Finally, NVAccess has agreed to separate links from the adjacent non-link text and display them on separate lines as a toggleable option. It’s still unclear when this will be implemented, but it's a good step forward in my opinion. I opened this issue in April 2020, and many users really want it. Their comment states: "We appreciate the constructive community feedback. We've triaged this issue, meaning we would accept this feature as a toggleable option." github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… @NVAccess
Steps to reproduce: First and foremost, make sure the Screen Layout mode is turned off. It can be done via Insert+V when placed on a webpage. The issue can be duplicated everywhere but, as an examp...
over 5 years later and it still isn't added? Unacceptable! They have an oppertunity to get more users but only if they add the ability to customize it like you can Jaws. These could be "user options" This means if people don't want the option they don't have to turn it on.
@Dennislong82 With all respect, complaining will get us nowhere. Yes this should have been implemented earlier, and yes I don't know if this will be done soon. But such is the status of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver on the Mac. Personally I'm not willing to even touch VoiceOver on the Mac given its horrible issues and limitations. If you feel Apple will deliver something more efficient compared with NVDA and JAWS - something which they have consistently failed to provide, go for it. @NVAccess
@Dennislong82 I agree on this, working directly on the issues, debating constructively which should happen with what kind of priorities, bringing up feature request to ad-on authors if the core hesitates, learning to write our own code is a better anger channeling rather than making statements that go nowhere. The complexity underlying open source software is beyond explanation, this is not a hobbiest project that can make everything a reality for sure.
@Dennislong82 the project is too large, too complex and too much is happening around it. You can get overwhelm quicly if you look at the issues filed daily. Adding to that, donations, priorities, availability of people to code with their own experience and ability make this a more complex endeavor. The least that we can do is learn how this project work and happen in day to day bases.
@Dennislong82 I can understand the need to equalise jaws and nvda and what so ever, the easier route is at least in my opinion, is through ad-ons. We can either approach multipurpose addons like tony enhancements or browser nav to suggest features and contribute code.
@Dennislong82 when making blank statements like NVDA doesn't care or people are not responding, we are just taking for granted how much presence of mind the org have in the social media, responding to criticism and interacting with the users. You don't get that level of engagements from many other Assistive Tech or mainstream companies.
@Dennislong82 the question should be, how can I bring the change or be the change that I want to see? that will propell us forward, towards what we want? making other people responsible for what we aspire can be a start, but when we stuckk at it, it's a drug that destroys our compassion.
@Dennislong82 one thing that is less discussed here sadly is the philosophy behind jaws and NVDA. jaws wants to be more than a screen reader, it appears to solve even access issues, that needed to be solvedd by the software /website coders. NvDA underlying philosophy since its inception, at least from what I know is very different. Why we want things to be same for every screen reader? it don't have to be same to win the users.
@Dennislong82 The philosophy for Jaws definitely works for its commercial appeal. Nvda, on the other hand, has not been vocal about their financial or man power difficulty, has they? do we really know what it takes to run or develop opensource software this big or are we too occupied with our own smaller worldview. There has been many commercial #screenReaders but till now, only one #openSource screen reader? why is that? #nvdasr
@Dennislong82 I am old enough to remember sometime in 2010 or 2011 nvda posted a blog post saying that their future is unsure and they need a donation to sustain them after the July of that year. I couldn't find the blog post verbatim, but you can look at this, nvaccess.org/post/a-more-certa…
@Dennislong82 here's extract "Jamie and Mick, the core developers of NVDA, are essentially paid minimum wage for their experience, knowledge and skills, which they are prepared to accept because they love the fact that they are making a positive contribution to the blind community and the accessibility industry more generally. Despite their willingness to carry on, however, there will be no money to pay them after July 2011 unless we receive some financial assistance." #nvdasr
@kaveinthran @Dennislong82 14 years later and we are still going strong. Thanks particularly to all our wonderful donors, purchasers of our training material and telephone support, and to our corporate supporters to help us continue to develop and distribute NVDA for free to anyone, anywhere in the world!
Please keep in mind that the AI image describer was contributed by people outside of NV Access. Yes, NVA mentored of course, but NVA devs did not implement this. That was a very deliberate choice, precisely because NVA is aware that internal development efforts need to be focused elsewhere. @kaveinthran @NVAccess @Dennislong82
@kaveinthran This isn't even a question of design philosophy, so a fork wouldn't help that. This is ultimately about what a very small team of developers has the capacity to handle. The fact that this (and other issues) have been triaged means that pull requests would be accepted for them, so I don't see how a fork would change anything here. @amir @Dennislong82
@jcsteh @Dennislong82 you're right, I missed out on the triage part. meaning, anyone can contribute pull request, and it's more about limited resources as the dev team is very small. full agree.
Mental note of an idea before I forget and never tell anyone: @thunderbird should adopt and dig in deep on being the best in class mobile and desktop client for #DeltaChat in addition to being an email and RSS reader. Compete on simplicity and features against closed, commercial Messangers, not just corporate email. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
you are 6 years late :) We already invited the Thunderbird core team for two days of discussing joint futures in 2019. For several reasons (pandemic disruption among them) they didn't follow up much. Maybe they also believed, like many others, that instant messaging via email can not work? In any case, they recently integrated a Matrix client, but TB's chat interface remains very bare bone. Should they revise their approach, we'd be happy to collaborate.
Wouldn't it be an easy (yeah, only an enduser here) first step to integrate the key-exchange/autocrypt feature in TB to make it at least use the messaging via chatmail?
My parents are going to go on vacation and I'm going to be home alone starting in two hours. I can eat without feeling ashamed, I can properly plan my meals, members other than me and Nova can front when outside our room, it's gonna be nice
Damn, that's impressive quality compared to the last time I've heard AI music before. I don't know if that's good or bad at this point, but I assume this was some paid plan?
If any Jaws home users were wondering if they're missing out on AI Web page summaries, from my testing, the answer is no. These summaries are pretty good if you are a beginner, they give you an overview of important links, how to navigate the page, remind about potentially useful shortcuts, and so on. From my testing on several large forum topics, these summaries do not summarize the text content itself, They just briefly mention what it is about.
A worrying number of influential people seem to have forgotten how bubbles work. When the bubble starts to burst it won’t first manifest in Nvidia’s results, but in smaller loss-making AI start-ups struggling to secure the investor funding they need to keep operating. This will slowly propagate to larger loss-making AI companies, and the collapse will be well underway by the time it shows up in Nvidia’s results.
Also like. I’ve been calling this an AI bubble since ‘22. The fact that the mainstream media is talking about AI bubbles is like. Proof to me that it’s already too late.
As we consider communication services, the importance of privacy and security, I have @Tutanota in mind, but also it feels like Germany is on the fence about censorship/surveillance? (Props to everyone who has been fighting chat control, though. This is a big deal and I appreciate that you've kept it at bay!)
I'm currently sitting in a park. It's a lovely spring day, with a gentle breeze. The birds are chirping, the air smells clean, and there are some kids playing. It's peaceful. Perhaps it's too peaceful.
I feel like I'm supposed to disturb that peace, perhaps by blowing something up, or setting the grass on fire. I feel like, if I don't do this, everything will remain unbalanced. Is this normal?
Written by me on this very keyboard in a #WeirdDream
The UK IPv6 Council meeting was held at BT (London) Tower the other day, and seemingly as part of the deal of hosting something at BT Tower is that your stuff gets put on the mini scrolling jumbotron.
I wonder how many people looked up and thought "wtf is IPv6 and this URL?"
Let's say you are creating a project that requires it be protected by a captcha. You have to use a captcha, and there is no way around this. Please don't reply with statements like. Captcha are bad, or don't use a captcha. Thanks. With that being said.
Which captcha service would you recommend and why?
The captcha needs to have an accessibility component or an alternative option for solving, and needs to be simple to integrate.
I've been using reCaptcha on my sites for years, but may switch to Turnstile from Cloudflare as I believe there are changes coming to reCaptcha that I'm not sure I like.
@jscholes Adding to the Turnstyle love, it's the best in the world at what it does. Altcha's documentation confuses me, I'm not certain what i'm supposed to or not supposed to purchase.
@nick As I understand it, the core ALTCHA product is free and open source and provides basic verification based on proof of work. Sentinel is a paid offering that extends it with IP reputation checks, automatic challenge difficulty adjustment, rate limiting, spam detection, and the like. @lerven
@jscholes @nick Yeah, that looks correct. And with the basic Altcha, they provide server-side libraries for various languages; there doesn't seem to be a separate server process to run, just a library to use in your own server. I'm looking into switching from Turnstile in light of the Cloudflare outage.
Depends on whether you're trying to protect against script kiddies or serious actors, interested in your website specifically. If the former, literally anything is going to work, including "what is 2+2" or "spell dog backwards." If the latter, use the big three, reCaptcha (no longer free), hCaptcha or Turnstile. Each of these has their own accessibility implications.
I’ve been using reCAPTCHA for years. It's straightforward to integrate and easy for users to solve. Plus, it offers solid accessibility support. That said, the audio CAPTCHA can be challenging for visually impaired users who also have hearing difficulties. In those cases, hCaptcha might be a better option, as it offers an accessibility cookie to bypass challenges. However, to be honest, I’ve found that feature to be a bit unreliable.
I've been a GoldWave user since 2015. I had been using Sound Forge before that, but when it became unreliable, in my opinion anyway, I felt it was time to use something else. I highly recommend GoldWave as it doesn't take up lots of system resources and is very accessible.
@kjsapergia I've been using goldwave for donkeys years now. I find it much easy to work compared to Sound Forge, though older versions of Sound Forge are pretty good accessability wize. the 1 thing gold wave lacks however is that the effects you can apply are limited compared to what you have in sound forge.
@JamminJerry REAPER is awesome! I'm amazed at how a small program, in terms of file size, can do so much. I use it for all my multitrack needs. It can be daunting at the start, but once I asked the right questions and got the answers I needed, I've never looked back, though I still use other audio editors as well including GoldWave and Studio Recorder, though those are single-track editors.
I personally think it's the best destructive sound editor out there without going all DAW. Especially since it can now work with VST plugins in a limited but still useful kind of way.
@daygar I still use it for particular jobs, some even involving heavy precision, as I can't get reaper's transport to be that kind of precise. For a single-track, destructive editor, it's pretty good, although some of its built-in effects are a complete write-off, like the EQ and reverb.
If the EQ hasn't changed since I last used it more than 25 years ago, it adds this odd plastic texture to everything, no matter how little you turn even a single band up or down. I really hate that sound.
@BorrisInABox @x0 To be honest I always found that more with ReaEQ than GoldWave's. Especially if the band is narrow, say less than 1. Having said that, I spent 20+ years (including my music tech education) with GW before I started using Reaper so maybe I just don't know how EQs are really meant to sound.
Nah. ReaEQ doesn't do that. If your band is extremely narrow, you can get ringing or weird nulling, maybe a peak an octave above the cut-off if you're messing with high pass filters, but that's not the same thing. Any EQ will do that to a greater or lesser extent.
I don't have any examples anymore, but when I first heard it in 1998 or so, my thought was that not all the frequencies are aligned in time. It's like some of them are just a tiny bit offset from others. It's weird, anyway.
@BorrisInABox @daygar It always reminded me of a particularly aggressive version of what I always considered the sound of an iPhone recording. If, on an old iPhone that could only record in mono, you played something on the speaker and recaptured it with the same microphone, it might sound a bit like that. GoldWave's parametric EQ, though, is fine.
In and around 2023, Roy and Rianne Schestowitz were subject to a horrific campaign of online harassment. Unfortunately they blamed me for it, and in turn wrote and published an astonishing array of articles making false accusations against me. Last year, I sued them in the high court in London. In turn, they countersued me for harassment. The case was heard last month and I'm pleased to say that the counterclaim was dismissed and I prevailed in my case. The court awarded me £70,000 in damages.
Mám zákazníka ktorý pracuje na lodi na Dunaji a keď ide cez Bratislavu sa u nás zastaví a okrem toho že tvrdí že máme najlepšiu pizzu široko ďaleko tak mi dal chrobáka ísť na sezónu možno robiť na loď. Zaujímavé.
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For anyone who owns a Zoom H5 Studio recorder, the official accessory pack (Zoom APH-5s) is now *finally* available. This includes a large, protective case with lanyard, a power supply with USB-A to USB-C cable, and most importantly, a furry windscreen that actually fits the very large X/Y microphone capsule properly. I've tried a few windscreens, and have not actually found one that really fits. Some work better than others, but they're either too small, too large, not the right shape, or some combination thereof.
It only took Zoom six months to sell something that really should be included in the box the way these mics work, but that's typical Zoom, really.
that's cool that they have finaly came out with one. I had thought of getting that recorder at some point, but wasn't sure if I wanted to, but my first thing was waiting until they came out with a furry windscreen for it.
As expected, the Qualcomm enshittification of @arduino has begun. Expressif's ESP32 stuff has already been a better platform for some time... I guess I'll have to learn the ESP-IDF ecosystem now instead of the Arduino IDE.
I've finally taken the plunge. I have preordered my Glide. It's probably the last chance to get 20 percent off, and thanks to someone who preordered, I was given a promo code for an extra 5 percent off. That's not a bad promo if you ask me. Especially since I have to convert Canadian dollars to U.S. dollars. So my first payment has been made. It'll be over a year before I actually get my hands on a Glide, but nothing can be done about that. Now we just play the waiting game.
Wild stuff for a tech company that talks a big game about privacy
Also it took them a year to fully address?!
"He also pointed to the disclosure timeline, as set out in the paper, and how it took Meta nearly a year to provide a meaningful response to the numerous tickets they raised throughout the research process."
mmm... Kudos to @signalapp for their work, but they should move their servers outside the US; otherwise there are crucial factors out of their control, I'm afraid.
one day you unwrap() what you shouldn't have, another day you again unwrap what you shouldn't have. What should I do with you bigtech? #cloudflare #whatsapp #bigtech
I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding the article but couldn’t you also do this exploit in signal, since it has a look up by phone number option? I guess the main concern is the lack of rate limiting, but this could also be bypassed. The real lesson is that if you want privacy you shouldn’t dox yourself in your accounts.
“To our surprise, neither our IP address nor our accounts have been blocked by WhatsApp. Moreover, we did not experience any prohibitive rate-limiting. With our query rate of 7,000 phone numbers per second (and session), we could confirm 3.5 billion phone numbers registered on WhatsApp”
Tomorrow I have to go practice but u know what? Do you remember trains from two weeks a go? There are those trains and should be falling snow too!! Overall it is a nice trip to the outskirts of town and if I can be honest I can't wait tomorrow to go to the school.
edit: my imaginations are like this: make a deal with master from practice so at first semester i will focus to complete documentation (obviously at home) and the second I will make a product.
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
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