ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Braille and Talking Books are Mentioned) groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/88…
This is absolutely terrible! How can anyone think destroying libraries is a good idea! Especially when it's such a tiny portion of the federal budget. This isn't about saving money. It's about being cruel and ensuring people are even less educated.
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…
My name is Scott Erichsen and I am a life long Braille user.When I first saw the Monarch Multi-line Braille Tactile Display at the CSUN conference for people with disabilities in March 2023, I was seriously excited.
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…
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 …
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.
@federicomena If we listen to vaporwave music while rejecting merge requests for such things by saying it "doesn't have the right vibe", can we classify this as… vaporware development? 🦋🤔
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!
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…
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.
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.
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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
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
Lemme think: Piper, OptiSpeech, MeloTTS, F5TTS, Kokoro, OrpheusSpeech (not confuse with Dolphin/Meridian One Orpheus TTS)... 6 neural tts providers? Ok, I believe that sonata TTS framework developer cannot cope with this... Are those light and reliable to use with NVDA?
I'm not sure the model will do well on long text, they have it capped at around 20 something seconds in this demo, though it can go longer than that. You will likely need to feed the text in chunks, this is what Eleven Labs do for their Reader app.
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 #fascismbsky.app/profile/nanoporous.ne…
" #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…
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.
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.
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...
they did the work, but it looks like the PR's awaiting someone with write privs to actually review and sign off on it. it says Code owner review required by reviewers with write access.
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If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: eff.org/document/eff-border-se…
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
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.
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).
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.
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 archive of Infocom game artifacts and history, including game information, Invisiclues, historical articles, and more! All presented in an entertaining, nostalgic way.
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."
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!
Jonathan Simeone
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