Re: Coqui TTS has blew my mind!

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what is your latest website?
On 2/10/2022 11:42 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
..which makes stating that these are accessible incorrect.


These samples are in fact accessible, by the w3c's guidelines, not mine. I stated that I have added fallback links to my own website, but this is not a requirement for HTML5 accessibility as defined by the w3c's accessibility working group, or at least not as far as I know. It's just something I did because I wanted to include legacy support for older browsers.


Linux exists in command line as well as gui.  as someone else in a different thread noted recently, they personally would not touch gui again for  the rest of their lives if given a choice. Meaning these options are not universally available or accessible in Linux as a whole.


The fact that text-based browsers do not support HTML5 standards makes them inaccessible and perhaps even unusable. There is nothing in the world stopping them from becoming usable by today's standards, it would seem that they just want to stay back in the 1990's. Music and video players exist in text environments, offering nearly all the functionality I get on a desktop. It's time for the browser to do the same. Still, if my phone and my desktop environment can read it without any issues, two out of three ain't all that bad. That said, I was not attempting to start a flame war, as I mentioned the fallback possibility as something that I do, but that the browsers I use hide those fallback links, so I can't say whether or not this other website that I did not write employs such links, which would make the samples available through other browsers, but again is not at all a requirement to meet 2022's accessibility guidelines as defined by people other than myself, which incidentally includes people who as you say use text environments as much as possible. But even those people must use what browsers are designed to at least try to adhere to those guidelines, and like it or not, even w3m does not comply with current HTML standards, and it's about the best text browser available.


might as well say, please only be disabled as I personally define it, writing accessible by your own dictionary and seemingly to project it on to other people.


Not at all my intention. I didn't define the accessibility guidelines, I only adhere to them to the best of my own abilities, and even took my website's accessibility a major step further than I needed to in order to accomodate the most people. How dare you put words into my mouth that I never said, especially since I clearly said the opposite. And I don't think that was the w3c's intention either.


Why not say from the outset, that the items are only available for some Linux users?


Because that would be an outright lie. Everyone who runs a Linux operating system has the choice to use Brave, Chromium, Google Chrome, Firefox and a host of other standards-compliant browsers. Just because you yourself made the choice not to use them does not mean that they are not available should you choose one of them. There are even ways around the whole desktop environment and screen display thing, using xvfb I think it's called with dummy display output and a very small window manager that just runs your screen reader and browser and otherwise stays completely out of the way. Again, it's about personal choice, but more about needing the ability to choose a text-mode browser that can handle the simplest HTML5 audio standard, and at least enough JavaScript to be able to handle basic things like banking and shopping without choking and either crashing or sending me to a blank screen or back to the login page as if my credentials were incorrect. The fact is that text browsers can't even handle HTML4 correctly, as they don't know how to handle something as simple as headers in most cases. At the very least, keyboard header navigation would be a step in the right direction. But again, this is not my fault, nor the fault of modern website developers. This is a lack of standards compliance among text-mode browsers. Nothing more, nothing less.

~Kyle

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