Post Ab8jM5FeX0oYVGMSm0 by jcsteh@aus.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ab73ZMurm7tFoyKZxA by jcsteh@aus.social
       2023-10-24T22:49:58Z
       
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       It is deeply exasperating to me that Apple continue to increasingly fuck accessibility of Apple Books, especially with braille. I'm currently reading a book to my son in the evenings. Here are just two of the bugs I have to deal with while trying to enjoy this with him, breaking the flow of my reading:1. When the page turns, often the cursor will jump to the bottom of the screen, so I have to jump to the top and down four elements to continue reading.2. Sometimes, the cursor randomly jumps to the start of the paragraph while I'm reading and continues to do this randomly every 30 seconds or so."Why not use an alternative app?" you might ask. I would, but DRM means that i can't. And these fucking big profit-above-people companies wonder why people resort to piracy. Because apparently, when you pay for something, you actually get a shittier experience.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8jCK3Ke6TjVqwa4e by jscholes@dragonscave.space
       2023-10-25T00:19:37Z
       
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       @jcsteh The bugs affecting time/activities with loved ones are particularly devastating to me.  My partner and I make daily use of the feature to share audio between two sets of AirPods.  It's very special to us, but it would be difficult for me to concisely articulate the extent to which it is broken in iOS 17.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8jHCCJHL6Sb9T0zo by remixman@mastodon.cloud
       2023-10-24T23:08:49Z
       
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       @jcsteh This is very true. Also, I don't understand why I can't just fucking pay $10 for an unprotected, DRM-free EPUB book and do whatever I want with it. Use it in whatever app I feel like. Make my own experience. DONE. END OF STORY. This shit hurts honest users.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8jM476lINwyTM7oe by darrell73@mastodon.online
       2023-10-25T02:24:39Z
       
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       @KaraLG84 @jcsteh What has happened when these Braille issues have been reported to accessibility@apple.com? Does Apple ever provide any bug or case numbers to track?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8jM5FeX0oYVGMSm0 by jcsteh@aus.social
       2023-10-25T02:52:38Z
       
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       @darrell73 @KaraLG84 I kinda gave up reporting bugs to Apple a while ago because I put in a lot of time and effort to report details and then there's just radio silence. A bug often just gets closed as a duplicate of some other bug or something and then you can't see anything more. That's just an aspect of Apple's closed culture, but it's not something I'm personally willing to sink time into with no indication of any kind of return.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8loL5RRvjHdGBbSS by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-25T20:47:36.499349Z
       
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       @novenary It's the really sad state of affairs, Apple is by far the best about accessibility, but it's still fucking Apple.Meanwhile libre software has just steadily been breaking apart the basic state of accessibility that we got around 2009 thanks to Sun…
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8nTAr2UuiTiyU8Dg by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-25T21:21:53.674995Z
       
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       @novenary That because ultimately it allows more flexibility in usages (like reading a book via text-to-speech, or getting a transcription of a podcast which doesn't have one, so you can skim through it faster).And well, there's a whole bunch of moments where we're temporarily impaired, or suddenly become impaired.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8pcYW45ppPcmH9gu by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-25T21:46:00.482395Z
       
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       @novenary You actually get much better than just tab-navigation with screen readers, but imho it shouldn't only be available when a screen reader is being used.And it's why for me there's at least the following not-purely-accessibility improvements which would easily benefit everyone:- Universality: Having a screen reader connected often toggles-on a lot more navigation options, for example navigating from one heading to another.- Documentation: It took me years to discover the ability to use ctrl+arrow to move word-wise and I don't think I've ever seen this in any GUI documentation (it's probably in that old IBM PC interface standard, which Apple notably doesn't follows). And most applications outside of power-user stuff typically do not document their shortcuts (for example neither Firefox nor Chrome officially documents theirs).- Discoverability: In a selection entry you can type part of the words you want, but no text-entry is visible, unlike say text-entry + suggestion, I've somehow know that one ages ago but people very rarely know about it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab8rLjKSpztK94xDfM by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-10-25T22:05:21.814347Z
       
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       @novenary For screen readers I think it's mostly just cursor-based yes.Vimperator hint mode and the like being really useful, but are from another accessibility issue than screen readers, namely motor control issues (or what I also call sometimes the wiimote/SmartTv issue).I'd have to look into at-spi/ATK but I wouldn't be surprised that you could create something like vimperator for GUI toolkits, at worst you'd get a list of anchors and interactive elements that you could plug in a fuzzy-match selection menu.