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In a recent (personal) audit of accessibility and continued struggle to get my head around Voice Over (for macos), I remembered that the spoken sound of "β¦remysharp.com
Was just reminded of the TV show called "Stingray": imdb.com/title/tt0090077/
Anyone remember this?
It's kind of the same idea as Vengeance Unlimited imdb.com/title/tt0158421/ a decade later.
The Matrix Conference programme revealed, Circles going to the community, and bots updates.
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
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This Week in Matrix 2024-07-26
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
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Channel from the Matrix.org foundation on Matrix protocolInnovation Hub Peertube
I think the whole community is glad to see focus on hardening the base of protocol and targetting long standing problems. π
Do you plan to publish recordings somewhere?
KDE signed an open letter for funding for Open Source. I'm not opposed, but I do want to say - given the billions that go in 'funding' to proprietary software - that changing the purchasing rules in the public sector is, in my opinion, far more important.
re-upping this one again
so many forms of writing are rendered nearly useless if they have no info on *when* they were written
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to quote an old tweet of mine: Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.Infosec Exchange
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As California gets ready to do more "homeless sweeps," I feel the need to remind y'all that NYC has more homeless people, and more homeless people per capita, than San Francisco.ππ
But NYC is a much less cruel and much less dysfunctional city than San Francisco, so their homeless people are much more likely to have shelter.
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Periodic reminder that NYC has more homeless people, and more homeless people per capita, than SF. ππ But NYC has more shelter spots that are suitable for human habitation, and a more efficient intake process, so has far fewer street homeless (tentsβ¦Hachyderm.io
If a shelter is so bad someone would rather sleep on a piece of cardboard in the cold and wet San Francisco weather than sleep in a cot or bed inside ... What does that say about the shelters?
Many of my friends who are homeless have to literally PAY RENT to be able to stay in the shelter.
Yes.
Homeless people.
Get kicked out of their homeless shelter.
Because they can't afford rent.
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X, formerly known as Twitter, has automatically activated a setting that allows the company to train its Grok AI on usersβ posts.
X enabled the new setting by default.
The good news is that you can switch it off and also delete your conversation history with the AI.
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According to this Reuters report, it's "estimated that financial losses globally from the CrowdStrike outage could total around $15 billion."
Or, to put it in terms CrowdStrike's marketing team would understand, 1.5 billion Uber Eats gift cards.
ThePhysical Keyboard Challenge: Evaluating the Experience of Using an Android Tablet with an External
From the very first day I purchased my Samsung S9 FE tablet and Logitech K380 Bluetooth keyboard, I planned to write this article. I finally decided to takeSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
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Hey!
Do you own a circular slide rule, or know someone who does? Maybe you have a box in the attic or a whole drawer of them.
I am working on an artistβs book with one chapter dedicated to circular slide rules.
If you would like to help me out and get a credit in a really cool book then please scan your slide rule(s) and submit via the form on my site or you can email me lharby@gmail.com.
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Avoiding a Monoculture with Secure Diverse Technology β Purism
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Who needs Project 2025 when The Donald could be so easily swayed to return us to 1925, halfway through the forced sterilization of 30,000 Americans in the eugenics program that influenced the Nazis.
βMy Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son βShould Just Dieββ
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My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son βShould Just Dieβ
Fred Trump III describes conversations with his uncle about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Fred C. Trump III (Time)
Looking forward to this evening's opener!
The skill and focus needed is impressive, I've only personally done rifle shooting and that was taxing too. The noise of archery is very distinctive, though, and easy to follow by ear.
Tennis again this evening. If Dan and Andy - Dandy? Can pull off another win, well. Hard to imagine how that'll feel.
GB are also in the rowing for a title today, among plenty of other things.
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Galaxy S25 Ultra to use same battery and charging specs as Galaxy S20 Ultra
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AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems
Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematicsGoogle DeepMind
Here's my advice on how to design your course to be more ADHD-friendly. Many of these tips will help students regardless of #ADHD diagnosis: scaffolding large projects and being abundantly consistent about instructions.
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Course design - ways to help ADHD folks
Learning environments are often not created with ADHD learners in mind; struggles with working memory, regulating attention, and executive functions create different challenges for us. Making your...the ADHD Academic
@matt 1) Having assistance breaking large projects into smaller tasks is something that ADHD people can often receive as workplace accommodations, so this is an acknowledged problem in the work world rather than something exclusively expected of individual employees themselves. (See askjan.org/disabilities/Attent⦠as an example.) Workplaces, like many instructors, are invested enough in people's success that they will work with them to help make it happen.
2) Just like any other skill, most learners will acquire the ability to break things down into smaller chunks if they have it explicitly modeled for them, rather than absorbing it through osmosis.
3) Almost all learnersβADHD or otherwiseβwill produce work that's more what the instructor has in mind if they receive some degree of formative feedback along the way. Chunking projects helps this feedback be more manageable / useful for everyone.
@PacificNic @KitMuse @belehaa I don't believe either of those things. But I wonder if ADHD requires accommodations from teachers, employers, etc., or if it only requires the people who have it to know how to work around their own disability.
I'm legally blind. I understand why a sensory disability requires external accommodations. I just wonder if the same applies to ADHD. I should probably go off and learn more about this on my own before I say anything more.
@matt Why should it be up to the teacher to teach how to write a project proposal, how to evaluate a project's success, how to work as part of a team? Aren't these skills that the student will need to learn to do for themselves when they want to take on a large project in the workplace?
Read more about scaffolding as an educational term. It's about gradually removing support over time so that the students work independently eventually rather than chuck them off the deep end and see who swims.
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Ysanne Churchman: The Archers star whose storyline shocked nation dies age 99
Ysanne Churchman's character Grace was controversially killed off on the same night as the launch of ITV.Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)
Nebo takovΓ‘ drΕ‘Ε₯kovΓ‘ ke snΓdani ππ
OpenAI Just Released SearchGPT. Itβs Already Error Prone.
OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)
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Massive One UI 7.0 leak showcases new design and features
Samsung will soon release One UI 7.0 in beta form, but ahead of its release, a massive One UI 7.0 leak has revealed design improvements.Asif Iqbal Shaik (SamMobile)
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How the Committee for Justice uses Tuta Mail to fight for human rights.
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Guide for Using Mastodon Search - Mark Wyner - Medium
One of the biggest complaints I hear about Mastodon is that its local search is unusable. It certainly was. But not anymore. Now itβs quite powerful, if you know the basics. So hereβs a primer forβ¦Mark Wyner (Medium)
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in reply to Sean Randall • • •@cachondo perhaps a strong opinion, but when I'm on stage introducing the event, and when I talk about the event, I say it as "F F Conf" (and we correct people who call it "Full Frontal")
It's definitely mad that I've tried to jump through hoops when in reality a screen reader is going to sound it out differently depending on the software you use.
As for the right - I've always argued for small and personal sites, you should have the right to experiment, so long as this doesn't hurt anyone.
Sean Randall
in reply to rem • • •I think the lengths you've gone to for inclusion are remarkable and I admire the technical aspects greatly.
As you say, though, a person's choice of screen reader, speech synthesizer, voice characteristics ... it all impacts. Blind users will spell what they need to, if they don't already use Braille. It's the difference between calling me Shaun or Shawn or (If you're very british and blind, shorn), when the spelling is sean. It's part of our lives already.
rem
in reply to Sean Randall • • •@cachondo on your closing point, I do agree. That's where I nearly (or should have) ended with "am I doing it wrong" in the blog post.
I did also consider changing all instances (across 14 years of micro-sites) from (lowercase) ffconf to (mixed case) FFConf. I didn't mostly because, well, I think screen reader users don't really think (or care) that the event is actually called ffconf (where the F letters aren't pronounced).
rem
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in reply to rem • • •there's also a huge disparity between speech engines. Some people want a Human-sounding version of the onscreen text, others see a screen reader as more of a way of accessing data. The predictability of a more monotone voice can allow for faster speeds, for example.
The models used to generate speech have varied wildly over the years as technology has changed.
And then there's the matter of how much the engine should do for you. Is "Dr." drive or doctor. Is MB always Megabyte? Sometimes it's millibars. One of the best examples of this is the Windows properties dialog box, the title of which reads "OS (C:) Properties".
One engine interprets the colon and closing parenthesis as a smily face emoteicon. as a kid I thought it did that when you had loads of space, and it'd change to c:( when space was low.
James Scholes
in reply to rem • • •The post, and eventual "solution" (in quotes because there was no problem) were interesting, and I think the attention to detail is excellent. I always enjoy seeing people learning more about what makes screen readers tick.
Unfortunately, the end result is that screen reader users everywhere will be copying the incorrect event name to the clipboard, creating an impression that they can't write a conference name correctly when they paste it on social media. It also uses more braille cells than needed (10/11 vs six, depending on translation table, repeated across the website).
Given that they end up hearing the "wrong" (in quotes because it isn't) version in the page title before they read any of the "fixed" (likewise) versions, I think the effort was disproportionate to the return on investment. @eric
Sean Randall
in reply to James Scholes • • •Great points, as ever, and I also applaud the spirit to learn of course.
rem
in reply to James Scholes • • •@jscholes @eric there's a lot to parse (and it's late for me, which is why I'm getting muddled), but! I'd say that *if* someone copies the text on the FFConf.org site, they're going to get the *correct* way to their clipboard (FFConf is correct, ffconf, looks "better" but not the letters I want copied).
Absolutely 100% that the effort was disproportionate to the actual problem - the small upshot is that I learnt more about navigating screen readers and a tiny bit about ligatures
Sean Randall
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