I was fixing a few memory leaks in the AT-SPI collection tests and being reminded how clunky the C API is in some ways. Part of me would like to make a version 3 and clean up a few things. On the other hand, I'm not sure if anyone uses the C API directly, so it might not matter much. I could say similar things about the DBus API that libatspi wraps, but then I don't know what we want for the future. If someone picks up Newton and finishes it, then I don't think that we'd want an AT-SPI 2, AT-SPI 3, *and* Newton to contend with...
@matt I don't know what might be available in terms of funding--Federico might know better--but it would be awesome if we could find a way to help you get back to it. I wish I was being more helpful, but, alas, I feel like I have too many balls in the air right now and can't see my way towards giving it the focused attention that I think it would need.
The piss babies on the green site forum whining about the reduced motion setting, wanking themselves to death with "animations are inefficient I disable all of them", or going straight to "people with disabilities should not use computers", like the absolute dickheads they are
Hey man, I really appreciate your work on this! Thank you for spending the time and energy on making Free Software more inclusive and better for everyone!
Ironically enough, I actually like how gnome does animations and they help me in directing my focus, while I absolutely have to turn them off on i.e. Android lest I get uncomfortable interacting with the screen at all.
They complain when settings are removed and they complain when settings are added
Phoronix comments have the entertainment value of a shitty reality TV show so I'll look at them occasionally
The comments on the X11 removal article are a hoot. So much misinfo and just straight up delusion. Apparently we're not going to make the GNOME 50 release on time because Wayland was only ever tested in VMs and we're about to find out the hard way it doesn't work on real hardware and has no clients
@tragivictoria I really don't mind these people, outside of some anthropological interest in the amount of self-delusion of competence that motivates them to write stupid comments in a public forum
Most people with disabilities i know turn off animations, because "smooth and fast" animations are much worse for them than something immediately popping into existence.
Gnome is always very patronizing towards disabled people. Why don't you just ask them, how they feel, instead of making something up in your mind?
Prominent other example: The removal of colors and transition to purely symbolic icons. This does not make it easier for color blind people, it makes it harder.
While we are at the topic of accessibility... how good did your wayland transition go for accessibility software like dwell clickers and on screen keyboards?
A Gnome developer claiming that he cares about accessibility is an insult.
Your software is absolutely horrid in that subject. And you regularly mess things up that make it worse. While claiming the opposite.
It's like someone who beats you up and then claims that the beating is actually good for you.
I want to also add as an aside, people with legitimate issues can get swept into the same bucket as bad faith actors like that.
Just wanna be seen: some who want to disable animations aren't wankers, but rather, people like me with sensory sensitivity issues. I disable any kind of animation I can because those kinds of things really intensely distract me. It can be distressing if I can't avoid stuff like that while trying to work and focus
The Unihertz Jelly Star is two years old, runs Android 13, and still does something no other phone can: make me think before I use it. It’s tiny, awkward, and honest — a detox device that actually works. No one’s made anything like it since. Even Unihertz gave up. I looked for something that could replace it. Nothing exists. Read: The Tiny, Brilliant, Infuriating Phone No One Will Replace fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the… #Unihertz #JellyStar #Android #DigitalMinimalism #TechCulture #Phones #Detox #SmallPhones #Minimalism #Review
I got a unihertz titan mini in an effort to downsize my phone's footprint in my life. It worked great for the 3 months it lasted before the screen died. Unihertz said they'd send me a replacement screen. 6 months later, still no screen. The form factors they make are fantastic but their quality and support are severely lacking. I wish someone else would try to fill this niche as well.
@pluralistic An article that talks about the killjoy of people using AI for fun activities, like escape rooms. A good read. But the part I like was the author’s playful use of enshittification.
“Killjoy in the MachineWhy do so many people use AI to cheat at fun?” by Michelle Santiago Cortés - link to the article: thecut.com/article/would-you-u…
#IETF124 was, of course, great, but I also enjoyed Montreal a lot. My flight home is only this afternoon so I went for a walk to grab some bagels and check out Habitat 67.
Today, I finished my first longer trail run: It was 28.3 km with an elevation gain of 911 m. There were parts that were as steep as 40%. The average outdoor temperature was 7°C, it rained and there was looots of mud. It couldn't have gotten more pleasant than that. ❤️😅
No shit! :) Congrats. How do you feel physically? My legs and feet get fairly tight around 15 kms so I keep increasing the distances very slowly to build up the capacity.
@zoul how do I feel? I'm lying in the bed and hoping that I'll be able to eat soon. 😀 The first 20 km were fairly OK although the surface and weather were difficult. But the climb to Velký Lopeník (~600m in like 4km distance) completely ruined me. Then it became a struggle to finish it. I was having problems with energy and breath, but the muscles were surprisingly holding quite well. Running became uncomfortable in that regard just in the last km when I got back on a paved road.
@zoul hydration was surprisingly a problem, too. I carried 0.5l and refueled from a spring after 17 km and had a cup of tea on Velký Lopeník, but I still felt really thirty. I put more clothes on than others which was a bit unconformable in the first half when we were keeping the pace and definitely contributed to dehydration, but it came handy in the second half when the pace went down and I basically walk any significant climb.
I was on Lopeník countless times, but only once from the southwestern side and I remember the climb very well, hell of a hill. Congrats! Was this some kind of race? @zoul
@def @zoul No, it was part of Red Hat running camp and I was actually the one who came up with the route. If you'd like to make a round trip, there aren't many options here. The logic behind it was that the 4 km would be brutal, but the rest of the run would be okish. But the climb was more brutal than I expected, or I had less energy at its foot than I expected.
Re: last boost (caneandable.social/@JonathanMo…): Glen Gordon deserves immense respect for his contributions to assistive technology for blind people. During the critical transition to the GUI as the dominant type of user interface in the 90s, JAWS set the standard for what GUI screen readers should be able to do, and as Jonathan said, Glen played a critical role in that. Thank you, Glen, for everything you've contributed and for staying true to your values.
It is impossible to overstate the contribution Glen Gordon has made to the #accessibility industry. More important even than that, his meticulous attention to detail and his understanding that something must be more than accessible, it must be efficient, has helped countless people to be productive at work, at school, and just when living life. Glen devised many concepts that are now just thought of as the way things are done in a graphical user interface. On top of all that, he is one of the nicest, most humble people I’ve ever met and worked with. I have heard from several young people following the National Federation of the Blind’s National Convention, at which we honored Glen with the prestigious Kenneth Jernigan award and he offered some wise advice, that Glen inspired them. You are a legend, Glen. And although the words seem ridiculously inadequate, all I can say in conclusion is, thank you so much for all you have done. I am pasting Glen’s LinkedIn post for those who are not over there. Glen Gordon, Screen reading for the blind software pioneer, 24 minutes ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn, 1st Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom Scientific/Vispero because I found myself unable to continue working for a company that’s changing in ways that are moving away from my personal values. As recently as the 2025 NFB convention, I was thinking that I’d be working on JAWS far into the future. Much to my surprise, a recent influx of new Executive leaders and customer facing product related changes convinced me that it was time to leave. I leave behind a group of smart and passionate colleagues, and products which are the best in class. It’s been a great journey, and I thank all of you who have been users of Freedom Scientific software for some or all that time. Yes, I’m retiring, in the sense that I’m of retirement age and not actively seeking another job. But I’m resigning in the sense that I felt I needed to take a principled stand. I will continue doing my part to improve the state of accessibility. What that will look like will evolve over time.
I hope Glen takes some time to take a well-deserved break. Whenever he's ready to continue doing his part to improve the state of accessibility, I look forward to seeing what that looks like.
Jonathan's toot (the one I boosted) included a copy of Glen's announcement on LinkedIn, but here's the actual link, in case anyone wants to comment over there (I don't have an account there): linkedin.com/posts/glen-gordon…
Off-topic, but I had an account once, and now I'm locked out of it because my password was compromised in a data breach a long time ago, and they want me to provide a photo ID to prove my identity, and, last time I tried, I couldn't get their page to let me do that. I think that I tried on my phone and ended up in an endless loop where I was bumped back to the login screen or something like that.
Yes, I am immensely grateful to him for working on Jaws for all those many years, especially during the 90s when a lot of us wondered if the windows platform would be accessible to us. I remember sitting in a meeting room at a blindness convention, where we discussed this very thing. I wish him all the very best in his retirement and if he chooses to work with accessibility, I look forward to seeing what he does, as well!
(1) Wenn Menschen gute Bücher und Online-Texte wahrnehmen, kaufen, lesen, besprechen, empfehlen, dann werden weiterhin gute Bücher und Online-Texte gemacht. Sonst nicht.
(2) Wenn Menschen Clickbait-Inhalte, deren einziger »Sinn« es ist, performatives Aufregungsmarketing zu sein, »kaufen« (anklicken), konsumieren, »empfehlen« (aufgebracht teilen), dann werden weiterhin Clickbait-Hetz-Inhalte produziert. Sonst nicht.
It is impossible to overstate the contribution Glen Gordon has made to the #accessibility industry. More important even than that, his meticulous attention to detail and his understanding that something must be more than accessible, it must be efficient, has helped countless people to be productive at work, at school, and just when living life. Glen devised many concepts that are now just thought of as the way things are done in a graphical user interface. On top of all that, he is one of the nicest, most humble people I’ve ever met and worked with. I have heard from several young people following the National Federation of the Blind’s National Convention, at which we honored Glen with the prestigious Kenneth Jernigan award and he offered some wise advice, that Glen inspired them. You are a legend, Glen. And although the words seem ridiculously inadequate, all I can say in conclusion is, thank you so much for all you have done. I am pasting Glen’s LinkedIn post for those who are not over there. Glen Gordon, Screen reading for the blind software pioneer, 24 minutes ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn, 1st Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom Scientific/Vispero because I found myself unable to continue working for a company that’s changing in ways that are moving away from my personal values. As recently as the 2025 NFB convention, I was thinking that I’d be working on JAWS far into the future. Much to my surprise, a recent influx of new Executive leaders and customer facing product related changes convinced me that it was time to leave. I leave behind a group of smart and passionate colleagues, and products which are the best in class. It’s been a great journey, and I thank all of you who have been users of Freedom Scientific software for some or all that time. Yes, I’m retiring, in the sense that I’m of retirement age and not actively seeking another job. But I’m resigning in the sense that I felt I needed to take a principled stand. I will continue doing my part to improve the state of accessibility. What that will look like will evolve over time.
@menelion That is sad to hear and fully agree re Glenn's contributions to the accessibilityindustry. I'm sure though Glenn will continue to do great things.
I'm curious if my current way of setting a minimum font size of 12 points, while respecting the user's settings, works for you: divtune.com/ Yes, it's a really simple page layout with mostly text (plus one video).
The way it works - in my experience - is that it doesn't matter what method the developer uses to set the font size. If my browser is set with a minimum that is larger than what the page says it will use what I set in the browser.
Most often this breaks CSS styled buttons because the developers use pixel sizes for the button styling that don't expand with text size but my fonts are too big to fit.
more amused than I should be that this is the Rt Hon Paul J Martin (named after the _father_ of former Prime Minister and Canada Steamship Lines CEO Paul Martin) 😅
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No more jumping via website & wikis: now most of our documentation is available at our website And as that's quite "a bit" (uh, a minor understatement) more, it has a "site search" now, too.
So we hope you like how it's set up and organized, and find what you're looking for at
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I love that so many companies are rushing to integrate AI. They are getting so much backlash from users. Loss of privacy + "No one asked for this." There is so much software investment that wasn't needed. And you are able to easily add so much value to your offering by just saying, "we are not going to do that."
I am so very, very tired of whatever causes NVDA to completely fall over on it's face when a bunch of console dumping happens. I can usually work around it, but today, had to hard shut down two PC's because I completely lost control of them to the point where I couldn't restart NVDA and/or focus away from all the scrolling text.
I wonder if @bill would have any insight about this? I feel like he's been hearing me complain about terminal for years, but I didn't know anyone else was experiencing the same issues. I don't know if you're using the actual Windows Terminal or just conhost, but I seem to have different issues with each. I can't remember which missing feature causes this, but I find Windows Terminal causes fewer NVDA crashes with lots of text. However, Windows Terminal has an absolutely massive memory leak that no-one has been able to track down for years, and once it hits 200 MB or so, it starts lagging in the same way a very far off SSH connection might. What's your diffing algorithm set to? Part of the problem is that there are so many options related to consoles and Windows Terminal, and their defaults change based on whether you're using conhost or Terminal, and they might also change depending on which Windows version you're using.
For what it's worth, I took the very overkill step of writing an AutoIt script that gives me a built-in "Kill NVDA" hotkey, and that's eliminated the need to restart or drop into secure mode. I know that if there is ongoing text flooding your console, it can be hard to get away from, but usually I find that some combination of my NVDA killer, hammering windows+m, and turning off NVDA+5 tends to fix the worst of it. But yeah, all of this is obnoxious and sometimes I find myself wondering if I need to figure out how to either run an extremely minimal Debian VM, or try to get TDSR working in WSL.
@simon From my testing, you absolutely want diff match patch. First, press NVDA+F1 in your console, go to the bottom and see what you're using for diff algorithm. If it's difflib, go into advanced and force it to diff match patch. On my system, using console and not Windows Terminal, printing a whole bunch of random lines of text is at least survivable with that. Printing one-character lines in a loop still isn't, but that might be something else.
@tspivey @simon Two other things:1. Ensure you aren't logging input/output or more. The logging itself causes performance degradation because of the constant writing and flushing to disk on the main thread.2. Use Windows Terminal and set NVDA to prefer UIA notification events.
@Jage @simon All it does is taskkill -f -im nvda.exe, but it's running from your secure screen if you hit ctrl+alt+delete, which means that the taskkill is done as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, so NVDA can almost always be killed that way.
In #curl land, @vsz made a CI job that builds curl with fil-C and it runs the tests fine. Just slightly limited due to lack of dependencies as they all need to be built with fil-C as well.
Requirements for Fil-C:
not to accidentally pick up system headers. E.g. from /usr/include
on Linux. It can happen when any dependency is auto-detected on this
header path. This makes Fil-C find t...
Fil-C is basically a memory-safe approach for C code. It was discussed on hacker news again yesterday. I find it a rather cool take, but with lots of limitations of course.
Mr Arthur Bargain was a shopkeeper. This is the rather unfortunate story of his little shop.Most of the illustrations in this video were generated by Stable...
George, an 83-year-old man, was heading to bed when his wife pointed out that the light in the garage was still on. From the bedroom window, she noticed movement inside. Curious, George opened the back door to check, only to spot people rummaging through his garage, clearly up to no good. He quickly called the police and explained the situation. The officer on the line asked, “Is your garage attached to your house?” George replied, “No, it’s detached.” The officer then said, “All units are currently busy. Please stay inside, lock your doors, and we’ll send someone as soon as possible.” George hung up, paused for a moment, and then picked up the phone again. This time, he told the dispatcher, “I just called about the people in my garage. You don’t need to hurry anymore—I’ve taken care of it. I’ve shot them all.” Then he hung up. Within minutes, George’s quiet neighborhood turned into a scene out of an action movie. Six police cars, a SWAT team, a helicopter, and an ambulance all arrived in record time. The officers swarmed the property and quickly apprehended the burglars, catching them red-handed in the act. One of the officers approached George, clearly puzzled. “I thought you said you’d shot them?” With a sly smile, George replied, “And I thought you said no one was available!”
Ja war echt schwer. Ich dachte ich hätte nen relativ zeitigen Druck auf F5 hinbekommen und war auch bei 40 Minuten. Kollege mit 8 Minuten ist knapp durch gekommen. Vielleicht beim nächsten Termin. 🤞
the sysadmins dont want you to know this but there are ports below port 20. nobody knows what they do, physicists suspect it might be related to dark matter. the government agencies scrub all mentions of these ports off the open internet. i am revealing all of this to you at great risk to my life,
And as that's quite "a bit" (uh, a minor understatement) more, it has a "site search" now, too.
Fingers crossed. Müssen uns dann mal "Hi" sagen!
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