Has anyone noticed that Zoom for Windows uses text fields which are technically inaccessible? They work around this by giving screen reader alerts whenever I use the arrow keys, select text, or delete characters.
Naturally, they don't just pass through the punctuation symbol to the screen reader, because they can't predict which punctuation will get spoken by the screen reader otherwise. So the names of symbols probably won't match the ones in a screen reader. It seems to be based partially on the JAWS symbol dictionary.
On a Braille display, the control is borderline unusable, because there's no cursor representation and any navigation or deletion will replace the entire text field with the announcement. If you type the word "potatos" and then discover there is only one potato, pressing the backspace will replace everything on your Braille display with a line that says "s deleted".
And to top things off, the announcer seems to completely ignore emoji characters and they don't seem to show up in the weird limited object navigation either, so there's no way to confirm you've typed them.
I wonder what kind of absurd design choice or company culture problem led to this need to completely reinvent the wheel for a text field of all things. I know QT had cursor tracking issues in text fields, but I thought that was fixed long ago.

I used one of them fancy GitHub scripts, and nuked Windows Defender off my system. Why you ask? Because it was always doing its background scans. Always. Always using CPU when I don't want it to. Nope. Not dealing with this bullshit from Microsoft at all. It's gone. Off my system you go. I tried Eset (their online scanner) but it was not super accessible, so still on the lookout for an AV that lets me manually do the scan and control it, doesn't have a high flagging rate for developer .exe files and things like Accessible_output2 in TWBlu and Tweesecake (yes, stupid Eset flagged these too, argh!) - I'm just done. I'm fed up with Windows AV software. They're all false positive land these days. This is why Linux is better in every way.

A little hint for those who may not know. On this pc, since it's the company pc and I can't install things here, I run NVDA as a portable version. Therefore, if you ever want to install an NVDA addon that you downloaded from an external source such as Sonata voices or RHVoices, Windows does not automatically guess it's an NVDA addon, it asks with which program you want to open the NVDA addon...in that case, use: Install from external source within the #NVDA addon store installed addons tab. You'll then be presented with an open file/browse dialog, after which you can select wherever you put the Sonata voices or RHVoices addon, and it'll install as it should. After you've installed stuff from external sources, just tab to the close button and NVDA will come up with the normal dialog, Addons were installed/removed...you must restart NVDA for the changes to take effect...just press enter and it'll do it's thing, now you can use the addon/s you have installed.
#nvda

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@NVAccess I'd like to report an adon in the adon store that possibly contains malware and is being flagged as malware by Windows Defender and other antivirus programs and therefore won't install. It is redundant anyway now since the thing it is built for is now included in NVDA as of the latest version. The adon in question is called "Tele NVDA Remote Assistance" by HM something (HMDorb? HMDub? something with HMD in the developer's name anyway) and I couldn't find a report feature in the store directly so that's why I'm reporting it directly in a post on Mastodon. Anyway I tried installing it myself and sure enough Windows Defender flagged it as a threat and stopped it from installing on my computer, so that's how I know it's Malware. The URL to the adon is github.com/nvda-es/TeleNVDA I strongly recommend you take a look as I think it's definitely got some sort of Malware in it. I have already reported it to Github so they can take a look on their end.
in reply to Squish

Echoing @cubic - we have looked at that & we believe it is a false positive. What is being flagged is basically the same as what was flagged in the original NVDA Remote & in our built in implementation until we reported it as a false positive and had it fixed. We have helped TeleNVDA report the false positive as well - it can just take awhile. We do actually virus check all add-ons (as well as all NVDA core code), and it's amazing(ly annoying) how often things get falsely falgged

Wife had a job interview as the doctor she works with is going on maternity leave and she's kinda being left in limbo there

Them: so if you show up on time, you get $2/hr more. If you wear your uniform, you get $2/hr more. If you submit this paperwork on time, you get $2/hr more.

Her: Wait, what? Why is this a thing?

Them: oh you were born before 2000 weren't you? This is what we have to do now to get young people to actually follow the rules.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 10 updated and 2 added apps:

* SMS Forwarding: listens for incoming SMS text messages and conditionally forwards them to other numbers 🛡️
* Retherm: converts RTD and thermocouples sensors to temperature 🛡️

RB status: 720 apps (55.5%) – a lucky number in the percentage 🤣

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

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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

Our ongoing repo reorg also resulted in other 8 apps having been removed, as they were no longer maintained AND rarely requested anymore:

* Elfreader
* Fastair
* Warpshare
* OpenFarManager
* Calculator (ha! yeah, which one 🙈 The one from 2016)
* BookShelf
* TailPos
* domodel-diary

Our reorg is still ongoing, so more will probably follow. We hope the cleaning also makes it easier for you to find what you need in our repo, without distraction.

Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post /
"A firm working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a series of invoices for its “Influencer Campaign” to an international media group working for Israel. The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000 for 14-18 influencers to create content."

responsiblestatecraft.org/isra…

Anybody looking for #FreeBSD #ZFS job in Europe or Armenia? Take a look at lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre…. As I worked on that position until this August, I can only recommend it. The only reason I left is because of a full time open source position. Whoever fills in the position, I can promise you, you'll see wonders and make wonderful friends for life! 😃 I still chat with my old team members, and with some of them on a regular basis. In any case, good luck!
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Whew! Careful out there today.

There's a lot of people in my timeline boosting and posting misinformation (and disinformation).

(eg that McAfee *unwittingly* posted an AI image of a woman with three hands - even though that was the *point* of the ad campaign... selling AI detection.

or that Madonna has rejected a $500 million dollar deal from Elon Musk)

Everyone can fall for misinfo. If you read a claim - ESPECIALLY IF YOU AGREE WITH IT OR GET JOY FROM IT - please verify it before you post or boost it.

Dont boost until you validate.
Dont boost until you validate.
Dont boost until you validate.

(and unboost or delete the post if you later find it to be fake)

Posting this as a personal reminder. I make mistakes too and have accidentally boosted false info in the past. Bonus points for anyone who sends this post back to me in the future when I make that mistake again 😅

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Vloni touhle dobou jsem se začal chystat na důchod. Mám před sebou ještě 12 let a, s prominutím, holou prdel. Vybral jsem penzijní a zainvestoval vlastními silami.

Dva brokeři:
1) XTB, kde držím velkou většinu a kde mám pouze ETF a pomocí DCA pravidelně měsíčně vkládám hotovost a doufám, že za těch 12 let se zhodnotí.

2) eToro, kde si hraju s drobnými. Traduji akcie. Moc tomu nehovím, jen tak nějak chápu o co jde přirozenou inteligencí a všeobecným rozhledem, za přispění čtyř YouTube kanálů o investování.

A blíží se konec roku a vidím, že díky Trumpovi a jeho debilitě šly trhy do háje a když se konečně z hájů vrátily, je v háji pro změnu dolar, takže zisk nic moc. Spíš nic. Avšak ten trading, ten se mi povedl. Jsem opatrný, smrdím korunou, a i přes tu opatrnost hle, o kolik jsem překonal index S&P500. To mě těší, opravdu. Snad ten důchod nakonec nebude tak zlej.

in reply to Patrik Stach

nicméně je třeba dodat, že tohle je dobrá strategie s horizontem >10 let. Kdybych měl 5 let do důchodu, tak už v akciích na důchod nespořím. Když to pak řachne těsně před důchodem, tak to není sranda.
Já jsem investice na mnoho let vyřešil stavbou domu. Máme velkou hypo, takže můžu jakékoliv přebytečné peníze sypat do ní se zhodnocením 6 % při nulovém riziku. 🙂

Přečteno po dlouhém dni:

Mužové boiótští, slyšeli jste někdy, že by se dávalo jméno moudrý člověku nešťastnému? nebo šprýmaři? nebo člověku žlučovitému a zklamanému? Povězte, proč je zvykem, aspoň v životě nefilozofickém, nazývati člověkem moudrým muže takového, který chová nejméně nenávisti a který si se světem dobře rozumí? Řekněte si pro sebe mnohokrát a mnohokrát slovo moudrost; řekněte si to slovo, když jste v radosti nebo v žalu, unaveni, rozhořčeni a netrpěliví; budete v něm slyšeti smutek, ale už usmířený, radost, ale stále a jemně opakovanou, únavu, ale plnou pobídek, trpělivost a odpuštění bez konce; a to vše, přátelé, je zvuk rozkošný a teskný, hlas, kterým zvučí moudrost. Ano, moudrost je tesknota jakási. Rozum svůj může člověk cele vložit do svého díla, může jej uskutečnit svou prací. Avšak moudrost vždy zůstane nad každým dílem. Moudrý člověk je jako zahradník, který mrví záhon nebo přivazuje růže k tyčím a přitom myslí třeba na boha. Jeho dílo nikdy neobsáhne ani neztělesní jeho moudrost. Rozum je v činu, ale moudrost je v prožití.

Karel Čapek / Apokryfy

#precteno #knihy #karelcapek #apokryfy

I've started this #Fanfic whilst hoping labour would progress. The baby isn't out yet but at least we're having a giggle between contractions, comrades.

Harry Potter and the Ludicrously Illegal Blog, By The Sentient Duck

No one bothers to tell Harry about the Statute of Secrecy or, for that matter, that electronics shouldn't work in Hogwarts, so when he joins the magical world, he just continues writing his blog. The Muggle public is convinced he's a brilliant fantasy writer, his friends are convinced he's a menace to society, and MI6 is convinced Hermione is a Russian spy. Modern AU.

It's a 200k word Fic that seems to have been written over the course of 12 months or so last year.
fanfiction.net/s/14321997/1/Ha…

CC @FreakyFwoof

If Google is killing sideloading, then Android is just iOS with ads and spyware. Why the hell would anyone choose that?
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/why…
#Android #Google #Sideloading #FOSS #Privacy #accessibility

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Mildred was the self-appointed church gossip and moral monitor—always poking her nose where it didn’t belong. Most people didn’t approve of her behavior, but they stayed quiet to avoid the drama.
But one day, she went too far. She accused Frank, a new church member, of being an alcoholic after seeing his old truck parked outside the town’s only bar. She loudly told others, “Everyone seeing that truck there will know what he’s doing.”
Frank, a quiet man, didn’t argue. He didn’t say a word. He just walked away.
That evening, Frank drove his truck to Mildred’s house… parked it out front… walked home… and left it there all night.

How to reply to a post on Fedi:

1. Begin writing a sassy reply, but start to worry that it will be misunderstood.
2. Discard reply without posting.
3. Start writing a sincere reply. Continue until you have written a 5000 character, multi paragraph screed.
4. Discard without posting.
5. Start a new reply where you try to phrase your screed as succinctly as possible.
5. Give up and discard without posting.
6. Just click the star button on the post instead ⭐

#fediverse

in reply to André Polykanine

У нас кстати некоторое время дома жила обезьяна. Давно ещё, когда мама в школу ходила. Откуда-то сбежала, сосед притащил. Укусила бабушку, что-то разгромила по-моему. Вобщем, отправили её вроде бы в зоопарк.

My latest article for my awesome friends at @accessibleandroid after a long while.
Google’s New Rules Could Threaten Sideloading And Accessibility Along With It: accessibleandroid.com/googles-…