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I was on @mike's Dot Social podcast to talk about Mastodon, #Threads (not the 1984 movie), and the social web. If you've got questions about any of those things, maybe we've covered them!
The final In-Process blog for the year is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.1 Beta 1, a note about our Christmas trading hours, a guide for Gmail users, an update on web accessibility overlays & activities to keep you busy over the holidays!
We are taking a break over Christmas, so please be patient if you don't get a response as fast as normal! For anything urgent, please email info@nvaccess.org Have a very happy, holy & safe Christmas and New Year! #News
The last In-Process of the year is here! But we’re already well-advanced preparing for a big 2024 with the first beta of 2024.1 now available, so this is a long one: NVDA 2024.1 Beta 1 As we reach …
Like most old webheads, I harbor an incredibly deep well of good feeling towards Mozilla. I remember installing the various SeaMonkey R18+ releases on my Linux work boxes in, like, 1999 – at about the time I was president of a Linux User Group and helped to grow it to the largest CS student group at Purdue.
It's with that brainstem-level fellow feeling that I ask, in all seriousness, why won't they theystand up for browser choice?
My guess is that either they don't have the resources to fight that fight, or they think that browser choice on iOS would, in fact, only serve to reinforce the Chromium monoculture that has already taken hold on desktop.
Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines.
I've just posted a release candidate for #GNU #Autoconf 2.72. Please spread the word and test it as thoroughly as possible **in the next 48 hours**. If I don't hear about any show-stopper bugs I intend to make the final release at about this time on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023.
If I *do* hear about show-stopper bugs, the release is going to be pushed back until end of January 2024 at the earliest because I'll be on vacation for the next three weeks.
The Rotor has long been a staple of VoiceOver on iOS. It allows users to perform many tasks without having to alter the position of the cursor or move to the
The maintainer of the Orca screen reader, Joanie Diggs, has made noteworthy enhancements in recent weeks. I mention them here for the benefit of those who are not following these developments or who are not regular Linux screen reader users. Many of the improvements are performance-related, taking advantage of the cache of accessibility tree nodes maintained by the AT-SPI service. Table processing has received particular attention, and fundamental changes are underway in the code that handles users' keystrokes, some of which need to be interpreted as screen reader commands, with the remainder being passed through to the application. I have been testing some of the changes along the way, as have other users active on the Orca mailing list. Rapid and precise bug reports continue to contribute to the development process. At this point, it is reasonable to expect these valuable improvements to appear in a release during the first half of 2024, presumably as part of GNOME 46. #linux #orca #ScreenReader #AssistiveTechnology #accessibility #Gnome
Save the dates: our next #GUADEC will take place July 19-24, 2024 in Denver, US! We're excited to return to North America for #GUADEC2024 and hope to see you all in person or online in July for this hybrid event: foundation.gnome.org/2023/12/2…
"Oxygen extraction by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of #exerciseIntolerance after #COVID"
"Patients are told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity. Our findings contradict that hypothesis."
«I have for most of my life – because I was sort of born into it – run Apple. Now recently, meaning within the last five years, I've become more and more and more depressed [...] And I've come, within the last month or two, to say: even though I've invested a zillion years in Apple, I'm throwing it away, and I'm going to Linux. To Raspbian, in particular».
Nice, the European Union has officially stated that accessible overlays do not work. This isn't news to most of us, but it's always nice to have something official to point at!
Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.
"Most importantly, tooltips should only provide descriptive and non-essential text, giving slightly more detailed text for active elements such as links and form controls. Ultimately, they provide expendable text which is already on the web page."
Great in-depth article about #tooltips by Jan Hellbusch. He knows what he's talking about, had the pleasure to be in one of his workshops and he's an absolute pro. 🤯
Another article on #OpenSource, this time written by Richard Pope, who was one of the founding members of the UK’s #GDS. There is just so much for which governments can benefit by engaging with the open source communities that they use. Furthermore, the government contributing their work back to the public #GitHub or #GitLab repositories makes the code more secure and drives down the costs for #DigitalGovernment.
Just a friendly reminder that the Thunderbird Team will be away starting December 22, and coming back January 2. support.mozilla.org is available for community support. Please use bugzilla.mozilla.org for reporting bugs and connect.mozilla.org for sharing your brilliant ideas, and we will check in once we're back in 2024.
We're happy to get to rest and recharge, and we hope you can too. Make time for the people and things that matter, be kind to yourself, and we'll see you in 2024!
The location of your data cannot guarantee freedom from #surveillance. 📷
#Switzerland has long been treated as a safe haven for your #data, but the Swiss government actively works with the EU and US by sharing data with #law enforcement and #intelligence agencies. 🚨
Protect your #privacy and your data by choosing strong #encryption! 💪 🔒
It's pretty obvious what you are getting at. To be honest, I do not like this "negative" advertising, trying to make competitor look worse, rather than promoting yourself. I have noticed this several times already and this time its an unfollow from all media. No country is "the best" when it comes to privacy, we all know. But a childish stab at swiss privacy competitors from a company based in Germany is a joke.
@dieTasse Proton seems to really not like the truth about "Swiss privacy" being nothing special. The only reason we did point this out is that their promotion of Swiss privacy being better is an exaggeration, even the Swiss themselves say so: steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/pro…
ProtonMail, nach eigenen Angaben ein «sicherer E-Mail-Dienst aus der Schweiz», liefert Nutzerdaten an Sicherheitsbehörden. Nutzerdaten gehen auch an Strafverfolgungsbehörden in den USA, wie ein aktuelles Verfahren zeigt.
@dieTasse In regards to their post about of our encryption having a vulnerability:
This is not a vulnerability in Tuta. We have built Tuta with multiple layers of protection for our users. We currently use TLS and DANE to protect authentication and data integrity and (only tunneled) RSA-OAEP and AES-CBC to provide confidentiality. We have always communicated this transparently, it is nothing new. Neither the confidentiality nor the integrity of our users' data has been at risk.
@dieTasse However, we know that the implementation is not perfect regarding this detail. That is why we have also implemented the following security features since this has been reported first:
2FA & Simple verification of Tutanota apps
We are currently starting to roll out new encryption algorithms. Enforcing MACs is part of this upgrade, just as post-quantum secure algorithms, authentication & signature verification. We already have a working prototype of this hybrid encryption protocol.
you know what, I don't really care what you do or don't do. I have nothing more to say to you. Until you stop trying to find a way to throw dirt on others and focus on you and your customers. I am cancelling my tuta subscription and probably not comming back.
you didn't like people's reponses much huh? Locking reddit discussion about your post, blocking everybody who didn't agree. You behave like google and you dont even think you are doing something wrong.
Finally managed to blog about a project I did earlier this year! If you want to see how perfectly integrated Android App support on mobile Linux can look, check this out: blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023…
Finally managed to blog about a project I did earlier this year! If you want to see how perfectly integrated Android App support on mobile Linux can look, check this out: blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023…
(E)mbrace - Android app support (E)xtend - better integration and UX for native apps (we need proper runtime power management!!) (E)xtinguish - "ew why would you make your app on that old stack"
ok I'm not entirely serious, but I really feel like this is a logical step to take, if you can replace the core system without breaking UX, you make the learning curve for moving to better native apps a lot more comfortable. It's less of a scary cliff dive to make the switch to Linux Mobile.
Doesn't that argument hold even without Waydroid/AppSupport? If you care about reaching all Android users, you're going to have to use Android's toolkits. The only reason to use GTK/Qt/libadwaita is if you really want to support that ecosystem, and that will still be the case even if Waydroid/AppSupport is also an option.
@alatiera @sonny We're not a company though (i.e. there's no single entity that can just pull funding from one day to the next), and we have the advantage of not being limited to phones. A big part of the success of Libadwaita is that you get mobile basically for free with desktop apps :)
@tbernard @alatiera @sonny libadwaita is really really cool. I'm really frustrated with the lack of consistent fractional coordinate support in GTK, it seems to be the source of a whole host of UX issues I didn't even consider - like the cursor handle droplet thing being really hard to use.
a super offtopic and maybe naive question/grip: will we begin to move past the whole "scale factor" thing with gtk5? like why aren't we just using units based on physical dimensions rather than pixels? A "scale factor" is just nonsensical....
@sonny @tbernard @alatiera the widget sizing is calculated with fractional coordinates but then it's rounded towards zero (cast to int). The pointer coordinates are also handled only as integers, and maybe some other calculations are wonky due to this. It makes them annoying to grab and use on the op6.
I hacked some of this up in gtk3 and it seemed to help, I think some improvements can be made similar to
gtk_widget_translate_coordinates() uses an int argument and thus cuts off any decimal parts. This can leads to reduces accuracy when e.g. measuring the distance of a drag.
on devices with non-zero scaling there are lots of subtle issues due to the use of integers everywhere. Try to fix some of the more obvious issues by using doubles...
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Aliendalvik is the primarily source of income for Jola (selling licenses for custom embedded usages), so it's quite unlikely they will open source it any time soon. Selling licenses for users of other Linux mobile projects might be a bit more realistic. 😔
amazing! While there are not as many Sailfish OS apps many of them are quite nice and it would be great for the linux mobile phone community to have access to as many apps as possible and remove the OS fragmentation- would it be easier or harder to get these apps to run in Arch or other mobile linux distributions? As far as i know there is no effort to port SFOS apps over..
Pálava, Klínovec a Ještěd. Road Classics rozdá cyklistické zážitky ve formě seriálu — Láká mě hlavně ta Pálava. Koukal jsem na videa z letošního ročníku a ta akce se mi náramně zamlouvá. #bikebudejcka.drbna.cz/zpravy/spole…
Po úspěšném pilotním ročníku projektu pro amatérské silniční cyklisty se z Road Classics stane plnohodnotný seriál. V roce 2024 zážitkově laděná událost postupně zamíří na Jižní Moravu, do Krušných hor a sezonu uzavře návratem na Ještěd.
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