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Webinar From TPGI: Marking a Milestone: Celebrating 30 Years of JAWS on Global Accessibility Awareness Day;
Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 PMEastern Time
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Webinar, May 14 at 4pm ET: Marking a Milestone: Celebrating 30 Years of JAWS on Global Accessibility Awareness Day - TPGi

Join us for a webinar where Matt Ater and Jennison Asuncion will celebrate the JAWS 30th Anniversary and discuss the significance of GAAD.
Matt Ater (TPGi)

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🚨 Google now displays #Ads in third-party AI 🚨 Just when you thought #Google ads couldn't get more annoying, it did 😅

Learn how to s top the ads here 👉 tuta.com/blog/block-gmail-ads

Why are Google ads so annoying.

Blocking Gmail ads is possible! Here's how in 2025. | Tuta

How to block ads in Gmail is getting more complex as new Gmail advertisement is more intrusive than ever, in your mailbox, in your Gmail app, everywhere. But we've got a solution!
Tuta
#google #ads

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Uncover the untold story of Apple VoiceOver! Join us as we reveal fascinating insights and genius ideas behind this groundbreaking technology. Despite valid criticisms, we acknowledge Apple's transformative impact on the industry. Discover the real story today! youtube.com/watch?v=5tLSycbey6…

#AppleVoiceOver #Accessibility #TechHistory #Innovation #BehindTheScenes #TechInterview #Apple #Technology #Inspiration #DesignThinking

Clicks Keyboard, Ember Mugs & AirPods as Hearing Aids?

What do the Clicks Keyboard, Ember Mug, Monarch braille display, and AirPods Pro 2 all have in common? They’re all in the inbox this week on Double Tap!Steve...
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#Accessibility #apple #technology #designthinking #innovation #TechHistory #behindthescenes #applevoiceover #techinterview #inspiration

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AI Learners: Accessible online math for young students – Perkins School for the Blind perkins.org/ai-learners-access…

AI Learners: Accessible online math for young students – Perkins School for the Blind

Discover how AI-Learners is making math games more accessible for young students with visual impairments—combining fun, learning and inclusive design.
dianebrauner1 (Perkins School for the Blind)

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Webinar, May 14 at 4pm ET: Marking a Milestone: Celebrating 30 Years of JAWS on Global Accessibility Awareness Day - TPGi tpgi.com/webinar-marking-a-mil…

Webinar, May 14 at 4pm ET: Marking a Milestone: Celebrating 30 Years of JAWS on Global Accessibility Awareness Day - TPGi

Join us for a webinar where Matt Ater and Jennison Asuncion will celebrate the JAWS 30th Anniversary and discuss the significance of GAAD.
Matt Ater (TPGi)

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If you develop user-facing applications at all, I highly recommend that you watch Tantacrul's story on how Finale's lack of usability killed it. youtube.com/watch?v=Yqaon6YHza…

Finale - How Music Software Dies

Finale: once the industry-standard of music notation software - now a cautionary tale. This video dives into how it slowly lost its crown through decades of ...
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"It’s the latest move by Trump and his administration to utilize federal powers to control or hamstring institutions whose actions or viewpoints he disagrees with. Since taking office, Trump has ousted leaders, placed staff on administrative leave and cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to artists, libraries, museums, theaters and others, through takeovers of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities."

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Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS."
PBS News

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The thing people still don’t seem to get?

Trump backs down at ANY kind of pushback. Resist a little & he folds.

SO FUCKING QUIT FOLDING IN ADVANCE DING-DONGS

pressherald.com/2025/05/02/mai…


Maine settles lawsuit against USDA over $3 million in school funds

The Department of Agriculture agreed it will not interfere with Maine school funding based on alleged Title IX violations without following the proper procedure, according to a settlement announced Friday.
Dari Alpi (Press Herald)

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American Geophysical Union (#AGU) and the American Meteorological Society Say They’ll Keep Working on #US #NationalClimateAssessment
The organizations said they would publish researchers’ work even after Trump administration decision to dismiss all authors on the project.
The new effort would not replace the federal report, which is Congressionally mandated, the statement from AGU and American Meteorological Society said.
nytimes.com/2025/05/02/climate…
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#climate #climatechange

Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment

The organizations said they would publish researchers’ work even after the Trump administration decision to dismiss all authors on the project.
Rebecca Dzombak (The New York Times)
#climatechange #climate #us #agu #nationalclimateassessment

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#FuckedUp

“Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud,” Popular Information reports.

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#ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol


New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories

Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
Judd Legum (Popular Information)
#uspol #VoteBlue #norepublicanseveragain #republicansownitall #republicankakistocracy #NoFascism #fuckedup #ImpeachTrumpNow

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I was happy to attend #DrupalCamp Ottawa today. Lots of great people I was happy to see.

I also presented about #DrupalCMS & #AI highlighting how it can support better #AltText and & #PlainLanguage

It was also exciting to see so many new people join!

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#Drupal #A11y


DrupalCamp Ottawa : Boosting Web Accessibility with Drupal CMS and AI

Boosting Web Accessibility with Drupal CMS and AI DrupalCamp Ottawa, May 2, 2025 https://drupalcampottawa.com/en/sessions/schedule Web accessibility is a journey—and with the right tools, Drupal can help you get there faster.
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#a11y #AI #AltText #drupal #drupalCMS #drupalcamp #plainlanguage

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Every time I take self-driving car, the experience seems to get better and better. Today, for the first time, I was able to locate the car on my own. The phone would vibrate and VoiceOver would announce the distance and the derection of the car in relation to me. As you approach the car, you can press the button in the app to honk! :) Really cool! Hard to believe how far this tech has gone! :)
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Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit ala.org/news/2025/05/federal-c…

Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit

Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a temporary restraining order to block the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
American Library Association

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World Password Day 2025: Why the future is passwordless (but not password-free) blog.1password.com/why-the-fut…

World Password Day 2025: Why the future is passwordless (but not password-free) | 1Password

A passwordless future doesn’t mean a future where we eliminate passwords entirely, but one where we provide the most straightforward and secure sign-in experience for every user, in every situation.
Agile Bits, Inc.
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Jiří Pavlík

@Marián Kyral @Martin Bodlák 💙💛 @Zdeněk Doležal Přesně tak, ale to znamená: minimální bariéra pro přechod na linux, tj. propagovat jedno zralé distro ideálně evropského původu (patriotismus; nabízí se OpenSUSE). Představte si kolik se leje peněz ročně do USA MSftu. Kdyby polovina těch prostředků šla na servis linuxů, tak jsme tady bohatí.
@Marián Kyral @Martin Bodlák 💙💛 @Zdeněk Doležal

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If there's any overlap at all between my followers and the kind of science fiction fan who will be attending Worldcon in Seattle (@seattlein2025) or just follows what's going on in that scene, then I beg you, please go easy on the Worldcon organizers. There's apparently some controversy around them deciding to use ChatGPT to vet possible panelists. Their statement on that is here: seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/s… I'm not into SF conventions, but one of my favorite SF authors posted about this. 1/?

Statement From Worldcon Chair

We have received questions regarding Seattle’s use of AI tools in our vetting process for program participants. In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we are using a Large Language Model (LLM).
Seattle Worldcon 2025
@Seattle Worldcon 2025
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