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Marco Zehe

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Accessibility veteran. #Blind from birth, live in #Germany, worked for Freedom Scientific on #JAWS and #Braille displays, and for Mozilla #Firefox. Shaped web […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ caneandable.social/@marco, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm excited! I'm rearranging my room's desk space to accommodate the arrival of a Yamaha Genos2 arranger workstation keyboard. I had a chance to try out Yamaha's Voice Guide feature for this and a few other arranger workstation keyboards yesterday, and while it still has some way to go and needs […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

[My thoughts about the new iPhone Duo] I must admit that I’m quite excited about the new iPhone Duo. I enjoy some apps with their iPad layouts, but the iPad I own does not get used much, because the convenience of a MacBook just outweigs that of the iPad with keyboard by a wide margin. So […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

[Sonos, rant, very strong language] It is unbelievable to me that a heavy-weight like Sonos manages to fuck up their products again and again and again. Since a shitty software update a few weeks ago, several current generation Aera 100 speakers constantly lock up in a way that their volume can […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

@RogueAmoeba In case no one has told you recently how awesome your audio tools are, let me tell you that they are awesome! I just got off a Zoom call where I held a presentation that involved VoiceOver. So the "mic" was a virtual audio device that contained both my microphone and VoiceOver […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

RE: caneandable.social/@marco/116952803… Tonight at 7:30 PM UK time, 2:30 PM Eastern, I'll be talking about Braille on the Mac in a webinar with the Braillists Foundation. There's still time to register.

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I have the pleasure and previlege to join the Braillists Foundation tomorrow night at 7:30 PM UK time to talk about Braille support on the Mac. This is a result from my appearance on @doubletap in April. If you'd like to join us, here's the link to register […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

If I wanted to sell a Native Instruments S61 MK2 keyboard including attached licenses, what's the best place to do this? Or is this a country-specific question?

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@webaxe/11684449858… Just filled it out. It has been a while I did one of these.

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

@chikim Hey, I just ran into a problem with VOCR 3.0.0 Beta 2 where CMD+Ctrl+Shift+V causes a crash right after execution. I hear the sound that the recognition has finished, but after that, VOCR is closed. The item is gone from the status menu etc. Any logs I can send you?

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

@JeffBishop Hi! Got a notification in Quill that v0.6.0 was available. The button took me to the release page, but the assets only contain the source code in .zip and .tar.gz formats. I assume there was something wrong with building the binaries, since there are no other download links on that […]

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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 12/06/2026

Anyone wants to work with me on making their website or app accessible? I might have some openings towards the end of the year.

Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Since many in the mainstream press tout iOS 27 as a "Snow Leopard moment“, here's my short wish list of things that Apple should fix in accessibility as part of this quality initiative: 1. Inconsistent navigation forward and backward, primarily in Safari, but basically any web content in apps […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

So, what's the latest verdict, is the Native Instruments MK3 accessible now? Worth getting if I have the mark 2 with accessibility?

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Just launched Native Access for the first time in ages. For the past year, playing music somehow fell onto the back burner. Too much personal stuff going on. But now I have decided, in preparation for June, where I assume the summer of sound is going to happen again, I've decided to update what […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Looks like I have bricked my BT Speak. I had skipped several updates, because I found that I was using it much less than anticipated, and the battery runs out if the device is just in sleep mode, in like four hours. Now that I did try to update it, the update failed with some weird error message […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Well, what can I say? The German song ended up where I expected it would. It was nothing to write home about. As usual. #esc #eurovisionsongcontest

Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

[Rant, WCAG, (almost) strong language] RE: mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/1165… Oh geez, did the year 1999 call and want its place in web accessibility back? Instead of using tables and plastering the markup with hideous presentational roles, just use frickin' semantically […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

I was on a podcast! The good people at @doubletap invited me to talk all about Mac versus PC. And we had a very balanced conversation. Watch it here, or find it in your podcatcher of choice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJgc0-RwzFY…

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Today's mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL8rYRj5IQ

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Just wanted to add ActivityPub support for the blog, but the ActivityPub plugin is no longer available to install into ClassicPress. I guess since @pfefferle works for Automattic now, and the ActivityPub plugin is being developed under that banner, supporting non-Gutenberg forks of WordPress […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

As previously announced, I am starting a new blog. Here's the first post. Enjoy! marcozehe.eu/2026/04/27/a-blogging-…

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Some of you might remember that a good while back, I started looking into, and using, @classicpress for a personal blog instead of WordPress. The main reason was, and still is, that I am put off by Gutenberg and the bloat that comes with it. Inconsistent keyboard behaviour, inconsistent screen […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

As some of you may have noticed, I started playing Showdown again. I played for a couple of weeks before the pandemic hit, but when it was allowed to play again, I was already too ill to take it up again right away. But now I felt I wanted to try again. Yesterday was the third training I […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Really enjoyed the recording of the Q&A with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the #ArtemisII crew from last night. What a huge difference to the one they did with that president who shall not be named! It was funny, the questions were insightful, the whole event was funny and engaging […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

What I love about the #ArtemisII mission is that there are many women in critical positions here. Last night, during the broadcast, except for the gentleman running the Q&A events, both science and ground control were run by women, the "news anchor“ was also a woman, and the only three men I […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

@MonaApp When Mona saves the reading position to iCloud, what position is saved exactly? I feel it is not the position of the VoiceOver focus, but a position several posts further up the timeline, like from the top of the current screen. Ever since I turned on SuperVision, the offset on a […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

OK, I think I somehow shot myself in the foot on Monday with a recording of some Showdown matches using a Zoom H4 Essential recorder, which records in 32 Bit Float and therefore recordings cannot clip. However, when analyzing the audio items using REAPER, the dynamic range seems so wide that […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/1163243311… Hm, wonder what that feature might be? Properly restored VoiceOver support maybe?

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

For all #VoiceOver #MacOS #Tahoe users, the update to version 26.4 fixes the annoying bug that VoiceOver takes a second to speak link text when navigating to a link. Especially if you chose to play a sound as a link indicator, this was noticeable. This bug was introduced in version 26.1 and now […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

Goodbye MacBook Air M2, you've been a reliable companion for the past 3 and a half years. Hello, MacBook Neo with Touch ID in Indigo!

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Just tried to coach a friend on the use of some basic tasks in the Firefox Developer Tools. And found that many of the things we worked for back in the day, are now broken. For example jumping from an accessible node back to its HTML counterpart no longer works, and if you edit HTML, there is no […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

RE: caneandable.social/@marco/116213177… Thanks to all who have responded to my inquiry so far! It is interesting that none of us have seen this problem on their systems lately. Yet there still seem to be people who experience it, which is concerning. Because I believe VoiceOver […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Here's an interesting question: Many of you report that you are still seeing VoiceOver going "Safari is busy" regularly on the Mac. Now, I use Safari daily, and I haven't seen this in years. Like... never on my M3 iMac nor on my M2 MacBook Air. I may have seen it on the M1 MacBook Air on very […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/1162050627… Yeah, I thought so. This is a great Mac for people who want to get into the Apple eco system more. It will perform nicely with VoiceOver as well, with the tasks it is designed to be used for. I would even go so far as to suspect that […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

To all going to, or having just arrived at, #CSUNATC26, have a great time and good networking/socializing! Unfortunately, I don't see myself returning anytime soon. The reasons are both financial and political. But I definitely miss meeting y'all!

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/1161730143… I'm still a bit bummed by the fact that this doesn't come in the form factor of the 12" MacBook. Instead, it is just a tiny bit smaller than a current MacBook Air. I was a happy user of n 11“ MacBook Air, and the only reason I never bought […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

A question for #iOS and #Mac developers: I have two iPad apps I am trying to use on the Mac using VoiceOver, and both exhibit the same problem. They have collection views, and inside of them, timeline items, episode lists etc. On iPad, everything works great. On MacOS, as soon as I start […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

#FastSM Who of you lovely people is working on this new Mastodon/Bluesky client? I tried looking for some current handles of people I thought I knew are involved, but I apparently lost track of y'all, with instance moving and such.

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Something that is missing, @MonaApp for Blue Sky/the atproto protocol. There is an iOS app named Skeets, but it is only half-heartedly accessible, and some crutial things don't work, like reading the source of who reposted a post etc. And it doesn't work at all well on the Mac.

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

I just informed Envision that I am cancelling my preorder of the Ally Solos Glasses. It's been stuck in Customs for ten f*cking days, even thoguh I filled out a largely inaccessible PDF form that was absolutely atrocious and complicated. I also told Fedex that I am refusing reception. of the […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Small hint for those who want to upgrade to Mona 7 ultra and use the one-time purchase upgrade offer from Mona Classic Pro Max, if you see the one-time purchase option grayed out, run Mona Classic, then return to the Mona Ultra screen. The option then appeared available to me, and I could make […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

After some years of using an iPad Pro 12.9“ with an M1 chip more or less frequently, I’ve now treated myself to an iPad Pro M5 11“ with its Magic Keyboard. And boy, do I love this combo! It reminds me why I loved the 11“ MacBook Air so much in its day. This iPad has the right size for my hands […]

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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 02/12/2025

Every year I think Apple can’t best their previous campaign for accessibility, and yet here we are. (An audio description is available from the video settings.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmFPWxjmnqE

Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

I just discovered that current versions of Pages on the Mac export tagged PDF files by default. Only if tables contain more than 10,000 rows, will tags be omitted. That can be overridden by changing the Accessibility popup menu setting in File/Export/PDF under Advanced from „Standard" to "on“ […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

RE: caneandable.social/@marco/115531785… Hello from the Activator!

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

Wednesday's episode of the @doubletap podcast featured an excellent interview with @glenrgordon58 following Glen's resignation from Vispero. This brought back so many good memories! I first met Glen at the very first European dealer workshop in the Black Forest in Germany in July 1996. We […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

Over the next couple of days, this Braille display will move into my home. For almost thirty years, I've come back to Help Tech displays time and again, despite trying out other display vendors' products in the interim as well. But because of their quality and endurance, I keep returning to […]

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Jonathan Mosen @jonathanmosen.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

It is impossible to overstate the contribution Glen Gordon has made to the #accessibility industry. More important even than that, his meticulous attention to detail and his understanding that something must be more than accessible, it must be efficient, has helped countless people to be […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Gosh I love podcasting! I started to create the podcast episodes for our local blindness organization. For the second to last episode, I had the main moderation with our press person over MS Teams, which I recorded in Audio Hijack by @RogueAmoeba. I then already had multiple tracks to import […]

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Marco Zehe @marco.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

@doubletap Hi Steven and Shaun! Regarding the discussion of how white canes are being financed in Germany, the fact that we get our canes from the health insurance company is not just for WeWalk canes, but for any white cane whose manufacturer has a service contract with said health insurance […]

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