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Microsoft announced their latest round of FOSS fund recipients. We're thrilled to share that @NVAccess are among this quarter's recipients. From: https://github.com/microsoft/foss-fund

"A project of the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office, the FOSS Fund provides up to $10,000 USD in sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees."

Congratulations also to The GNU Compiler Collection, Urllib3, CLAP & MSW.

#OpenSource, #FOSS #Free #Software #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y

GitHub - microsoft/foss-fund: The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fund provides $10,000 sponsorsh

The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fun...
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#a11y #Accessibility #foss #free #opensource #software #screenreader #nvda @NV Access

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Roberto Perez
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Wonderful!!! What an awesome news to end the day. Super happy for NVAccess and the entire N NVDA community. You guys deserve it.
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Bill Dengler
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I may or may not have had something to do with this :) congratulations on winning for the second time, the only project to ever do so to my knowledge!
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NV Access
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@bill Thanks so much Bill! We really appreicate your support, and that of everyone at Microsoft!
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Simon Jaeger
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Congrats, both for being selected this year and for possibly being the only project to get funding twice. It also shows there aren't just a tiny scattering of people who are onboard with accessibility at Microsoft, which is a useful reminder sometimes.

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Mikołaj Hołysz
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@simon MS seems like the only big company who really takes enterprise accessibility seriously. If you've never seen Azure for example, you'll be astonished how fricking good it is. Sure, it's not perfect, but the vast majority of things are labeled, modals are actual aria modals, notifications come through live regions, the cloud shell is actually accessible, controls have proper roles, landmarks are there etc. I even wrote about this on Twitter once and the feedback was tremendous, I'm reliably informed that people "up top" in the Azure team saw and discussed my tweet in some kind of executive meeting. I've also played briefly with other enterprise tools of theirs, including Azure Data Studio, PowerBI and whatever the SQL Server thing was called, and they were all great accessibility-wise. Same with VS Code, Visual Studio, the now discontinued Visual Studio for Mac, it just all works. Compare this to something like App Store Connect, which I fortunately never had the misfortune to use, but which barely works with a screen reader if you can say even that.
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Liz Hare PhD
Liz Hare PhD
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@miki @simon they also did a lot to fix Slack after they bought it.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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@lizhare @simon Um, that's not Microsoft I don't think, that's Salesforce. They're another company that cares, but I don't exactly consider them to be "big tech".
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Liz Hare PhD
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@miki @simon oh, right. All I know is it's gotten a lot better over the last four years or so.
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Kaveinthran
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Good time for @podcast to interview these folks about the future of screen reading technology and other matters of agreements and disagreements. Would be fun cc @doubletap
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