The language you use in job postings has some influence on whether you attract narcissists. A recently reported study adds some quantitative weight to this: arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
I've found this transparently self-evident since I worked at (Google)X, which had a curious knack for attracting manipulative and problematic people into positions of authority. (Not all of them! But enough.) My "how to write job descriptions to get the people you want to work with" manual has helped discourage this at Oxide, though time will tell how well it sticks.
The zoom H5 studio recorder is releasing soon and is fully accessible just like the essential line! The only differences between it and the H4 essential appear to be up to 192KHZ recording and the mics can be swapped with the H6 Essential capsules such as the shotgun Mic etc. Anyone notice any other differences? I don't think I'm really missing much keeping my H4. sweetwater.com/store/detail/H5…
Every time I read about or use ISO8601, I get sad that it's not the standard for everyone everywhere. Dates are unambiguous. Dates sort from oldest to newest automatically, even if they're strings, like in file names. Times use 24-hour format, which is obviously superior to the 12-hour format my country clings to. Decades and centuries can be represented easily. The week stuff is confusing, but everything else just makes sense.
As for it not being standard for everyone, one factor of resistance has to do with the grammar of some natural languages. In English, adjectives always come before the noun, but in languages like French and Spanish, nouns usually come first. In English, a date sounds better as 2025-03-21, but in other languages, it sounds more coherent as 21-03-25, which a person would pronounce something like 21 of 03 of the 2025.
@clv0 I'd argue that the way it is spoken doesn't matter. I'd never say aloud "two thousand twenty five march five". In spoken language, I'd say dates how I always have. Besides, English doesn't put the year first no matter the format, not when speaking anyway, so this format is just as new to English as it is to French or Spanish.
I cannot stress enough: starting my day twice a week with fixthenews.com/ is great for me. I strongly recommend it for you.
We can’t hide from the challenges of the world, but it’s also deeply unhealthy to only consume bad news. Read FTN to be reminded good things can and do happen.
Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved:
Updated 1st Feb 2016. When you test your website with a screen reader there are a few basic commands you should know. Just remember not to make design decisions based...
Closing in on the first big milestone of Exchange support in @thunderbird! One of the last major items on our list before the next big step is the ability to copy folders - including from outside an Exchange account into one - and I've just managed to get it to work locally. It's not fully done yet, and there's still more work needed elsewhere before everything is ready to test, but it's good progress regardless 😁
The colours in the video are a bit naff, I blame the screen recording tool.
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
Aira's 2024 Explorer Survey: Attitude is Everything At Aira, the community is at the heart of everything we do. Throughout our ten years in business, our Explorers have played a vital role in shaping our product.
Anyone know the actual copyright status of the anti-fascist short film "Don't Be a Sucker" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_…), which @glyph turned me on to the other day? The full thing is embedded right there in the Wikipedia article. But if I were to get an audio description track produced, would I get in trouble for distributing it?
@xerz I mean, I think the point of the film was that warning, not just being pro-America and saying Germany was a country of suckers. Remember, it shows Mike the American almost falling for the fascist harangue.
Saw the last play in the 50th anniversary series at Ottawa's #GCTCgctc.ca
We've enjoyed going to the theater. Rather than staying home, I do think it is important to venture forth and be part of a live audience in my community.
We will be buying seasons tickets for next year's lineup.
End-to-end encryption will continue to be available in France, as the assembly overwhelmingly voted against (119 votes against, only 24 in favor) an amendment to legislation fighting drug trafficking which required backdoors in encrypted messengers.
Malgré une panne du système de vote, les députés ont repoussé, jeudi, la mesure défendue par le ministre de l’intérieur, Bruno Retailleau, qui aurait permis aux services de renseignement d’accéder aux correspondances sur Signal ou WhatsApp des narcot…
Open-Source brings so many benefits. NV Access is proud to be part of the community, from welcoming code contributions, to decreasing cost for users around the world. It's easy to see why "Open-Source First" is a popular policy for governments & companies everywhere.
(*At least in Florence, Italy - a quick search found several dates this year - Open Source not only brings innovation, but also choice!)
sorry but most opensource projects are mostly not accessible stuff so, only few programs are, as far as I know, so I don't care that much about foss, I care about functionality and how much it costs
@kev @patricus Open source is a design philosophy - inherently that is no more or less accessible than closed source - building a house from natural materials is no more or less wheelchair accessible than using concrete and steel, it's how they are used. One advantage of open source is that it's usually easier to contact someone to report issues (or even fix them yourself if you have the skills). There are also efforts to promote accessibility in open source: about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/04/…
The open source software community is built on the idea that everyone can contribute, and that includes people living with disabilities. GitLab team members share their ideas for building more accessible, open source software.
@kev but I didn't said that it isn't I just said, statistically, most open source stuff is inaccessible trash, it's the brutal truth, and if you don't know all the programming languages of the world you can only ask and hope that someone will do it, hint hint, noone will in 99% of cases.
@patricus @kev have you got any published figures to back that up or are you just talking anecdotally from your own experience?
Not criticising either way, just curious. I did have a quick look and couldn't find any statistics either way on accessibility of open vs closed source. My point was that whether a program is open or closed source is not of itself related to whether it is accessible or not, but I would be interested to see any research which does exist
@patricus @kev Sure, I'm not questioning your experience, I am genuinely curious on whether anyone has compiled figures - otherwise it is just anecdotal either way
@kev I have some figures, though, I tested over 400 random junk, let's also include projects that are foss and I like and use them, in the mix. around 250 of that random junk wasn't accessible at all with a screenreader while 100 of that stuff was just barely usable. so we were left with 50 random or non random stuff that I got.
Haha, me this Illustrations, Sign, Detected Document, Possible Text, Veggie ID. Leek. strengths:. -Beautiful smile. -Extremely good at listening. -RemarkabLe work life balance. Weakness:. -Laughs at a joke 11 minutes. later. -Has a hard time opening up. -Oblivious to all romantic signs. '1 like your outfit today." "linsert anythingl type beat". Alignment: Lawful 55%, Neutral 35/., Chaotic 5/.. Good 70%, Neutral 20%, Evil 10%. Hidden Talent: Very good at driving, GOOD AT TEXTING. Peer reviews:. "How do they make it look so easy?" Napa cabbage. "I somehow want to be them but not want to be them at the. same time" Broccoli Copied the image text sorry it's a bit. Well whatever screen reader makes it be haha.
I'm searching for a picture of a #toilet with an #armrest, attached to the toilet. The license of the picture must allow to reuse it (e.g. a #CreativeCommonsLicense).
Next Wednesday, on March 26, we will celebrate Document Freedom Day 2025. During the day, we will mainly talk about the ISO Open Document Format, which was approved in 2005 by OASIS and in 2006 by ISO.
Whoa. Komoot just got snapped up by an Italian acquisitions specialist called Bending Spoons. Just leaving this Wikipedia screenshot here… businesswire.com/news/home/202…
Technology company Bending Spoons today announced that it has closed the acquisition of komoot, the Germany-based route-planning platform for adventurers and...
UI Automation (UIA) is Microsoft’s recommended accessibility framework for Windows, replacing the earlier Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) framework. De...
amazing overview, I guess it's a good reference on knowing how browser render page, particularly your cash the world article. also I love these *Must read* for web developers: how modern browsers work by Mariko Kosaka
A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference We took a look at the robots featured at Nvidia's developer conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday (Mar 18). #ai #robotics #robots #nvidia #nvda #news from CNA Video YouTube untuk artikel ini boleh ditonton di sini 💛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xW8hub2x0 A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference We took a look at the robots featured at Nvidia's developer conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday (Mar 18).
Hi! Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
Highlights from the latest #nvidia keynote at GTC 2025. Topics include @NVIDIA's insane Blackwell GPUs, reveals of the Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin, Rubin Ult...
Hi! Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
A federal judge issues a temporary restraining order barring DOGE from accessing personally identifiable information from the Social Security Administration. storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
The British and German governments have updated their advice for travellers seeking to enter the U.S. with fresh warnings about the risk of arrest or detention. A French scientist was denied entry to the US, because of text messages on their phone containing a 'personal opinion' about the #Trump administration. Veronica Cardenas, former assistant chief counsel at the US Department of Homeland Security says #deportations are eroding public trust. #US #travel #immigration
Officials in Paris are expressing their dismay after a French scientist was denied entry to the US, because of text messages on their phone containing a 'per...
Tonight's weird tech question: Is there a DOM API/JavaScript hack of some sort I can use to track, save, and restore the screen reader's position in a relatively static HTML document? Say, for instance, you were reading a book in an HTML document with your screen reader, then closed the window. Now imagine that window was an app, and I wanted to make certain your position was restored when that app opened again. Is there an API I could hook into for that?
It's not quite focus, because that'd require tabindex. It probably isn't one of the text properties, right? Because you're not exactly in charted territory when you're arrowing through a paragraph not in a writable element like an input or textarea. Can I track that at all?
No. The closest thing to an automatic solution to that is probably tracking scroll position, and you may or may not be able to make that more granular by making the text quite big (I haven't tried). But even then, the best you're gonna be able to achieve is to track the closest element and put focus back there to restore the position, without character-level accuracy.
I know that Mozilla and NV Access have done some work to allow selection of text within the NVDA browse mode buffer to be communicated to the browser for on-page actions that require a selection. But: 1. That doesn't work across browsers; and 2. your use case seems targeted at reading, not selecting.
Thanks, that's what I was thinking. And just to check an assumption, setting the scroll position won't update the screen reader's position in the doc--I'd have to use focus shenanigans for that?
For context, this is my attempt at a document reader that saves/restores position when the document is closed/reopened. I don't think I need character accuracy, or even paragraph accuracy, if I can open books or longer documents to roughly where the reader closed out.
FWIW I'm not just being lazy and asking, I'm trying right now and it isn't working, which I suspected it wouldn't. It's also possible I'm using my web framework wrong or that something is behaving silly under Linux.
This is, as far as I know, the primary reason why QRead, Christopher Toth's book reading app for Windows, uses a rich edit and not a web view; the rich edit has a caret, so the application can save and restore its own cursor position. The screen reader's virtual cursor is invisible to the application.
You can sort of try and hack this by giving all your divs a negative tabindex and then calling .focus on them, we tried this a few years ago when thinking about QRead web, but the biggest problem is the inaccuracies. I'm okay with being a paragraph back in a book, but not a paragraph forward, and because of the nature of screen readers and the DOM we'd likely get the latter in a lot of cases.
There are some instances in which a webpage can move the scroll position without explicitly setting focus to the target element, and have the screen reader's reading position follow. But that can be less reliable, particularly if the target element is visually obscured, and setting focus is a more explicit/guaranteed way to do it.
Note that if you're setting focus to things like headings and paragraphs that aren't focusable by default, you'll need to dynamically inject a `tabindex="-1"` for the best results.
Perfect, thanks, thinking I'll just try grabbing the first visible element after the last-saved scroll position and do the tabindex dance to position the screen reader. Not character-perfect but good enough for my purposes.
Alizée Delpierre publica 'Servir a los ricos', una investigación sobre lo que pasa dentro de las casas de milmillonarios franceses y las "desiguales" relaciones que se establecen entre el servicio y sus empleadores
I’ve been working on a #freebsd from scratch blog post series and was going to skip right over Xorg (preferring #wayland and #sway)…and then I heard about #NSCDE - a reimplementation of #Solaris #CDE look-and-feel via #fvwm
Thanks to work by Christian Moerz, it was a snap. Literally `pkg install Xorg nscde` a change to my .xinitrc and I was up in a pastel bliss again. Run #interlisp on it is a beautiful joy.
I was so impressed AND I got to avoid abandonware security holes and bit rot— so I sent some librepay love. It’s a great project!
The Department of Education being closed is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Most #maga supporters want it as #trump and #doge convinced them schools were federally funded, and they were going to overhaul and fix it.
They're too uneducated to know that it's already funded by states, and The Department of Education exists to fill gaps in resources, especially for #disabled and disadvantaged children.
The Alzheimer's Association has uploaded the video of the "Narrative Showcase: Dementia, Life Course, and Storytelling." Here is the link. You just need to register and it is free to watch. I hope you find it valuable.
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