For those people who listen to BBC Radio 4 outside the UK via the BBC Sounds app: GOOD NEWS. The app was due for closure later this Spring however this has been delayed until later in the year. The BBC hopes to have their other stations still on popular platforms. They don't say which ones though. This news from the BBC Radio 4 Feedback programme on 17 April 2025

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An update for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025 is now available! Download the April update and check out the "What’s New" pages to learn more:

JAWS - support.freedomscientific.com/…

ZoomText - support.freedomscientific.com/…

Fusion - support.freedomscientific.com/…

#JAWS #ZoomText #Fusion #FreedomScientific

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For anyone interested in immersive 3d #audio, would you mind giving this proposal some love for #Godot please? I am trying to convince whoever can be convinced to reopen and consider adding SteamAudio to Godot, which would greatly benefit everyone, developers and players alike. Thank you. Boosts are very much appreciated. github.com/godotengine/godot-p…

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If you open @smashingmag, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁

Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️

What you think?! #accessibility

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/f…

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JJ and I are at it again, this time as guest hosts on the March 17 edition of AIRA’s Airacast podcast. We’re Talking Starbucks, the visuals, how they work from a customer’s perspective, and how AIRA can help you as a Blind person make a visit there and get your fix with the help of an AIRA agent. Check it out here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

We've recently seen serious spam attacks against Matrix, so we're introducing Policy Servers to recommend whether servers should accept or discard events *before* they get synced to clients. If your server participates in public rooms, see matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introd… to keep it safe.

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We just had our social.coop Working Group meeting, and I'd just like to say that the really nice thing about a "walking desk" that raises and lowers, is that you can raise it high enough that when you get up to go grab something, no one can see you're wearing your Star Wars pajama pants.
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En attendant @drizzt, je vais me chercher à manger, au même endroit que la dernière fois, là où ils m'avaient par erreur fait des doubles.
Je commande mes burgers (et rien d'autre) et je patiente. Et là, le mec me dit "M'sieur, on a fait trop de frites, j'vous en met avec, vous voulez quoi comme sauce ?"
Du coup, faut quand même que je leur fasse une peu de pub, même si leur offre végé est très courte. Bang burgers, c'est bien !
bangburgers.com/

#Strasbourg

EDIT : j'ai eu des noms merci :)

Hello, après 5 mois sans titre, la mère de ma collègue (qui est en traitement contre le cancer et qui a la nationalité française) vient de se voir refuser le renouvellement de son titre de séjour.

Quelqu'un connaît un bon avocat en droit des étrangers à Paris svp ?

Le repouet est apprécié.

#avocat #droitdesetrangers #titredesejour

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This week Semios/Almanac laid off an estimated 10% of headcount, including yours truly just today.

It wasn't a surprise, but that doesn't make it suck less.

Which is to say: I'm now 100% available for full time, contract, paid speaking, board, advisory positions. #OpenSource, #BusinessStrategy, #BizOps, #Standards, #Leadership, etc.

CV: vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf

#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I'm a bit confused on the localisation front, because here you say that you use weblate, but currently Thunderbird's only project on weblate seems to be Thunderbird for Android, wheras Thunderbird Desktop and thunderbird.net are on pontoon. I'm wondering where we might expect future project's localisation to be based from (like the Thunderbird Pro stuff).

Hello Jamers! 😍

Missed Dev Update #12?

No worries, we’ve got you covered with all the highlights! ⬇️

Catch up now and stay in the loop.

Read our Dev update 12: jami.net/de/dev-update-12/

#Jami #OpenSource #P2P #PrivacyFirst #AppUpdate

Posts about medicinal herbs hardly ever include the side effects or any negative reactions. It's always, "drink chamomile tea to relax and sleep" and not, "15-20% of people are allergic to ragweeds, which includes chamomile, so it might give you a scratchy throat."

-Drinking mint tea regularly can cause acid reflux and exacerbate other GI issues.

-St. John's Wort calms you, and is good for depression, but it can also dangerously lower your heart rate if you take beta blockers.

-Sure, fennel is great for "digestive issues," but don't schedule a date that night, you will be very gassy.

-All members of the Poplar family, which includes Willow, contain the same chemical as modern aspirin within their bark. Don't give it to your kid if they have the flu or chicken pox, it can cause a deadly reaction.

-Rosehip helps with painful menstruation, and is a great source of vitamin C. So great, in fact, that you can overdose and give yourself kidney stones if you take too much.

-Dear white people, taking turmeric every day will literally turn you orange.

#Herbology #HedgeWitch

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Stop hacking accessible pedestrian signals you fucking sociopaths. I swear, if I die because I'm trying to cross a street but the signal's been hacked because one of you thought it would be cute I'm coming back and haunting you for the rest of your life. lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/

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Really glad to see @Mastodon working on quote #QuotePosts, and they're doing it in a really considerate way that will hopefully cut down on the downsides of quoted posts on other platforms. blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

For anyone who reads scholarly texts frequently, as I do, footnotes are commonplace. Given a document received in Microsoft Word format, I sought to access the footnotes using several word processors and screen readers. Findings:

Microsoft Word for Windows (Print layout) - the footnotes appear at the bottom of each page and can be reached using ordinary cursor navigation. An option to move from the footnote text to the footnote mark in the body of the document is available in a context menu. However, I couldn't find a command to move from the footnote mark directly to the footnote text.

Microsoft Word for Mac - VoiceOver didn't read the footnote text at all - not good, obviously.

Apple Pages - each footnote mark was treated as a link, so I could navigate directly to the footnote text. However, there was no obvious way to move back from the footnote text to the footnote mark.

Google Docs - I haven't tested recently, but when I last tried it with multiple screen readers under different operating systems, the screen readers ignored the footnote marks in the document entirely, unless the cursor was placed directly on the footnote mark, which is unlikely to happen by accident.

LibreOffice Writer (Linux) - when last I tested, there wasn't a keyboard binding for the command to move to the footnote area. I reported this as a bug. It may have been fixed since then.

#accessibility #ScreenReaders #WordProcessors