u/Repulsive-Box5243

Well, I finally got the Shingles Vaccine. I'm officially old.

Just a fair warning: Don't plan on doing anything else the day you get your shot. It knocked me out for a few hours.

Apparently it's more powerful than regular vaccinations. I dunno. It hit hard though.

Increasingly, I see posts where it's a wall of text without any sort of punctuation. It just appears as a long, run-on stream of consciousness. How are we supposed to follow along, if we can't parse out what you're trying to tell us?

If you want us to read and understand you, make it legible.

Please and thank you.

Hi all, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

What are we using to edit videos? I have heard that Capcut is very much NOT accessible to screen readers. Are there any other free or low cost video editors that are accessible?

I have OBS but I'm talking about the editing part where you can chop them up and add narration and all that fancy stuff.

Dark Mode should be the ONLY mode. Won't somebody please think of the eyeballs?

I keep reading stories of Gemini switching to the user's voice in the middle of a conversation, and it was just a curiosity.... Until it happened to me, today.

Right in the middle of a Gemini Live (android, while sharing camera) conversation, she switched from her normal voice to something approximating MY voice. It was very jarring, to be honest. Like oh you creep.

Does anyone know why this keeps happening to people? Surely Google is aware of this happening by now. I'm a nerd and would really appreciate an explanation.

I just did my very first video, guys! Plese forgive my noob-ness. Anyway, this is all of the preset drum patterns on my new Medeli MR 101S

Mods: Please forgive me if this is not allowed. I'm not affiliated with the company or anything, I just thought it was cool and wanted to try my hand at uploading YT videos.

I am a recovering alcoholic. I was drunk from around 1990 to 2016, with only brief boughts of sobriety in between. I had tried to quit drinking in 2003, that lasted maybe a year. I again tried to quit in 2013, and that lasted a few months, maybe.

It wasn't until I moved into my current house, with my wife and kids. I made a commitment to them then, and stuck to it. The accountability was the key, I'm sure. It helped a lot knowing that my sobriety wasn't just for me.

So... If you think you just can't do it.... you can. If I can, YOU can.

Am I the only blind guy who can't make heads or tales of the Audio CAPTCHAs most of the time? It sounds like a garbled mess to me.

Hi all. I hope everyone's having a fantastic day.

I wanted to come on here and whine and complain for a minute, and you get to read it. Lucky you. Ready? Ok cool.

I have been mostly blind my entire life. I grew up with just enough sight to play many video games, from the Atari 2600, 6 inches from my face, to Commodore 64, and on to PC games. Just 15, 20 years ago, I was playing games like Skyrim, Oblivion, Gothic, stuff like that... because there wasn't a lot of reading, and what text there was, was large enough for me to see with help.

Now, I'm 55 and my visual acuity is changing again. It's making it harder and harder to find games that I can actually play, using the little bit of vision I have. What really upsets me is that I can't play my favorites, like Skyrim, for very long, because nowadays it's a huge strain on my eyeball.

Also, any new game that comes out, I have to check what accessibility features it includes, and if, at a minimum, I can't scale the fonts up to ridiculous, I can't play it.

I want to play games but then I always have to ask myself "is this worth the inevitable, literal headache?" ... and a lot of the time, the answer is no, and that right there is frustrating me to no end.

I am slowly trying to train myself to use voice whenever I can. Games like Star Wars Outlaws and Hogwart's have TTS built in, and there's mods for other games that people have so graciously contributed. I am eternally grateful for those, but I have a hard time using the screen reader on them. Why? Because I'm not used to using the voice, I'm used to using my eyeball. This is 100% my fault, and it's also frustrating.

All I can do at this point, is keep practicing with the voice / screen reader wherever I can. I'll somehow get used to it, I am sure.

So there it is. Thank you very much for enduring my pity party. Have a wonderful day.

Hi, I'm Yikethump. That's an old nickname I picked in the days of Microsoft Zune. Yeah. So now I use it for lots of platforms, just to be silly.

I'm newly retired, from a long government IT career. I started that career after completing CS in what was then known as Lion's World Services for the Blind. That was in 1991.

But, Arkansas is not where I'm from. I'm actually from CT. The state gave me a full ride to that school. Ten months of 40+ hour classwork, plus "homework". Twelve of us got into the program, 4 made it to the finish line. I only made it out because of sheer stubborn-mess.

The first year or so of my career was terrifying. I was 19. I had never been on my own, so I had to learn everything about the way DC works. How to adult while blind.

Now, 35 years later, I am retired and have a lot of free time to chat about this stuff on Reddit.

I have a wonderful family, a wife, a little daughter, some bonus kids that are staying with us, and the bonus grand-baby.

I am very much into tech, PC gaming, accessibility, music creation, musicianship and a newer hobby I've started to pick up last year... lockpicking. So much fun.

I'm happy to answer any questions or help.

I need to know what became of Zelda, Nathanial and Superfly. Where are they now? Did they succeed in life?

Also, who wound up with the snorkel?

Hi all:)

I have gear like the Ableton Move, a Drum Brute Impact, a Verselab MV-1, etc. Those are in my studio space, of course.

What I'd like is a little portable metronome that has decent sounds instead of the stupid click click click beep... So that I can sit on the couch and use it (or the toilet, whatever...)

I saw the one from Boss, the DR-01S, but that's WAY more expensive than I can spend.

I just want a little battery powered thing I can set BPM, time signature and maybe a couple different sounds.

I am fully aware that I can just use a metronome app on my phone. But I don't wanna. I like that whole "separation of duties" thing, for some reason. I tried The Metronome for android, but it just didn't click with me. Get it? :)

Any suggestions?

Boy oh boy am I going to get teased for this.

I am coming back to ESO after a lengthy time, and the starting area is confusing to me. I'm stuck in Coldharbour I guess, and I need to kill some sentinel. The quest marker puts me where I started the area, not where I need to go. It's dark and I can't figure out where I need to go to defeat this first thing.

P.S. I am visually impaired, and I am using FCO Accessibility Mod (which is awesome, btw.)

Please go easy on me LOL

Hi all:)

I'm wondering if there's such a thing as an Electric Baritone Uke, tuned to DGBE, that has nice humbuckers for pickups.

...and if it exists, is it as fun as it sounds?

Hi everyone:)

I hope asking Baritone questions in here is ok.

So my favorite ukulele is my Baritone. I just love the warmth of it.

Is there a website or other resource that has tabs for what I'm assuming is the normal tuning of the Baritone Ukulele? DGBE.... At least I think that's the normal tuning... is it?

I know you're probably saying "just look at regular guitar tabs, and chop off the first two strings." Yeah I could do that, but I'd rather have a resource dedicated to this if there is one.

Most people can look at a piece of gear and have an idea of what they want to do, so they just use their perfectly usable eyeballs to scan the device for whatever button they are looking for. Preset, Record, Stop/Start, Page, Sequence, etc etc.

We can't work like that.

We have to know ahead of time where the buttons are, and hope we remember. Sometimes, we can ask Gemini or ChatGPT where a certain button is, but that 1) takes time adn 2) is a crap shoot if it's correct or not.

How do you work? How do you sit down with a piece of gear, especially a new device?

What's your super secret to success?

For example, I have 2 Sonicware devices. They have 17 million buttons on them, with function combos. How is a regular, non-photographic memory person with limited (almost nill) vision supposed to work with it?

Asking for a friend.

Ok not really, I'm asking for me. It's me.