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Something deeply fucking annoying about accounts with literally tens of thousands of followers complaining that they don’t get enough engagement and attention while some creators are struggling to get over 100 followers while pouring their heart and soul into their work.

I am probably going to switch full-time to using a Mac again next month, with Windows usage through a virtual machine when I need it.
Pretty much everything I regularly do on Windows can be done on Mac OS. I no longer do some of the more esoteric stuff I once did, I'm not in a professional environment where use of Microsoft Office is required, etc.

What I am not sure of, however, is the state of accessibility in regards two track audio editirs.
I do 99.999% of my work, even basic stuff, in Reaper, and I know that will work just fine on Mac OS. However, I also sometimes need to work with raw audio, and for that, I once used SoundForge, now GoldWave on Windows. That's one thing Reaper can't do.
Yes, I could use a tool like SoX or ffmpeg to convert between file formats and all that, but often, I need to deal with files exactly as they are.
I don't need a ton of functionality. Any real heavy stuff I would do in Reaper.

Given the Audacity controversy a few years ago, I haven't bothered looking to see what's up there, and for as little as I need it, I couldn't justify the price of SoundForge Pro 3 for Mac. Apparently, Magix couldn't either, because they are no longer developing the Mac version of SoundForge.

So, anyhow, for those who have to deal with headerless files (ulaw, PCM, etc.) and also need Voiceover accessibility, what are the options these days?

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Patrick Perdue
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@vick21 Considering I have never actually seen audacity in the, I don’t know, maybe 18 years I’ve known about it, anything would be an improvement, I guess.
@victor tsaran
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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If you tell me what to check, I can do a little investigation for you.

Incorrectly is the only word that, when spelled correctly, is still spelled incorrectly.

I know how to follow a Lemmy account from Mastodon. But how do I follow Mastodon accounts via Lemmy? Is that even possible?

#Lemmy

#lemmy
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modulux
modulux
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Yes, on the other hand I can kind of see how Lemmy has a very different data model and storing mastodon user feeds could get expensive.

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Echando una mano a un compañero que está preparando promoción interna para el A2. Por suerte aún me acuerdo de las cosas, y los conceptos básicos (leyes de procedimiento) no se olvidan.

Okay. I finally had enough of git pull and the like making my entire system unusable thanks to UIA event flooding that I took the plunge and switched to Windows Terminal with UIA notification events. I was having trouble with Windows Terminal previously, but that was with diffing. Notification events seem to be working fairly well so far. Let's see how it goes.
One concern I do have is that NVDA necessarily registers for notification events globally, which means that a notification event flood from a background terminal is going to impact performance. Hopefully terminal manages notification events better than it does text events. We shall see.
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Matt Campbell
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This reminds me that at some point I want to experiment with a custom protocol between the AccessKit Windows backend and ATs like NVDA (I'd almost certainly start with an implementation in an NVDA add-on), then implement AccessKit support in one of the Rust terminals, like wezterm. The custom protocol would push a tree update once per frame. Not sure if I'd use a named pipe or some other transport.
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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Well that didn't take long. Spamming the console still makes the system pretty much unusable if the console is focused when it happens. But interestingly, if the spam starts in the background or I can manage to alt+tab out (which is very difficult because it's so slow), it seems to behave. That either means that Terminal is smart enough not to send notification events while in the background (but then I'm not sure why NVDA has explicit code to ignore those) or that the poor performance is entirely due to NVDA struggling to process the notification events (but ignoring them is okay).
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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Nope, Terminal notification events are causing a bunch of stuff that isn't actually changing (just scrolling) to be read, so I'm back to conhost. There are no good options. I hate this so much.
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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Ah. My issues with UIA notification events reading text they shouldn't are almost certainly due to me using tmux. I guess it redraws the screen when text overflows or something? Or maybe that's a bug in Windows Terminal's UIA implementation.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Tyler Spivey
Tyler Spivey
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Try set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:indn@' in .tmux.conf and see if that improves things.
in reply to Tyler Spivey

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@tspivey Heh, I was just fiddling with that, as discovered in various tmux GitHub issues. I don't really understand what it does though. I know indn is related to scrolling, but how does it prevent Terminal from misbehaving in this case?
Also, any idea why tmux seems to redraw the entire screen after an alert message (like "Can't find window: 1")disappears? I haven't found a way to disable that. Disabling indn doesn't fix it.
@Tyler Spivey
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Tyler Spivey
Tyler Spivey
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When I run tmux, seq 1 100, cat, then type test, tmux sends "\r\33[2S\33[Atest\33[K\r\n\33[K" to the terminal after I press enter.
indn@ disables the \33[2S part of the sequence, so now it has to send something else, in my case "\33[30;120H\n\n\33[29;1Htest\33[K\r\n\33[K".
I guess whatever's generating the notifications for Windows Terminal doesn't like scrolling with escape sequences, but the absolute positioning works fine.
I haven't found a fix for redrawing after the messages either, but it happens so infrequently I can just ignore it.
Another problem is that text gets split up sometimes, for example paste in It’s and press enter. Notice the unicode apostrophe. tmux does weird things with cursor movement there, and nothing handles that well. Most of my usage is with tdsr outputting to NVDA, and I don't need to disable indn. It just reads the bytes as they come in.
Windows Terminal fails the basics, I can't press Alt+letter without NVDA re-reading the focus.
in reply to Jamie Teh

x0
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Screen does something like this for me too when I exit a screen, and in fact due to scrollback it causes the *entire* scrollback buffer in WT to be read out when that happens. Which can hit the speech large chunk delay.
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Jamie Teh
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@x0 Is this with NVDA set to use UIA notification events? I'm not surprised by it reading a whole bunch of text, but I've discovered it shouldn't delay too badly if you're using UIA notifications, Windows Terminal and have NVDA log level set to info.
@x0
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x0
x0
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No diffing, which makes sense I suppose, it un-paints. I didn't think using UIA notification events was stable yet for small updates, especially with progress bars and the like.
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Jamie Teh
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@x0 It definitely has some rough edges. See other posts and replies from me recently regarding tmux settings necessary to make Windows Terminal's UIA notifications behave correctly when text scrolls off the screen in tmux.
@x0
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Jon
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I had that issue too, does it do the same thing if you do NVDA+shift+z on the terminal before pressing return on the command? I never tested it but it could be the voice synth getting really backed up. I’d try it now but my work computer doesn’t read ANYTHING in command prompts of all sorts because of corporate malware…
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@chinakow Yeah, I suspect it might actually be NVDA's speech processing code getting backed up. I'll experiment with that at some point if I can be bothered, as it's probably not too ridiculous to fix that.
@Jon
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Jamie Teh
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Terminal doesn't fire UIA notification events when in the background, which is great. It turns out that the thing that's really slowing down NVDA's handling of those on my system isn't speech processing or anything like that. It's... logging! I tend to have my log level set to debug, which logs a lot. I never realised just how much that logging could slow things down when there's this much data.
Interestingly, if I set my speech mode to beeps, that's also very laggy. I guess it's expensive to continually generate and play the tone, even if we stop it very quickly.
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Jayson Smith
Jayson Smith
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Okay, maybe this is a stupid suggestion but…why not pregenerate the required tone for the required duration when NVDA starts? Then you don't have to generate it over and over.
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@jaybird110127 That is indeed one option I thought of to optimise that, yes. Whether or not that is the actual bottleneck is yet to be determined.
@Jayson Smith
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Jayson Smith
Jayson Smith
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A year or two ago I actually came up with a weird way to not have to generate tones at all. When speech mode is set to beeps, rather than playing a specific tone, just output the actual text to be spoken, not as speech but in its raw binary form, to the audio device. This would be most useful with long text dumps. For something like single characters, a single byte probably isn't going to convert to enough sound to make a noticeable noise.
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@jaybird110127 I follow. As you say, though, it's problematic for smaller chunks, which I'd say is fairly common for a screen reader.
@Jayson Smith
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Jayson Smith
Jayson Smith
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If, by chance, you're sitting there going "Huh? What in the world is this kid talking about?" Start any audio editor that lets you open headerless files as raw PCM. Open a file that is, in fact, not an audio file at all. Specify the sample rate, bit depth, number of channels, etc. as you like. If you then play it, you'll hear some random noise. Text files, logs, etc. tend to generate the coolest noises. Anything compressed is going to sound like white noise, in other words, a loud hiss covering the entire frequency spectrum.

Apple Pages vs. LibreOffice Writer: Which Free Word Processor Is Best? howtogeek.com/apple-pages-vs-l…

Apple Pages vs. LibreOffice Writer: Which Free Word Processor Is Best?

Is it time to look again at Pages? Or is free and open-source the way to go?
Andy Betts (How-To Geek)

#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

🧣Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #Tipton #HiddenLakeGardens MI USA 🇺🇸 11/2024 - Title:
🟡 "Anastasia waits for good luck to
fall into her lap. 🍀🐹
🔴 "Anastasia wartet darauf, dass ihr
das Glück in den Schoß fällt."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #3DArt #Optimism #Luck #GoodMorning !
Streetart. A small hamster (named Anastasia) with a tree was painted with chalk on the tiled floor next to a flower pot. It sits next to a (painted) tree trunk in a (painted) hole and looks up into the treetops. However, these are not painted, but small shamrocks that grow next to the clay pot and have been integrated into the chalk painting without further ado. Title: "Anastasia waits for good luck to fall into her lap."
#art #artist #3dart #goodmorning #streetart #davidzinn #chalkart #sidewalkchalk #optimism #tipton #hiddenlakegardens #luck

The 7 Most Frustrating Things About Microsoft Word (And How to Solve Them) howtogeek.com/the-most-frustra…

The 7 Most Frustrating Things About Microsoft Word (And How to Solve Them)

Do let Microsoft Word drive you mad!
Chifundo Kasiya (How-To Geek)

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5 Problems on Your Computer That Might be Caused by Malware

If you have these issues when using your computer, it might be infected with malware.
Timothy Jacob Hudson (How-To Geek)

NLS BARD Support: That All May eRead: Tuesday, November 26, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

NLS BARD Support: That All May eRead: Tuesday, November 26, 7:00 PM Eastern Time

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Արփի – Arpi, an Eastern Armenian Voice for the RH Voice Synthesizer – LouderPages.org groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

Արփի – Arpi, an Eastern Armenian Voice for the RH Voice Synthesizer – LouderPages.org

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From PC World: Malwarebytes Premium Security review: An antimalware staple is now optional

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Spotted on a Tuesday in small city Aotearoa #newzealand

A woman with an artfully messy topknot (60s) returning library books with a friend. She says loudly, "Did you know there's a huge seniors swinger community here?"
Her friend laughs, "Yeah. EVERYONE knows that!"
She huffs, "I didn't!"

Two men in hi vis vests striding into a supermarket. The older (60s?) says to the younger (early 20s?) "You can't go wrong with croissants, mate. Women are always impressed if they come over and see a croissant. They're like MAGIC."

A stocky man in a Grateful Dead T-shirt (70s?) enters a cafe and announces: "I know it's not my usual day, but I really need that coffee."
The barista who's just greeted him by name makes his regular.

A woman (40s) pausing at a crosswalk leading to a diverse bunch of locals meeting in support of the Hīkoi mo te Tiriti in Wellington. She grins as she comments on the size of crowd only for her teen daughter to gently but firmly hustle her forward. The vibe is community.

A beaming man (50s) walking down the street talking on his phone: "Mum, Taylor passed his maths exam. I didn't think he'd do it but he did. I'm so bloody proud of him, eh."

Any typos in this post are highly amused after overhearing in the cookbook section of a library that there's not only one but two active senior swinger communities in this rather small Kiwi city who are apparently warring with each other. If spotted please impress typos with a croissant.

#newzealand

I am doing a bit of a farewell tour at the moment. All the meetings I am attending are my last for various Boards I am on and groups I have been a part of. People have been very kind, and at the meeting I just finished, I got given the most massive box of chocolates I’ve ever had in my life!
Tomorrow, I am doing my exit interview on RNZ’s Nine to Noon. I’ll be talking about my new role in the USA and the technological challenges and opportunities blind people face, and reflecting on why New Zealand is such a difficult country to be a blind person or otherwise disabled. One of the benefits of being on the way out is that I can speak my truth, and believe me, I intend doing exactly that.
Times are subject to change but at this stage it is the first item, right after the 9 AM news on Wednesday.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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Jonathan, that chocolate is so bad for you. All those carbs and that sugar ... look, I'm here to help, as you know, so to avoid eating those horrible chocolates you can send me that box. I'm only thinking of your health, you know ...

Want to buy a lovely house in Wellington? Well, I’m selling a lovely house in Wellington! benstevens.co.nz/property/6-cu…

6 Curacao Place Grenada, Village

This spacious home located in friendly and peaceful cul-de-sac offers a wonderful opportunity to the market. From families to professionals looking for a home
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in reply to Jonathan Mosen

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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Hahahah, Love it! Leaving tomorrow! Always dreamed of visiting NZ! For real…

Can someone remind me where to find any deep dive into the Monarch? I might be seeing one soon and want to have a good idea what I'm doing with it.

I've read that the new Mac Mini has the power button on the bottom of the device, forcing the user to slightly lift the Mac in order to turn it on. Is this true and does this design flaw bother those of you who are Mac Mini owners?
in reply to David Goldfield

Lisa
Lisa
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i am nowt yet an owner, but i like the idea, it provents accidentle oopsys?
in reply to David Goldfield

Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰
Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰
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Not purchasing new MacMini just yet, still have another year with my 2018. But if this is true, I’ll have to think long and hard about it. I do not like the thought of the power button being on the bottom.

@MarkTh213 Thank you for the follow. I've been a #DoctorWho fan for nearly 40 years, including the novels and audio dramas. I also am a supporter of Israel.
#doctorwho @Mark

people talk about “the media” and “journalists” and they picture the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or cable news.

and sure, “the media” is the Big Five. but it’s also non-profit newsrooms, independent journalists, international and/or non-US publications, worker-owned media collectives, bloggers, local newsrooms, citizen journalists, podcasters, critics, community radio stations, documentary filmmakers, trade publications, freelancers, fact checkers...

#media #journalism

#journalism #media

Dobré ranko všem, tak jednu ☕️ a 🥐 na nastartování.
A ratolestem omezte ty mobily, ať nezblbnou ...

Want to see a more comprehensive list of uninstallable programs? Or want to get rid of a pesky program that just doesn't budge? Download this install/uninstall trouble shooter. It's pretty neat! support.microsoft.com/en-us/to…

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The Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter helps you automatically repair issues when you're blocked from installing or removing programs.
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One of the problems with social media is that we feel that if we post, tweet, boost, or retweet lots of strongly-worded messages and articles, it makes us warriors for our causes. Realistically, you're probably being read by people who agree with you, especially if your account is protected. We call that preaching to the choir. If you want to be a warrior, you have to get out there somehow, and fight. You can't be a warrior cocooned in your comfort zone. This is why I make a lousy warrior.
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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Ah, but if you're willing to post on topics to those who disagree with you I'd say you're venturing into warrior territory, even if all you're able to do is to post behind a keyboard. Just as an example, if you're considered politically conservative, a traditional Christian who holds opinions and has beliefs based on traditional Christian teaching, posting your opinions about such topics on a platform like Mastodon will most certainly cause division.
in reply to David Goldfield

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
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@DavidGoldfield And is causing division what a warrior is after? If you believe in free ketchup for all, and you proclaim your message to people, 99% of whom are in your camp already, and the other 1% are just up for an argument, what have you done, in Heinzsight, for your cause?
@David Goldfield
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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That's a fair question. I don't believe that division should be our goal but it will often be a consequence while we try and achieve that goal. It reminds me of the words of our Lord in Luke 12.
51Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

This type of division is going to happen when we do our Lord's will and speak out against the culture.

As a disabled person, I don’t need fixing lifeofablindgirl.com/2024/11/1…

As a disabled person, I don't need fixing - Life of a Blind Girl

Society has a tainted view on disability as something that needs to be fixed. But as a disabled person, I don’t need fixing.
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Why You Need a Password Manager, and How to Choose the Right One pcmag.com/how-to/why-you-need-…
in reply to David Goldfield

Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher
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My problem is I have Apple password manager, Microsoft authenticator, and a little bit on Google authenticator! Now how do I consolidate those 200+ into one password manager that works across devices! I’m guessing it’s just time that I need to spend

Malwarebytes Premium Security review: An antimalware staple is now optional pcworld.com/article/2379275/ma…

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Protect your home network with these essential router tweaks pcworld.com/article/2514103/ho…

Protect your home network with these essential router tweaks

Between your gadgets and the internet's jungle of hackers and malware stands your router. Here's how to make sure it protects your home network.
Anders Lundberg (PCWorld)

From Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: TUG Meeting Announcement -- BARD on Alexa: Saturday, December 14, 10:00 AM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

From Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: TUG Meeting Announcement -- BARD on Alexa: Saturday, December 14, 10:00 AM Eastern Time

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From the NLS Patron Engagement Section: Announcing New Program: Smart Speaking to the Smart Speaker

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i hear no lies!
@bryanyang : "How come cashiers at 24/7 McDonald’s can de-escalate situations better than cops" answer from @JanetteKirchner : "Because we get fired if we don't."

[Forum Topic] Brilliant Hack and Video! Buy the Base Model and Put your Home Folder on an External Thunderbolt Drive applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

Brilliant Hack and Video! Buy the Base Model and Put your Home Folder on an External Thunderbolt Drive | AppleVis

This video popped up in my feed and I thought it was so great, I had to share it. the new Macs from Apple come with 256 GB as the base hard drive configuration in the Mac Mini and the iMac.
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Are you in Melbourne today? Come down to Statewide Vision Resource Centre in Donvale and see Sascha and Quentin, learn about what's new with NVDA, and check out everything else at SVRC's Tech Expo!

#NVDA #technology #accessibility

Sascha sitting at a table with NV Access tablecloth and fliers, with laptop ready to demonstrate NVDA
#Accessibility #technology #nvda

One day, I will take one of these, "We miss you" emails from companies and show up to their office saying: "Okay, I'm here, let's hang out." It will be gloriously awkward.

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From 2023, but i only read it today: michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b…

#accessibility

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind | The Blog of Michael Taboada

Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option.
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#Accessibility
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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If reporting the 401 error is indeed what made them suspicious, I think there might even be another issue at play here, which is... surely a blind person wouldn't be using the browser developer tools to debug something like this? Surely not. They mustn't be blind if they're doing that. Perish the thought.

Rick Astley has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any corporate cyber-security training.

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I'm used to mentally substituting Mastodon for fedi in my head, and usually this is good, but I'm noticing I am surprised or dismissive of much criticism of Mastodon because it doesn't apply to GTS, which is my instance software. For example the reply fetch issue has been solved, so when people say Mastodon has the issue people can't see all the replies, I do my unconscious mastodon=>fedi substitution and say, "but it can?" Only then, I realise this is still a problem for a lot of users.

DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports

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in reply to Hubert Figuière

James Just James
James Just James
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Good because it will force Google to follow some standards, bad because the new owner will make it even worse.

I don't know which team he's on, but I'm definitely backing him 😄

#curl

A football player wearing a jersey with the last name "CURL" displayed on the back, standing on a football field. The image is shown on a TV screen.
#curl
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Nvidia ( $NVDA ) will report its Q3 earnings after the bell next Wednesday, with analysts expecting EPS of $0.74 on revenue of $33.2 billion, an 83% YoY increase.

Nvidia’s stock is up 189% YTD, while AMD ( $AMD ) and Intel ( $INTC ) have seen declines of 8% and 51% respectively.

Nvidia’s Data Center segment is projected to bring in $29 billion, a 100% increase YoY.

#Nvidia #NVDA #EarningsReport #AI #StockMarket #Investing #TechStocks #DataCenter #MarketNews

#AI #nvidia #nvda #stockmarket #investing #earningsreport #techstocks #datacenter #MarketNews
in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

NV Access
NV Access
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@dhamlinmusic Could be right - and I just responded to another one - but you never know - last time we thought that, the user replied and apologised. I can appreciate it is an honest issue - but at the same time, I doubt anyone actually looks at the #NVDA hashtag for stock market info, given 90% of posts using the hashtag are about hte screen reader - so if we can convince them, it's worth having the premade text on standby :)
#nvda @D.Hamlin.Music
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