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You think you know the story of VoiceOver? Think again.
Apple’s bold move changed accessibility forever—and most people don’t even know how it happened.
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Double Tap - The Podcast Where Blind People Talk Tech

Double Tap is the world's most popular podcast where blind people talk tech. Hosted by Steven Scott and Shaun Preece the duo talk about blindness and tech.
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Neither Simple, nor Intelligent parking system for disabled drivers.

So, you park, get into your wheelchair, wheel yourself 100m to the building where the scanner is (inside the Medical Centre), scan your badge, wheel yourself 100m back to the car, return the badge, wheel yourself 100m back to the Medical Centre for your appointment.

Could it be ANY more disabled unfriendly?
#stupidity #disability #DisabilityInclusion #medical #commonsense

Parking sign. Claims to be simple intelligent parking. Instructions telling disabled people to enter the building, scan their badge, return to their car with their badge, then re-enter the building for their appointment.
#Disability #disabilityinclusion #medical #commonsense #stupidity

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I was cleaning out my desk, and I found a mystery thing. It's a thing that generates numbers, probably as two factor codes. But I have no idea what the codes are for, where I got the thing, who made the thing, or if I can somehow reset the thing or do anything else with it. Based on where I found it, the thing has to be at least four years old, if not older. Being a blind person, I of course recorded the thing. Do you have any advice about what I could do with my mysterious thing other than throwing it out?

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Andrew Hodgson

Yeah its super frustrating isn't it? My device did something similar and there was no way to reset it other than getting a new one. The devices given out to sighted people were tiny in comparison and had non replaceable batteries. When my device expired in 2019 I got it replaced with a phone token as it was the right thing to do. If I remember correctly the token comes from the factory with a specific shelf life of 5 years.
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Andrew Hodgson

I used to have a device very similar to this for a job. It was a SecureID token generator from either RSA or SafeNet. The end of life means that the codes are probably useless at the remote end and the only thing you can do is throw the device away. I'm not sure whether its still fashionable to give out these hardware tokens, I haven't had one now since 2019, everything being done on my smartphone.

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Wer #Nextcloud unter #Android über den #GooglePlay installiert hat kann nur noch Fotos und Videos hochladen, Dokumente funktionieren nicht mehr. Hintergrund ist, dass #Google wegen "Sicherheitsbedenken" den Zugriff für die App entfernt hat. Wer andere Appstores wie #FDroid nutzt ist nicht betroffen.
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Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.
Christoph Weissthaner (Nextcloud)
#android #google #fdroid #nextcloud #googleplay

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The GitHub Copilot Accessibility video series launches today in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) which is Thursday, May 15th 🎉

Each day this week, we’re spotlighting a new video featuring a person with lived experience using GitHub Copilot to solve real-world challenges — both personal and professional. These stories show how AI can reduce barriers, boost productivity, and unlock creativity in coding and beyond ✨

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Five different ways you can use GitHub Copilot · community · Discussion #158705

Less than six months ago we launched GitHub Copilot Free for all our users, starting a new era of possibilities. So many possibilities in fact that it can be easy to miss all the great ways you can...
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First up: Meet Vytautas, a screen reader user who codes in Visual Studio Code. With GitHub Copilot by his side, editing becomes faster, smoother, and more efficient 💪

For more videos please follow along, share widely, and help us spark conversations around accessibility, inclusion, and AI 💬

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How to use GitHub Copilot to edit your code [Day 1] · community · Discussion #159015

Vytautas takes GitHub Copilot with him step-by-step in the editing process of Visual Studio Code. Copilot_Accessibility_Vytautas_FINAL_Captions.mp4 This video is part of our Five ways you can use G...
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André Polykanine

@cachondo Actually, it's not, I use GitHub Copilot extensively and it helps me with lots of boilerplate code. I wish it was smarter though, but I'm sure it will come. I do have one small problem with it though for some reason: when it says "Next edit suggestion", it doesn't tell me the whole code of the next suggestion, unlike with the first suggestion it has. I'd like to see where its development goes, actually.
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Andre Louis

@cachondo @menelion As someone who is nobody's idea of a programmer, I don't use copilot admittedly but I do use AI in-general to help me with bash scripting etc. Two of the most useful are running on my Raspberry Pi's and though searching for code snippets could have aided me I suspect, having an AI write the code out for my specific usecase meant that I could look at each line and understand why something does what it does.
There is legitimately a lot of AI hate but on the other side of the coin, a lot of good uses for it.
Tailor-made scripts which might be childsplay for some of you, aren't things I think about or know how to do, so AI has been super-useful in making my wishes a reality. Nothing overcomplicated or anything, but useful none the less.
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New bug posted to the bug tracker: TalkBack navigates between keyboard items instead of moving focus out of the Gboard window when swiping accessibleandroid.com/bugs/tal…

TalkBack navigates between keyboard items instead of moving focus out of the Gboard window when swiping - Accessible Android

Issue Description: When using Gboard with TalkBack, swiping right or left to navigate to the next window (e.g., to access "Submit" or "Send" buttons) causes
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New bug added to the bug tracker: Multiple Beep Sounds during Voice Input when using Gboard accessibleandroid.com/bugs/mul…

Multiple Beep Sounds during Voice Input when using Gboard - Accessible Android

Issue Description: When using voice input with TalkBack (version 14 and later), multiple beep sounds play simultaneously, disrupting the typing experience.
Accessible Android

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#ScribesAndMakers 5/13 Shameless Self Promotion Day! Boosty boosty boost-boost!

I can't see my sequel to my book coming out for another year give or take (I work slow and part time) so until then, enjoy my first book Taliesin, Chief of Bards!

Young Taliesin is a prince of a mythical Welsh kingdom, but when his foster-father is taken prisoner by Maelgwn of Gwynedd, he must realize his incredible gifts to save him and stop all-out war.

available here:
amazon.com/Taliesin-Chief-Bard…

Cover image for Taliesin, Chief of Bards. A small boy with sandy colored hair and wearing a light green tunic stands and looks up defiantly at a king seated on his throne. We only see the back of the king's head topped with a gold crown. The throne room is colored red and gold. On top of the image is the title Taliesin, Chief of Bards. There is a Ogham line in the title which looks like a horizontal line crossed with a dozen perpendicular dashes. The same pattern is visible in the throne room rug.

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OPEN LETTER TO JOHN SWINNEY FROM SCOTTISH BUSINESS r.e SUPREME COURT RULING

If you are a business or enterprise you may like to sign up to this open letter to the First Minister and Minister for Business expressing concerns following the Supreme Court ruling.

The letter has a particular focus on business and enterprise and appeals to him from this perspective.

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To Improve Accessibility, Closed Captioning Gets An Overhaul disabilityscoop.com/2025/05/06…

To Improve Accessibility, Closed Captioning Gets An Overhaul - Disability Scoop

Closed captioning for television and movies has remained largely unchanged for decades, but a new design aims to give people with disabilities a better idea of what's happening on screen.
Shaun Heasley (Disability Scoop)

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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn - A 3-posts series of writing about problems (and wins) in Linux accessibility
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#linuxsuck #accessibility #gafam #fedora #ubuntu #debian
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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

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#Accessibility #debian #GAFAM #ubuntu #fedora #linuxsuck

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Google is fighting Nextcloud by harming our Android app. Nextcloud now has less functionality than Google Drive. This is clear anti competitive behavior. theregister.com/2025/05/13/nex… nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-a…

Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

Exclusive: Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition
Richard Speed (The Register)

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Today in Labor History May 13, 1985: The city of Philadelphia bombed the house of the radical black activist group MOVE. The police dropped a bomb made with C-4 explosives from a helicopter over the African American residential neighborhood. When survivors tried to flee, the cops shot at them. As a result, eleven MOVE members died, including five children. Furthermore, the bomb and fires destroyed sixty-two others homes in the neighborhood. Consequently, 250 Philadelphians became homeless. Adding insult to injury, the bones of some of the victims were transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where professors used them to teach courses on forensic evidence.

MOVE was a black liberation environmental movement. Many surviving MOVE members were still in prison as late as 2020. Mumia Abu Jamal, who was an associate of MOVE, is still in prison on trumped up charges of killing a cop. He is currently severely ill with diabetes and heart disease. The government has bombed civilians from the air several other times in history. The first was during the Tulsa anti-black pogrom of 1921. They also aerially bombed striking Appalachian miners that same year.

#LaborHistory #workingclass #move #MumiaAbuJamal #terrorism #bombing #philadelphia #racism #homeless #policebrutality #police #massacre #prison #BlackMastadon

A crowd seeing their neighborhood on fire after the police dropped a bomb. By Unknown - Original publication: May 12, 2020Immediate source: https://web.archive.org/web/20221108213825/https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/philadelphia-police-bombing-move-compound-africa-osage-ave-racism-20200512.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72841122
#terrorism #racism #police #homeless #workingclass #LaborHistory #prison #Philadelphia #bombing #policebrutality #move #mumiaabujamal #massacre #BlackMastadon

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The April Dev Digest is out! Learn about all our ongoing development and find out where you can help us test upcoming features. This month's blog focuses on:

* The upcoming Extended Support Release
* The Calendar UI rebuild
* Exchange support
* Account Hub
* and the Global Messaging Database

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email

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Thunderbird Monthly Developer Digest - April 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

Updates on the upcoming Extended Support Release, Calendar UI rebuild, Exchange support, Account Hub, and Global Messaging Database
Toby Pilling (The Thunderbird Blog)
#email #opensource #thunderbird

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Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming Later This Year: Accessibility Nutrition Labels, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access Mode, and More | AppleVis applevis.com/blog/apple-previe…

Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming Later This Year: Accessibility Nutrition Labels, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access Mode, and More | AppleVis

Ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Apple is offering a preview of accessibility features coming to its platforms later this year; including Accessibility Nutrition labels for App Store apps, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access, and more…
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