Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Exclusive: Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competitionRichard Speed (The Register)
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[orca] A simple Orca Intro guide for beginners, orca at FreeListswww.freelists.org
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I am just testing @Jami with a #screenreader on both linux desktop and android for #accessibility.
Initial setup is accessible on both the platforms.
Listing conversations I can't really say as I only have single contact.
Audio calling is working fine. I am impressed that the call setup took just a moment. On android controls like microphone toggle, speaker / earpiece toggle and hangup button are working fine.
I am unable to find out in call controls with the keyboard on linux.
On both desktop and android I can write messages.
On android I can read messages, find and execute additional actions in the popup menu.
On the desktop I can't read incoming and outgoing messages with a screen reader. I haven't discovered on how to copy them.
In conclusion comparing this to the tox chat the Jami is more accessible with a screen reader. Perhaps I will be able to figure out how to handle the calls with a keyboard shortcuts however the fact message text is not readable with a screen reader on desktop linux and perhaps other platforms sounds dissapointing. The idea and decentralized nature of this communication app sounds really amazing.
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Huh, somehow this has me feeling optimistic... I guess it sounds like there's a lot of low-hanging fruit. You mentioned not having a audio mixer with good accessibility, which sounds like could be improved with a couple weekends of getting acquainted with the accessibility stack (or I haven't fully comprehended how bad it is yet). I've been meaning to learn how the screen readers and such work, and that seems like a good jumping-off point.
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First impressions of Deque Axe Assistant · What to expect from the AI accessibility chatbot ilo.im/163tch
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If you’re a developer writing a GTK app and you want it to be accessible, you might want to check out the following links:
developer.gnome.org/documentat…
docs.gtk.org/gtk4/section-acce…
Here are some things you can do in your code to make your program work as well as possible with assistive technologies. For components that don’t display a short string (such as an image button), s...GNOME Developer Documentation
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@pvagner @modulux @clairie I am not aware of any binary builds for Windows; I personally have a full life already, and I don't particularly plan on wasting it on the foibles of Windows.
As far as I know, the accesskit backend was tested with a custom gnome-text-editor build, but that was last year. If people want to pick this up, I'd recommend starting with a small hello world to ensure that building all dependencies actually works.
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If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?
I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.
Edit: I am also willing to pay! Read further down in this thread!
#a11y #foss #accessbility
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Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these things. I don't need free labour either. I am happy to pay for this service.
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These days when I set up a computer and want to create a local user account, I just invoke that screen from the command prompt. You can do this with an internet connection, but it needs to be one of the first things you do.
1. In the Windows first-run setup (after it has been installed), press shift f10 to open command prompt.
2. Type this: start ms-cxh:localonly
This should pull up the old "Who's going to use this PC?" screen. Seems to work in Windows 11 24H2. When you get done answering security questions, the computer (or at least the out-of-box experience) will restart.
I also use this cmd trick to launch a portable copy of NVDA sometimes.
A lesser-known shortcut in Windows setup is ctrl-shift-f3. This puts you into audit mode, where you're logged into the desktop of the administrator account even though you haven't completed Windows setup yet. A dialog will automatically start, giving options to restart into the out-of-box experience or restart normally. In this mode, you can install drivers and make any other changes that need to be made before the setup process completes.
Example: When giving someone a Surface tablet with an attached Bluetooth keyboard cover, you might want to go into audit mode so you can pair the keyboard, but still retain the setup process for the recipient.
You can, of course, also use this trick to completely bypass Windows setup in order to reinstall Windows on a brand new system.
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# service pf restart && sleep 30 && service pf stop<br>
service pf stop
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New in Foobar2000 for Mac V2.25 preview: "Added keyboard shortcut mapping functionality."
Yeeees!!!! This is what I've been waiting for for ages. The Mac version received everything else I used, and behaves very similarly and runs just as quickly as the Windows version, but literal 0 support for hotkeys was a dealbreaker. It goes without saying that, like the Windows version you need to go in and set up the keys yourself and at least for this initial preview there is absolutely no default hotkeys defined where the Windows one at least has some menu items configured. It also currently doesn't support global shortcuts or hotkeys without a modifier so sadly still no space to play or pause for me. Even then this is a huge improvement and I can actually see myself using this as my default player now also on Mac. You can download from here
CC @masonasons think you were also waiting for this.
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Fun project for friday evening. I am hosting some unmaintained web sites for a few friends and they help me to pay the hosting costs in return.
Now I have found out I need php 7.4 for some of these and it's not readily available so building php 7.4.33 on up to date arch linux.
I am afraid this will no longer be possible in the future. How do you deal with this? Can I run PHP in some kind of lightweight container?
Random reminder that #BillGates is the reason why AstraZeneca #COVID vaccine is patent-encumbered:
wired.com/story/opinion-the-wo…
> Gates bragged about convincing Oxford University not to open-license its vaccine. Gates leveraged his $750 million donation to the university for vaccine research—even though its vaccine was developed in a publicly funded lab. Eventually, Oxford sold the sole right of production to AstraZeneca, with no guarantee of low prices and an extraordinary opportunity for profit.
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"Milestone for digital sovereignty": 20 years of the Open Document Format (ODF)
The Document Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of adoption of ODF as an OASIS standard. This promotes global digital independence and interoperability.
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#IT #LibreOffice #OpenSource #news
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I use Captura. The UI is not very accessible but I set everything up in the JSON config file manually so that when I press Alt+F9 globally, it starts and stops recording of screen, microphone, system audio, and a log of timestamped keystrokes.
Let me know if a sample config file would be helpful.
Dnes spouštím projekt Anti-řetězák, který vybírá nejnebezpečnější internetové fámy (cca 1 týdně) a uvádí je na pravou míru tím, že pošle email přímo do schránky.
Anti-řetězák je určený pro lidi, kteří se podvodnou scénou nechtějí zabývat víc, než musí — ale zároveň chtějí mít základní přehled, co koluje českými e-mailovými schránkami. Už jen proto, aby uměli reagovat, když se k nim nějaká dezinformace dostane off-line.
Přihlásit k odběru se lidi můžou na adrese anti-retezak.cz
Řetězák, který upozorňuje na lživé řetězáky, co kolují českým internetem.anti-retezak.cz
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RIP Skype (2025)
Died a slow agonising death from years of neglect after being acquired by Microsoft.
Skype joins a growing list of messaging software that has died in the care of Microsoft.
• V-Chat (died 1995)
• Comic Chat (laid to rest 1999)
• Netmeeting (met demise 2007)
• Windows Messenger (croaked 2008)
• Meeting Space (expired 2009)
• Office Live Meeting (passed 2011)
• MSN Messenger (gave up ghost 2012)
• Qik (kicked bucket 2016)
*not a complete list.
Skype.
You will be remembered.
In a nostalgic kind of way.
For a while at least.
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Sunday, the 27th of April 2025 marked a major turning point for Tech-Freedom, one of the blind-specific apps on Android, which includes features like aKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
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I need to scan a hand-signed document to email somebody using Windows 11. Is Windows FAX and Scan still the go-to app for this kind of thing? If not, what are people using?
Note I don't need to read it, just scan and send.
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NAPS2 is free scanner software made easy. Scan to PDF, edit your documents, and use advanced features like OCR. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.www.naps2.com
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Song Maker, an experiment in Chrome Music Lab, is a simple way for anyone to make and share a song.musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
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Hey everyone,
I hope you’re doing well! I’m reaching out to invite blind musicians, producers, and artists to join an **accessibility feedback group** for Sessionwire — a platform I’ve been using and really enjoying for a couple of years now.
**What is Sessionwire?**
Sessionwire is a remote music collaboration platform that allows musicians, producers, and audio professionals to work together in real time. It offers studio-quality audio, high-definition video, and seamless integration with popular DAWs, letting users collaborate on projects as if they were in the same room.
**Why am I reaching out?**
One of the developers at Sessionwire has asked me to bring together a group of blind users to help improve the platform’s accessibility. They already know which areas need work and are eager to collaborate with us to make Sessionwire better for everyone.
**Interested in participating?**
If you’re interested, **please reach out to me privately (one-on-one)** and send me the email address you’d like to use for communication. If you plan to use the same address to sign up for Sessionwire, let me know; otherwise, please also send the email you’ll use for your Sessionwire account.
If you have **any questions**, feel free to let me know!
Let’s work together to make Sessionwire more accessible for the blind community!
#BlindMusicians #AccessibilityMatters #MusicTechnology #RemoteCollaboration #Sessionwire #BlindProducers #InclusiveMusic #AccessibilityInTech #BlindArtists #AccessibilityFeedback
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First major milestone was reached at the end of MarchTom Butts (TV Tech)
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Ask yourself *why* you want a mix to fill out the frequency spectrum though?
Did it sound good *before* you did that? Did it sound any better *after* you did that?
Is it possible your track *might* be used as a bed for someone to talk over, and there's just no space for voice because you phattened it up like a mix pig for slaughter with your waveform frequency-spectrum-filling?
Did you watch some video on youtube that says 'OMGOMGOMG if you don't fill this mix right out nobody will ever listen, and you're a bad, bad evil bad person if you don't do these 15 steps to waveform filling right now!'
When I say 'You' by the way, I mean the general You, not You, Quinn.
My students sometimes come to me and say
'Why don't we do this particular compression trick in every mix?'
I have to ask them
'Do you need to? Is it important that you do?'
And so on.
Filling out the frequency spectrum is not quite useful, white, pink and brown noise do that already with some changes to the lower frequencies for the two latter ones.
What you are looking for is an even distribution of the existing frequencies (Teote, Ozone, Hornet Thirty-one, WavesFactory Equalizer, Grand Finale, DSEQ3, Gullfoss, etc) do this, exciters and saturation to add new harmonic content, just to mention a few things. Ultimately, these tools, despite the aggressive marketing some of them have, can't replace your ears but they provide fast results if you don't want to focus on mixing and mastering. You still need to tweak things and it's very easy to overprocess your sound of course.
Several books could be written about how many things could influence your sound, both while mixing and mastering (from the headphones or monitors you use through the room you are in, to what your genre needs), not to mention when your final master reaches your listeners. Their hardware, environment, ears, etc, will color the sound as well. You could have a perfectly neutral master and someone could quite easily make it heavy on bass just by listening to it on gaming headphones, or better yet, listen to it in a car.
This is a very complex and overwhelming topic, but if you need advice and you really want to make your sound better, listen to the same genre as much as you can. That's how you train your ears to get accustomed to things that stick out (resonate) and over time you will learn what instrument is problematic in what specific frequency areas. Most importantly, less is more.
Open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux. Contribute to samschott/maestral development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Virtual machines need to be configured to get the best experience. So I wrote down the steps I use when I'm building a Windows virtual machine. And after 18 months of using Linux as my daily driver, I have added KVM specific steps!
How to get the best experience from Windows guests under Linux KVM
blog.pauby.com/post/howto-best…
After making the leap from Windows to Linux over 18 months ago, I have been using KVM for virtualization. Like most hypervisors, virtual machines under KVM need to be configured to run at their best. KVM is not different.pauby.com
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More and more I am looking through @Delta Chat apps and resources I believe this should become number one messenger of choice for screen reader users.
The developers are constantly improving its #a11y. It's secure from the start of using.
Additionally the desktop chat has under gone an #accessibility audit and accessibility issues are clearly documented in public.
I am not sure other messenger style app on the planet has such dedicated commitment to accessibility ever.
github.com/deltachat/deltachat…
We recently got an accessibility quick scan from HAN. They took some time to discuss/test the app with us in a call and gave us a report. treefit and wofwca also made notes during the call, this is...GitHub
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In this relaxed May edition of At Your Fingertips: Braille Then and Now, we explore fun, low- to mid-tech tools that bring joy and progress to Braille learners.pgnpt (Unmute)
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Whingy comment on my latest podcast episode:
'Not really a fan of this stuff. I miss the old keyboard and instrument reviews and the musical breakdowns. The problem with this podcast is that you're both too polite and soft spoken and all that. Try getting a bit angry and controversial. There is no such thing as bad language, so where is all the swearing? You can't make a good podcast episode without some swearing.'
Gonna keep posting weekly with my wife @MoonCat, so if you'd like to check it out (despite the no swearing) search for StroongeCast wherever you get your podcasts.
Also, our web page is here: onj.me/stroongecast
Let's boost for reach because comments like that just make me want to promote it even more.
If I have to spend my life catoring to everyone else, I'll never do anything for myself, and that's just boring. #StroongeCast
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Viewpoint is a Windows program that uses Gemini AI to make user interfaces that aren't accessible, pretty accessible! I was able to navigate the PPSSPP interface with it pretty well! So yeah, it's starting to happen, the use of AI for more than just image descriptions.
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Optical character recognition turns a camera feed into braille for the visually impaired in real-time.Gareth Halfacree (Hackster.io)
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in reply to Peter Vágner • •The desktop app uses QT6 for the UI. Apart of some ounlabelled buttons such as Accept / Reject incoming call and some tab controls on the main window most of the UI elements are clearly labelled and accessible from the keyboard.
The desktop app has a keyboard shortcuts button on the main screen which opens a tabbed dialog with accessible lists of keyboard shortcuts. I haven't yet discovered if these can be tweaked but the default ones are working well for me. For calls it's ctrl+y for accepting and ctrl+d for rejecting / hanging up. Letter m alone can be used for muting / unmuting the microphone.
I need to find out if there is a way to create global shortcuts or do some actions using commandline switches. If either of this turned out to be possible it would perfectly integrate with the desktop.
Sending and receiving files is something I'm going to try next.