@main @mastoblind @bookstodon I've read over 160 pages in #Braille in the last ~3 weeks, I have been aiming for 10 pages a day, though right now averaging just under 7. Glad to find my speed back to about 5 minutes per page, I was up to about 3.5 per page when reading Harry Potter over a year back, however The Book of the New Sun is drastically more advanced.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Ok and finished chapter 10.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Ok read chapter 9, averaging 5 minutes per page now.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Finished chapter 8, and volume 1, apparently stopped reading last night <3 pages from this…

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Ok and that's chapter 7 done, ~20 pages today.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Read all of chapter 6 today something like 24 pages.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Ok and finished chapter 4, and also read chapter 5 today.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Ok read another 7 pages today, averaging just under 6 minutes per page., I'm almost through chapter 4, and around 15% through the book.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Partway through chapter 4 now, and it continues to get better, and reaffirm that reading this in #Braille was the correct decision.

Is this even a good idea? I mean, those cells are controlled by mechanical motors, which would eventually wear out. I would think doing this.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon Ok am up to chapter 3, and this is a superb book so far, the writing strongly reminds me of some of Poe's more complex stories, in particular Ligeia, which should also give people an idea of the language and style of the writing.

That's awesome!

@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main As it happens, I'm working on an rss feed discovery tool, cleverly called... discover 🤔 It has basic screen reader support but I've not done extensive testing. I'd love any feedback you have!discover.brine.dev/

Thunderbird has XMPP as well as Matrix and IRC support and is accessible.

@NicksWorld @mastoblind @main @RareBird15 miranda ng with the add ons like winter speak and blind clist

You guys keep up the good work. I understand porting to another OS is pretty painful most times and limited resources need to be spent wisely. He will be here for a week or 2 so plenty of time to get him on 11 if ORCA doesn't fit his needs

FIrstly thanks for helping your friend! I'm sure he appreciates you.

Unfortunately there is no linux version. It would be technically possible, and indeed, Orca does use some of our code. However, screen readers work at a lot lower level than many other programs - simplifying dramatically, but as an example, porting a word process between operating systems for instance, mostly requires making sure the system interfacing parts (like saving or printing) work and much of the internals can stay as they are. Most of what NVDA does is interfacing with the operating system to find out what is going on, where the cursor is, what has focus, what has changed, etc so it can present useful information to the user. In order to create a linux version, we'd actually have to rewrite the vast majority of the code. At this stage, we feel our efforts are best spent continuing to improve the experience on Windows, BUT should that ever change, we will be sure to publicise it widely. For now, Orca is the main screen reader I'm aware of on Linux, though I admit I have not looked lately.

Is there a linux version of this? How does it stack up against ORCA?

edit: Setting up a laptop for a blind friend and want him to have a great experience. He uses NVDA on windows but as I am giving him a laptop to replace his non-windows 11 compliant pc I was hoping to convert him, obviously if it fails he, or I if he's still in my city, will put win 11.

I use and recommend a selfhosted FreshRSS instance, but I'm unsure whether or not it plays nice in terms of accessibility.

For finding feeds I mostly just look for RSS on websites that I come across. Another thing I did when moving to FreshRSS was using Feedly, a paid RSS reader with a free plan that I was using, to find some interesting sources and import those into FreshRSS. I also use Reddit RSS feeds for a few subs that don't have a big enough audience outside of Reddit.

Unread articles is no problem for me. I just have a very quick glance and then mark everything as read if there's too much. After that I check it a few times per day, only check what seems interesting, and mark the rest as read again.

I use RSS a fair amount. I can't really speak to the accessibility, but I find feeds by searching a web page's source for the word "feed". The New York Times has feeds available from this page for different locations and topics.

@cj @RareBird15 @main @mastoblind I used to use the Windows clipboard history but my problem with it is that it erases the clipboard contents after a PC restart. I haven't used the feature you ran into but for just finding previous clipboard entries I love Ditto.

@RareBird15 @main @mastoblind It doesn't have the features of Ditto, but there's the clipboard hisory feature in Windows.

What exactly are you trying to do? I coded an entire Miriani sound pack back in like 2014 because I didn't want to use Windows, and so I got pretty decent at it.

The format is

#action {some text from mud goes here}
{what to do on your end}

Example

#action {Tom walks in}
{slap tom}

#action {%1 walks in}
{slap %1}

What error messages are yo getting?

Back in the day I used tintin and even got a stripped down copy working on android. That experience I don't recommend.

Even back in the 90s when I mudded heavily I never used tintin, I was always a tinyfugue user. Then I switched to zmud and now I use mudlet. Good luck in your quest!