Post #683027
2026-03-17 11:25 UTC
Replies (20)
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@modulux@node.isonomia.net 2026-03-17 11:28
@pixelate@tweesecake.social A stable screen reader and accessibility that's reliable and comparable to what one gets in proprietary systems.
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@technocounselor@caneandable.social 2026-03-17 11:30
@pixelate@tweesecake.social If it gave me some sort of functionality or Accessibility, more than just being an open source, that I could not get on a Mac or windows. I don’t know what that would be, and I certainly haven’t found it yet, so I haven’t tried it beyond the brief time I had a BTSpeak.
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@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa 2026-03-17 11:30
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Screen reader support. Or if it has screen reader support, then better visibility (no pun intended) of what screen reading software is available and how to enable it.
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@seeingwithsound@mas.to 2026-03-17 11:39
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Not blind, but Windows 12 reportedly going to be infested with AI will make me consider moving to Linux.
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@ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org 2026-03-17 11:39
@pixelate@tweesecake.social I'm not visually impaired, but if there isn't a UEFI screen reader that you can flash onto firmware, there ought to be, and a Linux driver to use the UEFI screen reader ought to exist as well, if it doesn't already.
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@bscross32@tweesecake.social 2026-03-17 11:57
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Desktop Linux is a no go for me. The level of accessibility is far below acceptable. I have used headless servers though, and have a Pi 4B which I've set up to be headless. I'm fine with setups like that.
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@kaveinthran@mastodon.stickbear.me 2026-03-17 13:21
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Audio demos of some cool applications
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@avadeaux@mastodonsweden.se 2026-03-17 15:15
@pixelate@tweesecake.social I know @standupmackan.bsky.social is fond of Linux. (Note: that’s a bridged Bluesky account, so he probably won’t see [!] your replies if yours isn’t bridged the other way.)
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@menelion@dragonscave.space 2026-03-17 15:59
@pixelate@tweesecake.social 1. A spare PC dedicated for this. 2. A robust audio system and accessibility support that won't be as flaky as described in some famous articles. 3. A screen reader that just works and allows to carry out various commands, with decent Braille support, ideally scriptable. Keyboard shortcuts reassignment is a must. 4. Detailed thorough instructions about installation, distro choice, desktop choice, updating process, settings, screen reader usage, designed for advanced users of another operating system, all of those able to be executed by a blind person alone. 5. Developer tools accessible by themselves *and* allowing to develop accessible apps. 6. Decent console processing by screen reader, and it must be the same one used for desktop. 7. Basic software, powerful and accessible: mailing client, browsers (not only Firefox), media players, cloud solutions, word processing with advanced capabilities (commenting, track changes, tables, multi-level lists, various list bullets etc., etc.), spreadsheets, presentation viewer. All of this accessible. 8. All of the above must not be, as one podcaster uses to say, written by aliens for predators. I.e., it must be at least fast learnable, configurable and usable by someone who has a very high raised bar of usability, accessibility, and customizability. 9. Decent choice of TTS voices, both "robotic" and more human-like, with multilingual support (it's a must!), especially for languages in different alphabets: cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek. 10. Punctuation customizability, emoji reading, math processing, various abilities to read Unicode characters. 11. (Not necessary, but ideally) a book reader with DAISY, EPUB, FB2 support. 12. Something I definitely forgot. #Accessibility #Linux
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@lizhare@fosstodon.org 2026-03-17 18:10
I had a Linux machine for a while, and I only used it for data analysis in console mode. I would need to be convinced that there was community support on accessibility of a variety of applications.@ I work wwith open science communities and software and their interest in fixing accessibility varies a lot. pixelate@tweesecake.social
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@pesh@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 18:38
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Not having to do hours and hours of research into distros and packages and shell commands to get things minimally working. Like, someone just tell me what to install and have it not involve 50 steps. Also a comprehensive guide/tutorials about how to do basic stuff with keyboard navigation and Orca, like navigating around parts of the OS and common GUI programs.
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@Bri@fwoof.space 2026-03-17 19:00
@pixelate@tweesecake.social An actual DAW. Access to remote incident manager or jump desktop.
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@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club 2026-03-17 20:32
@pixelate@tweesecake.social I'm already a heavy linux user, but what would have made me switch sooner would be, well, accessible firmware, but we all know that's probably never gonna happen, and also more of a community support where I could ask questions and have actual linux users answer them eventually or something. This stuff exists more now than it did then, for sure, but still something more informal than a forum would be awesome
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@Mirppc@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 20:51
@pixelate@tweesecake.social if my vision where to become impaired i would likely use the distro made by Klaus Knopper for his wife. Beyond that Orca has done a great job and monitors in the larger sizes have dropped in price. Better OCR to speech would be handy. Though i have heard there are some projects using large language modles that help. Whisper has replaced Dragon Natualy Speaking for me when it comes to Speech to Text. Google Doc's speech to text has been decent enough too.
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@skua@mastodon.social 2026-03-18 00:27
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Not blind. Reading this thread has me wondering if a body like the EU Commission could step up with money for targetted development of Linux to work towards inclusivity goals. (And digital security goals, military security goals, & digital sovereignty goals. )
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@Kirmesboxer@mastodon.pub.solar 2026-03-18 08:34
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Not a blind person here, hope that’s OK. I found it remarkable that the screen reader was enabled by default after installing Pop OS.
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@felixule@techtett.de 2026-03-18 08:40
@pixelate@tweesecake.social I'm currently trying it out, I've set up an Ubuntu system and so far I'm really liking it. I just want to get away from this incomprehensible, slow to respond, constantly hanging Windows. I'm just not satisfied with the selection of tools that have to replace the ones I already have under Windows. And of course I really miss Eloquence as my primary voice on every device. #Windows #Linux #accessibility
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@ZBennoui@dragonscave.space 2026-03-18 15:01
@pixelate@tweesecake.social If it actually supported 99% of the music production apps I use. Until that happens, not switching away from Mac.
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@luiscarlosgonzalez@mastodon.social 2026-03-18 15:04
@ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @pixelate@tweesecake.social I want more graphical and textual screen readers. I know Odilia or something alternative to Orca is still??? there but I need more
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@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space 2026-03-18 15:39
@pixelate@tweesecake.social Accessible and credible DAW/audio editing software. Given what I do, that is a must.