Don’t forget to test with real users who have disabilities. Being 100% compliant is just the beginning. If you do user testing, then you already know their value! Tools alone aren’t enough. #accessibility #a11y
Vox Libri is built to help people read books and documents in a flexible, personalized, and fully accessible way. It is designed to work well with VoiceOver and braille displays, and to support different reading preferences: on-screen reading, braille reading, or high-quality text-to-speech.
The interface is available in English and Spanish, and you can use any device-supported language for voices.
Key features include: • High-quality text-to-speech for natural read-aloud. • A braille reading mode compatible with braille displays. • A highly customizable reading screen (font, size, colors, spacing, themes). • Support for common formats: TXT, PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, and EPUB. • Accessible navigation through chapters, headings, pages, bookmarks, and sections. • Hands-free reading using headphone controls. • On-device AI translation, summarization, and simplification when supported by the device.
I am working in versions for MacOS and WatchOS…
If you try Vox Libri, I would sincerely appreciate any feedback from BlindApple users—especially around accessibility, braille workflows, navigation, and overall reading comfort.
A compilation of #AtariST computers tunes by Lotek Style, that Torsten ‘mOdmate’ Keltsch would have liked https://youtu.be/THrDkvzLi5A #atari #demoscene #chiptunes
The Domino Effect of Kindness Sometimes called the "domino effect," the cascade initiated by a single act of kindness can inspire others to act similarly. For instance, holding the door for someone may compel them to pay it forward later in the day, and this melding of kindness can exponentially accelerate positive interactions within a community.
Any #gotosocial user know how I can completely remove a user from the database and have it refetch the user's details or something like that. I am trying to follow someone who I think deleted and recreated there account on the same #Mastodon instance, when I try to follow said person again it says, error 404, target not found.
I've had a couple of times on my instance where a user I am trying to follow is showing as me requesting to follow them. I've fixed it by unfollowing them on my side and then waiting for a while for whatever cleanup to happen then following them again. Have you tried following the user by going to their page and choosing the follow button and going through that process?
I'm still trying to get through more of the Wandering Inn. So when the author released a truly large chapter and said they were taking a month break, I rejoiced. Because maybe I can get closer to caught up. I'm still way ahead of the audio and want to read that at some point, but some day I hope I can catch the chapters as they are released. So my resolution is to read a chapter or two of this thing a day, and maybe in a few months or ten, I'll have caught up. I'm on 8.59 now, audio is probably about 80 chapters behind me. I sincely hope that the author doesn't switch to AI narration or something before she gets to book 60 of this thing. I estimate, if all audio were published now, it'd take 60 to 80 books, countless hours, and I'm all inn.
Man, I am caught up on all the chapters, but I miss so much details, when looking at the subredit, for example, people talking about things I don't even remember reading. I think it’s because it just registers in my brain differently, or something, like tts vs the actual human naration. But yeah it’s crazy the end of year chapter is almost the same length as the first Harry Potter book lol.
A word about content today. The Digital Domain Online Radio Show will air its annual New Year's Day special tonight at 7 PM EST. It does feature some Christmas leftovers, which is why our Christmas replays are running still. For those who simply do not wish to Christmas anymore, @nick really sympathizes.
The replays will quietly end during the show and regular automation will resume.
Them: Can you confirm you have no more than 15 personal electronic devices in your carry on?
Me: (excitedly infodumping) Well, it really depends what you consider to be a device. Many of these computers themselves contain multiple smaller computers. Consider these microSD cards (waves a small anti-static bag around), each of which has a tiny ARM processor - designed by a trans person from the BBC Micro team, if I might go off at a tangent for a moment. Or the battery controller chip on the LiPo pouch protection circuit, which significantly reduces the probability of a thermal excursion. And let's face it, nobody wants a spicy pillow in their lap at 30,000 feet-
Them: Just say yes. (Pleadingly) Just yes. That's all I'm asking. I'm begging you.
the soviet anthem is blaring in the streets.... a halal cart guy has just murdered a hot dog cart guy in cold blood for selling pork... landlords are being sent to the rikers island gulag, and everyone who was in rikers before is being freed if they say the shahada. wall street is ablaze and the stock market has been replaced by a mosque. every screen in times square bears an image of mayor mamdani with joseph stalin sucking his cock. what have we done
This year at #39C3, it felt that the congres was bursting at the seams. Nearly all of the assemblies I know complained about having less room and less tables then requested. The infrastructure review posted numbers e.g. about ~20% more DECT-phone calls, more internet usage then ever, ....
And, by chance, I consulted the wikipedia page about CCC:de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Co… , which also lists the (approximate) number of visitors: 16K this year and only 14.5K last year. Time to go to #leipzig again?
I knew it!! This was my first time back since covid, I have a mild fear of crowds, and it was so crowded that a few times I rushed out of a space or choked down a panic attack. I don't remember it being that crowded in Hamburg before, and I was always completely comfortable in Leipzig, so, yeah, I hope they send it back to Leipzig.
Problem is, orga doesn't scale appropriately. Leipzig was too big and throwing more people at the problem (provided there are enough volunteers in the first place) leads to huge amounts of more communication and planning, before it even starts yielding anything else.
It was, yeah. I was angry and furious after the move back to HH, because Congress in Leipzig for me meant sleeping at home and cycling for 20 minutes for each way. But after I got to talk to some Orga people I learned, that Leipzig Messe was too big a venue.
I decided to wash one of my shirts, and it had an internal lace that came undone in the wash, so I put it back in the hole and just spent way too much time pushing it up and around and out the other hole, but now it's done at least. Okay, time for coffee.
Thinking back to last year I remembered the us-east-1 outage, how it affected Signal and how some of the users freaked out that they have to rely on US hyperscalers.
Wouldn't it be useful if @signalapp (and maybe similar providers) published their infra requirements with little crosses and ticks, so alternative providers could aim for "good enough for Signal" service levels?
We have extensive discussions about our enormous dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at policy makers, but it may also provide some clarity…
Let me also say: domain names are cheap, and for less than $5 USD/mo, @Tutanota helped me create privacy-focused email addresses on my custom domain with a step-by-step guide
let Google & Apple & Microsoft read ads while you get real mail elsewhere
In the age-old traditions of their planet, they began the year groggy and hungover, having slept through most of the first day. This, they believed, was the proper way to start the new year after ending the previous one with as much noise and fire as they could muster
On 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will adopt the euro as its currency, marking an important milestone for the country, for the history of the euro, and for the EU as a whole.
Just a reminder that you really should #BoycottFigma.
The fact they slurp all your designs into their slop machines by default, and you have to go opt-out if you don't like them stealing your creative work…**all in a product which literally exists to aid creators**…makes me nauseous.
There are other design apps you can use! Really, there are!
Der @c3d2 lädt zu mehr digitaler Unabhängigkeit ein und wir kommen mit vorbei.
Ihr habt Fragen zu freien Messengern wie #Matrix oder #XMPP, #Linux, dem #Fediverse oder anderen #OpenSource-Themen? Dann kommt gern am Sonntag den 4. Januar ab 14:00 Uhr in die Räume des c3d2, Riesaer Str. 32, #Dresden.
My early morning thought: I must be the only blind person who isn’t a musician, an internet radio DJ, or a YouTuber/streamer of video games. Okay, I know I’m not, and this is a generalization, but there are definitely a lot of these people. Oh, and I forgot ham radio operators and vapers!
Some AntennaPod contributors plan to join the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. Who would be interested in grabbing some drinks together? forum.antennapod.org/t/antenna…
Hi everyone, some AntennaPod contributors plan to join the FOSDEM conference in Brussels from the 31th of January to the 1st of February. It would be nice to meet up and maybe even grab some drinks together.
Vážné zranění utrpěl zhruba třicetiletý muž v Českých Budějovicích, když během silvestrovské noci odpaloval zakázanou pyrotechniku. Ta mu explodovala v rukou a amputovala obě končetiny v zápěstí. Policisté případ řeší jako nedovolené ozbrojování.
@MapComplete hi, i'm trying to add some surveillance cameras via surveillance under surveillance web app, but it's almost unusable (both phone and desktop). site not loading, point creation takes ages...
hi, we'll look into it, but please use the issue tracker (source.mapcomplete.org/MapComp…) for all support questions and bugs. Otherwise, it is impossible to keep track of everything.
For those paying attention, a very large country with many timezones was missing in my #HappyNewYear posts this year, just like last year, and the one before that. Can you figure out which one? Come on, it's not hard! The reasons remain the same. No, it's not Israel.
Anyone knows if there was ever a successor to semaphore? It still works really well and probably has the best keyboard and screen reader support I've ever seen in a web app. However, it doesn't have the ability to view favourites and bookmarks.
#HappyNewYear to all the birds on Baker Island and Howland Island. Collectively, there are probably less people here than there are people at my desk, and there is no one at my desk, because I don't have one... still...
Eine Sache hätte ich gern im alten #Jahr zurück gelassen: #MECFS @shroombab@chaos.social hat gut zusammengefasst was ich in den letzten Jahren auch teils immer wieder erlebt und aufs Neue lernen musste. Ich möchte das hier zu Beginn des Jahres posten, um allen Betroffenen #Mut zu machen - trotz allem. Und natürlich wünsche ich generell Betroffenen und nicht Betroffenen einen sensiblen Umgang mit der Sache, Hilfe, Besserung. #Gesundheit
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