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Good news for Public Radio fans.
The latest update to the NPR app has made it accessible and usable. The app used to be almost impossible to navigate, and both TalkBack and Jieshuo would freeze while attempting to move around its news articles or program segments. However, the latest release has effectively resolved the glitch.
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#NPR #Android #Accessibility

NPR - Apps on Google Play

Your home for news, podcasts and much more from NPR and local public radio.
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#Accessibility #android #NPR

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 8 updated and 1 added apps:

Polar Alert: When your BPM goes out limit BPM, you get sound alert. 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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So questions for #Blind #Edgucaters, #teachers, #school staff and anyone in the #education field as a whole.

I am a university student who originally planned to double major in computer science and elementary education, but I’ve recently faced some concerns that I’d like to address.

I’ve been told that pursuing a teaching certification might not be advisable because schools may be reluctant to hire a teacher with low vision, who is mostly blind, to manage a classroom of thirty or more students. This has been quite upsetting.

My dream was to work with elementary students, focusing on #STEM subjects and teaching technology-related topics like understanding tech, its role in the world, and the basics of programming. Now, I find myself uncertain about what path to take.

Working with kids, especially those in elementary school, is my biggest passion, even more than tech or music. It’s something that would truly fulfill me. Since I can’t have kids myself, guiding and teaching young learners is the next best thing. It’s a career I’m committed to and want to excel in.

Being advised not to pursue a teaching certification and to focus solely on computer science has been quite discouraging. I’ve been told to study elementary education as a secondary focus and combine it with my computer science studies. This might involve developing educational systems for kids, but it would likely mean limited direct interaction, possibly just during product testing, which isn’t enough for me.

So, I have a few questions:

1. Are there any educators with #Blindness or #LowVision challenges working with elementary students? If so, in what capacity do you work with them?
2. How has your disability affected your effectiveness in the field?
3. What challenges did you face in getting certified and qualified, and how did you overcome them?
4. What obstacles have you encountered in the classroom and with colleagues, and how have you addressed them?

If these questions don’t apply, what advice can you offer me in pursuing my goal of working with children? While tech is a focus, I’m open to being flexible, as long as it’s an area I’m confident in.

Finally, if teaching isn’t possible for me, what other career paths would you suggest that align with my goals?

I’d really appreciate any support
and engagement in this discussion.

Boosts welcomed and appreciated.

#BlindEducators #Teachers #Education #AskMastodon #VocationalAdvice #University #TeacherLife #OvercomingAbleism

#askmastodon #blind #stem #education #blindness #school #teachers #lowvision #university #edgucaters #blindeducators #vocationaladvice #teacherlife #overcomingableism

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This week @thibaultamartin received @kevinaboos, author of Robrix and contributor to many components of the Robius project. His secret agenda? Let you (re)write entire apps in Rust, of course

youtube.com/watch?v=O_bChwDHE3…


Matrix Live S10E05 — A multi-platform client fully in Rust

Writing a Matrix client entirely in Rust, that runs on iOS, Android, and the 3 major desktop OSes? That's what Kevin is doing.Robius:🌐 https://github.com/pr...
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Black Weeks at @Tutanota Save 62% On Our Legend Plan! 💎 tuta.com/blog/black-weeks-at-t…

#Encrypt #privacy #BlackFriday #Email #Calendar #FLOSS #OSS #OpenSource

Not endorsing the #degoogle hashtag here just because a hell of a lot of spackle is needed for a comparable experience, but if you're interested in #cloud email servoces, this is one of the better ones in this space.


Black Weeks at Tuta: Save 62% On Our Legend Plan! 💎 | Tuta

Get the deal from November 15 to December 4, 2024.
Tuta
#email #opensource #privacy #oss #floss #cloud #degoogle #blackfriday #calendar #encrypt @Tuta

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I have now configured my mail server to provide an MTA-STS policy for inbound message encryption. I already had DANE set up, but some providers only use MTA-STS.
The only real difficulty I encountered was that my SMTP server needed to present the entire certificate chain to mail senders; otherwise, some of them (Google, at least) would fail to verify the certificate.
#SMTP #MailServer
#mailserver #smtp

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Endre Ady was born #OTD in 1877.

Some of his notable poetry collections include "Új versek" (New Poems, 1906), "A Holnap" (Tomorrow, 1908), and "A halottak élén" (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).

Books by Endre Ady at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39…

#books #literature #poetry

Endre Ady, hungarian writer. Aladár Székely - Scan from the original work.

Books by Ady, Endre (sorted by popularity)

Project Gutenberg offers 74,604 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
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#books #poetry #otd #literature

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Seeing some of the replies thinking a title like this, in a context like this, is remotely OK, says so much about how much progress we still must make if blindness is to stop being used as a demeaning pejorative. dragonscave.space/@jscholes/11…

James Scholes (@jscholes@dragonscave.space)

Disappointed to see a talk named "The Usability Blind Spot" on an #accessibility conference schedule (axe-con 2025).
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David Goldfield

Hi. The issue is that "turning a blind eye" to something doesn't mean that you can't see something. It means that you can actually see something, a thing that's usually harmful or problematic in some way, but you're deliberately choosing to ignore it and look the other way. It's the same reason why I dislike it when people similarly use the expression "a deaf ear" to things they'd rather not have to listen to.
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Ferda 😼✔️

@archos Samozřejmě to píšu z BS (@ferdas.bsky.social) na BS těm účtům, co nemají zapnutý #bridge - ty nás u nich nevidí 😬, ani námnic nepošlou 🤔. Zkusil jsem si to 😉.
Tady jsem o tom naposled psal uživatelce, která je tady i na BS:
mastodonczech.cz/@ferda/113526…
Dokonce jsem to tam ještě polopaticky 🤷🏻‍♂️ na žádost někoho jiného vysvětlil ☺️.
@Lucinek

Ferda 😼✔️ (@ferda@mastodonczech.cz)

@anneapplebaum2000@threads.net Instructions on how to track Fediverse users if you have an account on #Bluesky (while enabling tracking from Fediverse/Activity): 1) follow the @ap.brid.gy ("ap" for ActivityPub) account on #Bluesky.
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#bridge @Archos @Lucinek @Ferda 😺 (primary info is on https://f.cz/@ferda)

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The Untapped Workforce: Why Apprentices with Disabilities Are Key to Cybersecurity's Future | Dr. Kirk Adams
drkirkadams.com/why-apprentice…

What if businesses could solve one of their biggest challenges - finding skilled workers - by tapping into a resource hiding in plain sight? Apprenticeships offer a proven way to bridge the gap between raw potential and critical roles, especially in industries like cybersecurity.

National Apprenticeship Week logo. Apprenticeship.gov.

The Untapped Workforce: Why Apprentices with Disabilities Are Key to Cybersecurity's Future - Dr. Kirk Adams

Dr. Kirk Adams explores how inclusive apprenticeships can solve the cybersecurity talent gap while empowering individuals with disabilities.
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I'm struggling to wrap my head around scene transitions and positioning things in #OBS on windows. If anyone is accomplished and feeling generous about answering questions as a #ScreenReader user (#NVDASR in particular) please hit me up.
I'm very happy with my audio now, multi-track, filters, all that jazz, but the visual (without eyes of my own) is proving convoluted.
#screenreader #nvdasr #obs

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WIENFLUSS is hiring a Web Application Developer Python.

We are looking for a committed developer to join our development team on the implementation of python projects. If you are up to the challenge, join us in our efforts to make the web a better and more accessible place. #job #python #webdevelopment

wienfluss.net/jobs/

we are hiring a web application developer Python

WIENFLUSS - Agentur für zeitgemäßes Webdesign

Die österreichische Agentur für barrierefreie Websites. WIENFLUSS entwickelt durchdachte benutzerfreundliche Lösungen für inhalts­starke Websites, Web-Applikationen und Online-Informations­systeme.
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#python #job #webdevelopment
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#TIL I learned that German cities used to have a "Bettelvogt" or "Armenvogt" - a minor official whose job was it to "control the behavior" of beggars and other poor people.

They were explicitly tasked to _control_ beggars, and not help them in any way. Which just goes to show that shitty behavior towards poor people by the authorities was well-established long before the advent of #LateStageCapitalism .

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenvog…

Old engraving of a "Bettlervogt" who drags a poor, old, wailing woman away, grabbing her at the arm with his right hand and raising a stick in his left.

Bettelvogt

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#til #latestagecapitalism

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INXS: Never Tear Us Apart

Prý nejslavnější hudební klip natáčený v Praze, a to ještě před pádem komunismu, v roce 1987. Prý se jim líbilo, že je to všechno "netknuté" a vypadá to středověce. Každopádně, až se nechce věřit, kolik klipů se v Praze natočilo (a na kolika z nich je hlavní nádraží).

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Režie: Richard Lowenstein

#365adamovyklipy

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

Stream the New Michael Hutchence Single Spill The Wine Now: https://mystify.lnk.to/spillthewine Mystify: A Musical Journey With Michael Hutchence is the soun...
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“One evening in 1985, many Czechoslovakian families argued about whether to turn on a lamp now or wait for 30 more seconds. Why?”

tiktok.com/@lateralcast/video/…

full episode: lateralcast.com/episodes/110/

#Czechia #CzechoSlovakia #quiz #lateralcast


110: A very 'odd' race | Lateral with Tom Scott

Comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott.
Lateral with Tom Scott
#czechia #quiz #czechoslovakia #lateralcast

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I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.

One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.

Anyone who knows me and my work knows that I frequently platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish and Hebrew, I do memory studies which includes Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews.

So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?

My profile is censored by Mastodon.social mods

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Influenceři by měli být registrovaní u vysílací rady. Zní to absurdně, na druhou stranu v době, kdy mínění veřejnosti tito lidé ovlivňují snad i víc než standardní média, je to možná správně.
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Nové pravidlo pro české youtubery a influencery. Musí se zapsat na seznam vysílací rady

Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (RRTV) přišla s poměrně kuriózní zprávou. Oznámila povinnost evidence tvůrců audiovizuálního mediálního obsahu, jako jsou vloggeři, youtubeři a influenceři, kteří nabízejí obsah na platformách typu Instagram, …
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  • Tak to má být (64%, 11 votes)
  • Nechte influencery žít! (35%, 6 votes)
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One of the worst misfeatures of #Mastodon from a safety angle: If you get an abusive reply to your post, you can't remove it even by blocking the person. Even after blocking, your server still shows the abusive reply to everyone else.

There has been a patch ready to fix this for 2 years, 6 months, and 1 day. @Gargron has not approved it, and has provided *zero* explanation for why he will not allow it to be merged.

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Hide subthreads by blocked users when looking at a post's descendants by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #18468 · mastodon/mastodon

This is about the server not returning known subthreads started by people blocked by the post's author, not the viewer. e.g., if we have A → B → C → D → E, where a → b means “b replies to a”, a...
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Nvidia ( $NVDA ) reported Q3 earnings of $0.81 EPS on $35.1 billion revenue, surpassing expectations. The Data Center business hit $30.8 billion, up 112% YoY, while gaming revenue reached $3.3 billion. Nvidia's stock fell 1% post-announcement.

What do you think about Nvidia's future in the AI-driven market?

#Nvidia #NVDA #EarningsReport #AI #TechStocks #DataCenter #GamingRevenue #StockMarket #Investing #MarketTrends

#AI #nvidia #nvda #stockmarket #investing #earningsreport #techstocks #datacenter #markettrends #gamingrevenue
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NV Access

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

NV Access

Empowering lives through non-visual access to technology
NV Access
#nvidia #nvda

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Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2EE.) Although the reasons for specific design decisions should be immediately obvious from reading the relevant specification (and if not, I consider that a bug in the specification), I believe writing about it less formally will…

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Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten - Dhole Moments

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2…
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connect with me on LinkedIn for Critical Business Insights

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Product focused software engineer with strong web fundamentals, excellent soft skills… · Experience: Tiger Pajamas Web Site Company · Education: Tech Elevator · Location: Pittsburgh · 500+ connections on LinkedIn.
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