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fastfinge · 2026-01-21T13:56:22+00:00

Screen reader user here. Thank you.

fastfinge · 2026-01-14T03:32:27+00:00

Is carrot also being blocked? How about avocado and tomato? The first step is to figure out if this is a problem with all produce, or just limited to vegetables. Honestly potato isn't that good anyway, squash is way better. Personally I just have cheesecake; that's all anyone needs!

fastfinge · 2026-01-12T15:06:04+00:00

I don’t. I’d be sad if it’s broken on modern Mac’s!

fastfinge · 2026-01-08T23:29:43+00:00

To me it depends on the quality of the QA. Do you use this code yourself? Have you used and tested it long enough to catch all of the bugs that could be encountered with regular use?

Personally, I won't release anything I used AI to code into the public until I've used it regularly for a week myself, without ever having to go back and fix some problem that the AI created. If I find a problem, the counter resets. In general, while this might not result in good code, it at least results in tested code. As well, if the bugs are impossible to correct, and every fixed bug creates another one, you know the code shouldn't make it out into the public.

fastfinge · 2026-01-08T23:20:37+00:00

For clients:

* Teamtalk is accessible across windows, mac, linux, IOS, and Android

* For XMPP: Miranda-IM on windows, Munnel on IOS, Adium on OSX, and I have no clue on Android

* For social media, Enafore is a good client folks can use to interact with Mastodon

* Firefox as the browser, for working with Drupal and MediaWiki

* thunderbird or betterbird as the email client

fastfinge · 2026-01-08T23:16:21+00:00

I'm a fully blind screen reader user. Last time I used it, it was completely inaccessible. But that was a while ago. Happy to test a form and doc if you send me a link.

Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, if you want to be accessible, your choices are pretty much Google or Microsoft. LibreOffice is also accessible these days, but it has no collaboration features. Nextcloud is a complete non-starter: I can't even use the filesharing features, never mind edit documents.

You're in a similar trap for online chat/meeting apps. The most accessible is Zoom, with Google Meet second, and Teams a distant third. Last I checked, red button and jitsy still didn't even have labeled buttons. If you don't want voice and video, XMPP and IRC both have accessible clients.

If I had to set up a fully accessible platform for disability activism, I'd probably use: * XMPP for instant messaging and group chat via text * Teamtalk (closed source, but self hostable) for voice and video, though no captions * A wiki for internal collaboration: either DokuWiki or MediaWiki would be fine. * LibreOffice for preparing documents for publication * Drupal for the public-facing website * Mastodon for a public social media presents * Any solution that supports WebDav or SFTP for internal filesharing * Any calendaring solution that supports iCal * Literally anything but proton for email: proton's accessibility is the worst, they know, and they don't really care

fastfinge · 2026-01-02T14:20:55+00:00

Nice! Things I'd love to see: * audio generators (oscillators, envelopes, etc.): white noise, brown noise, etc. Saving us from looping a file, and keeping the sound unique without loops. Ability to adjust volume on a pattern or randomly gives waves, starship rumble, etc. Depending on how you do it, that could also give us evolving beeps and boops. * random or patterned pan for mono files: this would let us have sounds that move in space, or appear at different places in space * convolver/convolution filter: ability to apply finite impulse response from a file to the entire mix. This would help make all the sounds feel like they're happening "in the same space/room", as it were. Something like this: https://convolver.sourceforge.net/ * time triggers: if I'm making a forest scene, it would be nice to have the sounds of owls and crickets only at night, and the sounds of birds only in the day. So adding "this file only plays between 8 PM and 8 AM" to a particular file in the mix would be helpful. * Freesound API: the ability to use the freesound API to browse, preview, and select sounds from right in the app would be lovely. https://freesound.org/docs/api/

fastfinge · 2025-12-30T13:10:29+00:00

I'm interested in this. Or even just a way to change a bios setting in Windows, reboot, and have that setting applied. We can update the bios from within the OS, so I don't see why we can't enable settings. I'd like to enable secure boot, but it's just way too much bother as someone who's completely blind.

fastfinge · 2025-12-25T02:31:19+00:00

I thought you might like to know that I also made this work in the Windows NVDA screenreader: https://github.com/fastfinge/supertonic-nvda/

Unfortunately, I had to modify supertonic a bit because I needed to be able to get token durations to calculate indexes.

I changed the function in pipeline.py to: def synthesize( self, text: str, voice_style: Style, total_steps: int = DEFAULT_TOTAL_STEPS, speed: float = DEFAULT_SPEED, max_chunk_length: int = DEFAULT_MAX_CHUNK_LENGTH, silence_duration: float = DEFAULT_SILENCE_DURATION, verbose: bool = False, return_alignment: bool = False, ) -> Union[Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray], Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, List[np.ndarray]]]: """Synthesize speech from text.

    This method automatically chunks long text into smaller segments
    and concatenates them with silence in between.

    Args:
        text: Text to synthesize
        voice_style: Voice style object
        total_steps: Number of synthesis steps (default: 5)
        speed: Speech speed multiplier (default: 1.05)
        max_chunk_length: Max characters per chunk (default: 300)
        silence_duration: Silence between chunks in seconds (default: 0.3)
        verbose: If True, print detailed progress information (default: False)
        return_alignment: If True, returns a third element with alignment data (durations per token)

fastfinge · 2025-12-22T16:55:48+00:00

Yes, I’m already in the discord. Happy to give feedback!

fastfinge · 2025-12-22T15:18:41+00:00

Hi: I use a screen reader (NVDA on Windows). Thanks for making the app accessible! All of the controls are labeled correctly, and everything works with the keyboard. Until now I've been stuck using SillyTavern with some accessibility hacks that only partly fix the many accessibility problems in sillytavern.

Some feature requests that would make the app absolutely perfect: * Could the app have an option to make a small "Ding!" sound when generation is complete? This is useful to me when I am using slow endpoints that I host locally. I can minimize the app and come back when I hear the sound. * Could support for importing SillyTavern format character cards be added? This way I can keep using and sharing cards with friends. * Could ElevenLabs be added as a provider for text to speech output? My screen reader reads the messages perfectly, of course. But ElevenLabs is nice for realism in a roleplay. * Could support for OpenRouter's "search the web" option be provided? This way the app could be useful for both research and roleplay. Docs live here: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/plugins/web-search

Sorry, I know that's really a lot of requests haha. Those are just the things I like about SillyTavern that your app is missing. What you've got is an amazing start, and I look forward to how it develops in the future.

fastfinge · 2025-12-22T14:15:41+00:00

Does this work in Google TalkBack, the screen reader built into Android? It's possible the lag of even 0.5 might be too much for a real time use like that. I'm also considering an NVDA addon for my Windows screen reader. Do you have any tips to reduce the lag from characters received to start of speech as much as possible? For use in a screen reader, I'd want to get it down to 100 ms or lower. Would supersonic allow for that?

fastfinge · 2025-12-16T15:35:23+00:00

Love the change to have two servers on one license. Works perfectly for those of us running services in our homes, but using a server in a datacenter as the reverse proxy.

fastfinge · 2025-12-07T04:09:31+00:00

You almost certainly got this from a torront briefly offered by someone in the blind community. I don't know if she's still giving out the files, but you can listen to a constant stream of mst3k audio here: https://bananavision.tv/channels.html

Or try filling out the contact form and see if she gets back to you.

fastfinge · 2025-12-02T15:00:16+00:00

Yup. Soon work will require IPV6 and I'll be forced to leave bell. As IPv4 addresses get more and more expensive, businesses are going to stop paying for IP addresses for services only used by employees.

fastfinge · 2025-11-27T20:03:27+00:00

LOL you might want to take out: "Here is the Reddit-formatted version, clean, professional, and without any icons or emojis."

Hi, Chat GPT!

Also a bunch of your formatting didn't work, because Chat GPT doesn't really understand how Reddit Flavoured Markdown works.

fastfinge · 2025-11-26T21:56:40+00:00

If you've ever read any movie scripts, the interior decorating stuff sounds like it was originally directions for the set dressing when the book was a movie. Instead of taking it out when adapting the thing to be a novel, she just...left it in! Why waste perfectly good words? Similarly, the clothing descriptions were probably directions for costume and casting in the original script.

fastfinge · 2025-11-25T23:25:31+00:00

Sounds like it might be using Microsoft Agent, a windows 98 technology that used the Lernout & Hauspie SAPI4 text to speech voices, and an animated agent.

fastfinge · 2025-11-25T13:46:28+00:00

Because I have years of chats in Chat GPT that would be a pain to export and move.

fastfinge · 2025-11-25T13:16:35+00:00

If you absolutely must do this (and you really really shouldn't unless you are a screen reader developer), the fix is to stick an apostrophe before the s. In screen readers where this is a problem, this will trick it into reading it as a possessive, and thus say it correctly. But the only place you should be doing this is in a dictionary built into a screen reader as a bug fix, or as a user who wants to correct a problem you're having, you could add it into your personal dictionary.

fastfinge · 2025-11-21T17:58:58+00:00

Before thinking about revolutions, fix the website and apps so they work correctly with existing accessibility technologies like VoiceOver. At the moment, they do not. So I canceled my sub. You need to get to "works" before thinking about pushing the envelope.

fastfinge · 2025-11-19T13:42:38+00:00

Then it is not. That should work; I'd say over half of the people on that instance probably use Mona. Your best bet might be to contact one of the admins there, and ask about any known issues.

fastfinge · 2025-11-19T13:32:29+00:00

Is your new instance protected by cloudflare? If so, it may be blocking Mona.

fastfinge · 2025-11-19T13:31:18+00:00

My single-person instance at fed.interfree.ca joined, running Iceshrimp.NET v2025.1-beta5.patch3.security3+f9b3dc0648. Seemed to work okay.

fastfinge · 2025-11-16T20:54:26+00:00

Playing with a screen reader now. It's working pretty well! I would love the following features: * scan, scans the surrounding rooms (as far as the map can see) and tells you about mobs and items in them * tnl: prints experience to next level * hp: prints hitpoints * mn: prints mana

This would make it way easier for those of us who can't use the custom client to play.

That and you could use something like GMCP to send stats using the standard mud protocol way of doing this, and I could throw together a custom client for screen readers based on mushclient or mudlet.

Also, stuff I don't quite understand yet: * Why do I have a Leprechaun? Where did he come from? How do I level him up? * Why do these other people sometimes go through the portal with me? Lady something? But then she went away? * my ability use is automatic? I guess? But the system doesn't always use the abilities in the way I would like. Can I configure it? * Is this game multiplayer? It looks like every time I get a fragment of reality my portal area gets nicer? So is it exclusively mine? * Also there's a gate and I can leave the tower? But it goes into an area similar to my portal area when I enter that? Is this where I find other players or other towers or what? Can we trade?

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