I'm curious, what programs do you guys use on your computer for all the basic and work stuff?
For me is:
* NVDA and Windows Narator as my screen readers * Google Chrome and Brave as internet browsers * Windows Defender and Malware Bites for security * Reaper and audacity for audio/video manipulation * Spotify as my music streaming service * PotPlayer as my main media player because it can read subtitles using screen reader or built in windows TTS engine * Geek Uninstaller for removing junk from my PC * 7Zip for archives and stuff like this * Google Docs for document editing * Google Drive Backup and Sync to get my work documents anywere and to sync them * Signal, Discord and Whatsapp web for comunications
So what is your list and what you like about this programs?
Fridux3 points2y ago
* VoiceOver as a screen-reader; * Xcode for development; * Docker as a very practical and accessible Linux container virtual machine; * Terminal as a terminal emulator; * Safari as a browser; * Mail as an E-mail client; * iMessage for communication; * Apple Music for music streaming; * Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for documents; * iCloud Drive for making stuff available on all my devices; * iCloud Keychain as a password manager; * Time Machine for system backups to an Airport Time Capsule.
I know what it sounds like, I'm an Apple fan but not a zealot, and use a lot of Apple software because it's accessible, readily available out of the box, and almost guaranteed to not come with malware. I also don't do much in terms of communication other than reddit or media consumption other than music. I used to have friends on IRC and would like to use Discord, but never found an accessible client for the former (I'm considering writing one myself once I find the time), and last time I tried the MacOS Discord client (less than a year ago) it was a mess in terms of accessibility.
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
Discord has been improved a lot, you can try it from safari if you don't want to install it, this is a major advantage in my opinion.
EDIT: I think Apple software are the best in terms of accessibility, I used a IMac back in 2019 and I was very impressed , but i will stay on windows for now because I used it for a very long time and I don't want to switch just now, but one day I will invest in Apple products just for the accessibility.
Fridux2 points2y ago
The web browsing experience is way better on Windows in my opinion, at least with NVDA. You can't really do proper caret browsing on MacOS, for example, with any of the browsers that I've tried, and that's important to me since I code and sometimes need to read documentation character by character. My solution to this problem is to copy what the screen-reader has just uttered, as fortunately VoiceOver has a key combination for that, paste it into another application, and read from it.
AndAdapt1 points2y ago
Have you tried this recently on the Mac? As I was doing it yesterday to copy and paste code chunks from github
Fridux1 points2y ago
Selecting text works, but caret navigation doesn't because the screen-reader keeps interacting with individual elements when the code is syntax highlighted.
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Check out the $1 documentation page from Apple, and try to caret browse the tryMap function, for example. You will notice that you can browse 'func try' but the cursor ends up getting stuck and not progressing further. It's certainly better than it used to be, I give you that, but it's still not perfect.
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
Every platform has his ups and downs.
Thecapitalistboy2 points2y ago
Hey! I didn't know Geek Uninstaler would work with NVDA!
How do you read video subtitles?
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
Yes I can use Geek Uninstaller with the arrow keys, and in order to use the subtitle reading option in PotPlayer:
1. Download and install PotPlayer from the official website
2. In order for this to work the subtitles of the video must be separate, if the video was recorded from the TV and the subtitle is hardcoded in the video this will don't work
3. press F5 and go to accessibility and select what you need, the first 3 options are for the built in TTS and the second 3 optionswill make the NVDA or JAWS to read the subtitles.
If you need any help don't ezitate to message or comment me
Thecapitalistboy2 points2y ago
Thank you, it works.
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
You welcome!
codeplaysleep2 points2y ago
Installed software:
* Photoshop - used for personal stuff these days, rarely for work, been a Photoshop user since the mid 90s and know it and all of its keyboard shortcuts by heart. * Illustrator - Same as above * Sublime Text - I've been tempted so many times to switch to RubyMine, but I know Sublime's keyboard shortcuts so well and it's so easy to configure... * Zoom - Who doesn't live in zoom these days? * Slack - day to day communication both for work and with friends * Chrome - my browser of choice * TablesPlus - Probably the most straightforward/clean GUI client for databases that I've seen. It supports a large number of database types * Rested - this is a handy GUI for cURL, essentially * The built-in OS magnifier - as needed, usually when browsing the web, or doing something outside of the terminal, Sublime, or the Adobe apps * The terminal - I've customized it quite a bit to for work, many aliases, made it easy to see, a more useful prompt, etc. * Various command line tools (basic linux admin tools, various package managers, google cloud cli, aws cli, heroku cli, git, etc...) * BitDefender - Managed antivirus * DropShare - for sharing screenshots (it uploads to my private server)
I use a *lot* of web-based SaaS products as well, but some of them are a bit more work-specific, so I'll leave them off the list for privacy reasons. But I will add that I am using all of the G-Suite tools and Github.
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
Thank you for sharing, the reason of this topic is not only my curiosity maybe more people will find more useful programs.
fawazar942 points2y ago
hmm,
NVDA screen reader, with plenty of ad-ons.
firefox and mozilla's password manager,
default mail app,
qc gameroom, crazy party, steam and other games,
dropbox, onedrive and g drive,
office apps,
vs code, np++, jupyter,
audacity,
tw blue, reddit for blind,
discord, zoom, skype, teamtalk and ms teams.
these are mainly, there are plenty others I use them time to time.
blindbat841 points2y ago
Wait is reddit for blind a Windows reddit client? If so where can I get it?
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
https://www.redditforblind.org/
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
Thank You Man, I get reddit for blind now and is great!
fawazar942 points2y ago
Great. if you are into twitter, you can checkout tw blue too
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
I get it and is amazing, thank you so much
Superfreq22 points2y ago
I use:
Windows 10 20H2 for OS
NVDA primary JAWS secondary for screen readers
Google Chrome for web browsing (with Lastpass, free download manager, notifier for gmail, video download helper, multi file downloader, and Ublock Origin extensions, plus a couple of advertiser opt out plugins.)
Windows Defender for Realtime antivirus and Malwarebytes Free for on demand scans.
Goldwave for audio editing and batch audio conversion.
VLC media player for playing videos, Winamp for playing most audio, Luna RSS for podcasts, and pontes media downloader for grabbing youtube videos.
Winrar demo for archiving.
Office 2016 for documents.
Sync.com and dropbox for file transfers.
Zoom, Discord, and sometimes Skype or Facebook messenger web for communications.
pandalaur [OP]1 points2y ago
Nice one bro, can you leave a link for Notifier for gmail extension? i searched it and I can't find it in the web store.
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