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On one hand:

Well, here we go y'all, the web has gotten so complex for blind people that we need an LLM to give us just the text from a page, or to tell us if a page has a buy button on it.

On the other hand:

Blind people have so few resources for learning websites and browsers that we don't know about Reader Mode, or any ways to, for example, get a Wikipedia page without all the annoying links in articles, or use the find command to search for a "buy" button.

Either way, needing an LLM for things like this is sad. I really hope it calls tools in JAWS to, say, use flexible web to get rid of article links instead of trying to return the whole page of plain text without AI hallucinations.

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The infamous 1916 shark attacks that inspired "Jaws" 🦈

Correspondent Anna Werner looked back at a fateful string of shark encounters along the New Jersey shore a century ago that stirred the public imagination, and inspired Peter Benchley's bestselling novel "Jaws".

@CBSNews

youtube.com/watch?v=JXo-V9wQCWo

#Jaws #Jaws50 #Matawan #NJ #JerseyShore #1916

People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP

fireborn.mataroa.blogDead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn

Now that #JAWS is 50 years old, I would like to bring attention to a wonderful gaming mashup that involves pinball & NES gameplay, that was built in as a challenge mode to Stern's absolutely wonderful JAWS deck.

Pinball is already hard enough, but when you combine it with video gameplay on the backbox in the middle of a pinball game, it becomes nearly impossible, yet this game is still fun & a cheeky throwback.

Here's a playthrough.

#pinball #retrogaming #SNES

youtube.com/watch?v=5amVdFNrVwc