This page concerning the upcoming Zoom Accessible Scheduler has been updated to answer some questions from potential users. hartgenconsultancy.com/Accessi…
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Not a libcurl user in this regard, so feel free to disregard, but definitely agree, I hit a similar issue with CXF which reencodes URLs unexpectedly, which breaks SAML2 signatures. (issues.apache.org/jira/browse/…) @afink
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!
I keep wishing that one day, cooking might become less stressful and I might hate it less. Practice makes perfect and all that. It still hasn't happened and I'm honestly not convinced it ever will. Arrrrgh!
What is it about the process that stresses you out? The measuring/stirring/pouring? Putting things into the oven, or on the stove? There's a lot to it, but when you consume something you created that tastes great, there's a lot of satisfaction in that. This, coming from someone who enjoys cooking, but knows it's not everyone's cup of tea, to borrow the analogy.
@walkside3 Yeah, I do enjoy having cooked; I just hate the process, haha. Everything just seems to take me soooo much longer than sighted folks and there's always so little time and so much else to do. Measuring is probably the worst part, particularly smaller amounts of ingredients. It's just so fiddly and time consuming.
@walkside3 Do you have braille measuring cups and spoons? I love my set. Cooking is still slower for me than it is for sighted people, and I don't enjoy it, but the braille helps a whole lot.
@serichsen They're bloody hard to find in Australia. Vision Australia doesn't seem to carry them. I bought mine from Queensland Blind Association, who are usually not so useful but were the only place I could find who stocked them. And now they don't have them either! Wtf? @alexhall @walkside3
@serichsen I found several stores in the US that stock them with a quick Google, but I bet shipping would be prohibitively expensive from these smaller stores. @alexhall @walkside3
@alexhall @walkside3 Wow! I got my last set from Queensland blind Association. Do you guys have any idea? As I'm happy to get them from the US if you can suggest a reputable place or set.
@serichsen Just realised US products might not work so well for us anyway because Australian is mostly metric and the US is... not. @alexhall @walkside3
@serichsen Probably better off going with UK products. So I just looked on the RNIB site, found some and... they're no longer being sold. Seriously, wtf? @alexhall @walkside3
@alexhall @walkside3 Not braille labeled, but incredibly convinient. Oxo has a really good set of messuring spoons and stackable liquid messuring cups that come in a range of sizes. My messuring spoon set comes in 1/8 tsp to 1 tbsp, and the liquid messuring cups come in a set that has everything from 1tsp to 8 ounces. I'll get links if people are interested. (1/2)
@kgs49 Yeah, I do as much as I can by feel, but I'm still not confident enough to trust my judgement on smaller measurements, particularly for something I can't taste at the time (baking, raw ingredients that aren't safe to eat raw, etc.). @walkside3
@walkside3 Baking can actually more forgiving than you might expect unless it's something particularly delicate. It may not be the best batch ever, but it also probably won't flop either, and you'll likely know what you need to adjust for next. BTW, if you keep your cooking oil in the fridge, you will be able to feel it when measuring.
Same here. I thought at first I just didn't like it because I was learning as I went in a lot of cases, so chalked it up to that but as I got more comfortable, I realized that I just don't like it and have now accepted that I can if I need to, but I don't like to and that's ok.
Was laid off a month ago from my #accessibility lead position. I've only gotten one callback in that month so far. Trying #getfedihired (#fedihire ?) - been working fulltime in accessibility since 2016, experienced with cross-team collaborations, & had input on design systems and component libraries in addition. #UX is also something I'm familiar with, as that's the closest field aside from accessibility. I'm US based, speak EN but learning JP & beginning FR. Remote/ teletravail please!
😩 Yesterday was a rough day. I was installing Pandoc with Homebrew on Monterey. It took over an hour just to build GHC, and then my computer completely froze. I had to shut it down manually. After rebooting, my Mac didn’t even recognize the internal SSD in recovery mode. I can’t even reinstall macOS—there’s no drive showing up to install it on! #Apple #ComputerMeltdown
If you have another Mac, you might be able to restore the firmware which will re-download macOS and reflash the firmware onto the chips. Not sure if that would help, but that's the main thing I can think of other than taking it into Apple.
@ZBennoui Yeah I took it to Apple and they said they can't do anything and try to sell me a new Mac. lol I can boot from external SSD, so everything else works.
Monarch Tactile Display V1.2 software update webinar from Humanware discussing new email app, stable web browsing (Ecosia), eBraille Treasure Island to support Braille/tactile graphics, and the Wing It app to draw from iPhone to Monarch in real time plus labelling of said tactile/drawing. mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/khkjrk…
Holy breach of privacy, Batman. Was talking with one of our broadcasters at Dodge who broadcasts for another station. She’s also apparently the “manager of the visually impaired“ of which there is only one other person. As if that’s not enough of a red flag, the station is mostly sighted folks… She was telling me that apparently, on their schedule, not only do they list if a presenter is based abroad, so outside of the UK, which… OK, I could see that… But they also indicate when one is visually impaired or blind. I’m sorry, but as a broadcaster, if I choose to tell my audience that, that is my business. Putting that on the schedule, absolutely not. I would leave that station in a heartbeat. Fellow broadcasters, and listeners, what are your thoughts? I’ve been doing this now for nearly 16 years both as a broadcaster and a station manager/owner, and I’ve worked with a variety of blind, sighted, and folks who are somewhere in between. Never on any station I’ve run have we even thought about the idea of indicating that a broadcaster is blind or otherwise disabled on the schedule. That is… Really special. Even when I was on hard rock radio, and was the only blind broadcaster, I don’t think anybody else on staff besides me and the owner of the station new or cared. I’m sorry, that just sounds weird to me.
@DavidGoldfield to my understanding, no. It’s just something the station does automatically. Right now, they only have two blind presenters, and one of them happened to discover it when she was looking at the schedule. I told her this would be a total no go for me. She agrees, but seems afraid to quit or confront the other managers.
The decision to shutter VOA “portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.” - Jim Friedlich chicago.suntimes.com/other-vie…
The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.
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, ...
Enjoy this showcase of amazing work done by the Blender Community.See everything new in Blender 4.4 https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/Credits:Dre...
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.
- 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.
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,...
So the Rblind.com #IRC server is extremely busy! So busy, in fact, that it was down for four months and nobody noticed. Anyway, it's back now; irc.rblind.com if you want that. #blind#a11y
@munchkinbear@serrebi@NightDrake Just someting I maintain for myself. Don't promote it hugely because nobody uses IRC anymore. And the client it's based on doesn't seem to be maintained.
Um... What was that? I was just sitting at my computer, not touching it, when MS Edge opened. It didn't just open, it opened to some sort of ad. I closed it as soon as I realized, so didn't catch the page title or URL. I had Firefox open at the time, to a Ubuntu Mate forum page. Did Windows 11 launch an ad, or did I brush some notification with the trackpad that launched the ad without me realizing? Either way, it's yet another reason I want to find a Linux distro that actually works well for me
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Hey, journalists! Could we stop calling the current admin's bad opsec a "Signal breach"? Signal wasn't breached, a human screwed up. This is still bad, but it's bad because of that human, not Signal itself which remains an important tool for maintaining the privacy and security of communications that you actually send to the right people. Let's not scare people away from good habits with poorly worded headlines.
@maco at some point during high school I was using GeoWorks Ensemble, and an Epson 9-pin printer. That software was able to use the printer's highest-resolution mode, which basically printed each line three times, with a little offset between each. Also for "higher quality", each sub-line was printed *twice* to make it darker. So a page took six times longer than usual, making 6x more noise.
My mom really did not enjoy my late-night "printing my homework" sessions.
@maco Yeh I grew up with an Epson FX80; for one big school project I ended up as a side project writing a flow chart plotter that did that 3 pass printing trick; it first rendered a bitmap - onto a file on a floppy 🙂
@penguin42 @maco I've been looking into these 9-pin Epson manuals recently for an unrelated reason, and I found something really weird. When printing high quality ("NLQ") text they print two passes with the second pass offset to half the distance between dots from the first pass.
But when you're using graphics mode, you can only step the paper by multiples of 1/3 the distance between dots - not 1/2.
Super weird.
The technical service manuals for some of these printers are on archive.org, and I found one that sort of explains it. When printing NLQ text they step the paper one *and a half* steps, but holding the stepper motor on a half step is less reliable and appears to use more power than holding on a whole step. So I guess they didn't want to include a command that let someone half step the motor and just leave it there.
@penguin42 @maco Anyways, the annoying thing about Epson is that they did a really poor job of preserving these old printer manuals. They're all still on the site - e.g. files.support.epson.com/pdf/ex… is the manual with commands and instructions for doing graphics in basic on my old EX-800 printer - but Epson went and ran all the old manuals through OCR in a way that has introduced errors throughout, and in many places has destroyed samples of printed text.
@kepstin @penguin42 @maco Oh, that's a shame. I don't remember how NLQ mode worked... I think I switched quickly to using graphics mode from software that could handle it, and indeed it was 3 passes.
@mrkz creo que la apoteosis de mis inicios en linux fue cuando pude mandar un fax con el fax-modem de mi compu. No me acuerdo para qué carajos, pero funcionó.
We had an amazing morning. Cannot wait to share this little story in detail some day. For now, here's the culmination of our joy when Tashi got to photograph the hand of Kumari :)
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.
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!
### 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
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
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