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My semi-anual reminder to turn on braille mode in Google Docs/sheets/slides if you are a screenreader user. Do this even if you are not a braille user. It does far more than enable support for braille displays.
What it actually does is place the document in an off-screen content editable. This allows you to use normal screenreader commands to access things, E.G. insert+down arrow for say all. Without braille mode on, the content is in a black box that communicates state changes via live regions, relying 100% on the browser to do so correctly. This mode is considered legacy and is no longer developed.
This has been the case for 8+ years but Google is bad at branding, leaving it to me to inform the good people of Mastodon.
You’re welcome!
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“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” - says US judge.
#Google paid billions to keep its #monopoly, but must stop now! 💰
Learn more 👉tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…
BBC news: bbc.com/news/articles/c0k44x6m…
Google's online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules
The decision is a major blow to Alphabet, Google's parent company, and could reshape how technology giants operate.Nadine Yousif and Michelle Fleury (BBC News)
Tim Walz changed the 2024 election with a single viral diss—and earned a VP nod because of it — Fast Company
The Minnesota governor handed Democrats a potent political weapon at a critical time in the campaign.apple.news
I don’t know wha’s worse: very rich people with a luxury life encouraging poor people to fight against very poor? (I mean, you are already rich, why messing up the world?)
Or the poor people listening revering those very rich bastards and obeying (I mean, isn’t it obvious that they are not in your camp?)
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"Bamboo HR’s findings show that about one-quarter of vice presidents and C-suite executives implemented return-to-office policies in hopes of prompting voluntary resignations. Similarly, around 20 percent of HR professionals indicated that their in-office policies were designed to make workers quit."
Hello hello Jamers 😎
😍 Here's how to easily share your ID with other users❗️🤖🍎
#Jami #opensource #P2P #PrivacyMatters #App
Are you a #Finance person with #OpenSource experience?
We (OpenUK.uk/) want to hire someone with experience in grant applications & administration and managing invoicing / reconciliation via Xero
You *must* have worked in open source.
If that's you, and you would like to discuss the role please drop me a DM here or on LinkedIn.
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Genuine contempt for customers is one thing. Like the dude that soiled his pants right before coming into the restaurant and then just sat down in a booth. The servers have a right to hate that guy.
The thing that really gets me is the completely-unthinking, by-default contempt for customers. Like "here, download our app and create an account to return your rented truck" It's the default mode for business. How did we let this happen?
This is fine.
A reminder that assistive technology (AT) covers more than screen readers. Using “AT” to mean solely SRs is a regular source of confusion between and among clients, vendors, and practitioners, so yeah I have things to say about it:
adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-i…
AT Is More Than Screen Readers
A screen reader is a single element of the overall set of assistive technologies. In practice, however, each is often used as a metonym for the other. Well, hello there. It’s nice to see you.Adrian Roselli
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LibreOffice Conference 2024: Extending the Call for Papers deadline - The Document Foundation Blog
Come and give a talk at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2024 which will take place from October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg! Our Call for Papers is open, and we are extending the submission deadline until August 31.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Live updates as annual glacial outburst flooding impacts Juneau's Mendenhall Valley
The Mendenhall River crested at 15.99 feet just past 3 a.m. and has started to fall.Anna Canny (KTOO)
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#Purism #PureOS
PSA: Your generic, old-timey images of bankers taking over the world or such like are usually slight variations of antisemitic caricatures.
If you're not sure or you see Jews objecting, take down the image or at least don't boost it.
Be wary of any human symbolising greedy banker and also avoid octopi, but there are other good images for illustrating hedge funds being evil.
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Accessibility of Job Search: Screener Survey for Remote Interviews
Researchers at Northeastern University are conducting a research study to understand how blind and low vision people search for and apply to job and develop accessible solutions for enhancing their experiences during job search and application.Google Docs
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Storm Cloud Over Texas
Image Credit & Copyright: Laura Rowe (Used with permission)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240806.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2024 August 6 – Storm Cloud Over Texas
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
TIL that in the UK some low voltage electrical cables feature "an uninsulated plain copper earth continuity conductor". It is then sleeved by Green/Yellow only during installation for identification purposes.
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ALSO, I don’t want to hear that Black folx being attacked by racist is a UNIVERSAL fediverse issue because it’s NOT
Bluesky had a terrible rollout and I refused to share my codes with anyone AND yet, since they’ve opened things up, I have NOT received ONE “n'gger”, “go back to Africa”, or some form of “ape” comment there AND I SHARE THE EXACT SAME SHIT THERE THAT I DO HERE
So “good white folx” IT IS MASTODON‼️
Now fix it or get comfortable with becoming the next 4chan 🤷🏾♀️
@CurtAdams @Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
White people maybe "see" racism when it is blatently obvious, but often not even then. Reason is clear: having been lifelong "trained" by white society to be Racists, all the daily "normal", "subtle", "subliminal", "hidden" etc Racist messages and tropes are designed to keep you Racist and not being able to see them.
That is why we BIPoC almost daily face the situation to be seen as overly sensitive, because almost all whites aren't even able to recognize the "normality" of racism: in their mannerisms, languages, behaviour, and so on.
So your comment is at least "funny", opposing the information you have just got from @Kim Crayton ~ Her/She and believing what you can see or not, has somehow more weight than what a BIWoC says, directly contradicting her.
Congratulations: normal behavior for a white male, I'd say.
Enjoy your Mastodon "without Racism". 😉
John Haley
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •Some of those have been laying off people for months like their stock was crashing. It just took a while for the stock price to catch up :)
Also I think we have a bit of an AI bubble that's popping. I closed out all of my positions on #NVDA on July 1st which wasn't exactly the peak but pretty close to it.
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