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I tried to walk to a place I've been to, but not walked to, before. I needed a GPS app and FaceTime to figure things out and actually make it. While I'm glad such tools exist, it's annoying that if I could see, I could have done this with no problems. Without having to think about it, actually. All you sighted people out there better appreciate your sight. The ability to just look around and know stuff is underrated and incredible.


The BT Speak Users’ Manual is Now Available!!
Blazie Technologies is happy to announce the publication of a comprehensive manual for the BT Speak. The manual goes beyond what we provide in our Getting Started guide and offers the following sections.
• Introduction, including describing the contents of the packaging for new users who are unboxing their BT Speak for the first time
• Physical description and orientation
• How to power on, shut down, putting the device to sleep and waking up the device
• Battery considerations
• How to navigate menus and use shortcut keys for Quick navigation
• Adjusting speech, including how to switch to other voices and text to speech engines
• Getting help, including how to obtain context-sensitive help and accessing the text and audio versions of the Getting Started guides
• How to connect to Wi-Fi
• How to install new software updates
• Accessing the Settings menu
• Introducing the editor, including how to find and manipulate text
• File management, including how to create and open files and subdirectories
• Using applications, including the radio tuner, phonebook, agenda calendar and BT Learn for free Braille coaching, tests and games
• An introduction to desktop mode
• An introduction to using the Mozilla Thunderbird email program
• An introduction to Web browsing using Chromium and Firefox
• Concludes with an extensive list of commands

This is the first version of the users’ manual. We will be continually adding and modifying this document as new features are added, with newer versions of the manual being released on a regular basis. We welcome feedback from our users regarding how the manual can be improved. If you have feedback for us, please submit comments and suggestions via email to support@blazie.net.
Where to Download the Manual
You can find the manual on our Web site by pointing your Web browser to www.blazietech.com. You’ll find it from several locations, including the front page, from the Guides and Media page, from the BT Speak Pro product page and from the Documentation page.
For convenience, here are the direct download links.

Accessible PDF version:
blazietech.com/_files/ugd/4d64…
Microsoft Word version (also compatible with LibreOffice Writer)
download-files.wixmp.com/raw/2…

We hope that this first edition of the manual will assist you in learning more about how to use your BT Speak and that it will help you to become a more effective and productive user.



Holy shit, allowing HTML and CSS inside emails was a mistake!
in reply to Aleca

I always just default to the plain text view, but at least one mass mail fulfillment house (Constant Contact), while they do send their stuff as multipart mime, the text version has no line breaks. Just a solid wall of text.

Makes it easy to ignore them.

in reply to Aleca

**But how are you supposed to get blinky-blinky big image ads in your mailbox without that?**
**No appreciation for the poor poor million dollar companies here. Shame.**




A London townhouse that was once home to Margaret Thatcher, the influential but polarizing former British prime minister, has hit the market for £3.65 million (US$4.7 million). mansionglobal.com/articles/lon…
in reply to Tamas G

And that house isn't expensive compared to some.

£5000000 and beyond.

I believe Johnson lived in a £9000000 home.




Aira ASL: On-Demand Interpreting for the Deaf Community aira.io/aira-asl-on-demand-int…








I need advice. Would anyone of you recommend getting a pie? And no, not the type you eat. I mean the computer kind of pie.
in reply to Khronos

@khronos yeah, only problem is that I would not really want a computer and a harddrive being tossed around on a plane for a couple of days. Because those package can be treated quite harshly at times
in reply to Khronos

@khronos found a price. What else would I need besides the pie itself? I kow I probably needn an enclosure, but how hard is that to set up for a blind guy?
in reply to TheFriedChip

You will need a keyboard, case and sd card. You may want to get a complete pi kit that contains most of this to make your life easier.


How many South Americans does it take to change a lightbulb? A Brazilian


Tune into ACB Radio on 10/24 at 3 PM ET for the Vispero Presentation: Manage Bookmarks and Lists in Google Chrome with JAWS. We’ll show you how to bookmark a site, manage and access bookmarks, plus add an article to a reading list. Request an invitation at community@acb.org

#FreedomScientificTraining #JAWS



The Accessibility Operations Guidebook by @viscousplatypus is finally out!

Spoiler alert: I, along with many other accessibility practitioners, are quoted in and contributed to it. But don't read it for those quotes; read it because Devon is exceptionally skilled in this space and has put so much care into this book!

I've only gotten sneak peeks into this book, but I already know it will be one of the best accessibility books I'll get to read. Check it out!

payhip.com/b/OSyLt



Expanding Access: Introducing Aira ASL 🌱

We are excited to announce a new initiative at Aira to support the Deaf Community with on-demand ASL interpreting services. Recognizing a gap in access to interpreters in public spaces like retail stores, airports, and banks, we've developed a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer immediate and reliable interpreting without the need for advance scheduling.

By contracting with ASL service providers and using our technology platform, Aira ASL will make interpreting services seamless and easy to access, just as our existing app benefits the blind and low-vision community. This initiative aims to remove barriers and improve communication access when and where it’s needed most.

Read the full announcement and FAQ: aira.io/aira-asl-on-demand-int…




Proof-of-concept exploit code is now public for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Registry client that could be used to take control of a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…



rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.

Security and performance: pick two!

memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…

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I'm working with a local charity to refurb donated laptops for them to release back into the community and they get a lot of ex-business laptops with BIOS passwords set. It's really annoying!
If you're a business IT person donating old hardware, pretty please with a cherry on top remove the BIOS passwords first xxx


It's Lyriel Day for me!

My cohost Christel Tansø and I get to interview Jessica and Oliver Thierjung today on Sonic Onslaught, part of a packed metal show whose larger theme is friendship.

2 pm EDT!

HKCRadio.com

in reply to Nick Giannak III

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
in reply to DocTator

If the label on your cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel by another protocol
That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
’Cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!

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Ah yeah, that'll be Brilliant. The day when a company tells me they can leave their UI inaccessible simply because an AI agent can interact on user's behalf anyway to push the buttons and controls through machine vision itself. Thus there's no need to add programmatic and usability changes to any interface, the person will ask their agent if it doesn't work for them. Wonderful. Let the ultimate lazyness ensue.


“Free HTML obfuscator [sic]: protect your HTML code by encoding it”


I hope you run out of hot water one minute into your shower.

Seirdy reshared this.

in reply to Seirdy

what’s next, encoding your text so nobody can read it?
in reply to Seirdy

I suppose it makes sense for HTML snippets containing email addresses or phone numbers. I still hate those but I kind of get it. Kind of.

plenty of fast scrapers are more than capable of doing some simple inline JS but this does clear out low-hanging fruit. It’s like changing your SSH port number: it isn’t a robust security measure but it cleans up your logs by filtering out skiddies, which is something.

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Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google cnbc.com/2024/10/22/anthropic-…


fakt mám chodiť zakaždým dole
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dnes som upratoval, dnes opäť prišla, to je to je náhoda


Tell me you used iPhone 3GS without telling you used iPhone 3GS.

OOTunes.
Aurify.
Navigon.

in reply to Tuukka Ojala

@tuukkao @tardis I honestly forgot Eloquence even does Finnish. Lol I'm amused at the way it tries to roll it's r :)


Finally I think I should encourage people to use LLM. So that the cost skyrocket so much that they fail... Maybe it's the only way.


looooolsob we've come full circle

answer on StackExchange: "if you need to generate the apparmor rules, ask an LLM" 😂😭






Dávám na vědomí, že zítra, naprosto nesmyslně, uprostřed týdne, zůstávám doma. Naordinoval jsem si náhradní volno. 🤗


Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

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Hubert Figuière
@StrangeCulprits no idea. I just stumbled upon it. Not a user.


Also, lesson learned. Next time a product is not performing as expected in terms of accessibility, cease using the product right away. Don't even try to use the search box or any other workarounds to get to what you want to do. Nope. Just, abandon ship. They won't hesitate to use your attempts to get it working for yourself against you.


Best I can manage for now.
"Request received: Sling TV does not offer accessible guide nor audio descriptions
We received your informal complaint – ticket number 7401450.
We will review your complaint. We will contact you if we need more information. " (at least I can take comfort in knowing that adp.acb.org/streaming.html is still accurate about this matter.)


What can I say. I'm giving up on this Sling refund. Not worth beating a dead horse. The second agent put me on a 15-minute hold whilst he spoke to his supervisor, and they concluded that there's no exceptions to the refund policy, but that they noted down my accessibility problems and concerns with the guide, playback. I pressed for the creation of a customer support ticket so at least I could know it's getting sent to a team internally but no such luck either. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
in reply to Tyler Spivey

@tspivey ah sadly got it as debit, I try to not order many things on credit cards so as to not pay it off later but in this case that one worked against me
in reply to Tamas G

@tspivey also chargebacks only tend to work if the contract expressly is breached. Unless the ocntract said it was accessible or you could find a term you could argue about, it might not work regardless
in reply to Tamas G

Ugh sorry you're dealing with that. We considered switching to a cheaper provider, but realized that Youtube TV is the most accessible despite the higher cost. OTAs are not always likely to work either. I think @morganlynn1992 mentioned there might be newer services coming down the pipeline, but not sure.
in reply to Leo

@Lprazdnik @morganlynn1992 I'm not sure, people are telling me Direct TV itself has a more accessible service which is a bit ironic. At this point you probably get a better deal going through an internet or cable provider like XFinity, but now I'm even too scared to try their service after this Sling BS. And IPTV is nice for being simple but you're risking suspensions of your IPTV and domain ceasures, neither of which are fun.
in reply to Tamas G

@Lprazdnik @morganlynn1992 the way I see it, while youtube tv is a little pricy, you do get a lot of channels, a lot of dvr space, and it is cheaper than getting cable, with a cable box.
in reply to Leo

@Lprazdnik @morganlynn1992 I do think Google has won that war from an accessibility angle but it's a pretty penny to pay $72, pretty much the price of cable TV not to mention if you pay for any other standalone streaming services. I think the market is truly fucked, I have no other word for it. No matter where you turn there's problems, it's a sad state of that world.
in reply to Tamas G

@morganlynn1992 Oh yeah. We tried XFinity's version of the streaming service, ever since switching back to them as an ISP, and it wasn't great. The app wouldn't allow Morgan to sort by channels, and the streaming box is terrible all around. So yeah, we need better options.
in reply to Tamas G

@Lprazdnik @morganlynn1992 72 dollars for cable? you only wish! I think when we had cable with the cable box, we paid 150 for the cable, and around 10 to 12 dollars for each cable box we had.
in reply to Leo

@Lprazdnik @morganlynn1992 What's the AD situation like on YouTube TV? I imagine it depends on the affiliates you have locally and if they provide audio description over the air?
in reply to Tristan

@tristan @Lprazdnik @morganlynn1992 from what I remember of it yes, but even back in 2017 or 2018 when I tried it, the local ABC for this area had it. As far as I know they also support more markets for local channels, whereas Sling is banking on their Air TV (which as I found out is also not compatible on web.) YTV will probably give AD if the closest-local market station supports it which is a huge win that way