Captions vs. Subtitles: Leave No Viewer Behind – Meryl.net home
ContentsSummaryClarifying Captions and Subtitle TermsCaptionsSubtitlesProblems with SubtitlesTips for Accessible Subtitles and CaptionsLevel up Your Accessibility and Inclusion Efforts SummaryNote: Some countries use "subtitles" instead of "captions.Meryl Evans
I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.
He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.
The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."
On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"
The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.
Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.
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1980's Rocker and Radio Host Greg Kihn Dies at 75
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Former NPR President and CEO John Lansing Passes Away
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Corus Shuts Down CHML Hamilton ON
The ongoing cutbacks at Corus have led to the demise of News/Talk 900 CHML Hamilton ON.radio (Radioinsight.com)
NVDA 2024.3 Released
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…NV Access
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NVDA 2024.3, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Full information & download links available from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3/
Highlights:
- Notification of add-on updates
- Unicode normalisation options
- Help Tech Activator Pro braille display support
- Mouse wheel scrolling commands
- Many bug fixes & updates for Windows 11, browsers, LibLouis, eSpeak-NG, Unicode CLDR
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #A11y
NVDA 2024.3 Released
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…NV Access
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NASA still hasn't decided on how Boeing Starliner astronauts will return.
But recent developments, and NASA's mention of an "unsuited return" have led to a lot of questions about why the launch and entry suits aren't compatible between Boeing and SpaceX. Let's dive into what that unsuited return means, how launch and entry suits are used, and why NASA didn't mandate compatibility here.
#space #starliner #boeing #spacex #nasa #iss
Why didn't NASA make Boeing and SpaceX's spacesuits compatible?
NASA still hasn't decided whether Boeing Starliner astronauts will return on their original spacecraft or a SpaceX Crew Dragon. But recent developments, and ...YouTube
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this is one of the few times i actually agree with the “natural = better” crowd because we actually know that other prebiotics like high-fiber plants and onions are generally okay for you.
i normally find “natural = better” to be an oversimplification devoid of nuance.
From our President: Hello BITS Family:
BITS Microsoft Office Fall 2024 Training Course
For JAWS or NVDA BITS members who are interested in enhancing their skills with Microsoft Office. The BITS Education team is excited to announce a new weekly class beginning September 9. This Class meets every Monday via Zoom from 7:30 to 9:30 PM EST. We plan the course until November 25, 2024. We may extend class dates into December if we feel the pace needs to be adjusted.
The course provides in-depth instruction on using Windows, Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint with screen readers. The course textbook is the third edition of David Kingsbury’s book, “The Windows Screen Reader Primer: All the Basics and More,” which can be downloaded from:
The Carroll Center. This book is also available on Bookshare. David Kingsbury, who is an experienced assistive technology instructor at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Massachusetts, serves as the primary instructor.
The first session on September 9, 2024 covers class logistics, provides an overview of The Windows Screen Reader Primer’s content, teaches students to navigate it and answers student questions about the course.
Subsequent sessions cover:
• File management with Windows 10 and 11,
• Edit, format and proof Word documents,
• Use the Outlook desktop client to manage messages,
• Excel basic and intermediate tools to create spreadsheets, and
• Create visually appealing PowerPoint presentations.
Regular class assignments and office hours are integral parts of the course. All class sessions are recorded and shared with students, so you have these as additional reference materials.
Whether you are a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, this class is for you.
To reserve your place, please sign up using this form. The URL for this form is:
Note: You must be a current BITS member to attend the course.
To join Bits visit: joinbits.org
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Bolsonaro obrigado a encerrar comício... depois de ser atacado por um enxame de abelhas
O antigo presidente brasileiro, Jair Bolsonaro, foi atacado por abelhas e teve de encerrar um comício que fazia no nordeste do Brasil.SIC Notícias
Pixel 3 up and running (again again again), huge props to @drakulix for getting things rebased and fixing all the regressions and weird new issues.
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #gnomemobile
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Blind and visually impared users are excluded from the project (#2321) · Issues · postmarketOS / pmaports · GitLab
It's a long time since i turned on my pinephone 32 GB model, but today i took it up on the table and got postmarketos 23.6 edge written...GitLab
Level crossing in the GB operated by a human operator, looking carefully if the crossing is clear using CCTV, closing the barriers, double checking that it is still clear and then finally signalling proceed to the train. 🙄
And I always thought it is the train which has priority on a level crossing, not the other way around.
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Why Do We Still Have Semaphore Signals?
Network Rail invited me to take a tour of signalling through the decades, starting with the Littlehampton Signal Box - still operating semaphore signals - th...YouTube
. They base warning on distance, not on time, which means you wait longer for slower trains. Do you remember "auta stoji, vlaky jedou"? That's their strategy .
@pavel
This only makes sense until you delve into implementation and its regulatory boundaries.
Like. From railway side, it would require signalling to convey movement authorities for trains with a different speeds 1. for the driver and 2. for the automatic train control with speed enforcement and 3. you need to integrate crossing equipment with other parts of signalling/interlocking. What's the status of these requirements in infrastructure and vehicles...?
@matt semver just doesn’t actually work. Nobody follows it properly, there’s no tooling to validate the compatibility promises that makes, and the intuition of how it’s supposed to work doesn’t match with the way that it is specified to work.
Case in point: in semver this massive new version would actually be a patch release as nothing is formally deprecated and everything is backwards compatible in the API. (Semver does not account for language revision incompatibility, only public API)
@defcon Uber Contributor, and named “Defenders of the Hacker Spirit.” We are grateful for the continued support from the hacker community. Without you our work wouldn't be possible, and we're proud to continue fighting for you. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-…
EFF Honored as DEF CON 32 Uber Contributor
At DEF CON 32 this year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation became the first organization to be given the Uber Contributor award. This award recognizes EFF’s work in education and litigation, naming us “Defenders of the Hacker Spirit.”Electronic Frontier Foundation
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find : ScienceAlert
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.Peter Dockrill (ScienceAlert)
A Sunday morning article on COVID in New Zealand
rnz.co.nz/news/covid-19/525469…
Reading it the key messages seem to be:
* Only those who are vulnerable really feel the effects of it.
* No mention of long COVID and the health complications we know can come from infection.
* It’s just sniffles we have to get used to
It’s minimising, and an ableist + eugenicist take on it all.
Covid-19 will be with us forever - flu expert
Dr David Webby says the virus is now a year-round issue, and people with underlying health issues and the elderly are most at risk.RNZ News (RNZ)
* You can get reinfected within weeks of a previous infection. Immunity isn’t guaranteed by infection or vaccine.
This is because it is a virus that really damages your immune system. It is constantly mutating, due to being highly contagious and people not taking mitigation measures seriously.
“We’ve got to live with it”
Exactly. This doesn’t mean throwing other people under the bus, and waiting until you’re in their position to give a stuff.
@robcee @paperdigits They're not really weather sealed. It's the one* big weak point of the GR III / GR IIIx.
(* aside from the price)
I still love mine and bring it with me quite a bit (when I'm not bringing my Fuji X-T5 (and a lens). I just try to not get caught in a rainstorm with the Ricoh.
[Book Review] Witchcraft on a Shoestring takes the reader through a fun and engaging journey of magical practices that don’t require expensive tools or materials. Readers will have a magical time creating spells, divinations, and even recipes that cost little to no money, which reminds us that we don’t need fancy items to practice the Craft; all we need is a little imagination!
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#budget #witchcraft #bookreview #moneymagic #deborahblake #pagan
Review: Witchcraft on a Shoestring, Deborah Blake
Witchcraft on a Shoestring takes the reader through a fun and engaging journey of magical practices that don't require expensive tools or materials.Alan U. Dalul (The Wild Hunt)
The End of an Era: A Message From the Founder as We Announce the Closure of AppleVis | AppleVis
Dear AppleVis Community, It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that after careful consideration I have made the difficult decision to step down from my responsibilities with AppleVis.www.applevis.com
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 5 updated and 1 added app:
As @organicmaps was kicked out of PlayStore, I decided to make an exception adding it to #IzzyOnDroid despite of being twice the per-app size limit. It's the "web" variant that comes with (part of) GMS inside for network location. As there are other apps at F-Droid and IoD supporting network location without GMS, I hope to help OM to get rid of this NonFreeComp, though.
Welcome aboard IoD, OrganicMaps!
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
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, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Looks like the app is again visible in this thing named "PlayStore"?!
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Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org)
Good news! Organic Maps appeared again in the Google Play store last night without any notifications or explanations. We are grateful for your feedback and support! Stay tuned for the upcoming update, which is already available for iOS.Fosstodon
WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 T-shirt: How to Get One - WordPress Accessibility Day 2024
Read the story behind the WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 t-shirt and three ways you can get one for yourself.Amber Hinds (WordPress Accessibility Day 2024)
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Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Systems Like Starlink Cause Environmental Harm Regulators Didn’t Prepare For
Last June scientists warned that low-Earth orbit ( #LEO ) satellites constantly burning up in orbit could release chemicals that could undermine the progress we’ve made repairing the #ozone #layer.
Researchers at USC noted that at peak, 1,005 U.S. tons of aluminum will fall to Earth,
releasing ♦️397 U.S. tons of aluminum oxides ♦️per year to the atmosphere, an
💥increase of 646% over natural levels. 💥
Numerous companies, most notably Elon Musk’s #Starlink and Jeff Bezos’ #Blue #Origin,
are working on launching tens of thousands of small LEO satellites in the coming years.
A new report by U.S. PIRG adds to concerns that these launches haven’t been thought through environmentally,
noting that the disposable nature of such satellites means ♦️29 tons of satellites ♦️will re-enter our atmosphere every day at peak.
After years of delays, the FCC did recently release rules requiring that satellites be removed from orbit within five years to help minimize “space junk.”
But the organization notes that very little if any thought was given by innovation-cowed regulators toward the 🔸environmental impact of so many smaller satellites constantly burning up in orbit:🔸
“We shouldn’t rush into deploying an untested and under-researched technology into new environments without comprehensive review.
Over just five years Starlink has launched more than 6,000 units and now make up more than 60% of all satellites.
The new space race took off faster than governments were able to act.”
The steady launches are also a notable pollution concern, the report notes,
releasing ♦️“soot in the atmosphere equivalent to 7 million diesel dump trucks circling the globe, each year.”
#SpaceX has consistently played fast and loose with #environmental #regulations,
with regulators even in lax Texas starting to give the company grief for releasing significant #pollutants into nearby bodies of water.
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Report: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Systems Like Starlink Cause Environmental Harm Regulators Didn’t Prepare For
Last June scientists warned that low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites constantly burning up in orbit could release chemicals that could undermine the progress we’ve made repairing the ozone layer. Rese…Techdirt
Everyone who builds web applications should read the Reckoning series by @slightlyoff infrequently.org/series/reckon…
My own notes here, but you should work through the entire thing: simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/18/…
Seriously, take a look at the case-study in which the California food stamps signup site takes 29.5s to become interactive on a slow rural mobile connection, and tell me we don't urgently need to do better! infrequently.org/2024/08/objec…
Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson
SNAP benefits sites for more than 20% of Americans are unusably slow. All of them would be significantly faster if states abandoned client-side-rendering, and along with it, the legacy JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.Alex Russell
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"Parking your 2 ton death machine's hood over the pavement like an arsehole."
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#fuckcars
The Slow Decline of the Apple “Cult”
The headline may be a little provocative, but this article by Matt Birchler encapsulates a lot of the feelings I shared on the latest episode of Connected following Apple’s decisions regarding the Patreon iOS app.Federico Viticci (MacStories)
Piešťanské zábaly... nie, nebol som sa rochniť v bahne - bol som si vychutnať trochu kultúry na prvom ročníku tohto divadeľného festivalu. Štvordňový vstup by bol na mňa trochu moc, ale žiaden problém - na každé predstavenie sa dal kúpiť lístok osve. Bolo to super, a to množstvo ľudí, ktorí prejavili záujem o takéto podujatie, bolo ohromujúce aj pre usporiadateľov.
Jediný zlý bod boli, samozrejme, ľudia. Ani to, že si kúpite celodenný lístok na divadelný festival z vás kultúrneho človeka neurobí. Dupľom nie, ak sa vám počas celého predstavenia nezavrú ústa a na slušné upozornenie, či by sa vám lepšie nerozprávalo hneď vedľa v kaviarni iba tupo konštatujete, že tu sa vám dobre rozpráva...
#piestany #divadlo #kultura #nekultura
When writing an email do you use 'I hope this email finds you well'❓
And how would you think people look like when they actually get your email⁉️
#emailwriting#emailmemes#findsyouwell#tuta#tutamail
Ich verstehe das sonst nicht.
Seventeen years ago, I pissed off Apple by stating their first Intel MacBook Pro got really hot. I was in my early 20s, my first year at @osnews, and they were pressuring me to change my review. I effectively told them to fuck off, and they kicked me out of their review/press program.
Now look at everyone getting press access from Apple, and think to yourself - would any of them tell Apple to fuck off?
Great Braille Game! I learned about this game from Holly Anderson of the Maccessibility Podcast.
Brailliance is a Braille version of the popular Wordle game with a little twist.
You are given the total number of dots in the word, and you have to guess what the word is by figuring out the letters in the word with each of your guesses.
For example. The word has a total of 10 dots.
So your first guess is tale, t, a, l, e.
It tells you that 3 of those letters are in the word, and one is not.
t, a, and l, are in the word, and the letter e is not.
Please note: those letters are part of the final word, but they do not have to be in that order.
So lets see, the letters t, a, and l, equal a total of 8 dots, so you only have 2 dots left to make the final word.
And you only have 4 letters left with 2 dots, b, c, i, and k.
So now it is just a process of elimination
For this word, the correct other letter was k. So the final word was talk, t, a, l, k.
The tough part is figuring out words that have a specific number of dots, but this gets easier the more you play.
Plus, to help you out, the total number of dots for each letter can be found on the letters of the on-screen keyboard.
So how good do you know your Braille? Ready to take the challenge?
Just like Wordle, there is a new puzzle every day, as well as some other puzzle packs that you can play on the side if you like.
The game is totally free, and does have a cost to get rid of ads if you want.
I actually find this game more fun and challenging as Wordle! So I highly recommend giving it a try.
Here is the app store link.
apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia…
#Game #Accessible #Wordle #Braille #Maccessibility #Blind
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Brailliance - Learn Braille
Brailliance is a puzzle game where you guess the word by adding up braille dots. This game has been carefully crafted to be playable by everyone, and it includes multiple accessibility features for people with blindness and other disabilities.App Store
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