Coqui TTS has blew my mind!

[Linux for blind general discussion]

..which makes stating that these are accessible incorrect.


These samples are in fact accessible, by the w3c's guidelines, not mine. 
I stated that I have added fallback links to my own website, but this is 
not a requirement for HTML5 accessibility as defined by the w3c's 
accessibility working group, or at least not as far as I know. It's just 
something I did because I wanted to include legacy support for older 
browsers.


> Linux exists in command line as well as gui.  as someone else in a 
> different thread noted recently, they personally would not touch gui 
> again for  the rest of their lives if given a choice. Meaning these 
> options are not universally available or accessible in Linux as a whole.


The fact that text-based browsers do not support HTML5 standards makes 
them inaccessible and perhaps even unusable. There is nothing in the 
world stopping them from becoming usable by today's standards, it would 
seem that they just want to stay back in the 1990's. Music and video 
players exist in text environments, offering nearly all the 
functionality I get on a desktop. It's time for the browser to do the 
same. Still, if my phone and my desktop environment can read it without 
any issues, two out of three ain't all that bad. That said, I was not 
attempting to start a flame war, as I mentioned the fallback possibility 
as something that I do, but that the browsers I use hide those fallback 
links, so I can't say whether or not this other website that I did not 
write employs such links, which would make the samples available through 
other browsers, but again is not at all a requirement to meet 2022's 
accessibility guidelines as defined by people other than myself, which 
incidentally includes people who as you say use text environments as 
much as possible. But even those people must use what browsers are 
designed to at least try to adhere to those guidelines, and like it or 
not, even w3m does not comply with current HTML standards, and it's 
about the best text browser available.


might as well say, please only be disabled as I personally define it, 
writing accessible by your own dictionary and seemingly to project it on 
to other people.


Not at all my intention. I didn't define the accessibility guidelines, I 
only adhere to them to the best of my own abilities, and even took my 
website's accessibility a major step further than I needed to in order 
to accomodate the most people. How dare you put words into my mouth that 
I never said, especially since I clearly said the opposite. And I don't 
think that was the w3c's intention either.


Why not say from the outset, that the items are only available for some 
Linux users?


Because that would be an outright lie. Everyone who runs a Linux 
operating system has the choice to use Brave, Chromium, Google Chrome, 
Firefox and a host of other standards-compliant browsers. Just because 
you yourself made the choice not to use them does not mean that they are 
not available should you choose one of them. There are even ways around 
the whole desktop environment and screen display thing, using xvfb I 
think it's called with dummy display output and a very small window 
manager that just runs your screen reader and browser and otherwise 
stays completely out of the way. Again, it's about personal choice, but 
more about needing the ability to choose a text-mode browser that can 
handle the simplest HTML5 audio standard, and at least enough JavaScript 
to be able to handle basic things like banking and shopping without 
choking and either crashing or sending me to a blank screen or back to 
the login page as if my credentials were incorrect. The fact is that 
text browsers can't even handle HTML4 correctly, as they don't know how 
to handle something as simple as headers in most cases. At the very 
least, keyboard header navigation would be a step in the right 
direction. But again, this is not my fault, nor the fault of modern 
website developers. This is a lack of standards compliance among 
text-mode browsers. Nothing more, nothing less.

~Kyle