My task was to wrote a custom import module in #python that can read data from an excel xlsx document. I had end up implementing it by using #xlrd module initially and later on I discovered it no longer handles xlsx files thus I converted it to use #openpyxl instead.
A question to the #Tech bubble: I would like to use #Thunderbird with a bunch of shared calendars over Caldav. I had this issue two years ago and now here it comes again: Thunderbird becomes very slow as soon as all these calendars are added. They contain plenty of events each, many of them are reoccuring and I have tried both with and without offline support and also disabling autorefresh on some of those. I recall that back when I had the issue last, switching the view to show just one calendar at a time would help but to no avail now. Is this something I have to live with in 2023? ###Mozilla #OpenSource
Máte Nextcloud? A znáte aplikaci Music? Pomocí ní můžete vaši hudební sbírku (nebo sbírku podcastů) přehrávat přímo z Nextcloudu (přes web) nebo publikovat Subsonic protokolem. Na mobilu pak můžete mít třeba přehrávač Ultrasonic (najdete na F-droidu). #opensource #nextcloud
Not sure if this site is well known outside the niche community of researchers of late Russian Empire klezmer. It gives free access to streaming versions of the Ukrainian National Library's reissue CDs of wax cylinders of #klezmer, #Yiddish song, #nigunim, etc. from the 1910s through the 1930s. Most of these were recorded on folklore collecting expeditions in the Pale of Settlement or later in Soviet Ukraine and Belarus. Some very scratchy, fascinating stuff. audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html #WaxCylinder
New article posted by Hasan Çimen: For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. While object recognition apps provided some assistance, they were limited in their ability to describe images comprehensively. However, recent developments in AI have brought about a groundbreaking solution, making detailed image descriptions accessible to the community. Let’s look at the brief history accessibleandroid.com/detailed… #Android #AI #GPT4 #Bing
For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. This post explains how to get Detailed Image Descriptions with Bing
Me: Hey Siri, what's the weather for today? Siri: Looks like rain today, maximum temperature of 21, overnight lows around 14. Me: Hey Siri, when's the rain gonna start? Siri: It doesn't look like it will be raining today.
Wow, groupchat support for #WhatsApp? That's huge! I guess I'll try #slidge now after all! 😀 Also looking forward for the #matrix bridge. #slidge #xmpp #gateway
@Menel It has actually been there for a while, but I have just been too lazy to talk about it anywhere else than our MUC. We're waiting for your bug reports.
It's an #XMPP server component acting as a #Matrix puppeteering gateway, based on slidge. It only supports public unencrypted group chats for now, but has cool features such as emoji reactions, rich replies and message retractions.
Let's make LibreOffice accessible for everyone! Say hello to Michael Weghorn, our new Developer, who'll be focusing on accessibility improvements – like making LibreOffice more usable for people with visual impairments: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite.
OK, that brightened my whole day. While libreoffice is already kinda accessible, issues with tables especially still persist, where you basically have to see in order to align those correctly, among other things. Another weird one is that one can't use structural navigation or browse mode inside libreoffice, which one can do in windows with office, but also with orca in other web apps. This is especially used for sr users to jump to headings, links, buttons, form elements and such very quickly, so I think this would be very useful to add. Anyway, any accessibility features and roadmaps?
@bgtlover Hi! Michael will initially primarily focus on improving LibreOffice for use with a screen reader, based on issues reported in the Bugzilla issue tracker. List of accessibility-related bug reports: bugs.documentfoundation.org/bu… Supporting browse mode/structural navigation will require work in the screen readers as well. There are already these reports for this: bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh… github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… (1/2)
@bgtlover For any other issues you're encountering, please report them to the bug tracker at bugs.documentfoundation.org, and then Michael (and others) can look into them. (2/2)
OK, I'm looking over the list, some of those issues I personally encountered as well, but didn't report them because they would be effectively duplicates. Very interesting the issue with nvda and structural navigation in documents, does orca suffer from the same issues? Do you expose the headings and links and such as normal at-spi accessible objects?
This is great! I use Libreoffice for much of my work, though there are some aspects that make it difficult for visual accessibility reasons.
The first issue: the flip point where text becomes white or black based on the cell color in the spreadsheet is incorrect, as a result, a lot of mid range cell colors end up with text that's not readable (unless the text color is overridden).
Another: the highlight color for certain buttons in the UI when the system is in dark mode makes the text unreadable on the button.
I'm at your disposal if you have any questions about any visual accessibility issues.
@Myndex Thanks, Myndex! Please report any issues you see to the bug tracker at bugs.documentfoundation.org, and then Michael (and others) can look into them 👍
@robini71 That would be awesome. I gave up my Office 365 subscription in December 2020. But, after using less than accessible windows Office alternatives, I bought a Mac.
We have a major announcement: Tenacity 1.3 has finally been released! Check out the release notes here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…
If you are upgrading from previous betas, we strongly recommend you read the Release Advisories section as that contains important information.
We thank everyone who contributed to this release. Your contributions are invaluable and we simply cannot express how thankful we are because we would not be at this point without them.
Here's what I'll do today and it would be great if you would join me.
On the website you're working on today, find a stylesheet and add the following rule.
``` *, *:hover { cursor: none !important; } ```
That forces you to use the keyboard. If you find something that makes it hard or impossible to do using the keyboard, fix it! Not just for yourself but for everyone relying on keyboard accessibility.
Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone #electronic music
Jak aktivovat pokročilé webové rozhraní Mastodon podobné Tweetdeck Pokud používáte Mastodon prostřednictvím webové stránky, můžete aktivovat více sloupců tak, že přejdete do ⚙️ Nastavení 👉 Vzhled Povolit pokročilé webové rozhraní, zaškrtnete políčko a kliknete na Uložit změny . #tip_mastodon
@stary_mrzout no zkoušel jsem to, ale nakonec jsem to stejně na většině svých účtů vypnul. Ale samozřejmě na širokém monitoru to má jisté výhody, ale je snadný se v tom ztratit.
Jo, to používám. Ale někdy přemýšlím, že mi to moc nedává smysl. Ty dvě časové osy jsou často téměř stejné a je v tom trochu chaos. To byl asi po přechodu z Twitteru největší "problém", zvyknout si na jiné, a hlavně trochu jinak se chovající, prostředí. Teď už cajk.
Hey sighted gamers, I'm gonna try to get you to step out of your comfort zone a bit. Yes, believe it or not, despite the game I'm about to promote, this post is not for the blind gamers out there... unless you somehow haven't played it before. Anyway, here goes. While writing my book, I've been tempted to play some games again, and one of them is a game called alt-frequencies. It's a game where the entire story is told in the form of radio broadcasts which you can influence by recording clips from one station and sending them to another. The game is mostly linear, however you can affect the story by sending different clips to different stations, and yes, there are multiple endings. It has minimal graphics, but this game is all about the audio. Sighted gamers, step out of your comfort zone. Try it. It's available on PC, Switch, and mobile, and it's very high-quality. If you want more recommendations, I've got those too. Thanks for reading!
An audio mystery set in a time loop. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows to expose radio hosts, conspiracy theorists and politicians.
A question on behalf of a friend: which appearance theme for the LuCI GUI for #OpenWRT is the most #accessible with screen readers? Any other tips on how to make this experience more accessible? #OpenSource #Blind #Router
Does it make any difference at all with screen readers? The theme - as far as I understand it - only changes the CSS. Or in other words, does a screen reader read websites differently if the CSS is different?
@mark22k Yes, certain unusual CSS patterns that make sense from the perspective of the visual side may disrupt the screen reader experience i.e. items that should be hidden are still discoverable with a screen reader, the order of elements in the DOM may not correspond with the designer's intention and the visual order etc.
My understanding is that GUIs are usually worse than TUIs for #blind users. Sadly, I don't know of any #TUI for #OpenWRT (well, there's the command line, obviously, and there's a class-project over at github.com/mattacwilson/OpenWR…, but that's no replacement for LuCI 😞)
OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scripting for Security for my HNC in Cyber Security. - GitHub - mattacwilson/OpenWRT-TUI: OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scri...
@monnier The friend in question isn't too technically inclined and would rather work with a GUI but thanks for the reply - the TUI project sounds really interesting.
Do you ever boost a toot, then see someone else boost it, and think to yourself: there you go, little toot; travel far! Like your boost had some sort of role in its spreading, and you wish it well.
The nine months of waiting have paid off. We now have a fully accessible Hacker News client, complete with one flick per post/comment, rotor actions and somewhere down the line, three-finger swipes planned or already implemented. The app also offers the ability to compose posts, comment on threads, search for old stories and browse all of the HN's categories. So far, Octal is the best experience I've had accessing Hacker News. apps.apple.com/pl/app/octal-fo… #Accessibility #Blind #iOS #OpenSource
If you're trying to update an old #windows virtual machine that can no longer receive updates, so Windows 95 to XP, you may find this site useful: windowsupdaterestored.com/
@JesseF8693 Well I'd say try VMWare player 17, but there's some nasty issue with the sound at the moment, not sure why. I have older VMWare 12 and 15 and it's much better.
@BorrisInABox @JesseF8693 Things that use the old sound driver fail. AC97. If it's HD Audio it's fine. Windows 10 is fine, for example. Windows 98, ME and XP are using AC97, at least my VM's are, and they break, hard.
Fediverse Všechny instance Mastodon, které dohromady tvoří celou „Galaxii Mastodon“, jsou součástí něčeho mnohem většího, co se nazývá Fediverse.
👉 PixelFed je podobný Instagramu; 👉 PeerTube je podobný Youtube; 👉 Friendica je podobná Facebooku; 👉 FunkWhale je podobný Soundcloud; Write.as a Plume jsou blogovací platformy A je jich víc... #tip_mastodon
This week we bring you another video testimonial completely in Spanish from Noelia.
A translation from Noelia herself is: “Hello. This is Noelia, from Spain. I work providing real time captions at events, and thanks to NVDA I can access the software that I need in my job, such as the stenotype software, video-call programs to receive the audio events, internet browsing etc.”
Thank you Noelia for sharing how NVDA helps you succeed in your job as a translator!
"Hola. Soy Noelia, de España, trabajo subtitulando eventos en tiempo real, y gracias a NVDA puedo acceder a los programas que necesito en mi trabajo. Como el programa de estenotipia, programas de videollamada para recibir el audio de los eventos, navegación por internet, etc."
Y de nosotras:
¡Gracias Noelia por compartir cómo NVDA te ayuda a tener éxito en tu trabajo como traductora!
Thanks Quentin, this time from the bot about the add-ons store managed by me. I'll pin this to my profile to show something about the person responsible for this bot.
My colleagues are working on the project to re-write sudo in a memory safe language. In doing so, they had to write a sudo test suite, and found some bugs in the original sudo.
Berlin based technology consultancy specialising in the Rust programming language. We offer development, implementation, training and long-term support.
This is just one part of a massive video series where a guy buys a pipe organm then slowly makes it playable with midi, but this part in particular culminates with an organ rendition of Circus Gallop which is a wild piece written specifically to push the limits of player pianos and it sounds absolutely wild on a pipe organ youtube.com/watch?v=HzKAckJEd_…
TIME TO WIRE IN THE ORGAN PRESETSif you'd like to see more videos on this project/livestreams and songs/samples check here :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmum...
Hello everyone! This is the very first open test of my blind accessible game engine called Unseen RPG Engine, a niche game engine that allows anyone to easily make turn based RPGs, at least that's the goal! This is very early and the purpose of this is to try and start getting the critical feedback I'll need to make this accessible, usable, and fun. Learn more about it, join the discord community, and download it here! ericbomb.itch.io/the-unseen-rp…
Hello everyone, I'm super happy, and very nervous, to say that the Unseen RPG Engine now has a usable demo! Before getting into downloading and features, I want to be be very upfront with what this ve...
Hi there, I tried the unseen demo and it doesn't seem to work, though I don't know how it's supposed to work so maybe it's me. It gives me a few options (new game, continue) but I don't seem to be able to open them, and I get errors like this:
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oTitleScreen:
Push :: Execution Error - Variable Index [4] out of range [4] - -1.options(100164,4)
at gml_Object_oTitleScreen_Step_0
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gml_Object_oTitleScreen_Step_0 (line -1)
Yes, consider Windows Explorer. Space selects the file but you need enter to open it. I think that's a place it comes from. Buttons in dialogue boxes usually take either.
If anybody cares, the city of Poznań, Poland, has published all their public transit announcements, about 2700 of them, for everybody to Download and enjoy. Cc @Piciokztm.poznan.pl/pl/dla-deweloper…
Great! Now somebody could theoretically build those into a transit schedule app to recreate the announcements system inside our pockets for vehicles where this is missing. I believe Poznań updates their info in real time, actual real time, not every 30 seconds like some cities do so this would actually make sense.
You could always use something like this to track the transit you're waiting for more easily. Would be fun to see how well the message in the app and the vehicle actually arriving would synchronize.
Something like this would have been far more useful here in Wrocław, but our APIs are basically nonexistent. You can get GTFS schedules easily, but that’s about it. Realtime data is available in theory, but it breaks pretty often. If you want to get reliable realtime data or electronic access to the interactive schedule boards that you can find at many bus stops, you essentially have to reverse-engineer the official Android app and connect to the API with its username and password. Of course, none of the boards talk. Buses with no PA system at all, a PA system so quiet that you can barely hear it or a PA system that announces the line but not the stop are also pretty common, especially on some lines.
Yes, I've experienced that. Also, the announcement about the line number and direction being played inside the vehicle only or as soon as it leaves the station. Pretty wild!
Yup. Our vehicles seem to be using the same speaker for the next stop / current stop announcements as for the line/direction announcements. If the line announcement plays with the doors closed, you can barely hear it.
Yesterday I released version 0.4.2 of my XMPP client #Moxxy. This version brings many improvements under the hood and some that are more visible, like a "notes" chat, improved reactions display, and so on.
Gajim 1.8.0 has been released 🥳 and it comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience.
We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience.
Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes.
Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience.
Sort of unrelated but does Gajim do voice/video calling? I looked at it once before and decided against it because it was missing a few features, but I like its interface a little better. If it'll do OMEMO, OpenPGP and voice/video calling it might be time to give it another look, 😊
It’s time to start sharing our video testimonial series! We start off in France with a testimonial from Bachir who has been a proud NVDA user since 2009. Bachir helped translate NVDA into French from 2010 to 2020 & shares how he uses NVDA in his workplace, for online shopping, finances & reading books.
“NVDA is my favourite screen reader… because it makes me independent in daily living.” – Bachir
Thank you for sharing how NVDA has impacted your life Bachir!
We wanted to share some user testimonial videos which have been sent in to us. Here is a testimonial from Bachir in France. Bachir has been a proud NVDA use...
@KaraLG84 Thanks Kara! I'm never quite sure what to put there -you can either specify it as make for kids or not. I thought that just meant it wouldn't necessarily be hidden from people with content restrictions? Or does it come across as only being aimed at kids now?
I don’t know all the details but it turns off a few features such as commenting, ads and things like that. Probably limits them being discovered by the algorithm as well
@KaraLG84 I'll have to look into how that is supposed to work and whether we are support to generally use it or not - I just assumed it was saying "This video doesn't contain any adult or sensitive content, or anything I wouldn't want my 8 year old kid seeing", but I better see what I can find out... Thanks for the prompt!
At work, we recently migrated to MS 365 for part of our email management and I discovered a tiny useful piece of software that simplifies for me the OAUTH2 based idiosyncratic system of Outlook and its friends.
A proxy now allows me to still use mutt, fetchmail, msmtp and exim to read and write emails.
An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. - GitHub - simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy: An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that tra...
I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."
This is quite a press release:
"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised 20 April 2023 NEWS
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data.
In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.
If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.
Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."
For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe…
#electronic music 
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