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Trying one more time. Please help if possible. 6 months without income is no joke, and right now I'm not sure when it'll end. :( #Unemployed #Blind #Bills #expenses #MentalHealth #MutualAid gofund.me/f8b1aa8c

Donate to Assist Mendi in Navigating Tough Times, organized by Melinda Evans

Hello everyone. My name is Mendi. I am a woman who is blind. I unfortunately lost… Melinda Evans needs your support for Assist Mendi in Navigating Tough Times
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#blind #MutualAid #MentalHealth #unemployed #bills #expenses

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For those who are musicians, what’s your impression here?

REPORT | Tap-Tap: A New Device For Blind & Low Vision Musicians Is Game Changing

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Toronto Concert Orchestra | Movies at Tiffany’s

Celebrating the centennial year of Henri Mancini, we highlight Mancini’s iconic “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which earned every musical accolade the year it was released.\n
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Newswire: Tek Talk of 8/12/24 at 8pm Eastern welcomes Everette Bacon, VP of Blindness Initiatives and Jenine Stanley, Director of Customer Success and Engagement, of Aira to discuss its new features announced at the national conventio groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/75…

Newswire: Tek Talk of 8/12/24 at 8pm Eastern welcomes Everette Bacon, VP of Blindness Initiatives and Jenine Stanley, Director of Customer Success and Engagement, of Aira to discuss its new features announced at the national conventio

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When it comes to digital accessibility lawsuits, the best defense is a good offense deque.com/blog/when-it-comes-t…

When it comes to digital accessibility lawsuits, the best defense is a good offense | Deque

Invest in digital accessibility now to avoid future lawsuits. You'll pay less overall, while making the world more inclusive—which is the real goal!
Greg Williams (Deque Systems, Inc.)

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While some athletes have raved about the muffins and others have complained about the cardboard beds, some American Olympians are taking advantage of the free healthcare. Team USA rugby player Ariana Ramsey didn't just get a bronze medal in Paris — she's had a pap smear, X-ray, teeth cleaning, and an eye test. She's posted about this on TikTok, influenced other athletes in the Village to visit medical professionals, and now plans to fight for universal healthcare in the U.S. Here's more from Sports Illustrated.

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#Olympics #Sports #USA #Healthcare #UniversalHealthcare


U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village

Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are making good use of the medical services offered in Paris. 
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#USA #healthcare #sports #olympics #universalhealthcare

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New, by me: At least six companies were saved from having to pay hefty ransoms, thanks to rookie security bugs found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves.

Security researcher Vangelis Stykas said he found simple security flaws in the web panels used by Mallox, BlackCat, and Everest ransomware gangs, which exposed victims' decryption keys and helped him to alert other companies before the criminals could strike.

More: techcrunch.com/2024/08/08/secu…

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> Both the U.S. and China are major countries that use incarcerated workers and pay them pennies on the dollar, if at all. Legal advocates say prisoners in the U.S. are exploited and pressured to work, because convicts do not enjoy full protection of the country's employment laws. Prison labor in China is even less regulated.
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Ex-prisoners in China allege they were forced to make U.S. apparel in jail — NPR

A lawsuit alleging a U.S. company used forced prison labor in China could have ripple effects across supply chains.
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Before I go to bed for the day I'm just gonna leave this here because I definitely didn't just spend an hour playing when I should probably be resting. Someone just made an accessibility mod for Balatro and now I understand why this game blew up. If you haven't heard of it, you're basically making the best poker hands possible with a standard card deck trying to reach increasingly higher score targets. For reaching them you get money which you can use in the shop to buy various upgrades and special cards that let you get even higher scores, which gives you more money... And that's how the game loop works. All this is accompanied by some very chill background music and satisfying sound effects. Another win for #GameAccessibility for sure. You can find the mod here forum.audiogames.net/topic/541…

Balatro accessibility mod available! (Page 1) — New releases room — AudioGames.net Forum

Balatro accessibility mod available! (Page 1) — New releases room — AudioGames.net Forum — Discuss audio games!
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Do you love hearing your NVDA say "row 1 through 2 column 2 table with 4 rows and 2 columns row 3 through 4 column 2 table with 2 rows and 2 columns row 1 column 1 ⁠" and "row 3 through 4 column 2 table with 2 rows and 2 columns row 1 column 1 ⁠" you don't need to look far, just read a Wikipedia page like this one. ("Acquisition history") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_Sc… after the name rang a bell from the COVID era for me, I looked them up and found this gem.
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Tamas G

@ppatel @Jage I usually keep them on mostly to get the experience of the default settings as close as I can (as my QA / test-centric brain has forced me into it.) Also, I worry that if I were to disable these, I wouldn't know whether I've stepped into a table and more crucially its boundaries or dimensions, something that's helpful info to me to have so I know how many blocks to navigate by within my memory.
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Tamas G

@ppatel @Jage I wish you could disable announcements for the table role but still get dimensions (like 3 rows and 4 columns) - looking at some sites I visit, it could be extremely difficult to tell whether the part of the page belongs to the table data or as actual text on it, which would still disorient me a lot. I do disable some, like clickable elements that I would have on for testing, as those tend to annoy me the most on sites hearing it repeated.
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Tamas G

@jmd2000 @ppatel @Jage this is where I do wish NVDA had site-specific settings though, because it would be nice to have that info off for certain domains and not others. If I'm just looking at specs for a product or something like that on Wikipedia the table info just serves even less use once it's more than like 10 columns wide.
@Pratik Patel @Jage @John Dowling, Jr.

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#XSF Announcement

XMPP Standards Foundation has decided to sign the Open Letter to the European Commission:

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#jabber #chat #interoperability #standards #rtc #Europe #europa #OpenSource #EU #Brussels

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XMPP - The universal messaging standard
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Atentátom na mňa nič neskončilo, tvrdí premiér. Opozícia a médiá podľa neho vyrábajú ďalšieho Cintulu

Premiér Robert Fico sa vyjadril k aktuálnej snahe opozície zvolať mimoriadnu schôdzu parlamentu a pokúsiť sa odvolať ministra spravodlivosti Borisa Suska. Ten pomohol bývalému špeciálnemu prokurátorovi Dušanovi Kováčikovi na slobodu. l.rockosbasilisk.com/UKdFA


Atentátom na mňa nič neskončilo, tvrdí premiér. Opozícia a médiá podľa neho vyrábajú ďalšieho Cintulu | ta3

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