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I value both sight and hearing...
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I value both sight and hearing...
They both are great to have...

But now that I think about it... Seeing a webpage is definitely better than hearing a robotic voice describe it to you.

Being fully sighted in both my eyes makes me very grateful for what I have: two good ears and two good eyes...

I do have empathy for those who lost sight or hearing; in fact, I made an internet forum on a .xyz domain called "Blind Help" if you interested—it's still a work in progress with redirect boards to .mp3's of an AI chatbot audio narration giving instructions on keyboard shortcuts for Windows Narrator, NVDA, and how to navigate the digital world with a visual impairment...

I plan on adding text-descriptions versions of those same audio files, so a visually impaired person who doesn't want to have to seek through an audio file to find a command that they need can skim-through a text-version of it with their screen-reader and copy that text in a Notepad document that they can save (they can also download the .mp3 file).

All this crap is from trauma from an empty threat by someone in my family (undisclosed for privacy concerns, sorry) threatening to blind me (nothing happened and my eyes are fine, and that person later apologized to me for that, and they said they would never do that to me then or in a thousand years)...

Even though nothing happened and my eyes are fine, that traumatic threatening experience changed my worldview forever. It makes me have more empathy for those who did actually lose their eyesight.

That's why I made this internet forum and I want to maybe one day get into the tech industry to improve assistive technology to make it less clunky and a bit more of a smoother experience... The research I've done about this stuff is pretty intriguing...

Yep. That's that.

What do you all think?
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RE: I value both sight and hearing...
(May 6, 2026 at 7:01 am)Errorismer Wrote: They both are great to have...

But now that I think about it... Seeing a webpage is definitely better than hearing a robotic voice describe it to you.

Being fully sighted in both my eyes makes me very grateful for what I have: two good ears and two good eyes...

I do have empathy for those who lost sight or hearing; in fact, I made an internet forum on a .xyz domain called "Blind Help" if you interested—it's still a work in progress with redirect boards to .mp3's of an AI chatbot audio narration giving instructions on keyboard shortcuts for Windows Narrator, NVDA, and how to navigate the digital world with a visual impairment...

I plan on adding text-descriptions versions of those same audio files, so a visually impaired person who doesn't want to have to seek through an audio file to find a command that they need can skim-through a text-version of it with their screen-reader and copy that text in a Notepad document that they can save (they can also download the .mp3 file).

All this crap is from trauma from an empty threat by someone in my family (undisclosed for privacy concerns, sorry) threatening to blind me (nothing happened and my eyes are fine, and that person later apologized to me for that, and they said they would never do that to me then or in a thousand years)...

Even though nothing happened and my eyes are fine, that traumatic threatening experience changed my worldview forever. It makes me have more empathy for those who did actually lose their eyesight.

That's why I made this internet forum and I want to maybe one day get into the tech industry to improve assistive technology to make it less clunky and a bit more of a smoother experience... The research I've done about this stuff is pretty intriguing...

Yep. That's that.

What do you all think?

I think it’s a noble goal. Best of luck.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: I value both sight and hearing...
(May 6, 2026 at 7:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 6, 2026 at 7:01 am)Errorismer Wrote: They both are great to have...

But now that I think about it... Seeing a webpage is definitely better than hearing a robotic voice describe it to you.

Being fully sighted in both my eyes makes me very grateful for what I have: two good ears and two good eyes...

I do have empathy for those who lost sight or hearing; in fact, I made an internet forum on a .xyz domain called "Blind Help" if you interested—it's still a work in progress with redirect boards to .mp3's of an AI chatbot audio narration giving instructions on keyboard shortcuts for Windows Narrator, NVDA, and how to navigate the digital world with a visual impairment...

I plan on adding text-descriptions versions of those same audio files, so a visually impaired person who doesn't want to have to seek through an audio file to find a command that they need can skim-through a text-version of it with their screen-reader and copy that text in a Notepad document that they can save (they can also download the .mp3 file).

All this crap is from trauma from an empty threat by someone in my family (undisclosed for privacy concerns, sorry) threatening to blind me (nothing happened and my eyes are fine, and that person later apologized to me for that, and they said they would never do that to me then or in a thousand years)...

Even though nothing happened and my eyes are fine, that traumatic threatening experience changed my worldview forever. It makes me have more empathy for those who did actually lose their eyesight.

That's why I made this internet forum and I want to maybe one day get into the tech industry to improve assistive technology to make it less clunky and a bit more of a smoother experience... The research I've done about this stuff is pretty intriguing...

Yep. That's that.

What do you all think?

I think it’s a noble goal. Best of luck.

Boru

Thanks. I hope I can do well with this idea.
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