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Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars Public can submit comments until February 5th in case against AccessiBe for misleading advertising lflegal.com/2025/01/ftc-access…

Beware of AI Accessibility Promises: US Federal Agency Fines an Overlay Company One Million Dollars

The new year brought weclomed digital accessibility news from the United States Federal Trade Commission, known as the FTC.
Law Office of Lainey Feingold

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so we are trying something new. yesterday I ordered the following.
Cheddar Cheese Powder, 2lbs | Made from Real Raw Cheese | Authentic Sharp Flavor | All Purpose Seasoning | Great for Mac and Cheese, Sauce, Popcorn, Vegetables, and More
amazon.com/dp/B0DGR5T8JG?ref=p…
and I just made two packs of chicken flavored romin noodles and put three table spoons of this cheese in 15 ounces of water for the noodles, and one half pack of ritz crackers. a very quick taste tells me it has changed the flavor, so once it cools down for me, I will eat it, and see what I think.

Amazon.com

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Nochmal zur Erinnerung: Falls euch eure Gesundheitsdaten wichtig sind, dann legt Widerspruch gegen die elektronische Patientenakte (#ePA) ein. In der jetzigen Form ist die Lösung untragbar. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/opt-out-widersp…

#datenschutz #sicherheit


Opt-Out: Widerspruch bei der elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA) einlegen

Die Einführung der elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA) steht vielen von uns bevor, und die Frage, ob man sich für oder gegen…
www.kuketz-blog.de
#datenschutz #sicherheit #epa

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Harnessing the Power of Monarch: Resources for the Creation of Optimal Tactile Graphics aph.org/blog/harnessing-the-po…

Harnessing the Power of Monarch: Resources for the Creation of Optimal Tactile Graphics

The Monarch, developed by the American Printing House (APH) in collaboration with HumanWare, represents a transformative leap in braille technology....
Devon Price (American Printing House)

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I often hear that #Mozilla got into trouble after they let Brendan Eich go, that that was the point where political voices overrode technical merit. In fact, these projects have a lot of momentum, these things take years to work out. It's actually the strategic leadership of Brendan Eich, who was CTO since 2005, that got Mozilla into trouble.
Today I came across a nice example of this from 2007.

Source @torgo: torgo.com/blog/2007/03/browser…

A screenshot of text saying: But what I heard from Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, floored me. He actually said that he doesn’t believe people are going to browse the Web on their phone. He sat there and said “I don’t believe people want to use Wikipedia from their phone.”

Browser Panel at SXSW – Dan's Blog

www.torgo.com
#mozilla @Daniel Appelquist
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This is NOT Meta's Facebook/Instagram/Threads.

This is MUCH better :mastodon: ✨

Take the time to familiarize yourself with this new way of life.

Interact with others genuinely,
let go of the numbers.

Discover new features,
let go of the old ways.

Read about the culture here.
Listen, learn, and make it your Home 💚

infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads

Em :official_verified: (@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange)

This is NOT Twitter. This is MUCH better 🐘 Take the time to familiarize yourself with this new way of life. Interact with others genuinely, let go of the numbers. Discover new features, let go of the old ways. Read about the culture here.
Infosec Exchange
#fediverse #facebook #Mastodon #Instagram #meta #threads

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Dear friends, #screenreader users, #blind users and #accessibility professionals in particular.
Are you using chat over traditional email as provided by #DeltaChat / #DeltaLab / #ArcaneChat?
I like it uses traditional email infrastructure, is federated, supports end to end encryption, rich content including audio / voice messages. I have even recognized @adb has implemented screen reader accessibility specific features into the android app.
However I have quickly tried electron based app on linux with orca screen reader, exchanged a few messages back and fort between two of my personal accounts using the DeltaChat app and thunderbird and I haven't found the user experience verry appealing. I can't understand how to effectivelly navigate in the list of conversations and list of messages.
Therefore I would be interested to hear a few comments from people knowing this platform better. How accessible is it on different platforms?
On the desktop is the electron based app a prefered choice?
Also some other questions. For the best experience, do I need a new email address or can I use my existing self-hosted one I have already configured in thunderbird?
Ffeel free to point me to a FAQ, some up to date introductory documentation if you think my questions don't make much sense please.
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #deltachat #DeltaLab #arcanechat @adb
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Peter Vágner

@WofWca Looking more it looks to me you are working on some amazing accessibility related improvements. While I was testing a few weeks ago I had issues navigating the lists. hmm, perhaps I need to figure out how to build with this PR and see for my-self if it might be related. github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

Edit: oh, there are more PRs resolving keyboard navigation and accessibility related issues. It's really right about perfect time I have discovered this thing.

Thanks and keep up the great work please

@WofWca
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Peter Vágner

@WofWca So I have finally updated to the latest and greatest #deltachat desktop. And I must say I am really impressed.
Both lists, list of conversations and list of messages are now keyboard navigable.
The hint for the screen reader users is that not all of the screen readers may switch into focus mode automatically so once you do this manually you can enjoy the user experience the way it has been designed.
Also there are nice keyboard shortcuts e.g. ctrl+n for jumping into the input box, ctrl+k for search and more.
Now I do really need to explore more i.e. what about the encryption. Can I use my existing GPG key or add a subkey or is that handled transparently on the background? I need to figure out if I should create new email for chatting or use my primary email.
Still from the accessibility point of view we are really getting something usefull I think.
#deltachat @WofWca
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Peter Vágner

Note to my-self and other people like me:
Read the #deltachat help at delta.chat/en/help it's all perfectly explained there in easy to follow language. It's even translated to various different languages already.
The number one answer for me is that there are #deltachat specific so called #chatmail servers suitable for anonymous instant messaging over email.
So eventhough I like to self host my emails, I think I'll go with existing #chatmail server at least initially.

Delta Chat: FAQ

What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...
delta.chat
#deltachat #chatmail

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Delta Chat (39c3)

@devSJR If you have mostly or only "green-checkmarked" chats you can reconfigure your e-mail address to another server and then send a message to your contact which should update them. This will not migrate unencrypted or opportunistically encrypted chats, though, which is why we don't prominently recommend it. Another way is to create a new profile, and then add it to all relevant chats and remove the old profile. More cumbersome but also pretty failsafe.
@devSJR
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Islamic Audiobooks Central

It is possible for #chatmail users to communicate with classic email users who have published their public key.

You just have to do manual chatmail registration, save your login details and private key securely, and use it with something that supports #pgp like #Thunderbird or #Mailvelope.

#thunderbird #pgp #chatmail #mailvelope
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Peter Vágner

@WofWca Perhaps making sure parent of those list items has an attribute role="list" or if you are sure everything inside a particular DOM subtree has logical keyboard focus handling perhaps role="application" on encompassing parent element would do the ttrick. However it really has to be considered visely as it makes it more difficult for screen reader users do read parts of the UI that should behave like a document content by lines, by words and similar.
@WofWca

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Mit meinem neuen Startup KC Test Ventures teste ich für den Staat, wie man mit minimalem Aufwand Informationen zugänglich machen kann.

Hab in der letzten Stunde eine iOS-App gebaut, mit der man für jede beliebige NINA-Warnmeldung rausfinden kann, ob man sich im Warngebiet befindet.

Damit man sich als Blinde selbst helfen kann, wenn Gemeinden wie die Stadt Dresden nur ein PNG-Bild ohne Textalternative zu Evakuierungsbereichen rausgeben.

Eine iOS-Anwendung, die den Warmbereich einer NINA-Warnmeldung anzeigt, hier den aktuellen Bombenfund in Dresden. Dazu die Information, dass ich mich gerade nicht im Warnbereich befinde, sowie die Distanz dorthin. Die Distanz ist im Screenshot geschwärzt.

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Hello folks I need your help, after a lot of efforts, I am on the final steps of making #ArcaneChat available in #GooglePlay

now they ask to create a "closed testing release" where only some invited testers via their google account email address can participate and install the app before they allow a public release

please write to me in private sending me your google account's email address (gmail I guess) to join as beta-tester, thanks a lot in advance! ♥️🙏

#DeltaChat #decentralization

screenshot of ArcaneChat in Google Play
#googleplay #decentralization #deltachat #arcanechat

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We're back for a new season!

Kicking off "Season 3" of UX Podcast @axbom and @Beantin bring you a topic show. In this episode we dive into the concept of "Dark mode", its benefits, and its implications for UX design, user experience and accessibility.

uxpodcast.com/329-dark-mode/

#ux #a11y #uxpodcast #podcast #uxdesign #userexperience #accessibility


Dark mode - UX Podcast

We take a dive into dark mode. What it is and why it's no longer a nice-to-have feature.
UX Podcast
#a11y #Accessibility #podcast #UX #userexperience #uxdesign #UXPodcast @James Royal-Lawson @Per Axbom

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"teaching old hippies new tricks" by @danny oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/02/te…

> A few fates that I’ve avoided, barely: one is joining the Nineties Internet Re-Enactment Society, where communities scrabble to re-inforce the dominant vibe of — what, two? three? years maximum? — the early networks. I mean, I still have it in my habits — my dinky RSS reader, my affinity for plain text, email. A co-worker described watching me work as “like someone playing one of those adventure games”. I can see it.

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » teaching old hippies new tricks

www.oblomovka.com
@Danny O'B
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Christine Lemmer-Webber

> There’s a tradition you draw from, but the tradition evolves, it doesn’t mindlessly recreate. You don’t stay in the moment that you entered that tradition. My daughter says that Discord is IRC for young people, Slack is IRC for old people, and IRC is for people who can’t get out of their chair.

OOF

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Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Esplora i primi 12 plugin di Castopod, le nuove funzionalità, i miglioramenti dell'architettura dei plugin e i prossimi miglioramenti in vista della versione finale v2, tra cui il Plugins Repository, un indice per scoprire e installare i plugin.

Negli ultimi mesi abbiamo rimodellato l'architettura dei plugin sviluppando una raccolta di plugin ufficiali per Castopod. Questi plugin rientrano in due categorie:

🔺 funzionalità che in precedenza facevano parte del core e che sono state estratte
🟢 nuove funzionalità che introducono tag Podcasting 2.0 o miglioramenti attesi da tempo


1. 🟢 custom-head
aggiunge frammenti di codice nel <head>tag di tutte le pagine pubbliche: inserisce nuovi meta tag, stili personalizzati o script di terze parti.
2. 🔺 custom-rss
inserisce RSS personalizzati nel canale e negli elementi del tuo feed.
3. 🔺 Aggiungi il prefisso op3
all'URL dei tuoi episodi con il servizio di analisi Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3).
4. 🔺 owner-email-remover
rimuove tutte le occorrenze dell'email del proprietario dal feed RSS.
5. 🟢 podcast-block
indica quali piattaforme sono autorizzate a mostrare pubblicamente il tuo feed e i suoi contenuti.
6. 🔺 podcast-episode-season
indica il numero e il nome dell'episodio o della stagione del podcast.
7. 🟢 podcast-images
aggiunge più risorse di immagini per il podcast nei tuoi feed RSS utilizzando <podcast:images>il tag Podcasting2.0 di .
8. 🟢 podcast-license
indica la licenza del podcast
9. 🔺 podcast-medium
specifica il tipo di mezzo contenuto nel tuo feed RSS.
10. 🟢 podcast-podroll
consiglia altri podcast.
11. 🔺 podcast-txt
aggiunge testo libero, come un record DNS TXT.
12. 🔺 show-notes-signature
aggiungi una firma a tutte le note dello show dei tuoi episodi, un ottimo modo per includere i tuoi link social in una volta sola.
Puoi trovare il codice sorgente di questi plugin, tutti con licenza AGPL v3, su github.com/ad-aures/castopod-p… .


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@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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I find "trucks" that have a massive footprint with a tiny bed ridiculous. If you can't fit a full 4'x8' sheet of plywood in the back, it's not a proper truck.

urbanists.social/@straphanger/…


𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 (@straphanger@urbanists.social)

Attached: 1 image "Most mini trucks have the same roughly 6-foot bed size as the F-150." Something Ford and GMC *definitely* don't want you to know. I make the case for tiny trucks... 🧵 https://www.abc12.
Urbanists.Social

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@vick21 It’s in your client (and used to be in tweezecake IIRC) but not in mainline Mastodon. It is in some forcs though, like Glitch-soc and also some Akkoma instances. Like mine!

When I quote post from Enafore, it does mention the other people in the thread and does not break the previous thread. You can remove the mentions though if you choose.

The quoted post shows up as a separate post in the feed so you can reply, boost, etc. it if you want. This probably does not work everywhere but it should if you are on a supported instance! For example:

@FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ
RE: mastodon.social/users/vick21/s…

victor tsaran

2025-01-08 16:46:12

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@FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ The feature exists, so I assume it's officially supported. It's a feature that should exist, IMHO.

@victor tsaran @Andre Louis @Chris Smart
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Ach, ach! Was werden unsere Enkel denn wohl dazu sagen? #3K25
Es drängt sich der Gedanke auf, dass die ihn lobbyierende Klientel hofft, an der "Technologieoffenheit" bei der Beseitigung der mit seiner Hilfe viel größeren Schäden durch die Klimakatastrophen noch viel mehr Geld verdienen zu können. Persönliche Gefahren werden diese Heinis wohl nicht ausgesetzt sein, dank Privatarmeen, Bunker und startbereitem Privatjet in nettere Gefilde.
Christian Lindner in einem Tweet: "Unsere Antwort auf die Angst vor der Erderwärmung ist nicht Verbot oder Verzicht oder Einschränkung der Freiheit, sondern das Vertrauen auf den Einfallsreichtum unserer Ingenieurinnen und Techniker. TL #3K25 Uwe Brückner antwortet: Liberale: "Verbote und Verzicht werden den Klimawandel nicht aufhalten, sondern nur Ingenieure" Ingenieure: "Ok, hier habt ihr Wärmepumpen, E-Autos, Windräder und Solarzellen" Liberale: "Wir wissen nicht, welche Technik die Beste ist, wir setzten auf Technologieoffenheit" Ingenieure: "Alle unsere Studien zeigen, dass Wärmepumpen, E-Autos, Windräder und Solarzellen die effizientesten und billigsten Technologien zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels sind" Liberale: "GEGEN DEN WÄRMEPUMPENZWANG, RETTET DEN VERBRENNER, ES LEBE DIE ATOMKRAFT!!! Quelle: https:/[x.com/Perowinger94/status/1876671163130372462
#3k25

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*Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod* @Che succede nel Fediverso? Esplora i primi 12 plugin di Castopod, le nuove funzionalità, i miglioramenti dell'architettura dei plugin e i prossimi miglioramenti in vista della versione finale v2, tra cui il Plugins (1/7)

The first 12 plugins of Castopod - v2-next.3

Explore the first 12 Castopod plugins, new features, Plugins Architecture enhancements, and upcoming improvements ahead of the final v2 release, including the Plugins Repository, an index for discovering and installing plugins.
Yassine Doghri (Castopod Blog)

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If you haven't seen this, its the best and most beautiful explanation for the "why" of privacy, and what it means for the practical definition of it.

I've never been able to put it into words myself, I scarce understood the totality of my own motivations and methods beyond what "felt right" for one reason or another. More than anything, this binds every one of those motivations into one.

media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-a…
By @Mer__edith at #38C3
President of the Signal Foundation and an Absolute Icon


Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame

A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...
media.ccc.de
#38C3 @Meredith Whittaker

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My team is hiring. If you're looking for a job around #cryptography, take a look:

- redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
- redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/e…

#FediHire #getfedihired


Automation Engineer - Linux Security

Use this great opportunity to focus on high quality of produced software and grow in operating system security. The Red Hat Quality Engineering (QE) Team is looking for an Automation Engineer to join us in the Czech Republic.
redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
#cryptography #FediHire #getfedihired
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Pouring
emptiness into emptiness
like waves coming to shore,
you become quiet,
luminous,
still.

Where
before there were
ten thousand entanglements, now
there is undifferentiated
Oneness, clarity,
peace.

WEI WU WEI CHING
#CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue #LouTheCreamfilledCat

A window overlooking green leaves has the sill filled with a big gray tabby body with hanging down foreleg with white toes, while a matching head with a white jaw is looking around the corner of a dresser, creating uncertainty that this head belongs to the body.
#catsofmastodon #catsofthefediverse #catstodon #catlovers #rescue #catappreciators #humane #louthecreamfilledcat
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