Wow, this piece exposes a supposedly prominent accessibility contributor to gaming industry that ended up actually not existing in the first place. ign.com/articles/a-prominent-a…

#a11y #accessibilty #games #gaming #expose

A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN

In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be.

^{Grant Stoner (IGN)}

Hello fediverse!

I need your help to feature all of the amazing services that are part of the #ActivityPub realm.

What are some of your favorite ActivityPub handles to follow on #Funkwhale, #Peertube, #Pixelfed, #Bookwyrm, #Wordpress, #Truefans, #Castopod, #Akkoma, #Friendica, #Lemmy and others?

Your replies will be categorized by @jejord, @AileenLalor, @miaq and @marci so that we can feature these accounts to our Flipboard users and work to ensure they render properly on Flipboard.

I'm excited to help evangelize the many great projects here and advocate for their adoption and funding.

#Catima 2.31.1 is out!

This is a very minor release, containing a community-contributed fix for the back gesture on the home screen dismissing both the keyboard and clearing the search. Long story short, you can now hide the keyboard without clearing the search, allowing for easier browsing of your cards.

It also contains some minor community-contributed cleanups.

Available now on #GitHub, very soon on #IzzyOnDroid and hopefully soon on other supported app stores.

#Android #FOSS

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid this weekend brought you a load of updated and 1 added app:

* Recording Studio Lite: an Audio Recorder

2 updated #Magisk #modules at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk as well.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Finally got around to informally documenting the GNOME Circle review procedure! This should be really helpful for the Circle Committee going forward.

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/…

review_procedure.md · main · Teams / Circle · GitLab

GNOME Circle Committee: apply here to have your project included in GNOME Circle!

^GitLab

Hypothetically, is there any interest in a D&D campaign on Fedi?

Also hypothetically, what's the best way to pick a weekly timeslot?

Update: to clarify, I'm open to other systems - Fate might work better for a text social media campaign. But D&D is a way bigger market.

Bilanzskandal: Ehemaligen #Wirecard-Managern droht ein finanzielles #Desaster

"17 frühere Führungskräfte müssen mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit für #Anwaltskosten und #Schadenersatzforderungen persönlich einstehen. Das könnte manchen finanziell ruinieren."

Na ich hoffe doch! Betrug und Missbrauch darf sich nicht lohnen 👌
handelsblatt.com/finanzen/bank…

Reject Modernity

Embrace Tradition

Prince of Persia 35th anniversary update: This week in 1989, I "finished" PoP. After three years of work creating the game (on an Apple II), it was time to let go.💾

I have trouble letting go. As my journal reveals, I went on secretly fixing bugs... Which is strictly verboten, after QA has signed off on a master disk. But I was confident my last little bug fixes wouldn't break anything, because my pal Roland and I would "test the hell out of them" ourselves.

You can guess where this is going.

Why is it important to challenge disinformation, especially for journalists and the media?

Because disinformation sticks around!

Christopher Columbus claimed he could get to India through his chosen route, basically every educated person said no. He managed to get funding to go anyway, totally ended up in the wrong place, but called the indigenous people Indians, despite it not being India at all. To this day, people still use the word, they're not Indians, they never were, they knew that at the time. It's been over 500 years!!!

After a lot of work, I got Windows TTS for Doom pretty much the same as it has been in Linux for a while now. While working on the Windows version, I noticed that a lot of people who were playing wre not native English speakers.

I added in a setting so that the language could be set, and if the language is not English it uses Google translate to translate the text to their specified language before sending it through as speech.

I am wondering how many people who use the Linux version in Linux Game Manager would be interested in this functionality?

• It's fine like it is. (0 votes)
• This would be awesome, I would use it a lot. (0 votes)

Triple alignment captured near Turin, Italy. The photograph took six years of attempts and was recently featured on the NASA Astronomic Picture of the day.

Credit: Valerio Minato

#space

#mushtodon #fungiverse #sporespondence #princessmononoke #Kodama #StudioGhibli

Recently I encountered a thread where someone was asking “Does having a kid become less expensive once they are easy enough to not need childcare?”

I don't have the kind of experiences that would let me answer this question yes-or-no, but what struck me as interesting was 99% of the respondents said “No, after they grow out of childcare, you are paying for summer camp!” Almost every single one talked about the immense burden of paying for summer camp.

I am sure summer camp is a great experience for many kids, but I am really struggling to see why so many people think this is mandatory ?? I was not sent to summer camp when I was a kid... but somehow it seems like the majority of American parents think that it is a requirement / fixed cost that their own decisions can have no impact on. Very bizarre.

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Marcus Herrmann shares how you can apply the 80/20 rule to accessibility, and make progress.

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#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y

80 / 20 accessibility

Many people are confronted with the …

^{marcus.io · Blog of web developer and accessibility consultant Marcus Herrmann}

Updated my sortable tables post.

It now notes that NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, and VoiceOver / iPadOS will announce when you sort a table column.

That means VoiceOver on macOS and TalkBack do _not_ announce a sort.

Dramatically better than when I wrote it in 2021 yet still utterly inadequate.

adrianroselli.com/2021/04/sort…

#a11y #accessibility

Sortable Table Columns

An accessible sortable table is not necessarily the same as a usable sortable table. Outline: Basics Let The User Know This Thing Has Sorted Screen Reader Announcement Sort Arrows Column Background Column Background via Let The User Know This T…

^{Adrian Roselli}

Why? Just, why. Why is everything a Discord now?

I hate it.