Relevant announcement from Discord.

This is going to be a bad time, because both making a video of your face and photographing your ID are barriers.

Living in the land of fancy electronic IDs for everybody, I didn’t even consider the drivers license issue. Not fun.

An update to this, the Intopia survey has been extended and is now open until March 6th: https://t.co/xKQU1TcHHO

@dhamlinmusic @NVAccess @main @mastoblind There is a version of Braille Extender on the NV Access add-on store but won't show up unless you tell the store to include incompatible add-ons in the available add-ons list.

@joslee @NVAccess @main @mastoblind I have never gotten it from the store, or even seen it listed there. I always go to its download page, and it updates itself so I'm on that version.

@NVAccess @dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind Supposedly there is an NVDA 2025.x compatible release but the author has not uploaded it to the NV Access add-on store.

@doubletap @mastoblind @main If I remember right, I just hit space on the button. It didn't seem to count arrow key movements or space. I think I might have even left the focus on the button for starting and stopping recording so all I had to do was press the spacebar.

@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main Can I just ask, how did you stop the recording on the macro?

@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main Thanks for this. This is really useful info. And I’m glad you enjoyed the chat.

Thanks for the link.

“Small-volume braille printers cost between $1,800 and $5,000 and large-volume ones may cost between $10,000 and $80,000.”

Well, I guess that settles that option. Perhaps a print shop would have one, but I suppose it would not be cheap to use if they have to recover their investement. I would have to know that my recipient were blind to take that option.

OTOH, I also thought: I could record my voice (either reading my letter or giving a summary), then post on the web with a password, and put a QR code in the letter to an URL that includes the pw as an argument. But a blind person wouldn’t see the QR code. So that kills that idea. In principle, such a practice could theoretically be standardised with the QR code in an expected position.

I have no expertise, but if you really want to go the extra mile for them then I happen to know braille printers/embossers are a thing.

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind I don't know offhand, but it's probably worth an email to the author? (I haven't actually checked, but hopefully their contact details are in there somewhere - they are supposed to be)

@main @mastoblind @FastSM Okay, never mind, lol. How it happened, I don't know, but my home timeline was hidden. I checked hidden timelines and it was there. It's fixed now.

@main @mastoblind @FastSM I just disabled streaming and restarted. Home timeline is still gone. Very weird. @FastSM can you please look into this when you get a chance?

I have shakes for when I don’t have the time or spoons for making food. Sometimes I throw some peanut butter or jam in there for flavor variety. That might work for you.

@RareBird15 @main @mastoblind That's what I use, along with the HW E-reader, I do not have my Orbit 20+ paired with anything right now.

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind I need to play with NVDA and Braille more. I haven't been using Braille as much since I got rheumatoid arthritis in my hands last year, but I want to use it more. Last time I tried it, though, Braille Extender didn't seem to have a keymap for my Braille display, the Brailliant BI 40X, so a lot of commands didn't have Braille equivalents, and I didn't have the energy to assign them all.

@RareBird15 @main @mastoblind You can assign vertically aligned paragraph within NVDA, I have it on Ing/shift+Ing (perkins 346/3467)

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind Yeah, I'm probably about to remove IndentNav, the only other one I have installed, as I've seen some strange issues with it, particularly when using Visual Studio Code.

@RareBird15 @main @mastoblind Yeah I removed BrowserNav rather quickly, found similar issues with the other Nav add-ons but not as significant, also Console Toolkit conflicted with at least one preset hotkey from Braille Extender, as did Markdown to Html Converter.

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind Oof, and I had both installed. That might help explain the freezes, lol.

@RareBird15 @main @mastoblind Yeah I found the BrowserNav add-on to be very conflict prone with other add-on, and it's outright incompatible with Braille Extender.

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind Well not happening again is good at least

@NVAccess @main @mastoblind Nope to both

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind I'm not sure what you did, but did you get an answer? And / or has it happened again?

@dhamlinmusic @main @mastoblind Very odd. I don't have an answer, but it's something we'd look at an issue on if you would like to write it up? ishttps://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues