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Pratik Patel

ppatel@mstdn.social

<p>I am a blind technologist, humanist, a voracious devourer of books, speaker, writer, and a thinker, who finds himself championing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accessibility</span></a> for fun and necessity. I&#39;m currently exploring the complex world of AR and VR worlds to find best ways to achieve full accessibility for disabled people.</p><p>Oh and give me your fun book recommendations: be it nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy, romance, mystery, and more.</p>

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    After working for weeks on my Wixen Mail app—what I hope will be a brilliant Outlook Classic replacement, I&#39;m finally comfortable enough to have attached an email account to the app during testing. I&#39;m most of the way there for my alpha testing. I can&#39;t wait for you to see it. I&#39;ve identified a bunch of issues I&#39;m working through. Right now, I&#39;m focusing on good documentation. Just a few more days before you have it in your hands. #accessibility

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    In many ways we failed after 9/11. We gave up the freedoms that we only think we charish. We gave up too much control. Politicians who claim that freedom matters but support policies and practices that do the opposite have taken over. I genuinely want to know what lessons stuck—not many from where I&#39;m standing. #USPol #USPolitics

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/117076688416367298 &quot;Gone Girl&quot; at the top of the list? People have some strange ideas. I found it disgustingly misogynistic.

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    There are some popular masto posts that I am just not meant to boost or talk about because I don&#39;t want the subject to take any more space in my brain than it already does due to our current culture.

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    Oooo. I&#39;m being recruited. This time, it actually looks genuine. Now to decide whether I want to take a job at the company for which I&#39;m being recruited. Hybrid versus the freedom to not go to an office at all? Hmmmm.

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    Love the snark here! ISPs&#39; long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/isps-long-nightmare-of-having-to-list-all-the-fees-they-charge-is-finally-over/

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    Dear Humanware, Good god! How many emails do you need to send out to tell me that You&#39;ll be increasing your prices? And, since you&#39;re being &quot;transparent&quot; and all, how about you tell me what the prices will be for your products. I mean you do want to serve us poor folks *transparently!* Don&#39;t you? #accessibility #a11y

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    Your feedback is important. This year&#39;s survey includes questions about AI usage. This only took me a few minutes. WebAIM&#39;s Screen Reader User Survey is open now through August 31. If you are a screen reader user, your responses help shape more accessible digital experiences for everyone. Take the survey here: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey11/ #Accessibility #ScreenReader #NVDASR

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    India&#39;s first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/

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    RE: https://mastodon.stickbear.me/@ablade/116893609899668043 I haven&#39;t laughed so hard in a long time.

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    Gremlins anyone?

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    @mektastic It&amp;#39;s good to see you here.

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    @NVAccess posted: In-Process 27th April 2026 https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-27th-april-2026/ #NVDASR #accessibility

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    @NVAccess posted: In-Process 11th May 2026 https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-11th-may-2026/ #NVDASR #accessibility

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    @NVAccess posted: In-Process 22nd May 2026 https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-22nd-may-2026/ #NVDASR #accessibility

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    Hiya all. Good to be back here.

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    @marcoarment@mastodon.social We as in humans? Yes. I bet we see a LLM-created (or inspired) programming language. The key is data. Reasoning will be key here.

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    I have mixed feelings about this. Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks #Bookstodon

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    AI&amp;#39;s aesthetics of failure On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to #AI slop https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthetics-of-failure

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    They might as well be #AI the way this war is being handled. Kill Chain On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@JenMsft/116306515557926926 damn it! Where was this feature when I needed it last week? My folder name looks ugly to me since I was forced to use my email address to sign in.

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    Harry Potter gets a Nundu as a pet at age 8? There&amp;#39;s a new concept for you. Seems like the fic is still ongoing.

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    @NVAccess posted: In-Process 10th April 2026 https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-10th-april-2026/ #NVDASR #accessibility

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    I’m excited to announce the first public release of Terminal Access for NVDA: an add-on focused on improving the NVDA experience when working in terminal/console applications. Inspired by TDSR and Speakup, there&amp;#39;s quite a bit of functionality here. I welcome contributions. Issues and PRs welcome. Lots of testing needed. Open issues on the Github repo at: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA Get it here: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/late...

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    In case you haven&amp;#39;t read this yet: Diffusion of Responsibility https://tante.cc/2026/02/14/diffusion-of-responsibility/

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@ppatel/116257729606285152 Any recommendations for good accessories for this thing? I intend to use it for a lot of internal work. How are the built-in mikes?

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    I posted this earlier. But, ... This thing is genuinely funny. Who needs The Onion? One example: &amp;quot;You are assassinating everyone with the authority to negotiate and then complaining, with what appears to be genuine bewilderment, that nobody will negotiate. This is the diplomatic equivalent of burning down every restaurant in town and then leaving a bad Yelp review about the lack of dining options.&amp;quot; https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

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    I hate dealing with UIA. #accessibility #a11y

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    To cancel our membership, use our chatbot that is not accessible. Oh goodie! This is such a bad UI. It&amp;#39;s nothing but a deliberate pattern designed to steal your money. #accessibility #fail.

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    This is a great read from Aeon Essays. What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem