For the past 3 years, I’ve been part of the Google Accessibility Trusted Tester program, where people with disabilities test unreleased products and give direct feedback to engineers. In my article, I share how the program works, how I’ve maximized participation, the experience I’ve gained, and why more companies should follow Google’s lead in compensating disabled testers.
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@NVAccess I'd like to report an adon in the adon store that possibly contains malware and is being flagged as malware by Windows Defender and other antivirus programs and therefore won't install. It is redundant anyway now since the thing it is built for is now included in NVDA as of the latest version. The adon in question is called "Tele NVDA Remote Assistance" by HM something (HMDorb? HMDub? something with HMD in the developer's name anyway) and I couldn't find a report feature in the store directly so that's why I'm reporting it directly in a post on Mastodon. Anyway I tried installing it myself and sure enough Windows Defender flagged it as a threat and stopped it from installing on my computer, so that's how I know it's Malware. The URL to the adon is github.com/nvda-es/TeleNVDA I strongly recommend you take a look as I think it's definitely got some sort of Malware in it. I have already reported it to Github so they can take a look on their end.
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Echoing @cubic - we have looked at that & we believe it is a false positive. What is being flagged is basically the same as what was flagged in the original NVDA Remote & in our built in implementation until we reported it as a false positive and had it fixed. We have helped TeleNVDA report the false positive as well - it can just take awhile. We do actually virus check all add-ons (as well as all NVDA core code), and it's amazing(ly annoying) how often things get falsely falgged

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 10 updated and 2 added apps:

* SMS Forwarding: listens for incoming SMS text messages and conditionally forwards them to other numbers 🛡️
* Retherm: converts RTD and thermocouples sensors to temperature 🛡️

RB status: 720 apps (55.5%) – a lucky number in the percentage 🤣

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

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Our ongoing repo reorg also resulted in other 8 apps having been removed, as they were no longer maintained AND rarely requested anymore:

* Elfreader
* Fastair
* Warpshare
* OpenFarManager
* Calculator (ha! yeah, which one 🙈 The one from 2016)
* BookShelf
* TailPos
* domodel-diary

Our reorg is still ongoing, so more will probably follow. We hope the cleaning also makes it easier for you to find what you need in our repo, without distraction.

Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post /
"A firm working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a series of invoices for its “Influencer Campaign” to an international media group working for Israel. The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000 for 14-18 influencers to create content."

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Anybody looking for #FreeBSD #ZFS job in Europe or Armenia? Take a look at lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre…. As I worked on that position until this August, I can only recommend it. The only reason I left is because of a full time open source position. Whoever fills in the position, I can promise you, you'll see wonders and make wonderful friends for life! 😃 I still chat with my old team members, and with some of them on a regular basis. In any case, good luck!
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Vloni touhle dobou jsem se začal chystat na důchod. Mám před sebou ještě 12 let a, s prominutím, holou prdel. Vybral jsem penzijní a zainvestoval vlastními silami.

Dva brokeři:
1) XTB, kde držím velkou většinu a kde mám pouze ETF a pomocí DCA pravidelně měsíčně vkládám hotovost a doufám, že za těch 12 let se zhodnotí.

2) eToro, kde si hraju s drobnými. Traduji akcie. Moc tomu nehovím, jen tak nějak chápu o co jde přirozenou inteligencí a všeobecným rozhledem, za přispění čtyř YouTube kanálů o investování.

A blíží se konec roku a vidím, že díky Trumpovi a jeho debilitě šly trhy do háje a když se konečně z hájů vrátily, je v háji pro změnu dolar, takže zisk nic moc. Spíš nic. Avšak ten trading, ten se mi povedl. Jsem opatrný, smrdím korunou, a i přes tu opatrnost hle, o kolik jsem překonal index S&P500. To mě těší, opravdu. Snad ten důchod nakonec nebude tak zlej.

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nicméně je třeba dodat, že tohle je dobrá strategie s horizontem >10 let. Kdybych měl 5 let do důchodu, tak už v akciích na důchod nespořím. Když to pak řachne těsně před důchodem, tak to není sranda.
Já jsem investice na mnoho let vyřešil stavbou domu. Máme velkou hypo, takže můžu jakékoliv přebytečné peníze sypat do ní se zhodnocením 6 % při nulovém riziku. 🙂

I've started this #Fanfic whilst hoping labour would progress. The baby isn't out yet but at least we're having a giggle between contractions, comrades.

Harry Potter and the Ludicrously Illegal Blog, By The Sentient Duck

No one bothers to tell Harry about the Statute of Secrecy or, for that matter, that electronics shouldn't work in Hogwarts, so when he joins the magical world, he just continues writing his blog. The Muggle public is convinced he's a brilliant fantasy writer, his friends are convinced he's a menace to society, and MI6 is convinced Hermione is a Russian spy. Modern AU.

It's a 200k word Fic that seems to have been written over the course of 12 months or so last year.
fanfiction.net/s/14321997/1/Ha…

CC @FreakyFwoof

My latest article for my awesome friends at @accessibleandroid after a long while.
Google’s New Rules Could Threaten Sideloading And Accessibility Along With It: accessibleandroid.com/googles-…

Jane Goodall, the primatologist and conservationist, has died at age 91. Here's more from NBC.

flip.it/gtshQ9

#JaneGoodall #Primatology #Conservation #Chimpanzees #Biology #Zoology #RIP #InMemoriam

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Auto Parts Supplier's Bankruptcy Spells Potential Trouble for Loads of People Who Own a Car, Truck, or SUV

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Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.

🔗 404media.co/kodak-is-selling-i…

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TIL that while there is a unicode superscript character for trademarks ( ™ ) there isn't one for latin ordinal indicators. E.g. There's no "st" superscript character to use with 1st.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_…

BUT, there ARE "minuscule" superscript characters of the full English alphabet (tough shit if your language needs diacritics over letters i guess 🤷‍♀️)

So, you can fake "1st" with those but the font handling isn't great: 1ˢᵗ, 2ⁿᵈ, 3ʳᵈ, 4ᵗʰ…

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@matt oh Jesus Christ. I figured they were literally just minuscule Latin letters so "of course" they'd be handled just like any other Latin letter? But no. 🤦‍♀️

Just listened with macOS voiceover and it completely skipped over them as if they weren't there. What the absolute fuck?

So many WTFs.

Also just learned that it says "misspelled" before every word that's spelled correctly but not capitalized correctly. That's fun. 😡

(gonna go have to edit the alt text to the screenshot i just added)

#Catima 2.39.1 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This fixes a crash bug which was reported using the new #ACRA crash reporter functionality *less than 3 hours after the last version released*. If that's not an ACRA success story I don't know what is ;)

Coming soon to an app store near you!

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

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As a single solution across government, GCtranslate will generate economies of scale and reinforce the use of both official languages within the public service. It demonstrates the government’s commitment to modernizing the public service through secure, efficient and Canadian-based innovative digital tools.

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Seeing Montreal by Observation Car, c.1920s - International Fine Art Co Postcard

ebid.net/uk/for-sale/seeing-mo…

#Montreal

Target is putting blind-accessible self-checkout machines in its stores. They were designed with feedback from the blind community. There's braille, headphone jacks (hopefully they also have speakers), tactile controls, voice feedback, and more. corporate.target.com/news-feat…

RE: activitypub.blog/2025/10/01/7-…

Version 7.5.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress is out, and it now lets you quote posts! 😍

While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts.

If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also chaos.social/@delta/1134177407…


Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.

- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast")
- all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss
- interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers

#righttoexit


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Jsem v Praze, omlouvám se 😇

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