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You Don’t Have to Be Blind to Use a Screen Reader - Pedal Point Solutions

Screen readers aren’t just for people who are blind—they can boost productivity, reduce eye strain, and make everyday tasks easier for anyone. This post explores how they work, why more people are using them, and how you can get started today.
Simon Miner (Pedal Point Solutions)

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Mailbox má teď nový vzhled – modernější a přehlednější rozhraní. Přibyly kategorie, PWA a pár drobných vychytávek.
vypadá to fakt dobře.
mailbox.org
#mailbox #mailbox_org

Your data – under your control.

Your digital workspace with email, cloud, office & meet. Secure & GDPR-compliant for businesses, public authorities and private individuals. ▶ Try us now!
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#mailbox #mailbox_org

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To publish apps on Google Play without revealing your personal details, you need to set up a shell company. If you don't, your app will get delisted:

github.com/Wilm0r/giggity/issu…


Giggity app no longer on Google Play?

The Google Play link in the description at https://github.com/Wilm0r/giggity results in an "Item not found" error and I could not find the app by searching on Google Play. Has the app been removed ...
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Sent my monthly #OpenSourceTenner to The Document Foundation ( @tdforg ).
Thanks for your work on #OpenDocument and #LibreOffice ! ❤️

libreoffice.org/donate/
#oss10 #osstenner

Donate to LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Donate, donation, donations, funding, help, support, LibreOffice
www.libreoffice.org
#libreoffice #opendocument #opensourcetenner #oss10 #osstenner @The Document Foundation

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What did we do in 2024, to support the @libreoffice and Document Liberation projects? We've been posting on our blog, and now the final version of our Annual Report is available: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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TDF Annual Report 2024 - The Document Foundation Blog

The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regard to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource @LibreOffice

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@kodsnack idag är det exakt tio år sedan mitt första deltagande: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/15…

Yours truly on “kodsnack”

Kodsnack is a Swedish-speaking weekly podcast with a small team of web/app- developers discussing their experiences and thoughts on and around software development. I was invited to participate a week ago or so, and I had a great time.
daniel.haxx.se
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Einblicke in das #Datenspuren-Programm

Heute: #UnifiedPush

talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/talk…

Push-Benachrichtigungen auf #Android-Handys ohne #Google. Dezentralisiert und #OpenSource. Wie das geht, berichtet @daniel in seinem Vortrag auf den #Datenspuren25.

Wann? 20. September, 16:00–16:45 Uhr
Wo? Henny Brenner Saal und im Stream auf @mediacccde

Ihr wollt euch das komplette Programm ansehen? Dann schaut hier vorbei: talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/sche…

#Datenspuren2025 #Dresden


UnifiedPush Datenspuren 2025

Push-Benachrichtigungen auf Android-Handys ohne Google. Dezentralisiert und Open Source.
talks.datenspuren.de
#android #google #opensource #UnifiedPush #datenspuren #dresden #datenspuren25 #datenspuren2025 @media.ccc.de 🤖 @Daniel Gultsch
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Die #MRMCD25 sind vorbei und es waren tatsächlich viele tolle Talks dabei. Hier eine kurze Liste von dem was mir persönlich besonders gut gefallen hat.

· Hilfe, meine Strichliste hat scope creep (media.ccc.de/v/2025-544-hilfe-…)

· Wenn der Verkehrsverbund zu transparent ist (media.ccc.de/v/2025-594-wenn-d…)

· Spaß am Gerät trotz KI (media.ccc.de/v/2025-468-spa-am…)

· Durchblick im Takt (media.ccc.de/v/2025-476-durchb…)

· Vertrauen ist gut, Kryptographie ist besser (media.ccc.de/v/2025-566-vertra…)


Spaß am Gerät trotz KI

Dass gute LLMs erst durch riesige, intransparente und ethisch fragwürdige Datensätze möglich werden, glauben die großen KI-Anbieter heut...
media.ccc.de
#mrmcd25

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Nach etwas Zeit des Durchschnaufens und mit neuen Aktiven in unserem Orgateam können wir euch heute mit Freude verkünden:
In 29 Wochen sollen die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026 stattfinden! Also zückt eure Kalender und markiert euch das Wochenende des 28./29. März 2026 für die #CLT2026

#linux #tux #chemnitz #kulturhauptstadt2025 #chemnitz2025

www.linux-tage.de

Das Logo der Chemnitzer Linux-Tage in gelb auf blauem Hintergrund, mit dem Datum für die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026, dem 28. & 29. März 2026.
#linux #tux #chemnitz #clt2026 #kulturhauptstadt2025 #chemnitz2025
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Jiří Eischmann

Švagrová mi říkala, že používá ChatGPT, že si za to dokonce platí. O víkendu jsem jí pomáhal s novým počítačem a zjistil jsem, že nemá u OpenAI ani účet. Jak si za to tedy můžeš platit?
Ukázalo se, že používá chatbot.app. Prý do App Store zadala "chatgpt" a dostala tady toto. Ikonu to má podobnou...
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Nějaký chatbot nad různými modely. Mrkl jsem zběžně na privacy policy a tedy nic moc, sídlí někde v Turecku... Nejzajímavější na tom bylo, že si švagrová opravdu myslela, že používá ChatGPT.
Dnes už si to neplatí a nemá o to zájem. Chtěla s tím vytvářet materiály na další školní rok (učí na střední zdravce), ale zkušenost prý špatná.
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Podle mě jsme v kulminaci schopností, ke kterým se dostanou běžní lidi. Vytvořili výborné modely, ale jsou příliš drahé na to, aby za ně běžní lidi platili. U modulů pro ně tak podle mě začne fáze enshittifikace. To už jde vidět na GPT-5, které většinu dotazů odbavuje levnými a horšími modely a oproti 4o to je pro hromadu lidí downgrade. Ona s tím pracovala tyto prázdniny. Dívám se, že na chatbot.app je výchozí právě GPT-5, takže zkušenost asi měla s ním.
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Já se musím přiznat, že v poslední době mám zkušenost s ChatGPT spíš povrchní. Jedu téměř výhradně Perplexity, které mi na to vyhledávání a doptávání přijde nejlepší a mám tam Pro přes Revolut zdarma. A občas to doplním Mistralem. V práci pak Gemini a Claude, ale to vyloženě na technické věci.
@🔩 Adam Štrauch
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Jiří Eischmann

@michal @bycx ač se to z toho mého komentáře nezdá, tak tomu moc neholduju. Fakticky pravidelně používám jen to Perplexity. Na hledání informací je to fakt dobré a halucinuje to minimálně. V práci mám věci, které dělají s AI, automatizované, na to moc nesahám a že bych měl AI jako asistenta a vrbu, to mě vůbec nebere.
@Michal Špondr @🔩 Adam Štrauch

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Accessibility matters ❤️ Here’s a quick demo of how the new Dice feature in Skoro works with VoiceOver, so even visually impaired users can use the app.

Skoro on the App Store:
➡️ apps.apple.com/app/id160831104…

#iOSdev #a11y #uxdesign #buildinpublic

‎Point Counter: Skoro

‎FEATURES • Keep scores of your games and sports. • Keep history of your Finished Games. • iCloud support. Sync scores across all your devices. • Great VoiceOver support. • No ads. CUSTOMIZATION • Name your game. • Edit player names and colors.
App Store
#a11y #uxdesign #iosdev #BuildInPublic
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Paweł Masarczyk

Miałbym na ten moment dwie sugestie odnośnie dostępności Moons: 1. Czy dałoby się ukryć logo aplikacji tak, by VoiceOver go nie fokusował? W aplikacjach to raczej element dekoracyjny i dodaje dodatkowe przystanki podczas nawigacji gestami lewo - prawo. 2. Czy można by złączyć tytuł bieżącego zadania, nazwę projektu oraz biegnący licznik w jeden element dla VO? Opcja "Stop" mogłaby wtedy stać się czynnością na pokrętle, a dwukrotne stuknięcie po prostu otwierałoby zadanie.
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Kris Slazinski ☮️

@Piciok 1. Zdecydowanie. Żaden problem. 2. Chyba tak. To znaczy na pewno się da, ale muszę potestować, żeby było dobrze.
Dodaję te rzeczy do listy zadań. Jeśli masz dodatkowe uwagi dotyczące moich aplikacji, pisz śmiało. Mam też aplikacje do wydatków, wyznaczania celów oraz dzienniczek nastroju. VoiceOver w nich wymaga usprawnień. Zawsze słucham uwag użytkowników, więc pisz śmiało.
@Paweł Masarczyk
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Paweł Masarczyk

Jeszcze jedna rzecz, która podoba mi się w Timery: praktycznie całą aplikację można obsługiwać za pomocą skrótów: tworzenie projektów i wpisów czasu, uruchamianie liczników itp. W zasadzie nie muszę otwierać aplikacji przez większość czasu. Skróty poprzypisywałem do gestów VoiceOver i szybko mogę zacząć śledzenie aktywności. Jest też aktywność na żywo "live activity" pokazująca aktualnie uruchomiony licznik. Fajne to.

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Painted Sky - Evening thunderstorm over the Raton-Clayton volcanic field, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA. The sky looked absolutely unreal and incredible over the vast, open landscape. I watched this storm build for about 90 minutes as I was driving in its direction.The lone tree is actually a pretty large tree! (June 25, 2025) #NewMexico #sky #clouds #storm #thunderstorm #summer #weather #tree #nature #outdoors #landscape #mountains #highchairs #Fujifilm
#outdoors #nature #mountains #summer #landscape #clouds #weather #tree #fujifilm #sky #newmexico #storm #thunderstorm #highchairs

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Stop taking productivity advice from people whose lives look nothing like yours.

Remember: If their day starts with “my personal chef cooked breakfast,” their tips don’t apply to you.

joanwestenberg.com/p/why-billi…


Why Billionaire Productivity Hacks Won’t Work for You

Productivity Without Context is Just Noise
Westenberg.

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🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.

The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)

#privacy #infosec #privacymatters #Apple #iOS #meta
More 👇🧵

Screenshot of the new push notification with a profile photo shown in Notification Center
A GET request sent by Instagram when the notification was shown on screen.
#apple #privacy #infosec #ios #meta #privacymatters

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NV Access are very pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2025.3!

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

For full details and to download, please visit: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #FOSS #OpenSource #New #News #Software #Blind

Close up of purple and white NVDA icon in the notification area with individual pixels visible

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3 Released

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #opensource #blind #software #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #new #newversion

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Jason J.G. White

I hope more software developers start to follow your example here. When former macOS or Linux screen reader users opt for Windows for accessibility reasons rather than because they prefer it, we know there's a problem which needs to be solved in other desktop operating systems. I personally choose to run the operating systems that I prefer, even if the accessibility takes more work. I do have Windows around, but it isn't my primary OS.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 2 added apps:

* Gadgetbridge: your favorite gadget companion, now finally availabe at IoD and RB! 🛡️
* WiFi Seeker: displays power, channel, availability of WPS, encryption, cryptographic protocols, BSSID … of WiFi points nearby 🛡️

RB status: 709 apps (54.1%) – and our main builder is back online now as well 🥳

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out theverge.com/the-stepback-news…

Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out

Oppo, Honor, Xiaomi, and more are using silicon-carbon batteries to slim phones down without compromising on battery, but the biggest players in the US are yet to catch up.
Dominic Preston (The Verge)

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"Do Universities Investing In Technology Transfer Via Patenting Lose Money?"

This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer offices work. The paper calls for closing tech transfer offices and instead open sourcing all innovations.
ttb.sk/clanky/do-universities-…

ABSTRACT Substantial investments are made in universities patenting new developments to pursue a return. To gauge the impact of the holistic costs of patenting at universities, this study provides a new methodology for quantifying the investment in intellectual property (IP) that includes not only technology transfer staff costs but also direct and opportunity faculty-related costs. It then uses the novel methodology and publicly accessible data on an average American research university case study. The results found all component costs were higher than the IP-related income, with the opportunity cost for writing patents instead of grants being more than 33 times the income realized through IP protection. Overall, the case study university loses over $9 million per year on IP with a negative ROI of -97.6%. Research universities have opportunities to increase research income >10% by ignoring IP. It is clear that Bayh-Dole Act and similar national legislation, is harming university economics. It can be concluded that as generally practiced in the U.S. now, it is not rational to continue to support university technology transfer by patents. Instead, to improve the economic bottom lines of universities, as well as increase the good that research and development does for society, universities can open source all innovations.

DO UNIVERSITIES INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER VIA PATENTING LOSE MONEY? - Transfer technológií bulletin

INTRODUCTION The Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act (known as the Bayh-Dole Act) standardized U.S.
Časopis TRANSFER TECHNOLÓGIÍ bulletin (TTb)
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Woah! Only now did we discover a great blog post from @wq who discusses the progression from hosting a #Matrix , a #Snikket and a #SimpleX server, to now running a #chatmail relay runtimeterror.dev/self-hosted-…

It's an excellent read, with lots of good advise, including having a public "hello" profile and another unpublished chat profile for private chatting. #deltachat apps have pervasive multi-profile support (and multi-device support) so it's pretty easy to establish such a two-profile setup.

#matrix #deltachat #simplex #snikket #chatmail @John Wq

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Hlavně nesmí býti smutno. Hudební portrét Jaroslava Uhlíře k jeho 80. narozeninám. ❤️
#rozhlas #audio
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Hlavně nesmí býti smutno. Hudební portrét Jaroslava Uhlíře k jeho 80. narozeninám

Známé hity, ale i ty, které složil Jaroslav speciálně pro Československý rozhlas. Dobové ukázky, zajímavosti, které jste možná nevěděli.
MůjRozhlas
#audio #rozhlas

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Super proud of #NewMexico for making free universal childcare a reality - first state to achieve this. sourcenm.com/2025/09/08/new-me…

New Mexico governor announces free universal child care • Source New Mexico

The state will begin writing rules to entirely remove the income eligibility threshold for a family to receive child care assistance.
Austin Fisher (Source NM)
#newmexico

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There's two new upgrades in the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra gen 2 that might be worth it to some: Lossless audio and a 30-hour gbattery with ANC, so a night's sleep or so added.
Lossless audio should mean that when you plug your bose into the USB-C port, they'll continue to work and show as a soundcard. In theory. Oh, and they're saying stronger ANC, until Sound Guys does something on them. (interesting read though: soundguys.com/bose-qc-ultra-2-…)
I forgot the only single advantage Bose comes with on their cans: Adjustable ANC levels. I don't know why neither Sonos nor Sony see this as a competitive advantage they're getting beat on. With Bose, I can make a "relax" profile which puts ANC at 5 or 6, leaving some sound in. Not so with my other ANC cans. ARGH.

Someone already bought the Bose QC Ultra 2 headphones by accident. Here's what we learned. - SoundGuys

Someone accidentally got the new Bose QC Ultra 2 headphones before launch and shared their first impressions, revealing key improvements.
Adam Birney (SoundGuys)
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Sunday reading: The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.

This week’s piece:

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/th…


The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink
Thomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)

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Deshalb nehme ich jedes Semester den Stress auf mich, mir mein #Semesterticket als Plastikkarte zu erkämpfen 🤷🏻‍♀️ (ok, nicht nur deshalb, aber auch).

rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025…

Es ist wirklich ein Trauerspiel, was sich #BVG und #SBahn da erlauben. Aber ist in Zeiten von #Digitalisierungswahn ja nicht neues, dass #Digitalisierung (v.a. in Kombination mit #Digitalisierungszwang) meist nichts anderes heißt, als Arbeit und Verantwortung auf Nutzer_innen/Kund_innen/Patient_innen etc. abzuwälzen.
Und das "Argument" mit der unzumutbaren Ausweiskontrolle für Kontros ist an Lächerlichkeit kaum zu überbieten. Fast 2 Jahrzehnte lang wurden Semestertickets genau so kontrolliert, Papier/Plastikkarte + Lichtbildausweis.

Das alles ließe sich vermeiden (und unterm Strich vermutlich auch 'ne Menge Kosten und Folgekosten sparen), wenn wir den #ÖPNV endlich Schritt für Schritt zu einer kostenfreien echten Alternative aus- und umbauen würden, echte #Daseinsvorsorge halt.


Warum Kunden von BVG und S-Bahn ohne Handy-Empfang Strafen drohen können

Ein Student wird in der Berliner U-Bahn kontrolliert. Sein Handy hat keinen Empfang, deshalb zeigt er einen Screenshot seines Tickets, später auch das Ticket in der App. Trotzdem wird er bestraft - zurecht, sagt die BVG. Von Klaas-Wilhelm Brandenburg
www.rbb24.de
#Digitalisierung #ÖPNV #SBahn #semesterticket #bvg #digitalisierungswahn #digitalisierungszwang #daseinsvorsorge

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New germinating idea: Accessibility Excellence. Now, I'm sure people like @JonathanMosen have made approximately 9001 podcast episodes about this, but in the wake of Google's own AI gallery app, which lets people use AI models offline on their phone including image description and audio transcription, released with no accessibility, I think we need to converge as a community on an idea of accessibility excellence. We need to dismiss ads of a company that seeks to prop us up to show how their stuff is accessible, even though there is clearly a systemic issue of inaccessibility in the company. Gemini on iOS is more accessible than Gemini on Android. TalkBack still doesn't have basic screen reader features like a pronunciation dictionary and support for all features on even older Braille displays like the Braille Edge. Google Play Books does not automatically scroll pages while reading a book, like Apple Books, Kindle, and many other book reading apps on iOS do. Even Kindle on Android does this, but Google's own app doesn't. Gmail on Android has no way to navigate between messages in a conversation or thread, while Apple's Mail app can, making reading threads of email on iOS fast and easy. There is no way on Android to have TalkBack suspend touch interaction in apps, so gamers still have to turn off the screen reader to play accessible games. Apple users haven't had to do that in years. Even though there are tags on the Play Store for apps accessible with TalkBack, the idea has fallen by the wayside like so many other accessibility ideas that Google forgot and Apple has just embarked upon with accessibility labels. These aren't vibes, or subjective feelings. Like I said in my most recent Accessible Android article, how can we expect small companies or indie developers to make their apps accessible, when we can't get Google to listen to us and take us seriously? We need to take each others' accessibility concerns seriously, especially for Braille. Many people who are blind use Android, yes. Many people like it. And that's okay. But it could, and should, be so much better. There should be competition between these company's accessibility departments, not a kind of sluggish, aimless ambling around in concentric circles by one while the other presses ahead. Yes, TalkBack's Gemini AI descriptions are great, and when I use my Android phone, it's a very attractive feature. Perhaps next year VoiceOver will get something like it.

We shouldn't give any of these huge corporations an inch of duct tape accessibility, because once it's done, they'll build upon that poor foundation, and the whole structure will be so much less effective than it needs to be. Accessibility should be solid, no matter what company does it. But if a screen reader comes with a device, and is made by the company that makes the OS, there's no excuse for rickety accessibility.

Ai Edge Gallery Accessibility Bug Report: github.com/google-ai-edge/gall…

Google's Pixel 10 Accessibility Article: store.google.com/intl/en/ideas…

#accessibility #blind #google #technology #tech #android


Accessibility Feedback for EdgeGallery Application

Hello, Thank you for this exciting work. However, I recently installed the EdgeGallery application, and my Talkback screen reader is unable to correctly recognize the application's functions. Even ...
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#Accessibility #android #google #blind #technology #tech @Jonathan Mosen

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As #ChatControl marches on, we already know what the European Court of Human Rights has ruled in a similar case against RUSSIA: "The Court concludes that in the present case the [..] obligation to decrypt end-to-end encrypted communications risks amounting to a requirement that providers of such services weaken the encryption mechanism for all users; it is accordingly not proportionate to the legitimate aims pursued". Yet we continue to try just that... For shame. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-2…

HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights

The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-Law Information Note), the European Commission of H…
hudoc.echr.coe.int
#chatcontrol
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