I come from a business / digital background, so digital accessibility has always been big on my radar. When I started in science a few years back, I was very surprised to see that arXiv - a service that allows scientists to put their pre-prints (papers before peer review) was not accessible.
This meant that all science papers that were open access (away from journal subscriptions) were only available as PDFs - which means people with digital accessibility needs could not access them.
Access to science should be open to everyone (the pandemic showed us how important this is), and whilst there is a need for papers to undergo the formal peer-review process, that does not mean we can't adhere to global digital accessibility standards.
So, I am extremely glad to see that arXiv is now moving toward digital accessibility, with its second accessibility forum in Sept. 2024. They've also been moving to make papers in HTML format (instead of PDFs only) which adheres to these standards.
If you are interested in accessibility and science, you might consider attending this forum. It's free to all and only requires remote participation.
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PUTOVÁNÍ DO ZEMĚ KELTŮ
PUTOVÁNÍ DO ZEMĚ KELTŮ zatím jen s krátkou statistikou. 30.-31.7.2024 Celkem najeto: 228,18kmNastoupáno: 2835mPrůměr na den: 114,09kmNejnižší teplota: 14°C (noc ve stanu)Nejvyšší teplota: 36°CPřiblížení: 2x Fajn místa, lidi, jen ten hic na kole člověka hodně zmůže obzvlášť když jede na těžko. Vím, že už bych neměl tolik blbnout a alespoň trochu se šetřit, ale nemůžu si pomoct. Ne, blázen nejsem, alespoň si to myslím. Víc i s obrázky bude až se…
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PUTOVÁNÍ DO ZEMĚ KELTŮ
PUTOVÁNÍ DO ZEMĚ KELTŮ zatím jen s krátkou statistikou. 30.-31.7.2024 Celkem najeto: 228,18kmNastoupáno: 2835mPrůměr na den: 114,09kmNejnižší teplota: 14°C (noc ve stanu)Nejvyšší teplota: 36°CPřibl…Honza co pořád jede
elsaltodiario.com/analisis/den…
Denuncia de fraude electoral en Venezuela: una vieja estrategia con nuevos elementos
La oposición venezolana no reconoce la autoridad del Consejo Nacional Electoral, que certificó el triunfo de Maduro, y dice que su candidato consiguió más de siete millones de votos.www.elsaltodiario.com
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Faith No More - Epic (Official Music Video)
Faith No More - "Epic" (Official Music Video) from the album 'The Real Thing' (1989)🔔 Subscribe to UPROXX Indie Mixtape and ring the bell to turn on notific...YouTube
CRIVIT Městské elektrokolo X.2 All Black | Lidl.cz
CRIVIT Městské elektrokolo X.2 All Black » za skvělou cenu na Lidl.cz ✅ Nad 1300 Kč doprava ZDARMA ✅ Každé pondělí a čtvrtek nová akční nabídka ✅LIDL
* Do you want to improve your skills with NVDA?
* Are you looking to become an NVDA Certified Expert?
* Would you like to become familiar with the NVDA add-on store?
If you answered "Yes" to any of these, then the latest update to "Basic Training for NVDA" is for you!
nvaccess.org/product/basic-tra…
*Initially available in eBook format only! Free update to those who have previously purchased
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Training #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #AmLearning #Learning #AmStudying #Study
Basic Training for NVDA (eBook)
The official training material for NVDA covering concepts from getting started up to browsing the web and using object navigation (eBook, English language). Last revised: July 2024.NV Access
#boardgames #bgstats
Knarr & Looot are awesome new ones for our group.
Star Realms;
Finished!;
Dominion;
Star Realms: Frontiers;
Star Realms: Colony Wars;
Knarr;
HITSTER;
Bonsai;
Trio;
Looot;
Azul: Summer Pavilion;
Potion Explosion;
Backgammon;
Captain Flip;
Flowers;
Wingspan;
Azul;
Sea Salt & Paper;
Deep Sea Adventure;
Jaipur;
Claim;
5 Towers;
Keltis: Das Kartenspiel;
A légi társaság;
Cosmoctopus.
I learned about secure software development on the job, but like ethical computing (which I've talked about before), this should also be included in formal education. Because of the current threat models, topics like security by design and zero-trust frameworks are critical when developing Internet systems. linuxfoundation.org/press/linu…
#securitybydesign #security #softwaredevelopment #zerotrust #infosec #cybersecurity #education
The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF Release Report on the State of Education in Secure Software Development
Findings show nearly one-third of industry professionals are not familiar with secure software development practicesThe Linux Foundation
Revolutionising accessibility: Voice enhancements in iOS 18 and macOS
Guest blog editor, Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer, highlights Apple’s commitment to empowering users reliant on hands-free dictation, and those with atypical speech.abilitynet.org.uk
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The Summer COVID Wave: What to Know About the CDC's Current Guidance
The CDC's isolation guidance has changed over the years. Here's the latest on how to handle a case of COVID.Jessica Rendall (CNET)
RE: pleroma.envs.net/objects/54594…
Seirdy (@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net)
@lanodan @cwebber @drazisil I wanna make a WebSub suite called “Sbubby” and make the subscriber, publisher, and hub called “subsub”, “pubpub”, and “hubhub” respectively.Then the README will say “Th...pleroma.envs.net
Can't believe this runs in a terminal! 🤯
🐠 **lifecycler**: Terminal aquarium 🫧
🆙 ASCIIquarium reaches a new level! 🐟
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs + @bevy
⭐ GitHub: github.com/cxreiff/lifecycler
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #aquarium #terminal #asciiquarium #bevy #gamedev #game #gamejam
GitHub - cxreiff/lifecycler: Bevy Game Jam #5 submission. Terminal aquarium.
Bevy Game Jam #5 submission. Terminal aquarium. Contribute to cxreiff/lifecycler development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
More often than not these days I use the ChatGPt app on my phone to find things out, instead of the browser to search. Quite simply I find it easier and more efficient to have a conversation than type on a touch screen device.
With Apple Intelligence set to inject Siri with ChatGPt capabilities, the conversational UI is about to undergo another evolution - but this time I'm wondering if and how it'll change the way I use my screen reader too?
apple.com/uk/apple-intelligenc…
Apple Intelligence Preview
Apple Intelligence is personal intelligence for the things you do every day. Built into iPhone, iPad and Mac with groundbreaking privacy.Apple
Bjango (@bjango@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Say hello to iStat Menus 7! What’s new? Everything. iStat Menus 7 is a full reboot, sporting an all-new design with hundreds of big and small improvements. https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/Mastodon
Wow, that’s quite a write-up! Lots of good advice though! dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/11…
If you're a blind person wanting to learn a language, I recommend reading Florian Beijers' article about it here.
florianbeijers.xyz/on-language…
@zersiaxOn Language Learning for Screen Reader Users
After two years of studying both languages in tandem, the Dutch school system generally has you pick one of them to continue on with. Mostly due to the problems outlined above, I was forced to stick with Latin even though I enjoyed Greek a lot more.Florian Beijers
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Bending Spoons Buys File Sharing Service WeTransfer - Slashdot
Italian app developer Bending Spoons has bought file-sharing platform WeTransfer, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday, as the Milan-based tech company presses ahead with a string of deals for software firms.tech.slashdot.org
Announcing Android Reproducible Builds at IzzyOnDroid with rbtlog
IzzyOnDroid is the largest 3rd-party F-Droid-compatible repository of open source Android apps [...] It provides [...] additional security and transparency via multiple custom scans and checks.
rbtlog is a Reproducible Builds transparency log for Android APKs. [...] It allows anyone to easily run a rebuilder for any apps available from a git repository with release tags plus accompanying APKs built and signed by the developer.
We are pleased to announce "Reproducible Builds, special client support and more in our repo": a collaboration between various independent interoperable projects: the IzzyOnDroid team, 3rd-party clients Droid-ify & Neo Store, and rbtlog (part of my collection of tools for Android Reproducible Builds) to bring Reproducible Builds to IzzyOnDroid and the wider Android ecosystem.
lists.reproducible-builds.org/…
android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…
#ReproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
GitHub - obfusk/rbtlog: Reproducible Builds Transparency Log for Android APKs
Reproducible Builds Transparency Log for Android APKs - obfusk/rbtlogGitHub
gender!! 
video description: an quadruped animal-like drone sits perched on Odd_Jayy’s shoulder, then is in their arms and nestling their chest. the drone excitedly “looks” up as Odd_Jayy cuddles it.
I added a section to everything #curl about what we do to mitigate backdoor attempts:
everything.curl.dev/project/se…
Did I forget anything obvious?
Security - everything curl
everything there is to know about curl, libcurl and the cURL projecteverything.curl.dev
Katie Ledecky who just won another gold medal and is one of the GOATs, has POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), which causes a fast heart rate, dizziness, and fatigue. For years she didn't speak about the condition as she didn’t want it to shape the media narrative.
self.com/story/katie-ledecky-h…
Everything Katie Ledecky Has Shared About Living With the Health Condition POTS
For nearly a decade, Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky has lived with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. Here’s how she manages its symptoms.Cindy Kuzma (SELF)
🇩🇪 Schluss mit der Rumeierei – jetzt ist es Live! mehr als 18% der Apps bei IzzyOnDroid verfügen bereits über Reproducible Builds (also mehr als jedes 6. Ei – oops, jede 6. App; mehr folgen). Zwei wundervolle Clients werden Euch dies und weiteres transparent machen. Das & weitere spannende News könnt ihr hier nachlesen: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…
All dies war nur möglich Dank der Hilfe von @obfusk – und ihrem github.com/obfusk/rbtlog 
#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #FDroid #transparency
Reproducible Builds, besondere Client-Unterstützung und mehr in unserem Repo
Spannende Neuigkeiten im IzzyOnDroid Repo: Jetzt haben wir reproduzierbare Builds, spezifische Unterstützung durch einige der beliebtesten F-Droid-Clients und mehr!IzzyOnDroid
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It is time once again for me to ask all #unix #retrocomputing enthusiasts to dust off their old iron and run a test program. This one's about corner cases of mmap().
paste.sr.ht/~zackw/69f6fe80133…
I want to know about OSes that fail one or more of the tests, no matter how old they are.
I have already tested current versions of Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, and Solaris. Further testing with these is only useful if you can identify an exact version number where something changes (e.g. "FreeBSD prior to version x.y fails tests A, B, C"; "AIX prior to version w.z does not recognize XPG_SUS_ENV=ON"; that sort of thing). I don't expect any CPU dependence for this test, but if you discover some, that is also worth knowing about.
Please report results by following up to <lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aut…>. (You can write to this mailing list without subscribing.) Please do not reply to this post with results, or email me directly.
(I'm happy to talk about the test itself on here, say if you want help understanding what's being tested or you're having trouble getting it to compile or like that. But I really need all the results in one place.)
Please spread this call for testers widely.
Reporter calls his blindness an asset for key Trump shooting interview: ‘Vision could get in the way’
BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue hopes his reporting shows ‘barriers put in the way of disabled people do not need to be there’Ramon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
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Accelerate your Terraform development with Amazon Q Developer | Amazon Web Services
This post demonstrates how Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered assistant for software development, helps create Terraform templates.Amazon Web Services
Any thoughts here on Fedi about the ISO week date system? Under it today's date is "2024-W31-3" (or "2024W313" in compact form, which I like less).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week…
I actually kinda really like it in concept and want to learn to use it. I've set up my bar to show me both the week date and the standard ISO date, to hopefully help me start getting a feel for it.
"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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#OpenSource #NonExtractiveSystems
The one who kept VLC free
Jean-Baptiste Kempf discusses how he initially got involved in VLC and shares his tips for developers who want to improve and get hired.Welcome to the Jungle
If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:
TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.
Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.
1 year to reach 1 million signatures.
Video with more explanation, if you have an 11-minute attention span:
Europeans can save gaming!
Europeans can save videogames from being destroyed! The European Citizens' Initiative has just launched and represents the biggest and most ambitious chance...YouTube
Are you running Chrome 127 on Windows? I can use your help for a quick test.
1. Go to this URL:
cdpn.io/pen/debug/bGLrYBo
2. Zoom or resize so the table has a scrollbar at the bottom.
3. Without using your mouse, Tab to the table.
4. Use your arrow keys to scroll it left-right.
If it works, cool. If not, less cool. I have a case of someone where the keyboard scrollable containers feature added in Chrome 127 does not work.
I have filed a Chromium bug:
issues.chromium.org/issues/356…
If anyone here knows someone on the Chrome team, probably let them know their latest attempt to make scrolling areas focusable is not working for everyone.
Updating this post with Chrome’s stutter-step release of this feature is becoming a part-time job:
adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb…
Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.Adrian Roselli
If you read this from the Google Chrome Developer Blog, when do you expect this feature to be available?
Ref: developer.chrome.com/blog/new-…
New in Chrome 127 | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Chrome 127 is rolling out now! With support for font-size-adjust, user activations propagated in the Document Picture-in-Picture API, keyboard focusable scroll containers and there's plenty more.Chrome for Developers
Confirmation that this feature is not really in 127:
“Currently, 10% of users see it. By 128, 100% of users should expect keyboard focusable scrollers to be enabled by default.”
“Because we need to be a bit nimble as we do that ramp-up, we didn't put all of the nitty gritty details of that ramp schedule into the blog post. But it's true that some people will see this feature enabled in M127, potentially up to a majority of users.”
So Chrome’s claim was 90% wrong.
toot.cafe/@aardrian/1128773450…
Adrian Roselli (@aardrian@toot.cafe)
I rather resent the fact that trillion dollar companies are relying on end users to perform #accessibility testing. Google, Microsoft (GitHub), Apple (Safari), Amazon, etc.Toot Café
@vick21 “From now on scrollers are click-focusable and programmatically-focusable by default” is not the same as enabled for 10% of users today and then later up to 100%.
Given the feedback to the Chrome Developers blog post announcement language question that I asked here and elsewhere, I am not alone in thinking the feature was available for everyone.
@vick21 I guess I need to understand what a “complete roll-out” means.
Everyone who tested this for me was running a point release of 127. As far as I am concerned, that is a complete roll-out.
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