Leasey 9.1 is released. This supports JAWS version 2025 and earlier. Anyone who has a license for version 9 can use this product. Note: This is not an update so is not available via check for updates. Please be sure you are installing the product you are licensed for.
If you are installing JAWS 2025 for the first time, please be sure to read the JAWS 2025 Setup Guide. Just go to any page on the web site and look for the term 2025.
For anyone who needs help installing JAWS 2025 and Leasey, please be sure you have Remote Incident Manager installed. Installing RIM is the only way you can be assisted. Again, there is a link to RIM on every page of the web site, close to the top. A day and time can then be arranged with you to install the software and check the computer is optimised for best performance.
Thank you to our loyal beta testers who have tested this version. This has not been the smoothest of processes. In many ways, JAWS 2025 handles controls and environments very differently than any previous version which has been in place for many years, and a balance has had to be struck as to what we should fix through Leasey and elements which should be left alone.
Enjoy using the product! After Christmas, the process of building Leasey version 10 will begin. hartgen.org/leaseydemo
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What could go wrong? 🤨
Ok, ok. You're on Mastodon. Chances are, you know how to protect yourself online...
But you might know a person or two who would click on the above. Gently point them to cybersecuritymonth.eu/
There are lots of learning materials adapted to those who know less than you. 😉
Quick recap of the recent #LibreOffice Conference 2024! 😊 We now have the raw video from the rooms, so will start editing and uploading talks... peertube.opencloud.lu/w/gMTyjm…
A quick look back at the LibreOffice Conference 2024, which took place in Luxembourg from 10 - 12 October. LibreOffice is a free and private office suite, the successor project to OpenOffice. More ...
We are very pleased that we can announce this a bit earlier than last year: There will be gyms - aka repurposed sports halls - for sleeping on #38C3 again.
They will be free for angels that already have worked.
Gute Neuigkeiten: Wir konnten auch in diesem Jahr umliegende Schulen dazu gewinnen, uns ihre Turnhallen während des Congresszeit als Schlafplätze zu öffnen. Die Tickets kosten 5 € pro Nacht.
Please, please, please stop using ARIA if you don't now what you're doing. Don't reinvent the wheel. HTML is pretty great.
First Rule of ARIA Use: If you can use a native HTML element or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so
This document is a practical guide for developers on how to add
accessibility information to HTML elements using the
Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification [WAI-ARIA-1.
When you (or someone else) helps us to make it happen! We're a volunteer-driven, community open source project – with very limited resources. So if you want more features, please give our community a hand: libreoffice.org/community/get-… – or consider funding a certified developer to implement the features you want: documentfoundation.org/gethelp… – That way, everyone benefits!
LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…
TIL: if you were a guest at the Parker House Hotel in 1912 or 1913 and ordered the dessert that originated there and which the hotel remains famous for, your Boston Cream Pie may have been made by…
Ho Chi Minh.
[He apparently worked as a pastry chef in the hotel kitchen while studying in Boston. The surviving evidence is scanty, as you might imagine, but not in dispute.]
[photo mine, taken this afternoon since I was coincidentally in the immediate neighbourhood]
Two students who discovered a novel proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem.
While still in high school, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson from Louisiana used trigonometry to prove the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem, which states that the sum of the squares of a right triangle's two shorter sides are equal to the square of the triangle's longest side (the hypotenuse).
Mathematicians had long thought that using trigonometry to prove the theorem was unworkable, given that the fundamental formulas for trigonometry are based on the assumption that the theorem is true.
Jackson and Johnson came up with their "impossible" proof in answer to a bonus question in a school math contest. They presented their work at an American Mathematical Society meeting in 2023, but the proof hadn't been thoroughly scrutinized at that point.
Now, a new paper published Monday (Oct. 28) in the journal American Mathematical Monthly shows their solution held up to peer review. Not only that, but the two students also outlined nine more proofs of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry. livescience.com/physics-mathem…
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.
I was hoping to release a more complete version as 1.0, but that's taking a while, and people are already starting to use it as it is (especially with the impending shuttering of #WhatsApp on KaiOS) so I decided to get this out right away 📦
I've also submitted to the #BananaStore, so hopefully it should be out there soon 🍌
Redesigned M4 Mac mini leaks: M4 Pro variant, up to 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB RAM, front-facing ports like Mac Studio 9to5mac.com/2024/10/28/m4-mac-…
Me siento tentado de votar a la derecha. Al menos, aparte de ser unos hijos de puta, también lo parecen, que es casi tan importante como lo primero. Yolanda Díaz no preguntó a Errejón por los abusos pese a tenerlo en su equipo de campaña
Las primeras explicaciones públicas de Yolanda Díaz sobre el caso de Íñigo Errejón siguen dejando al menos dos grandes preguntas por resolver. ¿Por qué nadie de Sumar...
Nunca entenderé esas tentaciones. En particular, me puede decepcionar un partido y puedo dejar de querer votarlos, pero me abstendría antes que votar contra mis intereses y los de la clase trabajadora.
From YouTube: FCC Disability Advisory Committee Meeting: Topics Include Gaming Accessibility and the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Caption Live Video Programming groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…
Zoom meeting of Low Vision Now: Barry Greenbrat From Maxi Aids Discussing the Company's Products: Saturday, November 2, 12:45 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…
Dear geek/libre comrades, I have a queer-stion for you: Do we know if the first communities -in the 80's and 90's- around the development of critical computing (?) and its evolution towards free software were related to the homosexual liberation movement and the fight against AIDS? Thanks
201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth's five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species suddenly disappeared. The wipeout coincided with massive volcanic...
In seinem 1927 (!) erschienenen Buch beklagt sich Kurt Floericke, wie furchtbar die Tierwelt in den letzten 40 Jahren "verarmt und verödet" ist. Die Schuld dafür weist er hauptsächlich dem "Siegeszug von Industrie und Technik" zu.
Surprise…
Das eBook dazu kommt die Tage mit der nächsten Runde bei ebooks.qumran.org/ an. Der Titel: "Aussterbende Tiere"…
Bei so viel Interesse (Likes & Boosts) möchte ich Euch natürlich nicht zu lange auf die Folter spannen – das genannte #eBook steht jetzt bereit, wurde gerade mit 23 weiteren bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeladen.
In the world of operating systems, Linux stands out not only as a robust and versatile platform but also as a vibrant ecosystem with hundreds of unique…
"A source close to the file said the bidding consortia warned Ottawa that ridership would be lower with a high-frequency train than with a high-speed one, since customers are looking for the shortest possible trip."
So they paid somebody to tell them that? Maybe I should become Govt Consultant and make the big bucks here. I could have told them.
Le gouvernement Trudeau annoncera dans les prochaines semaines un projet de train à grande vitesse (TGV) pour relier Québec et Toronto, a appris Radio-Canada.
@wagtail is the best CMS in terms of features and accessibility. I can't recommend it highly enough! It’s a powerful CMS that boasts impressive features, used by organizations like Google and NASA. Plus, the community is incredibly friendly and welcoming. Accessibility is a top priority for Wagtail. With clear accessibility goals, dedicated accessibility team and a built-in accessibility checker, Wagtail is designed to make content accessible at scale. wagtail.org/accessibility/
Can you believe that a GitHub issue I opened six years ago in the depths of “the long dark tea-time of the soul” has had such a cascading impact? It has ultimately led to the formation of a dedicated accessibility team for @django This is a moment that truly highlights the power of open source and everything it represents. I'm so grateful for this community 💙 @thibaudcolas fosstodon.org/@thibaudcolas/11…
For me personally – this was a definite inflection point in my career, as I started investing way more into accessibility expertise. For Wagtail, we followed this with a project for a large govt agency to do even more testing and improvements of the CMS admin. Then got our accessibility team started. Then the accessibility team for @django. An #ATAG audit for Wagtail. Yearly reporting on our accessibility. There’s a long way to go but the journey’s been great already 🌈
![panel 1: quitting a terminal program isn't always easy
person (thinking): "I pressed Ctrl-C 17 times and NOTHING HAPPENED"
panel 2: ways to quit
Ctrl-C - the default
Ctrl-D - if you're at a prompt in a REPL >>>
q - if it's a full screen program
Ctrl-\ - sometimes works if Ctrl-C doesn't
kill -9 - the last resort
panel 3: how Ctrl-D works
programs that read input will usually have some code like this:
text = read_line()
if (text == EOF) {
exit()
}
Ctrl-D is how you send an EOF to the program ("I'm done!")
important: Ctrl-D ONLY works if you press it on an empty line
panel 4: how Ctrl-C works *
* unless your program is in "raw mode", we'll talk about that later
person: "ctrl-C"
terminal emulator: "ok, C is the 3rd letter of the alphabet, I'll write 3 to the tty"
OS terminal driver: ah, a 3, that means I should send the SIGINT signal to the current program
program: ooh, a SIGINT, I will [shutdown gracefully, immediately exit, ignore it, stop a subtask, etc]
* unless your program is in "raw mode", we'll talk about that later
panel 5: some programs have weird quitting incantations
for example every text editor (vim, nano, emacs, etc) has its own completely unique way to quit](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/605679 "panel 1: quitting a terminal program isn't always easy
person (thinking): \"I pressed Ctrl-C 17 times and NOTHING HAPPENED\"
panel 2: ways to quit
Ctrl-C - the default
Ctrl-D - if you're at a prompt in a REPL >>>
q - if it's a full screen program
Ctrl-\ - sometimes works if Ctrl-C doesn't
kill -9 - the last resort
panel 3: how Ctrl-D works
programs that read input will usually have some code like this:
text = read_line()
if (text == EOF) {
exit()
}
Ctrl-D is how you send an EOF to the program (\"I'm done!\")
important: Ctrl-D ONLY works if you press it on an empty line
panel 4: how Ctrl-C works *
* unless your program is in \"raw mode\", we'll talk about that later
person: \"ctrl-C\"
terminal emulator: \"ok, C is the 3rd letter of the alphabet, I'll write 3 to the tty\"
OS terminal driver: ah, a 3, that means I should send the SIGINT signal to the current program
program: ooh, a SIGINT, I will [shutdown gracefully, immediately exit, ignore it, stop a subtask, etc]
* unless your program is in \"raw mode\", we'll talk about that later
panel 5: some programs have weird quitting incantations
for example every text editor (vim, nano, emacs, etc) has its own completely unique way to quit")
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