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yo, I cannot get Espeakup nor speechd-up to work on Pi5 reliably, kind of a sad day. Tried to set alsa to use my USB alsa card2 2, but no luck either. I even did running Pulse as a system service, no luck there either. Ugh. Linux, you foil me again. ChatGPT is claiming: "On modern Pi OS, the boot console is driven by the VC4 DRM‑framebuffer (fb0) rather than the old text VT. With the move to full KMS in Bullseye (Debian 11, October 30, 2021) and the removal of both legacy and fake-KMS stacks in Bookworm (Debian 12, mid‑2023), the screen is driven through the DRM/KMS pipeline—bypassing fbcon and leaving espeakup without any text to speak. "
Of course, this turned out to be false, and I got it working. Using Libao to route Also to Pulse, and ensuring the module loads early was key.
"printf 'speakup\nspeakup_soft\n' | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/speakup.conf"
sudo update-initramfs -u # if you use an initramfs
This forces the kernel to register /dev/softsynth at boot, ahead of any daemons Also edit or create /etc/libao.conf, adding "default_driver=pulse to it.
By default, espeakup uses ALSA directly. To switch it to libao, add the --use-libao flag in its systemd unit
"
[Service]ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup --use-libao --default-voice=en-us+f2" - do a sudo systemctl daemon-reload after and you're good!
I tried both speechd-up and BrLTTY with the Speech-D module - felt simpler, but neither would speak through Pulse, despite Orca working per-user, so there's that.
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@xogium ahahaha, it's going to get even more fun when we throw pipewire into the mix, now some will only speak legacy Alsa, some Pulse, at least the Jack would be shared as common I think between pipewire / Pulse interfaces so perhaps it won't break Pulse apps as bad, but the low-level Alsa will still be there for legacy for quite awhile. Pulse's socket-based approach is a bit of its downfall too, since sockets can't be shared and Pulse takes device exclusivity. Haven't messed around with Pipewire to see if that bit has improved.
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Something to always be aware of: Many wheelchair users can stand and move around for brief periods of time. Not all wheelchair users are paralysed. Reasons for wheelchair use are numerous and varied.

Some wheelchair users choose not to stand in public because chances are they will be chastised and harassed if they do. With more awareness and understanding this risk can hopefully diminish over time.

For example, if a wheelchair user is able to retrieve their own wheelchair from the boot/trunk of their car, this does not mean they are ”faking”, and accusing them of this is ableist in itself.

”Ambulatory wheelchair user” is something you can search for to learn more, as many are sharing their experiences online, like Lauren:

rareyouthrevolution.com/post/t…

#accessibility #wheelchair #ambulatory

#Accessibility #wheelchair #ambulatory

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Any self hostable Google Docs/office alternatives that are actually accessible with screen readers cross platform? Just tried CryptPad, OnlyOffice, and honestly was a little underwhelmed.
OnlyOffice had a test instance where I tried to edit a text doc and couldn't read the stuff I was typing.
Cryptpad had much of the same issues if I went with document or sheets mode, probably because those are also onlyoffice. It had another rich text editor which was a bit better, but I didn't realize this until later, and honestly I feel like the default editing mode should really just work. Most people won't choose the last option in the new document list, and having to choose a non standard document format to get accessibility isn't really accessibility, or is that too controversial?
OnlyOffice says it should be accessible. What's going on here?
Like is this a user error?

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As you might know, we have an #Android app version of #MapComplete in the works, which makes it even easier to see and edit #OpenStreetMap

After a bit of initial testing, we are opening up the test program to our followers here on Mastodon.

If you want to join the beta testers, send an email to info@mapcomplete.org

Any issues? Head over to mapcomplete.org/issues

#android #openstreetmap #MapComplete
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Looks like the Orbit Player uses a Mediatech MT6765 cpu.
It is totally possible to:
1. Install apps
2. Enable TalkBack.
3. Use a keyboard with the device through ScreenCopy.
All thanks to a wide-open ADB shell.

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So here's an #accessible#wrestling game I found. It's text based, with audio. It's not for me; you need to know stuff about franchise's and division's and moves and belts and things. But if you're a #blind person who enjoys wrestling, this might be for you:
Step into the ring and take control! Welcome to GRUNT - The Wrestling Game, the ultimate text-based wrestling simulation where you are the booker, the promoter, and the wrestling god of your very own universe!
Tired of wrestling games that limit your imagination? GRUNT WRESTLING hands you the keys to the entire promotion. From creating a rookie in a local gym to running a multi-division global powerhouse, every choice is yours. Witness epic five-star matches, shocking betrayals, and the crowning of new legends—all brought to life through a detailed, moment-to-moment simulation engine.
This isn't just a game; it's a sandbox for your wrestling stories. Build your dream roster, book the matches, and watch the chaos unfold!
nmercer1111.itch.io/grunt-the-wrestling-game

Grunt - the Wrestling Game by nmercer1111

A fully customizable Text based Wrestling Universe
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Its new video time again folks. Did you know that with REAPER version 7.42 a new scrubbing mode got introduced? No? My newest video tells you all the differences between the three available REAPER scrubbing modes, how they can be used and what neat little keystrokes we now got on the OSARA keymap to make our lifes so much easier. Plus, I give you a demo on how I use them when editing VoiceOvers. Enjoy. youtube.com/watch?v=a0HbxFOm9K…

All three scrubbing modes in REAPER demonstrated

Everyone knows the tape scrub mode in REAPER, as this is the default setting when turning on REAPER for the first time. You might have already heard of the l...
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To all Bookworm users out there: where are Bookworm books stored? With QRead, I get QRD files that I can easily move between machines for work. But I can't find where Bookworm stores books or the notes I create. Any help would be appreciated. Please boost!

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@mush42 I created it.
Allow Bookworm to store books and all metadata in one single file: github.com/blindpandas/bookwor…

Allow Bookworm to store books and all metadata in one single file

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Users often need to read the same books across multiple machines, at home and at work. With other apps like QRead or Kurzweil 1000, we...
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Amount of hours spent to keep a default #chatmail onboarding relay with 500k active addresses running: near zero.

Glancing at stats sometimes: two million messages per day. CPU and IO load at 20% max. 500gb raid1 ssd meandering around 60 percent full. There is room for various optimizations but no big need currently.

end-to-end encryption with metadata minimization is best if servers are boring. No clustering or enterprise license needed, no "SRE team" either.

github.com/chatmail/relay/

GitHub - chatmail/relay: chatmail service deployment scripts and docs

chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com

This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.

Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.

#Windows #SysadminLife

The Magic Number Database | MagnumDB

The Magic Number Database. Type a value and it will return the corresponding constant, and vice versa. Contains 360,000 values!
www.magnumdb.com
#Windows #sysadminlife

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📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸

Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.

Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.

Details 👇

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#RNE #OpenPodcasting #PodNews #RTVE

Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps

The broadcaster has decided to block a free podcast app without notice.
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#rne #OpenPodcasting #podnews #rtve @James Cridland

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Hey #fedihelp,

I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.

Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.

Code here: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Thank you!

Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
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#android #fedihelp #widget

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I ended up settling on just hardcoding an exact size for each grid entry in "dp", then scaling it up until it "felt right" and going with that. It should work. I'm still annoyed Android widgets are so limiting but well, this will be good enough to ship I think.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Now for a good night's rest and then some final cleanups after work. Then this can probably be shipped with the next release :)

Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
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Lukáš Tyrychtr's talk on screen readers in GNOME #guadec2025
#guadec2025

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Interesting #GUADEC talk by Lukáš about the screen reader infrastructure. Turns out, the org.fd.a11y interface (that I'm playing around with in niri) is very recent, first appeared in GNOME 48. No wonder I couldn't find many docs or examples for that
#GUADEC
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First post on the Arch Linux development blog:

Specifications - David Runge

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#archlinux #linux #blog #alpm

Specifications

Notes on the growing documentation of the ALPM project.
Arch Linux Dev Blog
#linux #blog #archlinux #alpm

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Baha! I knew there was a reason I liked AdGuard. You can now block Microsoft's recall with it. Yay! adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-fo…

AdGuard for Windows v7.21: More protection against Windows tracking

Recall is a feature that takes screenshots of your activity throughout the day. And yes, we have a few privacy concerns about that. So we’ve added a way to block it completely.
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In case anyone finds this useful, I added a "ReaKontrol: Reconnect" action to #ReaKontrol which allows you to reconnect to your Kontrol keyboard if it isn't connected when you first start #REAPER or it gets disconnected while REAPER is running. Otherwise, you have to restart REAPER, which is deeply irritating. reakontrol.jantrid.net/

ReaKontrol

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#reaper #reakontrol

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Some good primer on Android accessibility development. Robust roles on Android tpgi.com/robust-roles-on-andro…

Robust roles on Android - TPGi

Threading through the inner workings of Android's accessibility framework, this article describes the best techniques for defining an element's role.
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With the current news of possibly dozens of AUR packages hosting a dangerous form of malware, we should probably once again, for yet more reasons, reconsider why so many people point newcomers to Arch-based distributions.

The amount of "just do this random AUR bro" is insane.

(EDIT: This is the mailing list post - lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

More packages have been found since, and the story is unfolding.)

[SECURITY] firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

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Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

#cybersecurity #callmeifyouneedme #fifonetworks

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Me and @alexchapman have just been screwing around with this thing called Omni Describer, a Windows program that uses AI to make audio descriptions out of videos. It uses Google Gemini for the actual describing part, and it can either use OpenAI or SAPI 5 for TTS. It has some issues, like the TTS interrupting itself during descriptions, but other than that, it's pretty cool. forum.audiogames.net/topic/568…
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Thank you @notnotrachit for sharing your experience of implementing notifications "the FOSS way" in this blog post!

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Implementing App notifications: The FOSS way

The Beginning: Building My First "Real" App Recently, I embarked on building a...
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Ærion

Even as a non-developer, I found this well written article of great interest. It explained a few things about #UnifiedPush I wasn't aware of, and has given me better insight into how it functions.

It's clear now that there simply isn't any excuse for developers to use #FCM for notifications. I sincerely hope UnifiedPush will gain traction, not only amongst #FOSS developers, but the Android developer community at large.

It's perhaps worth noting that users of #Conversations (and its forks) already have a distributor included in their client, thus further lowering the bar of entry.

@notnotrachit @daniel @snikket_im

#conversations #foss #UnifiedPush #fcm @Snikket @Daniel Gultsch @Rachit Khurana
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Boosts appreciated: I am working on an #accessibility wiki, because info on accessibility for #blind people is fragmented. It is not ready for public release, but I would like to invite volunteers to help me improve the site. I need to get web devs, server maintainers, moderators, writers, and whoever else would be able to contribute. Please send me a DM if you're interested.
#Accessibility #blind

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there's a lot to like about Tiddlywiki but not if you want to use it in a way where you aren't just using some background html file sync between devices. If you want to access it *via a website*, every time you load it you're downloading a minimum of 2MB, much larger depending on how much data you have in there and possibly even file embeds (unless you use the File upload plugin thing and have it dump the files into S3/WebDav)

This sucks big time. If you have spotty data service you won't be able to open your "notes" reliably.

This is a huge red flag for me. If I only cared about using Tiddlywiki from one device it would be a pretty amazing solution though

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> WireGuard uses the system time as a reliable monotonic counter. If this jumps forward, a user might DoS their own keys, by making it impossible to later have a value larger, or an adversary controlling system time could store a handshake initiation for use later. If it jumps backwards, handshakes will similarly be impossible. Thus, the system time should not be under the control of a hostile adversary.

oh good i'll make sure to remind the adversaries to not touch my time source

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If you've ever seen a minidisk, you know how reasonably small it is. The Crucial X10 8TB drive I picked up recently is not the size of a minidisk, it's actually smaller than it.
I just find that incredibly impressive. I know technology is advancing so quickly, but I'm used to the size of standard NVME drives, which are long and ram-stick-like. The internals fascinate me but not enough to crack the thing open for well, reasons...
I wonder if they stacked the nand in some interesting config inside the casing to get it so small? Is it even NVME at all? I know they come in multiple sizes, so maybe it's a few of the smaller sized chips instead. Anyway, sometimes I can still be impressed by today's tech. It's not just all stinky AI slop, you know?

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@Brynify @pixelate yeah, a lot of audio folks I know like to keep the raw uncompressed audio of each channel recording on the podcast, add those together for 2-3 people and you're counting around 4-6 GB per hour easily. Just 2-3 months of that and you've probably filled up close to a terabyte, poof. Not wrong though, having that raw copy is really good for going back or if ever needing to make a part more clear in edit or (less ideally) later.
@Devin Prater :blind:
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Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?

#E2EE #Android #messaging

GitHub - android-rcs/rcsjta: RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API

RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API. Contribute to android-rcs/rcsjta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#FreeSoftware #android #rcs #messaging #e2ee

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100K. One hundred thousand. That's a lot of #Catima users! And happy users, it seems, looking at that 4.5 star rating ❤️

Just, wow, I never expected my little hobby app to reach 100K active users, and that's just on #GooglePlay, still excluding other app stores like #IzzyOnDroid, #FDroid, direct downloads from #GitHub and sketchy app piracy sites (please don't use that last one, for your own safety 😅)!

Very cool :)

#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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Last month, I spent about a week working on Plasma Bigscreen, hoping to get it back in Plasma releases again!

Read about it on my blog: espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-…

#kde

Diving into Plasma Bigscreen | espidev

I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor, but I have always had a keen interest in having Linux on my TV! I have noticed that in the past few months, the Plasma Bigscreen project has had some interest from people wanting to contribute, but t…
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Hey everyone, #Linux Access appears to be live! This is a really fantastic resource for beginning Blind Linux users! linuxaccess.org/ #Accessibility #A11y

Home

Welcome to Linux Access This is your central hub for all things related to accessibility on Linux. Here you’ll find articles, tips, and resources written by the community to help make Linux more usable for everyone.
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#a11y #Accessibility #linux

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Tohle jsou pro Linux důležité milníky. Opravdu populární gaming youtubeři začínají zkoušet Bazzite (gaming Linux distro). Tenhle má přes 4M odběratelů.

Zrovna Bazzite má potenciál se stát standardem pro hraní. Už jen kvůli tomu, že člověk jde na jeho web, vybere výrobce GPU, vybere si GNOME nebo KDE a po instalaci hraje. Zkuste tohle s Windows.

youtu.be/Sa8nMiEoti0

I FINALLY listened to you and tried Linux... Why did I wait so long?

This is the FIRST video I have ever made using Linux as a windows replacement for a gaming system and it was REALLY easy! I should have done this sooner! Che...
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🔩 Adam Štrauch

@sesivany @jorge Já jsem z dění kolem Universal Blue nadšen. Myslím, že perfektně Fedoru doplňuje. Jsou tam inovace, na které ve Fedoře nezbývá prostor. Každý den se mi honí hlavou, zda neudělat rebase na Bluefin, ale drží mě zpátky, že to mám jako pracovní stroj a vyladit čistou instalaci Silverblue mi naposled zabralo 4 dny.
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Úvod do Fediverse: Moderní podoby sociální sítě
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Toto video je barvitým úvodem do sociální sítě Fediverse, natočené režisérkou a propagátorkou Fediverse Elenou Rossini. Objevte nový svět sociálních médií, kde je respektováno Vaše soukromí, klíčoví jsou uživatelé a velké technologické společnosti nemají žádný vliv.

Autor videa: Elena Rossini a tým
Produkce: Jan
Dabing: Zloběna
Časování audia: Schmaker
Skript: Jann

#fediverse #Open Social Web
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As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #GTK #Libadwaita #Accessibility #a11y #Linux

Make the event widget accessible (!559) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

This implements button functionality to make it able to focus and activate it. This also sets the appropriate accessibility role and labels/descriptions. Related:
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TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

This goes without saying: If you have some money to spare, I would genuinely appreciate it. I am not getting paid a single dollar from the work I'm doing (I wish I did).

At the time of writing this post, the merge request for making the month view accessible is sitting at around 500 lines diff, but that diff will only get bigger and bigger. A good portion of that time is also spent with my eyes closed with a screen reader. It takes a lot of time and energy to understand how everything connects in GNOME Calendar and researching about accessibility in a calendar app.

- ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…

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Emmanuele Bassi

there’s a workshop starting at 9 on Sunday about application accessibility at GUADEC

events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
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In case anybody needs to configure ASCII Braille support on their Mac for some reason, here's how:

1. Go to Voice Over Utility -> menu -> File -> Export Preferences

2. A save dialog will appear, pick a location on disk somewhere and save the file.

3. Open the file you just saved in any text editor. TextEdit should be good enough.

4. Find the following line:

<key>SCRCUserDefaultsBrailleTableGuideItems</key>

Use your editor's find feature (usually command + f) to do this.

5. Below this line, you should have a line containing <array>, followed by a few lines beginning with <string>, followed by </array>

6. Somewhere inbetween the <array> and </array>, make a new blank line and insert the following text:

<string>com.apple.scrod.braille.table.liblouis.ascii</string>

7. Save the file.

8. In VO Utility, go to Menu -> File -> Import preferences.

9. Pick the file you just edited, agree to replace preferences.

10. Congratulations, ASCII Braille should now be in your Braille table list.

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Hey folks. I've noticed #DeltaChat hasn't got a page in #Wikipedia. Do you know sources which would prove its notability so we could create a page for it?

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#AskFedi #Email #IM #Messenger #chatmail #chatmailrelay #FOSS #opensource #tech #technology #software

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Today is July 2nd, 2025. 9,131 days ago was January 1st, 2000. In 9,131 days it will be January 1st, 2050. Starting tomorrow, we’ll be closer to 2050 than to 2000. Now just live with it

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Able Player version 4.6.0 - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility

I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin. This isn't a particularly
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#Gnome #Files (#Nautilus) has a bulk rename tool for some time now, but literally every single time I try to use it I fail. Really, everytime I need to rename batch of files, I try it first in this tool, I recognize that my task is not possible done in it and than start totalcmd in wine just for this simple operation.
Are my needs so advanced? I don't think so.
For example now I want to add xml extension to all badly named log files. Impossible.
#gnome #nautilus #files

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Actually when you open rename tool, it prefills it with pattern [Original file name] and extension is completely omitted from renaming.

We need to not omit extensions, add them as separate place holder [Originial file extension] and just prefill them when rename dialog opens as [Original file name][Originial file extension]

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@gnome I just noticed the disability pride flag in the profile picture, I didn't expect it but I love it! Especially as I know it's important for many members of our community, like myself.

Despite the accessibility issues of our project and despite misinformed critics (I have no issue with informed critics), I know we are actively working on better accessibility, and that it's particularly implemented by disabled members of the GNOME community.

@GNOME

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Just started using #MailPit for dev environments. It's an SMTP testing tool that basically simulates receiving emails sent by your app via SMTP so your app has no idea it's not production. It has some little accessibility quirks like unlabeled buttons here and there, but in general it's quite a thing. Again, I've only started, maybe my opinion will change.
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