It’s been 5 months since Australian Story aired an episode on NV Access founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh. The first Australian Story episode to be audio described. It was an incredible opportunity to share with a wider audience the importance of NVDA & our overarching message, that everyone deserves equal access to technology.

You can still watch the Australian Story episode, with Audio Description, on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sA…
#ScreenReader #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Access

I just spent over 30 minutes attempting (and failing) to sign up for Oracle Cloud's free tier thing because I wanted to test it out. So far, I have:

* Attempted to get around 3 HCaptcha accessibility cookies (I wrote a previous rant about that somewhere (TL;DR: Fuck HCaptcha)),
* Figured out it didn't like my generated password (seriously?),
* sat there for like 3 minutes waiting for the signup process to actually go through (once I verified my payment information and such and there were no (visible) errors, though there could have totally been some hidden error I missed because it was inaccessible),
* Among other amazing things.

I just don't get it.

As night trains are the superior art of traveling, I never understood why in the last decade most train companies dismantled them.
I always suspected a mixture of pseudo-modernism ("high-speed trains are more modern"), lack of cooperation among rail operators of different countries (the European rail system has more of a patchwork than a network) and the conspiracy theory of car and air travel industries lobbying against the most convenient way to travel long distances.

Luckily, follks in Eastern European countries weren't as shortsighted as their counterparts in the other parts of Europe, and maintained their night trains. ÖBB is most active in bringing back night train connections in Europe. Turkyie and Ukraine are good on track, too!

If you want to find night train connections, check this web:

back-on-track.eu/night-train-l…?

"Back-on-Track is a European network to support improved European cross-border passenger train traffic and night trains." 🖤

#NightTrains #Trains #Railway #EuropeanMobility #Mobility #Travel #TravelInEurope #FutureOfMobility #EuropeTourism #Tourism #MobilityTransition #SleeperTrains #SNCF #DB #OEBB #ÖBB #NightJet #Nightline #TrenItalia #MÁV #PKP #PolRail #RENFE (just kidding, the Spanish rail company is a candidate for being the worst in Europe )

Today in 1994, 29 years ago: WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.

#OnThisDay

What if those keygen warez authors of the late 90s/early 2000s were just MIDI musicians trying to get their mixtapes out there?

Thanks @bromiley for sharing this gem with me keygenmusic.tk/#

Dear Fediverse / Mastodon

I need your help.

I stumbled upon the website of a French consultancy who worked on LibreOffice accessibility, but I cannot find it anymore.

Any idea?

Boost appreciated

#accessibility #LibreOffice

Thanks!

Yesterday I boosted someone else's announcement of my post on the new GNOME accessibility blog, but apparently some folks couldn't find the link in that toot, so here it is again: blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/2…

Also wanted to add: I'm glad to be getting back to work on accessibility on desktop Linux, after ~20 years away. Hopefully with the experience I've gained in the meantime, my efforts now will be more effective.

I independently reproduced the #NixOS minimal installation ISO!

This is an amazing milestone for me personally: I've been involved in #ReproducibleBuilds since 2017 and #NixOS since 2019, and have been slowly chipping away at this problem. While there is much more to do to further reap the benefits of reproducibility, this is a long-awaited tangible benefit.

For more about the What, Why, How and What Next, check the post below :)

discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-re…