Ancestors

Written by Sy Hoekstra on 2025-01-06 at 17:35

Being #blind is fun. Just encountered a visual captcha with no audio option. So I used JAWS Picture Smart to get AI to read me the text of the visual clue, which I typed in and got through. So basically I'm a human who needs a robot to prove to another robot that I am not a robot. Without my robot, the other robot would have thought I was a robot. Also I was trying to make a payment on my PAP machine, which really should in itself indicate that I am not a robot. #Disability #Disabled

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Written by Stefan on 2025-01-06 at 21:41

@SyHoekstra

Hahaha, the way how you described this incident with a captcha is indeed funny to read and imagine the situation at the same in my head.

I wonder, how does your Screenreader process Emoji, what do you hear as an output?

@roblen

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Written by Sy Hoekstra on 2025-01-06 at 21:56

@kranzkrone @roblen There are labels for all the emojis. I don’t know if they are standardized or not, but basically it says something like “red angry face emoji” or “three red double exclamation mark emojis”

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Written by Ellane W on 2025-01-06 at 23:55

@SyHoekstra And that's why I've heard it's annoying for users of screen readers when people's user names have a ton of emojis after them. @kranzkrone @roblen

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Written by Sy Hoekstra on 2025-01-07 at 00:19

@ellane @kranzkrone @roblen True story. Really lots of emojis anywhere is annoying

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Written by Kate Hildenbrand (DE) on 2025-01-07 at 08:50

@SyHoekstra @ellane @kranzkrone @roblen my pet peeve are those "fonts" that are actually mathematical symbols. I immediately judge people who write their user names in those "fonts" to look cool or edgy or whatever people go for these days. I know it is mostly ignorance rather than malice...

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Toot

Written by Stefan on 2025-01-07 at 12:38

@rootsandcalluses

I know exactly what you meant and dislike it too! Horrible way of specialize a Username. 😐

Back in the Days when I was Teenager, there was another way of specialized writing names called "LEET Speak" referring to "Elite speak" with lots of Numbers in every Word as replacement for a somewhat similar Character. (I purposely excluded the numbers in this explanation!)

That must have been wild times for people being blind.

@SyHoekstra @ellane @roblen

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Descendants

Written by Kate Hildenbrand (DE) on 2025-01-08 at 09:05

@kranzkrone @SyHoekstra @ellane @roblen Oh yeah, especially as you'd have to put together what those numbers represent. Seeing 1337 as LEET is one thing but hearing "one-three-three-seven" and "seeing" LEET is quite the challenge. At least "mathematical-symbol-a" is still spelling it out albeit annoyingly.

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Written by Stefan on 2025-01-08 at 12:06

@rootsandcalluses

Experiencing, in terms of seeing in front of the inner eyes, the World as a blind Person is a whole other cosmos in it's own, in my imagination.

@SyHoekstra @ellane @roblen

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