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Did you know about #curl's --json flag?

When you work with JSON data, curl can take care of the json content-type/accept headers for you:

curl --json '{"msg": "hello"}' example.com

#curl

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Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast!

share.transistor.fm/s/0069fd68

#Thunderbird #Podcast #OpenSource #Email #Mozilla

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The Thunderbird podcast is now available on several major podcast clients, such as:

#ApplePodcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

#Deezer: deezer.com/us/show/5866547

#Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5tWzGLQb…

You can also subscribe using good old #RSS: feeds.transistor.fm/thundercas…

If we're not in your favorite app, give it a few days and check again. Thanks for listening!

#Thunderbird #Podcast #ThunderCast #Email #OpenSource #Linux

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y'all, @pocketcasts@bird.makeup has open source apps... They are the cool kids. pca.st/podcast/8d164d70-aa29-0…
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And we're live on PocketCasts!
pca.st/b1vl7ydz

(thanks for telling us @olikami)

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@olikami I can't listen there for whatever reason. Apparently, I have to have an account. Is this correct? can I find it somewhere else, aka tilvids as well?
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@olikami @bgtlover Working on getting it on TILVids, sorry for the delay on that.

You can also stream it on our blog post, which has an updated list of all podcast clients the show is available on: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/t…

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The ThunderCast is now available on Google Podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0c…

Are we in your favorite podcast client yet? Let us know!

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Thank you - I use Google Podcasts and appreciate being able to subscribe there.
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How cool if Mastodon could (in a Cards-like manner, or perhaps by particular schema.org item handling?) support the data side and enable playing a link to a podcast (or ___) inline?
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yes, I use podcast addict, and have already listened to the first show.
It's very good; enjoyable, upbeat and informative
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It's available on Pocketcasts (though I'm not sure if that was before or after I searched for the URL!)
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@btaroli "I’d already followed it in PocketCasts directly via RSS"

^ Like a BOSS.


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How to use, and not use, the tabindex attribute: a11yproject.com/posts/how-to-u… #webdev #a11y #html

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Looking forward to presenting on @attie's Show and Tell today at 10 PM UTC (5 PM US Central). I'll spend plenty of time covering modern accessibility, including my AccessKit project. But I'll also be spending some time looking back, including a reconstruction (through emulation) of my very earliest childhood memory of a talking computer. youtube.com/watch?v=1oKeuEZH6E…

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Just a heads up that Swamp is now back online. It seems like there are quite a few less players on now days than in the past, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows it’s back. There’s also an event going on currently.

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I updated to Firefox 111, where it told me it could edit PDFs.

I grabbed a tagged PDF, opened it in Firefox, added a text note & sketch, then saved.

I opened that saved PDF in Acrobat Pro and all tags were gone.

Bug filed: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#a11y #accessibility

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@jcsteh Happily.

The public post is not dunking, I just want to make sure nobody accidentally breaks a PDF.

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Honestly, that bug is arguably worthy of dunking. I think we might need to get QA testing tagged PDFs more often. I've marked that as a bug with high severity a11y impact, as it could cause people to unsuspectingly break a11y for users reading their PDFs.
This is not my team's domain, so I can't promise a quick fix, but I'll do my best to advocate for it.

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In my time zone this is now #curl's 25th birthday.

If you want to send along your congrats or curl related memories, consider doing it here: github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

In about 8 hours there will be a new curl release. In 10 hours there will be a curl release video. There will be blog posts and there will be an online celebration starting in 18 hours.

This is the day. Thanks for flying #curl.

#curl

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Happy birthday curl! 🥳🎉 Congrats and many thanks to Daniel Stenberg and all the contributors over the years!
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Congratulations, thank you, and also strangely I feel *young* now, as I somehow thought curl would be older than me!

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I've been doing a bunch of performance work in the NVDA screen reader lately to improve responsiveness. A lot of it involves avoiding sleep calls or timers in various places. Among other things, they can be quite inaccurate for short periods < 20 ms.
Now I'm seeing that this is even more true when on battery. time.sleep(0.01) in Python seems to sleep for up to 26 ms!
This is making me wonder how much this impacts a11y events in Firefox. I've yet to investigate this, but it does seem like a11y focus events are a lot slower on battery, which is pretty suspicious given the above findings.

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@BTyson @bryn Well, we'll see. I don't want to get anyone's hopes up too high; it's still only a tiny improvement in terms of raw numbers. I guess we'll find out once this stuff gets merged... eventually.

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!!! UPDATE YOUR PHONE NOW !!!

RCE exploit

Samsung Galaxy phones including those in the S22, M33, M13, M12, A71, A53, A33, A21, A13, A12, and A04 series
Vivo phones including those in the S16, S15, S6, X70, X60, and X30 series
Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
Any wearables that use the Exynos W920 chipset
Any vehicles that use the Exynos Auto T5123 chipset

Project Zero reported 18 vulnerabilities in Exynos modems in late 2022 and early 2023. Four of the vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-24033, involve internet-to-baseband remote code execution
Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim’s phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.

Project Zero is making a “policy exception to delay disclosure for the four vulnerabilities that allow for internet-to-baseband remote code execution.” This is “due to a very rare combination of level of access these vulnerabilities provide and the speed with which we believe a reliable operational exploit could be crafted.”

9to5google.com/2023/03/16/goog…

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FYI, there is an actively funded effort on behalf of the LaTeX Team to make PDF documents created with LaTeX accessible. With only two or three volunteers working in the project it is taking some time, but progress has been made. #TeXLaTeX

tex.stackexchange.com/a/605142

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Is there anywhere we can send donations of money to help this project?

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I often use very short microbreaks during the day to doodle away at some music. Let me show you. This is a snippet from the latest thing I've been chipping away at for a couple days here and there.
#Music #EDM #MusicProduction #ElectronicMusic

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By the way, for those testing on systems that don’t already have KDE installed, you might be interested in:
redmine.stoutner.com/issues/97…

The Handbook is worth a read as there is some functionality that might not be readily apparent.


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You're looking at the #Audacity project for Episode 1 of Thunder⚡Cast, our new monthly podcast.

We recorded it on Friday, and it's being edited into shape this week. Expect it before the end of the month. We'll share the RSS feed when it goes live.

#Thunderbird #Podcast

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You might want to consider making your life easier and leaving audacity behind. Maybe look towards producing with @ultraschallUltraschall.fm
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@Malik @ultraschall I was about to say something similar, except I was about to recommend Ardour (ardour.org), not because it's necessarily great for podcasting, but because that's what I know.

But Audacity for serious multi-track audio editing? Brrrr, no thanks.

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@sten @Malik @ultraschall Thanks for the suggestions! Been using Audacity to edit podcasts since 2004, and it just feels natural. Multitrack voice editing has never been a challenge thanks to the "track sync-lock" feature.
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@sten @ultraschall Things have evolved since 2004 (!) — so has email and so have podcasts. Chapter marks, chapter images, automatic sound quality enhancements …

Feel free to check it out at some point. 🤓
The open source team has worked hard for many years to make it extra nice for podcasters. It’s the best suite out there — incl. the free 1-click live broadcast feature.

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That stuff is all baked in? That's impressive. We'll give it an earnest look, thanks for the extra nudge.

EDIT: No Linux version? 💔

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@Malik @sten @ultraschall Apologies! Only noticed the Mac/Windows downloads. Well, today is getting exponentially better!
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@sten @ultraschall I am not sure why there is no official Linux download on the page right away, but the team will be able to tell you.

I’m only the designer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@sten @ultraschall Even though it comes from Germany there is a full English documentation & tutorials

ultraschall.github.io/ultrasch…

Unfortunately, in German, this is how it works under Linux, or maybe just ask chat GPT:

sendegate.de/t/anleitung-ultra…

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@Malik @sten

Here are the english tutorial videos:

ultraschall.fm/tutorials/#engl…

And for a quick start:

youtu.be/f9904vJzOhs

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100% convinced after watching the Quick Start video. Special mention for NON-destructive editing. Thank you.
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@ultraschall @sten you’re welcome. There’s a lot to discover. Especially in terms of sound quality — Feel free to ask.
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"Expect it before the end of the month" 😉

It's not quite ready yet.

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Browsing Github last night, I came across two interesting, potentially accessible open source projects related to radio.
1. Salamandra Radio - an automation software for station in its early development. Screen reader specific fixes have been mentioned in the release notes and so were hotkeys, although these do not seem to be documented anywhere; the app starts in Portuguese by default but a change to English is possible in the settings; also buttons in the toolbar do not seem to be labelled but upon focusing them, a tooltip is read out so we can go by those to tell what the buttons are doing.
github.com/ocarolino/salamandr…
2. Axios - a simple radio player supporting the Radio Browser API. It is accessible in a similar way as Salamandra, allows for searching the directory, playing whatever is found, and controlling the volume.
github.com/z1lvis/Axios
Feel free to explore, hack, spread the word or do whatever else you usually do in such cases.
#Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReaders #Radio #OpenSource

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Thanks for the hint! Salamandra indeed looks interesting, although tab navigation is still very cluttered for my taste. I've left a star to follow the development, maybe I'll consider this for a small project. Axios however needs a little more work to make it useful for us.

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@radiorobbe Yeah, I saw the table in Axios being rather messy, reading parameters rather randomly and inconsistently but otherwise it did what it advertised for me.

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The Blind Vintage Tech Community (BVTC) forum site is now live!
Are you blind/visually impaired? Are you a sucker for retro hardware and/or software? Do you hate to see icons of the past slip into the land of the forgotten? This is the site for you! This site aims to unite sightless nostalgia freaks and retrophiles the world over. Classic operating systems, old school screen readers, long lost and forgotten speech synthesizers... It's all here!
Though this site is mainly targeted at the blind/visually impaired, sighted folks are allowed to join as well! It's important that sighted people gain an insight (no pun intended) into how us V.I folk live our lives. Nothing about us without us, right? With all that said, remember to follow the rules and have a good time! :)
Check out the site and sign up for free at bvtc.epizy.com

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Hello there! Congrats on the idea. I think it is important to preserve these parts of the tech history too. Have you considered setting up a separate forum category for local VI tech from different corners of the world or do you think the "Other Stuff" category will suffice for that?
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@Piciok The other stuff category will do. I'm already getting people on audiogames.net calling the site cluttered.

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Gajim 1.7.2 has been released 🚀
This release brings many bug fixes and some useful improvements. Gajim now allows you to delete messages from your local chat history (in case of nasty spam messages). Furthermore, detection of WAV audio files has been improved and you can now click the waveform to skip to a specific timestamp within a voice message. Thank you for all your contributions!

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2023-03-09-gaji…

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For any iOS Voiceover users interested in Chess, check out the Chess studio app. I just bought this. $2.99 and from what I can tell so far, well worth the price. Tons of functionality, and VoiceOver/Accessibility is specifically called out as one of the features. apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-st…

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Our Czech community has translated the LibreOffice Base Guide 7.4! And has some more news to share too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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Few of my friends decided to leave the Facebook and it's Messenger or Whatsapp apps. 👍 But they also decided to move to other proprietary and closed software like Signal.👎
Please if you make this brave decision, choose wisely. Something decentralized and open like :xmpp: #XMPP or :matrix: #Matrix. 🙏
These are not apps, these are protocols witch many apps can use. You can than choose app you like. For example on Andorid there is
Conversations or Snikket for xmpp, or Element for Matrix...
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Once upon a time in the history of the internet, companies like Facebook and Google used the XMPP protocol. However, then came a dark time of tedious standardization of audio and video transmission...
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@MestskyVlk Yep, I know. All these large companies started on opened standards and protocols. XMPP, iCal, RSS... That's why we liked them as early adopters and why we brought our friends to them. I used Pidgin to talk to my Facebook and GTalk friends in these old days... But when these companies grow enough, they always start to lock users in their ecosystem. 👎

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Vinyl outsells CDs for the first time since 1987 - NPR 😮 🎶 npr.org/2023/03/10/1162568704/… #music #CD #vinyl

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Honestly, it's kind of surprising that CDs are still selling at all.

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After months of hard work in my spare time, I'm happy to announce the first beta release of the NVDA Remote Desktop add-on! More details here: nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-a…

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@twynn Well, having a company device is usually better than VDI IMO, especially for blind people who need their screen reading software to work in these environments.
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Oh for sure, and I look forward to it, but it's funny that your add-on started existing at the tail end of my VDI use. It means that stress-testing probably won't happen on my end, though even when I was using VDI, it was just for payroll purposes. Everything else I used external services which are available outside their intranet. Best practices it wasn't, but it definitely kept me more efficient.

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so a few of you have asked for a compare and contrast between the victor reader stream II and victor reader stream III recording, so here it is, the exact same audio, recorded at the exact same time, using both streams internal microphones.
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Someone turned the iPhone alarm into a beautiful piano score and you need to hear it | iMore
imore.com/ios/someone-turned-t…

youtu.be/wzR9HwhhlkA

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That's pretty awesome... but the dynamic compression on that recording totally destroys it for me. Ugh!

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adbsync now offers Bash auto-completion (just pushed the changes to codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync) which should make working with it a bit easier. Even looks up attached devices and configured "folder-pairs" for completion :awesome:

Enjoy!

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A public consultation by the European Commission has been launched regarding the European Disability Card which seeks to gather the opinion of persons with disabilities, their organizations and other interested stakeholders regarding this new instrument in the making. For as long as I can remember, travelling around the EU as a person with a disability has been a riddle of which benefits and discounts work where and whether a particular institution honours them or not even if I'm not a local. The European Disability Card could change that. You can feel the survey in using the form below, available in all of the 24 EU languages. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/E… ##Europe #EuropeanUnion #Disability #EU

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Just filled it in. Sounds like a good idea, it's often confusing to know what one is entitled to, and if one has the right to it at all.
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@modulux I hope the implications become wider as time progresses. I moved to a different country three times and have either studied or worked there. Having my disability formally recognized was a lot of paperwork each time and I can only be thankful I found competent people who helped me navigate that system. For travelling the current scope of interest would work great for tourism, especially public transport. Maybe with time it will also contribute to having more affordable international travel. I am sure that financial security would give more confidence to those who were hesitant about travelling before.
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@modulux It’d be great if this had some kind of an online component. This would, among other things, be useful for libraries for the blind, as verifying proofs of disability across borders is definitely non-trivial, particularly considering the number of languages spoken in the EU. Despite the Marakesh treaty existing for a few years now, getting access to accessible books outside your own country still remains a dream for many, as there’s no working technical infrastructure for either interlibrary loans or cross-border disability verification.
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@miki @modulux A mobile version of the card is being considered and you can actually check that as your preference in the survey. Probably that's not what you're looking for but at least it's some form of digitization that opens the way for more in the future E.G. scanning the QR code.
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Yep, one of the survey questions is whether the card should be physical, online, or both. Both seems best to me.

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Thanks to work from @nolan, #AccessKit is now integrated into the latest version of the @bevy game engine. This is the first general purpose game engine to include first party accessibility support.
accesskit.dev/accesskit-integr…
#gameDev #indieDev #accessibility

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Today was a good day for me F/LOSS wise. Managed to get ~100 contributions up to OSM, convinced one dev to create a FOSS flavor of their app and put it live, convinced another one to apply proper F/LOSS licenses to all their libraries – and thanks to you, got my F-Droid repo a bit cleaner by removing some apps which were no longer working.

Together we can make the world a better place, little steps each day. Let's keep that up, shall we? :awesome:

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@freddie and here's another one just having received its floss-flavor for the same reasons, so I was able to re-activate updates for it tonight: apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

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Seeing Assistant Move: How an app showed me Ljubljana 1/5

Recently, I decided to spend a week in Ljubljana. I wanted to work a bit on my orientation skills, and with its reasonable distance, modern infrastructure and enough foreignity to be a challenge, the capital of Slovenia seemed just like the perfect place for me to do that.
As a blind individual, I usually navigate unknown space simply by asking. It's an elementary, but very powerful technique that doesn't require any equipment and works practically anywhere. However, this time I decided to play a bit and see how could I utilize my smartphone to help me on the way. I picked up Seeing Assistant Move. Unfortunately, it's not open-source, but unlike other apps I know, it doesn't require an account and I heard good reviews, so it was a natural choice.
Initially, I didn't really expect much. But in the end, this app has blown my mind.

1/5

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Seeing Assistant Move: How an app showed me Ljubljana 1/5
@miki I was fortunate enough at some point to have won a unit of the Feelspace Navibelt, a German product that is a belt worn around your waist that gives you directions to your next point by vibration on the side where you need to go. It's rather expensive and not distributed widely outside of Germany but it doesn't force me to keep my phone in my hand all the time and it lets me get quickly to where I need to go. I use it whenever I have a meeting setup with people at a specified time so that I can get there quickly as the feedback it gives me is continous unlike spoken messages of a navigation app which occur at predefined intervals and thus letting me miss tiny but important changes in the direction of approach.
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Seeing Assistant Move: How an app showed me Ljubljana 1/5
I love seeing assistant move. Great app and very effective without mobile coverage. Glad someone else appreciates what a wonderful app the devs created. Sounds like a fun adventure.

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NV Access is pleased to announce the release of the NVDA 2023.1 Release Candidate. We encourage ALL users to update to this please. You can read the full what's new and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-1r…

Don't forget to check for new add-on updates if you use add-ons. 50% of add-ons have been updated already!

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Slight bug. When typing the & symbol into Windows terminal while using the UIA notifications support, the character is echoed back to me despite me having character echo off. Letters and the like are not however.
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@x0 This definitely sounds like something worth creating an issue for (I haven't had a chance to try to repro it yet, but what you're experiencing seems clear enough to describe)
@x0

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AppleVis has published the first AppleVis Report Card:

applevis.com/blog/apple-vision…

Inspired by the annual @sixcolors Apple Report Card format, it “provides valuable insights into the experiences and opinions of visually impaired community members who rely on VoiceOver, Braille support, or the low vision features on Apple devices.”

I hope Apple's AX teams read every word of this. Feedback from AppleVis has always been invaluable to me. I hope Apple sees it that way, too. (I bet they do.)

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belated #AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 3 added apps:

* QuranApp: read and explore the Holy Qur'an with multiple translations

The other two are especially useful for our visually impaired friends:

* Tactile Clock: vibrates the current time after double press of device power button
* WalkersGuide: navigational aid for the blind and visual impaired based on OpenStreetMap

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

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@IzzyOnDroid ✅ Man, the #walkersGuide is such a nice, amazing, powerfull #OSM app. My initial impressions are life changing. I need to explore it better of course. Huge thanks!

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Anyone know of an accessible time table for a state of trance 2023? Official one is an image which is not described. #asot2023

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Excited to announce that my recent work integrating #AccessKit into #Bevy was recently merged, making accessibility (mostly) on by default in the upcoming 0.10 release due out soon if not today.

The one exception is Linux, where it is feature-gated pending reduction in dependency size and integration with non-experimental screen readers and forks.

I think this may make Bevy the first general-purpose game engine with accessibility in its core (I.e. not a bolted-on optional plugin or a series of partial solutions. In any case, it's the only game engine with accessibility features that I can use as a blind developer, though #Godot also seems to be making strides in this direction as well.

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I'm curious, what does accessibility looks like for a game engine? For UIs I have some vague idea, but for games it seems like it would be highly dependent on the type of the game.
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Exactly this. For a game engine, accessibility looks like the ability to maintain a tree of accessibility nodes which a screen reader can interrogate and present. In the game engine itself, I'd expect any in-engine UIs to push UI updates to the accessibility API, meaning my screen reader knows whether a button, label, editable text, etc. is on-screen and presents it to me.

In games themselves, I'd say the possibilities are fairly unexplored. Something like a roguelike could, for instance, treat its map as an accessible object with the grid role. Each tile would then be a cell with whatever item(s) are visible on it as its description. Ideally the game would have keyboard controls, but even without them, it would be instantly possible to explore the map with a screen reader, route the mouse to and click on individual tiles, etc. Similarly, the game log could be exposed as text and a live region, meaning it gets read whenever it changes and can also be reviewed with screen readers.

Obviously that doesn't just happen for free, and someone has to do that work. But now with Bevy someone can, and doesn't get bogged down in either having to re-implement that logic on each accessible platform, or avoiding footguns necessary to setting things up (E.g. keeping the window invisible until accessibility is initialized, which is needed under Windows and handled automatically by this integration.)


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#Catima has reached 35k active users on #GooglePlay, holding fairly strong at a 4.6 star average. Pretty cool how it keeps growing.

As always, I have no stats for #FDroid as they do not track active installations.

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@Sylvia Thank you for making the app so simple and fully accessible for #screenreader users. BTW I have installed from @F-Droid

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@pvagner @fdroidorg I am very happy to hear confirmation it is accessible for screenreader users. I found Android's TalkBack pretty confusing to understand so I had to guess a lot if I did stuff right. If I ever do break anything for screen readers or something can be improved please tell me, I consider accessibility issues high priority issues.

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lol, a way to bypass the Microsoft account requirement in Windows 11 - type username no@thankyou.com, any password, and it bumps you to local account creation.

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Somewhat long post, question of interest only to Linux server admins

Attention Linux server admins familiar with local mail handling, please boost for reach. I have a situation where I have an Email address that several people know, and I want all of them to get all Email sent to that address automatically. However, because of the possibility that this address might fall into the hands of spammers through no fault of my own, I don't want to just automatically forward everything that address receives. So far, I've been manually reviewing everything that comes to this address and then forwarding it to another address, which only I know, which does auto-forward to the desired recipients.

I'm familiar with the .forward file in a user's home directory to automatically forward incoming Email, but as far as I know, that just forwards everything it gets indiscriminately. I'm looking for something similar, but with a whitelist of known trusted Email addresses from which any incoming Email will be auto-forwarded, while everything else waits for me to review it. Does such a thing exist? If so, how do I set it up?

Thanks.

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Yeah I'm just using .forward in the home directory of the secret forwarder account I manually forward to. What I'm looking for to use in this and a few other situations is what you might call a smart .forward replacement that can actually look at factors such as who the Email is coming from, etc. and decide whether to forward it or not.
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@Jayson Smith I may have to do some digging myself. This sounds like a really nice idea, and I'm almost certain that such a beast exists, as I could swear I've seen something like this somewhere.

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Věnuju do dobrých rukou tenhle rekordér: tascam.com/us/product/dr-100mk…. Mám ho asi deset let, udělal hromadu dobré služby, ale už jsme do novin koupili novější, tak ať ten starší neleží v šuplíku. Má napájení na vestavěný akumulátor nebo tužkové baterky, výborné předzesilovače, natáčet jde na vestavěné stereo mikrofony nebo XLR (fantom má). Jde dobře použít třeba pro podcasting, divadlo nebo field recording.

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Game over! :( You reached level 8 with 2929 points. You hit 560 ships and 23 commanders.
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Every now and then I pick it up and play it again. Haha.

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That is actually really fun. First time hearing about it.
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@simon I wrote that during a very nasty few days of insomnia a bit over a year ago. :) It actually gets you pumping as you get to the higher levels.

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Over the last few months, I put a lot of work into the @fdroidorg app. Here's what's new: f-droid.org/en/2023/03/01/new-…

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