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Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…

Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview

In mid-October, Be My Eyes announced what it called an “industry-first” venture with hospitality giant Hilton that makes travel accessible to Blind and low vision people.
Steven Aquino (Forbes)

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Google payed me a bugbounty for a bug I reported 8 years ago...

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Look inside: Franklin Institute’s Giant Heart reopens with new immersive exhibits technical.ly/civic-news/frankl…

Look inside: Franklin Institute’s Giant Heart reopens with new immersive exhibits

The revamped “Body Odyssey” exhibit uses technology — think robotic arms and sensors — to create fun learning activities.
Sarah Huffman (Technically Media)
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Ooh I always hated that thing as a child. Even today many find that sound calming I do not.

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Zážitek s tříválcem. Náhradní vozidlo Opel Crossland, benzín 81 kW. Při montáži motoru v něm slyšitelně zapomněli plechovku od oleje. Snad se to někde nerozsype... Ale má to cosi jako zátah. A pořádný. Kde se to v té kraksně bere? A spotřeba 5,8 po dálnici + kolona v Praze? To je o 2,5 litru míň než u mého #auta.
#auta
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Smoon
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Mám podobnou zkušenost úplně s jinými auty (značkami). Malolitrážní přeplňované motory mají všechny zvuk, jak když každou chvíli umřou. Současně "odpich" je mnohdy lepší jak u mnohem větších atmosferických motorů s vyšším papírovým výkonem. Životnost těchto malých mršek je však už diskutabilní ...

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Beltone’s ‘Hear for the Holidays’ Giveaway: Free Hearing Aids for Those in Need hearingreview.com/inside-heari…

Beltone Holiday Giveaway: Free Hearing Aids for Those in Need | The Hearing Review

Beltone is hosting a ‘Hear for the Holidays’ giveaway, providing free hearing aids to deserving individuals throughout December 2024.
Andy Lundin (The Hearing Review)

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@Mojeek @Tutanota @tilvids @brave @odysee everyone should use your products, they are free, open source mostly (brave why do u use chromium, use gecko and make everything better for first browser choices) and if someone doesn't have any relations with big tech (no Google Microsoft apple or Amazon) then get them a Linux computer get them a grapheneos pixel, and get them to use y'all instead of big tech like don't use YouTube and they will use mastodon odysee and tilvids instead #FOSS tchüss
#foss @Mojeek @Tuta @TILvids @Brave @odysee
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Thanks for the mention ❤️ Together we can make the web a better place!

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I've just realized that my phone is now over two years old and I don't feel the need to upgrade it. This is perhaps the first time I've ever reached this point in a phone's lifetime without wanting to upgrade and it's a weird feeling for me. I've ALWAYS enjoyed living at the bleeding edge of tech. Maybe it was that I was young and a year was a long time for me and I've gotten older now. I know e-waste (though my phones are always repurposed or donated) and cost are factors.

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Fruity Loops - fridge magnets on a rotating platter playing string synth via MIDI switches.

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co je to za kreténa ten Filip Turek? 🤔 😂

ptám se pro kamaráda...

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i hope bluesky and the fediverse becomes interoperable because i just want to witness in real time the chaos the community clashes would bring
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World's first #Lego tram in Hungary telex.hu/belfold/2024/11/20/le…

Elkészült az első életnagyságú legóvillamos, a Deák téren megnézhetik

A legóvillamost Dóczy Balázs tervezte, építésében 90 ember vett részt.
Vida Benjámin (Telex)
#lego
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@tardis The (black) bottom part is a real flatbed cargo car, so it does move. But according to the article, you cannot travel on it.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

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Hello
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I keep on translating your conversation guys and now I wanna know the price. How many millions of I was going to say Eur. :D

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Prišli mi učebnice v elektronickej podobe tak premýšľam že si to dám vytlačiť, stále mi je to bližšie mať na papieri.

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Dneska cesta do práce trvala 90 minut. Na D6 směr Cheb čtyři nehody. Dálnice ze Sokolova do Chebu jeden led. Samozřejmě silničáři buďte v klidu, není kam spěchat.
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Oni spěchají, ti silničáři, ale mají skluz se sekáním krajnic, tak to dodělávají 🙃
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Archos
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To ti řeknu, to je hrozný. 😀😀 Přejedu hranice a vše upraveno.
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I was asked this question at an Expo in Melbourne this week, and I’m fine repeating it here: for high school, higher study, and vocation: - Mac OS Voiceover with comparable apps still not comparable to Windows screen readers and apps. Fine for home or general computer tasks.
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@CallumStoneman My only reservation with the iPad was that writing documents at length was proving tricky last I looked. If you need to produce a well-formatted report with headings, perhaps a table of contents etc, it was never as slick as with windows. Same for spellchecking.

I'd love to see that has improved, though!

@Callum Stoneman
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Andrew Hodgson
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@cachondo @CallumStoneman I'm all for lightweight devices so long as kids get a good education on learning screen readers and using Windows devices as this is what they will encounter in the workplace. I know someone who is blind who wanted to use an iPad for her daily work driver, that isn't going to happen in a corporate setting. She didn't know how to use Windows or office making her essentially unemployable.
@Callum Stoneman @Sean Randall

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Kind of crazy that a 1913 Puck cartoon is almost 100% relevant to day.

I'd just delete the word "reassuring".

An old political cartoon showing a white haired uncle sam character in blue stars jacked and red stripe pants looking away from the viewer at two different fun house mirrors, both labeled "Seeing is believing" Both have men in suits trying to show how good their option is. One is a horizontally bent out mirror for the democratic majority showing a plump well off uncle sam. The other is a vertically bent out mirror for the republican majority showing a gaunt hungry looking uncle sam. The text is Uncle Sam gets a reassuring view of what the new tariff will do to him.
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Diane
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No I have no idea who was pushing tariffs in 1913.
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Diane
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Another always relevant comic for #USPol

We just need to swap out the names of some of the companies so it's now things like microsoft, google, amazon, exxonmobil, at&t, boeing. etc.

An early 1900s cartoon labeled the bosses of the senate. There's a bunch of small men, presumably senators, hunched over small wooden desks. Behind them are a bunch of gigantic overweight men in top hats and black jackets, but their shirt looks like a giant bag of money. Their a labeled things like: Steel beem trust, Copper trust, Standard Oil, Coal. Behind them is a door way labeled entrance for monopolists.
#uspol

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Can we please retire the myth that there is “no engagement” in the Fediverse?

Exhibit A: this badge from #Ivory showing the activity in my account over the past 22 hours — 344 notifications (likes, boosts, follows, replies).

I was on Twitter 1.0 for 14 years, had 4x as many followers on my personal account and never ever had these many interactions. Why?

The damn Big Tech algorithms penalizing my posts whenever I shared links.

I LOVE the Fediverse and its chronological feeds ❤️

The screenshot of the notification badge from Ivory showing the number 344 in a red bubble
#ivory
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I remember exactly the "revelation" in 2020, when I had on Mastodon (account of a few months) half the followers of Twitter (account of 10 years) and yet I had double the interactions and even more reactions...

Commercial social media is a pyramid scheme based on the supposed visibility

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Tengo una idea que podría abrir puertas en un área donde, curiosamente, bajo el actual “hype” de la inteligencia artificial, nadie parece estar trabajando de forma directa: entrenar modelos de transcripción de voz a texto en español u otras lenguas minoritarias que funcionen completamente en el navegador, utilizando tecnologías como WebAssembly (WASM).

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There's an interesting #accessibility webinar next Tuesday by Funka on EN301549 requirements that go beyond WCAG.

Especially relevant for public sector bodies, which must fulfil EN301549 Annex A, some of which is beyond the scope of WCAG.

Free registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

#accessibility #standards #ElectronicAdministration #PublicSector #technology


Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: IAAP Nordic Webinar: EN301549 requirements that go beyond WCAG - 15.00-16.00 CET - 26 November 2024. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Zoom
#Accessibility #technology #standards #publicsector #electronicadministration

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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Hoy toca finalizar la revisión del RAT (registro de actividades de tratamiento) y ver si tenemos que hacer algún análisis de impacto de protección de datos (en principio creo que no). Cosas de que a uno le caiga ser vice-DPD.

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#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

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Znáte projekt Stromy pod kontrolou? Informační platforma pro inventarizaci stromů. Nebo také možnost zjistit, co je který strom zač.
Podívejte třeba na Tyršovy sady v Pardubicích: stromypodkontrolou.cz/map/#%7B…
(chvilku počkat, než se načtou stromy)

Stromy pod kontrolou

www.stromypodkontrolou.cz
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Štěpán Škorpil
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tyjo, nebylo by zajímavý ty stromy vést rovnou v OpenStreetMap?

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Saw this & it's so true. I'm reposting with alt text.
Retweet with comment: Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo Just once I'd like to see an article like "Extroverted? Here's Some Tips on How to Be Quiet and Reflective" Quoted tweet: O The Oprah Magazine • 29 Aug Introverted? Here's How to Be More Social trib.al/nWh2uK9

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In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...

... so they wrote one

and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this

So they explained how fascism would come to the US

Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

A screenshot reading: The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.” And they would use three techniques: First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well- planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.” Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.” Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.” It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”

October 26, 2024

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)

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"And I remember being younger and my mother told me true. Find someone who grows flowers in the darkest parts of you. Take heed when things get hard and don't you ever turn around. Cause you’ll find someone, someday, somewhere, that grows you to the clouds."

#love #lyrics #compassion #happy #happiness #zachbryan #suntome #MentalHealth #mensmentalhealth #song #beautiful #mindfulness

#MentalHealth #mindfulness #beautiful #song #love #mensmentalhealth #compassion #lyrics #happy #happiness #zachbryan #suntome

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Včera jsem si trochu při běhu naložil. Hodina běh a každých pět minut 20 dřepů, dneska sotva lezu 💪😀
Naštěstí se už blíží volno.
#dobréRáno
#dobrerano
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Archos
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@Lucinek
Ona chůze je asi stejně nejzdravější. My chodíme taky občas na túry.
@Lucinek
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Lucinek
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Právě. Také tomu nerozumím. Hlavně, že nohy vůbec fungují. Tak jsem defenzívně opatrná.

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!!! (prosím o sdílení Čechům) Důležité upozornění pro čtenáře FFFilmu: Pokud chcete ve svém Mastodon feedu nadále vidět upozornění na nové FFFilm články, začněte sledovat robota @fffilm . Zde na mém osobním účtu se tyto odkazy už nebudou objevovat. Má to tu výhodu, že 1) Pokud FFFilm nečtete, nebudou vás ta upozornění nadále otravovat, 2) mastodonczech.cz je na méně blocklistech než kompost.cz.
#czech #fffilm
#czech #fffilm @FFFilm robot
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Navigating Accessibility: A Black Friday Shopping Experience on Mobile blog.usablenet.com/navigating-…

Navigating Accessibility: A Black Friday Shopping Experience on Mobile

Learn about the accessibility challenges faced by mobile screen reader users in Black Friday shopping and discover takeaways for digital usability.
Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)

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Bag a Refurbed Apple Watch Ultra for Just $400 With Woot's Black Friday Deal cnet.com/deals/bag-a-refurbed-…

Bag a Refurbed Apple Watch Ultra for Just $400 With Woot's Black Friday Deal

You can now get a refurbished Apple Watch Ultra for the price of the latest Apple Watch Series 10.
Oliver Haslam (CNET)

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`The Two Doctors`
#DoctorWho
#doctorwho
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David Goldfield
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Hi. Would you please add alt text to your images? Blind people who use screen readers are unable to identify images without them.

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TapeBlocks are the accessible, affordable, versatile and creative circuit making activity and there is a version of TapeBlocks that is accessible so that anyone can explore circuits for themselves. They challenge people understanding of how to make circuits and who can make them. TapeBlocks combine technology with creativity to encourage everyone to play and explore.
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TapeBlock: Creative Circuit Making for All

TapeBlock Creative Circuits, Accessible for all, Including People Living with a Disability. Play Explore and Discover with TapeBlocks Innovative Activity Design. Make your own Light-up Characters.
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Video, Sesame Street - Ernie and Bert - Noisy Bedroom, youtube.com
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Sesame Street - Ernie and Bert - Noisy Bedroom

Another behind-the-scenes goodie from the Sesame Street vaults! From the Season 2 premiere (November 9, 1970), a noisy dripping tap is keeping Ernie (Jim Hen...
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David Goldfield
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@Ken@caneandable.social Those Ernie and Bert skits are some of the funniest things on television. They're hilarious.

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Updates On Optima Braille Laptop & SevaVision Offers Augmented Reality Glasses For Low Vision doubletaponair.com/updates-on-…

Updates On Optima Braille Laptop & SevaVision Offers Augmented Reality Glasses For Low Vision - Double Tap

Today on the show, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece discuss the innovative SevaVision glasses, which aim to utilize remaining vision in those with visual impairments, and we also find out more about the development of the Optima Braille Laptop.
Steven Scott (Double Tap)

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For #DoctorWho fans with a qualifying print disability, Bookshare recently added the following title to its collection.

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who
by Simon Guerrier Marek Kukula
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is a mind-bending blend of story and science that will help you see Doctor Who in a whole new light, weaving together a series of all-new adventures, featuring every incarnation of the Doctor.With commentary that explores the possibilities of time travel, life on other planets, artificial intelligence, parallel universes and more, Simon Guerrier and Dr. Marek Kukula show how Doctor Who uses science to inform its unique style of storytelling—and just how close it has often come to predicting future scientific discoveries.This book is your chance to be the Doctor's companion and explore what's out there. It will make you laugh, and think, and see the world around you differently.

Copyright: 2015 ISBN: 9780062386953

www.bookshare.org

#doctorwho

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I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.

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Nothing teaches you what hand/eye coordination really means until you get a fucking digitizer tablet.

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The biggest winner in this #election has been #oligarchy. #Oligarchs came out openly against #democracy and used every trick in the book to divide the American people against one another so they can rule us more directly than they have ever done in the modern era. They control #CorporateMedia and they will now strengthen their control in DC.

We have been on the road to oligarchy for a long time, and 11/5/24 will be as big a milestone on it as 1/21/10 when the Citizens United ruling was issued.

#democracy #oligarchs #election #oligarchy #corporatemedia
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It really doesn't reflect well on us as a technical society that we have allowed printers to continue to be so aggressively noncompliant for over 71 years

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Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

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Mastodon: Bluesky is Bad, actually
Bluesky: Mastodon is Bad, actually

It’s like a shit version of West Side Story. how long before a Mastodon user and a Bluesky user fall in love while communicating exclusively over the fedi bridge

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