I am a blind technologist, humanist, a voracious devourer of books, speaker, writer, and a thinker, who finds himself championing #accessibility for fun and necessity. I'm currently exploring the complex world of AR and VR worlds to find best ways to achieve full accessibility for disabled people. Oh and give me your fun book recommendations: be it nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy, romance, mystery, and more.
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Last Notes npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz Question, Do you have UIA detection switched on in NVDA's advanced settings? npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz Hmm. I'll see if I can replicate this with Office 2016, which is what I'm using. I haven't encountered this particular issue before; that is not to say that it doesn't happen. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz What screen reader? npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz Shift+left/right arrow should do it. My strategy is to go to the line where the image is, press end, and use shift+left arrow to select the image. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel LOLOLOLOL. The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like #ChatGPT People are more like #AI language models than you might think. Here are some prompting tips. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/the-fine-art-of-human-prompt-engineering-how-to-talk-to-a-person-like-chatgpt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1eav…g6f3 I like a few different versions. Making it with Cumin powder and smoked paprika allows me to add it to either Indian or mexican foods. I also like to keep some spicy ones around so that I can just snack on the cubes. I take the spicy ones, coat them with a bit of corn starch, ginger, black salt, garlic, and curcumin before roasting it in the oven or air fier. Those make for either good chunks for gravies or snacking. I just heat them in the toaster oven for a bit. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1ahq…wjwd What I truly wonder is who earned the 500K, shifting sand from somewhere to this area? I want to create a company with this particular grift. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1y0e…mm9n Ah but that one doesn't appear to distinguish between human and cat inputs from what I heard. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel If #AI were real, it would detect cats showing up near a laptop or keyboards, stopping everything such that no inputs would be possible until the cat moved away. I'll refuse to believe any AGI is real until that time. #caturday npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel This billionaire shit is getting old. Elon Musk and pronatalism: His fight with Grimes is more than media spectacle. The billionaire is now funding academic research—and revealing his interests in a future where women exist to have lots of babies. https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/elon-musk-grimes-babies-pronatalism-research.html npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1ahq…wjwd There's that group of people that will never associate the circumstances between the two since TFG can do no wrong. HRC described it perfectly as a cultish behavior. Deprogramming them will take a long time if ever since other grifters will continue to grift. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1ahq…wjwd I'm beginning to wonder if chiding media for its mistakes itself is becoming sort of a point/counterpoint business--all apart of the cycle. Instead of taking criticism seriously, the executives are using the criticism to fuel revenues. Same 'ol coverage; be criticized for it by reputable sources like James Fallows and Margaret Sullivan; have attention drawn to the coverage; repeat. Cynical much? npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1ahq…wjwd You know they'll never learn from that though. They'll blithely go on and blame everyone else when things don't go their way. They think of nothing about their terrible political coverage and platforming some terrible people in their opinion sections. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz Some people will never be skilled enough or have the ability to gain the skills to be effective browsers for the standard interface. As much as I like and use that interface, it's not consistent. There's too much to remember. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz Not everyone does though. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel #BlindPeopleUnite I know many #blind people who use GMail's HTML view. Not only will they be confused but will be unhappy. "You can display Gmail on your browser in Basic HTML view until January 2024. After this date, Gmail will automatically switch to Standard view". https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en Bookmark this URL to go to basic HTML view. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ It should still work but doing so will not provide the option to set the mode as the default anymore. #accessibility npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel A look at Panos Panay's impact on #Microsoft and Surface, paving the way for OEMs to focus on quality 2-in-1s, and the executives taking over parts of his role. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23878759/microsoft-windows-panos-panay-surface-yusuf-mehdi npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel Let me rewrite the headline and the emphasis for you. Original: "How the UAW strike could have ripple effects across the economy" Rewrite: "How low wages for factory workers and extreme pay for executives have a rippling effect on the economy every day" #news #press npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz Try the Logitech Solar Keyboard K760. I've had one for more than 10 years now. Charges directly through solar or ambient light. I just keep it out in the light and it's always charged. https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Solar-Kebyoard-iPhone/dp/B007VL8Y2C npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel With BeMyAI and Lookout on the rise and existing services like Seeing AI and Envision being out there, it seems like a lot of #blind people are trying to become familiar with phone cameras and their interfaces. There are a lot of questions about camera positioning--e.g., how to point, how to stand, what will be covered, etc. Would it be helpful to have an article or an audio tutorial that covers these topics? #description #accessibility #a11y #photography #photos npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1gaj…78dz This could also be caused by wrong sound drivers. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel Interesting idea but it's not only about ads. Is it? It's also about data collection. #Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of #Facebook and #Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-europe-ads.html #privacy npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel Here's an accurate headline, worthy of its name. BREAKING: Trump Arrested for Fourth Time in Five Months https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-arrested-georgia-2020-election-meddling-1234812069/ npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1lzz…jhl3 That quoted sentence is awkward while attempting to be fancy. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1zyl…t54n Macbook Yoga? npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel @npub1ahq…wjwd It's not only about DMs if I'm not mistaken. I suspect it's about what message was posted by POTUS himself compared to others controlling his account. npub1rsree2kty7e8g6xz0d4y8y95g6q3ykkzqwf9rtjtzw89sr8utvusva0nue Pratik Patel Meanwhile in the Windows 11 land, Typing "%Appdata%" in the Run dialog results in: Drumroll ... "Select an app to open [user name]" Dramatic reveal of the File Open dialog. Oh and Windows Explorer is not one of the options presented.