The true cost of not prioritizing accessibility: Avoid risk and maximize product ROI
"...if a bug is found in the requirements-gathering phase, the cost could be $100. If the product owner doesn’t find that bug until the QA testing phase, then the cost could be $1,500. If it’s not found until production, the cost could be $10,000."
productledalliance.com/the-tru… #a11y #roi #productmanagement
The true cost of overlooking accessibility in your product
The American Institute for Research (AIR) reports that people with disabilities have a purchasing power of $490 billion. This market controls over $13 trillion in disposable income globally, according to the Return on Disability Organization.David Sloan (Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth)
We are fourteen days from the pending next #curl release.
At 11 changes and 214 merged bugfixes. One CVE.
41 persons (10 new) have authored commits in the source code repository since we shipped 8.8.0.
Last chance to sign up for our #GUADEC 2024 Downtown Denver Walking Tour! Register today to reserve your spot: buff.ly/460nbRn
#GUADEC2024 #GNOME #SocialEvent
Stepping down as GNOME Internships organizer
For the past nine years, I’ve been actively involved in our internship initiatives with Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. As an alumnus of these programs, I firmly believe they are great ways to onboard new contributors to GNOME and help students start a career in open-source software.
However, as my work responsibilities have grown and I’ve started some personal (non-software) projects, I’ve found myself with less time and energy for this type of contribution.
I’ve been discussing this with key people over the past year, and I plan to stay around to hand over responsibilities to other members of the Internship Committee. I will continue helping manage things for 2024, but I won’t be directly involved beyond that.
If you’re interested in helping with these activities, please reach out to the GNOME Internship Committee.
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Internship Committee
The GNOME Internship Committee is a committee of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directions. It is responsible for promoting, organizing, and conducting internship programs such as Outreachy, Google ...GNOME Project Handbook
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Went down a rabbit hole reading up on adventure game history and half way through I’m thinking “nearly every genre-defining game has its own engine”. No one in gaming says “oh, why’d you reinvent a game engine for your game?” It’s clear why… you’re creating something unique and you need an engine tuned to its needs. And you want to be able to use the engine for other, similar, games.
Which made me think: Kitten is the game engine for the Small Web.
It blows my mind that it is possible to replicate a Macintosh on such minimal hardware. An RPi Pico could not just fit in my pocket, I could stuff dozens in there. Here is the story of how it was done.
"MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5"
Matt Evans
@Mattmos
axio.ms/projects/2024/06/16/Mi…
nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wi…
And I want to say I'm loving the state of #GNOME's app ecosystem. Lots of apps, most of them really nice, many of them incredibly polished and well designed. The vision of small applications that do one thing and do it great was never so close.
All my love for the developers of these and many other great applications out there, and also for the GNOME community, for creating the ground for such an ecosystem to grow.
In einer Welt, in der Smartwatches und Fitness-Tracker immer beliebter werden, wird eine zentrale Frage immer drängender: Wie sicher sind unsere Daten? Die meisten dieser Geräte sind auf proprietäre Apps angewiesen, die häufig persönliche Informationen, wie Gesundheitsdaten, an externe Server übermitteln. Für viele Nutzer, die Wert auf den Schutz ihrer Privatsphäre legen, stellt dies ein ernsthaftes Problem dar. Hier kommt die Gadgetbridge ins Spiel. 👇
kuketz-blog.de/gadgetbridge-sm…
Gadgetbridge: Smartwatches/Fitness-Tracker datenschutzfreundlich nutzen – Teil 1
Gadgetbridge ist eine hervorragende Open-Source-Lösung zur unabhängigen Verwaltung von Smartwatches und Fitness-Trackern.www.kuketz-blog.de
A fascinating and disturbing look at how finite-element engineering simulations, though potentially very accurate, are nonetheless sometimes wildly wrong thanks to old/misused code, and dodgy shortcuts that Gilbert Strang calls “variational crimes”.
scientificamerican.com/article…
How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer
Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reliableManil Suri (Scientific American)
Buenos días, gente. Hoy sale el boletín de noticias de Administración Electrónica del ministerio competente y os traigo algunas.
El estudio de indicadors de salud electrónica muestra mejoras en la UE para el acceso a datos sanitarios. España entre los 4 países que no ofrecen acceso centralizado. administracionelectronica.gob.…
Informe especial del Eurobarómetro 2024 sobre percepción de los ciudadanos en materia de digitalización. 75% considera que la digitalización pública y privada les hace la vida más fácil, 19% mucho más fácil; 23% más difícil. 88% considera importante dar apoyo humano adecuado. administracionelectronica.gob.…
Informe sobre Gobierno Electrónico 2024 de la Comisión Europea. España está de 12. Destaca Carpeta Ciudadana y el Gemelo Digital de la Xunta. administracionelectronica.gob.…
Segundo informe de la década digital 2024. España en buen lugar, aunque necesita mejorar el número de especialistas técnicos. administracionelectronica.gob.…
Se inicia la comunicación entre órganos judiciales y registros. Tarde, pero llega. administracionelectronica.gob.…
También hay una noticia sobre el sistema de verificación de mayoría de edad, pero ya estamos todos hartos del tema. Se extiende un programa de Administración digital que hasta ahora era para ayuntamienos e menos de 8000 habitantes. Por último, se aprueba el acuerdo de flujo de datos EU-Japón.
#EU #Administración #AdministraciónDigital #AdministraciónElectrónica
Se inicia la implantación de las comunicaciones electrónicas automáticas entre los órganos judiciales y los Registros de la Propiedad, Bienes Muebles y Mercantiles
Estos intercambios electrónicos no sólo mejorarán los plazos y la agilidad del servicio público de Justicia sino que también mejorarán la seguridad jurídica, asegurando que las transacciones se hagan de manera inmediata y automática.administracionelectronica.gob.es
Europeans with disabilities continue to face pervasive problems in workplace and labour market accessibility, according to a new report by the European Disability Forum. Obstacles highlighted include a lack of accessible hiring practices and insufficient provision of assistive technology.
@SuspiciousDuck
@tytko_Slovakia Za Meciara:
- Posledny nech zhasne.
Za Fica:
- Posledny nech zmaze vsetky loga.
Balinese Flutes: Andre Louis Performance
A mystical jam by keyboard maestro Andre Louis, playing Soniccouture Balinese Flutes VST.https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/31-ethnic/g85-balinese-flutes/YouTube
hell yeah lmao
“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025
unpaywalled link: 12ft.io/proxy?q=theintercept.c…
sidenote: fuck paywalls and fuck loginwalls equally as much
"this is not a paywall, and joining is free" FUCK OFF
A quick look at the Accessibility Options of the Android operating system - Accessible Android
Accessibility signifies that everyone, including individuals with disabilities, has equal and effective access to social, physical, and digital spaces,Hasan Çimen (Accessible Android)
Glidance raises $1.5M to develop robots for visually impaired
Glidance has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding for its Glide robot that offers autonomous mobility assistance for the visually impairedSteve Crowe (The Robot Report)
the article mentions that this actually has previous generations?
maybe I should buy one?
Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:
404media.co/a-beloved-tech-blo…
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
TUAW has now changed its "writers' names" to random other things. "Christina Warren" is now "Mary Brown."
So now it has "just" bastardized the work of these journalists and is polluting the internet, but at least is not stealing their names and poisoning their search results ...... success?
This Person Does Not Exist - Random Face Generator
Generate random human face in 1 click and download it! AI generated fake person photos: man, woman or child.sashaborm (Google)
Positon
Positon location service Free-of-charge, network-based location service for the open-source software community Get Started No strings attached Every open-source project can consume data from Positon free of charge.positon.xyz
This 2TB flash drive is under $50 for a limited time
Keep all of your most important files handy with this sleek, portable 2TB flash drive.DealPost Team (PCWorld)
Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the domains they register. For no particular reason, I was looking at the domain footprint of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and found a phone number connected to her over the years that was used to register mtgforamerica[.]us back in 2021. The domain's registration records are hidden behind privacy services from anonymize.com, but their privacy system assigns a unique email to each private registrant, so you can still do a reverse search on that and find out what other domains are registered by the same account.
Domaintools finds 21683@anonymize.com was used to register 156 domains, including supportkylerittenhouse[.]com and repealjuneteenth.com. Here's the full list if anyone's interested: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
21683@anonymize.com
Sheet1 21683@anonymize.com Domain Name,Create Date,Registrar 2anewsdaily.com,2021-09-07,GoDaddy.com, LLC advantage-consulting-llc.Google Docs
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Deal Alert! Amazon's New Fire Max 11 Tablet is On Sale For Just $159.99 Lowest Price Ever | Cord Cutters News
Looking for a great deal on a tablet? Amazon’s most powerful and largest tablet, the new Fire Max 11, is on sale right now for $159.99, that’s $70 off the list price of $229.99.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
Get 5 Free Months of Amazon Music Unlimited With This Early Prime Day Deal
Prime Members can get an extended trial of this underrated music service.Jason Coles (CNET)
Part 1 of my #GNOMECalendar #webcal subscriptions #UX bugfixing trilogy has been merged today! No more duplicate calendars created by accident when adding a web calendar URL 🥳 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
Avoid duplication when adding online calendars (!417) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab
To visually make sense from a UI standpoint, chronologically, this soft-depends on the cleanup changes provided inGitLab
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Audiobook Consolidation Continues: RBmedia to Acquire Dreamscape Media - Good e-Reader
The Audiobook industry is the fastest-growing segment in digital publishing. In 2023, the format generated $2 billion in the United States alone. The industry is in a state of consolidation. Audiobooks.Michael Kozlowski (Good e-Reader)
Gamescom commits to event accessibility - Can I Play That?
Gamescom shared requirements and recommendations for exhibitors, to ensure and improve accessibility of stands at the show.Marijn / ActiveB1t (Can I Play That?)
spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-o…
I"m convinced that any software deployed for medical reasons - implants, tools, analytics, doesn't matter - needs toolchains that generate reproducible builds stored in escrow that are made free and public the moment device support ends.
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the darkEliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)
States across the country will receive up to $2.5 million each in federal grants from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to support children’s health services in local schools.
This funding comes from President Biden’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. #BidenHarris2024 #ActuallyProLife
CMS Awards 18 States Up to $2.5 Million Each to Advance Medicaid and CHIP School-Based Services – Center For Children and Families:
ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/06/27/…
CMS Awards 18 States Up to $2.5 Million Each to Advance Medicaid and CHIP School-Based Services
This week, on the two-year anniversary of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is awarding grants to 18 states for implementati…Center For Children and Families
oookay.
So not only do we believe that Harry Potter is magically descended from dragons, but Draco Malfoy is a Gay veela?.
Also story takes a spot for the number of times one can misspell Avada Kedavra. Lots of things misspelled lots of times across the fandom, (like Fidelius ) but it's the great AK in this silly fanfic.
[DragonKin ](fanfiction.net/s/5475405/1/Dra…)
while we've managed to scrimp and save to make it to kitsune tails' release day, releasing august 1st means we won't see any money for almost 2 months until its the end of september
our other games are currently on sale on itch at eniko.itch.io/ and steam at store.steampowered.com/bundle/… and buying some or all of them would help tremendously
EDIT: just for clarity this is a "we're worried about making rent" situation and not "oh no the business' coffers are looking a little bit empty"
There's still time to join our summer sweepstake and get a chance to win a pair of Envision Glasses or fabulous discounts and prizes 🎉
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Envision Glasses Demo Form
Request a free demo for the Envision Glasses. Articulating everyday visual information into speech. And, with this information, comes the feeling of independence and the perception of possibilities.www.letsenvision.com
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