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This week, NV Access founders Mick and Jamie, travelled to Samoa to share the great benefits of NVDA. This article appeared in the Samoa Observer.
From the article (in speaking about NVDA): "Samoa Blind Persons Association President Mata’afa Faatino Utumapu said the software held unlimited opportunities for the blind to study and find employment."

samoaobserver.ws/category/samo…

Photo of Mick and Jamie speaking to a room of people from the Samoa Blind Persons Association

Free screen reading software for the blind

A software has been brought to Samoa that will help the blind access computers through a screen reader which enables the visually impaired to access information on their computers.
Samoa Observer

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audiogame-manager
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project: git.stormux.org/storm/audiogam…
Switch from wget to curl for downloads. this removes a dependency, and theoretically should not lose any functionality. It is experimental, however, so please watch for bugs.

audiogame-manager

Installer and launcher for Windows based audio games under wine for Linux.
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Layoffs are yet another area where companies refuse to follow the science. Here's what the science says.

Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees

So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it

Stanford Biz School article: news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/e…

Harvard Biz Review:
hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies…


What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs

Research has long shown that layoffs have a detrimental effect on individuals and on corporate performance.
Harvard Business Review

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The #LAS2023 CfP is open! Would you like to participate in this year's summit? More details on how to submit talks, workshops, and BoFs can be found at: linuxappsummit.org/cfp/

#LinuxAppSummit #cfp #GNOME #KDE

Linux App Summit, April 21-23, 2033, Brno, Czech Republic. Call for Participation

Call for proposals

The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
linuxappsummit.org
#gnome #KDE #linuxappsummit #cfp #LAS2023

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Link in French.

tl;dr: electronic voting in two districts abroad for the French elections didn't work properly, so the election in question was voided.

Le Conseil constitutionnel annule, en raison des dysfonctionnements intervenus lors du vote électronique, les opérations électorales qui se sont déroulées dans deux circonscriptions des Français établis hors de France...

conseil-constitutionnel.fr/act…

Le Conseil constitutionnel annule, en raison des dysfonctionnements intervenus lors du vote électronique, les opérations électorales qui se sont déroulées dans deux circonscriptions des Français établis hors de France...

Le Conseil constitutionnel annule, en raison des dysfonctionnements intervenus lors du vote électronique, les opérations électorales qui se sont déroulées dans deux circonscriptions des Français établis hors de France lors des élections législatives …
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We all want digital freedom 🙌

No one wants to be spied on, controlled, oppressed, forced nor exploited.

Watch the complete talk by Purism Founder and CEO, Todd Weaver.

puri.sm/posts/what-we-all-want…

What We All Want – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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Come work with me!

My library, which occupies the unceded land of the Kumeyaay, is hiring a Latin American and Indigenous Communities Archivist. The person in this position will "promote community partnerships and the shared stewardship of archival collections documenting Latin American and Indigenous communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border."

apply.interfolio.com/119269

#librarians #archives @wehere

Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com
#librarians #archives @wehere

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The Thing With Leading in CSS (vertical spacing/line height) matthiasott.com/notes/the-thin… by @matthiasott #webdesign #css #leading #typography

The Thing With Leading in CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
#css #webdesign #typography #leading @Matthias Ott

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Yesterday I've released my first EP of 2023 (yes more are coming, thanks to last year's weekly beats). Organic, my previous release, happened just around the time I got involved with GIMP and FOSS (99).

Big shout out to @ilzxc who reintroduced me to the joys of electronic music last year. If you listen to the EP on Bandcamp, you can check out a bonus track of his remix of Bratwurst. Really enjoy his special seasoning. Let me know what you think!

music.jimmac.eu/desync


Desync EP

Music by Jimmac
music.jimmac.eu

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It's baaaaack - Flirtatious Fiction Friday. Writers, tell us about your latest. Readers, see what's new.

Use the tag:

#flirtatiousfictionfriday

#books #queeromance #mmromance #ffromance #romance #gay #lesbian #transgender #bisexual #lgbtiqa #bookstodon #MMBookstodon #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQbookstodon @MMbookstodon @bookstodon

Flirtatious Fiction Friday graphic - watercolor rainbow splash with the words Love Story in white, open book at bottom
#books #transgender #lesbian #romance #gay #bookstodon #bisexual #lgbtqbookstodon #mmbookstodon #lgbtiqa #ffromance #mmromance #queeromance #flirtatiousfictionfriday

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I have two young children myself. This kind of thing utterly terrifies me.
Encouraging the Young to Die - The Most Toxic Site I've Ever Seen youtu.be/C3y6SsGAWks

Encouraging the Young to Die - The Most Toxic Site I've Ever Seen

I recently watched one of my followers being encouraged and coached to die on a toxic site that seeks to maximising the likelihood that its members end their...
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Useful Accessibility And Usability Examples To Help Improve Your Designs smashingmagazine.com/2022/12/u… #UIDesign #webdesign #a11y #UXDesign

Useful Accessibility And Usability Examples To Help Improve Your Designs — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Thomas Bohm shares strategies and methods to tackle some common graphic communication problems and gives you insights into how to improve accessibility and usability and make your designs much better.
Smashing Magazine
#a11y #webdesign #uidesign #uxdesign

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Je to žabzila. Australští přírodovědci našli největší ropuchu světa — ČT24 — Česká televize
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Je to žabzila. Australští přírodovědci našli největší ropuchu světa

Strážci přírodního parku na severu Austrálie našli ropuchu obrovskou vážící 2,7 kilogramu. Obojživelník, který dostal přezdívku Toadzilla (česky žabzila) podle slavného filmového monstra Godzilly a anglického výrazu pro ropuchu (toad), by mohl být ne…
ČT24 - Nejdůvěryhodnější zpravodajský web v ČR - Česká televize

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“The #fediverse is like #email.”

Yes.

Now read this and understand it:

“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“

cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self…

Via @cancel


After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
cfenollosa.com
#email #fediverse @cancel

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In the most recent In-Process blog, we covered the new NVDA 2022.4, and in particular the new key commands in this release! Have you tried them? Which new command is your favourite? Do let us know!

And if you missed it, read the full blog post here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

NVDA Update screen offering 2022.4 in front of the NVDA new banner

In-Process 11th January 2023

Firstly, a very happy new year to all! We are back on deck and slowly catching up on correspondence. If you’ve reached out to us over the break, we’ll be sure to get back to you shortly if we haven…
NV Access

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Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/t…


Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday.
Iconfactory Blog

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Calling all LibreOffice Draw users! The guidebook has now been updated for LibreOffice 7.4 – it's an essential accompaniment to the software: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Top quality meme from Zelda 1, with Link getting the Draw book

LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4 updated - The Document Foundation Blog

The Documentation team is happy to announce the availability of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4, an update of the 7.3 guide. The guide is available in PDF as well as in ODF formats at the documentation website.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)

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