Skip to main content
Peter Vágner reshared this.

Cycling is now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in the City of London, according to a new report.

Cyclists represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2…


Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In City Of London

At peak times, people cycling represent 40% of road traffic in the City and 27% throughout the day.
Carlton Reid (Forbes)
#uk #cycling #climatechange #transportation #urbanism #mobility #biketooter #london #urbandesign
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Did you catch the article on the new NVDA "Paragraph Style" option in our In-Process blog last week? It's a great option which will make control+up arrow and control+down arrow more useful in programs like notepad! Read it and all the other news, especially about NVDA 2023.1 in In-Process: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2… (Thanks to Timothy for pointing out the mistake in this post)

In-Process 24th February 2023

The big news this time around is that we’re now in the beta period for NVDA 2023.1, so let’s start there: NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 It’s beta time! That’s right, NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 is now avai…
NV Access
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

Peter Vágner reshared this.

in reply to NV Access

Timothy Wynn
Timothy Wynn
• •
I think you meant Control+upArrow and Control+downArrow... pageUp/Down seems to be for page navigation...
in reply to Timothy Wynn

NV Access
NV Access
• •
@twynn Whoops, I did indeed, thank you! I've fixed the post now - nice you can edit on here (and the blog itself was correct at least).
@Timothy Wynn
Peter Vágner reshared this.

Writing a patch to try to address a performance problem and seeing that it provides a ~70x speed improvement for your test case is a rather nice feeling. :)

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

I wrote a bit about my experience in Brussels attending a workshop from the European Commission and representing @kde and @neochat, in case this interest anyone :)

carlschwan.eu/2023/03/02/digia… #DMAWorkshop

Picture of the workshop room with the European commission and some panelist.

carlschwan.eu/2023/03/02/digital-market-act-workshop-in-brussels/

carlschwan.eu
#dmaworkshop @NeoChat @KDE
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Essential Excel Skills For Researchers, Parts 1 & 2 measuringu.com/excel-1/ and measuringu.com/excel-2/ Not my thing, but very good stuff here! #excel #research #spreadsheet #data #tips

Essential Excel Skills For Researchers Part 1 – MeasuringU

measuringu.com
#research #data #tips #excel #spreadsheet
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

Peter Vágner reshared this.

in reply to DennisL

Mathijs
Mathijs
• •
I know rule 1 of datasets is "it will be imported into excel at one point" but please, if you are a researcher, don't use excel but find a scripting language that fits your usecase instead. R, python, julia, heck even matlab or mathematica.
Peter Vágner reshared this.

I wasn't sure this would be possible, but after almost a month of work, I've been able to convince Virtualization.framework to run an iOS 16 VM on my Mac. Now I just have to figure out how to press the Home button 😅

reshared this

Paweł Masarczyk reshared this.

Recently I've found a lightweight modern #opensource #audio #recorder app for #Android called #RecordYou. I like it that much so I've attempted to submit some #screenReader #accessibility improvements.
Let me know how do you like it once it's accepted.
github.com/Bnyro/RecordYou/pul…
This is my first experience with #Jetpack #Compose so bear with me and try to suggest improvements if you can please.

Add some screen reader accessibility improvements by pvagner · Pull Request #48 · Bnyro/RecordYou

Set content descriptions and other tweaks where it makes sense so the app is usefull for screen reader users. Visually disabled and blind people are likelly to enjoy using modern audio recording ap...
GitHub
#Accessibility #android #opensource #screenreader #audio #recorder #RecordYou #Jetpack #Compose

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Kousek od Mnichova a Norma má české Horalky 😀
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

I spent several hours over the last few days implementing WASAPI audio output for NVDA for some reason. As I suspected, I don't think it's really any more responsive, but I'm hoping it might eventually fix some tricky bugs with the old WinMM implementation, though it'll probably introduce a bunch of its own. Still quite some way to go before it's fully featured; e.g. it doesn't support any device other than the default yet, nor can it recover if a device disappears. #NVDASR
#nvdasr

Peter Vágner reshared this.

in reply to Jamie Teh

Quin
Quin
• •
Ooh, that's cool. Almost all the NVDA bugs I've seen are related to nvwave in one way or another, is this what you're replacing?
in reply to Quin

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
• •
@TheQuinbox The internals of nvwave, yes. It'll still be nvwave for compatibility reasons, but the underlying implementation is entirely new. Most of the gruntwork is offloaded to C++ code.
@Quin
in reply to Jamie Teh

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
• •
I almost wish I hadn't started this NVDA + WASAPI thing. I've spent many hours on it now (713 lines of code so far) and now I probably won't be able to let it go until it's done. It works pretty well now, but there are still edge cases that need fixing; e.g. if you force a non-default device and then disconnect it mid playback. Ug.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
• •
I'm also providing an option to allow NVDA synth drivers to pass raw memory pointers for audio data instead of converting to a Python bytes object, which is a lot of unnecessary memory copying and overhead when the ultimate audio buffer is just raw memory (no Python objects) anyway. I've updated eSpeak and OneCore already and it works quite nicely, though I don't really notice a difference on my system.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
• •
I love the initiative! I assume it will be API breaking, or can that be avoided?
in reply to Leonard de Ruijter

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
• •
@leonardder Currently, it's API breaking for synths which choose to use it in that they won't work with the old nvwave. Synths using the old method will still work with the new nvwave though. However, I realised there's a way to implement the raw pointer thing with the old nvwave. It can just convert to a Python bytes buffer on the fly.
@Leonard de Ruijter
in reply to Charli Jo

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
• •
@CharliJo I'm rewriting NVDA's audio output code to use a more modern Windows framework. It should hopefully improve audio stability a bit, though the advantages probably aren't noticeable for most people.
@Charli Jo
Peter Vágner reshared this.

New blog post: Client-side comments with #Mastodon on a static #Jekyll website at jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jeky…

Replies to this toot will show up as comments on my blog! It's magic! And this post explains how that works.


Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website

For many, many years this blog was a complicated, outdated and slow Wordpress instance. It became a constant bad thought: “You really need to update/fix/speed up that thing”. A while ago I did just that.
Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
#Mastodon #jekyll

reshared this

in reply to grillchen

Jan Wildeboer 😷
Jan Wildeboer 😷
• •
On my blog? Yes. Every blog entry since last year has its associated toot for comments. But not all got comments :)
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷

xo
xo
• •
@😷 Jan Wildeboer @grillchen
I thought I’d go and find a blog with zero comments and add the first. So the #NoAIML blog looked empty. But actually in the f’verse it has lots of comments. What’s up?
#noaiml @Jan Wildeboer 😷 @grillchen
Peter Vágner reshared this.

There's a serious opportunity for #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub systems to implement properly secure DMs by integrating #Matrix from @Matrix.org .
#matrix #activitypub #Mastodon @The Matrix.org Foundation
in reply to Éibhear 🔭

vagabond
vagabond
• •

that would be hugely blotted server wise, and mastodon is #4opens project so encryption is not a core part and would make the white lie of security this was built on, hard to maintain.

It works because it's #openweb to start to move to #closedweb would make this likely not work anymore.

#openweb #4opens #closedweb
in reply to vagabond

Éibhear 🔭
Éibhear 🔭
• •
What's closed web about matrix? Would your concerns apply also to other activitypub systems like friendica or pleroma and the like?
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Éibhear 🔭

vagabond
vagabond
• •

matrix is a gold #4opens project but has 2 issues it's a defacto open "industrial" standard and it has semi opaque governance issues. Not big problems.

The issue is pushing #closedweb thinking into a #openweb project. Why do we need to add secure DM's to mastodon, exactly, and what would be added by this and what would be lost?

#4opens

#openweb #4opens #closedweb
in reply to vagabond

vagabond
vagabond
• •

Let's look at an example, backups and security, currently on #mastodon and the whole #Fediverse the is an understanding that nothing is actually private (ok mastodon keeps telling white lies about this, i don't blame them) so we trust our admins not to spy, and we don't stress about the lossyness of it all.

Add the security of secret chat, and you add a whole another stress to running an instance. Why do we need to do this?

#fediverse #Mastodon
in reply to vagabond

vagabond
vagabond
• •
Media is public by default, its media, use an encrypted chat app if you won't privacy.
in reply to vagabond

The Matrix.org Foundation
The Matrix.org Foundation
• •
@Hamishcampbell in what way is matrix.org/foundation and spec.matrix.org semi-opaque (or a de facto standard)? :/ (we’re also proposing Matrix to IETF, but even if we weren’t, the Matrix Foundation is very much a real standards entity - just as much as the XSF or even W3C)
@vagabond
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

vagabond
vagabond
• •
The issue is pushing #closedweb thinking into a #openweb project. Why do we need to add secure DM's to mastodon, exactly, and what would be added by this and what would be lost?
#openweb #closedweb
in reply to vagabond

Bob Mottram ⁂
Bob Mottram ⁂
• •

@eibhear Secure DMs mean that people can only run native clients, and that the web interface becomes useless for DMs. Most security people that I know of regard cryptography with JavaScript in the browser as a joke in poor taste.

If you want secure DMs then just use apps which have been designed for that purpose.

@users/eibhear
in reply to vagabond

Gerd Flaig
Gerd Flaig
• •

@Hamishcampbell Integration would be done client side for end to end encryption, by defining how to link identities between ActivityPub and Matrix.

Gained: privacy
Lost: ability to spy

@vagabond
in reply to Éibhear 🔭

Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider
• •

That would be great. Already at #Socialcoop we use Matrix for operational discussions. It would be great to see the two services integrated more tightly.

At @medlab we also use Matrix and Mastodon together with integrated user management through @cloudron

#socialcoop @cloudron @Media Economies Design Lab

Éibhear 🔭 reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Prosody 0.12.3 released!
blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.12.3…

Prosody 0.12.3 released

We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch. This is a bugfix release for our stable 0.12 series. Most notably, it fixes a regression for SQL users introduced in 0.12.
blog.prosody.im

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Accessible #PowerPoint presentations: benjystanton.co.uk/blog/access… #ppt #a11y #presenting #tips

Accessible PowerPoint presentations

A collection of tips for making PowerPoint presentations more accessible.
www.benjystanton.co.uk
#a11y #tips #powerpoint #ppt #presenting

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

I really love how accessible Azure is. This is not accidental accessibility, somebody out there definitely cares. Seeing such a mainstream product get that level of care is really rare.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Pandořina skřínka jménem AI otevřena: nejsme připraveni na tak rychlé tempo
root.cz/clanky/pandorina-skrin…

Pandořina skřínka jménem AI otevřena: nejsme připraveni na tak rychlé tempo

Džin byl vypuštěn z lahve, jmenuje se ChatGPT. Dalšího džina vypustil Microsoft, Google a kdo ví o kolika dalších chytrých džinech ještě nevíme. Je dobré sdílet nadšení z příchodu AI do lidského světa?
David Ježek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)

Peter Vágner reshared this.

in reply to Archos

xChaos
xChaos
• •
Novináři si stále zřetelněji uvědomují, že ze všech možných apokalyps, které je připraví o práci, je nejprodávanější ta, která právě nebude spočívat v ničem jiném, než že je připraví o práci :-)
Peter Vágner reshared this.

Telegram on iOS now reads what a message is in reply to! Just wait until the end of the reply, and you'll hear it. This is going to make my experience just 10000 times better

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Marek Macko reshared this.

Dear @Thunderbird ,
I know you are changing for the better. However while testing Thunderbird 111 daily I would like to see some gradual improvements so it becomes ready for most userf of Thunderbird 115 in terms of #screenreader #accessibility once it's declared stable.

Positive things I have noticed:

We have brand new message list that no longer renders all the messages in selected folder at once but only those that are visible on the screen and ready for the user interaction. From my point of view it looks similar to infinite lists on mobile platforms. Most importantly it almost fully elliminates enormous lag when browsing huge message lists on linux with #orca #screenreader running. I was curious enough and I have tested imap folder with up to 75000 messages inside.

It is still possible to use F6 and shift+F6 to move the keyboard focus from the folder tree to the message list and back.

Message list has headers that are used for sorting and a popup menu for setting up visible columns almost from the begining of Thunderbird existence. From now on these controls are finally accessible to screenreader users. And we are now able to configure sorting and show / hide individual columns.

We can still use ctrl+shift+k to show / hide the filter entry. Also there are accessible buttons alongside the filter entry that allow quick filtering the list such as labelled messages, messages with attachments, starred messages, messages from addressbook contacts, unread messages, even ability to keep the filter active when changing folders. Some of these features were already there earlier but now these are accessible to keyboard users including screenreader users.

Now features that need some polishing:

It appears we can now open individual message folders on a new tab / in a new window however this feature needs some fixes. For example when navigating using up and down arrow keys in the folder tree, pressing shift+F10 first moves focus to the parent folder and displays popup menu for that parent item instead of currently selected one.

When navigating in huge list new selection is not properly reported to assistive technologies while scrolling. For example press end to move to the last message. Now press up arrow key several times to navigate back a message and notice how screenreader is reporting new selection as it happens. Now press the page up key to move the selection by the larger increment. New message is highlighted but the selection changed event is not fired properly or it's getting mixed with some spurious focus event on an unlabelled pannel. Some screen readers are able to filter out these but I think it would be nice to address it at the source rather than working it around.

Now the main window has a lot of focusable controls and it is no longer comfortable to use tab and shift+tab to navigate. It would be nice if buttons were grouped in a toolbar like controls implementing toolbar pattern the way it's explained at
w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/t…

It's nice that ability to reconfigure message list columns is now fully accessible to keyboard and screen reader users however accessible name of each item in the message list does not yet respect these settings. Subject is the only content that is communicated to assistive tools when navigating in the list using arrow keys. This is major issue and will likely be considered as a regression if it won't be addressed before releasing the stable version.

When navigating in the list of messages it is possible to select multiple messages for executing actions on them. I am afraid the fact multiple messages are selected or not selected is not properly communicated to assistive tools. This is major issue for screenreader users.

It is no longer possible to use applications key / shift+f10 to inwoke a popup menu in the message list.

#Accessibility #screenreader #orca @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

February is Free and Open-Source Software month - #FOSSFeb! As the your #FOSS screen reader, we want to encourage everyone to explore the world of free, open-source software - especially #accessible software of course! Here are a couple of links on #FOSSFeb to get you started:

opensource.com/article/17/2/fo…

onyxpoint.com/national-free-an…

codemotion.com/magazine/dev-li…

How are you celebrating #FOSSFeb?

The hashtag #FOSSFeb in purple, in Saltash grunge font, on a white background which gradiates to turquoise in the bottom left corner and orange in the top right, with a white border set inside from the edge.

How to Find Cool Open Source Projects - Codemotion Magazine

If you're looking to find interesting open source projects to join and learn from, this is your starting place. Read on to discover more!
Codemotion
#accessible #foss #fossfeb

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Unixový správce hesel Pass
Co je správce hesel PASS

Pass je správce hesel příkazového řádku vytvořený s ohledem na filozofii Unixu. Umožňuje vám pracovat s vašimi hesly pomocí běžných unixových příkazů. Přihlašovací údaje jsou uloženy v souborech zašifrovaných GPG.

PASS je komplikovaný! Jen pro geeky!

Toto je typická odpověď mnoha uživatelů, kteří pláčou na fórech. Ale není to pravda. Jakákoli tec
arch-linux.cz/unixovy-spravce-…
#Návody #pass


Unixový správce hesel Pass

Co je správce hesel PASS Pass je správce hesel příkazového řádku vytvořený s ohledem na filozofii Unixu. Umožňuje vám pracovat s vašimi hesly pomocí běžných unixových příkazů. Přihlašovací údaje js…
Arch Linux CZ
#návody #pass

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

I just realized I completely forgot to let the Mastodon-verse know about my new single “Jazz Fun” featuring @onj on the Rhodes and Jason Castingway on the piano, among others.
I took care of most of the guitar work! :)
It all started with a simple loop played on a strangely-strung acoustic guitar and turned into this: open.spotify.com/album/50xQacd…

Jazzt Fun

Victor Tsaran · Single · 2023 · 1 songs.
Spotify

reshared this

in reply to Peter Saathoff-Harshfield

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
• •
Well yes! I was using Mona for Mac OS when I sent that out. I was under the impression that it will expand the full username. Looks like I had to choose from the list of entries. But it still left the "at" sign there which was a bit confusing!
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to victor tsaran

Peter Saathoff-Harshfield
Peter Saathoff-Harshfield
• •
@Onj That client sounds good so I’ll try it out. The clients I’ve been using indicate valid addresses by changing the text color, which isn’t read by VO so it’s not clear if a username worked.
@Onj 🎶
Peter Vágner reshared this.

Radio Free Fedi is an online radio station playing music, spoken word and other audio content made by people on the Fediverse. You can listen at:

➡️ radiofreefedi.net

It's all Fedi all the time :fediverse:

To submit content or to follow the project, see the official account at:

➡️ @radiofreefedi

Take a look people, this is proper grassroots loveliness! ❤️

#Fediverse #Radio #InternetRadio


radio free fedi - sounds from the fediverse to the universe

radiofreefedi.net
#fediverse #radio #internetradio @radiofreefedi

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

After I did the story about the dad whose Google account was closed and deleted for taking a photo of his naked toddler for the doctor, I heard from a distraught mother in Colorado who was going through the same thing and didn't know why. Her Google account was disabled, taking with it her wedding photos, videos of her 9yo son growing up, tax documents, email and everything else. And she had no idea why. She was in tears. "It feels like my house burned down," she told me: nytimes.com/2022/12/30/technol…

Google Changes Appeals Process for Suspected Child Abuse Images

People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.
Kashmir Hill (The New York Times)

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

I wrote a set of Python scripts that let you restart NVDA on a remote machine if its not responding. This would've saved me many times, so I finally did it. To use, change the values in the config so they point to your IP address and an open port. Then, run the server on the remote machine. If you ever need to restart NVDA, run the client on your local machine, and your NVDA will restart. github.com/TheQuinbox/kill-nvd…

GitHub - TheQuinbox/kill-nvda-remotely: Very simple set of Python scripts to kill NVDA on a remote machine.

Very simple set of Python scripts to kill NVDA on a remote machine. - GitHub - TheQuinbox/kill-nvda-remotely: Very simple set of Python scripts to kill NVDA on a remote machine.
GitHub

reshared this

Unknown parent

Patrick W
Patrick W
• •
@fireborn It's all my fault. Funny story, using Tweesecake Quin was my only conversation I had auto-read on Telegram so I left an Eloquence crash word unpatched and would ask her if she could send me it so NVDA would restart. LOL.
@aaron
Peter Vágner reshared this.

Not too long ago, your two hands would have been enough to count the #reproducibleBuilds at @fdroidorg – but now it doesn't even help taking your shoes off to call your toes in. It's 50 now, and counting! I just successfully got an author's and my own first RB in ("with a little help from my friends"), and have 2 more pending :awesome:

So yes: expect more and more apps this way now. Install from #FDroid – update from Github if needed; signature matches. Just the GUI needs to show that now…

#fdroid #reproduciblebuilds @F-Droid

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Hello world!

Introducing Semaphore an accessible, simple and fast web client for Mastodon.

Semaphore continues the work of @nolan 's @pinafore, and will prioritise accessibility, continuing Pinafore's track record of integrating improvements from disabled contributors.

Follow this account if you'd like to keep up-to-date with releases and news.

#mastodon #accessible #a11y #client #app #web #semaphore #pinafore

#a11y #accessible #app #Mastodon #web #pinafore #client #semaphore @Nolan Lawson @Pinafore

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

#adbsync v0.1.1 was just released, with some minor improvements and adjustments. Details in the changelog: codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync/rele… – a.o. syncing TO your device(s) should now be much faster when using a recent version of #ADB (r25+ / Android 7.1+)

#Android #sync


adbsync

Synchronize your Android device with your Linux machine using rsync and adbfs
Codeberg.org
#android #sync #adb #adbsync

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Peter Vágner reshared this.

⚠️MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️

Tenacity 1.3 beta has officially been released for Windows and Linux! 🎉

Check it out here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…

Key features:

* Clip features from Audacity 3.1.

* New themes from Audacium and Saucedacity

* Modern upstream dependencies are used


tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems
Codeberg.org

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

This week, NV Access founders Mick and Jamie, travelled to Samoa to share the great benefits of NVDA. This article appeared in the Samoa Observer.
From the article (in speaking about NVDA): "Samoa Blind Persons Association President Mata’afa Faatino Utumapu said the software held unlimited opportunities for the blind to study and find employment."

samoaobserver.ws/category/samo…

Photo of Mick and Jamie speaking to a room of people from the Samoa Blind Persons Association

Free screen reading software for the blind

A software has been brought to Samoa that will help the blind access computers through a screen reader which enables the visually impaired to access information on their computers.
Samoa Observer

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Currently pouring over a sample exam sheet set for Finnish highschool students in German as foreign language in 2020 to assess the accessibility of the exam solution. It's got everything an accessible test needs: a table of contents, a good heading structure, native HTML 5 media player with almost perfect accessibility, native controls such as radio buttons and edit fields to give the answers.
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
web.archive.org/web/2020012122…
#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German

FI – Saksa, lyhyt oppimäärä

web.archive.org
#Accessibility #blind #languages #german #education #finland

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

My #RSS Viewer extension is now on the Mozilla Store: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

This extension does two quite simple (albeit useful) things that browsers stopped doing a while ago:

1. Tells you if a web page has an RSS feed announced via <link> and allows you to go directly there by clicking on the popup.

2. Renders the RSS feed through a nice Vue webapp when you open it in the browser, instead of uselessly dumping a bunch of XML (or inviting you to subscribe to the feed using a 3rd-party service instead of just reading it).

The source code is here: git.fabiomanganiello.com/rss-v…

It also works on Chrome and any derived browsers, but I haven't had the patience to go through the byzantine extension approval process for the Chrome Store yet. In the meantime, if you use Chrome/Chromium/Brave etc. you can build the extension via npm build and then pack it on the fly.

RSS Viewer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download RSS Viewer for Firefox. An easy way to render RSS feeds directly in your browser
addons.mozilla.org
#RSS
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Tohle je věc, na kterou (nejen) čeští uživatelé čekali opravdu dlouho. Konečně se to podařilo.
mojefedora.cz/prohlizec-dokume…

Prohlížeč dokumentů umí české znaky v PDF formulářích | MojeFedora.cz

mojefedora.cz

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

So we recently made a Fedora Workstation t-shirt highlighting some of the key projects we created or work on as part of @fedora Workstation namely @PipewireP , @containertoolbx , @BoxesGNOME, @FlatpakApps. If you boost this you will be added to a drawing to get one. (Giving out 5 here and 5 on twitter)
@Flatpak @Fedora Project

reshared this

in reply to Cfkschaller

PipeWire Project
PipeWire Project
• •
I will do the drawing on Monday the 23rd of Jan (2023), so boost/reblog before then to be eligible.
Peter Vágner reshared this.

I'm a really big fan of TalkBack 13.1 so far. Currently, it's not on the Play store, but you can get it from APK mirror. It now allows you to swipe up and down to select actions, just like voiceover, has spell checking for text fields, supports USB for Braille displays, is generally much faster, made touch typing much more responsive, as well as introducing a new way of typing in which you drag your finger around, and then tap with another finger to select that letter, you no longer have to be focused on a text field to navigate by letter, word, etc. In a text field, you can be on gthe keyboard, and much more. It's still marked as a beta, for good reason, multiple times while swiping up and down through this post, I got jumped to the keyboard and random letters got typed, but overall, I'm really happy with it. .. .

reshared this

in reply to Quin

Kevan
Kevan
• •
According to @fireborn, typing's still the same. Not sure the specific situation he's got though.
@aaron
Unknown parent

Quin
Quin
• •
@fireborn @kev Are you on Android 13?
@aaron @Kevan
Peter Vágner reshared this.

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the PNG file format, aimed at anyone who wants to generate or parse their own PNGs (or who just wants to know how it works!)

da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hell…

An abstract rainbow-y fish-scale-like background, with the text "Hello, PNG" in the centre.

Hello, PNG! | Blog

www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

I know it is not going to resonate much with people in English speaking countries, but this has been a major issue for people who use alphabets with special characters (my native Czech included).

For years #PDF viewers on #Linux such as #Evince couldn't save characters outside the basic charsets in PDF forms. It turned out to be a complex problem and multi-year effort, but it's finally done and you can use unicode in PDF forms. First available in #Fedora 37 where we've already backported it.

W-8 BEN form with fields that are filled with words that include special Czech characters.
#linux #fedora #evince #pdf

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens

github.com/jafarlihi/sysm


GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens

sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens - GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or ext...
GitHub

Peter Vágner reshared this.

in reply to victor tsaran

Rick Alfaro
Rick Alfaro
• •
Wish there were something like this available for Windows OS.
Peter Vágner reshared this.

A long time ago, there was an NVDA add-on, called Novelty eSpeak Synths. It gave you eSpeak Piglattin, and eSpeak Randomize Words. I've ported it to the new Synth Driver system, and put it on GitHub. You can get it here: github.com/TheQuinbox/Novelty-…

reshared this

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Interesting open source alternative to #Calendly that I just DISCOVERED. Anyone know if it's accessible?

"Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals."

github.com/calcom/cal.com

#accessibility #usability #calendaring


GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.

Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone. - GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
GitHub
#Accessibility #usability #calendaring #calendly
Unknown parent

Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
• •
@blindscribe Thanks for letting me know. I was hoping that someone from the #accessibility community had tried it.
#Accessibility @Robert Kingett updates
Peter Vágner reshared this.

We had an #accessibility meeting about at-spi2-core, pyatspi2, orca - notes at gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/a…

BigBlueButton seems usable with a screen reader! Everyone was able to participate just fine.

HedgeDoc, not so much?

Meeting minutes, 2023/Jan/13 — Development guide for the accessibility infrastructure documentation

gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org
#Accessibility

Peter Vágner reshared this.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

KawaiiPunk
KawaiiPunk
• •
my co-op spoke to the hedgedoc devs about the lack of screen reader support and they said its not fixable without a rewrite which is planned for who knows when
in reply to KawaiiPunk

Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
• •

@kawaiipunk bleh. We'll have to look for another tool.

(Do you have any idea if etherpad works?)

@KawaiiPunk
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

KawaiiPunk
KawaiiPunk
• •
I'm not sure sorry. We went back to sending documents via email for this client.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Peter Vágner
Peter Vágner
•
I have used etherpad lite to an extend. Editing the document is easy with orca and firefox. It has keyboard shortcut for jumping from the document to toolbar and back. Finding out who wrote what part is not as straightforward.
Peter Vágner reshared this.

Windows podcast clients are a rarity. Nice! AccessCast hermisk.eu/software/accesscast…

AccessCast

hermisk.eu

reshared this

⇧