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  Today on "I can't figure out if this is because this app is probably 80% vibe coded or because Microsoft is Microsoft", Teams has decided that it will begin saying "file deleted" through my screen reader about twice a second while a download is in progress, coming very, very close to giving me a minor heart attack. I feel like it would cause a minor uproar if your screen started endlessly flashing "file deleted" after you clicked download on your company's f...

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  I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating. As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

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  Any blind Joplin users around? I'm trying to figure out whether this is just the least unpleasant to use out of the unpleasant to use notetaking apps or whether there's actually a reason to properly like it. So far I find the focus on the Mac app to be quite unreliable when moving around the note list, the editor on the iOS app seems to have terrible navigation around the text with VoiceOver...

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  "Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: " Welp, guess blind people are left out of that too! If CryptPad Forms is about as accessible as their documents, sheets and presentation editors, we're well and truly fucked. But it's like, great. And open-source. And respectful and encrypted. And good. Just plain good. Accessibility just, isn't one of i...

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  Silly me! Silly me for thinking that subscribing to a newsletter for a store with rotating stock which I enjoy visiting would yield useful information. Silly me, stupid, clueless me, for thinking that the newsletter would contain something other than "link image see more", "link image see more" and "link image see more". This is, of course, not because the newsletter contains no text, or because the only text it contains is "see mor...

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  In other Thursday morning news, VoiceOver has decided that it will sometimes read * at the beginning of a line as "star" and sometimes as "asterisk". This might have something to do with VoiceOver's language switching or it might have something to do with VoiceOver sending stuff to Eloquence weirdly. Thank god VoiceOver is so transparent with its internals and respectful to its users and will let me diagnose this without much hassle. Ahahahahahah funny...

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  Windows is the kind of OS that will forcibly push an unwanted 10+GB update up your urethra, take 5 minutes to install it on startup while confidently showing you a "You're 100% there" banner for 3 of those minutes, and then forcibly open Edge (ignoring your default browser settings) to a latest features page. "Look, we just snuck up to you while you were asleep and force-fed you 50mg of THC, which like, you were fine before and you didn't want them, bu...