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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.

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Issues from Accessibility audit · Issue #4743 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop

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...
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Delta Chat

it's correct that the current chatmail relays require port 25 to be reachable. There are some discussions around other server-to-server transports, reflected in github.com/chatmail/relay/issu… even if mostly talks about Tor. The email system is traditionally pretty flexible about transports, especially server-to-server ones. There are also some deployments that use uucp for long range radio based transporting between MTAs.

Internet Mail 2000 · Issue #487 · chatmail/relay

We want to be able to accept mails from .onion domain. We cannot have DKIM authentication as there is no support for DNS (see https://forum.torproject.org/t/mock-dns-records-for-onion-services/4671...
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At Your Fingertips: Fidget Tools, Fun Gadgets, and Braille Input Devices - Unmute unmute.show/at-your-fingertips…

At Your Fingertips: Fidget Tools, Fun Gadgets, and Braille Input Devices - Unmute

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.
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Our trip from #Brno to #Prague and back (420 km) cost 300 CZK (€12) with #EV. A family (2+2) train ticket would cost 2000 CZK (€80). Sadly a no-brainer from a family budget perspective.

IMO individual transport with all its negative externalities shouldn't be so cheap compared to public transport.

#Prague #ev #brno

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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.

viewpoint.nibblenerds.com/

#accessibility #blind #ai #ViewPoint #GeminiAI #google

Viewpoint: An AI-powered screen reader assistant - Nibble Nerds

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#Accessibility #google #blind #AI #viewpoint #geminiai

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Joseph Chen's Braille Vision Is a Portable, Raspberry Pi-Powered Text-to-Braille Converter
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Joseph Chen's Braille Vision Is a Portable, Raspberry Pi-Powered Text-to-Braille Converter

Optical character recognition turns a camera feed into braille for the visually impaired in real-time.
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Kelly Sapergia

@Bruce I had the BrailleMate when I was in school. At the time, it met my needs as a notetaker, but yeah, that single-cell display was awkward. One time, a teacher asked me to try reading a paragraph I had written using the display, but soon stopped me after a few words. I saw the Braille Lite 18 a few years later, and really wished the school had waited to get it instead. I could've read that paragraph on it with no problems.
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Every time I take self-driving car, the experience seems to get better and better. Today, for the first time, I was able to locate the car on my own. The phone would vibrate and VoiceOver would announce the distance and the derection of the car in relation to me. As you approach the car, you can press the button in the app to honk! :) Really cool! Hard to believe how far this tech has gone! :)
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Dnes jsem si byl prohlédnout Farinovu zatáčku, památný úsek Masarykova okruhu, kde v roce 1949 havaroval italský jezdec Farina a zemřeli přitom 2 mladíci. Mezi milovníky závodů a Masarykova okruhu asi známá informace.
Co se už ale moc neví, že jeden z těch kluků, Václav Hejtman, byl z mé vsi #Kobylnice, a byl úplně prvním pohřbeným na nově postaveném kobylnickém hřbitově. 2. října odpoledne se konalo otevření hřbitova a hned nato následoval pohřeb, kterého se zúčastnilo kolem 1500 osob.
#Farina
Památník dvěma obětem havárie závodníka Fariny
Památný kámen Farinovy zatáčky
Průvod na pohřeb 15letého Václava Hejtmana 2. 10. 1949.
#kobylnice #Farina
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U nás se pořádaly závody formule přímo ve městě. Než došlo k tragédii.
idnes.cz/karlovy-vary/zpravy/h…

Tragédie Dne horníků. Při havárii zahynuli tři diváci i pilot formule - iDNES.cz

Asi jen málo lidí si dneska dokáže představit, že by se ulicemi obydlených měst mohly rychlostí blížící se dvěma stům kilometrů v hodině prohánět závodní automobily sledované z chodníků špalíry diváků.
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Did you know that movim was the first XMPP client to support Stories? ✨

From all your devices you can share your everyday moments with your contacts through photos that disappear after 24 hours. 😊

Everything is stored on your own XMPP account and the feature has been standardized as a protocol extension: xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0501.h… 🔒

It looks like a few other XMPP clients are looking to integrate it in the future 👀

#xmpp #stories #features #movim @joinjabber @xmpp

Pubsub Stories

This specification defines a way of publishing Stories over XMPP.
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#xmpp #movim #features #stories @XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation @JoinJabber
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When you’re scripting for a screen reader, then you’re scripting for the browser, with exactly the same level of JavaScript support.

However complications can arise with event handling, because screen readers intercept events and don't always pass them on to the browser, and even then, keyboard actions might fire mouse events.

tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaw…

#accessibility #a11y #javascript


Event handling in JAWS and NVDA - TPGi

Complications can arise with JavaScript event handling in screen readers, because the virtual cursor intercepts or modifies page events.
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#a11y #Accessibility #javascript
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Linux desktop experts, please help: discourse.gnome.org/t/gdm-trap…

GDM traps on service start with Fedora 42

Hey, I’ve ran a system update on Fedora 42 Workstation (GNOME) and GDM throws a trap on boot: Additionally this makes NetworkManager not start. I can start Sway from this state, but it does not start XWayland if I do.
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@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! :boostRequest:

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl


Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab

A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
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#replicantos #osuosl @The Tor Project @Debian @GNOME @Gentoo @F-Droid @LineageOS @OSU Open Source Lab @Alpine Linux @Chimera Linux

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Configuring #WirePlumber on embedded Linux systems can be somewhat confusing. Georgios Kiagiadakis takes a moment to demystify this process for a particular use case: collabora.com/news-and-blog/bl…

#OpenSource @pipewire


Customizing WirePlumber's configuration for embedded systems

Demystifying how to configure WirePlumber for embedded Linux systems.
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#opensource #wireplumber @PipeWire Project

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Remember #Movuary, when I and @FreakyFwoof posted a track made with Ableton Move for every day in February?
Well, this is both of our birth months. I, in particular, don't have lots to celebrate, so instead, I've decided to give away all the Ableton bundles from that project, except one, because I accidentally deleted it.
So, for anyone who has Avleton Note or Ableton Move, you can play these just as they were created, modify them, study them, make them more interesting...
For those with Ableton Live, you can import them, but they may not come out sounding exactly the same, because Live converts it to it's own format, and there are differences in the libraries.
Anyway, have fun...
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/Ab…

Index of /audio/movuary2025/AbletonBundles

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As it is the start of the month I shall do some shameless promoting of ourblind.com/ for all the #blind, #deafblind, #lowvision, and #visuallyimpaired people around. @main @mastoblind

OurBlind

Welcome to OurBlind Join Us Reddit Discord Lemmy Who We Are OurBlind is a community of blind and visually impaired people, their family and friends, and allies, from around the world.
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#blind #deafblind #visuallyimpaired #lowvision @mastoblind group @Blind Main

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🇨🇿 #Czechia picks of the day:

(All in Czech unless otherwise noted)

➡️ @birdlifecz - Czech Ornithological Society, protecting birds

➡️ @UbuntuCZ - Czech & Slovak Ubuntu community

➡️ @gomeetupprague - Go programming language meetups in Prague (in English)

➡️ @jopenspace - Tech events for developers in Czechia

➡️ @ct24.ceskatelevize.cz - News feed from ČT24 public broadcaster

➡️ @www.ceskatelevize.cz.sport - ČT sport news feed

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#czechia @Ubuntu CZ/SK @Česká společnost ornitologická @jOpenSpace @Go Meetup Prague @🦜 ČT24 — Výběr redakce @🦜 ČT sport - Všechny zprávy

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Lots of good talks were given at this year's #LinuxAppSummit — but the 24 hours of livestream footage are a little messy to navigate. I've extracted the talks into individual videos, created branded thumbnails and posted them on the LAS YouTube channel for easy browsing and sharing. Enjoy:

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Linux App Summit 2025

The Linux App Summit (LAS) brings the global Linux community together to learn, collaborate, and help grow the Linux application ecosystem. Through talks, pa...
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Locked out of #Stocard? Considering switching to an app like #Catima? You may be able to still access your Stocard cards directly!

According to Italian video creator "IT Problem Solver", it seems Stocard's expiry is based on device time. So: change your phone's date, screenshot those barcodes, and add them to Catima! :) youtube.com/watch?v=hrsEiMjoQT…

Alternatively, if you have the patience and live in Europe, email support@stocardapp.com to ask for an export of your data and import it directly!


Stocard chiude ! Come ho salvato le mie carte fedeltà usando una favolosa alternativa open source

Ciao a tutti da IT Problem Solver!In questo video vi racconto la mia esperienza personale con la chiusura di Stocard e i problemi legati al passaggio forzato...
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Note: there are some small issues with the Stocard importer that may affect you. Look at github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… and github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… if you have issues, or ping me and I'll help fix up your export file for you :)

Catima can't read file opened from Nextcloud in file manager (NetworkOnMainThreadException) · Issue #2464 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Catima version: 2.34.5 OS: /e/OS 2.9 (Android 14) I have a pkpasses file from Reservix (a german ticket portal) and want to open it in Catima. Due to the leck of pkpasses support (see #2287) I unzi...
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Mixxx Stable 2.5.1 Released!

Thanks to your feedback, this release contains a lot of improvements, fixes, new and improved controller-mappings. We would like to emphasize the importance of testing new versions. You don't have to be a programmer to contribute to Mixxx. Translating, testing new features and checking for possible regression is just as important.

It is recommended that all users update to this new version.

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Mixxx - Mixxx 2.5.1 Released

Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.
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Aww yeah, the Godot game engine 4.5 dev 3 snapshot is out.

For those of you to whom that's just alphabet soup, 4.5 dev 3 integrates AccessKit! This means that the editor UI, and any game UIs made with it, are screen reader accessible out of the box.

I just spun up an instance in a Fedora distrobox. Haven't gotten far, but the intro and project creation dialogs are certainly usable. Though the creation dialog seems to set its content as the label for all fields which is verbose. Filing that issue but still this is an amazing development!

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#WenkoffRetro No. 217 🎶❤️
#retromusic

25.4.1917 se narodila královna jazzu ELLA Jane FITZGERALD.

Její téměř 60letá pěvecká kariéra začala 17.11.1934 na soutěži mladých talentů v Harlemu a obratem byla přijata do orchestru Chicka Webba. Následovala spolupráce s největšími hvězdami jazzové scény (Ellington, Basie, Cole, Armstrong, Sinatra, Goodman...). Ella ve stovkách písní očarovala publikum nejen svým barvitým hlasem, ale i velkým citem pro jazz a improvizaci.

Užij si tři nádherné kousky. 😍

#wenkoffretro #retromusic

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If you heard about that hacking of the voices of traffic light crosswalks in the US recently, the root cause is the devices all had the password '1234' and an app to reprogram the devices was on the Apple app store.
theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_…

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Video: AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done
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I meant to try this out for a few days now, and I finally did it. I was able to view a Telemundo News report in Spanish and have Meta glasses translate it to me in real time using the Live Translate feature. There is about a 5-10-second delay, but over all it's quite impressive. I even tried watching trailers for some Spanish-speaking movies... Quite something!
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I didn't know

When I learned about the holocaust as teenager in Germany, many people from the Nazi era were still alive and lived all around me. Being the curious person I always was, I asked them about what happened and their role in it.

"I didn't know" was the boilerplate answer. And as they were relatives and friends, I believed them at first.

Then in 1981 we got a new teacher for history and he exposed the lie. Or more precise: he got us exposing those lies.

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Co potřebujete vidět na mapě když plánujete výlet/vandr/výběh/tůru?

Na den nebo víc dní
Po Čechách nebo v zahraničí

Co se vám osvědčilo a co vám chybělo?

Hrňte to na mě, typy, nápady, názory, kontroverzi.

#fedivandr #zasdilenilasku

#fedivandr #zasdilenilasku

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Už několik let (odhadem dekádu) mám ve svém nekonečném seznamu startupideas tohle - byť je to asi související jen částečně…

„Mapy, které mají jako primární způsob dopravy MHD, kolo, pěší cesty. Mista s velkým provozem aut jsou umenšena a zobrazena jako něco jako brownfieldy. Železnice jde vidět, rozlišeny jsou lokální tratě a hlavní tratě.“

Ale možná je to use case pro jednu osobu na světě, která nemá auto.

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📱 Válí se mi doma Pixel 6a s GrapheneOS.
Mám tu plně funkční Google Pixel 6a s nainstalovaným GrapheneOS. Bezpečnostní aktualizace do července 2027. Perfektní pro někoho, kdo to myslí vážně se soukromím a chce bezpečný telefon bez Google sledovaček.

Telefon má známky běžného používání a trochu zlobí konektor na nabíjení, ale jinak šlape v pohodě.

Kdyby někomu udělal radost a využil ho naplno, dej vědět do zpráv. Rád ho pošlu dál – hlavně někomu, kdo ví, co má v rukou. 🙂

#GrapheneOS #Privacy #OpenSource #FediBazaar #androidbezgoogle

#opensource #privacy #grapheneos #fedibazaar #androidbezgoogle
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Málokdy sdílím, málokdy takto přispívám, ale paní znám, často ji vidím na vozíku i s jejím psím doprovodem na cyklostezce v Trutnově kolem Úpy.
Je smutné, že postižení u nás mají tak malou podporu, ale vždy se najdou hodní lidé, kteří přispějí nějakou tou stovečkou.

Za sdílení děkuji

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Šťastný život pro Věru

Věra je po úrazu páteře na vozíku už 22 let, přesto si udržuje aktivní životní styl a pozitivní přístup. Sbírka jí pomůže pořídit potřebné invalidní vozíky, které jí umožňují samostatný pohyb a účast na každodenním životě i mimo domov.
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Playing with various technologies tonight. Managed to setup a brand new debian 12 systemd-nspawn container. Now looking through various documentation and other internet sources to combine it to a working #chatmail relay server. The thing is I only have a single IP address on the host system so I need to adapt it so the nginx running on the host either redirects or proxies to the container. Plus I guess I need to share the certificate in some way so postfix and dovecot can use it too.
#chatmail
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I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp

#fediverse #GoToSocial #fedihelp #mastohelp
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It bothers me quite a lot that in the `ariaNotify` explainer, relating to a more robust mechanism for web apps to fire #screenReader messages, #braille is demoted to a "future consideration". Even there, it's listed under a heading of "Braille and speech markup", as though it doesn't even warrant a devoted section of its own.

Braille being treated with the same priority of speech is long overdue. We're clearly not there yet.

github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdg…
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MSEdgeExplainers/Accessibility/AriaNotify/explainer.md at main · MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers

Home for explainer documents originated by the Microsoft Edge team - MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers
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Does anyone know where to report #a11y issues with the #Ubuntu Mate installer? I just tried to install ubuntu-mate-25.04 and sadly, it's pretty much a no go with Orca. Alt+Windows+S works to bring up the screen reader. The first screen of the installer appears to be the language selection screen; but after that, Orca is pretty much dead in the water, utterly unable to read anything else except "next" buttons. Pretty sad. Looks like they're not a11y testing this at all.
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We published a guide showing how to use Matrix bridge from ejabberd, demonstrating how you can talk with Matrix users from your XMPP client.

Let us know if you still have questions !

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Hello from the other side: Matrix ↔ XMPP via ejabberd 25.03

In this guide, you'll learn how to send direct messages between Matrix and XMPP users, and even join public Matrix rooms using your favorite XMPP client.
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