The Wolfe Pack

Billy | @storm@social.wolfe.casa

I live in North Carolina, United states. I enjoy pipe smoking, music, and hanging out with my wife and kids. My interests include music, coding, Linux, gaming, and open source things in general.


Some of my favorite music

Amon Amarth: https://www.amonamarth.com/

Dragonforce: https://dragonforce.com/

The Other: https://theother.de/

Wednesday13: https://officialwednesday13.com/


Other Sites

My git stuff: https://git.stormux.org/storm
https://git.2mb.codes/~stormdragon2976

Peertube: https://tube.wolfe.casa/accounts/billy

Thoughts of a Dragon: https://billy.wolfe.casa

My Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/stormux

For IRC lovers who also happen to love and use Linux, I have some good news for you! I have created hooks for the Smuxi IRC client that add sound support for message events. So far only send and receive are supported along with a different sound if your name is mentioned in a message, but more are on the way! Smuxi is extremely accessible, Orca supports auto reading of messages received and sent automatically, the only thing missing was sound support. Instructions on using the hooks as well as the hooks themselves are here:
https://github.com/destructatron/smuxi-sound-hooks #Linux #Accessibility

@fu Yes, it did work for about a week several months ago, but then it broke again, and hasn't worked sense.

I keep hearing that Steam💩 is accessible again, so I tried it, and nope. The menu comes up but there is no screen reader feedback at all.

A new Stormux image is available. Thanks @anguskola @sektor and @MWTab for all the help.

linux-game-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.2mb.codes:2222/~stormdragon2976/linux-game-manager

linux-game-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Added freedm to installed packages for Arch.

I'm working on a new program. It's going to be called Blind Nerd Toolbox. It's current function is an invisible task manager, complete with the ability to see which process is using the most RAM (CPU coming soon) and ending processes. Will also eventually incorperate things like NVDA's resource monitor functions, as well as things such as process count monitors, RAM usage monitors, and this is way far off, but also GPU related stuff, all without the need of any kind of window/visible user interface. Is there any interest in a program like this?

audiogame-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the audiogame-manager project Merge branch 'testing' latest games and code with new IPFS support.

audiogame-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Reverted experimental Crazy Party. For the foreseeable future, we are stuck on Beta 78.

audiogame-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Revert Crazy Party update script.

audiogame-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Galactic Strike ready to go. Apparently the problems with it were coming from my nvidia card and the wine driver for it.

audiogame-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Documentation updated to detect Executioner's Rage help file.

audiogame-manager

Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Game "Executioner's Rage" added.

@rimu After talking to @sektor the tree view sounds like a neat option. Also @anguskola@stormux.org is interested in testing that too when it is available.

@rimu The table of communities is awesome now, thanks for that. I have joined a few communities.

Would it be possible to start each comment with a heading level? It would make it easy to skim through the comments or jump to the next one if desired. Also, I tried up voting a couple of things, and I can't tell if the button has been pressed or not. In this case, an aria live region to provide a status message would be good. Also, once voted, the selected button should report itself as disabled, (Orca says "grayed"). I'm not sure if the button turns gray visually or not.

This is getting more and more awesome. ☺️

@rimu If you are on Windows NVDA is the best screen reader for testing. It is free and open source. On Linux, you could use Orca. Orca comes with most distros or is installable through the package manager. For Mac, the screen reader is called Voiceover. I don't really know any more than the name for that one, but a lot of people complain about web navigation with Voiceover. Voiceover is also the screen reader for IOS devices like the iPhone. For Android the screen reader is called Talkback. If you ddcide to test with either of those, they do change how your device operates, for example, on Android you have to double tap items to activate them.

Link text should be enough to convey the link's purpose. Aria label is only needed when non standard elements are used, so for your typical a href="stuf", so long as you have accurate text before /a, you don't need to do anything else.

Thanks for being so awesome, and working hard on accessibility. It is very much appreciated. :)

@rimu I was wondering about the table on the "Explore Communities" link. All of them just say "View Community". Is this what is shown visually as well, or is the community name/topic missing for screen readers? I'm having difficulty looking through to find things to follow, but I'm not sure if that's accessibility, or user error lol.

For anyone using Talking Clock, I have updated the weather part. It no longer uses a service with an api key.

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