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🎧 New Echo Tips Podcast Alert! 🎧 This week, David dives deep into the Library of Congress's "My Talking Books" Alexa skill for print disabilities. Get the inside scoop on what works, what could be better, and how it stacks up against similar services. From clunky controls to brilliant potential, we cover everything. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/… #Alexa #a11y

Episode 351 A Loving Critique or Roast of My Talking Books Skill [Omnibus] by Echo Tips

In this week's omnibus episode of the Echo Tips Podcast, host David Ward provides an in-depth, yet constructively critical, review of the Library of Congress's "My Talking Books" Alexa skill for individuals with print disabilities.
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It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
AI is moving fast—but can it really make everything accessible? Or are we ignoring the basics?
I wrote about this on Substack, including a new idea: Vibe Coding—building software with empathy, not just code.
Read & join the convo:
taylorarndt.substack.com/p/hap…
#GAAD #Accessibility #AI #VibeCoding #Inclusion

Happy GAAD: Accessibility, AI, and the Future We’re Shaping

You may not have heard of GAAD before.
Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#Accessibility #AI #GAAD #inclusion #vibecoding

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‘DO NOT let them inside’: Police warn of company asking to use your bathroom
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/05/do-not-let-them-inside-police-warn-of-company-asking-to-use-your-bathroom.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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‘DO NOT let them inside’: Police warn of company asking to use your bathroom

The company is not registered and is going door-to-door in Massachusetts.
Heather Morrison | hmorrison@masslive.com (masslive)
@MassLive News

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I am honored to share that I’ve been nominated for an Emmy as host of PBS’s Serving Up Science - a series funded by the National Science Foundation.

This recognition is a testament to what federal science funding & public media can achieve when we invest in #science, education & evidence-based storytelling.

And it’s a reminder that curiosity matters & there is value in making science understandable & available to all.

If this resonates with you, I hope you’ll support science agencies & PBS.

Behind the scenes at Serving Up Science
#science

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I wrote about Great Replacement Grok and the growing number of ways that AI systems are working against their own users. It's the age of adversarial AI: platformer.news/grok-white-gen…
Grok’s egregiously irrelevant responses all but ensured that this particular political project would blow up in the company's face. But let’s assume that over time, interventions like these will grow more subtle, relevant, and personalized. People already have plenty of good reasons to be skeptical of, or even hostile to, AI developers. Soon I expect we will begin hearing much more about one more: a pervading sense that, everywhere they go, the AI is working against them.

Great Replacement Grok and the age of adversarial AI

An obsession with “white genocide” in X’s chatbot is only the latest example of platforms using artificial intelligence against their users
Casey Newton (Platformer)

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Innosearch AI and National Federation of the Blind Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Digital Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Communities | AT-Newswire
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Innosearch AI and the National Federation of the Blind have formed a strategic partnership to make online shopping and digital services more accessible for blind and low-vision users. Plans include co-developed platform enhancements, user training, a checkout round-up donation, and a $10 welcome credit.

The image features two logos side by side on a white background. On the left is the logo for the National Federation of the Blind, consisting of a stylized, symmetrical design resembling six abstract human figures in blue, orange, and green, encircling a central point. To the right of the emblem, the words 'NATIONAL FEDERATION' are in black uppercase letters above 'OF THE BLIND' in blue uppercase letters, with the tagline 'Live the life you want.' in a smaller black serif font below. On the right side of the image is the logo for Innosearch.ai, which consists of a bold red circle containing a stylized white 'S' shape made from two ribbon-like segments creating a 3D effect.

Innosearch AI and National Federation of the Blind Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Digital Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Communities - AT-Newswire

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"So here I am. Still masking.

And yes, I still hear it:

“Dude, seriously? Still?”

Yup. Still. Because the pandemic didn’t end—it just got rebranded. We’re still dealing with an airborne, immune-damaging virus that doesn’t care if you’re over it. I wear an N95 or better everywhere I go. In the lab. In the classroom. On Zoom calls that turn into in-person meetups. I mask because it aligns with who I am now."

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Stuck in the Middle with Masking: Playing the Long Game in a Short-Sighted Age - WHN

by Sean Mullen, PhD “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…” That line plays in my head more often than it should—especially when I’m the only one walking into a conference ballroom, faculty meeting, or classroom wearing an N95.
WHN

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A study just came out showing the majority of Americans can’t afford a minimal quality of life/basic cost of living.

The majority.

The richest country in the world is failing to provide for most of its citizens while the billionaires get richer.

Remember this the next time they talk about making America healthy again.

People need universal health care and basic income. Access to clean air and water. An end to food deserts and inequality.

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Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
Megan Cerullo (CBS News)

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Introducing Access Ableton, a new podcast created and hosted by me to help screen reader users get the most out of Ableton Live. Each week, we'll talk about a different aspect of producing music in Live, starting with the basics and going from there. After we cover all the major features, we'll move on to a more relaxed show where I discuss news, production techniques, and whatever else comes to mind as it relates to creating music in a DAW. If that sounds good to you, feel free to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. The fun starts June 1.

Link to RSS Feed: pinecast.com/feed/access-ablet…

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IzzyOnDroid got mentioned in the reproducible-builds.org blog for the April report with a huge block of multiple paragraphs 🥳

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Yes, our RB-framework is available for everyone to use. And today, we even got the first report of an installation running on a Steam Deck :awesome:

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds

Reproducible Builds in April 2025 — reproducible-builds.org

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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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🎧 Sony just launched the WH-1000XM6 headphones, and I found something mildly interesting about them:

When you pair them to a Pixel running Android 16, they'll automatically use Bluetooth LE Audio. That wasn't the case for the WH-1000XM5.

Here's why👇

🔗 androidauthority.com/sony-wh-1…


Sony's new flagship headphones automatically use your Pixel's Bluetooth LE Audio - Android Authority

Sony's new WH-1000XM6 headphones support Bluetooth LE Audio and will automatically use it when connected to a Google Pixel phone.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

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Thanks to Michael for all of the time he put into this great resource, which is totally free to all, so go download your copy! Third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most from iOS as a Totally Blind User | AppleVis applevis.com/guides/third-edit…

Third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most from iOS as a Totally Blind User | AppleVis

I'm happy to release the third edition of: Personal Power: Getting The Most from iOS as a Totally Blind User This book, freely available to all, was written to help totally blind people use iPhones competently and make the most of their capabilities …
www.applevis.com

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Accessibility, a year in review: Microsoft 365 Copilot support and better user experiences techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl…

Accessibility, a year in review: Microsoft 365 Copilot support and better user experiences

Hi, Insiders! I’m Clint Covington, Group Product Manager for E+D Accessibility. To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I’d love to share some of the biggest updates and features we’ve launched in the past year to make Microsoft 365 apps and…
Clint Covington (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)

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The United States is turning into a very dangerous place. What protects a country is security reports from intelligence experts. But a new report revealed that Venezuela is most likely not controlling the TDA gang in the US.

It is an important conclusions based on facts. But also a conclusion, which Trump did not like, because if the US is not “under attack”, he cannot invoke the Alien Enemies Act. So the Trump administration decided to fire the intelligence experts.

youtu.be/G4nQ_9AB1Zg?si=DwZ-3K…


‘Telling the truth can get you fired’: Tulsi Gabbard fires intel officials for contradicting Trump

John Brennan, Former CIA Director join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, firing two i...
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This Global Accessibility Awareness Day we'd like to shout out to our translators! NVDA has been translated into over 55 languages to provide access to technology for blind and vision impaired people around the world. Recently we spoke with Harun in Türkiye, who shared how access, in his own language, has helped him: nvaccess.org/post/harun-fast-l…

#GAAD #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Localization #Awareness #Translation

"One of my favourite aspects of [NVDA] was that its entire interface was localised... I was surprised by its small size and very fast operation. Isn't this a wonderful thing? Take it anywhere and just connect". - Harun Türkiye (Black text on white with NV Access logo top and purple sunburst designs in the background)

NV Access | Harun, Fast & Local in Türkiye

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #translation #GAAD #nvda #localization #awareness

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Tor has introduced this new cool tool they call oniux. On the page announcing it they show off a #curl command line that hasn't worked for two years... since curl nowadays refuses to resolve .onion names like RFC 7686 says.

blog.torproject.org/introducin…


Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org
#curl

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Discussed here: github.com/curl/curl/issues/17…

Impossible to use `curl` to resolve `.onion` addresses using Tor Project's `oniux` tool · Issue #17363 · curl/curl

I did this The Tor Project just announced this very cool tool called oniux: oniux is a tool that utilizes various Linux namespaces(7) in order to isolate an arbitrary application over the Tor netwo...
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looking at the torproject discussion about this gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core…

and it seems like an irresolvable problem.

On one hand you have people setting up LANs that have all their outbound traffic sent through Tor, and are supposed to work with any tor-unaware device.

On the other hand, saying "the LAN you're in is behind Tor" is exactly what an attacker would say to induce user devices to leak onion lookups...


Formalize toggle override for non-Tor applications that follow RFC 7686 (#202) · Issues · The Tor Project / Core / Tor Specifications · GitLab

Suggestion to formalize environment variable name ALLOW_DOT_ONION (or other) to be set to toggle and enable DNS lookup of the .onion TLD where an application otherwise would...
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Petr Menšík

blocking special name resolution in the applications, without defined way to indicate when such resolution should be safe, were asking for this exact problem. Tor expected only whole applications to be onion enabled, not VPN-like behaviour. Perhaps special option in resolv.conf could enable passing onion names to DNS servers specified there. Local resolvers often block it properly anyway. Ideally it should have separate nsswitch module and not using common DNS plugin.
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Petr Menšík

it seems to me this RFC cannot work with network or system level .onion support and should be replaced.

I think applications need API to query system resolver, whether DNS is handled by localhost or trusted resolver. And if .onion names are considered a special handled domain. I think we lack both on Linux now.

This RFC assumes only per-application support can be safe. Applications should query the OS support and enable it if indicated. But resolver related apis are ancient already.

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Apple Shifts iPhone Production to India—Purism’s Been Ahead for Over a Decade

As Apple scrambles to move iPhone production out of China by 2026, Purism has quietly built secure, privacy-first phones right here in the U.S.

✅ U.S.-manufactured Liberty Phone
✅ Librem 5: Security & privacy by design
✅ PureOS: No surveillance. No ads. No Big Tech

While others react, Purism leads—with a supply chain you can trust.

Choose freedom. Choose Purism.

Read Article: puri.sm/posts/apple-moves-ipho…


Apple Moves iPhone Production to India—Purism Has Been Leading the Way for Years – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Shiny new features and improvements are coming to #LibreOffice! They're being developed by independent developers, who get some support as part of the Google Summer of Code: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2025. Adam Seskunas – Implement Report Builder in C++: replacing the current Java-based Report Builder with a new solution will improve maintainability and remove one of the last r…
Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice

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Inside Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025: What Tech Companies Are Doing doubletaponair.com/inside-glob…

Inside Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025: What Tech Companies Are Doing - Double Tap

In this special Global Accessibility Awareness Day edition of Double Tap, Steven and Shaun are joined by top voices in tech accessibility, including Matt Ater from Vispero, Mike Buckley from Be My Eyes, Patrick Long from InnoSearch, and Apple’s Direc…
Steven Scott (Double Tap)

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20 Years Ago Today “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” Premieres to Global Fanfare cordcuttersnews.com/20-years-a…

20 Years Ago Today "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" Premieres to Global Fanfare | Cord Cutters News

Today, twenty years ago, the highly anticipated “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, marking a monumental moment in cinematic history.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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