From Tom's Guide: I just tried earbuds that let me control things with my mind — and it could be a game changer for accessibility groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
Learning Blind Tech With Desiree Renee: Learn More About the Meta Smart Glasses: Friday, January 10, 3:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
Webinar From Benetech: Understanding Title II Compliance: What Educational Institutions Need to Know;Thursday, January 16, 3:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
Plus, the BEAD Progress Dashboard gets updated this week, a comprehensive report examines website accessibility across government, and one Georgia county gets to work on digital inclusion.
Weird error message at the @thunderbird donation page. Why can't I use a perfectly valid 'nospam' alias as the email address when donating? Lucky for them it didn't annoy me enough to quit the process here
Después de renovar mi suscripción al servicio de correo @mailbox_org por otros 2 años, también he donado a @thunderbird por ser mi cliente de correo en mi sistemas GNU/Linux y mi móvil.
APCA is no longer part of WCAG3. You can still use it, but for conformance (legal, policy, etc.) reasons you will still need to follow WCAG2. It’s possible to satisfy both in most cases.
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2025 should be the year you stop using WCAG 2 colour contrast testing, and switch to APCA. This article is a few years old, and covers everything well. https://blog.datawrapper.de/color-contrast-check-data-vis-wcag-apca/
This is it, installing Windows 11 enterprise IoT LTSC. After HP Display Control service reinstalled for the 4th time in 2 weeks, I'm done. Don't even know what scheduled task or app is causing it to reinstall as all other HP programs are off my system and I'm not motivated to dig through scheduled tasks to see if one is sneaking in to silent install it. These builds can be found on MAS: massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_lin… Verified SHA1 of ISO against official MSFT released ones to ensure no-tamporing.
🎉 Celebrating A Decade of Innovation and Access: Aira Turns 10! 🎉
This year, we celebrate 10 incredible years of connection, innovation, and accessibility. It’s more than a milestone—it’s a reflection of the Explorers, employees, and leaders who’ve shaped our journey. Join us in honoring the stories and achievements that define Aira.
🗓️ January 22nd, 5-6 PM PST – Aira Year in Review Explorer Call - A year-in-review of Aira’s milestones. - Launch of the feedback survey to shape our future. - Sneak peeks of 10th Birthday activities, including the mascot initiative!
🎂 January 29th, 2–4 PM PST – 10th Birthday Celebration - Aira’s history and special messages from community leaders. - Trivia games, storytelling, and the mascot reveal. - Prizes, giveaways, and recognition of key contributors!
Both events can be joined in-app (More | Events) or via Zoom (link to be posted).
We want to hear from you! Share your favorite Aira stories in the comments below—they may be featured during the celebration! 🎊
Ah okay, this week, Matt Mullenweg also shut down WordPress'es sustainability team, that was going to implement the W3C's Web Sustainability Guidelines. 🙁 therepository.email/mullenweg-…
Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg abruptly dissolved the team this week—an action prominent tech journalist Kara Swisher has described as "bizarrely heinous behavio…
What do you think of an open-source app like VLC adding AI to auto-generate subtitles? This is not what VLC users and fans want. Many users don't want anything to do with AI in any form on their system, which again creates privacy issues.
"In less than a week and a half, the consumption habits of an individual from this monied elite had already caused, on average, 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to analysis by Oxfam GB. It would take someone from the poorest 50% of humanity three years to create the same amount of pollution."
Never, ever trust the eco-fash scum pushing the overpopulation agenda, it's all about the rich and their obscene consumption.
I've been finding @everydoor to be a brilliant app for editing #OpenStreetMap while out and about (or in a warm café with view of shops across the road).
I've been speeding up my #OpenStreetMap contributions with this app, and hopefully keeping more things up to date.https://every-door.app/This is a little int...
Thanks for sharing this, Greg! I'm using @everydoor regularly, it's my primary mapping app (next to StreetComplete which I then use when visiting the same "tracks" again, to fill in the other details). Nice vid! Though using Every Door for quite a long time now, I totally missed the filter function 🙈 Nice to see that in action 😃
Looks like it would be pretty easy to build an office suite that follows the GNOME HIG. I recently figured out there is a LibreOffice tiled render that can be embedded into GTK, there is even a prototype in core of LibreOffice.
there is a broken branch that I started before gtk4 was in 4.0 and broke as more API got removed. The main issue is that it build menus and that API was yanked. And moving to use GMenu, the work in incomplete. Not sure if I published the WiP branches but I can do that if needed.
My strategy is to try do as much in the gtk3 code. Like moving to Event Controllers, GMenu, etc.
Starting this week, you can subscribe to my weekly report and receive it as an email. This is the brief weekly summary of my past week that I have been writing and making available for over a year already.
Problémem pro fungování demokracie není Elon Musk, ale George Soros, uvedla italská premiérka Giorgia Meloniová. Podle ní Musk vyjadřuje jen své názory, zatímco Soros používá své bohatství pro ovlivňování politiky. irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/bohate…
„Problém je, když bohaté osoby používají své prostředky pro financování stran a politických představitelů, aby ovlivnily politická rozhodnutí. To Musk nedělá, dělá to Soros,“ uvedl italská premiérka.
(@bagder is remarkably restrained in the quoted responses. I would have gone off the rails, but do not need to, because we decided on day one that #varnishcache would not run on Windows).
If you think that is not bad enough, read the Cyber Safety Review Board's report about the Microsoft Exchange clowncar:
📌 This is a cross-post from DEVCORE. The research was first published at Black Hat Europe 2024. Personally, I would like to thank splitline, the co-author of this research & article, whose help
I suppose I just don't get surprised or upset anymore when another proprietary vendor does something silly but we have to survive in their environment.
I think this is entirely a Microsoft problem, even if I fear that we might need to patch something ugly into curl to mitigate the worst risks.
If only the transition to native Unicode wouldn't be a gargantuan undertaking. The world isn't UTF-16, so these interfaces need to be identified (with their encoding/codepage) and a conversions put in place. Windows UTF-8 support could be a solution, but it's stuck in beta, with issues. Switching the official curl build to Unicode is an option, but there are unresolved issues, e.g. string encoding in the libcurl API is undefined. I wish this would be easier.
Proposing this patch to re-enable Unicode in curl official Windows builds. Caveats described in 2021 remain, but perhaps now the balance tilts towards giving it another go: github.com/curl/curl-for-win/c…
The article
https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-worstfit-unveiling-hidden-transformers-in-windows-ansi/
may tip the balance towards UNICODE enabled being the less bad solution.
It mitigates Window...
Command line parsing on Windows is a pain; I haven't used Windows compilers in over a decade, so I don't know if you can get a
int main(int argc, wchar_t* argv[])
entry point these days. Using that should parse the command line as Unicode text and then one can convert each argument to UTF-8 or whatever and call the real "main" with that.
Sean Randall
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