@wingo Do you think Rust is actually like that now?

Also, a recurring stumbling block for this student, when using Windows with NVDA, is the header control in multi-column list views, like when you're in the file open or save dialog and you're shift-tabbing from the file name edit into the item list. Is there a way to just get rid of that header […]

@feoh I admit I'm as prone to the negative energy as the next person. What about Python, though? Guido used to have "Computer Programming for Everybody" as an explicit goal of Python. That reminds me, I should check on the status of accessibility in Tk, since Tkinter is the official entry point […]

Jonathan's toot (the one I boosted) included a copy of Glen's announcement on LinkedIn, but here's the actual link, in case anyone wants to comment over there (I don't have an account there) […]

I hope Glen takes some time to take a well-deserved break. Whenever he's ready to continue doing his part to improve the state of accessibility, I look forward to seeing what that looks like.

@raymaccarthy Wayland is where the maintainers of the graphics stack and the major desktop environments want to go, so we have to make sure we're not left behind.

Putting a terminal front and center is a statement that you, the user, will want or even need to do things with your computer that we, the developers, didn't necessarily anticipate and design prefab, polished user interfaces for. Burying the terminal is a statement that we developers know best […]

@ifixcoinops I say don't ever hide the terminal away. We need to make sure that future generations always know that their computers are theirs to tinker with and modify as they see fit.

@WeirdWriter Ah, I'm sure I haven't seen nearly all of the threads going around about recent developments in JAWS.

@WeirdWriter Are there actually blind people who think vibe-coding a screen reader? The only post I've ever seen on that subject merely posed it as a hypothetical while being quick to note that it wouldn't be a good idea.

And of course, there's a difference between using an LLM to vibe-code a […]

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@PepperTheVixen My opinion, as someone who has been in the AT industry for over 20 years, developed a Windows screen reader (Serotek's System Access), and worked on Narrator at Microsoft, is that NVDA also has a more solid foundation and more powerful addon support. FS is trying to […]

@simon Is it a Linux-capable Raspberry Pi or a Raspberry Pi Pico? To me the word "full" implies the former, but the fact that you said the code is in MicroPython and there isn't much space for a keyboard driver implies the latter.