Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B; Frontier had a revenue of $5.8B in 2023 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
En la#Audiofoto de hoy nos vamos de viaje a Milán. Suenan las campanas, muy probablemente de su catedral. ¿A qué os recuerda la melodía? Y no se vale mirar en la descripción, o al menos antes de escuchar, que ahí yo pongo a lo que a mí me recuerda.😉 #Milan, #Soundscape, #Bells, #Campanas
And I thought "wait, didn't @mntmn's MNT Reform have a great Operator Handbook"? So I went and looked it up, and damn! It's even better than I thought.
Not only does it explain how to charge the laptop and turn it on. It introduces you to Linux, has exploded-view drawings of components, includes schematics and even a bill of materials! Magnificent.
LibreOffice 24.8 is our new major stable release, but we're also maintaining the previous 24.2 branch for a while longer, to give people time to upgrade. And today we're announcing LibreOffice 24.2.6, a bugfix update: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Discover Innosearch AI's new e-commerce platform designed for blind and low-vision users. Enjoy a fully accessible interface, AI shopping assistant, secure transactions, and a vast selection of competitively priced products. Use code "OFF5" for $5 off your first purchase of $20 or more!
Musk's X announced it would feed Twitter users' content to train their Grok AI model. This was illegal under EU law. The DPC took them to court. X said that it would fight the DPC.
Looking for a productive workspace tomorrow? 💻 Join us at HSBXLfor our open co-working day! Enjoy a collaborative atmosphere, fast internet, and great coffee. No need to book, just drop in! #hackerspace #coworkinghsbxl.be/events/open-coding-da…
... ein aufblitzendes Messer im trüben Schein einer rostigen Straßenbeleuchtung könnte man sonst als Warnblinkleuchte vor der Gefahr eines Angriffes deuten ...
Das Lesen des Tatherganges im Urteil – schon vom 20.6.2024 – erzeugte bei mir ein Geschmäckle nach versuchten "Ehrenmord" und dass die Anstifter und wahren Täter unbehelligt bleiben!
🔎 POLITICOEurope published a new report on how European Paliament President Metsola is not exactly leading by example when it comes to the relationship with her lobbyist husband Ukko Metsola
Even though a new code of ethics requires senior MEPs to declare conflicts of interest, including those involving their family, European Paliament President Metsola didn't declare her top EU lobbyist husband ‼️
Ukko Metsola works, in fact, for major corporate polluter Royal Caribbean Group.
¿A qué se debe que aún no podamos acceder a los datos de todo el país?
Según el organismo competente del @mitecogob consolidar los datos es un "proceso complejo y largo".
El Tribunal de Cuentas lo achaca a la mala coordinación entre comunidades autónomas y Ministerio.
El resultado es que encontrarás datos de 2017 y 2018 para 28 provincias, los fuegos de 2019 en 20 regiones más, los incendios de 2020 en 11 territorios y los de 2021 en Badajoz, Córdoba, Granada y Soria.
Con los datos en la mano podemos contarte que entre 1983 y 2016 ha habido más de medio millón de incendios que han arrasado una superficie como la de Aragón y Cantabria juntas.
Galicia es la comunidad autónoma con más incendios y más superficie calcinada. Aquí te damos los detalles⤵️
Interesting piece in the Grauniad about Divers With Purpose, an African-American organization of divers that engages in underwater archeology, especially investigating shipwrecks of slave ships. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
It is September 2024. For more than two months already, there are no direct trains between the Netherlands and London. Yet NS publishes a new article describing how you need to check in Amsterdam or Rotterdam 45 to 60 minutes before departure for pasport and security check. 🙄
Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
Scroll to Text Fragment (i.e. #:~:text=…) has had poor accessibility and we’ve been slow to implement it, wanting a better solution. As of bugzil.la/1914877, Firefox now supports this feature, highlighting the range to assistive technologies to support better accessibility.
@jcsteh Hi Jamie, hope you're well I seem to remember somewhere in my old and addled mind that you had some sort of resource that removed aria from a webpage? I seem to remember something about a hammer if this is indeed the case and I have not been dreaming is there any chance you can point me at the resource. Cheers H
@Mishu70 It's a Firefox add-on called AxSHammer. I believe someone ported it to Chrome, but I don't have details of that. Firefox add-on is here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Just discovered that @protonprivacy have produced an excellent 60 page guide to IT Security for small business (and individuals!). It covers all sorts of software and network configuration. Not just about Proton products.
It's well worth a read even if you think you are upto speed as I guarantee you'll pick up a few nuggets.
This gorgeous saffron spice tea popped into my mind today so I have made myself a pot. I first had it in a Kashmiri shop in South India. They serve this tea as you wander around. It was so so good so I asked what it was. Simply saffron, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves.
For a full Kashmiri experience you can add Karshmiri green tea leaves, organic dried rose petals and slivered almonds.
For a pot: 4 cloves, or more if they are small. Sometimes I use up to 10! 4 cardamom pods 2cm piece cinnamon 1 pinch strands of saffron
method Crush the spices roughly in a mortar – no need to grind them at all, just to break them up a little. Place in a teapot, pour hot water over and allow to seep for 5 minutes. This will allow the saffron time to develop colour, and the flavour from the spices to emerge. Strain into a special teacup and sip slowly.
1/2 This video is probably a good example of one which, aside from the "The TRUTH about the ADHD Superpower" heading, really doesn't need a screen reader to read the text. The text is captions of what is being said in the video - that is a great thing for those who are deaf or otherwise benefit from captions. For a screen reader user listening to text, in this particular case, they are generally better off listening to the dialog being spoken direclty
2/3 NVDA CAN read the captions - press NVDA+r to have NVDA use OCR on the text. Note that NVDA has a setting to periodically refresh OCR. It's not perfect, but could be used in a situation like this (if that text WASN'T already being spoken for instance). By far the best option is for the video to ensure needed information is conveyed both visually and audibly to suit all audiences.
Note that audio description in this case could also describe the room etc - that information is not currently conveyed, although in this video it is arguably secondary to the dialog.
@NVAccess Thank you for taking the time to answer this for me. I deeply appreciate the information. It makes sense now, the text would be extraneous. (Going to write down this info, so I hopefully won’t forget!)
I appreciate you so thoroughly explaining everything. Have a good weekend. 😊
You're welcome :) In this particular case, a screen reader user can ignore that text - there are other videos where similar such text may be useful, and it may also depend on the platform the video is on as to how accessible that is - On some platforms you don't need to use OCR at all, just move NVDA's focus to the text as you start the video, and it will keep reading out new text as it changes.
"Das Asylrecht ist dazu da, schutzbedürftigen Menschen Schutz zu bieten", so die Migrationsforscherin Kohlenberger im ZDF. Das dürfe man in der Asyl-Debatte nicht vergessen.
Our In-Process blog is out. Today we have a reminder of NVDA 2024.3, info on NVDA 2024.4 and our Beta / RC program, details of the upcoming SPEVI conference 2025 and a walkthrough of creating a portable copy and the highly anticipated change to the process which now creates a folder for you.
@KaraLG84 It is a question we get asked each year and one we consider each year. We haven't made a decision yet but definitely one for us to start thinking about!
I seem to remember somewhere in my old and addled mind that you had some sort of resource that removed aria from a webpage? I seem to remember something about a hammer 
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