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Election Executive Order Explainer: What’s Going On With Voting Right Now, and How Does It Impact Disabled Voters? aapd.com/election-executive-or…

Election Executive Order Explainer: What’s Going On With Voting Right Now, and How Does It Impact Disabled Voters? - AAPD

To access this resource as a PDF, click here. On March 25, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.
Jess Davidson (American Association of People with Disabilities)

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How the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPWD) impacts digital accessibility in India deque.com/blog/how-the-rights-…

How the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPWD) impacts digital accessibility in India | Deque

Being inclusive to your customers isn't the only reason why your business needs to be digitally accessible—it's also the law.
Abin Choudhury (Deque Systems, Inc.)

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Happy #DocumentFreedomDay everyone! 🤩 Today, the Open Source Club at OSU had members present templates made in the open OPT standard, bringing more creative resources to the open format community at large! Big props to @dff and @libreoffice for all the work they do in bringing accessibility and sovereignty to people’s academic and professional digital lives. 😎 We can’t wait to do it again next year!
A young woman in a green top standing house left of a classroom projector screen. On the screen is a slide of a template presentation.
A young man in a grey jacket standing house left of a classroom projector screen. On the screen is the LibreOffice Impress program in editing mode.
A young woman in a green top standing house left of a classroom projector screen, presenting a slide whose current section title is "Dum Dum Wrappers."
A young man in a black jacket standing house left of a classroom projector screen, with a monitor covering his torso. On the screen and on the monitor is the same image of a slide show presentation.
#documentfreedomday @LibreOffice @Digital Freedom Foundation
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It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
apnews.com/video/turkish-stude…

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03…

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
Rumeysa Ozturk (The Tufts Daily)
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The decision to shutter VOA “portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.” - Jim Friedlich chicago.suntimes.com/other-vie…

Now that Trump has silenced Voice of America, could U.S. public media outlets be next?

The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.
Jim Friedlich (Chicago Sun-Times)

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I filed two issues today on W3C Group Draft Note “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI.”

• Note fails to discuss sustainability aspects of using AI
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…

• Replace ‘overlays’ as a section
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…

Note: raw.githack.com/w3c/ai-accessi…

#a11y #accessibility


AI and Machine Learning - note fails to discuss sustainability aspects of using AI · Issue #15 · w3c/ai-accessibility

Issue #13 touches on this, but I think it warrants its own section in addition to ethical aspects. While the Web Sustainability Guidelines are structured as a recommendation and testing framework, ...
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#a11y #Accessibility

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This months Reaper Made Easy meet-up happens this Saturday, March 29th, at the slightly irregular time of 3PM Eastern and 7PM UK.
The change in time is of course due to the very evil Daylight savings time changing on different dates in different time-zones. So this is just a heads up for those who live where the clock has not changed to summer time yet. Such as the UK.

I so wish they'd stop doing that. Aaarg.

With that frustrated growl out of the way, Saturday. Scott and JennyK will be live, helping as much as we are able for a couple of hours. It's all about using Reaper, Osara, and how we go about this accessibly. Beginner questions take priority in these streams so don't hesitate to ask.
If you have a question, chances are others have that very same question in their head as well. It's a win win win to bring it to us. We all learn together here.

All you need to know about connecting with us via TeamTalk or listen in by other means can be found on reaperteacher.com.
and do hit the upload button on that site and send us something to listen to during the stream. We try to give a bit of feedback and troubleshooting if that is something you'd like. We all learn and have a bit of a chaotic few hours of fun on these meet-ups so do join.

There will be a reminder before go-time on Saturday.

See you there.

Jen

REAPER Teacher

accessible training, all free for the taking
reaperteacher.com

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I want to see a fleet of these little guys swarm a Cybertruck like crows driving an eagle out of town

zjluqi.en.made-in-china.com/pr…

h/t @blaine for pointing to this amazing website


[Hot Item] High Quality Long Range 2 Person High Speed Mini EEC Coc Electric Car Pickup

Voltage: 72V Power: 6000W Seat No.: 2 Certification: EEC, CE, Coc Body Type: Closed Motor: 6000W
Made-in-China.com
@blaine

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In the last commits in gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/libipuz/-… I'm doing this hack:

- get a json-glib JsonNode from the caller
- reserialize to a string
- pass the string to Rust code
- deserialize with serde
- spit back out an IpuzStyle to the C code

And this seems to be a nice, temporary way of moving libipuz's JSON code gradually to Rust.


Handle JSON for IpuzStyle in Rust (!90) · Merge requests · Jonathan Blandford / libipuz · GitLab

This is a work-in-progress effort to do the JSON processing in Rust, both deserialization and serialization. First, I'm using it as a learning exercise for serde_json,...
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Photo Ewen 📷

A little update to the previous photo, a short post about Kumari and our brief moment of serenity taking photos with her.

ewenbell.com/blog/Morning_Glow

#TheJoyOfTashi #Photography #Lumix

Kumari gives us a Namaste while posing for her photo at the back of a temple. Light dappled the scene through carefully carved wooden panels. Bhaktapur, March 26 2025.

Morning Glow

The art of finding joy in photography, and making other people happy in the process. Update from Nepal as we wind up the first stage of filming in Kathmandu.
Photography by Ewen Bell
#photography #lumix #thejoyoftashi

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An off-cycle Synapse security release is out to address a High severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-30355 / github.com/element-hq/synapse/…). The issue can disrupt federation and is being exploited in the wild - please upgrade as soon as possible!

Federation denial of service via malformed events

### Impact A malicious server can craft events which, when received, prevent Synapse version up to 1.127.0 from federating with other servers. The vulnerability has been exploited in the wild. ...
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Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer

During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose

More here:
fonts.google.com/specimen/Ques…

Questrial - Google Fonts

Questrial is the perfect font for body text and headlines on a website. It's modern style, suited with past characteristics of great typefaces, make it highly r
Google Fonts
@Google Fonts

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I want to talk about this Associated Press article: apnews.com/article/hegs... Specifically, this sentence. I don't like this sentence! The wording implies Signal has known vulnerabilities. That's untrue. I think more people should use Signal, & don't want reporting to discourage people from it.
Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications, but it can be hacked. It is not approved for carrying classified information. On March 14, one day before the strikes, the Defense Department cautioned personnel about the vulnerability of Signal, specifically that Russia was attempting to hack the app

The Atlantic posts Signal chat with attack plans from Hegseth

The Atlantic has released the Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials. It shows that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact times of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those att…
Tara Copp (AP News)

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A reminder that if you're interested in #SVG and the #WebStandards process, and specifically about trying to get SVG standardization back into gear, there is an open meeting on the topic today. It's hosted by Eric Meyer ( @Meyerweb ) of Igalia, as part of W3C Breakouts Day.

Starts in 5.5 hours. You'll need a w3.org account to sign up; meeting is via zoom with irc chat.

w3.org/events/meetings/09b7b3f…


26 March 2025 | Vectors of Neglect | Calendar

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
W3C
#svg #webstandards @Eric A. Meyer
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Amelia Bellamy-Royds

@federicomena @doctormo And to be clear, spec issues would still be useful despite all that because:

They provide a record for whenever someone is working on it again.

They provide evidence that there is still a demand for a better SVG spec, from devs working on all sorts of projects.

Not ideal, no, but yeah, if you have the time to at least post cross-links to your own bug tracker, it will hopefully make a difference eventually.

@Federico Mena Quintero @Martin Owens

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One of the more outstanding complaints about Super Egg Hunt has been the egg beep. apparently it can become headache inducing. So. What would happen if we gave the user the option to change it? check out this super Egg Hunt demo. and while you're listening, reply with all the changes and differences you hear.

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Celou zimu jezdím bez újmy snad po každém myslitelném povrchu.
A pak udělám školáckou chybu za mokra na tramvajovém pásu 🤦‍♂️
Kolo má pár šrámů, já pár modřin, ale dopadlo to asi nejlíp, jak mohlo. Podařilo se mi celkem dost zpomalit a pak si v motorkářském stylu lehnout. Helmu jsem měl, ale naštěstí nepotřeboval. A dokonce i oblečení přežilo 😅
Teď se budu chvilku téhle trase vyhýbat 🙈
Zadní část rámu s viditelným odřením laku až na holý kov
Odřená šlapka s napáleným plastem na špičce
Odřená levá brzdová páčka
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