blind coder / comp-sci student, working in automatic speech recognition for CLARIN. Polish. Libertarian leaning. Feel free to get in touch.
I was so excited about the new feature the Polish government added to our government app recently, the ability to sign documents using a "qualified digital signature", *for free*.
For the non-Europeans in the audience, a qualified signature is the European equivalent of DocuSign, except far less intuitive, far more expensive, and, by extension, not accepted anywhere near as widely. By regulation, it's the only kind that has the same power as a classic paper signature.
This feature requires an electronic ID card, and as my old ID was soon to expire, I recently got one of these anyway.
I tried doing this with two different providers, and it turns out that both of them just return a very helpful "Server error, without even an explanation of what's wrong."
As they say, disappointed but entirely not surprised.
@_elena@mastodon.social This is also true about Mastodon*, but Mastodon actively tries to hide that fact from users and muddy the waters.
@matt@toot.cafe and I'd say:
Pair this with a blind-friendly distro that has everything configured (you'd need NFB/ACB support for this, as you probably need the metaphorical "company letterhead" to get secure boot certified).
Autotranslate into all the languages via LLMs. Sure, human translations are better than automatic translations, but automatic translations are better than nothing. Source: Not a native English speaker, I've actually relied on them back when Google Translate was borderline unusable.
Preferrably, pair this with scripts that can "walk through" the scenarios described in the book, making sure Orca output stays consistent as versions change. You could also this to automatically record multilingual walkthroughs, with human-written commentary between the steps.