind of call-to-action to harass and attack the GOS developers, please don't.

That damages everyone. You, them, and myself. It's not helpful.

**Update two**. I have made the decision to pull this post. It is not a good starting-point for a discussion, and just encourages defensiveness on both sides – when there really aren't sides here at all.

As a FOSS contributor, I am deeply ashamed at the way I approached this out of frustration.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
Has anyone who is #blind or using a #screenreader had any experience with the VR-n76 #ham #radio handheld? Is the app #accessible with #voiceover? Can you use most functions through the app (IE, it would be possible to use the radio without seeing its screen)? I'm thinking about one for a summer trip, if only I knew I could use it. www.verotelecom.com/VR-N76-Dual-Band-Handheld-Radio-p2511333.html #hamradio #a11y #amateur #amateurradio
https://www.verotelecom.comVR-N76 Dual Band Handheld RadioVR-N76 Dual Band Handheld Radio
#amateurradio
Nick's world 🌎 👨‍🦯

My brother says that if you're gonna go out on a date, you have to spend as a guy, $200 minimum. How true is this? Does a lady like it when a man spends that sort of cash on her? and what's the expectation they assume for that kind of cash? because its just insanity to even consider spending $200 minimum, and I'm not even talking about transportation as a blind person, which is of course, always expensive. #Dating, #Blind

Veera Laukkarinen

Testasin iOSin saavutettavuusominaisuuksia huvikseni ja tällä kertaa testasin kameran kautta tunnistettavia esineitä.

Kiersin meidän asunnon läpi ja sain tällaista dataa ulos. Huom. Suluissa on se esineen oikea nimi.

Johto, työkalu (roboimuri), säiliö (reppu), hattu (käsityöläjä korissa), lehdikkö (huonekasvi), puulattia (ruokapöytä), kuulokkeet (reppu). kengät (verenpainemittari).

Nooh. Ehkä vielä jonain päivänä tämäkin ominaisuus kehittyy parempaan suuntaan. :blob_smile_sweat2:

#apuvalineet#saavutettavuus#Apple
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Tech Singer

I know we have a bunch of people who are more or less into slightly unusual tech here, so figured I would ask. Does anyone know of a #bitcoin hot #wallet which has #A11y for #blind users? I don't care if it's #Jaws or #NVDA which works with it, but do prefer #Windows if at all possible. Accessibility, though, is the main thing. If anyone knows of one which works well with #Voiceover on #iOS, or even with TB on #Android, I'd appreciate hearing of it. Boosts would, of course, be very welcome.

James Scholes

It is bewildering to me how many #blind people share content that they've copied from another source without fixing up issues with #screenReader readability. The latest example is an email starting with 13 lines—for NVDA and Chrome at least—of silent unicode characters at the beginning.

Actually, it's confusing why so many blind people copy and republish content from other sources rather than linking to the original, but that's a separate conversation.

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Noah T. Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦

#Accessibility hive mind, I have some questions about #ChromeVox as well as #Chromebook accessibility & #usability in general. I'm working with a #PixelBook that has never been used. ChromeVox is telling me to use commands involving the search key as a modifier, but these seem not to work as any use of the search key invokes #Google #Gemini. What's going on here? Additionally, how are #blind people using #Chromebooks? In what tasks do they excel. In what tasks do they fall short? Any input and/or information would be greatly appreciated.

#Blind #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi #a11y @mastoblind

patricus

hey #blind gamers, how would I go about getting a bunch of gold in manamon 2?
I fought master dyas and lost all of my herbs and lost and have to do over, I may have to cheat here.

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