Have you ever heard of an undecillion? It's a truly staggering amount, a number followed by 36 zeros. And Google has just been fined that amount by Russia.

Sky News: Russia fines Google more than world's entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts.

news.sky.com/story/russia-fine…

Russia fines Google more than world's entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts

The US firm can reportedly only return to the Russian market if it complies with the court decision.

^{Sky News}

New #introduction!

Hi, I am Stu. I am 24 years old, #blind, #neurodivergent, and live in the Northeast of #England. My online handle is SeedyThreeSixty, and my personal brand is Seediffusion, a mix of Seedy and Rediffusion.
I love to play video games, especially retro games from the 90s and 2000s; my favourite genre is fighting games, especially #StreetFighterII! I basically love anything from the 2000s; it's my favourite decade.
I like many different types of music, including heavy metal, EDM, Hip-hop, eurobeat and house.
I am an all round nerd who loves technology, maths, science, and virtually all other things that geeks and dweebs love.
My signature catch phrase is sweet puberty!

See profile for links to my stuff. :)

Today is a reasonably sad day.
It is no longer possible to navigate Facebook in the way we could do with the mobile site. Facebook is still usable but it is quite a tough experience to do so.
I don't use it very often, but there are a couple of groups on that platform in which I participate.
I am so glad that, at the moment, X is not like that else I would really be stuck. People who know me will know X is the platform where you will see me most of the time.

The sad part about this is that while we live in good times with regard to accessibility, a company can just snatch accessibility away for many people without a second's thought.
I saw reference on another account to the old Social Eyes program. That was a very convenient way of navigating Facebook, produced by GW Micro.
That was taken due to removal of access by Facebook.
Now, the mobile site has gone. Although that didn't provide everything the primary site offered, it was well marked up and easy for people to manage.

I see reference to the fact that the NFB in the US are working with Meta to improve matters. Of course we will see how that works out, but I believe nothing is improved unless I see it myself.
My view of what makes for good accessibility is rarely in accord with how other people see things.
But on a broader scale, as I say, enjoy every aspect of accessibility while it lasts. You just never know when you may not have it. Tomorrow, you could visit your favourite app and that level of accessibility you are enjoying could be gone due to lack of consultation.

Our not so spooky Halloween In-Process blog post is out - No tricks, but plenty of treats - particularly from NVDA 2024.4, including all the highlights, and the new options for reporting font attributes. Plus a big walkthrough of NVDA's stability in the leadup to 2025.1. All that and more, here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

@mastoblind

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News

In-Process 31st October 2024

It’s that spooky time of year for all those who celebrate Halloween. And it’s also Diwali for our Indian friends. Whether you participate in either of these or not, there is something we defi…

^{NV Access}

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Último día laboral de la semana y del mes. Y ya tengo el recibo de haberes.

El curso que cogí sobre estadística me va a ser difícil hacerlo. A ver si hoy me pongo.

Je joue un peu avec XMPP voir si c'est assez confort pour le suggérer comme alternative à Signal (qui tournera pas sans douleur pour les gens sans smartphone).

Pour l'instant mon souci c'est de trouver aucun bon tuto pour gérer une salle. Autant en créer une, ok. Autant tout le reste, que ce soit l'encodage des échanges, la gestion de l'historique, les permissions des utilisateurs, voir même des trucs de base comme la description du salon. Nope je trouve pas... Je te tombe sur des bouts d'xml sans trop d'explications du comment-pourquoi T_T

#xmpp

ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH
Dubya's grandda, Prescott, most likely bought his way out of a life in prison when his bank was closed down by FDR because he was the main banker to the Nazis.

this from the Guardian, back in 2004:

"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"
theguardian.com/world/2004/sep…

the Senator for Connecticut got away with it and that ushered the era of USA nazis hiding in plain sight, in and outside the government.

The Bushes are literal architects of American #Fascism

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's…

^{Duncan Campbell (The Guardian)}

"I went to work for VICE, and made working at VICE part of my identity. I wanted the company to succeed so badly because I believed in what we were doing and I believed in the institution. I worked zillions of hours of unpaid overtime, took on side projects, canceled vacations and worked on vacations thinking that, if I did my job well enough, the company would succeed and we would get to keep doing what we were doing. I spent the vast majority of that time doing work that made money for an over-bloated apparatus that existed to make a bunch of middle managers and executives large salaries and bonuses."

404media.co/the-billionaire-is…

The Billionaire Is the Threat, Not the Solution

Jeff Bezos is not the answer at The Washington Post. And billionaire funding is not the answer for journalism.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors.

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

My first thought
man, we're so spoiled on Mastodon. There are like four #accessible web apps, multiple accessible IOS and Android apps, at least two accessible Windows apps (even if they both have some issues), and a couple accessible mac apps. As #screenreader users we can actually choose the one we like, rather than picking the one where the largest number of features actually work with a screen reader.

My Second Thought
Man, this should just be the default state of existence. #Blind folks need to demand more. But I get it, it's so easy to just accept the current state of accessibility as normal, and then be surprised by things that actually work.