Given that Godot 4.5 added the ability to make games accessible to users of screen readers and other assistive technologies, is there any chance that this game will be accessible to blind players? Assuming, of course, that there isn't something about the game that would make it impractical for a blind person to play in principle.
@matt hmm that’s an interesting question and I’m afraid not one that we’ve really considered. Currently the game isn’t really set up to be possible to play that way. It could be conceivably made to work but would probably require some significant rearchitecting. I’ll have a think, but I’m afraid it seems unlikely for the initial release, sorry!
Donald Trump publicly calls for the execution of Democratic congressmen, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you make a joke about Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
Niesamowita historia, jak możemy zostać “wyłączeni” z systemu. Amerykańskie sankcje blokują życie sieciowe i finansowe sędziego Międzynarodowego Trybunału Karnego, który wydał nakaz aresztowania Netanyahu.
Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/artic…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."
Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.
I have a package that was shipped today from Bratislava, Slovakia that is theoretically coming to me in New York City tomorrow. I remember one time when it took three weeks to get something from the next town over. Lol
Don't count on that. If it's coming from Bratislava, it's probably making at least part of the journey thanks to some random Eurofly player, which means the plane will probably take on passengers when it's not supposed to, then deliberately crash over water just to hear the loud, scared noises the passengers make when they know that's about to happen. Or it'll have gone on a perfectly-executed flight only to have the pilot accidentally turn off both engines when they're about to land.
I would like to clarify that while a ceasefire has been announced, what we have on the ground is only a temporary mitigation of hostilities; the war is still ongoing. The Israeli army hasn't withdrawn, and we're still subjected to gunfire and shelling periodically.
The situation is extremely difficult… food is scarce, there are no jobs, no source of income, and people are living on aid. I was surprised to see that donations have stopped, even though we are still in dire need.
My name is Thomas and I live in France and in the UK. I'm hosting Mohammed's campaign because Palestinians cannot host their own campaigns. If you've got any questions or if you'd like any proofs, I'm happy to provide you with these.
The gavel has fallen; the cup has been stomped; pick your metaphor. Microsoft has succeeded in its almost-two-year quest to gobble up Activision. The peculiar side effect in my corner of the world is that Microsoft now owns the dusty remains ...
@matt It is a little bit precious to say they're open-sourcing three games and then they link to github.com/historicalsource/ , which has *all* of them.
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Just finished reading a book I found lying and the house. Obvs written for pre-teen girls. Thoroughly enjoyed it: very well written and an excellent insight into that world; can't wait for the sequel. It will have to be a present for my daughter, though, as I'm a 47 year old man.
This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing.
I listened to the letter from the Vispero CEO on Access On so you don't have to. TLDL: bla bla we want to keep making JAWS better for everyone bla bla we actually lose money on annual licenses, hence why we keep bumping the prices bla bla, we want blind leadership but refuse to tell you why Glen Gordon left, bla bla bla corporate BS sweeping it all under the rug bla bla.
So essentially they're going to outsource the blind voice as it were, and they have *two* token blind people in leadership to show their inclusion? And yikes, "working differently together" is really a turn of phrase written by a non-disabled person for sure. They answered absolutely nothing.
Second, I see they didn't address bringing back email whatsoever, and the voice line cannot, and should not, be the primary support avenue given folks who are DeafBlind and other accessibility issues that exist with that. I swear, we would have been better off with no response at all than what we received here.
@twynn My understanding (which is not based on first-hand experience) is that direct support is only available to US customers anyway. Everybody else is foisted off on local distributors, the capabilities of which differ significantly by country.
Any organisation who is willing to see that state of affairs continue has no business claiming any sort of customer-first attitude with a straight face. @TheQuinbox
Ok so just quick caveat that I haven't listened to the episode yet, but I remember all the way back when VFO was first formed, there were several people who were apprehensive, saying that this would create an effective monopoly on the AT market. I see now they were right all along, and honestly I think it's time for us to stop giving them our business. NVDA has a really big opportunity to catch up, and I hope they take it.
@LeonianUniverse @ZBennoui Doesn't surprise me. Gettinga straight answer from them is like trying to get a straight answer from a cat, oh, and if it were me, i'd bann sighted people from being in leadership positions.
@NicksWorld @LeonianUniverse @ZBennoui That has nothing to do with someone being blind or sighted. A totally blindperson can be just a s incapable of leading as a sighted person can. It's about having the right people leading, not what disability they have.
@vol4life8657 @NicksWorld @LeonianUniverse Exactly. I'm all for blind people leading blindness specific companies and organizations, but I think it's just as important to have the right people working there. The two aren't mutually exclusive, you can have a sighted person who really cares and knows a lot about AT, just as you can have someone who is blind know next to nothing about the subject and be unwilling to learn. When you say stuff like "we should just ban all cited people from leadership positions at blindest specific companies" all you're doing is perpetuating a stereotype. That's not helpful.
@ZBennoui Hi, I'm not asking for a lot - all I need is to provide food and medicine for my mother. She has Type 1 diabetes and hasn't been able to get her medication for over 3 months, plus she requires eye surgery. I lost my father in the war - can you imagine? I'm having to step into his role as a father figure by seeking donations? ‼️‼️ Please, don't ignore me; I truly need your help, Please help where possible. Donation link in bio/Pinned post.🙏🍉🕊
Small change, huge improvement. They replaced and moved this single streetlamp on one of main #Prague #bike ways A22. Originally there used to be the old lamp with bulky base placed almost in the middle of the road. It used to be very uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous place as it is just behind a turn and two cyclists couldn't pass each other here. Now it's fixed. 👏🚲
If the Canadian government wanted to do something nice for me, the absolute best single thing they could do for me¹ is cap UPS's import/brokerage fees at the amount I would have had to pay in self clearance. Or at self clearance levels plus ten percent.
Or just fucking make self clearance possible in downtown Toronto without spending $10 and two hours to take the train to Pearson. Please. I am dying
¹ I mean short of something really expensive like OHIP covering medication.
The first eight series of #RedDwarf are now available to purchase as audiobooks, with four series per book. For example on Audible, that means two credits for 24 and a half hours of episodes.
@jfayre Indeed; in a way it's quite a strange format. But I grew up watching it and having parts explained, so it works really well for me personally. I have all Blackadder episodes as a single audiobook too.
@sclower I haven't listened yet. But based on a scan of the first episode, and my experience with similar audiobooks of Blackadder and similar series, they do not.
@sclower The preview doesn't show anything either, and ironically they picked the episode Holoship which starts with the crew watching a movie. The BBC did this in a really cool way with Faulty Towers where they had one of the characters occasionally interject with descriptive commentary while staying in-character. Could have been fun to see how something like that could have worked with red dwarf
@pitermach @sclower Chris Barry read the novelizations, would have been cool if he could have done it. And the guy who played Cryton did the bloopers videos.
Soooo viele Daten, so viele Behörden, so viele Websites…
warum also nicht 'ne kleine Pest sein und Behinderten beim Melden von Barrieren helfen, indem man das alles massiv vereinfacht und dann noch mit Profis drüberschaut? Und alles das öffentlich zugänglich, damit sich nie wieder jemand rausreden kann? Könnte ja Behörden überlasten und Durchsetzungsstellen was zu tun geben.
A thing that sucks about working at home is that there's no good time for an apartment complex's maintenance crew to do noisy maintenance. I'm here all day; I'm here all night. That was one good thing about going to an office during the day.
Interesting, nice to see other options out there. However, you'll have stiff competition with Proton and Tuta providing similar services at lower prices.
Last month, the government seemingly reversed course on its lawful access plans to grant law enforcement powers to demand warrantless access to personal information from any provider of a service in Canada.
Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises.
Red Hat has been doing this for years and it's been fine. I would even say it's better this way since developers may stop playing with shiny new things, forcing them on everybody and maybe even slow down the reinventing wheel cycle.
@phnt yeah but you end up with software and even glibc changes that people target that won't work on the LTS distro, so people will literally hold back glibc improvements for 15 years because of the fear that their software won't work on LTS distro unless they build a custom version and they sure as hell won't do that
I don't think glibc maintainers care about compatibility considering their constant ABI breakage. New features? Maybe. But as I've said, this might stop some developers from trying out the new shiny things which I consider a good thing. Or if they want to use it, hide it behind #ifdef and supply an alternative. What this does isn't hold back improvement, it forces writing portable code again which everybody forgot in the last 5-10 years. And I'm getting tired of having to package some random new library from a year ago whose version must be from the last 3 months and the Python version must be _latest_ for a piece of software to even consider building itself. Examples: HomeAssistant, Gitea and much more.
This is also mostly a non-issue for open source software where you can always patch it to work on older libc, or make multiple packages if you are the developer. The developer might not want to do it, but maybe the distro maintainers want to which is also fine. And pre-built binaries without source will always suffer since glibc ABI compatibility barely exists.
@phnt generally I find this kind of problem significantly less of an issue in FreeBSD world which I'm grateful for.
If you compile something for FreeBSD 12, I don't care. I can run it on FreeBSD 15 after installing compat12x or I can just fire up a FreeBSD 12 jail. It will still work. The kernel is always backwards compatible, you just need the old libs
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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?
![Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
[...]"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/727744 "Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:
\"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being \"economically banned across most of the planet,\" including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
[...]\"")
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