There's so much awesomeness on https://github.com/destructatron as well as https://git.stormux.org/storm which are awesome links to some great blind linux stuff! Even some of the windows people aside from certain freedomloving women I love in my heart could realize there's more freedom than just NVDA. I'll hold your hand the best I can.
If anyone's looking for a grand accessible IRC client for linux, check out https://github.com/destructatron/access-irc created by @destructatron@masto.destructatron.net . It's great!
The free and open source ISh console app is a fascinating ios app I've loved for years and an app I really do love when it works. If anyone wants this amazing app, the homepage for it is: https://ish.app . If you want the github for it, it's: https://github.com/ish-app/ish . Ish is amazing and I feel fortunate to have worked with Theo on the accessibility of it all those years ago.
Meow and stuff, and all that. They used to be this badge or I forget this company where I heard about this phone mount that I would really want to find again in which basically you could mount the phone to the chest and walk around with it mounted and then the camera could be the eyes for the blind person. I wish to remember what this was called.
@datajake1999@dragonscave.space Here's a silly idea, what if we trained an AI language model on blind materials like braille, orientation and mobility training, learning vision through the vOICe using an audio thingy so it can hear sounds, feed it recordings of blindy teachers and random advice on how blind people do this and that, random recordings of blindys interacting with each other, what would the AI be like? How would it adapt and what would it think about the world? What if we gave it a virtual brailleNote and said, hack this? What if we asbed it, can you teach a blind person how to cross a street? Can you describe colors to a blind person? What's life like as a blind AI? Welcome to 6 AM being awake and annoyed but finding something to not be annoyed about.
this is a test with the bifrost client. It's quite cool and open sourced and I thank you storm for it. May I modify or fork it and see wha I can come up with? You did what i did with haptic vision essentially accept I used codex grok and gemini for the haptic vision stupididy that I've never even tested witch is beyond the scope of this post even though it's on github.com/danestange02/hapticvision I think is the address. anyway, this is the end of this test. Thanks storm for making this FOSS!
I encourage blind people who want an audible braille for images, including realtime, visit a beautiful place called https://seeingwithsound.com, There's an amazing piece of software called the vOICe. have ya heard of it? It converts pictures into sounds with adjustable scanning rates and insanely cool customization. In fact, the windows version is very much insane in the best ways possible. Blind people have used this thing to remap their visual cortex. I myself have been trying to learn it, but I've not gotten far as of july 21st as of this updating of this pinned post, I know quite well that some of you out there would maybe like this or even master it and find it useful outside or even in the home or looking at things. Have any questions? You can mention either me or @seeingwithsound, i'm certain he wouldn't mind answering polite kind useful questions or feedback. No question is a stupid question, I'd say. Asking questions is how we get answers, you dig? Enjoy. Oh, I see! If any of you ever wanted to examine it on a technical level which I'd imagine you would, opened versions of The vOICe are listed at https://www.seeingwithsound.com/im2sound.htm#artificial_scenes also you can go to the projects page at https://seeingwithsound.com/projects.htm for more things based on it I believe, with a direct link to the C/C++ version for OpenCV at https://www.seeingwithsound.com/hificode_OpenCV.cpp and a Python 3 version for OpenCV directly at https://www.seeingwithsound.com/hificode_OpenCV.py and there was also an audioscreen nvda addon which is broken on github. Go to seeingwithsound.com and you'll see even more updated directer links to the windows and webapp and android versions, and even more, if cared. Learning the system is like a new language dedicated for vision. There's also an old nvda addon for it too, at https://github.com/nvaccess/audioScreen. Enjoy! Keep an eye, pun not necessarily intended, on this thread for updates and conversation. Remember, if you directly want a play, https://seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm is a great place to see.
for anyone wanting a bopIt button, here are links to it. First, the 25 dollar bonus bopitforgood version, which is direct and they support non-degen non-bastard blind folks, and they donate a button to the San Francisco lighthouse and might even give it to a potential summercamp or blindschooled like Daney Laney was blindy as well. The bopitforgood button link is https://bopitforgood.com/collections/bopitbutton , then the amazon should be bonus, sold by getmovin sporqs is https://a.co/d/bFLwd9n, and if you want the retail button, which is sold directly by super impulse who also directly ship the worlds smallest bopIt, also on bopItforgood, which the retail bopIt button is slightly differant with different bopIts and no bonus voices and beating message apparently. Super impulse also make the bonus bopIt button though this is the standard. That amazon link is https://a.co/d/2SLAn9j and the retail bopIt you can also find in stores. It's been compared to the iPhone SE of the bopIt button world. Grab whichever one you want. The retail one is the lowest priced one but it's still a great bopIt button.
If anyone wants a sort of introduction and no sugarcoded audiobook of who I am, here you go. Please, if you're thinking about being my friend, remember. I'm not perfect. Enjoy this file that speaks a story.