The @thunderbird team just released the first beta of their email client for Android. I've filed two accessibility bugs on GitHub, and within hours one is addressed and will be in the next beta release (with a pleasant thank you note to boot).
If you feel so inclined, please consider downloading the app and reporting accessibility problems. Especially if you're a native TalkBack user.
#a11y #Accessibility #AndroidAccessibility #Android #TalkBack #ScreenReader #Thunderbird
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There are two solutions to ARIA Live Region issues:
1. Don’t use ARIA Live Regions (but use focus, dialogs, or other managing of what’s going on)
2. Put the live region in the DOM at page load (They cost nothing. If you need an alert and a status, put two divs in with both roles.)
See more in these slides:
In Finnish the expression when you accidentally button your shirt up with the wrong button to the wrong buttonhole, thus offsetting the whole thing is "in the way of the drunkard's buttons" or juoponnapissa. If there's a fun English expression for the same thing, I don't know it. If your language has any fun expression for it, I also do not know it, and would like to know!
Odnoszę wrażenie, że to całe gadanie o dostępności to jest często taki PR - mówimy o tym jak nam pasuje, ale realnych problemów nie rozwiązujemy.
Jak to jest, że ktoś kto troszkę wypada poza standardową metryczkę klienta banku nie może założyć konta? W Polsce są pewnie dziesiątki tysięcy takich osób.
Jeśli bank nie respektuje pełnomocnika notarialnego, to powinien płacić nie wiem jak grube grzywny.
"If you walk by my office, you'll often hear me cursing at a computer. It is always the same curse: "FOR GOD'S SAKE, STOP HELPING ME!" You're not good at it, you don't know what I want, just get out of my way. Every time I get a new computer, I spend about an hour turning off all automated assistance so I can get some actual work done. Predictive text is always wrong. Auto type and auto format are always wrong. And now here comes Gemini."
The new Tuta Calendar app is now available on both iOS and Android! 🥳
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Try it out today! 🎉
That's not necessarily true. Without PPA (or an equivalent mechanism for anonymous attribution) there can effectively be no advertising.
A world without advertising, barring some kind of innovative new solution that isn't know yet, means most of the internet and its contents become available only to the privileged classes able to pay for it directly.
Good for me? Maybe. Good for the median user, definitely not.
I think the idea that if there was no advertising then everything free would disappear is pretty roundly given counterexample by the medium we're posting on and also the entire history of human culture including and especially the internet where people do lots of free stuff for each other all the time for no reason.
Really we're not talking about advertising in a narrow sense. More specifically we are talking about the kind of surveillance-backed multisided data broker conglomerate business model where profit is derived from ownership of information vectors that offer - and demand - increasingly pervasive control over lived reality for sale. Advertising, yes, but also insurance companies denying me coverage from my google searches, States trying to monitor the reach of oppositional journalism, etc.
I dont see a company like Google, that has the immense visibility over the web that it does, voluntarily dropping targeted behavioral ads just because PPA exists as an alternative. Everything they are doing and have been saying to their investors and to us for the last 10 or 15 years says the opposite. I am not sold on the differential privacy model when you have an adversary that can see most of what goes on on the web and is pretty much the only show in town for ads - ill believe it's truly resilient to fingerprinting when google sues Mozilla for it.
I understand the uncertainty about what an advertising free web would look like - it's not what we're asking of Firefox here though, which is to not actively subvert our interests (or tell us what our best interests really are, since Mozilla knows better) and actively capitulate to the industry that is the reason that most people who use Firefox do, and if it wasn't why is the first substantive text on the Firefox homepage (in pic) literally a promise to do the exact opposite of what you're saying PPA is meant to facilitate, the continued existence of the very industry that runs these trackers? Why am I being specifically told not to check out my settings, which I would need to dig into to turn off what is explicitly an advertising technology, because Firefox will block it all?
Still, I get the uncertainty. It would look different, but to say that it would certainly look worse and specifically more egalitarian and accessible by poor people is ahistorical, does not follow from the premises, and does not appreciate the massive numbers of different ways the internet already does work, and more importantly could work if the entire stack wasn't vertically integrated around total surveillance.
Im not sure what would happen if advertising and the surveillance economy would evaporate tomorrow - that's not something the inclusion of PPA in a single browser would be sole determinant of in either direction - but it sure would be nice if the maintainers of very window through which I am able to see the whole of the world I would not see otherwise could be trusted to not keep edging me on becoming a surveillance company
Ein unglaublich guter Beitrag.
Ein mit so viel Zurückhaltung geschriebener Beitrag, der die Schamesröte in das Gesicht so vieler Akteur*innen treiben sollte, die sich stattdessen täglich selbst beweihräuchern.
Alle Probleme sind on point in den Text verflechtet.
Have you tried out the all new Tuta Calendar app yet?! 💃
This major update includes external calendar sync, offline functionality, and more!
Here is a sneak peek of what you can look forward to 😘
#calendar #encryption #privacy #teaser
@cachondo I don't mind the file size. An M4B is only a tiny bit larger than an M4A because of the chapter markers, on the order of kilobytes.
I'd also rather have a single audiobook file over multiple CDs of multiple tracks any day, including for purposes of gapless playback. But, it does absolutely require a good player to overcome the single-file limitations, and I don't know of any on Windows that come close to e.g. BookPlayer on iOS. @JohannTan @TheCube @Thaqib
Volle Zustimmung. 👍🏼
Bin fast so weit, alle Parteien komplett für unwählbar zu erklären, die nicht geschlossen für ein Verbotsverfahren stimmen.
Was ist da los, #spdbt und #gruenebundestag ?
Auch #cdu und #fdp dürfen sich angesprochen fühlen. Von der #csu erwarte ich schon lange nichts mehr, spätestens die Koalition mit Aiwanger hat diese Partei komplett disqualifiziert.
Ich hab den Abgeordneten in meinem Wahlkreis geschrieben und sie gebeten, den Verbotsantrag zu unterstützen. Macht wenigstens das, bevor ihr aufgebt.
This October we are kicking off Open Hardware Month with a 24hr Membership Drive Livestream! Starting October 2nd at 8am EST (UTC-4) and running until 8am October 3rd we will be featuring open source creators from around the globe.
We have over 65 incredible makers, hackers, creators and all around open source enthusiasts lined up to tell you all about their work and why they chose open source. Save the link: youtube.com/watch?v=L6jIMzSJio…
I have had a few direct inquiries, and seen even more, asking about the origins of the CaneAndAble.social Mastodon instance, which for some seems to have sprung up from nowhere. So, I’ll answer the question in this post, which I’ll pin to my profile so people can refer to it in future.
For some time, I had been considering setting up a Mastodon instance of my own, not due to any dissatisfaction with the one I was using, but because I wanted my posts in the Fediverse to come from a domain that said something about me. I almost hit the button on setting up a subdomain of Mosen.org, but it just seemed like a boring way out. It felt right to keep searching for a domain name that didn’t just reflect who I am, but also what I stand for.
At the end of my now discontinued podcast, Living Blindfully, I had gotten into the habit of saying, “when you’re out there with your guide dog, you’ve harnessed success, and with your cane, you’re able”. I suddenly realised I had the instance name right there, CaneAndAble.social. It is a pun. For those unaware, there is a story in the Bible, Genesis to be precise, chapter 4 to be preciser, OK that’s not an actual word, of two brothers, Cain and Abel. But changing the spelling to Cane, as in the white cane blind people use for travel, and Able, as in ability, reflects my own values, and I think the values of many blind people, even those who don’t go all in on the “blind pride” thing like I do.
So often, we are limited not by our blindness, but by other people’s perceptions of it. This manifests itself when we’re passed over for a job, because an employer closes their eyes and can’t imagine how they would do the job if they couldn’t see, and concludes that we can’t do it either. Limited perceptions result in us struggling to get the accommodations we need to succeed in education, to function optimally with technology, and so many other pursuits. CaneAndAble.social is a slightly tongue-in-cheek way of making an important statement. Our blindness doesn’t mean we’re not capable of living the life we want.
Like some of my other projects, this has all been accidental. I set this instance up for me to use, and sign-ups were closed. Soon after, I started hearing from people who wanted an account. I didn’t want to get into that. I had just started my dream job and it was super busy, and I knew I didn’t have the time to do the kind of community monitoring a responsible instance owner needed to do.
But some things are meant to be. I have huge admiration and respect for the work @lynessence has done in the community building space, and for the way she conducts herself on social media in general. I read on Mastodon that she was looking for something new to do, so I asked if being the Community Manager for a new blindness-focussed Mastodon instance took her fancy. Not only did she say “yes”, she jumped at the chance. Lynette devised the rules, and we just quietly opened it up for registration.
For me at least, I’m not especially marketing this instance, or hoping for world domination. It’s here if you want to be on it. If you don’t, then groovy, we can all communicate with one another, that is the beauty of the Fediverse.
But what is great is that since I mentioned it on Living Blindfully, we are seeing a few sign-ups from people who weren’t on the Fediverse before, because the name appealed to them. I’m delighted by that.
I have tried to create something that I am happy using, and here are some key characteristics.
First, while there are other instances where blind people hang out, CaneAndAble.social is a domain that is up-front about our blindness, much like there are other communities on Mastodon that directly identify with many other minorities. It clearly speaks to the kind of people we serve. That was important to me.
Second, I have always been of the view that Twitter substantially poisoned the public discourse through its 140 character tweets. 280 characters didn’t improve things that much. It caused people to talk in sound bites. People were rewarded for pithy little messages that put people down or were otherwise snarky. It didn’t easily allow us to discuss the nuances of more complex issue, so it tended to cause people to demonise one another. I love good debate. That’s why we have a 10,000 character limit for posts on CaneAndAble.social. Most of the time, you won’t come close to filling that limit, but it’s there if you need it. We may even increase it some more.
Third, I wanted an instance that is reliable. It isn’t self-hosted, which is a perfectly valid option, but again, I didn’t want this to take up too much time. So we’re with a dedicated mastodon hosting provider with reliable systems and bandwidth. You can tell, this is the fastest instance I have ever used.
Fourth, I am not part of the school of thought that wants to block people from accessing Threads. For me, being able to follow interesting journalists, political figures and others on Threads has made mastodon something I come back to more frequently. We’ll investigate other bridges as well that connect us with a wide range of people.
So, that’s how and why we got here. The little community we’ve created is cool. Like I say, we’re not pitching for sign-ups. But since people were asking about the backstory, now you have it. Happy tooting, from wherever you toot.
And BTW, this post only took up just over half of our character limit. Nice, eh?
Štve mě to politikum, které maximálně ovládlo diskusi a vývoj ohledně digitalizace státu.
Společně s kolegy z oboru jsme dali dohromady náš odborný postoj k budoucímu směřování digitalizace služeb veřejné správy.
Míň nás zajímá, kdo za co může, ale víc to, na co je teď potřeba se soustředit, abychom pokračovali v započatém trendu a zachování stabilní a kontinuální priority digitalizace na nejvyšší politické úrovni.
Podepište nebo sdílejte, prosím.
No he visto opiniones en el fedi, así que pregunto: ¿que os parece la idea de Rueda (presidente de la Xunta de Galicia) de crear una empresa pública comercializadora de energía?
Que eso es una idea de hace muuucho tiempo del BNG.
Y que ahora tiene a todo el sistema mediático a su servicio limpiándole (mas) el sable y haciéndole campaña.
Es verdad, y no solo del BNG; pero no deja de sorprenderme que haya tirado por ahí, especialmente después de haberlo rechazado tanto tiempo.
No sé si hay que ver flexibilidad ideológica, oportunismo, un poco de cada... O que a lo mejor está cambiando el sentido común sobre este tema.
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#20albums20days
It says this, but I have no idea how to interpret it.
Unless you are a Premium user, you won't see Last Seen or Online statuses for people with whom you don't share yours. Approximate times will be shown instead (recently, within a week, within a month).
Nothing else that I see. But still I classify this as a weird private option.
SEEKING A NEW VOCABULARY TERM
So you know how you ask for an email (not an SMTP, yahoo, google, aol, or etc)? You can also ask for a call or text (not a telephony, SIP, T-mobile, ATT, Voynage, or etc). So XMPP works the same way, but we don't have a word for it.
I need a word that means contact me over #XMPP, without using XMPP; which is a protocol, or Jabber, which has been intrusively trademarked. Put your thinking hats on. What word would work? It might need to be a new one.
When I try to explain people how to contact me via #XMPP, there are two ways:
1. The easy way:
"You can contact me via Quicksy".
Since it is available for iOS and Android for free and my JID is registered there.
Advantage: People can explain this to others.
2. The advanced way:
"I am using messaging apps which support a messaging standard.
My chat address is ...
You can choose an app you like:
apps.xmpp24.de/en/ or
xmpp.org/software/
and an provider:
providers.xmpp.net/"
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