Re:We’re All Just Temporarily Abled
by justsomehnguy on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:48AM
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Just turn off your monitor.
You can also learn Linux by just uninstalling Windows. 15 minutes of good starting material will save you untold amounts of unnecessary headache though.
Re:We’re All Just Temporarily Abled
by sixstringtheory on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:52PM
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If you enable VoiceOver on iOS, you can perform a gesture to enable “screen curtain” which turns off display rendering: a triple-finger triple tap.
Great way to test your app for accessibility.
> That makes me think, how does one learn to use a screen reader? (Or alternatives for other handicaps)
VoiceOver on Mac or NVDA on Windows are good, free options.
There's an accessibility playlist on Youtube that provides an introduction to both:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-6WvAihms&list=PLNYkxOF6rc...
A more in-depth demo:
I've been learning screen readers in my spare time because it seems like a nice screen off way to browse content in bed. It's servicable and maybe even viable way to work if more of the web was tailored for it.
Surprised it isn’t more common, I would expect nerdy abled people to show off to their friends their cool screen reading skills, just because it’s such a niche, technical, and weird thing to do.
I may try out during the weekend.
It seems fairly technical and challenging to learn, but I feel it would make sense for abled engineers to practice using those.
I personally wouldn’t even know where to start, I only enabled the screen reader a few times by mistakes and have no idea how I could learn to be effective with it if I need to at some point in my life.