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There is a music player for #android called #boomingMusic.
Its UI looks to be very #accessible with a screen reader, the app focuses on high quality playback and rich features so I think it's worth following.

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GitHub - mardous/BoomingMusic: Clean, fast, and Material-driven music player with powerful features for Android.

Clean, fast, and Material-driven music player with powerful features for Android. - mardous/BoomingMusic
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#accessible #android #boomingMusic
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I was on a podcast! The good people at @doubletap invited me to talk all about Mac versus PC. And we had a very balanced conversation. Watch it here, or find it in your podcatcher of choice: youtube.com/watch?v=XJgc0-RwzF…

Mac Versus PC: Choosing the Right Computer For Blind Users

Mac vs PC for blind users: which really delivers the best accessibility, performance, and everyday usability in 2025? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece are joine...
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This is admittedly very subjective, but VoiceOver seems even more responsive in recent macOS releases than it used to be. Web page loading also seems faster, and there are no longer interruptions from messages announcing the percentage of the page that has been processed. While there are some mildly annoying bugs, there's nothing to stop me from using the system comfortably and effectively. Some third-party applications still need work, e.g., Microsoft 365. The UNIX environment is based on BSD, whereas I'm much more used to Linux, but I can accommodate that. The MacBook Pro is a 2021 machine with the M1 Pro chip. I'm still impressed with the performance as well as the power efficiency.
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Great episode, thank you very much.

My biggest issue is audio management. While this is fantastic on the Mac side, it gets very complex when you throw in virtual machines. Virtual machines are pretty much non-negotiable if you need to work with Microsoft Office, which I do every day. If I want to present something on PowerPoint, I would need to do this on the Windows side. Most virtualization software sees just one audio device, so this means now I cannot distinguish between NVDA audio and the PowerPoint audio and switch between those two easily.

For example, if I want to show a live demo of a website with NVDA, I couldn't toggle the sound output because it gets handled by the Mac side and sent through one channel only. I realize this is probably a very edge case situation, but this is one of the biggest issues I'm having with Mac and its accessibility. I cannot use native office apps properly, and managing audio between the Windows side and the Mac side is a very complex one. Sure, I could throw in small external sound cards and do the management via this, but this adds too much complexity for my taste for managing live professional presentation situations. With Windows, I can just walk up with my laptop, plug in the HDMI, and get HDMI out as a separate audio device, which I can then use to choose either the System Audio or the NVDA Audio.

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@jakobrosin I really enjoyed the episode! I really appreciate the examples that you just gave of what works better for you on Windows. I think that more techy power users can live in both worlds because of what each platform and operating system has to offer. I am fortunate enough not to need to make a choice because I have a Mac mini on which I ran parallels but that got complicated and I got tired of it. Having to approve a peripheral every time I plugged it in, even if it had seen it before, got on my nerves. So, I bought a Windows machine. Now I have my MacBook Air M2 and my new Lenovo laptop and I'm perfectly happy. I love that I don't have to choose only one operating system.
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@jakobrosin Yes I agree that PowerPoint on the Mac leaves much to be desired. Especially when running presentations VoiceOver support is very spotty. For the fun of it, I ran one of my old PowerPoint presentations through Keynote instead, and had much better results when running the presentation. Not suggesting that this is a solution for you, I was just curious and thought I'd share the result. As for your use case, I wonder if once the HDMI is connected to a MacBook, would it be possible to add that new sound device to the virtual machine, too, and therefore give Windows access to it, as well as the default system audio. But I haven't run virtual machines in ages, and have no inclination to try that myself. Besides I wouldn't have an HDMI device to try it with. So yeah, for your specific use case, a Windows laptop is definitely the better solution, unless there are ways we both aren't thinking of at the moment.
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Today, Bonnie and I made the kind of memories we'll talk about for the rest of our lives.
I've always been fascinated by space since I was very young. And while I dreamed of going to the Kennedy Space Center one day, America was such a long way away that I thought it would remain a dream. So finally, I made it, and Bonnie returned for a second visit.
It was very special. We got to talk with an astronaut, Ken Cameron. He is a retired NASA astronaut, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel, and engineer whose career is defined by high-stakes flight testing and pioneering international cooperation in space. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he joined NASA in 1984 and logged over 561 hours in space across three shuttle missions.
He flew on three distinct missions, transitioning quickly from pilot to commander roles:
he helped deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, one of NASA's "Great Observatories" designed to study high-energy radiation in the universe.
He led the second docking mission with the Russian Space Station Mir. This was a landmark flight that delivered a permanent docking module to Mir, proving the assembly techniques that would later be used to build the International Space Station.
He played a crucial role in bridging the gap between the U.S. and Russian space programs. In 1994, he served as the first NASA Director of Operations at Star City, Moscow. He lived in Russia to set up the support systems for NASA astronauts training with cosmonauts and personally trained on Soyuz and Mir systems.
Oh, and he's also an active amateur radio enthusiast.
So as you can appreciate, it was a real thrill to talk with him and hear some of his stories. Bonnie quizzed him about what it was like working with the cosmonauts.
We were lucky that we timed it so well. A SpaceX rocket launched this afternoon, and was only delayed by about half an hour, so we got to actually watch a rocket launch. When we heard nothing after the countdown, I wondered if it had failed to fire, but we just had to wait a few seconds for the intense, rumbling sound to ripple over to where we were. It was incredible!
We got to the shuttle Atlantas exhibit, and spent a lot of time at the Apollo exhibit, which was my favorite space thing when I was younger.
We were assisted by the KSC Smart Guide app, which has great audio description, although I've come back with a list of things they might do to improve the experience even more.
People were helpful, and we navigated the whole thing with plenty of great structured discoveries. What a team we make! I've got the technology, Bonnie's got ears that work properly and that incredibly personable disposition of hers. Unstoppable, I tell you.
I also got some super recordings using a Zoom H2Essential, which is an ideal wee gadget to take on a mission like this with its adjustable microphone pickup patterns and two sets of mics that record on separate tracks for later mixing. I had a cable running to the iPhone so I could capture audio from the guide.
It feels very special to have checked off such a longstanding dream from my bucket list, and it lived up to expectations.

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Parla is no longer depending on DeltachatDesktop to work, it's now able to create, transfer profiles and relays by itself. Looking forward distros to help me draw the best way to ship a separate jsonrpc server, maybe even sandboxed separately from the UI app for security reasons. i'm open to suggestions here :) But hopefully this way we can get the flatpak ready github.com/trufae/parla/releas… #deltachat #gnome #flatpak

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Support profile creation Manage and discover new relays Enter chat via invite link Profile list refactored into the avatar circle Support transfer account into secondary device Prompt the user befo...
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Users of Audiopub! I need your input to gage interest. I'm working on a streaming feature. Will you use it? Are you interested? Feel free to boost; I'd like to reach all users.
#Audiopub

  • Not interested (13%, 3 votes)
  • Interested and will use it to stream (50%, 11 votes)
  • Interested to listen to streams, but won't stream (36%, 8 votes)
22 voters. Poll end: Sunday, May 3, 2026, 9:19 PM

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Take back control

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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs.
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On a mailing list I'm on, someone was arguing that contracted Braille was a huge mistake. According to him, blind children aren't learning math or history or literature because they're spending so much time learning the intricacies of Braille contractions, and we had a golden opportunity to do something about it a few decades ago with the effort to standardize English Braille.

I feel like Braille, daylight savings time, and U. S. democracy have one thing in common: lots of people are deeply unhappy with the status quo and wish someone would fix things already, but people haven't come to anything close to a consensus in terms of what kind of change they want to see, if any.

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@Cleverson @Mike Gorse Here in slovakia we have no standardised contractions for writing braille. The real braille nerds used to come up with their own contractions back in the days before using computers for most writing. I think it was even consistent back then. Nowadays there are just a few people that might remember such attempts.
So I'm thinking stories like these do actually prove braille is needed and it's fantastic.
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I shared an overview of the history of NVDA Screen Reader in the NVDA Spanish mailing list. Thanks a lot to @NVAccess and happy 20 anniversary! If you are interested in read the post in Spanish, it's available here: groups.google.com/g/nvda-es/c/…

NVDA está en su aniversario número 20. He aquí una reseña histórica

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@Carlos Esteban Martínez Macías It would be nice to mention some more key points from the nvda history, such as early funding from mozilla, adobe and microsoft, loads of work rewriting virtual buffer code in C++, @Jamie Teh formally leaving the project as a full time developer although still contributing these days, @NV Access growth and onboarding more full time developers, mention some prolific contributors beyond the nvaccess team such as @Leonard de Ruijter and Mesar Hameet for example.
@Leonard de Ruijter @NV Access @Jamie Teh @Carlos Esteban Martínez Macías
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AccessiWeather nightly coming out later tonight with a few bugfixes around AFD notifications and alert notifications, specifically NWS special weather statements. orinks.net/accessiweather for download links.

AccessiWeather - Josh's Domain

The digital home of Joshua Tubbs, a YouTuber, Twitch streamer, flight simulation enthusiast, and accessibility evangelist.
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I would be interested in making album cover art for someone

I would prefer electronic music by a fedi musician, (because I like electronic music and I would like to enjoy the music for which I am making the cover art)

So, if you are a musician with a planing a release and don't have art sorted yet, press the media tag on my profile or checkout my free zines on itch and see if you like what kind of messy art I make. If you think it might suit your work, send me a PM and we'll see if we can work something out

I am not looking for commissions or financial re-numeration, just fancy making some cover art

Depending on level of interest, I may have to turn down some people, if that happens please be aware in advance it is no reflection on you or your music, I just will not over-commit as that would lead to mutual disappointment. I will of course, answer all messages though and if I commit, you will get art you are happy with

BOOSTS WELCOME

#Art #Music #FediMusic #ElectronicMusic #CoverArt #CoverDesign #MastoArt #MastoMusic #Musicians

#music #art #coverdesign #mastoart #musicians #mastomusic #coverart #electronicmusic #fedimusic

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The NVDA 2026.1 Release Candidate is now available! This is the last step before the stable release and we ncourage ALL users to download and try out the release candidate. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the stable release.

Read the full announcement and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-1r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersio #Update #Accessibility #Free #Software

NV Access | NVDA 2026.1rc1 available for testing

NVDA 2026.1rc1 available for testing
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I've recently jumped on the Tailscale bandwagon and am loving it. What's astounding to me is that in several days of using it as a screen reader user, I've encountered only a single minor accessibility issue across web, Windows and iOS. It is an absolute dream to use from an #accessibility standpoint, even its "visual" access controls editor. In a world where most tech products (*especially* those from high value tech companies and startups) are riddled with painful accessibility papercuts at best, complete barriers at worst, this is actually incredible. And unlike some tech companies that publicly wax lyrical about how they have such a great accessibility model and how everyone should learn from their work, then ship utter crap that is utterly exhausting to use for people with disabilities, Tailscale has just done the work without any public grandstanding. I don't give such praise lightly, but it's nice to be able to call out great accessibility work for a change. Thanks @tailscale. Please keep up the good work and don't let it slip as you grow.
#Accessibility @Tailscale
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@TRodick93 It lets you access devices on a private network over an encrypted link from anywhere; e.g. you could access a home server from a coffee shop. Rather than a central server through which all trafic flows as would be the case if you ran a VPN server on a router, it negotiates the most direct connection to each node behind the scenes. That means you can just leave it running; when you're at home, it'll be a direct connection via your local network. Each node has a stable address on your private network, so it's always the same IP address regardless of whether you're at home, at a coffee shop, in a different country, etc. @tailscale
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When I heard news of gunshots at the White House press dinner, I quickly turned on BBC World Service to see if they had anyone in the room. The 2nd report was from blind journalist Gary O'Donoghue, who had also provided award-winning coverage in the moments after the Trump assassination attempt in 2024.

The presenter asked O'donoghue to "describe what he'd witnessed", a precise and respectful question. In his response, he outlined only those things he could verify personally, what he'd heard, what people had said to him, almost nothing someone else had described or explained. The information he gave was as complete and useful as that provided by the other, clearly sighted journalist.

I quit my journalism degree half way through. It was very difficult at that time to gather stories the way my fellow students did, walking the streets and spending days at the courthouse. I sometimes used other approaches, relying more on the internet and my connections, but I resented the distance that arose between myself and my peers because of our different methods. I was annoyed that the way I worked felt much less thrilling and romantic than how everyone else worked. I heard how much was required of early-career reporters, and feared it would be hard to compete. And if I could get into the industry, would I be restricted to specific roles, or unable to do the menial jobs that earn you rewarding positions later on?

O'Donoghue, who started in an even tougher era, must have been much more determined than I was. Ultimately I'm very happy where I've wound up. But I wonder if I would have done anything differently had I known of someone who was proving my fears wrong. He might not call it thrilling, but Gary certainly has been right in the middle of breaking news stories in the way I'd concluded wasn't possible for me.

Most listeners would have had no idea Gary was blind, but for young people now, thinking about their choices,, he sets an important example. My doubts outweighed my ambitions, and even the encouragement of my lecturers. Hearing coverage like this could have tipped the scales another way.

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It’s not just Rob, it’s Rob

I thought similar when I heard O’Donoghue describe the event later on BBC radio. I thought his description was great. The inclusion of things he physically felt gave it a dimension you wouldn’t usually get.
The only thing that stood out for me was the presenter asking Gary to describe “what you saw”. But I guess that demonstrates it’s not something people think of in his coverage.
He’s a great journalist.
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Dec [{()}]

@RobW
BBC News (on DTV in the UK, and on satellite at 28.2E FTA) is the BBC's 24hr rolling news channel. It shares the "big news" hours with the BBC One channel (where DTV viewers get regional news and weather as local opt-ins). BBC News has filler clips of different lengths, that they can play at any time to more easily sync the live presentation.
One of the longer of these clips features Gary O'Donoghue, and has excerpts from his coverage of that previous POTUS assassination attempt.
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In-Process is out - a bumper issue this time:

- NVDA 20 Years
- 20 Years of NVDA Development: A Data-Driven Retrospective
- NVDA 2026.1 Beta 13
- NV Access all hands
- Selecting cells in Excel
- Subscribing via email

All this and more at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Newsletter #Celebration #Milestone #FLOSS #FOSS #Beta

NV Access | In-Process 27th April 2026

In-Process 27th April 2026
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#foss #floss #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda #beta #milestone #celebration

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Since the GNOME 50 release, there has been some misinfo going around. Let's clear it up:

Q: Does GNOME 50 support systemd-homed?
A: No, GNOME doesn't support homed (yet!!)

Q: Did GNOME drop Xwayland support?
A: No, we only dropped the X11 session. You can still use X11 apps on GNOME

#gnome #linux

#linux #gnome

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depuis hier soir je test #FastSM (un client mastodon accessible) sous #linux, et c'est vraiment pas mal ! lors de mon prochain reboot je pourrai tester l'interface invisible, mais c'est une bonne première impression !
le plus difficile va être de se défaire de ses habitudes :D congrat @Bri
#linux #fastsm @Bryn🥰
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I disagree with this post.
I have been testing the new Outlook extensively recently, and in my opinion it is simply not a tool that any blind person can use to get work done efficiently at present. I have communicated this view clearly to Microsoft, and to their credit, we’re working with them on it, but popping in and out of the virtual cursor, working out when to do it and what mode to be in, is not an acceptable or intuitive solution.
Key things are still missing from the Context Menu, and it is talking far too much.
I have yet to be convinced that the current user interface can be made to work with the same degree of efficiency as the one we have in Outlook Classic, but if it can happen, we are a long way from it happening.
My Recommendation would be that if you are the kind of person who likes to kick the tires on things that are alpha, check out the accessibility of New Outlook and report detailed constructive feedback to Microsoft so we can make it better. Right now though, it is far from where it needs to be and we need to make that clear before they take the old Outlook away and damage our productivity.

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The new Outlook and Outlook Classic have different layouts and navigation models, which can change how you interact with them using JAWS.

One helpful feature is switching between the Virtual PC Cursor and the standard PC Cursor:

• Toggle: INSERT+Z (or CAPS LOCK+Z)
• Check cursor: NUMPAD PLUS (or CAPS LOCK+SEMICOLON)

Use the Virtual PC Cursor to read emails or invites, navigate like a web page, and jump to elements with Quick Nav keys. It can make navigation faster and reduce tabbing.


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Juliette

Hi Jonathan. I have to use Outlook when viewing emails for my church. I only use the web mail interface online, and even that is very inaccessible. Outlook needs a lot of work, and I don’t know why they needed to get rid of the Classic Outlook they were using. I’m a big believer in if it’s not broken, why try to fix it?
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Ok, I got an #a11y question on the #WxDragon toolkit. Has anyone noticed that, when tabbing into a list with a selected item, #NVDA will read the item twice? Is this fixable? Is there a config issue on my side? Boosts welcome, replies even more welcome.

#Accessibility #rust #gui

#a11y #Accessibility #rust #nvda #gui #wxdragon

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🇫🇷 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FÉDIVERSE

Un service développé spécialement pour vous, le bridge XMPP/AP permet de dialoguer entre les applications du fédiverse et la messagerie instantanée XMPP. Intuitif et facile d'utilisation, à partir de votre application et de votre compte habituel, il vous suffit de contacter @xmpp_bridge (depuis le fédiverse) ou xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (depuis XMPP).

Si vous administrez un serveur, vous pourrez également l'installer vous-même, le code est disponible en source ouverte.

Toute la documentation pour l'utilisation, l'administration ou l'installation est ici: chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_brid…

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🇬🇧 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FEDIVERSE

A service developed especially for you, the XMPP/AP Bridge allows you to communicate between #Fediverse applications and #XMPP instant messaging. Intuitive and easy to use, from your usual application and account, simply contact @xmpp_bridge (from the Fediverse) or xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (from XMPP).

If you administer a server, you can also install it yourself; the code is provided as open source.

All documentation for use, administration, or installation is available here: chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_brid…

#GayFR #GayFrancophone #XMPPBridge #BridgeXMPP

Blog • XMPP/ActivityPub Bridge documentation

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"Programming the 6502" by Rodney Zaks is such a great book. Any computer science student should have read it.
At Archive.org: archive.org/details/83pt6502/m…
Especially today - with all these silly layers of abstraction - be aware, what happens on machine-level! ;)
What great thinks did we achive with 8-bit cpus... *wehmut*
#c64 #6502 #cs #computersience #programming #assembler

Programming The 6502 : Rodnay Zaks : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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I've been in the #RetroGaming and #emulation community for 8 years. I have a retro video game collection spanning over 30 years, from the Space Invaders era to just before the PS4 came out. I have experience with many emulators on Windows, including RetroArch, Dolphin, MAME through MAME-AO, PCSX2, RPCS3, and Mednafen to name but a few. I've written 2 video game guides for the blind, found at fuge.seedy.cc. If you are looking into the retro gaming scene and have questions or need help, please feel free to hit me up here on Mastodon; other contact methods available on request. I've seen some disgusting behaviour and toxicity in the community throughout these 8 years, one noteable case caused a PS2 emulator project for Android to be shut down. Let's not do that here. Let's help shape the emulation/retro video game community into what it should be, a community.

FUGE: the Free, Ultimate Guide to Emulation!

The free, ultimate guide to emulation!
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#retrogaming #emulation
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hmm I like it. "New tongue twister challenge for y'all: Sam sang a Samsung song Sam shouldn't have sung, so Samsung sued Sam for the Samsung song Sam sung. " - to all the Sams on my TL that one is for you, then.
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Some of you might remember that a good while back, I started looking into, and using, @classicpress for a personal blog instead of WordPress. The main reason was, and still is, that I am put off by Gutenberg and the bloat that comes with it. Inconsistent keyboard behaviour, inconsistent screen reader exposure, and the general slowness that is inherent to such web-based applications that run almost entirely in the browser. I contributed to that project for a while, but essentially didn't really see it go anywhere useful, despite some very talented people from the accessibility community trying to contribute.

ClassicPress is, in essence, WordPress without the block editor. It is a fork of a recent WordPress version, stripped of all that is the block editor and related components. Moreover, there is on-going work to minimize the footprint by reducing reliance on other, sometimes even no longer maintained, JavaScript libraries such as JQuery. Much of the logic is moved back to PHP, or where there JavaScript is needed, is using vanilla JavaScript. Just the other day, the site customizer was rewritten to stop its reliance on these JS libraries. This is now in a nightly build, and on a test installation, works really well. All in all, the admin backend is really fast nowadays. It reminds me of the old WordPress days where you could quickly move through the admin using a screen reader because everything was behaving like a website should

At the same time, polyfills are rewritten in HTML 5 with since long supported and accessible elements instead of relying on custom JS to simulate interactions for keyboard and screen readers. Also, a huge load of WordPress plugins work with ClassicPress. Essentially all plugins that don't rely on blocks should just work. Same goes for themes that don't rely on block functionality.

They also have a plugin for WordPress that allows to switch to ClassicPress. It runs a series of checks to make sure plugins that are currently installed still work afterwards, and makes suggestions for modifications to the current install to ensure a smooth transition. Once everything checks out, the current WordPress installation is replaced with ClassicPress. Of course, all suggestions to make backups beforehand apply.

I’m currently in the process of setting up a new blog where I will resume blogging regularly in English. And it'll run on ClassicPress. And the greatest: Ulysses, my favorite writing tool on the Mac, works with ClassicPress, too. You just add a self-hosted WordPress and point it at your ClassicPress install. It'll work, including an app specific password, just like that. Lovely! Stay tuned for more info here.

@ClassicPress

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Progress indicators in CLIs should work with screen readers. Spinning characters don't - text updates do. Learn more from AFixt. afixt.com/accessible-by-design…

Accessible by Design: Improving Command Line Interfaces for All Users - AFixt

The command line interface (CLI) remains a foundational tool in software development, system administration, and DevOps workflows. While graphical user interfaces have become more ubiquitous, the CLI endures due to its flexibility, speed, and power.
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As some of you may know, we're building Flatline, a self‑hostable soft fork of the Signal Server. It lets you run a mostly Signal‑compatible server for research and private deployments.

We already run a Flatline server in Bahnhof cloud for internal development.

#Signal #mollyim #flatline

#signal #mollyim #flatline

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Now we're working on accounts without phone numbers, and the technical draft is public.

If you're interested or might ever want to run your own server, have a look.

github.com/mollyim/flatline-do…

Open to questions or suggestions.

#Flatline

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Do you know that you can find music under CC0 licence on Free music archive? Article about me and my music on Free music archive: freemusicarchive.org/blog/meet…

Meet Ondrosik - Free Music Archive

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Radio buttons are not a viable way to manage state for UIs. If you’re using radio buttons for anything other than forms, you’re opening yourself to risk and your users to hassle.

css-tricks.com/the-radio-state… (link to my comment citing challenges)

#accessibility #a11y #CSS #HTML

The Radio State Machine | CSS-Tricks

One of the best-known examples of CSS state management is the checkbox hack. What if we want a component to be in one of three, four, or seven modes? That is where the Radio State Machine comes in.
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Žena dělá v neziskovce. Bavili jsme se dneska o tom, jestli by si nechtěli založit účet na Mastodonu, tak jsem sepsal, proč si myslím, že by to neziskovky měly dělat. Pokud máte k nějakým neziskovkám blízko, můžete jim to dohodit – a případně jim s tím pomoct. Připomínky a boosty vítány! zoul.cz/mastodon-nezisk/

Proč by vaše neziskovka měla být na Mastodonu

Mastodon je sociální síť podobná starému Twitteru. Bez reklam, návykových algoritmů, nenávisti a toxického balastu.
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Andy Gajdosik

Hezky dobře! Osobně bych si přál, aby to vyslyšela i (nezávislá) česká média. 🚨

Jako doomerovi mi tam chyběl ještě jeden důvod - a to sice záložní account pro případ, kdy se platformy resp. USA rozhodnou ovlivňovat vnitrostátní politiku ČR - a začnou shadow-banovat a utahovat šrouby kolem specifických témata jako trans a queer práva, sexuální výchova, potraty, humanitární pomoc, zdravotnictví pro všechny, solidarita atd.

Aka.. historický moment a nezisk mlčí, protože dostal ban u GAFAM.

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jandi

Not an ORCA or Fedora user, so I'll boost.

Made a search, and there are references to a bug during the F43 beta rollout, but it seems fixed in sept last year, before stable release: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c…

So maybe not related. Hope an answer comes up, good luck!

2395249 – accessibility menu doesn't work in gnome-initial-setup environment

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Just bought a Nokia N900, going to try and fuck about with getting speech / screenreading to work on it. I love fun old Linux devices like that, more so if like the N900 they have a still active community.

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I've just released Fastwin, a small standalone Windows utility to make optimizing a Windows install, especially right after installation, much easier. It lets you do lots of things, from configuring Windows Update to be less annoying to turning off Fast Startup to file explorer enhancements and much more! Thanks to @Jonathan and @BTyson for their insanely helpful amounts of knowledge about the Windows Registry. x64 binary: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/r… ARM64 binary: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/r… Source code: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/ enjoy!

GitHub - trypsynth/fastwin: Optimize your Windows experience.

Optimize your Windows experience. Contribute to trypsynth/fastwin development by creating an account on GitHub.
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After porting my Oh Craps strategy reference app over to #Android, I learned that I need 12 Android users to run a closed test for 14 days to be allowed to put Oh Craps on the Play Store! I just need 4 more people to hit the minimum for my testing group. Any Android users out there have a little time to mess around with my app? Learn how to play Craps, read and build your own strategies, and enjoy an app designed fully #Blind and #Accessibility first!
#Accessibility #android #blind

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As some of you may have noticed, I started playing Showdown again. I played for a couple of weeks before the pandemic hit, but when it was allowed to play again, I was already too ill to take it up again right away. But now I felt I wanted to try again. Yesterday was the third training I attended, and I’m starting to feel like some skills I had mastered back then are returning. Even though I lost the game I played, I won one set, and the third set was very close. And we had some intense ball exchanges. There is training happening twice a week, and I am looking forward to Monday evening already.

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Marco Zehe

@KaraLG84 We only have single player divisions, no team leagues in Germany. We used to have team leagues as well, but due to a shortage in referees and some other factors, Showdown Germany decided to cancel team leagues until further notice, and only leave the three divisions for individuals, separated by male and female, running.
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Chci poděkovat všem, co se na #VHSky podílí. Tenhle týden byl snad největší cvrkot, kterej jsem tam viděl. Klobouk dole...
#vhsky

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During the wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the pastor with an unusual offer: “Look, I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. When you get to the part where I’m supposed to promise to ‘love, honor and obey’ and ‘be faithful to her forever,’ I’d appreciate it if you’d just leave that out.” He passed the minister a $100 bill and walked away satisfied. On the day of the wedding, when it came time for the groom’s vows, the pastor looked the young man in the eye and said: “Will you promise to prostrate yourself before her, obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in bed every morning of your life, and swear eternally before God and your lovely wife that you will not ever even look at another woman, as long as you both shall live? ”The groom gulped and looked around, and said in a tiny voice, “Yes,” then leaned toward the pastor and hissed: “I thought we had a deal.” The pastor put a $100 bill into the groom’s hand and whispered: “She made me a better offer.”

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Hi! Latest release of music separator is up!
You find it at the usual place
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Mu…
More stems, more models and now each output will be in its own folder.

Release Music Separator v1.2 - The Ultimate Stems Update · GianlucaApollaro/Music-Separator-GUI

This major update brings massive improvements to the internal separation engine, introduces highly requested presets, and resolves critical bugs for third-party custom models. What's New The "Ulti...
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Artist: Blanke
Title: Colder
Genre: DubStep - source: Deezer (deezer.com/album/948104271)
Deezer: deezer.com/track/3923363621 | YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=5qM2W-4OXm… | SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/blankemusicau/c…
#DubStep #Deezer #SoundCloud #YouTube #EDM #Playlist #Electronic #Blanke #Colder

Blanke & Megan Ashworth - Colder (Official Visualizer)

Blanke & Megan Ashworth - Colder (Official Visualizer)Stream/Download 'Colder' on Exodus HERE: https://edgeoftheworld.ffm.to/exodus Subscribe to Blanke:https...
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#youtube #edm #electronic #Deezer #playlist #soundcloud #dubstep #blanke #colder
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yech, if you have the LinkWarden browser extension installed but aren't selfhosting, you're leaking every page you view

It sends an `/api/v1/search` query to the LinkWarden server for every page you view

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I've gotta say the open source TTS space is getting really interesting as of late, with models like Omni Voice and VoxCPM2 having recently been released. At this point, I see no reason to keep using something like Eleven Labs, the quality is pretty much there and you have far greater control. While I'm not sure how useful these would be for a screen reader, I'm starting to see some apps on iOS especially that incorporate AI TTS models for document reading. I hope more of this will come soon, but I'm glad the technology is finally catching up and being made available to use offline.
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Zach Bennoui

@JamminJerry Lag isn't the only concern though, these models are too inconsistent to be used reliably with a screen reader. If you pass in the same text multiple times, it'll sound different each time, even with the same voice. They are not meant to sound consistent or predictable, their designed to sound as natural and human like as possible. Great for audiobooks, but really bad for screen reading.
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JamminJerry

I would still do it anyway. I do play a mud, so that would be interesting to see how it would say some of the stuff on there, even though it would say it differently each timke. I am just silly like that. I probibly wouldn't use it as a daily driver, but to try it out, and play with it from time to time. oh you bet I would absolutely do itl.
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