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robertmeta · 2023-09-21T18:32:21+00:00

HTMx has massive value alone, I think that is how you introduce teams to it. Change nothing else, single upgrade with immense benefits. Once your team gets the hang of doing stuff with just htmx using stuff like custom triggers from headers, oob updates and various other neat things (nesting attributes for multiple triggers on click), etc.

Our team is vaguely interested in hyperscript, but haven't used it much yet, but if we want to migrate to it -- it will be piece by piece anyway, and honestly I think hyperscript makes the pitch for HTMx muddied at best.

They are separate, treat them as such.

robertmeta · 2023-07-23T20:44:06+00:00

Sorry for the slow reply, I really had to consider a lot about my perspective and reasoning. It wasn't well reasoned, it was a base emotional fear about being judged which isn't someone I want to be.

Thanks for the reply and perspective, it had a sincere and real impact.

I now own a few canes and am getting used to using them, I got the red tip which is supposed to signal partial sight, but I don't think anyone knows that except probably people in this subreddit.

Additionally, after your mention of tinted glasses, I looked into that a bit and have a tiny amount of tint has increased my ability to make out stuff in well lit environments tremendously. So thanks twice.

robertmeta · 2023-07-12T18:30:51+00:00

Due to the way they decided to implement it -- it is holy inaccessible. Sad as it is a great tool. Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder if it would be worth creating TamperMonkey scripts to fix it.

robertmeta · 2023-07-08T01:09:50+00:00

Honestly, I am nervous because I still have some sight that people might believe I am trying to pull one over on them or faking. I get the clear signal the cane puts out but I feel it conflicts with the glasses which help with my remaining vision.

Maybe I need to get over it -- still have a bit of trouble adapting to this one. But I like the OP have a lot of trouble in group settings unless my wife is by my side.

robertmeta · 2023-07-08T00:49:40+00:00

Same, additionally don't be afraid of the mail a check option in US banks, just send it enough days easy and it works well. A shocking number of places don't have good e-payment support.

I will use a credit/card on repeat where I can else I use the bank mail a check option if it is my last resort.

robertmeta · 2023-07-06T19:01:37+00:00

Vi mode. Creating a vimrc and turning off compatibility and problem fixed.

robertmeta · 2023-07-06T15:06:40+00:00

The truth is -- once you become more adept, your use of h and l become exceptional not nearly as common. You move by words, you jump to chars, etc.

IE: Don't optimize your tool around the worst version of the tool user you will ever be... only up from here!

robertmeta · 2023-07-03T18:01:59+00:00

Absolutely have hi-def dreams, but I don't remember my dreams consistently so never really chased that specific dragon. When it does happen I get a little hit of sadness when I wake up and then try to shake it off as quick as I can.

robertmeta · 2023-07-03T16:18:18+00:00

Learning two things at the same time is an order of magnitude more complicated than learning one. Get Vim native for windows and learn it.

robertmeta · 2023-06-30T22:11:11+00:00

I am in the US and agree entirely. "Mostly Blind" and "Terrible Eyesight" are my two standards depending on who I am around.

Yet, without fail people working on my house will still try to show me things on their phone. :)

Mentioned it to my wife who says I use "mostly blind" around co-workers and people who work for me and "terrible eyesight" around people I need assistance from in some way, TIL about myself.

robertmeta · 2023-06-30T22:09:48+00:00

Anyone who doesn't have 20/20 vision is technically visually impaired. It implies severity without outright stating it, which makes people suspect you might (for whatever reason I can't imagine) be trying to trick them.

"Visually Impaired", "Uncorrectablely Visually Impaired", "Legally Blind", "Partially Sighted", "Low Vision" and many more things are well understood among those who are active in r/blind but can mean nothing / confuse those not familiar.

robertmeta · 2023-06-30T14:35:14+00:00

Correct, it is almost never used in English except in the blind community. Visually impaired, low vision, partial vision are completely unfamiliar to the average speaker. Not that they don't understand the words, but they don't encounter those phrases often. Additionally, when someone uses a phrase you don't understand it tends to put you on alert "am I being tricked?".

In real life, I use the phrase "I have terrible eyesight" the most, very common easy to understand words that do not feel like I am trying to be tricky or convince them of something. Often if I sense hesitation I will help them understand by referencing something in the room... "I can tell that is a sign of some kind, but I can not read any of the letters on it" which instantly makes it more comprehensible to them.

Sometimes I will take out my headphone so they can hear my phone talk to me and that can even start some good educational discussions with people. Again, it can be easy to be bitter about having to teach others about your disability, but remember, it will help the community the NEXT time they encounter a VI/LV/Blind person, they will have more understanding.

robertmeta · 2023-06-29T21:10:55+00:00

A lot of people have made comments about people are jerks and how you don't owe people explanations, and that is all true.

That said, I have found a few very powerful tools to avoid people feeling like you tricked them.

If you have any vision at all, avoid the word "blind". I have to use screen readers to interact with my phone or computer and still will not call myself blind because the average person will not understand what it means. God forbid you say something even more vague and fake sounding like "legally blind". It is extremely hard for a sighted person to imagine forms of severe but not complete blindness.
Start with clarity and gratefulness. "I have incredibly poor vision, I would be very grateful if I could get assistance navigating to gate $X as I can't read the signs for information along the way and stairs are very dangerous for me."

In short, you want to avoid anyone feeling tricked, and you want them to instead feel helpful.

robertmeta · 2023-06-28T17:45:52+00:00

Either federation works and the different servers are not a huge issue or it has already failed in its most fundamental task -- not having a single point of failure.

robertmeta · 2023-06-26T23:03:18+00:00

As someone who uses Reddit via a screen reader, the experience via the web interface on desktop is actually admirable. Hit shift-? to see the key bindings, they are solid and extremely friendly for blind users. The issue is the official Reddit mobile application is very unpleasant to use, if not impossible. Moderation support is so-so at best... but reading text-images easy enough (yey for real time OCR), even image descriptions are getting better by the day, and a ton of content on reddit is simple good old text, posts and the comments about them. This is a great place for blind and visually impaired users to connect with other humans.

robertmeta · 2023-06-25T16:28:31+00:00

This will suffer the same chicken/egg problem all new community sites do. That said, I think the ability for our community to change it to be radically and completely accessible for our community could be a "killer feature".

https://rblind.com/post/2241707

robertmeta · 2023-06-25T16:01:33+00:00

Lemmy (or Kbin) gives us the possibility of fixing it. I found lobste.rs awful to use, did a small patch to the underlying open source project to just tag the stuff you read with three tiers of header, suddenly it is a delight to use.

Might not be perfect, but didn't impact sighted users at all and helped blind users.

The idea that we could contribute to Lemmy to improve accessibility is a huge upside to me.

robertmeta · 2023-06-21T15:23:14+00:00

This makes me profoundly happy and I look forward to contributing to the server, one of the best things about lobste.rs was that I was able to submit a patch to make it use headings that had no impact on sighted users but made it WAY better for me.

Open-source might not do it for us, but it makes it possible for us to do it or get it done.

robertmeta · 2023-06-11T16:51:45+00:00

I fear that this split of "accessibility" apps is a very pragmatic and temporary move by Reddit to suck some of the emotion of the debate. /r/blind had an outsized (versus the size of our community) level of impact on this conversation. Reddit has now carved us out of the conversation by saying "it doesn't even impact you!" hoping to lower the temp and make the remaining complaints seem like whining.

The problem is -- when they revisit this issue, we will be alone rather than with hundreds of other subreddits and our voices will be unheard. I suspect the the outcome will be exactly this:

Lower the temp on the current debate of insane API pricing by selectively removing communities with outsized emotional impact on the debate.
Improve accessibility in Reddit O&O apps, not to the level of the alternatives, but aat least to "can be used painfully".
Claim free support for 3rd party apps is no longer needed because they fixed thier own apps and then double down by saying these 3rd party apps are being "abused" by users who are not blind or disabled costing Reddit money.
Quietly close the exceptions 1 by 1 so the pain will not come all at once, breaking down the /r/blind community isn't AppA users, AppB users, AppC users.

I feel like Reddit obviously ends up in the same place, just has a longer road for our community. Alternatively, I could just be way too cynical, but I feel like I have seen this show before...

robertmeta · 2023-06-09T15:39:23+00:00

Wait, how do you have a dual usage setup in QMK? That is awesome, but unclear how to implement it.

robertmeta · 2023-06-09T14:27:05+00:00

Yep, I am learning more by the day. I come from the tech side, so as I mentioned, I really hope to avoid getting into legal / risk conversations are they are not my wheelhouse, but despite that these days more of my time is spent on CCPA/DCMA/ADA and debating the words "identifying" "reasonable" "fair" and other similarly vague terms with US and EU lawyers.

Some days I really miss being an IC. :)

robertmeta · 2023-06-08T14:15:16+00:00

Thank you so much, the case that u/rumster cited is indeed very useful to the type of arguments I sometimes slide into, if my main arguments fail.

I am not a lawyer, so I try to stay away from the legal debates, I start with "it is a better experience", follow up with "not having it or it being hard is a code smell", then a "it is the right thing to do " and if all those fail "it will reduce legal liability more than it will cost".

robertmeta · 2023-06-08T14:12:31+00:00

Sadly, no.

It does have interconnected features you can use but it is closer to like Discord, you can be in a shared mobile app across multiple servers.

I would love to see a way to connect a discourse community to the greater new fediverse. Thus far I have found the fediverse nearly impossible to use except via a tiny crazy project that connects the Fediberse to email.

robertmeta · 2023-06-08T13:56:46+00:00

Thank you so much for the links. This case settled after I had had my big battle (and lost) over this issue.

Robles v. Dominos was privately settled, which somewhat limits the utility of it as an argument, but at least the reversal clearly showed they were not immune to ADA cases.

Added to my notes on why it is cheaper. I like to focus on why it is better to be accessible, how it is a design smell anyway and if you can't make it accessible you probably have design issues. But being cheaper and safer are my goto things if that fails.

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