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Since the news broke regarding the forthcoming changes to reddit’s API and the ippact that will have on the third party apps and tools many of us rely upon the mods here at r/blind have been working on an accessible option for those who either cannot or will not be staying on reddit. As talk of alternatives like mastodon, lemmy, and the like have increased we decided that it would be best to reveal what we have been working on, hence this post. Several days ago we shared this with those of you on our Discord server and have been asking for feedback. This project is by no means finished or polished, and is currently operating on development backend code and a beta UI to allow for access to still unreleased features that our community needs such as up/down votes displaying state changes, and nested comments, read this as there are and will be bugs and outstanding accessibility problems. However, the advantage of this platform is we control the servers, the UI, and can fix accessibility concerns ourselves instead of relying on a for profit company or the generosity of app developers to do it for us, not that the latter is unappreciated. So please be understanding of the above and we hope those of you who decide to join and see what we have done so far for all of us, and please report problems as you find them. https://rblind.com/

  • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What I don’t get is why people must ‘migrate’ to the Fediverse. All these companies managing multi-socials on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, sometimes even Instagram, but to use Mastodon and Lemmy suddenly seems to require them dropping a commercial one…

    Don’t get me wrong, people dropping the commercial ones are great for stopping monopolistic control, and I totally support the action, but I wish companies still remaining on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etcetera could just add Mastodon and/or Lemmy to the collection, yet it rarely seems to happen…

  • Quincunx_5@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    There’s something ironic about this being a screenshot of text that talks about accessibility.

  • kool_newt@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What type of tools does the blind community use? I can code, I’d love to make a tool to help out.

    • Dee@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      First one that comes to mind for me is RedReader, but I’m not blind so idk if that’s their only tool or if they have others they prefer.

  • lhamil64@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This might just be me being a noob, but how to I subscribe to this community? I tried typing !main@rblind.com into the communities tab (I’m using Jerboa) and nothing came up.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s kinda tricksy. You need to visit the comm from within your own instance. The easiest way is to click Communities, then All, then search for it - however you have to know what you’re looking for, and you can’t filter or sort by instance.

      In this case, searching would be hard, as the comm is called “main”. There are probably lots of other mains in different instances.

      For you, try beehaw.org/c/main@rblind.com. However, it could be that it’s too new for your instance to know about it, in which case I’m not sure but you may just have to wait until beehaw federates with it.

      I think there’s also a generic way to format links such that anyone can click them from their own instance and get their instance’s version, however I haven’t learned that yet. Something like !main@rblind.com. Also, things can work different on apps vs the website - for example Jerboa only lets you browse comms you’re subbed to.

      • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Often, a quick way to link communities is by formatting a hyperlink like this [Visible-text-to-click](/c/community@instance.tld)

        For a this example, formatting the text like [this link](/c/main@rblind.com) would create this link that most* people can click on that will bring them to that community.

        *Kbin users will need to replace the /c/ with/m/

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It would be nice if you could just type /c/community@instance. Or /m/ as required.

          • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            When you’re writing a message on the web version, typing ! and the name of the community will bring up a suggestion box.

            Typing !main and selecting the rblind.com instance autocompletes to [!main@rblind.com](https://rblind.com/c/main) but that links directly to the instance itself. It needs a bit of formatting though to get it to be instance-agnostic.

            There’s a big discussion on Github on how to handle links, because as mentioned, the /c/ won’t work for kbin users.

            I personally think it should link the instance directly, as it already does, and have a second link in the formatting we mentioned for the local instance link.