Just had a sighted person tell me they often use features, clients and programs that were made for us, they don’t use screen readers, but they use accessibility features, even when they do not have disabilities, but also clients like a blind Mastodon client, or a text editor designed with screen readers in mind such as the ones I list on my Tools page at the end, as an example, because they said, the interface is 1000 times cleaner, there’s a lot of keyboard shortcuts, clutter free interface, even though the UI is basic, speed, less bloat, and a whole host of other things including, but not limited to, and never having to put up with distracting animation nonsense. You know software development has vastly sank in quality when sighted folk are using blind clients. To see the tools and stuff I use, go to https://sightlessscribbles.com/tools/ #Programming #Software
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@WeirdWriter I mean. Sonarpad is crap at least in terms of code. But yeah, this is honestly just... Wow.
@draeand Hmm, seems to run fine for me, but I do hate how the developer says you can't fork this, blah blah. Got any similar recommendations?
@WeirdWriter I don't honestly. The tool is completely vibe-coded, to the point that the developer doesn't even understand how their own app works at even the most basic of levels, and writes every response with an AI instead of writing it themselves. I hope this situation changes, because the dev has a lot of promise/potential, but Idk if that actually will
@draeand Ugh. Jesus Christ. I can’t stand this flood of vibe coded things. I did genuinely get some good use out of it but I don’t want to promote any vibe coded things because the quality will inevitably decrease. Ugh. Instead, I would much rather promote a fork of the accessible markdown editor that a fan of mine is trying to make for me
@WeirdWriter there's the curb-cut effect, where everyone benefits from an accessibility improvement, and there's sometimes just a nicer aesthetic, like a wristwatch where you feel the time.
@WeirdWriter I personally prefer #CLI / #TUI tools because they are faster, cleaner, work on #narrowband connectivity and barely sip system resources.
- Just an overall better experience.
That's why I'm workibg on a CLI/TUI-centric, mininalist #Linux distro: @OS1337
- Because there's no reason modern computing can't be done in an 80×25 MDA terminal!
@WeirdWriter I can see this. Far too many developers forget how detrimental things like animations can be. And these days they'll make a, oh lets say web browser that requires your device to have good specs and all because of some fancy scale-altering feature that you might not be able to disable even, or some fancy drawer opening animation thing. All that requires good resources to function and if you don't have them, said thing lags or breaks in other fascenating ways.
@WeirdWriter When you build software with accessibility in mind from the start, everyone wins. Good accessibility usually requires that you have good UX in general
@PepperTheVixen Which is why I've been recommending your developments like crazy to anyone that will listen!
@WeirdWriter My developments? Like, my Gentoo/Linux adventure? O.O
@PepperTheVixen hah! Oh sorry! I am getting you and the person that makes Fast SM and such mixed up. This Mastodon client https://github.com/masonasons?tab=repositories
Thanks for sharing. I'm sighted but I use RedReader for Reddit because of the lack of nonsense.
@WeirdWriter I've never heard of a Mastodon client called SonarPad. Now, I did just find this program called SonarPad, that's apparently a modern Notepad plus document reader for Windows: https://github.com/Ambro86/Sonarpad
@jernej__s @matt Ugh! Damnit, I do find this to be a useful text editor. Ugh. Were they racist or other hate? If so I will edit the original post since I do not want to promote hate
@WeirdWriter @matt No, it means it's vibecoded, so the quality will likely suffer.
@jernej__s @matt Ah. Ugh. Vibe coded stuff never lasts long/works well for long. Will edit when I get to a computer again
@matt Yeah I was refering to the text editor SonarPad. Will edit to make it clearer