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Monarch update: KeyMail, browser stability, ebraille preview & more! humanware.com/news/monarch-upd…

Monarch update: KeyMail, browser stability, ebraille preview & more! - HumanWare

HumanWare is thrilled to announce Monarch Version 1.2, the first of many exciting updates! This release introduces KeyMail, our brand-new email application, along with groundbreaking first preview experience of the new anticipated eBraille advancemen…
Natacha (HumanWare)

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The Shifting Landscape of Disability Disclosure at Work globaldisabilityinclusion.com/…

The Shifting Landscape of Disability Disclosure at Work

Disability disclosure at work has always been a hot topic. But in a time where Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs are facing scrutiny and, in some cases, reversal, the question of disability disclosure at work has become increasingly co…
Meg O'Connell (Global Disability In)

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We're so excited to welcome #liblouis, an essential copyleft tool for blind and visually impaired users, as SFC's newest member project!!

sfconservancy.org/news/2025/ma…


Liblouis Joins Software Freedom Conservancy

The liblouis project and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) are excited to announce that liblouis has joined SFC as a member project, with the goal of ensuring sustainability and a framework for long-term stewardship of this library that is embedded …
Software Freedom Conservancy
#liblouis

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Now available: The new axe DevTools Jira integration! Save time on issue tracking today. deque.com/blog/new-axe-devtool…

Now available: The new axe DevTools Jira integration! Save time on issue tracking today. | Deque

Thanks to our new axe DevTools Jira integration, you can now track and resolve accessibility issues as efficiently as any other development task.
Deque Systems (Deque Systems, Inc.)

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Review: The Remarkable Paper Pro Tablet – A Game Changer for Neurodivergent Users? blindambition.co.uk/review-the…

Review: The Remarkable Paper Pro Tablet – A Game Changer for Neurodivergent Users? - BlindAmbition

At Blind Ambition, we always strive to explore the latest technology to assess its accessibility and usefulness for people with disabilities. Recently, we had the opportunity to review the Remarkable Paper Pro tablet.
Content Team (Blind Ambition)

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We just got our first feedback on our RB builder setup scripts (codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil…) today, and that made us really happy, seeing a goal achieved:

> I did set up and ran your scripts in my Ubuntu server (noble) and found the process of setting it up a breeze, and it helped me a lot into finding the source of the issue.

So if you're an Android dev looking into getting your app RB, it might be worth a try!

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds


rbuilder_setup

Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependencies
Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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This photo is insane. Dude went to Alaska to capture the #eclipse and the Northern Lights appeared behind it.

(Source: instagram.com/p/DHTysJtvv4Q/?i…)

#astrophotography #astronomy #moon #astrodon

A closeup photo of the fully eclipsed moon. It’s got a reddish hue because of the earthshine. The background of stars is an ocean of green! This is because the aurora / northern lights were also happening at the same time.

CAPTURE THE ATLAS on Instagram: "✨ A Once-in-a-Lifetime Shot: Total Lunar Eclipse + Aurora Substorm! 🔴💚 Last Thursday night, under the freezing skies of Northern Alaska, I witnessed something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime… A Total Lunar Eclipse

8,108 likes, 448 comments - capturetheatlas on March 17, 2025: "✨ A Once-in-a-Lifetime Shot: Total Lunar Eclipse + Aurora Substorm! 🔴💚 Last Thursday night, under the freezing skies of Northern Alaska, I witnessed something I never thought I’d see in…
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#astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #moon #Eclipse
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Ever seen fancy italics, bold text, or even gothic letters in a slick marketing post on social media?

These platforms do not offer text formatting, so people use weird mathematical characters from the fringes of the Unicode spectrum. And because they aren't really letters screen reader software will announce them as silence or incomprehensible garbage.

@aardrian has the lodown in "Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media"
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont…

#a11y
#accessibility


Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media

I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility @Adrian Roselli, pH0
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Hi! I'm going freelance and I have a basic website for it now! :D fogwave.design

You might hire me if:
* Engineers have made a prototype or first version of your web app but you need someone to "make it Good™"
* You need a graphic design jill-of-all-trades: one-pagers, t-shirts, swag, marketing sites, publication covers, etc.
* You want someone to draw a cute mascot!

If you're interested, email me: hello@fogwave.design


Fogwave Design

Freelance web, UX, and graphic design by Karen Rustad Tolva
fogwave.design

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As some may know, I have a country programme on transradiouk.com. What you may not know is that that station has a football team: TRUK United. A documentary has just been released called "We'll Go Down in History" watch at youtu.be/WUmrllKw3Xs as one of the Five Films for Freedom. My song "TRUK United 2022" is heard near the end of the film. It is available on my album "Earworms at open.spotify.com/album/3tN0wDt… #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Earworms

Chrissie Cochrane · Album · 2022 · 12 songs
Spotify
#transgender #trans #lgbtqia #LGBTQ

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New open source 3B TTS model just released called Orpheus Speech. The main difference with this one is it's not just a bass model, they fine-tuned on several speakers. Training code is also provided, and they will release more sizes over the next few days. The Huggingface has gone offline, I'm assuming to correct some errors, but I was able to test and the voices sound great. The model can also do things like change speaking rate and add sounds such as laughing. canopylabs.ai/model-releases @chikim

Canopy Labs

Digital humans that are indistinguishable from real humans
canopylabs.ai
@Chi Kim
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French researcher coming to U.S. for a conference had his work and electronics confiscated because he had posted a negative opinion of Trump online; he was told this could constitute terrorism. Non-USA people: DO NOT VISIT THE U.S. UNTIL THE TRUMP FASCIST REGIME IS GONE. #coup #fascism bsky.app/profile/nanoporous.ne…
#fascism #coup
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" #Breaking News: A draft deal between #Canada & European Union would bolster defense cooperation at a time when the country’s ties w U.S. are fraying.

Canada’s draft deal to participate in Europe’s defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian manufacturers and help lessen dependence on US" 1/...
🎁 nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/c…


Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Efforts

Canada’s draft deal to participate in Europe’s defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian manufacturers and help lessen dependence on the United States.
Matina Stevis-Gridneff (The New York Times)
#canada #breaking
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hey, @NVAccess PR github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… referencing issue github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… can we get someone with the power to review and murge this? Downloading the alpha's manually is, to quote the comment on the PR, painful, and this needs to be seen to because I'd really hate to see this get missed and make it into beta, or to the horror the next public release. Thanks for taking the time to look into this. Respectfully, a user who misses auto updating and hates having to keep checking the snapshots page to update his NVDA alpha rlease copy manually.

issue updating NVDA to the latest Alpha Release. · Issue #17811 · nvaccess/nvda

Steps to reproduce: Press insert+N press H for help Up-arrow to check for updates. If an update is present, select download. When prompted to donate, select not now. Actual behavior: The update clo...
GitHub
@NV Access

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Folks, if you're in IT and don't fit the classic stereotype of white, middle-class guy, you might be eligible for a year's access to the O'Reilly learning platform for free (highly recommended - I use it all the time to dive into tech books). Apply here:

oreilly.com/diversity/scholars…


DEI Scholarship Program - O'Reilly Media

To help members of groups underrepresented in technology develop and sharpen the skills needed to break through barriers within the field, we're offering 500 annual scholarships giving recipients full access to the O'Reilly learning platform.
www.oreilly.com

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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/subs…

Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse | TechCrunch

Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)

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So if you ever wanted proof that quoting/repeating/screengrabbing posts that you disagree with is just a way to give free air to those views, consider how JKR just helped @vagina_museum with her disapproving remarks on their fundraising efforts.

Half a million free eyeballs!

thepinknews.com/2025/03/17/vag…


Trans-inclusive Vagina Museum smashes crowdfunding target following negative JK Rowling tweet

The Vagina Museum in London has smashed its £60,000 fundraising target in just three days, after JK Rowling tweeted to say "good riddance."
Emily Chudy (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
@Vagina Museum

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 21 updated (15 RB) and 1 rebranded apps:

* Fossify Calculator had to change its packageName/appId. So if you're using it, you should switch to the new one to receive future updates. 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Financovani gastro provozu musi byt peklo. Z mnoha duvodu (prodavaji neplatcum, operuji kolem danove nevyhodne hranice obratu, maji velky podil prace na cene...). A provozovatele to resi ruzne. Lepe i hure.

V Liberci mam rad jednu hospodu. Vyborne jidlo, pivo, rad tam chodim. Akorat tam obcas berou karty a obcas ne. Terminaly na ruzne firmy (jina firma na raut na obed, jina na vikend...).

Sem se na ne podival v rejstriku... nevim jestli to neni uz moc.

*vetsina je v likvidaci

#finance

Graf struktury firem z rejstriku.
#finance

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Wow, this is an utterly fantastic new resource if you're interested in the history of Infocom and early text adventures. Hundreds of contemporary news articles about these games, sales data, lots of other great archival material. Thanks to @zarfeblong for the link: invisiclues.org/

The Complete Infocom Archive

The complete archive of Infocom game artifacts and history, including game information, Invisiclues, historical articles, and more! All presented in an entertaining, nostalgic way.
InvisiClues.org
@Andrew Plotkin
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Tesla stans: "that Mark Rober video is fake—at the very end, Autopilot was off!"

People who actually pay attention to Tesla: "yeah, there seems to be this funny issue where Autopilot turns off before an imminent crash, which is pretty shady behavior likely related to trying to dodge responsibility for their failures. Thank you *so much* for bringing this matter to everyone's attention."

Tesla stans: 😞

electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-f…


Tesla fans expose Tesla’s own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash

A group of Tesla fans and investors has inadvertently exposed Tesla’s shadiness regarding crashes involving Autopilot by attempting to claim...
Fred Lambert (Electrek)

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Honored. Inspired. Driven.

Last week at #CSUN2025, we had the incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow alongside some of the most innovative minds in accessibility and assistive technology. As a fully remote team, gathering in person is always meaningful, but being part of conversations that shape the future of our technology makes it even more special.

We’re grateful for the chance to hear from industry leaders, learn from fellow innovators, and connect with Explorers (both new and those who have been here from the start) who shape the work we do every day. Having a seat at this table is an honor, and we’re more committed than ever to making Aira the best it can be.

Thank you, Center on Disabilities at CSUN, for another unforgettable year!

#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #InclusiveDesign #DigitalAccessibility #AdaptiveTech #AccessibleInnovation #TechForGood #BlindAccessibility #LowVisionTech #DisabilityInclusion #UniversalDesign

A woman with a white cane interacts with two Aira team members at the booth. One holds a small device while the other shows something on a smartphone. The table is covered with flyers, tech accessories, and a laptop. A black Aira ASL shirt is draped over a chair.
Aira team members set up a booth at CSUN 2025, unpacking boxes and organizing materials. A black banner behind them displays the Aira logo and the phrase “ACCESS IS A HUMAN RIGHT.” The booth is surrounded by red and gray curtains.
Five people sit around a wooden table in a lounge area, engaged in conversation. Two wear black “Access” shirts, while others wear business attire. A reflective silver divider and dark gray cushioned walls are in the background.
A smiling woman with glasses and earbuds stands next to a man wearing a navy sweater and a blue lanyard labeled “Troy Otillio, Aira.io, Expo Visitor” at CSUN 2025. The background shows a blurred conference setting with booths and people.
#Accessibility #inclusivedesign #techforgood #universaldesign #assistivetechnology #digitalaccessibility #disabilityinclusion #csun2025 #adaptivetech #accessibleinnovation #blindaccessibility #lowvisiontech

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The future of search isn’t Google — and it’s $10 a month
https://www.theverge.com/web/631636/kagi-review-best-search-engine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech News @tech-news-theverge


The future of search isn’t Google — and it’s $10 a month

As Google results continue to feel worse for users, Kagi offers a level of control and customization you often don’t find in search.
David Pierce (The Verge)
@Tech News

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Does anybody know how homepage verification with Friendica works? I'm going with this wiki entry.

freifunkh@friendica.me has a homepage in its profile and the homepage has a link to the profile with rel="me" set. These are the results:

  • Opening the profile in a browser without login => homepage URL visible and marked as verified (✔️).
  • Opening the profile while being logged into Friendica (different server) => no URL visible.
  • Opening the profile while being logged into Mastodon (different server) => no URL visible.

Mastodon App even shows a warning, saying there is no verified link.

#Friendica @Friendica Support

#friendica @Friendica Support

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🚀 GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. 🎉

🔎 Check out what’s new in #GNOME48 in the release notes: release.gnome.org/48

GNOME Release Notes

Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
GNOME Release Notes
#gnome48

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Tesla fans expose Tesla's own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash

electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-f…

The worst part is all these people calling it "fake news".


Tesla fans expose Tesla’s own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash

A group of Tesla fans and investors has inadvertently exposed Tesla’s shadiness regarding crashes involving Autopilot by attempting to claim...
Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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