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Login.gov is hiring a Deputy Director, the position is open NOW: join.tts.gsa.gov/join/login-de…

You'd be joining a terrific team at a terrific time. And as one of I think 3 people who've had the role previously, I can attest to it being a great opportunity with huge impact.

Also - if past experience is any guide, despite a limit of 400 applications, this posting could still close very soon. So if you are interested in applying, get it in *today*!


Login.gov: Deputy Director

The Technology Transformation Service’s (TTS) mission is to lead the digital transformation of the federal government by helping agencies build, buy, and share technology that allows them to provide more accessible, efficient, and effective products …
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This article highlights the accessibility barriers found on websites promoting tourism for European smart cities. None of the websites conformed to WCAG 2.1. The web pages need to be more accessible and effectively communicate the physical accessibility features that the cities offer potential tourists with disabilities. They are losing potential customers because of these issues. #accessibility emerald.com/insight/content/do…

Digital accessibility of smart cities - tourism for all and reducing inequalities: Tourism Agenda 2030

There is widespread agreement that the tourism sector should address the issue of sustainability. The purpose of this study is to analyze the digital accessibility of the cities awarded as European Capitals of Smart Tourism for their innovative, acce…
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Computer hardware maker #Zotac exposed customers' RMA info on Google Search

Misconfiguration of permissions folders holding customer info related to RMAs have been indexed by search engines like #Google. As a result, it has shown up on SERPs.

Information leaked includes invoices, addresses, and contact information.

Fun fact: Security Misconfiguration is number 6 on the OWASP Top 10 Web app Security Risks.

#databreach #security #cybersecurity

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#google #security #cybersecurity #databreach #zotac

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Děkuji pane ministře.

Ministr zahraničí Lipavský si předvolal ruského velvyslance kvůli útoku na ukrajinská města. „Vrazi, kteří útočí na děti v nemocnici, jsou odpadem lidstva,“ napsal Jan Lipavský. „Dostal pokyn to v Moskvě vyřídit,“ dodal ministr. denikn.cz/minuta/1471293/


Ministr zahraničí Lipavský si předvolal ruského velvyslance kvůli útoku na ukrajinská města. „Vrazi, kteří útočí…

Ministr zahraničí Lipavský si předvolal ruského velvyslance kvůli útoku na ukrajinská města. „Vrazi, kteří útočí na děti v nemocnici, jsou odpadem lidstva,“ napsal Jan Lipavský. „Dostal pokyn to v Moskvě vyřídit,“ dodal ministr.
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Do you want to help make AntennaPod ready for the future? And do you have experience (or talent) in the domain of UX and/or UI design?

We're looking for folks to help us with embedding new innovative features on our player screen!

All details & contact options here👇

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#OpenSourceDesign #UX #UI #FOSS #OpenSourceContributions #Penpot #wireframes #volunteer #SummerProject #UXdesign #UIdesign

Jobs - UX/UI review of AntennaPod player screen (to fit more features)

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#foss #UX #ui #uidesign #volunteer #penpot #uxdesign #OpenSourceDesign #wireframes #opensourceContributions #SummerProject

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Bernie

The only true hardship of testing Thunderbird beta is that the Toggle Word Wrap add-on is no longer compatible:

addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…

I depend on it when writing text emails containing code or formatted tables.

It's a niche usecase (mostly coders), but would be nice to have this as a built-in editor feature.

Pretty please from your loyal user and supporter? 😇🙏


Toggle Line Wrap

Toggle wrapping of long lines in the message composition window when writing plaintext messages. Wrapping can be controlled via a toolbar button and a keyboard shortcut.
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Boozy McTypo

No, because the vast majority of emails in my inbox are not part of a thread, and also remain unread (they're usually automatically generated; most of the time the subject and sender tells me all I need to know). Most humans I know use other platforms (Signal etc) to have conversations, and I'll have to search my email for the two people I occasionally email with to see if I've missed their messages since the default changed.

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There's never a bad time to support your favorite indie app developers, but today, tomorrow, and beyond, you can do so and save a little on a long list of excellent apps.

Indie App Sales has over 300 apps offering deals. I've collected some of our favorites on @macstories, but be sure to scroll through the full list for some great bargains.

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Over 300 Apps from Indie Developers Are On Sale Now

Indie App Sales is back with excellent deals on apps from many of your favorite developers. With over 300 apps to choose from, the complete list is full of gems like: FitWoody Bills to Budget Plinky Bushel Denim Everlog Home Widget HomeCam HomeUI Pow…
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In just a couple of weeks, Carie Fisher and Jesse Dugas from the GitHub Accessibility team will be sharing the accessibility features of GitHub Copilot that you can use to enhance your own projects.

Mark your calendars for July 23, 2024, 1pm ET
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#A11y #Accessibility #A11yTalks #Drupal #GitHub #Copilot

Empowering People with Disabilities Using GitHub Copilot, with Carie Fisher and Jesse Dugas from the GitHub Accessibility team. Join Carie and Jesse for an engaging session on improving coding practices with GitHub Copilot. Learn about its accessibility features, watch demonstrations on writing accessible code, and discover techniques to enhance the accessibility of your own projects. This session will help make your development process more efficient and inclusive. Join the discussion July 23rd at 1pm ET.

Empowering People with Disabilities Using GitHub Copilot | A11yTalks

Join Carie and Jesse from the GitHub Accessibility team for an engaging session on improving your coding practices with GitHub Copilot.
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#a11y #Accessibility #github #copilot #drupal #a11ytalks

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A very nice blog post about leading questions in user research. Larry is currently doing an Outreachy internship, which has been funded by the GNOME Foundation.

medium.com/@larrytabeh/underst…


Understanding “Leading Questions” in Usability Research.

I’m in my internship's 3rd and 4th week, “conducting a series of short user research exercises using a mix of research methods”. Today, I want to talk about “leading questions,” a term that…
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NV Access is pleased to invite you to participate in the NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2024.

As in previous years, it is a simple, 3-question survey. It is open to NVDA users and testers around the world. We encourage everyone to complete the NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2024.

You can find the survey at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

As with last year, the survey is on Google Forms however you do not need to have a Google account to submit the form.

Mockup of a survey with the NV Access logo above, the word SURVEY followed by checkboxes numbered 1, 2 and 3 with a large tick in box #2. There are several sunburst designs around the edge, all in the NV Access colours of purple, turquoise and orange.

NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2024

At NV Access we are always interested in understanding the satisfaction of our NVDA users. Plus we like to understand clearly what is important to you and also identify what we can do more effectively.
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2/2 At NV Access, we are always interested in understanding the satisfaction of our NVDA users.

Plus, we like to understand clearly what is important to you and also identify what we can do more effectively.

The survey is open to NVDA users and testers around the world. We encourage everyone to complete the NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2024.

Completing the survey questions will assist us with improving the NVDA user experience. Please do participate, and share with others, thank you!

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Pozdravljena Slovenija! Speech Recognition & Synthesis by Google, AKA Google TTS has been updated and now it supports Slovene, a South Slavic language which is the official language of Slovenia 🇸🇮 Take a look at our list of languages with available TTS engines on Android accessibleandroid.com/list-of-… #Android #TTS

List of languages with available TTS engines on Android - Accessible Android

In this article, we listed the languages with available text to speech engines on Android.
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#android #tts

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Tohle vypadá zajímavě. #opensource

Vaultwarden 1.31.0:
Initial support for the beta releases of the new native mobile apps

github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwa…


Release 1.31.0 · dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Major changes and New Features Initial support for the beta releases of the new native mobile apps Removed support for WebSocket traffic on port 3012, as it's been integrated on the main HTTP port...
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Welp, I got my answers and the Yen is at its weakest level in a third of a century so it looks like I'll be able to tell you how it works from a first-hand perspective in about 2-4 weeks' time.

(FreeWrite didn't appeal because it's cloud-reliant. This thing uses UTF-8 text files and an SD card. Also, I've been pining for a Pomera since I saw one in Japan in 2007. Add 18 years of incremental improvements to what is basically a Japanese business writing tool …)
wandering.shop/@cstross/112755…

Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)

Hyper-specific question: does anyone know if the (only sold in Japan) Pomera DM250's user interface can be switched to Romanji (or better still, English)? UPDATE: Yes it can (video: https://youtu.
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Listening to an episode of Terminal Talk about IBM mainframes. They're discussing open source on zos and what's the first tool they mentioned? Curl of course.

@bagder is probably used to this. Where isn't curl available?

pca.st/episode/303e34ce-9dbf-4…


IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS - Anthony Giorgio, Mike Fulton, Igor Todorovski - Terminal Talk

In this podcast, we‘ll take a look at the people, technology, and culture behind one of the world‘s most powerful and important computing platforms, the Mainframe.
Pocket Casts
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A good (if long) article from Stratechery looking at implications of the EU’s plans to fine tech companies disproportionately to their EU revenue.

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The E.U. Goes Too Far

Recent E.U. regulatory decisions cross the line from market correction to property theft; if the E.U. continues down this path they are likely to see fewer new features and no new companies.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Hey @fdroidorg, how about we replace the "Non-Free Network Services" flag with two more specific Anti-Feature flags; "Non-Changeable Network Services" and "Proprietary Network Services";

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#SoftwareFreedom #Android #FDroid #AntiFeatures #NetworkServices


Propsosal: Split "Non-Free Network Services" into separate flags for changeability and code license

I’d like to propose splitting the “Non-Free Network Services” flag into two separate Anti-feature flags; “Non-Changeable Network Services” and “Proprietary Network Services”.
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#android #fdroid #softwarefreedom #antifeatures #networkservices @F-Droid
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Strypey

@IzzyOnDroid
> I prefer to stick with them – unless F-Droid decides on some different names and puts them live

That's sensible. I've put my naming arguments on the forum. We'll see if anyone there cares to engage with them.

But I agree that getting the flag separation rolled out is a much higher priority. Now I know it's a WIP, any energy I put in will be to help that rollout.

@fdroidorg

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Pro fanoušky mangy a anime jsem otevřel novou Misskey instanci. Sdílet to na Mastodonu je sice asi trochu mimo, ale třeba tu někdo zná někoho, kdo se do teď fediverse vyhýbal a tohle je zrovna to, co by ho dokázalo přesvědčit. Misskey je na Českém písečku málo známý a řekl bych až neprobádaný. Sám zatím objevuji jeho možnosti. otakuzatoka.cz/

Otaku Zátoka

Otaku zátoka je česká instance Misskey. Je to místo pro všechny fanoušky anime, mangy a jiného podobného umění. Vítáni jsou i lokální tvůrci, kteří zde chtějí prezentovat své výtvory.
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New features and improvements are coming to #LibreOffice 24.8, due next month! Like a better Notes Panel in Impress, thanks to Sarper Akdemir @allotropia: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…
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QA/Dev Report: June 2024 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.4.2 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for LET Calc function, improved the help for other new Calc functions, made it so help pages show a link to LibreOffice guide books, updated help pa…
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#libreoffice @allotropia software

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@iamnickops Yes, not everyone has a link but you can contact the companies that employ them, or ask on the developer list: lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/… – Re: structure, as we're a community open source project we don't have a rigid "structure" per se. Doers decide, and anyone is welcome to contribute or fund a developer to work on something. Technical decisions are taken by the Engineering Steering Committee: wiki.documentfoundation.org/De… – Hope that helps! 😊

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Poprvé vidím v požadavcích na pracovní pozici „aktivní členství v klubu #juniorguru” 🤯 Dobře ty, @mwenisch!

Celý inzerát tady: mastodon.cesko.digital/@mwenis…

Martin Wenisch

2024-07-06 09:45:09


Na svoje projekty hledam vyvojarskou pomoc (React + TypeScript) a rad dam prilezitost lidem pred prvni praci, kteri muzou benefitovat i z meho mentoringu.

mwenisch.notion.site/Vyvojarst…

Budu moc rad boostovani tu. Ale hlavne za osobni sireni mezi juniory a velka pomoc by bylo i sdileni na LinkedInu, kde je precijen vetsi sance, ze se nejake zacatecnictvo najde.

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#prace #developer #it #react #typescript



Martin Wenisch on LinkedIn: Vyvojarstvo pro muhu.digital | Notion

Na svoje projekty v muhu.digital hledam vyvojarskou pomoc (React + TypeScript) a rad dam prilezitost lidem pred prvni praci, kteri muzou benefitovat i z meho…
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Attention, developers! My inner perfectionist just noticed that the #Flathub download badge has been subtly improved, but many repositories are still using the old design. Let's fix this! Make sure that your READMEs and websites are rocking the latest design from flathub.org/badges. It's not much, but it will let me sleep peacefully at night again!
Infographic showing the old Flathub badge next to the new one. The old one says "Download on Flathub", while the new one says "Get it on Flathub".

Flathub Official Badges | Flathub

Official badges to promote your app on Flathub
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Da hat die Werbefirma wohl etwas zu verbergen?

Beschwerde von noyb: Xandr verweigert jede Datenauskunft
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#DSGVO


Beschwerde von noyb: Xandr verweigert jede Datenauskunft

Nach einer Recherche von netzpolitik.org zur Werbedatenplattform Xandr wollten Datenschutzbehörden deren Praktiken untersuchen. Die NGO noyb macht nun Druck, damit etwas passiert, und reicht Beschwerde ein.
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Yesterday I came across an episode of a podcast I previously did not know about. I'm not a fan of podcasts generally so I do not promote them as a rule, but for JAWS users I thought this provided a lot of food for thought and some interesting ideas came out of it. I thought I may even take up one or two of them myself!

The podcast episode is called "What would you like to see next in JAWS, as a screen reader user?" You'll need to sit down with a cup of tea when this is on because it's quite lengthy, but by and large it was well put together.
I did write some comments back to the hosts, so listen to the ep and then come back and read my comments below if you would like to.
The link to the episode is here.
storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/…

Comments from me:
I came across this podcast completely by accident when browsing the local timeline of this instance and I found it an interesting discussion. I had no idea about your podcast previously.
Thank you for the one or two name checks.

Largely I agree with a lot of what Robin had to say.
1. Definitely tell the English speaking distributors to put up or shut up. That's a given. We must, must, get to this point of monthly or annual subscription.
2. Robin's phrase bank. That's a bit of an old chessnut. We've had that in Leasey for 10 years now, so I'm sure if Vispero really wanted to do that they could.
3. A script store. I see a lot of problems with that, probably quite a few you haven't thought about.
4. Repetitive text.
I honestly don't think this problem is as severe as Robin is leading us to believe. I think a lot of it is related to the fact that applications are becoming less script-dependent on the part of JAWS.
Certainly there are lots of scripts per application but often the focus now is on obtaining information directly from the app which is sending the spoken output to the screen-reader. The Microsoft Outlook calendar for many years is a real case in point.
That used to be heavily script dependent so there was a good deal of control over what was spoken and how it was spoken. Now, that doesn't happen.
So as well as plenty of additional text which noone really wants to hear, sometimes that text will be repeated due to various factors.
There needs to be plenty of communication with Microsoft and other bodies so as to allow for lots of customisation when a developer is sending messages to a screen-reader, and the model of excellence here is Zoom Conferencing, because they have made a start on exactly that. You can choose what it is you would like to be announced.

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Unser Balkonsolar Buch:
Wir, Dr. Andreas Schmitz, Christian Ofenheusle, Sebastian Müller und Prof. Dr. Stefan Krauter, haben ein Buch für Balkonsolar-Anfänger geschrieben.
Es werden praktisch alle wichtigen Dinge erklärt und beschrieben. Ihr könnt das Buch in der PDF Version kostenlos und ohne Registrierung downloaden:

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Balkonsolar Buch - Akkudoktor

Wir Dr. Andreas Schmitz, Christian Ofenheusle, Sebastian Müller und Prof. Dr. Stefan Krauter haben ein Buch für Balkonsolar-Anfänger geschrieben. Danke an Simone Herpich für das Lektorat.
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🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ad broker Xandr (a Microsoft subsidiary)!

👉 Despite selling its service as “targeted”, Xandr holds conflicting information about people.

As if that weren't enough, Xandr also refuses to comply with access requests.

noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-gr…


Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%

noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding transparency issues, the right of access and the use of inaccurate information about users
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