I'm not looking forward to 5 years from now, where instances like this are the mastodon.social of federated reddit-likes. As much as they should block registrations, I don't think they will. ...but I have a hat on stand by, just in case I need to eat it.
looks into camera dramatically yeah DSP money sucks, good thing I can’t get it :)
I’m in the jobseeker hell until I get an assessment redone, which is an “indefinite wait plus at least a year” away. which is fine, its not like my wheelchair is half as old as I am or anything
this is super helpful, thank you. didn’t know about the “scroll <direction> from <number>”, thats genius.
also ill experiment with browsers, I’m using firefox since its what I use on my PC, but all the android browsers are haunted in their own ways. if I find anything consistently broken that doesn’t need a log in or credit card, ill give you a shout
ill give those tips a try, thank you!!
I’ve had a lifetime of being on the shit end of the stick when it comes to “why can’t the person who needs X get it”, it really sucks. like “just buy an iphone” is what I was told asking around elsewhere and like... my guy, an iphone is basically a month of my income (before spending a cent on rent, bills, food...)
I just hope that bad things happen to the people who uphold the oppressive systems that keep me down. thats all :)
the big issue is only being able to swipe left/right in the middle of the screen, I can’t scroll through pages of quick settings, the share dialog, or really anything that doesn’t appear in the middle. same issue with scrolling up and down, too, I have my font size bumped up a bit, so the “start screen recording” button needs to be scrolled down to, but you only scroll the button itself which voice access won’t do. theres some other examples but you get the idea.
occasionally if I say a command, it does it twice. I’ve had it happen on “tap X”, on saying numbers like in “show grid”, and sometimes (especially confusing) things like “send” sending a message and then typing the word send.
i also get lots of strange site specific bugs, like on mastodon I have to say my post in a single take, because saying a second sentence will clear what it already wrote. theres been way too many site specific bugs to list, but I run into them often.
also it understands me very poorly, I’m a native english speaker with an australian accent for context, and it really struggles with understanding me. short commands like “four” to tap label 4 are especially rough, but it takes me a few tries even with longer commands. theres not enough of a pattern to say its definitely an accent thing though. (talon does make some mistakes that are accent based, so its likely a factor. but it also makes way less mistakes than voice access with the same mic, so... shrug)
is that the case even with a mic plugged in? I get similarly bad results with an external mic (though I haven’t tested a high end one, still saving for an upgrade)
unfortunately this phone is about as good as I could afford, I’m living well under the poverty line and $200 AUD (what I paid for the s10e, got it used with some scratches) is a big deal lol
if youre unfamiliar, its an accessibility app made by google, for controlling your phone with your voice. this is different to the “OK google” thing.
I’m disabled, and I avoided owning a phone for many years because they’re so painful to use. but this year I finally had to get one, so I got a samsung s10e. but this voice access app is just... terrible? its really buggy, struggles to understand me way worse than Talon (a PC voice control program), and loves to do things I don’t tell it to.
it also doesn’t even make my phone fully accessible, theres tons of gestures it just can’t do, and I can’t add custom ones.
basically... am I doing something wrong? is there some trick I don’t know about? or is android accessibility really this bad? is there anything I can do?
readily available education ("just google it" is insufficient in the current SEO fuelled hellscape) and support to help people build their own plant based diets, combined with plant based alternatives that are just as cheap + easy + nutritionally balanced. IMO there's great progress towards both, but neither are there yet for becoming vegetarian/vegan to be a trivial process for those who want to.
I'm physically disabled and struggle with most meal prep, so I mostly live on frozen meals. On an especially good day, i can make a sandwich, or put some chips in the oven. Can't manage much more than that, and I've failed to find plant based alternatives to those things that i can both afford, and make myself. It could exist, but I haven't been able to find it, and the sheer volume of ableism in the vegan (etc) community is exhausting to sift through. The last time I tried had some guy talking down to me telling me that "foraging isn't that hard, actually", lmao. And i'm someone who wants to reduce how much meat I eat, and have been trying to do so despite all of this!
To be fair, there are a couple of veggie frozen meals at my local store (nothing vegan, though). But have you tried rotating the same 3 meals for a year and not completely losing it?