Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff | TechCrunch
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff as the cloud storage company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a "transitional period."Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
Dot Pad | Innovative Tactile Graphics & Braille Display
Explore the Dot Pad, a revolutionary tactile graphics and Braille display for the visually impaired. Perfect for education and creativity!Florida Vision Technology
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I write my bachelor's thesis about Mastodon as an alternative social network and how its users perceive the platform.
I would be gratful if you would participate in my survey:
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It only takes 10-15 minutes and would help me a lot.
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note_x - Accessible Android
The app provides the ability to read text files smoothly with several features that readers need. Key Features include:Accessible Android
The Amazon Echo graveyard
Amazon’s extensive Echo ecosystem helped bring its Alexa smart assistant into many homes, but not every Echo product was a success story.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
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When you make a request and your autistic security engineers immediately say "Are you sure?”:
1) Stop
2) Repent.
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Unpopular WCAG opinion:
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) and 1.4.6 Contrast (Enhanced) should have been renamed to 1.4.3 Text Contrast (Minimum) and 1.4.6 Text Contrast (Enhanced) to mirror 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast.
(And then I would get rid of 1.4.6 because it’s AAA leaving Text Contrast and Non-Text Contrast, and everything would be simple. But that’s just me.)
ARIA is great. /s
If aria-current had an HTML equivalent, this person probably wouldn’t have found aria-activedescendent and used it wrongly. It’s one of the main reason I want stuff that works well to get HTML equivalents. This should be a no-brainer.
github.com/swiegmann/kirby-men…
ARIA attributes are used not according to spec · Issue #1 · swiegmann/kirby-menu
In the example code in the README, it shows the following code:GitHub
Have you ever heard of an undecillion? It's a truly staggering amount, a number followed by 36 zeros. And Google has just been fined that amount by Russia.
Sky News: Russia fines Google more than world's entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts.
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Russia fines Google more than world's entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts
The US firm can reportedly only return to the Russian market if it complies with the court decision.Sky News
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Watch: Hands-on with M4 MacBook Pro, iMac and the new Mac mini - 9to5Mac
YouTuber Brian Tong brings us a nice video of Apple’s Los Angeles hands-on showroom event on Wednesday, which let creators...Benjamin Mayo (9to5Mac)
Today is a reasonably sad day.
It is no longer possible to navigate Facebook in the way we could do with the mobile site. Facebook is still usable but it is quite a tough experience to do so.
I don't use it very often, but there are a couple of groups on that platform in which I participate.
I am so glad that, at the moment, X is not like that else I would really be stuck. People who know me will know X is the platform where you will see me most of the time.
The sad part about this is that while we live in good times with regard to accessibility, a company can just snatch accessibility away for many people without a second's thought.
I saw reference on another account to the old Social Eyes program. That was a very convenient way of navigating Facebook, produced by GW Micro.
That was taken due to removal of access by Facebook.
Now, the mobile site has gone. Although that didn't provide everything the primary site offered, it was well marked up and easy for people to manage.
I see reference to the fact that the NFB in the US are working with Meta to improve matters. Of course we will see how that works out, but I believe nothing is improved unless I see it myself.
My view of what makes for good accessibility is rarely in accord with how other people see things.
But on a broader scale, as I say, enjoy every aspect of accessibility while it lasts. You just never know when you may not have it. Tomorrow, you could visit your favourite app and that level of accessibility you are enjoying could be gone due to lack of consultation.
Our not so spooky Halloween In-Process blog post is out - No tricks, but plenty of treats - particularly from NVDA 2024.4, including all the highlights, and the new options for reporting font attributes. Plus a big walkthrough of NVDA's stability in the leadup to 2025.1. All that and more, here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
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In-Process 31st October 2024
It’s that spooky time of year for all those who celebrate Halloween. And it’s also Diwali for our Indian friends. Whether you participate in either of these or not, there is something we defi…NV Access
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Interview with Newly Certified LibreOffice Developer Rafael Lima - The Document Foundation Blog
The LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) has appointed Prof. Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, from Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPr) as the newest certified LibreOffice developer. Prof.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine
Move by Beijing leaves California company rushing to find new battery providersFinancial Times
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