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Why now is not the time to think about WCAG 3

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Why Now Is Not the Time to Think About WCAG 3 - AFixt

If you work in accessibility or are responsible for compliance at your organization, you’ve probably heard about WCAG 3.0. The W3C has been developing it for years, and the most recent Working Draft was released in September 2025.
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Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/… #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource

Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X

The cover of issue 3 of SOURCE magazine. The cover has a diagonal image across the centre with a stack of purple PCB's which are the output of one of the tutorials in the magazine. There is some green text describing the magazine content.

SOURCE ISSUE 3 Out Now! Open Hardware theme!

  Indeed! It's that time again, I'm incredibly pleased to say that SOURCE issue 3 is out now. This issue's theme is Opensource Hardware and ...
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#opensource #freecad #inkscape #openhardware #source #kicad #pcb #freecadfriday #cad #cam @Inkscape @FreeCAD @KiCad @OSHWA

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A algunos se les va a congelar la sonrisa al descubrir que las renovables no fueron el problema.

El apagón ibérico se debió a una "cascada de sobrevoltaje" y no a la generación renovable

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El apagón ibérico se debió a una "cascada de sobrevoltaje" y no a la generación renovable

Se inició en el sur de España y en minutos se expandió por España y Portugal, según el informe técnico de Entso-E
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Probably it's only me, but I find this song insanely, astonishingly beautiful, it touches something very deep in my soul. And the voices, of course. youtube.com/watch?v=37lvUhvUV-… #Music #Scottish #Gàidhlig

BRAIGH UIGE / UIG BRAE ~ MAC TALLA (LYRICS)

From the 1994 CD "MAIRIDH GAOL IS CEOL", MAC-TALLA performs ":BRAIGH UIGE" in Scots Gaelic.(Lyrics Below)https://www.facebook.com/groups/100107563413271/ht...
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#music #gaidhlig #scottish

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#Einheit - ein ganz schön großes Wort.

Irgendwann stand damals Stagnation, Frust, Hoffnung, Vision, auch Angst.

Dann Widerstand, Aufbruch, neue Ideen, Aktivität.

Leider allzufrüh DMark, Kapitulation, Beitritt, Anschluss.

Für Wiedervereinigung, Einheit, hätte es Augenhöhe bedurft. Die war nicht wahrzunehmen. Klar, (nicht nur) Freude auf beiden Seiten.

Dann aber ein beispielloses Abwerten, Ausverkauf unter Wert, auf Kosten der Lebensleistung Tausender.

Trotz allem auch wieder neue Wege und Energie.

Die Beschreibung, Erinnerung wird immer unvollständig bleiben. Die Standpunkte sind verschieden.

#Wende scheint mir immer noch passender.

#DDR #bunteRepublik

#ddr #wende #einheit #bunterepublik

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I'm seeing a number of posts about folk thinking of leaving #AndroidDev due to Googles policy changes.

For clarity I left the #Android world this year, and largely for those reasons.

I bought a T-Mobile G1 on the first day. I've built SDKs and firmware for Android, I have commits in the AOSP. I built (and sold) an app store in the early days. I also worked on the Android team at Google for a while.

Android, to me, is now a Google product. Not the open platform it was.

My advice; Just do it.

#android #androiddev

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Encountered my first elevator wit a digital queueing system. You press an accessibility button on a touchscreen, then hear all the floor numbers from highest to lowest read back to you. Once it mentions the floor you want to go to, you press the accessibility button again, hoping that while searching for the accessibility button, you don't touch the screen, because it triggers a floor call randomly to the floor you touched on the screen. Back to hearing all the floor numbers again. The floors are read out very slowly, about 1,5 seconds per floor. If you miss your number, you need to start again. I wanted to go to floor 2 in a 15 floor building. I encountered a lot of annoyed people who were waiting behind me to also call the lift. The spoken prompts were translated wrong to Estonian, so it was hard to understand what they actually meant. THe narrator spoke extremelly slowly and with a tone you'd use with a child, who has drawn on a wall with crayons, for the 5th time. Slowly, patronisingly. Hugely embarrassing experience.

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Andrew Hodgson

Yes all that. I'm surprised they read out highest to lowest, all the ones I have used go from lowest to highest. Also in your office do you have multiple touchscreens? In the ones I have used there have been plenty of screens available for others to choose the floor. People still try and help though and will sometimes cancel it by touching the screen so I have to try and cover up the screen so it is less likely to happen.

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#digitalsovereignty in Portugal. Government CTO will be someone who was Microsoft employee until a week ago. Way to go #portugal! Let's just put Oracle's boss as Tax Minister too... Are people really this short sighted? Am I crazy to see issues here? digitalinside.sapo.pt/manuel-d…

Atualizado: Manuel Dias é o escolhido para primeiro CTO do Estado [com vídeo]

O Governo prepara-se para anunciar Manuel Dias, ex-Microsoft, como responsável máximo pela estratégia tecnológica do Estado, num cargo que será acumulado com a presidência da recém-criada Agência para a Reforma Tecnológica do Estado (ARTE).
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#digitalsovereignty #portugal

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Hi everyone, an exciting announcement today - we've released our first 64-bit alpha build, which ALSO includes on-device AI image captioning. For the full details and the caveats - please see this post in the NVDA user group: groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.o…

(Also, in response to a couple of questions:
- The keystroke for image captioning is NVDA+Windows+comma
- And yes, you can setup the new alpha as a portable copy rather than installing it).

#NVDA #NVDAsr #AI #ImageDescription #Image #64bit

NVDA 64-bit with on-device image description alpha build now available

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#nvdasr #AI #image #nvda #imagedescription #64bit

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Also this Friday, look at this lovely #curl PR by @icing that we just merged:

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ssl: support Apple SecTrust configurations by icing · Pull Request #18703 · curl/curl

configure/cmake support for enabling the option supported in OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends when configured, Apple SecTrust is the default trust store for peer verification. When one of the CURLOPT_* ...
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"Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the #Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why #Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult"

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SE Radio 688: Daniel Stenberg on Removing Rust from Curl – Software Engineering Radio

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#hyper #curl

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Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679. I had no idea Stradivari made guitars. openculture.com/2025/09/musici…

Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the "Sabionari" Made in 1679

Last night, while the home team lost the big game on TVs at a local dive bar, my noisy rock band opened for a chamber pop ensemble. Electric guitars and feedback gave way to classical acoustics, violin, piano, accordion, and even a saw.
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To everyone on and off the caneandable.social instance: it has recently come to my attention that “The Troll” has started creating accounts using other people's names. If you get a follow request from someone who has appeared to move, please check with them first. Also read the bio from the new account. I could tell right away the new account was not the person they were pretending to be.

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🇩🇪 Today we celebrate #GermanUnityDay – a victory over oppression & mass surveillance.

But history warns us: #ChatControl could bring surveillance back at a scale East Germany could only have dreamed of. It's like putting a spy in every phone with AI as judge.

Let’s defend freedom & say NO to #ChatControl! ✊

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Phone on a read background with cameras and a spy looking at it

Let’s celebrate German Unity Day – and take it as reminder to stop Chat Control! | Tuta

The division of Germany was accompanied by mass surveillance in East Germany and the suppression of the opposition. This should serve as a lesson to us as to why Chat Control must never be allowed.
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#chatcontrol #germanunityday

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I'm going to talk about the sahiqat (صاحقات) genre. In the pre-modern #Arab world this was the genre of sapphic or lesbian stories. It was regarded as the purest form of love because of how impossible it was.

Different than Western sapphic love stories, it re-affirmed their devotion to God. For example the most famous couple are al-Zarqa and Hind bint al-Nu'man.

@medievodons @histodons #history #medieval #medievalhistory #Arabicliterature

#history #medieval #arab #medievalhistory #ArabicLiterature @Histodons @medievodons

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To jsem na sebe zase upletl bič. Přihlásil jsem si přednášku na #LinuxDays2025. Je už zítra. Doufám, že dcerka dnes bude spinkací, jinak budou slajdy zejtra dost děravé.
Jinak kdybyste mě chtěli slyšet koktat něco o tom co selhostinguju a jak to jde, můžete se stavit ve 13h do posluchárny 105 na FIT ČVUT v Dejvicích. 😬
#linuxdays2025

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#StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange? youtu.be/XeVO8pTfrK8

We know there are so many podcasts, so why another one?
Well, partly because we can but partly because we hope to be interesting and thoughtful, if at all possible.

In this first episode we discuss one annoying Tiktok trend of asking your significant other to 'peel an orange' and what this actually means.
We also discuss hugging, tactility and our joy of listening to other podcasts.

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StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange?

RSS feed: https://onj.me/media/stroongecast/index.php?xml_feed=yWelcome to episode 1 of StroongeCast, a husband and wife team consisting of Andre and Kirsten...
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#StroongeCast E55: What's On Your Kid's Phone? youtu.be/egcK5mGPL2Q

In this episode we discuss the control that parents have over their children's phones or tablets. At what age do you give your children a device? Do you give them one at all?

The minefield of managing apps for children is a difficult one, and it can be difficult to get a balance between very strict control making your child feel stifled, or zero control allowing them to come across extremely unsafe material that no child should ever see.

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StroongeCast E55: What's On Your Kid's Phone?

Welcome to episode 55 of StroongeCast.In this episode we discuss the control that parents have over their children's phones or tablets. At what age do you gi...
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#stroongecast

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#StroongeCast E56: Adulting youtu.be/jwJ2rNCZy7c

In this episode we're talking adulting. What's it like?
Is it annoying?
Why did we ever think that being responsible for buying food would ever be a fun thing to do?
Credit cards, yes or no?

Were there things that you thought would be fun to do as an adult but now you have to do them, you wish you didn't?

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StroongeCast E56: Adulting

Welcome to episode 56 of StroongeCast.In this episode we're talking adulting. What's it like?Is it annoying?Why did we ever think that being responsible for ...
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La tortura no debe tener cabida en un Estado democrático. Erradiquemos cualquier trato inhumano, cruel o degradante.

🤝 Nuestro compromiso para que el Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la tortura se fortalezca con más recursos y una legislación eficaz.

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Debate en Madrid sobre la tortura a detenidos vascos, en el estreno de ‘Arg(h)itzen’

«Parafraseando a la presidenta madrileña, habéis invitado a un autobús de kale borroka», suelta Martxelo Otamendi,...
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modulux

So I'm not the only one.

Big if, though; as long as one can deliver. I've had situations where something went wrong and I didn't have time to fix it (computer decides not to work, internet goes down, power cut, whatever). And then I always get asked: why did you leave it to the last moment? Well, because it's really hard to get myself to do it earlier, that's why.

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Belastingdienst naar Microsoft: Schoffering van de Tweede Kamer en van het Nederlandse/Europese bedrijfsleven.

Er is het afgelopen jaar vaak gedebatteerd over de digitale onafhankelijkheid van Nederland en de roep om onafhankelijk te worden van Amerikaanse bedrijven wordt steeds luider. Dat de staatssecretaris nu kenbaar maakt dat drie overheidsdiensten alsnog overstappen naar Microsoft roept veel woede op. Zet de stappen die al wel zouden kunnen! Lees en luister hier: bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/1…

Een overzicht van vier print screens van de ernstige vsn bnr waar je het hele verhaal kunt luisteren en lezen. Ook een foto van mij in de tweede kamer links onderin

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On this day nine years ago I started my collection: "screenshotted #curl credits"

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screenshotted curl credits

If you have more or better screenshots, please share! This shot is taken from the ending sequence of the PC version of the game Grand Theft Auto V. 44 minutes in! See the youtube version. Sky HD is a satellite TV box. This is a Philips TV.
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