Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users!
Exciting news! I’ve reached out to Apple Accessibility, and they’re on board to collaborate with us. They’ve asked me to put together a team so we can work directly with their team and engineers.
Are you passionate about improving accessibility features for blind and low vision users? Do you use VoiceOver, Zoom, or other low vision features on your devices? We need your help!
We’re looking for individuals who are interested in providing feedback and testing new features from our point of view. Your input will be invaluable in making technology more accessible for everyone.
If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below:
forms.microsoft.com/r/eRQAsmMb…
Let’s make a difference together!
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Matthew Whitaker
#Accessibility #BlindUsers #LowVision #VoiceOver #Zoom #AppleAccessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion #AccessibilityMatters #blind #lowvision
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Here's the thing: Trump *is* an authoritarian who wants to destroy democracy. This isn’t a smear, it’s a fact. That Trump got shot doesn’t change the necessity of him being defeated at the ballot box, nor does it absolve him of his past misdeeds.
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Multiple things are true about Trump's shooting
Political violence is wrong. And Trump is the candidate of political violence.Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)
NEW — Two outer-space franchises collide at San Diego Comic Con as #StarTrek and #DoctorWho showrunners join forces for a special panel and gallery experience to bring fandom together
More details: tinyurl.com/sdcc-trekwho
STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO Showrunners Join Forces for SDCC's "Intergalactic Friendship Day" Panel • TrekCore.com
Two outer-space franchises collide at San Diego Comic Con as STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO showrunners join forces for a special panel to bring fandom togetherTrekCore Staff (TrekCore)
In case you missed it, Sticker Mule is sending out "Trump 2024" emails and tweets.
If you are looking for sticker alternatives, I highly recommend:
Sticker Ninja linktr.ee/stickerninja
Sticker Giant and The Sticky Brand are great alternatives too.
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Ireneusz Krosny - Historia tańca/The Evolution of Dance (OfficialHD, 2016)
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The Evolution of Dance - 1950 to 2019 - By Ricardo Walker's Crew
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😑🆕 What ARIA still does not do
"Use of ARIA is a promise you as a developer make to screen reader users."
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'Find My' feature helps diver recover lost Apple Watch nearly two years later
A YouTuber who lost his Apple Watch while swimming and diving in the summer of 2022 has had it returned to him, thanks to the Find My feature.Charles Martin (AppleInsider)
After 3 months in review — including 30+ days for appeal — UTM SE was approved for PAL 🎉
Apple also called us to say they decided to allow it in the App Store too, what a coincidence!
Our first set of 3rd party apps is now notarized, and will be available for PAL users soon 🙂
Alright, I’ve finally done a new #GNOME Shell Mobile release! Time for a little thread about the updates.
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"How in particular should *we* respond—those of us who did and do see Trump as an urgent threat to our liberal order and consider defeating him to be America’s most urgent political priority?"
Today's Morning Shots from @wkristol52 and @eggerdc: thebulwark.com/p/bullets-cant-…
Bullets Can’t Save Liberalism
Plus: Why Democrats can’t back down from the election fight.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
The Truth About Political Violence
To condemn the attack on Trump’s life requires being honest about his candidacy.Gabriel Schoenfeld (The Bulwark)
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Your Phone is Giving Away More Than You Ever Bargained For – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
"Liberty Phone", 2014-ish specs in a $2000 phone, what the fuck. The processor costs $73 per piece. Can someone that (un)fortunately bought this thing confirm it's actually using Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6, or is it a marketing lie?
Additionally, this article from Madaidan's Insecurities blog still stands:
#Journalists and EU citizens - Want to know how you can help stop chat control?
First things first, stop calling it Upload Moderation and call it Chat Control! Many of you still call #ChatControl Upload Moderation but that doesn't do this #privacy invading law justice!
Want to learn more on Germany's role in stopping Chat Control? Check out Tuta's latest article here: tuta.com/blog/germany-stop-cha…
Do the right thing and say it how it is!
How Germany was key to stop chat control - and how the name helped with that.
Once again public pressure led to politicians stopping their push for mass surveillance - but the fight continues!Tutanota
Two Kinds of Servers
Occasionally I overhear (or get sucked into) an argument that goes like this:Chad Austin
I haven’t written Haskell or any serious product or business logic since then! I don’t personally enjoy Rust that much (to my surprise) but it has excellent compositional properties for large systems. And I think IMVU switched to C# on the backend to avoid dealing with GHC’s GC.
I do miss monads. No other mainstream language lets you restrict effects. Being able to say “you cannot do non-database IO inside of a transaction” was so good.
Accessibility is not inclusive design or disability rights. It’s a part of it. Eric Eggert explains.
Accessibility is a part of inclusive design and disability rights · Eric Eggert
Accessibility is mainly a set of practices that allow practitioners to build their product in a way that does not introduce obvious barriers for users.Eric Eggert
History: Computer Talk audio magazines
Museum: Computer Talk magazine for blind computer users.OneSwitch.org.uk
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The Truth About Political Violence
To condemn the attack on Trump’s life requires being honest about his candidacy.Gabriel Schoenfeld (The Bulwark)
We abolished private schools in Finland - here's what happened next
Heli Litja, 45, was one of the first students in a reformed Finland. Here, she explains what the UK might look like if private schools were abolished altogetherEleanor Peake (iNews)
This only works well as long as you can trust your current government and all future governments that might possibly get elected.
Poland's system is a bit like that, and there are a lot of good things to be said about it to be sure, but the conservative government we had for the last 8 or so years has definitely abused the control they had over schools.
They massively increased the amount of time spent on teaching history, in a "Poland good, Germany bad" way of course, sacrificing of other subjects, particularly STEM. They also limited social studies / citizen's education and removed parts of the curriculum that were not quite favorable to that government's worldview.
The new government seems to be undoing some of this damage, but that's only going to last for as long as they're in power.
But who's going to implement the protections and what's going. to stop the government from just removing them?
Such a system would work if the protections are enshrined in some kind of constitution or an American-style "you can't change this for 30 years without a supermajority" bill, but if that's impossible, you need some kind of objective reality (like private schools) that makes this more difficult to do than changing some law.
@Samvega Nobody is in control of *all* private schools.
The problem with government-mandated curricula is that there's usually no other alternative, maybe except moving to a different country.
Today I learned: There's a significant difference in mental wellbeing between liberals and conservatives, in favor of conservatives. It's most visible among young liberal Americans in recent years (which shouldn't be a surprise to anybody paying attention), but it has probably existed forever and has been consistently demonstrated in many different countries and age groups.
There's a really good analysis here americanaffairsjournal.org/202…
How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives - American Affairs Journal
In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens.Julius Krein (American Affairs Journal)
Breaking: Festnetz-Cool von Telekom AG übernommen. Mehr Informationen auf Medium.
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festnetz.cool got acquired by X-Forward-For-Ventures der Deutschen Telekom AG
Die Deutsche Telekom bietet seit vielen Jahren B2B-Dienstleistungen um Nutzer*innen auch mit wechselnden IPs tracken zu können. Mit festnetz.cool gründete ich ein disruptives Startup, welches…Lilith Wittmann (Medium)
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