For braille display users of iOS, expert Scott Davert shares part 2 of his essential tips helping both new and advanced users maximize their experience.
Digital accessibility. It's the buzzword we all nod along to, the checkbox we're supposed to tick. But let's be honest, how many of us are really getting it
Newswire: Tek Talk meeting of 3/10/25 at 8pm Eastern welcomes the TTJ Instructor Team including Matt Vollbrecht, Kliph Miller, and Sarah Potok to discuss the free courses they offer to help the visually impaired use Apple devices groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/87…
Jon Stewart's guest brought up #Matrix today on the Weekly Show podcast - youtu.be/jsHoX9ZpA_M?si=uYHyoI… . The whole episode is important for anyone who cares about democracy. Well worth the listen.
This week on The Weekly Show, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa joins Jon. They discuss the decline of democracy in the U.S. and the Phili...
Friendica is an outstanding social plaftorm, featuring powerful characteristics which make it unique in the federated world: • rich text editing, long posts, support for titles and spoilers; • native support for ActivityPub groups; • direct messages; • media gallery where you can manage photos and albums; • possibility to organize your contacts in circles; • ability to quote (cross-post) other people's posts; • RSS feed import; • integrated event calendar; • of course, much more (see the official documentation)…
The web interface is great to access all of these features but on a mobile device there are different constraints for usability and readability, so it comes in handy to have an app to use the most important functions of the platform.
Main features:
• timeline view with ability to switch feed type (public, local, subscriptions, user-made lists); • post detail, i.e. opening a conversation in its context and see the replies, number of re-shares and people who added it to favourites; • user detail with ability to see posts, post and replies, pinned posts and media, subscribe for notifications from a user, follow/send a request or unfollow them, see following/followers; • support for ActivityPub groups, with the ability to open threads in forum mode; • see trending posts, hashtags, links and following recommendations; • follow/unfollow an hashtag and view all the posts containing a given hashtag; • post actions (re-share, favorite, bookmark) and – for own ones – edit, delete or pin to profile; • global search hashtags, post and users containing some specific terms; • customize the application appearance with color themes, font face and size, etc; • login via OAuth2; • view and edit one's own profile data; • view incoming notifications and filter the list; • manage one's own follow requests and accept/reject each one of them; • view the list of one's own favorites, bookmarks and followed hashtags; • create a post/reply with formatted text, image attachments (and alt text), spoiler and title; • schedule a post (and change its schedule date) or save it to drafts; • report posts/users to administrators for content moderation; • mute/unmute, block/unblock users and manage the list of muted/blocked users; • manage one's own circles (user-defined lists); • see polls (read only); • multi-account with easy ability to switch between accounts (and, in anonymous mode, switch instance); • send direct messages to other users and see conversations; • manage one's own photo gallery; • view one's own event calendar (read only).
Amongst other things, it now includes step-by-step instructions for adding alt texts.
Thanks for all the feedback about the previous version, hopefully this provides more info in a clearer way. Let me know if I've missed something or got something wrong.
(I also merged the blind and deaf guides as the media description process is identical.)
It might be worth pointing out that not only people with visual and/or auditory impairments benefit from #AltText. It can be useful in many other ways, too.
To me, as an #autistic person whose perception and information processing work in quite different ways, it is not always clear what the point of an image is. Some good alt text can help a lot.
Some clarifying background info in alt text can also be very useful for the general public (which helps to normalise the use of alt text).
https://youtu.be/VrE16But124 Steven Scott welcomes Brian Hartgen from Hartgen Consultancy to discuss the launch of Leasey 10. Leasey, now in its tenth version, is a powerful tool designed to enhance accessibility for JAWS screen reader users.
Bad vibes? Google may have screwed up haptics in the new Pixel Drop update. Google didn't mention any changes to haptics prior to the Pixel Drop. arstechnica.com/google/2025/03…
Hi thanks for the tips. How i can check if a worker is running? i need to use a console command? the version i am using rn is 2025.02-dev just because it was the version that let me complete the installation wizard on my docker setup :(
@Totobal if you're running a dev version the best place is to go to the github and expect that there's a very high chance you may just be out of luck for months.
@Totobal Why should RSS be broken, when your bot possibly is broken? I have a lot of RSS feeds in my timeline. They do work! ??
After the configuration is complete, the functionality should be ensured. The bot usually does not deliver results immediately, but only after a certain time (depending on the target system). So you should have some patience.
Finally got this update from @Tutanota, now to just get my business email moved over to Tuta.*
* the post quantum encryption isn’t the reason for switching my business, I’ve just not had time to sit down and make the switch/transfer (I’m a one man band).
Tak jen hlásím, že při dnešním #cyklovylet už málem byla #birellovka Jen v hospodě už neberou karty a já měl jen hodinky Garmin. 🤷 Musím dodat, že je možnost platit přes QR kód. Tak já jen, že už se to blíží, aby někdo neříkal, že jsem vás nevaroval.
@alex et moi aimerions ajouter les sondage à slidge (passerelles XMPP/silos centralisés) et je me demande si tu es satisfait de ta spec, si ça marche bien en pratique ? Tu as l'intention de soumettre une XEP ? Je t'avais demandé y a un moment je sais, mais je me demandais si ça avait avancé de ton côté…
J'ai une demande de subvention en cours, et je croyais y avoir inclus le fait de rédiger une XEP pour ça. Mais je m'aperçoit que j'ai oublié...
Pour l'instant je n'ai ni le temps ni l'énergie de le faire. Mais je pense que ça le mériterais largement. Globalement je suis assez satisfait du fonctionnement. 1/2
On m'a récemment indiqué une XEP existante, qui me permettrait peut-être d'améliorer le truc (rien de fondamentalement différent, juste un moyen de mieux flaguer les votes).
Si vous avez de l'énergie de votre côté pour bosser sur la XEP, be my guests :)
Someone's taking pictures in San Francisco at an angle to make the streets look level. I feel simultaneously amused and triggered. (Seeing the cars level is what really fuels the illusion)
Mark your calendars, PC builders. AMD’s Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D desktop CPUs will finally go on sale on Wednesday, March 12. pcmag.com/news/amds-9900x3d-99…
GrapheneOS: Android pro lehce paranoidní uživatele
Pokud chcete mobilní telefon, který je bezpečný, opravdu respektuje vaše soukromí, zároveň nechcete přijít o populární aplikace, bez kterých už se dnes těžko obejdete, může vám současný trh přijít jako výběr mezi kompromisy. Podíval jsem se tedy na systém, který o sobě tvrdí, že jimi netrpí.
"Pixely od verze 4 oficiálně podporovány samotným projektem" bohužel jen "na papíře", reálně se s posledními aktualizacemi můj Pixel 5 rozbíjel víc a víc až do stavu, kdy se nyní již nechce vůbec aktualizovat (musím čeknout adb logcat). Druhá věc je, že bych si dal pozor na samotný projekt, jeho vývojáři se často prezentují velmi dětinsky, což mi nedává velkou důvěru v projekt (který není jen o samotném kódu)
@okias@floss.social Vzhledem k tomu, že Pixel 4 a 5 už nemají oficiální podporu a látá to už jen komunita, tak věřím, že to může být divočejší. I na stránkách to mají jako podporu „s přívlastkem“. Na 6a jsem zatím problém neměl. Jinak já jsem zatím žádné negativní aspekty té komunity nezaznamenal. Na Mastodonu komunikují normálně, v diskusích na Githubu jsem taky zatím nic zlého neviděl. Ale je fakt, že to sleduji jen krátce.
bohužel musím souhlasit, hlavní vývojář je poměrně agresivní, jakmile s ním v něčem nesouhlasíte, a osočí vás, že ho vlastně šikanujete a jste proti němu. Viz například youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT…
Chats you couldn't see on screen: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kncBXXk4CPgRCNftDLe5uuP5XBevzKk7/view?usp=sharingOId GrapheneOS videos, which were obviou...
Video jsem neviděl, informace neznám, ale myslím, že to je stále otázka k tématu: Nevíte někdo, jak moc velkej rozdíl je použití LineageOS bez GApps, namísto kterých teď mám microG?
Jestli dobře chápu smysl microG, tak jsem komunikaci se serverama Google omezil na nejnutnější minimum používaný pro ověření placených appek a lokačních služeb, který některý appky používají.
Nebo jsem stále ve stejný prdeli a jen se to jmenuje jinak? :)
(a ano, stále je to čínskej telefon potencionálně komunikující někam do tramtárie )
@schmaker@schmaker.eu Já myslím, že je to v pohodě. Upřímně zcela bez ekosystému Googlu je to těžké. Jde to, ale je to omezující. MicroG množství informací, které teče přes Google, drasticky omezují. Vývojáři GrapheneOS došli k závěru, že je z pohledu kompatibility lepší pouštět Google Play Services v izolovaném prostředí a pouštět k nim naprosté minimum informací ze zbytku systému. Z pohledu soukromí si myslím, že se jedná o srovnatelná řešení.
hmm, to je docela zajímavá možnost... já teda nový telefon ještě neplánuju, dokud mi funguje ten starý a s AOSP mám spíš jen ty horší zkušenosti, protože věčně něco nefungovalo a byl to takový mezistupeň, než jsem nakonec vybral něco nového. Teď uvažuju, jestli ten další bude iPhone, nebo zůstanu u Androidu. Mám Mac na práci a byť je to drahé, tak jim to prostě funguje a hlavně to podporuje i MS, což u Linuxu je docela problém. Jde mi hlavně o dobrý foťák a výdrž na baterku
Není problém, jen nevím jak dopadne ta reklamace a hlavně kdy. Já jsem měl iPhone 4s a 6 a pro někoho, kdo se nechce v ničem šťourat, je iPhone myslím nejlepší volba.
the service "AI" provides is to automate authoritarianism under a veneer of fallibility. To operate simultaneously with "unimpeachble objectivity" and also already-assumed failure. Good enough for deportations but without generating liability for lawsuits. "The language model can do everything" and "it's just a language model what can you expect"
The shrouded discretion is everything. The "AI" being wrong is irrelevant - of course it's wrong. Suggesting that "AI" anonymizes and depeoples bureaucratic repression is exactly the wrong conclusion. It explodes the surfaces of expressive discretion, requiring but obscuring human involvement everywhere.
I have written this before: this is Brazil not Kafka. The machine is made of people. There actually is a person behind the desk, and they are in love with the machine.
Algorithmic repression generates subjectivity for the repressed and the repressor. The misinformation campaigns create the skeleton suit of the "pro-Hamas student protester." I watched that happen live, front row. The "AI" puts you in it.
mention of literal nazis and literal camps and the subjectivity of fascist violence
Nazi camp guards did not detach themselves and become mechanical. They relished in the genocide. They took great pains to express agency, to play cruel games that demonstrated that agency. The Palantir interns behind the keyboards at the deportation machine are alive with the glory of fascism, not numbed by the scale of their violence. The algorithms are a stage, and the performance can't happen without it, but the fascists are the actors, not the algorithms.
Last #deltachat releases introduced stable #p2p group membership not found in any other messenger. Members can add/remove peers also while being offline, and when everything comes online again, everyone has the same consistent membership view. We formalized and ran a simulation model using #TLA+ (invented by Leslie Lamport of vector clock fame):
Twelve demands to remind the next German government that fundamental rights and democracy in the digital space must be strengthened and protected against abuse. No mass surveillance! ccc.de/en/updates/2025/ccc-for…
At the keyboard so can better reply about 1 thing. They do have a forum, but they use Discord more for notifications and communication and I honestly wish they would've stuck with the forum, but if you can get past using Discord, you won't have that hard of an adjustment. @nolan
As a maintainer of a "popular open source project"
ever since Copilot was announced I've been receiving
monthly reminders that my free GitHub Copilot access has been renewed.
If I was paying for t...
@bagder I just don't want to be counted as an "active user", those numbers get used to justify more investment in GenAI. If there was a button for turning it all off or refusing this "gift" that is all I want.
most hubbers seem to be high on AI and CoPilot I don't think they can fathom anyone wanting this. They all work to boost those numbers so I doubt anyone there would want to do anything that would risk lower them. So I don't think they will do such an option.
This is perfect Americana. Pictures of the Enola Gay are being deleted not because it was an obscenity to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima but because its name contains the word Gay.
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works …
Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.
First the US agency CISA, now the Swedish Armed Forces: Officials start to understand the importance of encryption in the face of increased tension and surveillance.
But Signal Foundation is a US entity, and US is — well, undergoing some undesirable changes. Who’s next up? Is there a European project to replicate the capabilities of Signal?
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