The GNOME 50 release of our Calendar app also brings a very nice accessibility change: it’s now possible to navigate through events via the keyboard! ⌨️
In addition, many accessibility labels have been updated to improve the overall experience with screen readers.
Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton and @zoeyTheWitch for making this happen!
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Because free software is also about accessibility, I'm doing some important work in Movim to ensure that the user interface can be navigated using the keyboard only. ♥️
This work also involves proper labeling and description of the page elements for people with visual impairments. 💬
This side project is supported by @nlnet. Thanks to them for making Movim an even better communication platform for everyone. ✨
#xmpp #accessibility #movim #jabber
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New blog post! Some heartwarming news from the slidge community: the family is growing.
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Multi-language support TapType now supports multiple languages with full translations for all keyboard speech, announcements, and UI. Languages English (US) — QWERTY layout English (UK) — QWERTY l...GitHub
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Running a FreeBSD server with two independent uplinks?
My latest deep dive covers how to mix a physical provider and a BGP tunnel to serve NAT'd, routed, and pure public jail traffic on a single bridge.
We break down Dual-FIB policy routing and show you how to use PF's rtable and reply-to directives to fix asymmetric routing and keep traffic strictly separated.
Policy routing done right: blog.hofstede.it/dual-fib-poli…
#FreeBSD #BGP #Jails #SysAdmin #networking #routing
How to run a FreeBSD server with two completely independent internet uplinks - a physical provider and a BGP tunnel - using dual-FIB routing tables, PF’s rtable and reply-to directives, and a singl...Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz Blog)
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Fully blind software developer who loves making their own tools to solve problems. Primarily known for Paperback, an accessible and lightning fast ebook/document reader.GitHub
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TTS engine with extended languages support (incl. Russian)f-droid.org
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Listen live to HF amateur radio voice activity from around the world. Real-time ham radio monitoring with WebSDR technology.SpinTheDial
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bye bye RTMP
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/03/21…
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In May 2010 we merged support for the RTMP protocol suite into curl, in our desire to support the world's internet transfer protocols.Daniel Stenberg (daniel.haxx.se)
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@WeirdWriter Thankyou. I just need to make the time.
(Only listened to the first minute, but for me it's enough).
Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.Android Developers Blog
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Does this help, though? Because the moment someone makes a “Android improvements self-guide” app and puts that in the playstore, the attackers can just link to that and let the victim follow the instructions.
Note how that app doesn't even need to get malicious – the process is tricky and lengthy, I think there could be some value in having an app to remind you that you can now continue with step 3 (or even show a countdown).
In case the app is permitted to exist, someone would abuse it / embed a similar thing in an actually malicious app. If it is forbidden to exist, then (a) google would be censoring apps without warrant, which feels to violate antitrust laws, and (b) given that playstore has a record of malicious apps, that app would exist on playstore probably anyway, solving nothing.
This feels like a security theatre play noone should buy tickets for…
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The videogame industry has grown massively during the last decades. Bearing in mind all the developments in this domain, we ask ourselves: how can blind and partially sighted people enjoy Gaming on an equal basis with others? We explore this subject…Podbean
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The videogame industry has grown massively during the last decades. Bearing in mind all the developments in this domain, we ask ourselves: how can blind and partially sighted people enjoy Gaming on an equal basis with others? We explore this subject…Podbean
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🎛️ Get our Ableton devices here:https://buymeacoffee.com/mixedsignals/extras☕️Support our channel:https://www.patreon.com/mixedsignalshttps://www.buymeacoff...Mixed Signals (YouTube)
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What's new in 0.2.0 Built-in TTS (Text to Speech) Mudpie can now speak MUD output aloud independently of TalkBack. New SPEAK trigger action — add a SPEAK action to any trigger to have it speak text...GitHub
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0.2.1 — hotfix Bug fixes TTS rate slider position fixed — the slider thumb now sits at the correct position for the configured rate. In 0.2.0 the slider used an internal index (0–15) as its value ...GitHub
code for the quizzy project. Contribute to amanKG777/Quizzy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The original Piper, now on iOS and macOS. Contribute to IhorShevchuk/piper-app development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Bring clearer, more natural voices to VoiceOver with modern neural speech technology. Piper – High-Quality VoiceOver Voices Piper is a modern text-to-speech solution that brings natural, expressive neural voices to your device.www.applevis.com
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Actually, even if you don’t care about #UnifiedPush, having this minimal #Prosody server that just accepts messages via a simple REST API and sends them out via #XMPP is great alternative to the various sendxmpp scripts out there.
gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http…
The goal of this tutorial is to set up a simple REST API that allows you to send XMPP messages to an existing XMPP account. This can be easily integrated into monitoring solutions or other scripts that send out status information.Daniel Gultsch
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both tools i mentioned also provide HTTP interface for message submissions, which is similar to what you described in post.
myself, i needed such an interface and was using matterbridge on same host as prosody.
The great Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof takes us on a tour of Move and its accessibility features.
Who should watch this: everyone. Sighted people, to understand these needs. Move fans, to check out Andre's awesome demo of Move Everything features. Sighted developers of hardware and software, to understand needs of the visually impaired.
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With everything else going on in the world, making music more open to everybody seems even more valuable.
Unofficial screen reader support in Ableton Move may be new, but it's already a revelation. Andre Louis, a visually impaired musician and technologist/artist extraordinaire, takes us on a tour of Move Everything.Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
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Pushed #nvdaComposer 1.5.1 to fix an error with exporting very large.rng compositions such as the fantastic one done by @batworx which is now in the demos folder accessed with CTRL+Shift+O. You must check out his version of 'Bouncing Round The Classroom' which I wrote many years ago.
Update 1.6.0:
• Added F8 to cycle the live playback engine while in the composer window.
• Playback modes now cycle through NVDA tones, smooth local audio, and Nokia-style local audio.
• The selected playback engine is stored persistently in NVDA’s configuration, so your last choice is remembered.
Playback engine toggle: Press F8 in the composer window to switch between the three live playback modes. The default remains NVDA tones.
This allows you to hear what your composition should sound like with the two export options before you do so.
Download: onj.me/nvda/nvdaComposer.nvda-…
Github: github.com/OnjLouis/nvdaCompos…
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There is a little discrepancy with the #Foobar2000 mobile v2.26 beta that it display url encoded file names when browsing webdav shares that are not indexed into its media library. I am using it like this when playing my audio books / audio drama. If you are using Foobar 2000 mobile on android for playing media from webdav remotes, perhaps you can support my wish so this will be looked into at some point.
In 1971 Panasonic Introduced the first consumer Talking Alarm Clock Radio, the RC-6900.Let's open it up and find out how it worked. --------------- SUBSCRIBE...Techmoan (YouTube)
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Unbelievable, #Nextcloud seems to be finally getting repeated tasks feature. 🎉
Nextcloud's backend had no problem with repeated tasks. Syncing with webdav was completely OK.
But the web fronted couldn't reschedule and edit repeating tasks. It seems it will be fixed now.
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Sdílejte svá videa s přáteli, rodinou a celým světem.Izzie G (YouTube)
My colleague Tiago posted about some of his recent work at @igalia on PDF accessibility:
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Accessibility # When we think of accessibility, we tend to picture it as something designed for a small minority. The reality is much broader: 16% of the world’s population — 1.3 billion people — live with a significant disability¹.Tiago Vignatti
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Unison is an open-source file synchronization tool that keeps two folders on different devices in sync.
Unlike traditional backups, it supports two-way synchronization, so changes on either side can be safely propagated.
Works across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and typically syncs data securely over SSH.
👉 github.com/bcpierce00/unison
More privacy-friendly tools curated at : digital-escape-tools-phi.verce…
#OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosting #FileSync #FOSS
Discover the best privacy tools and secure software in 2026. Open-source apps, encrypted services, and guides to protect your online privacy and fight surveillance.digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app
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Write your email in Markdown, then make it pretty.chromewebstore.google.com
I see a lot of posts on my feed expressing various ethical and pragmatic concerns about AI. And I see quite a few posts from other disabled people along the lines of "stop telling us not to use AI when it's helping me fix accessibility issues that you've never done anything to fix."
I worry about the ecological effects of AI's need for resources in the aggregate, but a few disabled people making use of it isn't going to make a meaningful difference, and I get the argument that we need all the help we can get. So I am not going to tell someone else whether to use it or not.
Whether it is helpful is a more complicated and nuanced question, and I think that it will depend on the context.
I've been avoiding it mostly for reasons specific to me--I just vaguely feel like I don't know how, and it normally wouldn't occur to me to use it. I feel like I wouldn't know what to give it for a prompt. So, admittedly, I'm not the best person to be giving opinions.
I wrote about it at the time, but, a few months ago, someone gave me an AI-assisted patch for a bug in my module. At first I was impressed, and I still am to some extent, but the patch was later found to have problems, and the person came back with a revised patch. That, too, caused problems. I eventually removed all of the complicated code that the AI added and solved the bug with just a few lines of code. To be fair, the AI patch helped me to figure out how to think about the problem. So that was my first impression.
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@ppatel Having used AI to build a cognitive support system for AuDHD* and cPTSD - I am absolutely not going to be down on it. It's all about appropriate use.
*AuDHD = autism + ADHD
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This blog post recently crossed my timeline. blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/0… It talks about burnout among FOSS maintainers, which is an important subject.
It saddens me, though, that the author called out Rust alongside generative AI as a contributor to their own burnout as a distro maintainer, going back to the Python cryptography package's adoption of Rust in 2021. Is there anything that we who use and promote Rust can do about this, or is Rust just too at odds with the norms of Linux distros?
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was …Michał Górny
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Some distros also value long-time stability, and try to support old devices for as long as possible. This is something that the Rust community could address at the compiler level, but unless it shares the same concerns, this is unlikely to happen.
This value conflict is exacerbated by (a part of?) the Rust community aggressively wanting to re-write everything, even in the absence of issues. The coreutils debate is a good example.
Fixes #7190 Description When navigating a TextBox or RichTextBox line-by-line with a screen reader (e.g. Narrator, NVDA), blank lines caused the next line's content to be announced instead of &...GitHub
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in reply to Rob van Kan🔻 • • •@edgeofeurope blame Mastodon for the character limit. I also don't like to use "a11y" (or the majority of abbreviations); however, "a11y" is a common term and is widely used, for example:
- a11yproject.com/
- developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
So it's not some obscure unknown term that no one knows about (again, I still prefer to avoid abbreviations)
Also, good job on demotivating volunteers who work on and celebrate accessibility wins. Instead of celebrating with us, you decide to make snarky remarks over how it's written.
@gnome @zoeyTheWitch @tragivictoria
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