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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

An Audacity project, with 3 separate wave forms being edited, representing 3 speakers on a podcast.
#podcast #thunderbird #Audacity

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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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@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…


Anleitung: Ultraschall unter Linux (Ubuntu 21.10) installieren (ohne Ultraschall zu kompilieren)

Vielleicht kurz zu mir und warum ich diese Anleitung schreibe: ich habe Mitte letzten Jahres begonnen, die vorhandene Linux-Unterstützung in Ultraschall anzuschauen und etwas aufzuräumen und zu erweitern.
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@Malik @sten

Here are the english tutorial videos:

ultraschall.fm/tutorials/#engl…

And for a quick start:

youtu.be/f9904vJzOhs


Get started with Ultraschall – Ultraschall 5 Tutorial

Ultraschall 5 is a great tool to produce podcasts quickly and efficiently. In this video, I show you some of its features and what to look out for when insta...
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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

GitHub - ocarolino/SalamandraRadio: Salamandra is a radio automation software designed for radio stations that need a simple, easy and stable software for automated broadcasting.

Salamandra is a radio automation software designed for radio stations that need a simple, easy and stable software for automated broadcasting. - GitHub - ocarolino/SalamandraRadio: Salamandra is ...
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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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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…

Gajim 1.7.2

Gajim 1.7.2. 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).
wurstsalat (https://gajim.org/)
#xmpp #chat #gajim

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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…

‎Chess-Studio

‎Chess Studio is the first and only application for iPhone and iPad able to manage chess databases and games in PGN format in a complete and efficient way.
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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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Czech translation of LibreOffice Base Guide – and more news - The Document Foundation Blog

Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team translated the LibreOffice Base Guide 7.3 – and it’s now available on the documentation page.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

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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...
Screenshot of Conversations app
Screenshot of Element app
#xmpp #matrix
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Štěpán Škorpil

@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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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…

nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io | Announcing first beta release of NVDA Remote Desktop

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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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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!


adbsync

Synchronize your Android device with your Linux machine using rsync and adbfs
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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

European Disability Card

EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.
ec.europa.eu
#EU #Disability #europe #EuropeanUnion

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Paweł Masarczyk

@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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Mikołaj Hołysz

@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.
@modulux
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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

AccessKit integration makes Bevy the first general-purpose game engine with built-in accessibility support - AccessKit

Matt Campbell (AccessKit)
#Accessibility #gamedev #indiedev #accesskit @Bevy

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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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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.
@Mikołaj Hołysz
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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!


NVDA 2023.1rc1 available for testing

The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2023.1 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will b…
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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.)

Apple Vision Accessibility: the AppleVis Report Card | AppleVis

We are thrilled to unveil our inaugural Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card, which provides valuable insights into the experiences and opinions of visually impaired community members who rely on VoiceOver, Braille support, or the low vision featur…
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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:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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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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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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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

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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
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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…
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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
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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 😅

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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...
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#Accessibility #android #opensource #screenreader #audio #recorder #RecordYou #Jetpack #Compose

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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

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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.
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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.
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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

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Nice approach for comments, but have you considered publishing your own toots on the site?

The Minimal Mistakes theme complicates matters here, as it seems to expect post titles. Been wondering if that’s something we can work around.

Something like @lindsaykwardell set up via @astro, but for Jekyll: lindsaykwardell.com/blog/integ…


Integrating Mastodon with Astro

I didn't want to run a personal Mastodon instance, but I wanted to incorporate it into my personal domain. Let's explore what we can do to integrate with the Fediverse!
Lindsay Wardell
@Astro @Lindsay Wardell 🏳️‍⚧️
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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
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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
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