For years, we used to explain to folks that we experienced a phonological delay in processing speech or sounds, and that it was likely linked to us being autistic.

We only later worked out that we're actually AuDHD (inattentive ADHD and autistic) and that there's an actual medical term for this: auditory processing disorder.

If you're some flavour of neurospicy, you might have it too without realising. Common signs and symptoms include:

• speaking louder or softer than is situationally appropriate;
• difficulty remembering lists or sequences;
• needing words or sentences to be repeated;
• impaired ability to memorize information learned by listening;
• interpreting words too literally;
• needing assistance to hear clearly in noisy environments;
• relying on accommodation and modification strategies;
• finding or requesting a quiet work space away from others;
• requesting written material when attending oral presentations; and
• asking for directions to be given one step at a time.

It heavily overlaps with ADHD and autism ​ ​

Hope this is helpful to someone ​

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAuDHD #ADHD #AuDHD #autistic #autism #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #APD #AuditoryProcessingDisorder

HTML and ARIA each have tri-state controls: the checkbox (HTML) and the toggle (ARIA, and ‘toggle’ is not its formal name). They have different purposes (form participant and not). They, appropriately, look and function differently. They live in isolation unless you group them appropriately. They are always watching you, judging.

“Check-All / Expand-All Controls”
adrianroselli.com/2024/03/chec…

This is an oblique reminder to choose the right control for the right purpose.

Check-All / Expand-All Controls

Controls that can operate other controls in bulk are not new. One common example is a single checkbox that allows you to check or uncheck a group of checkboxes.

^{Adrian Roselli}

Windows Recall doesn't just screenshot things, it OCR's the shots, and then stores the OCR as plaintext in a local SQLlite database.

I mean what the FUCK??!

I've said it before and I'll say, again, & again, & again, that jamming "AI" into everything without considering the privacy and security implications is a) going to cause a major breach of at least two US laws, and b) just a really silly and terrible idea which is going to put a lot of people in danger, and this "recall" shit is among the worst of it i've seen.

Windows 11 has just become a complete capture system disguised as an OS. Every keystroke, work session, video call, and downtime window, logged, correlated, and extrapolated. And they're trying to sell it to you as being a SERVICE.

So let me be as clear as possible about this: Fuck That, Forever.

Roll it BACK, microsoft

theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305…

Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’

Microsoft’s new Recall feature in Windows 11 has generated privacy and security concerns. One security researcher says it’s a potential “disaster” for cybersecurity.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

Even though this got already posted through the codeberg account, I just find it too funny to not post again separately.

#GPN22 teardown, the blåhajs are getting ready to leave.

I'm old enough to remember when Chrome rolled out automatic alt text descriptions, in the ancient past of 2019. blog.google/outreach-initiativ…

So controversial! We faced immediate backlash. "How dare you?" they said. "Google is taking all the good alt text production jobs!" they said. Nevertheless, we persisted, in the face of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Wait, I'm sorry. Actually, nobody said that, because it would have been really dumb.

Using AI to give people who are blind the “full picture”

Google is helping people who are blind browse the web by incorporating machine image descriptions in Chrome.

^{Dominic Mazzoni (Google)}

Not So Short Note on “aria-label” Usage—Big Table Edition, by @SteveFaulkner:

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

Access Announcement: Aira at JP Morgan Chase!

Starting today, June 3rd, Aira is thrilled to announce that Chase Bank is launching an Aira Access pilot, offering Aira for free at 44 Chase Bank Innovation Lab locations across the U.S.

Visitors to any of these Chase Bank locations can connect at the tap of a button with a professional visual interpreter or utilize Aira’s Access AI feature for free. Explorers have the peace of mind knowing they are working with professionally trained visual interpreters backed by Aira’s safety and security promise.

Whether locating the bank’s entrance and exit, navigating to the line to speak with a teller, withdrawing or depositing funds at an ATM, or reading printed banking materials, Chase now offers increased accessibility for its blind and low vision customers.
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Full list of locations on our latest blog post:
aira.io/chase-bank-launches-ai…
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#AccessForAll #OnYourTerms

Some of the emails I get are truly sad reflections of the complicated and rather sorry state of things we are in. Like this.

(also, apparently #curl is used in another popular game)

"Rainbow 6 Siege Activation issue"

bagder.github.io/emails/2024/2…

Not sure if this is a new @thunderbird feature, but I love this tracking link prevention popup that warns me about a mismatch between the link I just clicked on and the actual destination it would redirect me to... 💡

#thunderbird #mozilla #candidefindings

Hi friends,

In a last minute meeting between pre-op appointments preparing for my major craniotomy tomorrow, Scribely and I have agreed on terms to hand off the Alt-Text.org project.

The code will remain open source, and the project will become a 501(c)(3) with support from Scribely. Should the project be successful its operating costs will likely be considerable and I believe connections to industry are necessary to sustain its contributions to web accessibility.

💜 Hannah

Ever heard of the "millennial pause"? ... it's both making me feel a bit old, and making me dig my heels in because starting audio on the first frame of video is incorrect and broken for technical reasons. 😂

One reason being that some pipelines / devices take any opportunity to sleep, and then take a moment to get going again - like bluetooth headphones... This leaves you missing the first ~500ms or doing the forward-backward dance to start the media again.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenni…

This Microsoft Recall thing...

While it does actually omit things that it knows are sensitive (e.g. incognito mode in recognized browsers) from the screenshots it saves, things that it does not know about are all fair game.

DuckDuckGo browser? Never heard of it. Let's hoover up all the data we can get.
Signal? 🤷‍♂️ I'll just default to saving everything I see there.
You get the picture...

A critique of Cara.app: the 'No AI' Instagram and Artstation copycat child.
blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1032/a-c…

#cara #caraapp

More Truchet tiles, this time on a grid. These are so endlessly fun to iterate with.

CMYK archival inks on 11x15 watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot

I'm starting June with a big story: The US Association of Blind Athletes and Google have partnered together to make Pixel the official technology partner of the Assn. I talked to a bunch of people, including decorated Paralympian Lex Gillette, all about the news and more.

forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…

An Inside Look Into How The USABA Got Together With Google For Pixel Partnership

The USABA said the Bay Area-based titan of technology will provide a slew of Pixel products—phones, watches, earbuds, and more—to athletes in the USABA Sport Ambassador Program.

^{Steven Aquino (Forbes)}

The votes have been counted! Introducing the first elected Governing Board of the Matrix.org Foundation 🎉

Thanks to everyone who ran and everyone who voted, and congratulations to those who have been elected!

This is a huge milestone for Matrix, and now we can tackle the challenges we face with greater community involvement: matrix.org/blog/2024/06/electi…

#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #OpenGovernance

Introducing our first elected Governing Board

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Josh Simmons (matrix.org)}

New article: "Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language"

tesk.page/2024/06/03/libadwait…

#GNOME #GTK #Libadwaita #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GTK4 #Development

Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language

Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments.

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

Zasekl jsem se díky špatně dobíjejícímu se solárnímu kolu na 36h v překvapivě krásném národním parku a čekám tu na večerní bouřku...

#spain #pines #mountains #nature #landscape #thesuntrip2024

Time to switch!

➡️ Google Chrome has started to limit ad blocking with Manifest V3.

➡️ Firefox and others still support uBlock Origin and uMatrix.

What's your favorite #Chrome #alternative ⁉️

👉 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

Best Private Browsers 2024 | Top 10 To Stop Trackers

When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.

^Tutanota