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"Adrian Roselli - The Many Faces of Digital Accessibility", A11y Bytes keynote. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=_6Tu3TOMzQ… Slides: adrianroselli.com/2024/10/a11y… #a11y

A11y Camp: Keynote Slides

Download a 3.6MB tagged PDF of my slides or try the embedded view if your browser displays PDF inline. The text in the slides is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible. The PDF is exported from PowerPoint, after confirming reading order and alternative text.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y

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It is easy to be cynical about the do-gooding motivations of a $3 trillion company, but Apple’s commitment to accessibility is admirable. This music fan bought Airpods Pro and nearly cried after learning they were also hearing aids. threads.net/@andycandy45/post/…

Aundrea Namiko Gregory (@andycandy45) on Threads

Guys I could actually cry right now. I bought myself some AirPods just as a treat to myself cuz I’ve been using cheap headphones. I’m setting them up yesterday and it says there’s a hearing aid setting.
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Today's Christmas audio post to bring joy to everyone…except probably not! In 1983 someone wrote a program for a version of BASIC used on IBM PC and compatible computers. This program could play ten Christmas songs through the built-in PC speaker using the Play statement. While this just allows a single note at a time, if programmed correctly, it can still sound good…but this particular version of Jingle Bells was not programmed correctly, to say the least!

in reply to Matt Campbell

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Matt Campbell

As I suspect, my conception of what a proper instrumental arrangement of "Jingle Bells" ought to sound like was set by the version I grew up with in Diversi-Tune, a MIDI music program for the Apple IIGS. It's in the key of F, and I distinctly remember imitating the walking bass line on the piano, and being told by some teacher that it was called a walking bass line. Here it is, along with the boot-up sequence, complete with emulated 3.5" floppy drive sounds.

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Die Autoritarismus-Studie des Leipziger EFBI liefert alarmierende Einblicke in die Entwicklung autoritärer Ressentiments. Viel wurde in den letzten Wochen darüber berichtet. Doch ein paar Aspekte blieben ungesehen. Wir schauen noch mal genau hin.

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Was viele Medien zur Autoritarismus-Studie nicht berichten - Volksverpetzer

Es wurde viel über die Leipziger Autoritarismus-Studie berichtet. Doch ein paar Aspekte blieben ungesehen - wir schauen noch mal genau hin.
Frederik Mallon (Volksverpetzer)

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Did you know that heat pumps are good for your health?

Replacing oil and gas boilers eliminates in-home fossil-fuel combustion that vents pollutants like ammonia, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide into the outside air.

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Yet another reason why heat pumps are awesome: health benefits

The two-way air conditioners are key to reducing CO2 emissions. They can also help slash toxic air pollution from fossil-fueled appliances, a new report…
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#OpenStreetMap is back on its feet.

Making edits with MapComplete is thus possible again as well.

We have a new version out too (but it got a bit overshadowed).

Some highlights:

- There is an insect-hotel theme (mapcomplete.org/insects.html) (thanks @RLin )
- The cyclofix, climbing, blind maps got some improvements (thanks to @midgard amongst others)
- Etymology-map will now also show parks without etymology, in order to be able to link them
- and a lot of bug fixes


Insect Hotels

Insect hotels provide shelter for insects
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#openstreetmap @Midgard @Robin van der Linde

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In 1976, Congress set fire to the country's libraries; in 1998, they did it again. Today, in 2024, the flames have died down, and out of the ashes a new public domain is growing. Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate!

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/das…

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A collage displaying the works that are entering the public domain in 2025.

Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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So now, my website has 3 speech synthesizer add-ons. Perhaps this weekend I'll make a simple page for it or extend the Piper voices page to include them:
Brailab, developed in Hungary, Rom dump from original hardware box and dll obtained from Brailab source of the CD version. eurpod.com/brailab2024.nvda-ad…
BeSTSpeech (Keynote gold): eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo…
and SoftVoice, with many unfixable bugs. eurpod.com/softvoice2024.nvda-…
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~17% of registered voters in the riding of Cloverdale-Langley City have elected the same despicable pro-conversion therapy CPC candidate and MP it has in the past...

CPC is loudly and proudly anti-LGBTQ+.

enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDist… #cdnpoli #polcan

Election Night Results - Electoral Districts

Election results by electoral district, for federal elections in Canada.
enr.elections.ca
#cdnpoli #polcan
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SuspiciousDuck

do teraz som ju nepočul a sú to kkti nie fašisti, s prepáčením. V škole dnes v triede na stene ako sedí učiteľ som si mal možnosť prečítať prvé dve state hymny a niečo z ústavy, neviem čo si mám o tom myslieť.
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This is weird, I'm not getting the weird artifacting with Bestspeak all the time, but I was somehow able to almost consistantly reproduce it when going between the desktop and the Tweesecake window, I wonder what you guys think @Tamasg and @rommix0

@Tamas G
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Tamas G

that's an odd one! It might be a conflict with another add-on (sounds like you have the earcons one, haven't tested it alongside it admitedly) - it may be that the interruption gets locked mid-chunk while the audio plays, or at the very least it's causing some delay to bstShutup and invalidating the handle. I think it's interesting because for 90% of people it's working fine, now there's just that last 10% of random glitches and quirks that some are still getting here and there but I'm having a much harder time to repro in my environment. (would be interesting if you can get it back and if so, whether disabling that add-on and restarting would cause it.)
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Wow, a nice surprise! We just heart that @codelutin@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com
are to donate 4K EUR to our developments -- see their post (which unfortunately doesn't currently federate correctly it seems)

mastodon.libre-entreprise.com/…

Their web page: codelutin.com/

Thanks a lot! ❤️

(FWIW we have a money-contribution page at delta.chat/en/donate and are happy about donations to mitigate a potential financial crunch early next year)

A screenshot of a toot from @codelutin@mastodon libre-entreprise.com "With @copiepublique, we pledged, as a company, to donate 1% of our yearly sales to support FLOSS. This year, we give €4000 to @delta, a messaging app that requires nothing else than an email to just work. Keep up the good work & team!"

Delta Chat: Donate Money

Donate Money Help Delta Chat develop and grow as an independent project serving the people who use it: IBAN DE86100777770428658900, Account owner (please always specify): Björn Petersen, BIC NORSDE...
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OpenStreetMap.org is up and running again! Happy Mapping. 🗺️ ❤️ 🚀 Want to know more?: community.openstreetmap.org/t/…

OpenStreetMap.org currently offline. Operations Team are working to restore - 15 December 2024 (Updated)

UPDATE 17 December 2024 1:45pm (GMT/UTC): We are back up and running. Happy Mapping. 🗺 ❤ 🚀 OpenStreetMap.org and a number of related services are currently offline. 15 December 2024 starting approximately 4:00AM (GMT/UTC).
OpenStreetMap Community Forum

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Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/p…

WSL/wsl-config.md: rewrite lead for clarity by multiplealiases · Pull Request #2021 · MicrosoftDocs/WSL

This is a rewrite of the lead section, as I feel the previous one was overly long-winded, yet did not meaningfully summarize the most important points of the article in a way that enables readers t...
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We've edited and uploaded another 24 videos from the recent #LibreOffice Conference 2024! So the playlist is now 51 videos – enjoy learning about the technology and community behind our free and private office suite: youtube.com/watch?v=lsMoOtAxqh… #foss #OpenSource

LibreOffice Conference 2024 – Quick recap

A quick look back at the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024, which took place in Luxembourg from 10 - 12 October.LibreOffice is a free and private o...
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Here at TetraLogical we put people first. One of our founding principles is ensuring everything we do is ethical. We make decisions for the good of our customers and their customers, our team, and for the world at large.

The @w3c has just released their Ethical Web Principles in the belief that the web should empower an equitable, informed, and interconnected society.

Read them in full: w3.org/TR/2024/STMT-ethical-we…

#SustainableAccessibility #A11y

Ethical Web Principles

The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the consequences of our work.
www.w3.org
#a11y #sustainableaccessibility @World Wide Web Consortium

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[Forum Topic] Meta's Smart Glasses Gain Live AI and Live Translation applevis.com/forum/apple-hardw…

Meta's Smart Glasses Gain Live AI and Live Translation | AppleVis

The Ray-Bans are getting live AI too according to the following mac rumours article: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/16/meta-smart-glasses-live-ai/ Trouble is, only for those on the early access program and only in North America.
www.applevis.com

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Schedule Rewind 1987-88: Star Trek: The Next Generation Leads the Way for Sci Fi TV cancelledscifi.com/2024/12/14/…

Schedule Rewind 1987-88: Star Trek: The Next Generation Leads the Way for Sci Fi TV - Cancelled Sci Fi

Sci Fi TV Shows on Prime Time in the 1987-88 Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Max Headroom, Beauty and the Beast, ALF, The Highwayman, and More
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Come May 2025, #curl will drop support for Secure Transport.

If you develop something for apple devices and use libcurl, you might want to think about what this means. And maybe do something too.

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…


Apple iOS Secure-Transport deprecated, is there plan to port to use Network.framework · curl curl · Discussion #15759

Apple has deprecated Secure-Transport capabilities since iOS 13.0 (which is several years by now) with a recommendation of porting to. use Network.framework instead. Therefore building libCURL with...
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