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@EmilyIsRad Ahoy, randomer who saw this get boosted and happens to do this kinda thing for a living—at least with regard to websites.
JAWS is the most commonly used screen reader by some margin, but it’s unfortunately not free. NVDA (which is free!) is second, with macOS/iOS VoiceOver and Windows Narrator on roughly level pegging behind.
I wouldn’t worry too much about which one you test with, personally, as the main differences between them are in how they’re used and the specifics of how they parse particular things: VoiceOver might not explicitly state that some text is in bold where the others will, for example. You might see more deviation between them depending on the complexity of the document, as there are a few HTML/ARIA features and attributes with inconsistent support.
And to answer the actual question, I test with VoiceOver on Mac and NVDA on Windows.
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This website's cool, but I wish there was a way to find the geeks and gamers in the crowd.
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Ok so I was familiar with “the dragon book” - the canonical textbook explaining compilers with a dragon on the cover - but apparently I somehow completely missed the existence of “the dinosaur book” for operating systems??
Peeked at my Steam profile and apparently my most played game is Cities: Skylines, at 1,507 hours.
That's nearly 63 days. Over two months. What the heck, me.
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public transport opinion
Okay self-driving cars seem like a really good idea, but I don't think they're ready to use on the open roads yet. I'd suggest keeping them on a fixed route where no other vehicles can go to minimize risk of collision.
We should probably have fixed places where people can get on and off. The cars come in, open their doors, let people enter and exit, and then continue on their journey.
Speaking of which, we should probably also make them larger to increase efficiency and again, to minimize risk of accidents.
We could even couple several of them together into one combined vehicle.
And since they're only going on a fixed route anyway, it makes more sense to use steel wheels on steel rails instead of rubber on asphalt.
I know it's an outlandish concept, but I'm convinced it might work really well if we ever get to try it out on a large scale
@SwooshyCueb It's pretty wild how when you put someone whose supposedly real techy in front of a terminal they end up making the most stupid of mistakes.
Even I, who only has Linux experience from fiddling with RaspPi, found myself going "WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT!?" a lot.
The name's Beeps.
Bat Beeps.
*beeps*
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@ripp_ I also never really learned how to ride a bike.
As per usual, I blame living in places with abundant public transportation most of my life.
@ripp_ A HTTP header to do that actually predates GDPR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
I made the rest of them too: https://berly.kim/blog/2021-11-22-star-trek-ahoy/
Also it's super late so I'm gonna have to finish this some other time.
Luckily, I am entirely the kind of person to be bored enough to try and fix it!
…In XboxAhoy's art style, because originality is hard.
The lack of consistency in iTunes' film thumbnails (or, more likely, the thumbnails provided to iTunes) is utterly infuriating.
I meant toot but it was already mid-loading bar when I remembered.
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