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AppleVis has published the first AppleVis Report Card:

applevis.com/blog/apple-vision…

Inspired by the annual @sixcolors Apple Report Card format, it “provides valuable insights into the experiences and opinions of visually impaired community members who rely on VoiceOver, Braille support, or the low vision features on Apple devices.”

I hope Apple's AX teams read every word of this. Feedback from AppleVis has always been invaluable to me. I hope Apple sees it that way, too. (I bet they do.)

Apple Vision Accessibility: the AppleVis Report Card | AppleVis

We are thrilled to unveil our inaugural Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card, which provides valuable insights into the experiences and opinions of visually impaired community members who rely on VoiceOver, Braille support, or the low vision featur…
www.applevis.com
@Six Colors

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Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in two crashes and 18 ‘minor contact events’ over 1 million miles

theverge.com/2023/2/28/2361727…


Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in two crashes and 18 ‘minor contact events’ over 1 million miles

Waymo’s driverless cars have driven a million miles on public roads in Arizona and California. In the midst of that testing, there have been two crashes and 18 “minor contact events” with other cars.
Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)

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belated #AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 3 added apps:

* QuranApp: read and explore the Holy Qur'an with multiple translations

The other two are especially useful for our visually impaired friends:

* Tactile Clock: vibrates the current time after double press of device power button
* WalkersGuide: navigational aid for the blind and visual impaired based on OpenStreetMap

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


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

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Ondřej Caletka

@partim I tried shortening it with my hand - it didn't stop the train but the sensation stopped me from trying further - very likely the shunting resistance of my hand is not low enough.

What I think is that the onboard power supply is not grounded but insulated, so you have to touch both pins to get shocked and the current only flows between the pins, not to ground. Good for me.

@Martin Hoffmann
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Ondřej Caletka

@Natanox I reported it to the carrier via WhatsApp and also to a (human) conductor. They promised they will do something about it but I had a feeling that they didn't get the seriousness of the situation. Maybe I should have had done a Helen Lovejoy.
@Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Encrypted messaging app Signal will 'walk' out of the UK if the Online Safety Bill undermines encryption. We will not walk. We ask PM Sunak, will you block access to encryption, just like authoritarian Russia & Iran?

BTW: Both strategies are great to put pressure on the UK to NOT pass the Online Safety Bill - which is what we all want.

Read our full statement: 👉 tutanota.com/blog/posts/uk-und…

UK flag

Dear Mr. Sunak, will you block access to encryption, just like Russia & Iran?

Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.
Tutanota
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sebastian_hos

This press release is extremely cringe after @Mer__edith explained where that misleading headline came from and your account even apologized! 🙄
(screenshots in case you decide to go full cringe and delete the apology)

mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1099…

mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/109…

Tutanota apologizes to Meredith from Signal Messenger for them exploiting a misleading press headline
Meredith from Signal Messenger explains where the misleading press headline came from

Tuta

2023-02-28 20:37:30


@aral @dalias We fully agree with what @Mer__edith says. W do not judge the 'walking' statement - it is a perfect way to put pressure on the UK government to not pass the Online Safety Bill. So is forcing them to block encrypted services - just like authoritarian governments.

We apologize if the post looks like an attack on Signal's strategy in this. It is absolutely not what we were trying to achieve, we just wanted to add to the pressure with our statement. We are in this fight together.


@Meredith Whittaker

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talk about anti-abortion politics of a tech person

I'm seeing people promote geerlingguy and they make a lot of stuff for ansible but also are eager to promote anti-abortion rhetoric on their site under the shield of "religion doctrine".

jeffgeerling.com/blog/2006/ann…

mind you, even rape seems permissible under this logic jeffgeerling.com/articles/reli…

so don't give them traffic since they don't respect people

Abortion: What About Rape, Incest, etc.? | Jeff Geerling

www.jeffgeerling.com
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Matt Campbell

talk about anti-abortion politics of a tech person
I agree with you about this person's politics, but I still think we have to compartmentalize. So if you like the tech stuff, then by all means continue to consume and promote it. Otherwise we could all find some reason to shun other people and retreat further into our polarized tribal bubbles.
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Matt Campbell

talk about anti-abortion politics of a tech person
Also, I don't interpret the political stance as not respecting people, and therefore being worthy of punishment. I interpret it as a symptom of being infected by the memetic virus of fundamentalist religion, and carrying out that virus's instructions to spread itself. And that's probably a consequence of having been raised in a religious environment. I know, because I was in that situation myself.
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Avi Rappoport (avirr)

@matt Everyone has to draw their own lines where we refuse to compartmentalize. For me disrespecting people’s choices with our own bodies is unacceptable. I am going to shun those who believe in forced birth and coercive gender roles.

You may learn something from the concepts of Geek Social Fallacies plausiblydeniable.com/five-gee…


Five Geek Social Fallacies

Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interp
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@Matt Campbell

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Excited to announce that my recent work integrating #AccessKit into #Bevy was recently merged, making accessibility (mostly) on by default in the upcoming 0.10 release due out soon if not today.

The one exception is Linux, where it is feature-gated pending reduction in dependency size and integration with non-experimental screen readers and forks.

I think this may make Bevy the first general-purpose game engine with accessibility in its core (I.e. not a bolted-on optional plugin or a series of partial solutions. In any case, it's the only game engine with accessibility features that I can use as a blind developer, though #Godot also seems to be making strides in this direction as well.

#godot #Bevy #accesskit
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Nolan Darilek

Exactly this. For a game engine, accessibility looks like the ability to maintain a tree of accessibility nodes which a screen reader can interrogate and present. In the game engine itself, I'd expect any in-engine UIs to push UI updates to the accessibility API, meaning my screen reader knows whether a button, label, editable text, etc. is on-screen and presents it to me.

In games themselves, I'd say the possibilities are fairly unexplored. Something like a roguelike could, for instance, treat its map as an accessible object with the grid role. Each tile would then be a cell with whatever item(s) are visible on it as its description. Ideally the game would have keyboard controls, but even without them, it would be instantly possible to explore the map with a screen reader, route the mouse to and click on individual tiles, etc. Similarly, the game log could be exposed as text and a live region, meaning it gets read whenever it changes and can also be reviewed with screen readers.

Obviously that doesn't just happen for free, and someone has to do that work. But now with Bevy someone can, and doesn't get bogged down in either having to re-implement that logic on each accessible platform, or avoiding footguns necessary to setting things up (E.g. keeping the window invisible until accessibility is initialized, which is needed under Windows and handled automatically by this integration.)

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Emmanuele Bassi

You still probably want to generate the low level bindings even if you build a whole lot of custom API on top to fit in well with the idiomatic code in a specific language.

Handwriting is just a slog, and prevents your users from having access to the latest API as soon as it's available, and thus your workload increases with every cycle, until you burn out because nobody likes maintaining bindings.

We've been there already, which is exactly why we have gobject-introspection. 😅

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Emmanuele Bassi

My only hope is that my life mistakes serve as a teaching moment. 😂

But, in all seriousness: exploring and revisiting different solutions is good. The important thing is not to ignore the mistakes of the past, so you can make new and more exciting mistakes.

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Many software engineers will only take a job if remote work is an option and will likely quit if their employer mandates a return to the office, according to Hired's annual software engineering study. techtarget.com/searchhrsoftwar…

Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely

Hired's annual software engineering study found that remote work is now a competitive hiring differentiator. It also found that younger engineers are at a greater risk of layoffs.
Patrick Thibodeau (TechTarget)

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Díky @ferda jsem objevil službu bird.makeup . Ta vám umožní sledování jakýkoli Twitter účet jako by byl ve fediverse.

Má to ale nějaké omezení. Například se nové příspěvky objevují cca každých 15 min (podle vytížení). Po přidání účtu, který ještě nikdo nesleduje, nějakou dobu trvá než se objeví první příspěvky.

Ta služba nejspíš porušuje podmínky užití TW, tak je možné, že za nějakou dobu přestane fungovat.

bird.makeup - Home Page

bird.makeup
@Ferda 😼✔️
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Sylvia

@pvagner @fdroidorg I am very happy to hear confirmation it is accessible for screenreader users. I found Android's TalkBack pretty confusing to understand so I had to guess a lot if I did stuff right. If I ever do break anything for screen readers or something can be improved please tell me, I consider accessibility issues high priority issues.
@Peter Vágner @F-Droid

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Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Orage Gets #Wayland Support, Major Notifications Changes, and Much More 9to5linux.com/xfces-apps-updat…

#Xfce #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023

Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Major Notifications Changes, and More - 9to5Linux

Xfce’s apps update for February 2023 is here with news about new releases of Thunar, Ristretto, Mousepad, Power Manager, Settings, and more.
Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
#FreeSoftware #linux #opensource #Wayland #xfce

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Somewhat long post, question of interest only to Linux server admins

Attention Linux server admins familiar with local mail handling, please boost for reach. I have a situation where I have an Email address that several people know, and I want all of them to get all Email sent to that address automatically. However, because of the possibility that this address might fall into the hands of spammers through no fault of my own, I don't want to just automatically forward everything that address receives. So far, I've been manually reviewing everything that comes to this address and then forwarding it to another address, which only I know, which does auto-forward to the desired recipients.

I'm familiar with the .forward file in a user's home directory to automatically forward incoming Email, but as far as I know, that just forwards everything it gets indiscriminately. I'm looking for something similar, but with a whitelist of known trusted Email addresses from which any incoming Email will be auto-forwarded, while everything else waits for me to review it. Does such a thing exist? If so, how do I set it up?

Thanks.

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In case you missed it earlier this week, Science Briefs Edition 24 has 20 stories on how science and medicine apply to blindness. worldblindherald.com/science-b…

Science Briefs – Edition 24

What's Inside River blindness effects in rural areas. Symptoms of Diabetic Retinopathy that you should know. Smokers twice as like to develop AMD and vision loss. And, about 20 stories about t…
World Blind Herald

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An amazing article about the treatment and understanding of #blindness in the middle ages
Quite a revealing read: wellcomecollection.org/article…
#disability #inclusion #accessibility #history

Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness.
Wellcome Collection
#Accessibility #history #Disability #blindness #inclusion

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@IzzyOnDroid #opensource at its best:

I recently installed vector pinball from @fdroidorg - great to kill some time, and especially fun because of the sound effects and background music. Out of curiosity I followed the link to the README in it's github repo. In it, the author thanks the guy who added the sound effects and music, who wanted to try out a sound library for android and therefore sought out a silent open source game and created sounds and music for it. He wrote an article about it here: twittering.com/webarchive_arti…

So thanks to this exemplary #FOSS collaboration I'm having a good time, whenever I have a five minute break.

A screenshot of vector pinball. Looks great. Unfortunately the awesome sound is not captured in the image.

FMOD for Android - O'Reilly Broadcast

FMOD for Android is like peanut butter and strawberry jam, together for the first time!
www.twittering.com
#foss #opensource @F-Droid @IzzyOnDroid ✅

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#AndroidAppRain at Guardian today with 2 updated apps, and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 2 new and 10 updated apps¹

* OpenBl: the latest Bundesliga tables & results
* OpenBooksDownloader: download open published books

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

¹ oops, 9. 1 update had to be rolled back as my scanner yelled an alarm due to added trackers – a no-go in a root app caring for backups of personal data. Issue opened upstream, updates temp-disabled.


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For #Linux folk, I have a list of my common typographic symbols using the Alt Graph & Compose keys, hosted on @Codeberg, derived from @aral blog post ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…

Might be useful
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Typographical typing habits for Linux

Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

To the Compose list you might wish to add one very useful combination: (x)

With "x" being any alpha-num. Great e.g. with screenshots where you numbered a sequence of actions: ① click here, ② enter whatever, ㊷ don't overdo it 😝 and so on. Ⓐ I find that very practical, Ⓑ I use it frequently. And as you mentioned super-script, there's also ₀subscript₁for₃numbers (_1, _2 etc) :awesome:

/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for more 😝 & WinCompose for Windows folks…

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Odcházení Miloše Zemana: Deset milníků kariéry politika, který došel na vrchol. A pak si touhou po pomstě vše zkazil
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Odcházení Miloše Zemana: Deset milníků kariéry politika, který došel na vrchol. A pak si touhou po pomstě vše zkazil

Prezident Miloš Zeman po deseti letech na Hradě odchází, nejspíše už definitivně, z české politiky. Které okamžiky jeho politické kariéry, jež začala těsně před sametovou revolucí, byly ty nejdůležitější? A jaký účet po sobě zanechává?
Economia, a.s.
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