And if the blind community doesn't exist, then blind culture couldn't exist either. Devin Prater r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 7:24 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If the blind community doesn't exist, no blindness industry can or could > exist either. The marketing of products from that goes out all over and > interest from the community informs and drives Government purchasing > decisions on some very expensive technology. This has been happening > since at least the 1960's and it is why TSI refused to sell to > corporations any longer since blind employees learned to use its equipment > went back to work and often had their employment terminated shortly after > having had use of the equipment on the job. Of course, the corporations > held onto the equipment. > Some of us know a little history. > > > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > > . > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > Well, first I would say that I am not in "the blind community." > Naturally, I > > belong to some communities that include or are specific to people who are > > blind or visually impaired, but "the blind community" taken as a whole > largely > > does not exist, nor would I be interested in joining or starting it. > Twitter > > itself is a very large community, but all users are not blind, > therefore, it > > is not a blind community either. > > > > > > On the other hand, there are most definitely alternatives to Twitter > that are > > usable by people who are blind or visually impaired, and are also good > for > > starting or joining various blind-friendly communities if that is your > thing. > > Most notably, I have been running [Friendica](https://friendi.ca/) on my > > server for about 3 years and find the web interface to be mostly > accessible to > > Orca using Firefox and Brave. [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) is > another > > that is already usable with Orca, and is actively developed and is > > specifically working to improve the accessibility of its default web > > interface, though other web interfaces exist, along with API's that allow > > applications of all kinds to access accounts and public timelines. Both > > Pleroma and Friendica are largely Mastodon compatible, so many > third-party > > clients will work with either. > > > > > > I have noticed, probably because I used to see my tweets in the more > > accessible Friendica web interface, as Twitter's new owner didn't break > > accessibility, it already sucked hard eyeballs long before he bought it, > that > > Friendica's database on my server has grown completely out of control, > upwards > > of 10GB. I have heard that Pleroma, though maybe a bit less easy to set > up, > > can run on more hardware, and is much lighter on resource usage, so I > may be > > playing with it as well. There is another fairly new web application > called > > [Honk](https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk) that is very easy to get > up and > > running on just about anything. I have played a bit with it, and I > believe it > > aims at Mastodon compatibility as well, but I have only played a little > with > > it at this point. The terminology is a bit laughable, but the ease of > setup is > > what got me started banging on it just a bit. As I recall, the web > interface > > works with Orca pretty well, and runs very fast, though I haven't yet > done > > enough with it to slow it down, nor did I have enough of a timeline on > it to > > really test it thoroughly up to now. > > > > > > If you're not looking to run your own server, even at home on a > Raspberry Pi, > > look for either a Friendica or Pleroma server that is already up and > running. > > These are both more compatible with ActivityPub, the primary protocol > used to > > allow Fediverse servers to talk to each other, than Mastodon is, and > neither > > suffers from the same heavy-handed moderation that will cause a Mastodon > > server to be blacklisted if one user said something that the Mastodon > admins > > disagree with and the server mods let it get by. Unless the operator(s) > have > > made extensive modifications that break things, both work very well with > Orca > > and both Firefox and Brave, and both are compatible with the growing > number of > > Mastodon clients that exist on various platforms and operating systems. > If it > > is kept updated, Pleroma is as I mentioned working specifically to > improve the > > screen reader accessibility of its web interface, so finding a Pleroma > server > > that is kept updated or starting one is probably the best option at this > > point. > > > > ~Kyle > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list