Re: would anyone be interested in an online quiz team?
I'd definitely be up for it. I used to write quizzes for the pub I went to before lockdown, so I can help with questions as well.
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Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Accman wrote:I just looked up Jo Jorgensen for myself. I hadn't really heard all that much about her, and I think that primarily has to do with the fact that the media only really focuses on Republican vs Democrat. You very rarely get to
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Have any of the americans here considered Jo Jorgensen as a good third-party candidate? I'd typically be a trump supporter but he's crossed the political line for me which is different from most other peoples lines (it's all about civil
Re: how to learn medicine while being blind
pretty sure Alexandra (girl I knew in school) has qualified as the worlds first deafblind doctor.
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Re: What's your preference romantically?
First gay guy to the thread? I've got a sighted boyfriend, and I'm better at doing many things (such as cooking) that many sighted people expect blind people not to be able to manage. I know no gay blind guys, so that might have influenced my
Re: Has discord accessibility just gone downhill?
Aron Leppik wrote:press enter on the tree view and then use your up and down arrow keys to choose servers.Restarting jaws has led it to start working. I still am not sure how this is more accessible than just being able to press control-f
Re: Has discord accessibility just gone downhill?
thetechguy wrote:@1. This was suppose to be an accessibility fix. What are your problems with the tree view?A fix for something that didn't need fixing? It simply doesn't work, I click on it and jaws starts reading nothing.
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Has discord accessibility just gone downhill?
Hello,Today, discord decided what we all needed in our lives was another update. This one appears to have made it into the least accessible it has ever been. I'm now seing a 'tree view' for selecting servers, rather than the links at the top.
Anybody know a way to download all episodes of a podcast?
Hello,I am trying to download all episodes of casefile true crime podcast to my pc. Right now it seems the only way of doing this is to download every one individually: surely there must be an easier way?- James
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Re: Coronavirus sales and giveaways
Loxias wrote:KFC is offering free delivery in the US with Grubhub.If you need a VPN, Private Internet Access is offering 2 months for free right now.https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/I know I've read more, will post if I remember them!Great, in the
Re: Can someone from the UK please help me?
If I don't have a copy of this, something is wrong. Have you got it yet or shall I take a look?
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Re: how I can obtain harry potter and star wars with audio description?
Grryf,Why not put a really uncommon phrase on the homepage that will have very few google search results? Then we can just talk about that phrase without it upsetting the admin. Wow, I come back after months to ask
I need to send a huge file
Hi,I currently have a need to send an enormous (14 gb) file. Does anybody know the best way of achieving this without costing me a lot of money?
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Re: (tutorial), how to use discord with NVDA on windows
Does anyone know how to view all the pinned messages on a server?
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Re: Our new forum?
@26Discord is not a forum platform, discord is a chat client. Discord wouldn't, in my opinion, work for a forum-type service as part of the advantage of a forum is that posts are easily accessed a long time after they were originally created. This isn't the case with
Re: Does anyone know of an accessible vpn?
@5 You got nordvpn working on windows? How was this achieved, I couldn't get it going. I used vypr until it broke itself, like randomly decided to stop working.
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Re: Our new forum?
Hello,I would advise he set up a forum that uses the phpbb platform. Not only are the controls intuitive, in my experience it is the most accessible forum software I have found. If he uses that, the option to turn off kaptcha is under user registration options, and is
Re: How Often are you Grabbed in Public
Free food is always something good. As long as it's nice food.
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Re: How Often are you Grabbed in Public
@Hurstseth:What about the people who insist on dragging you somewhere you don't want to go? If this was any other situation these people would be glared at by everyone else in the area for invading someones personal space without asking. If someone
Re: How Often are you Grabbed in Public
There was one very amusing time I actually accepted help from one of the grabbers. I was again rather drunk, but not as drunk as my sighted (and much smaller) boyfriend, as we emerged from a bar. What followed was about a quarter mile of me walking
Re: How Often are you Grabbed in Public
@Zarvox: Hahaha, I love the times when they demand to know where I live, especially given I'm often far away from 'where I live,' and 'where I live' is a pretty subjective question for me because I live in 3 places. A while ago I was at university
Re: Beeper, a random little program that beeps different frequencies
Hello,Can it be set to make a very high-pitched (6000hz) beep for 10 seconds every 15 minutes or so?
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Re: How Often are you Grabbed in Public
I once had someone kindly offer to take me from the place I'd pre-arranged to meet a friend to a 'more safe location.' I politely declined and he grabbed my shoulder, so I batted his hand away. I told him that I was perfectly fine waiting here on my
Re: What things you do that are odd for a visually impaired person?
Not really a hobby, or anything good, but I know very few blind smokers.
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Re: audio described movies
@44:I do use Netflix, and I have an amazon prime subscription, though I don't use it for video. I feel that I am supporting the creators in the same way that a sighted person is, by buying these services: however when something is not available on UK Netflix, I
Re: audio described movies
I don't think anybody makes a forum completely from scratch anymore, there's little point. I'll probably use phpbb.
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Re: audio described movies
You really don't need to back up topics from 2008, Ethin. They're not being looked at anymore. If you'd like them I'll go run a web scraper and get the whole lot, but I'm not sure the admins would like me doing that. I think it was you I told of several large
Re: audio described movies
Bad moderators moderate badly. Next up: water; wet or dry? I don't see why you care if the site is taken down honestly, you've no contact with the owners, you don't know if they're maintaining it and you've no way of checking. Do you know what happens to sites
Re: Books by Stephen King
My all time favourite King book is the dead zone, and the narrator makes it for me. I'm generally not a fan of many female narrators, especially American ones as many seem to be trying to make their voices unnaturally high-pitched (so kate reading and whoever is
Re: what hapened mason's forum?
Hello, I can go make a new one right now if people are interested in it, it's a few minutes work to set up. Check out enadia.xyz for an example of my previous work.
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Re: Domino's Pizza Petitions Supreme Court Over ADA Compliance
Hello, I feel I should point out a key difference between when you use a phone to call in (obviously accessible) and when you use the app/website (as useful as a chocolate fireguard as access is concerned.) At least in my area,
Re: the audiovault and accounts.
audiovault.net
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Re: Audio Described Content
When an admin posts you expect that it is the view of the team. I've been on admin teams before, and when someone does that, you accept it publicly and then tell him to stop doing that shit privately, if you want. You don't contradict it and then expect us to
Re: the audiovault and accounts.
@BradYouwould just download a load of stuff from the audiovault. Downloading that amount killed my external hard drive.
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Re: Audio Described Content
@Amerikranian: I cannot begin to put into words the level of arrogance that pours from your posts here today, however I will inform you of a few small facts. You are not everybody. Your experiences might not be ours. You are no better than anybody else, how you
Re: Audio Described Content
Jayde, I thought we had done this already. When the alternative forum has arrived (hint, it hasn't yet), a grace period would be given to enable people to move discussion over to that forum. The fact that an unrelated forum has arisen does not negate the fact
Re: Audio Described Content
I think Aaron has a decent compremise. You don't know what's going on in rl, given it's all about a couple of members. If the forum is set up, it'll be advertised on here where the community is, and then when the community has moved over you can rid yourself of
Re: the audiovault and accounts.
What you really don't want is when somebody (me) decides he's going to download around 1.1 tb of stuff rom the server, isn't it?
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Re: Audio Described Content
I replied to your email regarding setting up a forum. If you want to give me cpanel access to the website, I can have it set up in 2 minutes, literally.
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Re: anyaudio is frosen, what happened?
Should I go create a replacement?
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@Jayde: I would provide the info, if I could without identifying myself. However, since I only got my LLB last year, and my LPC this year (the lpc is the thing that lets you be a solicitor in the UK), no company has entered me onto a database since my
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
lol, could also be pointed out that those touch screen ordering things in mcdonalds/kfc/a few other places still aren't accessible, years after launch. They might have had the right end of the stick on that one, particularly as I can imagine automation
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@77Thanks for the description, that was more the understanding I was looking for. I must disagree with you on the blind mobility teacher thing though, of all the various mobility teachers I've had the only one who was blind himself was one of the best. I
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
I wanted to find out peoples issues with the NFB, I wasn't expecting to get into a political discussion with everybody. I've not attempted to troll whatsoever, these are beliefs I've held for a number of years.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@67 sure, find me something that will enable me to scan in a document and redact my name, the place I studied at and wear I live, independently. What I am however happy to do is post a redacted version of my university confirming my degree last year:Dear
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@58 we don't have a state bar where I am. We have the law society. I've never tried looking myself up on their website, but I doubt you'd find me either given that I qualified very recently, and don't start my actual term of employment until September. Oh,
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@51 I have been asked to provide documentation. The thing is however my documentation has my name and other personally identifying information on it, and I've been doxed enough on the internet to be extremely unwilling to give that out. I don't want to post
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@48There are things I can do (try and get guilty people out of jail, use loopholes to wreck laws etc). I'm getting extremely close to an anarchist worldview, honestly.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@45 Scottish, not American. Go to Texas and find someone who advocates for a more libertarian position on guns than me though, you'll struggle to find them.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
I understand that governments think it's necessary, they call it a 'compelling public interest.' Hopefully I can work, through the court system, to remove some of the most repugnant laws from the books.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@38 Why? Embrace the fact that the glory after the end will be better than this life, as the gods will improve your lot.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@37 that your life should not be taken by the government. You don't have a right to be safe though.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@34 Your life is not my concern. My life is not my concern. The lives of others is not my concern. It is more important that the rights are available than life is protected, as a life without rights is less fulfilled anyway. I would not agree that blind
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@29: 1. Try him for manslaughter2. The same thing we do with other people who have gun accidents: not very much.3. Oh, that was sad. No reason for the state to intervene.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@22 yes, I am saying that that is a good idea. The only thing that matters in terms of the second amendment is that you have the right to keep and bear arms: no 'reasonable restrictions,' because by its nature as an innumerated right no restrictions are
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@24 yes, that's pretty dumb...
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
If the law acts as a gateway to an opurtunity, and through its limitations it excludes a particular class of individuals even without meaning to do so directly, it still discriminates against them indirectly.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
The law that states you need to be able to use it safely is discriminatory, both against blind people and those with learning and mental disabilities. I only hope it's struck down as unconstitutional.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@19 that's what I'm trying to get at. What do you hate them for, specifically?
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@17, the drawbacks need to be more than the benefits to condemn them though.
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
What matters is the ability to carry a gun, not the ability to use it safely. The court won't absolve you of manslaughter because you were off your tits on magic mushrooms and thought your wife was a mad axe murderer either, but guns don't stop working when
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
@13: If you're a u.s. citizen, that's not what matters. What matters is that that's a constitutional right, it applies to everybody, and it can't be taken away without due process. If only that was the case in the UK as well!
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Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
From the Wikipedia article, they listed that the NFB had opposed rules preventing blind people from taking seats near aircraft exits, a position I strongly support. In my opinion, the world requires a truly militant blind organisation, because in so many
Re: What is wrong with the NFB?
They're trying to set up an offshoot in the UK
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What is wrong with the NFB?
Hi,Subject line says it all really. I've heard a lot of people criticising the NFB for generally...being bad? but I haven't heard what they've actually done. Living in Scotland I don't really know firsthand. Please could someone enlighten me?
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Re: Stop punishing developers trying to make their games accessible
Why does everyone hate the NFB? What have they actually done?
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Re: Where should we discuss obtaining content with audio description?
Would you consider allowing links to the 'place to discuss content,' rather than the content itself?
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Re: applying in universities as a student with a disability?
lol I wish, I got things like a laptop and notetaking support but I didn't actually get any free moneys.
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Re: I’m dreading the inevitable
You don't have to give her a choice about it lol, if you don't want to go just flat out refuse.
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Re: I’m dreading the inevitable
If you don't want to go, flat out refuse. Are your parents going to carry you to the car?
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Re: does Audio Description of the show Community exist?
Isn't community a Netflix original? If it's audio described it'll be available on Netflix audio described.
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Re: I’m dreading the inevitable
@6 while that could definitely be true for some people, I'd be fucked if I hadn't gone to boarding school. NCW, though shit in a lot of ways, certainly provided me with a better education than I was getting in mainstream.
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Re: applying in universities as a student with a disability?
You're not going to get turned down for a student visa due to disability in a country like Canada; in fact I've never heard of that, and Canada is...well, normal. Although I've probably benefitted from it I do really dislike
Re: applying in universities as a student with a disability?
What country are you planning to apply in?
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Re: Movies for blind people!
yeah they have tv shows as well, it's a very good website.
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Re: Disabling Extreme base in Dell Audio on a Latitude E6540
Just be glad you're not using asus' 'max audio' hellish system. Whatever that thing is can go burn in hell.
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Re: Audio Described Content
I must say, it's definitely very much illegal to upload and download copyrighted works without paying for them; not immoral though if the copyright holders refuse to make things available. As for where to discuss it, I've done some thinking and I've come around
Re: Where should we discuss obtaining content with audio description?
@Aaron that would have been absolutely fine.
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Re: Audio Described Content
Hi, What about a forum? You could install an accessible client (like phpbb) on a subdomaine of the audiovault one.
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Re: Audio Described Content
@Ethin I have a physical server in my house, so if I was running the forum nobody would have to buy anything. That's a lot of trust they don't have any reason to put in me though.
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Oh sorry, I forgot mailing list. Mailing list:Advantages: very accessible, relatively quick, private to a point, ability to create separate threadsDisadvantages: Spammy, tied to real life identities, targets for highjackers
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Hi, I see it now. Weirdly when you cycle through the radio buttons with jaws it lists as 'write message.' I'll summarise what I think are the advantages and disadvantages of each platform below, it might help people get some sort of idea of what each system
Re: Audio Described Content
@34 can you add discord to your poll please? Seriously everyone, it's more accessible than skype, certainly more than facebook, less cluttered than reddit and better (that is to say, less) moderated than any of these things. The only downside is that
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I wouldn't recommend reddit as it's entirely public. The good thing about discord is that they don't give a shit until somebody reports it, and if moderation is up to standard, nobody will see it who doesn't like what's going on in order to report it.
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Re: An accessable anti-virus software
What do you mean by adding -s argument?
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Re: Audio Described Content
I've already told you, several times, in detail, why your stance is unnecessary. You choose to carry on believing what you do, which suggests to me the above post is a load of bullshit.
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I don't know why, but skype makes jaws go pretty slowly on my computer, and discord generally runs a lot faster for me. Maybe try discord again, accessibility has gone leaps and bounds.
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I would definitely prefer discord to skype. Discord allows for multiple channels, so chat and requests don't end up being cluttered up together. Skype is also way more system-intensive, and I would argue less accessible now.
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Re: An accessable anti-virus software
Hi, Kaspersky is accessible? I just tried to download it and jaws wouldn't even read the setup screen.
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Re: Audio Described Content
Could the link be shared in private messages?
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Re: Audio Described Content
@6 I don't want them, they seem scary lol
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Re: Audio Described Content
Another benefit of a discord server is that the admins can moderate who gets to see it. If it's a mailing list generally anybody can sign up.
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Re: Audio Described Content
I've been active on online forums, both as a user and an administrator, for over 10 years and I can say conclusively that Jayde's attitude to criticism is some of the worst I have ever witnessed from an administrator. As for the question, I'd recommend discord,
Android emulator?
Hello, Does an accessible android emulator for windows exist?
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Re: Netflix on pc?
@7: how have you got kodi working with a screen reader?
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Re: Open countries/societies twoards relationship between Blind & sighted?
Personally, I couldn't really have asked for anything better. I have a sighted boyfriend, who combines being an amazing person with being rich. I don't know many other gay blind people, though.
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Re: Netflix on pc?
Hi, Netflix plus IE doesn't mix. Chrome is a lot better.
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Re: preserving the BMMV TV shows
Hello, I have a large amount of radio content, dramas/comedy etc. Would audiovault be interested?
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Re: broken external hard drive: anyone able to help?
Hi, I am getting the error 'cannot open volume for direct access. Does this tell you anything?
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broken external hard drive: anyone able to help?
Hi, Whild downloading a large amount of data, my external hard drive gave up the ghost. It is recognised in divice manager (as 'working properly'), beeps when you plug it in, and gives the 'safely remove hardware' prompt, however can't be
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