#Christian woman | Totally #blind & #autistic | Living with multiple #chronicIllnesses. #UsabilityTester & aspiring #SoftwareDeveloper | Student at Colorado Christian University.
Advocate for #DisabilityRights & inclusive #tech. Interests: tech, #Braille, #reading (#SciFi, #Fantasy, #Mystery), #AccessibleGaming, & self-hosting. Human
to Squeaker (Miniature Pinscher). Runs support groups for multiply disabled people.
@gwync @accessibility @disability @spoonies @mastoblind Yeah, wired is faster and more reliable in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t exactly work from bed when your computer is several feet away on a desk, lol. That’s the main reason I don’t use it.
@jmd2000 @prism @accessibility @disability @spoonies @mastoblind What are brown switches like, out of curiosity? I got the super reds, thinking they’d be the easiest to push given arthritis in my hands.
@gwync @accessibility @disability @spoonies @mastoblind The wired option was a big selling point for me too. I normally use wireless or Bluetooth, but having a stable fallback matters way more than I expected.
@prism @accessibility @disability @spoonies @mastoblind Same. I finally get why people are so loyal to them. It’s the first time a keyboard has felt like it’s working with me instead of against me.
@DesireeRenae @mastoblind @main Hmm, I’ll have to look into this. I didn’t know you could make presentations with Markdown.
@kfjelsted @mastoblind @main Would you be willing to look at what I have so far and see if you can help with fixing errors? I’m getting a lot of “overfull” errors and issues with Biber not running. I’m getting extremely frustrated since this was due last week.
@kfjelsted @mastoblind @main I have PDF/UA tagging metadata in my presentation and according to GitHub Copilot chat, that’s the problem. TeXLive 2025 on OpenSuse tumbleweed has a bug with that. I guess I’m going to try a manual TeXLive 2024 install and hope it’s not too hard to manage.
@kfjelsted @mastoblind @main That’s actually what I tried to do at first. I’m using TeXLive 2025 under WSL OpenSuse tumbleweed, but I kept getting errors like "cannot find \begin{document}, even though I could see it in my file.
@patricus @accessibility @disability @mastoblind I think this keyboard should be fine for you, but you would need to either use Shift+F10 or remap one of the extra function keys it comes with to an applications key. It doesn’t have one by default, so that’s what I’m planning to do.