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Listening to episode #2 of MZLA Thunderbird Thundercast: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

@thunderbird @killyourfm @mconley @ryanleesipes as a Thunderbird contributor it feels like listening to old friends :) and as a @mozilla contributor and someone who likes old computer stuff i like the history lessons :)


ThunderCast Episode #2: With Special Mozilla Guest Mike Conley

Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox features
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@Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 @Seasons of Jason 🎒 @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️ @Mozilla

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141 sticker packs already awarded in the first week of the Month of #LibreOffice! If you've not yet taken part, join in – you can learn and do great things: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #freesoftware #opensource
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Learn new skills! Join the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

Want to expand your skillset and gain experience with UX, marketing, documentation, QA or translations? Join the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve LibreOffice – a…
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#FreeSoftware #opensource #libreoffice

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#cURL + #Cloudflare = Information #leak? - So it seems, but why? I really honestly don't know. Everyone should make their own conclusions about this:
sami-lehtinen.net/blog/curl-cl…

Sami Lehtinen - cURL + Cloudflare = Information leak - But why

cURL + Cloudflare = Information leak - But why? To be honest, I really don't know. But I'm pretty sure, it will be figured out. I created a few unique URLs for my specific friends only.
www.sami-lehtinen.net
#cloudflare #curl #leak

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BLOG UPDATE: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Shows Of All Time (20 and 19). One programme led to Adrian Chiles being accosted by Robbie Williams on an escalator, the other led to Neil Hamilton doing a Basil Fawlty Hitler impression in court. But WHAT ARE THEY? brokentv.uk/2023/05/03/wake-up…
SCREENCAP: A CGI fish escaping from a toilet bowl in a flooded bathroom. It's the title sequence to a business news programme. Obviously.
SCREENCAP: A picture of a toy house. But it's from the Protect and Survive PIF. Eep.

Wake Up Mario! It’s the 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (20 and 19)

Here we go. Top twenty. Big leagues. Every programme from this point on an absolute titan of British broadcasting. Starting with… 20: Working Lunch (Shown 3296 times, 1994-2010) I’m wil…
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On Samsung devices, Bixby, Samsung’s voice assistant, can be activated by pressing and holding the side key. If you want to set to activate Google Assistant by pressing the side key instead and wonder how to do it; John Dyer will tell you how this can be done in a few simple steps tinyurl.com/k8fbs5sw

Setting Google Assistant to a Long-Press of the Side Key on a Samsung Phone - Accessible Android

Bixby, Samsung's voice assistant, can be activated by pressing and holding the side key. If you want to set to activate Google Assistant by pressing the side key instead and wonder how to do it; In this article, I will tell you how this can be done i…
John Dyer (Erişilebilir Android)

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After 15 months of intense negotiations, the Digital Markets Act becomes the first significant law to regulate gatekeepers.

Finally, the #DMA will limit the power of Big Tech! 🥳

This will give users more choice & better privacy. 💪

Read more: 👉 tutanota.com/blog/posts/digita…


Big Tech lobby efforts failed to defang the Digital Markets Act!

With the DMA, EU adopts the strongest antitrust laws for digital companies we’ve seen to date.
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This Wed I'll be presenting a half-day Web Accessibility Webinar (a crash course). It's free via INDATA. eastersealstech.com/a11y/ #a11y

A11y – Basic Web and Document Accessibility - Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads

Need Accessibility Help? Easterseals Crossroads offers web and document accessibility services to ensure everyone, regardless of ability, has access to information.
Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads
#a11y

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⚡ Si os apetece formaros en temas de #ComunidadesEnergéticas y #EnergíaSolar este curso os puede interesar.

Está organizado por La oficina de Transición Energética, y le podéis preguntar a @Trex que anda por aquí:

oficinatransicionenergetica.co…


Gestor Comunidades Energéticas - oficina de transicion energetica

oficina de transicion energetica
#comunidadesenergeticas #energiasolar @Trex

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ÚLTIMA HORA | El pacto de patronal y sindicatos sobre subida salarial incluye finalmente una revisión anual según la inflación.

Consulta la letra pequeña del acuerdo sobre bajas laborales, jubilación parcial y desconexión digital eldiario.es/economia/claves-pa…

Claves del pacto de patronal y sindicatos: subida salarial, bajas laborales, jubilación parcial y desconexión digital

Tras meses de negociaciones, las patronales y sindicatos mayoritarios han cerrado el texto de un nuevo Acuerdo Estatal de Negociación Colectiva (AENC), a cuyo borrador ha tenido acceso elDiario.
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Ya sabéis que tengo mi particular cruzada a favor de poner el ALT. El ALT, lo explico por si acaso, es el texto descriptivo de las imágenes, algo especialmente valioso para las personas con dificultades visuales.

Os cuento esto porque acabo de ver un tuit con el mejor ALT que he leído jamás y os lo tengo que compartir.

Sí, sé que es un link a Twitter, pero por esta ocasión merece la pena. Esto es describir una imagen bien y lo demás son tonterías.

twitter.com/AsperRevolution/st…

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Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!

We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.

Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Podcast #Firefox #OpenSource #Dev #Email #Linux


ThunderCast Episode #2: With Special Mozilla Guest Mike Conley

Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox features
Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
#linux #email #firefox #opensource #mozilla #podcast #dev @Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️

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Alright, soapbox time:

semianalysis.com/p/google-we-h…

I found this article today (thanks to @quinn posting it) and... I have a lot of feelings

Firstly, it enrages me; secondly, it excites me; thirdly, it's revelatory; fourthly, it's frightening.


Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI
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Hazel Weakly

Firstly... Fuck absolutely everything about closed source. Look at this. Look at this bullshit right here.

ONE thing gets leaked. ONE. Within the blink of an eye the industry is lit on fire, rebaptized in the fires of open source, and jumps *decades* worth of innovation.

Just imagine: How much good in this world that we have left behind to rot in the ashes of closed source; ponder the carcasses of ruined corporations and the gems buried within.

Disgusting. What wasted potential for humanity.

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Cuando te deniegan la hipoteca porque hace 10 años sufriste un cáncer

Los supervivientes aseguran que las entidades financieras los discriminan al tratar de contratar un producto por haber padecido cáncer. Piden que se regule el derecho al olvido oncológico

elmundo.es/espana/2023/05/07/6…


Cuando te deniegan la hipoteca porque hace 10 años sufriste un cáncer

Alfonso Dacasa, barcelonés de 39 años, entendió de golpe la importancia del "derecho al olvido oncológico" el día que acudió a una entidad bancaria para pedir un...
Ana María Ortiz (El mundo)

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So my tool that I'm making is being made with Game Maker. Game Maker doesn't have built in Text To Speech capabilities, so I hired someone to make a DLL for GameMaker so GMS2 games can now work with NVDA, SAPI, JAWS, and a few others I never heard of! If you use GameMaker, check it out since it's licensed under LPGL! Also tell the developer they did good because they did!

github.com/Gannio/GMSTolkTalk

#GameDev #A11y #GameMaker #GMS2


GitHub - Gannio/GMSTolkTalk: A DLL Library for Game Maker Studio that adds support for Speech/Braille interface.

A DLL Library for Game Maker Studio that adds support for Speech/Braille interface. - GitHub - Gannio/GMSTolkTalk: A DLL Library for Game Maker Studio that adds support for Speech/Braille interface.
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#a11y #gamedev #gamemaker #gms2
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🎯#Objetivo10000
📡El Salto Radio empieza a emitir 24 horas.
El Salto Radio lanza una emisora 24/7 con contenidos propios y de radios libres dentro de una campaña para ampliar nuestra comunidad y hacer sostenible nuestro proyecto.

⭕️Ya puedes escuchar nuestra radio en directo aquí👇
elsaltodiario.com/directos/rad…

Donde importa gracias a ti, Objetivo 10000 El Salto Un número 24 en grande con un símbolo de emisión de ondas encima.

El Salto Radio | Emisora en directo

Te encuentras en las puertas de entrada de la Emisora Radiofónica En Directo de EL SALTO. Nuestra radio es horizontal y asamblearia. EL SALTO RADIO está sostenido sobre máquinas autónomas propias.
www.elsaltodiario.com
#objetivo10000

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Hi everyone,

In-Process is out, this time featuring more on tables in Excel and reading table headers, info on Landmarks on the web, and not one but several new voice options we found for you to try. Check it out from the "Blog" link on the website or directly at:

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-8…


In-Process 8th May 2023

It’s the third In-Process since NVDA 2023.1 came out, so we’re all out of new things from that version to talk about, right? ….. Not at all! Let’s go: Table Headers in Excel Back in February, we ta…
NV Access

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NV Access

@davetaylor2112 Is it the reading order you are upset about? That was what you indicated in the earlier message? There is a lot of nuance to it that can take awhile to get familiar with, and everone has their own ideas, but this issue: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… (and the related ones linked in it) is basically a request for that.

Allow users to change the order in which object properties are reported in speech and braille · Issue #7232 · nvaccess/nvda

There have been opened some issues in the past regarding the order of speech and braille output. For example, we have issue #4629 which covers Reading Column & Row Titles before the content instead...
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NV Access

@davetaylor2112 Also know that the reason we made the change to landmarks in the first place was because the irregularity was pointed out by users who wanted it fixed - and indeed it was actually a regression - NVDA used to read landmarks as it does now, but some of those reading cues were accidentally lost in a previous update. Just about everything in NVDA is done at user's request, not just for the developers :)
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NV Access

@davetaylor2112 Thanks for the complement - and yes, we are always interested in improving so feedback is welcome. With the reading order, definitely it is worth commenting on that issue I linked to as that will prompt our devs to look at it anew. We know add-on breakages are a pain, and we are working on improvements to the add-on system. We wrote up a lot of the rationale behind add-on breakages in our blog recently: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

In-Process 10th March 2023

We’ve got a bumper issue for you this week: A release candidate, conferences and add-on info! NVDA 2023.1 Release Candidate The big news this week is the release of the NVDA 2023.1 Release Ca…
NV Access
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NV Access

@davetaylor2112 We don't make you use Git - we have email, telephone support, we're here on Mastodon and on other platforms.... We use GitHub to keep track of our issues & code - it keeps it all in the one place, easy for contributors to join in as well. If you have an issue that you can articulate, we certainly encourage you to add it there because that is where developers will pick it up from & if they have a question, it's easier for them to ask you, than going through say me (Quentin).
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NV Access

It would definitely be worth you all commenting on github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… to add your feedback - interested developers will see it and hopefully it will kickstart interest in the feature among those who can implement it :)

(Apologies if you saw the first version of this toot - it didn't insert the link to the GitHub issue, and inserted a .... I don't know part of a screen snip or something?)


Allow users to change the order in which object properties are reported in speech and braille · Issue #7232 · nvaccess/nvda

There have been opened some issues in the past regarding the order of speech and braille output. For example, we have issue #4629 which covers Reading Column & Row Titles before the content instead...
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NV Access

@kev @Brynify @davetaylor2112 The toot you replied to links to an issue to change the order in which NVDA reports things. Reporting of many properties can be set from NVDA's Document Formatting settings - there's info (and links to the user guide) in this post: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6… - you can set that on a per-program basis using configuration profiles: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… But if that doesn't match what you've got in mind, then yes, definitely do create an issue: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

Issues · nvaccess/nvda

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - Issues · nvaccess/nvda
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NV Access

@davetaylor2112 @ppatel @Brynify @alexhall These would definitely be worth creating issues on github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… for - especially if you can break down exactly what could be improved with Excel support.

Issues · nvaccess/nvda

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - Issues · nvaccess/nvda
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Pratik Patel

@davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall It would be helpful if we could get a roadmap on some of the major issues already listed in the issue tracker for Excel. There are some major ones here.

github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…


Issues · nvaccess/nvda

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - Issues · nvaccess/nvda
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@ppatel @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall I don't have a roadmap, but essentially, it will be the P2 issues (there aren't any P1's there): github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… then the P3: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… Then the P4: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… with any that don't currently have a priority label in whichever group they get classified as.

BUT, that's just how WE have prioritised them - anyone from the community with the skills and interest is welcome to pick up one of those P4 issues and work on it now


Issues · nvaccess/nvda

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Pratik Patel

@KaraLG84 @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall There seems to be a philosophy pervading among some of the contributors who are actively developing or otherwise helping out with the NVDA project that, if a feature being requested isn't available to sighted people, it should be developed through an add-on. I don't want to rant about this here. But this seems less than effective.
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NV Access

@ppatel @KaraLG84 @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall It's something which can certainly be argued many different ways. Basically, our belief is that a screen reader should, first and foremost, give users access to the information a sighted user sees on screen. This doesn't mean that "if a sighted user can't see it, a screen reader shouldn't provide it", but it does mean we prioritise ensuring that information a sighted user has is provided.
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NV Access

@ppatel @KaraLG84 @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall If I open the elements list on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_… I can instantly tell that there are 2413 links - not something a sighted user has easy access to - but potentially informative in helping to know how to navigate the page. It is something which needs to be considered on a case by case basis
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NV Access

@ppatel @KaraLG84 @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall It doesn't make the request without merit, but it may influence the priority given for NV Access to work on it - but again, that doesn't stop anyone else picking it up either to submit a PR for it, or to create an add-on (that's just a general comment - I haven't looked at the issue)
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Pratik Patel

@KaraLG84 @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall I just replied to a feature request that was closed. My feelings and beliefs are incapsulated in that comment in general.

github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…


Windows 10: Battery status script change to make it report time till fully charged · Issue #5259 · nvaccess/nvda

Reported by leonarddr on 2015-08-01 19:26 It seems that Windows 10 has the ability to indicate how long it will take until the battery of a laptop or tablet is charged. It might be interesting to c...
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NV Access

@ppatel @KaraLG84 @davetaylor2112 @Brynify @alexhall I just commented on that issue - it's too long to share in its entirety here, but basically: Battery life is useful for everyone. The case should be put to Microsoft, it is not a screen reader function, but if you want to make an add-on for it, go for it. Other examples cited (font information and elements list) either are available in one form or another to sighted users, or an equivalent (eg quickly navigation to the right part of a page).
@Alex Hall @Bri😻 @Pratik Patel @Dave Taylor @Kara Goldfinch

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Thinking, as I often do, about Stephen Hawking's voice, which began as a hardware synthesizer card connected to an Apple II and ended up as a software emulated version of that same card because he rebuffed all well-intentioned upgrades for 30 years because *it was his voice*.

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Stephen Hawking gives a talk during NASA's 50th anniversary celebrations at George Washington University

Exclusive: The Silicon Valley quest to preserve Stephen Hawking’s voice

Eric Dorsey, a 62-year-old engineer in Palo Alto, was watching TV Tuesday night when he started getting texts that Stephen Hawking had died.
Jason Fagone (San Francisco Chronicle)

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Thoughtful piece from @mgifford How OMB can improve .gov #accessibility federalnewsnetwork.com/comment…

How OMB can improve .gov accessibility

Michael Gifford, a senior strategist at CivicActions, offers suggestions for how the federal government can borrow ideas and concepts from other countries to make sure all citizens can access federal…
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#Accessibility @Mike Gifford, CPWA

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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 7 updated and 2 added apps:

* Food-E: get information about artificial additives found in Processed foods
* Waterfly III: personal finance manager

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo
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