Day 22 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. Make sure you support Dynamic Type up to the largest text size available. Take into account that there are five extra accessibility sizes available from the Accessibility Settings. It can make a huge difference for lots of users.
Huge shoutout to the DECTalk driver, without it indexing in SMPSoft would not have come together. But it has, and now SMPSoft, a driver that nobody bothered to touch since 2013, works in NVDA 2024.4. This is an old Polish speech synthesizer, so Non-polish speakers may have very little interest in using it. Syntezator Mowy SMP came after early hardware-based systems like the "Karol" synthesizer. One of the first Polish hardware speech synthesizers was the "Karol" Speech Synthesizer, developed in the 1980s. It was created by the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN) and was one of the pioneers of speech synthesis in Poland. Now you can use SMP, which came after, in your NVDA. eurpod.com/Smpsoft-2024.nvda-a…
@BorrisInABox @mcourcel I spent 3-4 hours debugging just the indexing bits because we cannot get a reliable callback when speech utterances end in that driver, the dll is very barebones and all we can do is feed audio to nvwave player not much else. it's very basic.
@BorrisInABox @mcourcel sadly since we pull in the audio data from memory in one go, and unlike DECTalk we don't have dwIndexValue to get boundaries between processed chunks. Very, very bad. Best we can do is pad in our own 0.5 seconds of silence ourselves and hope it's enough to catch the last spoken bit that got cut off. This doesn't fix the pitch and rate (very small utterances) but does announce more control information.
@pitermach After loading the synthesizer, I get the following error: File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\smpsoft\synthDrivers\smpsoft.py", line 202 import os ^ TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation I guess this is a fairly trivial problem to solve, but it doesn't change the fact that SMP Soft is not visible in the list of synthesizers.
@pitermach Now it works, thank you! Unfortunately, I noticed that the synthesizer generates large gaps between phrases, regardless of the speech speed setting. Do you think it is possible to do something about it?
not really. Without the gaps, speech gets cut off too early at the ends of sentences because the synth doesn't do a proper callback when it has finished speaking. That's an issue in the DLL itself. I just ported it, can't do much if it's an older driver. Maybe others will pick it up and fix it, who knows.
Instead of chasing the latest gadgets and trends, let's see what we can do with the hundreds of thousands of excellent robots that are already out there. Saving the planet, one programmable brick at a time.
Wrote up some notes on Clay, a fascinating ~2,000 line dependency-free C layout engine project that can be (inadvisably) run via WebAssembly to define the front-end of a website entirely in C simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/21/…
Fascinating project by Nic Barker, who describes Clay like this: > Clay is a flex-box style UI auto layout library in C, with declarative syntax and microsecond performance. His [intro …
> and it's not clear to me what the accessibility implications are.
The accessibility implications are as serious as you might guess. The links aren't properly labeled, there's no semantic markup such as headings, and since there's a div for every line, continuous reading with a screen reader is choppy, that is, it pauses at the end of every physical line.
Doctolib ermöglicht eine User-Enumeration, was bedeutet, dass durch Eingabe einer E-Mail-Adresse überprüft werden kann, ob diese im System registriert ist oder nicht. Das stellt eine Sicherheitslücke dar, da potenzielle Angreifer so gezielt überprüfen können, welche E-Mail-Adressen mit einem Account verknüpft sind. Oder wollt ihr einfach nur wissen, ob der Nachbar dort ein Konto hat!? 🤦♂️
Bei der Todesfahrt von Magdeburg sind mindestens zwei Menschen umgekommen, eines der Opfer ist ein Kleinkind. Der Täter fuhr gezielt durch einen Weihnachtsmarkt. Die Ereignisse des Abends zum Nachlesen.
A game-changing HIV drug was the biggest story of 2024 In what Science called the 'breakthrough of the year', researchers revealed in June that a twice-yearly drug called lenacapavir reduced HIV infections in a trial in Africa to zero—an astonishing 100% efficacy, and the closest thing to a vaccine in four decades of research. buff.ly/3P2zrt7 #ShareGoodNewsToo
Hello applevis, I started to tinker with emacs by reading its documentation and notice somthing very obvious, macos keystrokes are derived from those of emacs. I just have a question.
Following an earlier threat, Gaie Delap is going back to prison as there is no tag that can be used to enforce her non-custodial sentence as a Just Stop Oil protestor.
As has been pointed out already, this is the result of the firm that provides the tags being unable to comply with their legal obligation to provide the means by which she can be monitored:
Result Gaie Delap will spend Christmas in prison.... because profits come before her rights!
Some insights into where Google is going with #AI, especially Project Astra! Using this. it is really amazing and transformational! If you listen long enough, you will hear that people with #disabilities are mentioned as some of the key customers for this technology. youtu.be/ctWfv4WUp2I #accessibility
In our final episode for the year, we explore Project Astra, a research prototype exploring future capabilities of a universal AI assistant that can understa...
the lack of the option to export all emails in one go is the 1 thing that keeps me from using your services. You can't possibly expect customers to manually select & export all of their messages, if they want to migrate away from Tuta in the future.
At present it's a Hotel California situation: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"
A decent bulk export feature would be on my wish list for 2025. It's been on your roadmap for years. Any concrete developments?
I know that Tuta has been planning it for years. But that wasn't my question.
Apparently #Tuta still hasn't set a concrete, near term date for the availability of the *option to export all emails in one go*.
So: Customers can easily import their emails to #Tutamail, but they have to manually select and export all of their emails if they want to migrate away from Tuta to a different #email provider.
Ich will die Funktion in eurer Mail-App im Browser (falls es ein LibreWolf Problem ist, habe ich nichts gesagt.) mehrere Mails auf einmal auszuwählen, wenn ich shift gedrückt halte. Ansonsten alles sehr nice und weiter so. 👍
@fatherpat Creating an inbox rule to automatically put spam e-mails that match a specific pattern into the spam folder doesn't prevent such spam e-mails from reaching me. I would prefer if e-mails matching my spam filter were outright rejected by the server with an error like “address doesn't exist”.
@fatherpat Related: not having to set always 'Always trust sender'. Each time I open tuta, the same message appears for all senders, even those for which I've already trusted. And for the emails which went to spam, setting this should move automatically those emails to the main Inbox and should avoid future messages from the same sender going to spam.
Eu gostaria de ter as opções de imprimir e de exportar e-mails para PDF, no aplicativo Tuta Mail para Android, que utilizo diariamente. English: I wish I had the options to print and export emails to PDF in the Tuta Mail app for Android, which I use daily.
Same as others, and also, and again (I know I've already asked...): - A bookmarks syncing service (social.vivaldi.net/@IGVazquez/…) such as xBrowserSync - A thunderbird bridge - A *.deb for Debian distributions installation.
xBrowserSync: Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
https://www.xbrowsersync.org
The main developer does not have time to work on it (https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app/issues/425#issuecomment-1266620034).
Spotify is a creepy, and grossly unethical, platform at this point. it rips off musicians and rewards huge companies -- and itself. Apparently what it's doing is legal, however.
This is great reporting, from a new book by Liz Pelly. A compelling read.
@kurtseifried The main problem in my view is that virtually nobody cares about the CWE. No one ever complains about it or asks for it to get change etc. We basically put a finger in the air during 20 seconds when writing the advisory, search around all the available ones and then go with the one we think is the least bad one. And we never go back to reconsider and no one propose anything else.
So they are all fairly arbitrary but "decent" because we try to pick an accurate one.
@profdc9 we do try to make it hard to do wrong, daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/12/13… - but recall that 60% of the curl security problems were *not* C problems.
You know I spend all my days working on curl and related matters. I also spend a lot of time thinking on the project; like how we do things and how we should do things.
With #Prusa turning from #openness with its new Core One model and other cases, there is a need to discuss alternative models to cultivate and sustain #opensource hardware. Although promising approaches exist already, it might be vital to identify the necessary patterns of #Commoning. Read my thoughts here: blog.opensourceecology.de/en/2…
The introduction of a new, closed Prusa CORE One should come as little surprise, but there could be a remedy A guest article by Paul Jerchel Commons die without…
Extreme, extreme longshot, but does anyone happen to know of a copy of Everybody can Read by Lew Robins? This is a program from the 90s that's designed to teach children to read, and I'm interested in the Eloquence builds contained in it. I've tried searching on the web, but can find nothing on the program aside from a couple articles in The New York Times. Here's one of them. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytime…
The Doctor's deadliest enemies, The Daleks, made their debut on this day 61 years ago in the classic 1963 story The Daleks - Episode 1 - The Dead Planet, and they’re still going strong! Happy Dalek Day! #DoctorWho #daleks
VMware Workstation 17.6.2 Pro is now free for commercial, educational, and personal use! Check out the latest features, bug fixes, and resolved issues.
This is important: another mortgage crisis is emerging, this time mostly in commercial/office estates. Wondered where all the back-to-office nonsense is coming from? It's the landlords—companies that are up to their armpits in subprime offices are trying to fill them. Same with "AI is coming for your jobs", it's to force the serfs back to the office (ideally for less money). atomicpoet.org/objects/9a15e9b…
Another real estate crisis is emerging. Here’s just a cold hard fact: 10% of loans on office buildings are in arrears. Delinquencies on commercial properties spiked last month. And because interest...
Google finally did it. Is it time to switch to Firefox? I believe users should be in control of what they can install and use on their desktop or laptop. There's uBlock Origin Lite, which replaces the original uBlock Origin for Chrome and similar browsers. Give it a try.
From Envision: Our holiday promotion is still running + how a blind artist is using ally for music & gaming + what's coming in 2025 groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/83…
Extermiknit! Celebrate International Dalek Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the first appearance of the Daleks on Doctor Who on December 21, 1963, with free Dalek inspired knitting patterns on my Doctor Who pattern post intheloopknitting.com/doctor-w… #knitting #DoctorWho #Dalek
Fellow Whovians will find knitting patterns here for any age or level of interest. There are meticulously researched knitting patterns for Doctor Who cosplay and fun patterns to show your love of Doctor Who in your daily life.
So, it's time again for my traditional synth Xmas. Where all voices have been produced by various text-to-speech engines. I am working on a new one, but it's not quite ready. So here's the old one for now. Happy holidays everyone: OneDrive: 1drv.ms/u/s!AsrDn-5JMCwmgYFS47… Google drive: drive.google.com/file/d/14xMhj…
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