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Playing with Phanpy, a fancy new Mastodon web client by @cheeaun.

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Sooo much better than the default web app, let's please all copy this layout as the new model for native apps 🙏

Screenshot of Phanpy at a desktop size, showing the main timeline.
Screenshot of Phanpy at a desktop size, showing the notifications view.
Screenshot of Phanpy at a desktop size in dark mode, showing a thread open in the sidebar on the right.
Screenshot of the Phanpy web app at a desktop size, showing off the start of the main timeline.

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
phanpy.social
@Chee Aun 🤔
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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 21 - Europe
If you would like to be up-=to-date with happenings in Europe in regards to blind and partially sighted people, the European Blind Union has just launched a new podcast today called EBU In Action.
It is a bit of shameless promo as yours truely is one of the hosts so I hope you don't mind me and we look forward to the feedback.
In our pilot, we go over the current campaigns and initiatives the EBU is involved in, we find out about the expectations and fears of blind people regarding Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and we finish off with our correspondent's section where we go to Italy to check what is new for blind people there.
If you have suggestions of topics that should be brought up in future episodes, feel free to share.
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#Accessibility #Blind #Podcast #Europe #CAVs #AutonomousVehicles #Disability #Inclusion

The EBU Podcasts | European Blind Union

Ebu has created podcasts on topics related to our community
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#Accessibility #blind #podcast #Disability #europe #inclusion #autonomousvehicles #cavs

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Thinking about whether an audio player component should use be a toolbar role with a roving tabindex, even though HTML audio controls do not, and if they should, what happens when the left and right arrow keys get you to a range input uses those arrow keys to adjust the number on the input. #a11y #webComponents
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It's a tricky one. On one hand, a toolbar reduces clutter in the tab order, which can make things more efficient. On the other hand, it has the range problem you describe, plus it makes it harder to have keyboard shortcuts which don't require you to focus the specific control. For example, in Firefox, when you're focused on the play/pause button, you can use left/right/home/end to seek, up/down to adjust volume, all without having to find the specific control. But you can still tab to the control if you wish, which is great if you don't know about the shortcuts.
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You're welcome. In case it's helpful, here's the Firefox bug where this was discussed (at length, over a long period of time and with many differing opinions). I'm linking directly to the comment where the most recent plan was laid out, but earlier comments might provide some interesting food for thought. Or alternatively, they may make you wish you'd just been rickrolled instead. :) bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

494175 - Make and controls keyboard navigable

RESOLVED (jteh) in Toolkit - Video/Audio Controls. Last updated 2021-10-06.
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FYI, I just found this out and maybe it will interest others -

You can get "A Christmas Carol" narrated by LeVar Burton for free on Apple Books at the moment. :blobhajTinyHeart: He does an excellent job! 🎄

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#levarburton #christmas #audiobooks #startrek #readingrainbow


‎A Christmas Carol

‎Fiction · 2022
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#startrek #audiobooks #christmas #levarburton #readingrainbow

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NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2022.3.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. For more info & to download this patch release, please go to: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2022-3-…

And while I'm here - 2022.4 Beta 4 is also now available which includes the same fixes: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2022-4b…


NVDA 2022.3.3 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2022.3.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Pleas…
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40% #Linux usage in 2022‽ Up from 25% in previous years.

Impressive stat for "primary OS" among developers in the #StackOverflow survey for 2022.

Sources in @jgarr's blog: justingarrison.com/blog/year-o…

🧵 Some elements of analysis in this thread.

Operating system usage among respondent of the StackOverflow survey in 2022. For personal use, 62% Windows, 40% Linux, 31% macOS, 15% WSL, 1.5% BSD.
Operating system usage among respondent of the StackOverflow survey in 2021. Across all respondents (personal and professional use), 45% Windows, 25% Linux, 25% macOS, 3% WSL, 0.2% BSD.
Operating system usage among respondent of the StackOverflow survey in 2020. Across all respondents (personal and professional use), 46% Windows, 27.5% macOS, 26.5% Linux, 0.1% BSD.

2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop

It finally happened!
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Hey, I wrote a blog post! 😲
Cache the World: Turbo Charging Firefox #A11y Performance and Maintainability: jantrid.net/2022/12/22/Cache-t…

Cache the World: Turbo Charging Firefox Accessibility Performance and Maintainability | Jantrid

The Firefox accessibility engine is responsible for providing assistive technologies like screen readers with the information they need to access web page co...
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I co-authored a Mozilla blog post about our #a11y work in celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I'm posting it a bit late here, but better late than never, I guess. :)
How we’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

How we’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I want to share how Mozilla is working to make Firefox accessible for everyone.
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@pax We have a small team and a lot of high priority work to juggle. When that bug was first filed, MacOS 13 was in beta. None of our team were able to run it; running a beta OS (or even a newly released OS) is not without its risks. That bug is also very obscure; it seems to be due to a somewhat inexplicable change in VoiceOver, and as usual, Apple's documentation is poor to nonexistent.
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We have two new Developer positions at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice! Join us – the first focuses initially on accessibility: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… – And the second on RTL/CTL topics: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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Join the LibreOffice Team as a Developer focusing on RTL/CTL languages, full-time, remote (m/f/d) - The Document Foundation Blog

Note: this is one of two Developer positions currently available – the other focuses on accessibility The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading free and open-source office suite, LibreOffice.
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I have a surprising amount of unfinished music project files on my computer called "meow" or some variation there of.
This, for example, is "meowmeow".
And uh... if it sounds rough or like some things don't fit together, that's... because it's unfinished.
But it's been sitting here for years and I don't know what to do with it.
So why not.

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This is...absolutely gorgeous...I accidentally fell asleep listening to this on loop (Tusky automatically loops audio) and had a very nice nap. Having woken up again I am hearing more of the details I missed and very much admiring your work!

You just caused me to dedicate the rest of my day to going through my own musical compositions (many of which are unfinished/fragments) and try to properly catalog them and get more of them finished/written out/typeset! My stuff is a mess between multiple binders and my computer and it needs reorganization badly, not to mention my yet-to-be -realized desire to make myself a website to share my works with others. Thank you so, SO much for kicking me into action. :dragon_heart:

As for what you posted, I found that what you already have almost loops as-is! Alternatively, I could imagine some contrasting section following this, that has other chords, maybe dominated by the dominant (i.e. the V chord, or here, B major) and progressions that lead to it. That could also make for a transition that can loop back to the beginning. My only other suggestion is that I feel the A-sharp (around 00:17 and similar instances) doesn't really fit.

Sidenote: I love the key of E major and this reminds me I have a whole neo-Baroque-style suite to finish up that's in this key.

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The accessibility for the blind: day 20 - Spain
Today let's go to Spain where a system allowing the blind to control elevators using a smartphone app has been developed.
The way it works is by detecting a Bluetooth beacon near a supported elevator using the dedicated app and calling the elevator almost as if we pressed the physical button. We can then choose the floor where we want to go and, once we board the elevator, notify the app about it and wait until we reach the destination. We will be notified about the arrival through a notification in the app. The developers have even thought of Siri support so you can set shortcuts for favourite elevator +floor combinations. The solution is presented within the following session of the Zeroconf conference in Vienna:
youtube.com/watch?v=_PcPk3BcUL…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #BuildEnvironment #Spain

ZeroCon22: Zero Project`s Shark Tank

Welcome to #ZeroCon22 - The Zero Project Conference 2022 on Accessibility!Five high-tech start-ups pitch to experienced investors, who question their potenti...
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@guilevi Thanks for the heads up. I thought it might be a pilot, the way it was presented, I also heard about it being tested somewhere in Germany. I saw it, however, being added to the Spanish accessible apps directory so thought somebody was actually using it. Where can I read more about Ciberpass?
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Looks like the newest iteration is called Pasblue. This is all in Spanish, but machine translation should be decent enough. Let me know if you need any clarification. tacse.es/es/producto/sistema-a…

Sistema acústico para invidentes modelo PASBLUE - TACSE

[:es]El modelo PASBLUE es una óptica LED de 200x200 mm que integra, junto a un peatón verde, un sistema acústico de ayuda a invidentes. Esta solución se puede instalar en cualquier modelo de semáforo al ir integrada en la misma óptica.
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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 16 - France
Staying in the spirit of ticket machines accessibility, France is doing it right, at least in the city of Metz, not sure about other places.
Have a recording of a ticket machine that speaks three languages: French, English and German. Upon pressing a dedicated button above the card read we activate the speech component. Everything that is displayed on screen is read back to us. On starting, the machine greets us in the language of our choice, tells us to insert our travel pass if we have one and reads the minimum and maximum amounts for card and cash payments. The upper part of the touchscreen acts as a navi pad with the left corner taking us to the previous option and the right one to the next. In the lower part, the left corner is "Cancel", while the right is "Confirm". This way we can choose our desired ticket, the preferred payment method and complete our transaction.
The recording is a montage of different clips from the machine indicating a chosen ticket in English, through its welcome message in French and German with the latter going through some ticket options, coming back to the full welcome message in English. The recording is peppered with occasional Polish from me as it was originally recorded for our Polish podcast. It was taken using the built-in mikes of my Motorola One smartphone. Now that I listen back, it sounds kinda condensed.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Metz #PublicTransport #Audio #recording #FieldRecording

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@sillyblindharper Those aren't as relevant in some European countries as blind people are elligible to ride all of public transport, except high speed trains for free. France is clearly not one but Poland, Germany and Czech Republic are some examples where we don't have to buy tickets. Nevertheless, for the benefit of tourists or blind friends and relatives helping the less technical users of public transport, those should be accessible.
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Rules. I've always missed having a culture of in-tree summaries of how the pieces of projects fit together. "The code is the documentation" doesn't really work when you're downstream and have to switch between and apply fixes to dozens of projects and you've got limited time to spend on each one. Human language can compress the gist of thousands of LOC into a single paragraph.
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Accessibility in the Fediverse — how, why, and who yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i… by @yatil #a11y #federated

Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert

Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.
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#a11y #federated @Eric Eggert

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RScan: for blind fellows, who find identification of things through OCR too slow and inefficient (1/2)

Have you ever been impatiently waiting, until your phone reads through all the information in all sorts of languages about the manufacturer, compounds, source, distributor and finally gets to the name and flavor of the chocolate you're holding in your hand?
I had. And some kinds of goodies are just like fabricated for this, say bottles. I don't even know where the title is in the first place, the fact that the OCR software can have problems with the curvy surface doesn't help much either, when the bottle is full the recognition may be hard to do in air as I struggle to keep it still in one hand, and even if I finally get to the desired info, hoping I would hear also say the bottle's volume is hyperoptimistic at best.

Thus, I developed RScan. Simply point your device to the product, and in few seconds, you will hear the brand, name, type and sometimes also the related metric information like volume, weight etc.
How does it work? RScan is a barcode reader for Android, that is looking for barcodes - an identification mark that every commercial product needs to have. When it finds one, it automatically looks it up on DuckDuckGo, and using a special algorithm, tries to figure out which search result would be most useful for the user.
Designed for speed and convenience, from my experience, it correctly identifies 90% of products and thanks to swift operation, can be used to quickly sort through whole groups of goodies you need to classify.

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@Piciok the main screen contains a list of the currently made scans. Double tapping on any of them should bring a screen for attaching your own description to the barcode.
This screen contains a list of suggestions, which are basically DuckDuckGo search results for that barcode.
Double tapping on any of them will fill out the field on the bottom of the screen with that result, it saves typing or copying.
For purposes of debugging the automatic suggestion algorithm, the list of the suggestions present on this screen is a good aid because these are basically the options the automated recognition is choosing from, so we can see if the algorithm has made a good choice or not.
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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 19 - made in Poland
And so we arrived in the last week of advent so this calendar has only six windows left. To finish it off nicely, from now on I'll try to post some smaller projects that nevertheless have an impact on the quality of life for the blind and partially sighted people somewhere. Let's start with another Polish invention:
Totupoint is an in-door navigation system created by Jan Szuster, a blind engineer from Warsaw. It revolves around Bluetooth beacons placed at key points in a building or at a points of interests such as bus stops, administrative buildings or other venues that are key infrastructure. Those can be discovered through the Totupoint mobile app or an additional module attached to the user's white cane. As soon as you find yourself within the range of a beacon, it is triggered and plays the assigned recording so that you exactly know where it is located. You can repeat the message as many times as you need to locate the point you're looking for or in case of the mobile app read the attached information such as opening hours or address and phone number of the place you're at.
The system also supports tiny interactive HTML apps that can be operated from within the app so it can be adapted to turn on the traffic lights or request line number on public transport. Many successful installations happen at an increasing number of venues in Poland. You can learn more and see the complete list of active locations at:
totupoint.pl/
In other news: as soon as Apple flicks the verification switch, I will have something to share that potentially all of you might find useful so watch this space.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Poland #UrbanEnvironment
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If you maintain an open source project, even as a solo developer, I highly recommend writing descriptive commit messages. These messages help others understand what changes you're making and why you're making them, and will help you in the future if you return to a codebase after a long time.

I find myself not wanting to contribute to projects that don't have good commit messages, as it's harder for me to get a grasp on the codebase.

If you don't know how to write a good commit message, this guide is a good start: wiki.gnome.org/Git/CommitMessa…

Git/CommitMessages - GNOME Wiki!

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Chris 🌱

@andyholmes I usually don't squash commits if they aren't just fixes for previous commits. So if I have the following commits:

  • Change set A
  • Tweaks to change set A
  • Fix for crash in set A
  • Change set B

I'd only keep:

  • Change set A
  • Change set B

at the end (as a very simplified example)

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Just a little note in case you didn't know that I'm a person who REALLY likes this particular mashup to like an Unhealthy Degree
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Taylor Swift vs. Nine Inch Nails - Shake It Off (The Perfect Drug)

DL: http://audio.isosine.com/Isosine%20-%20Taylor%20Swift%20vs.%20Nine%20Inch%20Nails%20-%20Shake%20It%20Off%20(The%20Perfect%20Drug).mp3FB: http://facebook....
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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 18 - Czech Republic
Back to the Czech Republic we go, where remote assistance of blind and partially sighted people was in operation years before AIRA was founded.
The navigational center of the Czech Union of the Blind assists their customers in many ways:
- by delivering help through the user's smartphone's camera via Skype;
- by looking up information on public transport routes and general information on places of interest;
- best of all: by researching routes that the user would like to take bearing in mind everything that is of importance when travelling independently with a white cane or/and a guide dog, including possible hazards or characteristic waypoints and landmarks.
It comes as no surprise that the service is available throughout the entire country. Pricewise, it works in two models: it is possible to buy packages of single uses of the service starting at less than six dollars for ten single uses; or a periodic subscribtion starting at around 13 dollars for three months.
portal-pelion.cz/aplikace-a-sl…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #CzechRepublic #Mobility #PublicTransport

Aplikace a služby využitelné při sebeobsluze a samostatném pohybu zrakově postižených - Pélion

V textu si povíme o aplikaci, která existuje již pár let, ale i tak se stává, že o ní někdo slyší úplně poprvé. Je to aplikace Be My Eyes.
Linda Albrechtová (Pélion - Vzdělávací portál pro zrakově postižené)
#Accessibility #blind #czechrepublic #publictransport #adventcalendar #mobility

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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 17 - Poland
Today's highlight is not strictly accessibility-related but it is in itself accessible and definitely makes electronic payments in Poland quick and painless for everyone.
Blik is a Polish payment system that is based on six-digit codes entered as a confirmation of payment on the website where you want to make a transaction. The way this is used is the following:
1. You open the app of your bank on your phone and press the Blik button. Sometimes banks will place this feature under the app's shortcuts so starting straight from the homescreen or through a shortcut you yourself created is definitely possible.
2. A six-digit code is generated and it is read out to you. You can remember or copy it and from that moment you've got 120 seconds to finish the transaction.
3. You enter the code on the website or in the app where you're trying to complete a transaction.
4. You return to your banking app to confirm the amount to be paid through the biometric authorization method of your choice or a PIN code. In my banking app the time limit is counted down with each second being marked with a chaptic feedback of my iPhone.
Note: meanwhile regular payment terminals already support Blik and more and more shop assistants know how to activate it so the phrase "Poproszę Blikiem" ("By Blik, please") is more commonly heard.
Another component of the system are the P2P micropayments to a mobile phone where it is enough to enter the other party's phone number to make or request a payment straight from the banking app.
I believe similar systems function in other countries but are mostly QR-code based and require a separate app. I find this way much handier. Also, it is universal across all major Polish banks.
blik.com/en/how-to-use-blik
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Shopping #Banking #Mobile #Poland

How to use BLIK

BLIK in a blink of an eye! Pay for your purchases, wherever you are, in a few moments, with BLIK`s fast and secure payments!
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#Accessibility #mobile #blind #Poland #adventcalendar #shopping #banking

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Alan Walker, Emma Steinbakken - Not You (Forgiven Hardstyle Remix) #Hardstyle youtube.com/watch?v=yBOj3B7LJ6…

Alan Walker, Emma Steinbakken - Not You (Forgiven Hardstyle Remix) [Free Release]

#euphoric #hardstyle #rawkick...:..::..::: .Upload.Info. :::..::..:....Artist: Alan Walker, Emma Steinbakken.Title: Not You (Forgiven Hardstyle Remix).Labe...
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RT @CZ_NIC@twitter.com

Rozšiřujeme tým interních administrátorů! Hledáme kolegu se zkušenostmi s Linuxem a síťováním. Pozice je vhodná pro absolventy. Více informací na webu #karieraCZNIC: nic.cz/page/321/kariera-v-czni… #prace #job

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CZ.NIC - Kariéra v CZ.NIC

CZ domain registry.
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#job #karieracznic #prace

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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 15 - Austria
Welcome to Innsbruck, Austria again. This time we go to the main train station where I spent a part of my mobility training. Through this training I have learnt that there is a semi-independent way for blind passengers to operate the on-site ticket machine. How come semi, you might ask?
Well, on the front of the machine, there is a dedicated customer service number embossed in Braille where you can call and tell the representative where you would like to go. They are able to remotely operate the machine, find your connection, choose the right ticket options for you and bring you to the payment screen. Once the payment is complete, the ticket comes out as usual. Kind of makes me wonder: if the railway staff are able to access these machines remotely, why isn't this possibility open to those who might need it for accessibility reasons?
I am not sure whether this works in other Austrian cities, I haven't also heard of this implementation in any other place.
Unfortunately, I have never had a chance to use this so no recordings or first-hand experiences this time.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Railway #Transport #Trains #Austria #Innsbruck
#Accessibility #blind #trains #transport #adventcalendar #austria #railway #innsbruck

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@vick21 Thank you, Victor! Lately, I have found it hard to motivate myself to write longer forms, the idea appears compelling at the beginning but the execution feels a bit like a chore. I'll think of a way to archive this somehow, though, seeing by the reactions that there is some interest around it.
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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 14 - France
Since some time I have been drawn to research Minitel, a French Videotex-based system for accessing information that predates the Internet. It was a revolution in terms of digitalization which made activities such as buying train and plane tickets, signing up for classes and reading newspapers digitalized as early as the 80's. You can read more about it in the following Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
There were many devices invented to make Minitel accessible to the blind, although the system itself wasn't designed with this target group in mind. Mostly, they were external speech synthesizers like in the case of Lectel:
lemonde.fr/archives/article/19…
or the Valentine text-to-speech card for the Apple II:
blog.atalan.fr/valentine-carte…
The history of the Eurobraille company, the makers of the popular Esys, Esytime and B.Note Braille displays, starts also with a speech synthesizer for the Minitel terminals.
eurobraille.fr/notre-histoire/
As I found out, however, most of France's blind community at that time did not have access to this kind of technology and Minitel only became accessible on a global scale in the 90's when regular PC's did but then it was almost the time of the Internet so it never gained the same momentum as it did with the society at large. Pity as this could have been an opportunity to push the inclusion of blind and partially sighted people to whole new levels.
Always design with accessibility from the start!
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Internet #Minitel #Videotex #RetroTech

Les ordinateurs ont la parole

Un Salon vient d'être consacré aux machines parlantes et aux innovations techniques destinées aux aveugles. Le matériel existe, pas encore le marché !
CHRISTIAN TORTEL (Le Monde)
#Accessibility #blind #france #Internet #adventcalendar #minitel #videotex #retrotech

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We’re finally back on Google Play!! Thanks to all the hard work by joseluismarti and Fuzzard! We have the Kodi v20 RC1 available if you opt into testing: play.google.com/apps/testing/o… and thanks to jogal/thexei, we finally have a new build in the MS Store which should work well again on Xbox! Keep in mind, we had to push our v20 RC1, so still a little rough around the edges.

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent for today: Hammerspoon. Another macOS tool that makes the platform usable.

Script the OS, add hotkeys, all from Lua, a not wholly unpleasant programming language. One thing that it desperately needs is good documentation, and if I had a few weeks of uninterrupted time and no responsibility, I'd write said documentation. Otherwise, you need to do a lot of googling to find blog posts and code samples because the API docs are a bit mystical.

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Hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua. Making the runtime, funtime.
www.hammerspoon.org
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Encouraging to see the dream of #AccessKit (github.com/AccessKit/accesskit) becoming a reality. I just finished the first iteration of macOS support for text edit controls, and the work I did in egui, which I had tested with the AccessKit Windows adapter, only required a one-line fix to be fully functional on macOS. And even that change wasn't exactly Mac-specific, just something that didn't happen to be needed on Windows. Also, integrations in other GUI toolkits are in the works. #accessibility

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