Tootfinder

Two updates (so far) to old posts:
1. Todd Libby mentions `lang` impact on Braille displays: https://adrianroselli.com/2015/01/on-use-of-lang-attribute.html#Update10
2. Added Narrator’s Braille viewer to my Braille viewers post, with video (attached,…

"Wie lernt man eigentlich mit den Fingern zu lesen? Zum Weltbrailletag am 4. Januar"
https://blog.dzblesen.de/2025/12/19/wie-lernt-man-eigentlich-mit-den-fingern-zu-lesen/

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2025/12/07/ENEURO.0002-25.2025

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals
Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invariance must be ‘broken’ to enable efficient reading. Consistent with this phenomenon, a small, localized region in the ventral visual stream, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), exhibits repetition suppression to both identical and mirror pairs of objects but only to identical, not mirror, pairs o…

I've spent five minutes reconfiguring my browsers so that they render every site using the same very readable font (Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute - #font

This is really interesting:
telnet mapscii.me
(arrow keys a/z or mouse)
https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

GitHub - rastapasta/mapscii: 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows - rastapasta/mapscii

The vOICe web app is the richest functional vision option for the totally blind that is just one click away - no brain surgery, and for free https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm but yes, it's like learning a new language, or braille, or chess, or...

Futzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

"Wie lernt man eigentlich mit den Fingern zu lesen? Zum Weltbrailletag am 4. Januar" https://blog.dzblesen.de/2025/12/19/wie-lernt-man-eigentlich-mit-den-fingern-zu-lesen/