It took over a year since I wrote this warning, but I finally found a case in the wild!
Well, *I* didn’t, but someone on the A11y Slack had an issue and I was able to identify it by description alone.
“Brief Note on Popovers with Dialogs”
adrianroselli.com/2023/05/brie…
Well done, me!
[ wrenches arm reaching for his own back]
Here's my new project, a keyboard for one-handed typing. Tens of thousands Ukrainians have injured arms and hands during the war, and my goal is to make an inexpensive keyboard for anyone to assemble at home.
github.com/clackups/qmk_usersp…
#accessibility #onehandtyping #disability #UkraineWar #ukraine #veterans
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Blazie Technologies has released a new update for all users of the BT Speak. It includes the following features.
• The help system now includes a text version of our Getting Started guide as well as a Getting Started audio tutorial. No Internet connection is required to access the tutorial.
• The Options menu has been restructured, making it much faster to get to the Settings menu; just press O-chord, S and you’re there.
• Link your BT Speak’s calendar with Google Calendar
• Link your BT Speak’s phone book with Google Contacts
• New languages available for the RH Voice text to speech engine
• Make a .zip archive of the help files for copying or reading on external media
• The Russian Braille table has been added.
Read more details by visiting
blazietech.com/august-28th-202…
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"Lunduke is the worst Linux Desktop Environment of all time"
Two ratkillers explore a hit piece directed at them.
Ach ihr habt sie doch nicht mehr alle. #NationaleNotlage .. ich glaub ich spinne. Wegen paar "Fremden" die zu uns kommen. 🙀
2015 ist der Kollege #Migrant hier über Felder & Wiesen geirrt und das war auch kein Problem. Großteil der Leute von damals stehen inzwischen in Lohn & Brot. Und zahlen #Steuern. (Im Gegensatz zu den Reichen.)
Oder gehts um #Terrorismus? JEDEN Tag werden hier mehr Menschen im so genannten "#Straßenverkehr" überfahren. Die Politik feiert das. 😒
zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deu…
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Že by se z Telegramu začal stávat OnlyFans? I k odemykání takového obsahu mohou sloužit #TelegramStars. 🌟😀
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Are you also concerned about the @EUCommission decision to cut the funding for #FreeSoftware projects?
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper 🗞️ to make their readers aware of the importance of funding #FreeSoftware solutions with a long-term sustainable funding:
Keď sa darí tak sa darí.
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I forget what the Drama™ was that caused me to stop using Bartender on #macOS, but I've been happily using Ice as a replacement github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
Today I just got Software Update message for the latest version, and it warms my heart because it adds #accessibility support
Whenever you see a good app adding or improving accessibility support, please share the news. We need to normalize adding accessibility to all apps.
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As a reminder, don't forget to join Blazie Technologies to learn more about the BT Speak, a pocket computer for the blind, on Main Menu Live: Wednesday, August 28, 8:00 PM Eastern Time
We're scheduled for the second hour of the show.
Zoom Link
acb-org.zoom.us/j/83870355004
groups.io/g/tech-vi/topic/join…
www.BlazieTech.com
We announced the deprecation of libolm in favour of vodozemac earlier this month, here is a post with some more details.
Holy shit, the Rijksmuseum used a 100MP Hasselblad camera to take almost eight and a half THOUSAND photos of the whole of Rembrandt's The Night Watch, for a total image size of 717 GIGAPIXELS. 😳
It's on their website as a zoomable image and you can zoom in so far you can see the individual cracks in the paint: rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/oper…
This & similar cartoons often pop up on social media.... but that doesn't make them any less telling about our political leaders current & continuing attitudes to climate change.
So here it is again; our short-term thinking will be the end of us
#climate #environment #politics
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#TIL: There is a community run public transport routing service #Transitious.
🔍 A search engine is only as good as its search index. Even alternative search engines might be using indexes built by Big Tech. 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-is-search-i…
What is your favorite search engine? 🤔 Let us know in the comments!
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in reply to altpapier • • •"Ich hatte ein längeres Interview geführt, in dem ich kritisch zu den unsinnigen Abschiebeforderungen und dem populistischen Anti-Flucht-Diskurs Stellung bezogen habe sowie auf die Defizite beim Zugang zu Begleitung und Therapie bei traumatisierten #Flüchtlinge'n hingewiesen habe. Gesendet wurde dann aber nur der [einleitende] Satz [...]."
#Medienversagen
@altpapier @tagesschau