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Loving zed - new font which looks like they’ve done all the right work to test its suitability for low vision

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During the tests, Zed Text was directly compared with – and outperformed – Helvetica in terms of speed of reading for all types of hospital patients. We have since further improved the speed and ease of reading by creating wider versions of Zed that benefit readers with declining vision.

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And this is interesting too

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There are situations where words or translations are not enough, and in such circumstances icons, symbols and pictograms can be extremely effective. The Zed type system comes with...

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Hmm. Adapt-a-Tray was a cool idea but a pain to manufacture and get bits for (I bought one!). What if we use to use an Ikea Pegboard and then make a printable site to make components for what you need?

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A while ago I managed to get Bliss working in a PPM model using Bliss unicode (its bit harder than getting toki pona in PPM). I’ll be watching this closely to see if the team can make a text2image model for real bliss combining floeproject.org/projects/…

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I must start using typst - nice blog post on accessible pdfs typst.app/blog/2025…

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The Joy of Making Bricks: willwa.de

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@willwade done!

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Quick demo of using the CoreMotionAPI you can get from Airpods to use as a headmouse. Annoyingly you can’t use just one airpod.. Or at least I cant figure out how..

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I can’t be bothered to work on this any more as the use case is kind of 🤷 but hey! It does work! (Code)

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@si_judge no. But I’ve got it lined up !

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Oh! Of course you can make a headmouse from apples headphone range! Genius developer.apple.com/documenta… (from HN)

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I’m doing a ton of work on languages at the moment. This article is a good read why we don’t have diacritics in the English language. Love it.

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After the Conquest, French took its place for centuries … But the period of French dominance left its mark on all aspects of the language … And, as Godwin found to his chagrin, it had a revolutionary impact on English spelling.

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The HN Comments are good too on this article

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Winning the Access Award for Echo: willwa.de

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Made a little tool to print alphabets (in alphabetical order, frequency, uppercase or lowercase) in a wide range of languages - and then keyboards for each of these languages.. for python or nodejs

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I woke up this morning to see a ginger cat looking at me. Now I’m sure many of you are thinking “ ah that’s nice. you’ve got a new cat!” I haven’t got a cat. I have no idea how this cat got in my house.

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Cooking Up an AAC Correction Tool: A Recipe for Efficient Communication. Kinda. willwa.de

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@si_judge It’s a good point. I sadly am not your person to say it does. But it should.

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AI doesnt hallucinate. Its not a bloody person. Lets be clear - it get its wrong. If we want to anthropomorphise our technology we could say “Poor AI it got confused” or “That shit. It just lied”. But no. Its a statistical inference machine. It got it wrong.

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Owls in Towels is what you need. Not AI. owlsintowels.org

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Does anyone know how I submit a bug report to Microsoft Azure Team on their translation tool? I keep coming across problems - like Eng->Pashto - all strings are “Afghanistan National Cricket team”. Is nobody checking these lang pairs? Seen similar problems in Kurdish and other langs..

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@PKL Took me waaay to long to reply - I uploaded the STL at github.com/AceCentre… - Its basically for someone who uses the trackball with their chin and to remove likelihood of ball coming out of the groove. Once printed and put in place the ball can’t come out but you can still operate the ploopy.

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Who the hell would be crazy enough to buy this? Shaking hands with my friends? How did that reach the top of the pile for v1 must have features? I’m more concerned that this would “Memorizes your kitchen inventory..”.. “Memorizes your clean home layout”. Go on, cyber overlords. Take everything.

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Direnv - and reinventing the wheel with envloader: willwa.de

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Adam did this marvellous reprint of the poppy mini trackball for a client needing a chin controlled trackball. This modification stops it falling out. It’s a win as the designs are all open source. @PKL@mastodon.social

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ploopy.co

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Been working with Sherpa-Onnx TTS a lot over the last year. It’s a nice project to make a onnx runtime for lots of different languages and interfaces. Just whipped together a Gradio demo to show all the voices and hear them - most notably MMS Onnx models Sherpa-Onnx Demo

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Great episode on TTS on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e…

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Monkey Management : willwa.de

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Ask for Advice, Nor Permission: willwa.de

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@matt my ears have pricked up to that. I have a alternating squint and read about vision therapy (aka beads on a string therapy) .. its not very successful. But super intrigued about ‘eye movement being detected for each eye’. The Assistive Tech space have never managed to deal with a squint and I have never understood why.. (it totally messes up tracking.. I’ve never been able to use eyegaze)..

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@manton marvellous. Looking forward to LinkedIn - I do find the automatic cross posting pretty wild so I turned that one off. But that’s more LinkedIn I feel.

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@markhobson sick. this wierdly reminds me of you showing me some cool 3D square thing you made back in the day when we were yokoda-ing.

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@ggnotes.com Begin. The rest is easy.

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And the comments on this are interesting

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@adafruit love it. Loving too the sound of baby at work :) Fab

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@stroughtonsmith - as a creator of an AAC app that wasn’t made in 1989 - I thought you might find this interesting www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/2… - I’ll try and write a more thought through piece on this article soon..

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@si_judge well I mean they do suggest that great standard of “universal design principles” ;)

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@vincent category and cross posting choosing - including for drafts, alt text choosing (maybe thats a thing already),

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@TG_AT My gut feeling on all this race to AI for AAC thing is that most are focusing on the language part - but the fun and big challenges to solve are on the access and UI side.

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@si_judge Yeah I do agree - it does look the right thing (NB: I meant to edit that hastily written post but I was supping a beer on the beach at the time..) - my point though was that if everyone who makes stuff worked collaboratively more in this industry I feel some of these issues would be less.. But hear hear on Matter. Nice post btw

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@markhobson Paris needs to ban cars. It’s hideous cycling around that city.

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@si_judge I geniuenly dont get why the AT industry didnt just get behind using a standard library of IR codes. Here’s my theory - everyone stuck with GEWA and that thing was jiust a shitshow when it came to any kind of interoperable codes.

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