While celebrating my previous post of working call audio @[email protected] left this excellent comment:

https://ani.social/post/34656971/17805917

And this reminded me something that i and many devs sadly often forget, if its works for me it doesn’t mean it works for everyone.

My philosophy is that linux should be as accesible as possible, nobody should be forced to be stuck with big tech.

So i tried my best to add orca screenreader support to plasma-mobile.

I mad this statement on my previous post

But a successful one!

But i genuinely don’t know if i can claim that today, i don’t use a screenreader so i don’t know what the user experience should look like. I will glady incorporate feedback.

As with my kernel patches i will be working to upstream this with KDE, since this is probably not controversial i think it should be accepted quite quickly.

Small celebration:

I was quite happy when i saw this in my inbox:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

+maintainers:

It looks like im being upgraded from linux contributor to linux maintainer!

Selling fp6 with pmos preflashed and with my patches preinstalled

Some comments mentioned this and it got me thinking, would there be demand for this?

I would be selling them on my catcrafts.net website, payment methods would be my bunq so wero, bancontact, credit card and crypto.

If you are interested in this, please upvote my comment, ive been looking into this and there is quite alot of administration that comes with it, so i would like to only do this if there is actual demand.

I would be shipping to any place i can. I will be shipping from the Netherlands, so keep that in mind for import duties and shipping costs.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    171·
    3 days ago

    Holy shit, this is amazing. As a blind screen reader user myself, thank you.

    I do have one question, though. I noticed that you were doing taps on the screen in order to see what element was underneath it. What happens if you do a flick from, say, left to right or right to left, as that is how a lot of screen reader users navigate?

    The way it works on other operating systems is that a quick flick to the right or left will read the next element or the previous element on the screen.

    Edit: This just took Linux Mobile from a “maybe one day I can use this” to a “i could use this now” thing.

    I’ve been thinking about making my next phone a post-market OS device, and now that desire just increased exponentially, thanks to this post.

    • TheMightyCat@ani.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Currently that does nothing im afraid.

      If I understand correctly on the top bar it would for example start on wifi, announce wifi, then on a flick to the right it will select and announce the mobile data?

      Is the flick in the center of the screen edge to edge or from the element?

      Im not sure if plasma-mobile has a concept of focus like desktop has, if it does this should be a relatively easy addition.

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        The flick can be from anywhere on the screen to anywhere else on the screen as long as it is from right to left or from left to right.

        As an example, when you tapped the Wi-Fi icon, you would be able to swipe from left to right, anywhere on the screen, and the next thing announced would be whatever element came next, which I think was mobile data, but I’m not certain of that.

        The flick has to be able to be done from anywhere on screen as a blind user is not going to know where the element is visually on the display. Most of the time.

          • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            I don’t know if this will help or not, but here is a video of me using my Android device in the way I mentioned, and I have it set so that you should be able to see where I touched on the display.

            https://files.catbox.moe/qo7unk.mp4

            Edit: A flick from left to right is the equivalent of using the tab key on your PC, and a flick from right to left is the equivalent of using shift+tab.

            • TheMightyCat@ani.socialOPEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              When trying to view your video it says “No video with supported format and MIME type found” and downloading its 0B?

              Ive done my best to replicate it from your text description:

              • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                Darn thing, the heck man.

                Well, I hope my description was at least good enough so that you could properly replicate it.

                If you happen to have an Android device lying around, you can go to Settings, Accessibility, and then TalkBack Screen Reader, and turn it on, and give it a try. And you will see what I mean that way.

  • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    We really need better TTS voices. This does not sound good.

    Perhaps we already have those and I just haven’t found then yet?

  • TheMightyCat@ani.socialOPEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    For whatever reason the video did not attach, give me a minute please to fix it.

    The lemmy upload strangely did not work, so i used catbox.moe instead, does this work for everyone now?

  • TheMightyCat@ani.socialOPEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Please only upvote this comment if you would be interested in purchasing an fp6 with pmos and patches preinstalled

    • Solrac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I already bought one from Murena, but that was a couple of days before this post. – That said. I’m sure this will make things even more accessible for those who just wanna jump into linux but are afraid of the whole installation process (If you already have one, try the UBPorts insaller) – I cannot thank you enough for the work you’ve done, and congrats on the title upgrade!! It’s more than earned. – Technically, that’d also make the Fairphone 6 having two official Linux Kernel Maintainers…right?

      • TheMightyCat@ani.socialOPEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Technically, that’d also make the Fairphone 6 having two official Linux Kernel Maintainers…right?

        Not really, there is not really and official linux kernel maintainer for specifically the FP6, Luca maintains the FP6 kernel but does so out of tree.

        With the patch series i mentioned is pure about the audio, so for any device using that audio.

    • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I can’t knock this if you see this as a business opportunity or a means to support your work on open source, but my impression is that over time these patches will be upstreamed and the installation will be simple(ish?), so my selfish ass would be happier seeing you spending time on drivers or reverse engineering phone components for Linux

      • TheMightyCat@ani.socialOPEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I can’t knock this if you see this as a business opportunity or a means to support your work on open source

        I don’t intend to run it as a profit making business, i do say my dream would be able to quit my job and do open source full time, sadly that does require money since i need to eat. So i would like to make as little profit as possible but enough that i can pay myself a living wage.

        but my impression is that over time these patches will be upstreamed and the installation will be simple(ish?)

        Ofcourse! This is still happening, this would be for the people that just want it out of the box or could otherwise not purchase one.