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I am currently working on #accessibility in #forgejo. And I discovered a problem with focus where it is not possible to navigate the page with "tab", a dropdown makes the focus skip to the end of the page and you end up in a loop.

Can someone recommend ways or tools to debug focus in webbrowsers? I have a hard time to see how the focus skips there. Any hints are welcome.

Thank you.

#WebAccessibility #WebDev #webDevelopment

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Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility stack I'm developing for GNOME and (eventually) other desktops: I have an end-to-end prototype, using a Wayland protocol extension for the connection between applications/toolkits and the compositor, and D-Bus for the AT-to-compositor interface. I have an experimental branch of Orca with basic focus announcement and mouse review working. 1/?

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@halva While the only compositor implementation so far is in Mutter, I certainly want it to be as straightforward as possible to implement in other compositors. While the interface between assistive technologies and the compositor is now D-Bus-based, as preferred by the Mutter/GNOME Shell team, I anticipate that somebody could design a Wayland protocol extension for that instead, and then write a separate daemon to expose the D-Bus interface.
in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@Conan_Kudo I wonder if it would make sense to use a portal for that interface, even though assistive technologies like Orca are not currently sandboxed, and it arguably doesn't make sense to try to sandbox them.

The D-Bus interface definition in question is here: gitlab.gnome.org/mwcampbell/mu… Yeah, not documented yet.

in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@Conan_Kudo The context is allowing ATs to run in sandboxes, and to pre-authorize a theoretical portal or whatever other way for handling IPC does not exist anywhere at all. And implying there "is no appetite" to fix it in portals is also a mischaracterization of why there currently doesn't exist a solution for other portals.
in reply to Jonas Ådahl

@jadahl We've had a need for it ever since the Remote Desktop portal was introduced. We also have requests for it for the Input Capture portal. We even have requests for it for the Screenshot and Screencast portals! It's not theoretical, these requests go back *years*.

And frankly, every single portal should be capable of pre-authorization. It should be in the xdg-desktop-portal frontend interface itself. Instead, the backends have to hack together crappy workarounds to do it themselves.

in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@jadahl Don't get me wrong, the portal infrastructure is useful, but it has big gaping holes in the design and interaction model because people keep thinking of it as a Flatpak-oriented system.

We need to stop thinking of it that way because it *isn't* that anymore. It's used for system software all over the place. It's *required* for Wayland environments now.

It needs to be treated as the user interaction hot path it is.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@jadahl xdg-desktop-portal-wlr has a policy of only implementing portals to bridge to Wayland protocols. This is because the wlroots developers do not like having D-Bus as a mandatory dependency. Every portal must be connected to a Wayland protocol.

The only portals implemented are screenshot and screencast, and only partially at that (you cannot select individual windows because the Wayland protocol wlroots uses for this does not support it).

in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@jadahl As an example of a highly desired portal that will never get implemented in xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: the Global Shortcuts portal.

The discussion in the project issue exemplifies this policy: github.com/emersion/xdg-deskto…

in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@Conan_Kudo @jadahl Well then, maybe I could resurrect the a11y-consumer Wayland protocol extension, get it approved by a plurality of Wayland compositors (presumably excluding Mutter), and then it would be supported by xdg-portal-wlr. I might have to do that work on the side though.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@Conan_Kudo Or, if the consensus is that it doesn't really make sense to sandbox ATs, then as an alternative to doing a portal, then my newton_consumer client library could directly support both D-Bus and Wayland protocols. As long as that project remains under my control; since the GNOME Foundation is paying for my work on it (so far), I don't know if I'll end up having to get approval from others for additions to that package.
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@halva And it's certainly not tied to any toolkit. The current demo uses egui, only because that was a toolkit that already supported AccessKit, and Newton builds on the work I've done in AccessKit (without requiring Rust in the compositor!). For the integration in GTK, the plan is to use AccessKit via its C API. Maybe somebody will implement Newton in a toolkit without using Rust at all, once we stabilize the serialization format.
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If you need a blind accessible smart scale in the EU, Lidl's Silver Crest SBF75 body analyser is a pretty good choice for 18 euros. The only inaccessible bit is when it asks for a 6 digit code during bluetooth pairing.

Everything else works beautifully, the Health for You app is completely accessible via VoiceOver (not sure about Android), including the measurements history, weight, water intakes, calories data, etc.

The scale also supports up to 8 people based on a reference measurement during your profile setup, which can be done on the phone through the app as well. All in all, this is a fantastic experience compared to a lot of other, way more expensive bluetooth smart scales. #a11y #blind

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I am sure there is, it's just a matter of experimenting which is unfortunately not a good idea for your wallet.

Given that Lidl used to have talking bathroom and food scales, blood pressure monitors, I figured I'd give this a try because their brand is surprisingly reliable for an affordable price and luckily it worked out beautifully. I've heard Xiaomi's scales also work, though their app is not as good.

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Před 200 lety se narodil skladatel Bedřich Smetana. Za jeho ztrátu sluchu mohlo i zranění z dětství
irozhlas.cz/kultura/hudba/bedr…

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Oh. Ejabberd 24.02 released. It's able to connect to Matrix? 😳

process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-…

#ejabberd #xmpp #matrix

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@daniel I think the bridge does not allow joining rooms yet, but can only be used for "direct chats". When sending a direct chat message and there is no "direct chat room" yet, it creates such a room on demand. Not sure what happens when then someone on the Matrix side tries to add someone else to an existing direct chat room...
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Nevíte co bastlit?
Nestavte pátou meteostanici!
Postavte 🦅 🦉 🐤 🐦 ptačí hlasovou pozorovatelnu. Pomocí 🎤 mikrofonu, 🖥️ Raspberry Pi a 🤖 umělé inteligence, můžete rozpoznávat hlasy ptáků 🐔 . Podporováno je 6000 nejběžnějších druhů. Jako bonus můžete všechna pozorování sdílet na 🌍 mapě světa a potěšit tak nejednoho ornitologa.
V ČR je v tuto chvíli 6 aktivních stanic. Tak kdo se přidá jako další?
Pomůžete mi výzvu rozšířit? Díky
@chiptronCZ @birdlifecz
#IoT #HomeAssistant
tatageek.blog/2024/02/07/rozpo…

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Blazing fast Matrix, Native E2EE Group Calls, state of the art auth and potential WhatsApp interop.

Matthew covers the last year in Matrix and how it can be used to speed up the opening of communications silo required by the EU Digital Markets Act

youtu.be/s5BrVVf0B1I

#matrix #e2ee #voip #oidc #dma #whatsapp #silos

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Nazrál čas dát Firefoxu druhou šanci

Sepsal jsem důvody, proč si myslím, že by měl Firefox dostal zase šanci. Ať už od těch, kteří ho v minulosti opustili, nebo od těch, kteří ho nikdy ani nezkusili.

#Chrome #Firefox #FirefoxRelay #Mozilla #Opera #prohlížeč #Safari #Vivaldi #webovéTechnologie

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/02/07/n…

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Tohle si myslím, že mají pěkně vychytané. Stačí se přihlásit a během chvilky má člověk data sesynchronizovaná. Dokonce člověk nemusí ani vyplňovat přihlašovací údaje, stačí naskenovat QR kód, který mu to zobrazí.
Ani jsem to nezmiňoval, protože to dnes považuju za standard, který má i konkurence, ale ve Firefoxu to teď IMHO funguje fakt pěkně.
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WebKit GTK4 is now fully accessible. Shipping in GNOME 46 :gnome:

Funded by @sovtechfund and @igalia ❤️

Completed by Georges Stavracas at Igalia 🎩

Thanks to everyone involved !

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…
github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/…

#GNOME #WebKitGTK #accessibility #a11y #Linux #GTK

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Is it me, or is speech feedback in cmd on Windows 11 not as reliable? I often get nothing at all, and have to use nvda-arrows to review what happened. NVDA's focus doesn't even move as I type. I'll issue a command and get a response, but have to nvda-arrow down to the response instead of focus following it as it should. This seems to happen more in Powershell windows than cmd, but that might not be accurate. SSH sessions seem unaffected.

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So, the first day of #FOSDEM24 is over. It was quite nice, actually, even that the university campus was quite complex. But, we are ready for tomolrow, so go us watch in the distributions devroom at 10:30 local Brussels time, and you will learn about what we found when looking at accessibility of Linux distribution live medias, and much, much more.

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10 years ago I made the first commit¹ to Conversations.im

To 24 year old me working on one project for 10 years would have been unbelievable.

These days making commits at 2:00 in the morning is almost unbelievable 😂

Happy birthday Conversations! 🎂 🥳

(Someone should teach these kids how to write .gitignore files 😜)

¹: codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Convers…

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Apple Podcasts will automatically generate transcripts in iOS 17.4
Creators can also upload their own transcript. engadget.com/apple-podcasts-wi… #a11y #hoh #transcripts #apple #podcasting #podcasts #accessibility

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More details about the end of #IPv4 in state services: On 18th of December 2013 Czech #government decided that every service provided by Czech state has to be available on #IPv6 and be protected by #DNSSEC by 30th of June 2015. Yesterday a followed up action has been agreed on. On 6th of June 2032, IPv4 will be disabled on all services offered by Czech republic and they will be only available on IPv6 from that day on. Apart from that, every June starting from 2025, Czech government will get a report on how are the preparations.

Overall seems like a bold move, but I totally support it! IT sends a message, that #IPv4 is over and everybody should move to #IPv6 already. And even government - the definition of conservative and bureaucratic institution - gets it. Then why shouldn't you embrace it 😉

More information in Czech:
blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/kratke-…
blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/odvazny…

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Another interesting #TTS #AI system. I need to look closer into it in order to see if it's a voice cloning approach or something else: github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2
#AI #tts

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Seeking Blind Software Developers

From: Job-Listings <
job-listings-bounces@nfbnet.org>
On Behalf Of Richard Davis via Job-Listings

Kevin Fjelsted of R. D. Partners, Inc. is interested in hiring blind persons as software developers. They are engaged in developing telecommunications
software for their customers, including CRM LIght and iOS applications for iPhone.

As you may know, finding software developers who know accessibility is a big problem today. Kevin thinks hiring blind persons is the solution to this problem.

Given the demand for software developers today (100,000 job vacancies nationwide) companies are no longer requiring four year degrees in computer science
or information technology. Instead, a number of "boot camp" training programs have cropped up, some of them quite expensive. R.D. Partners has found a
nonprofit that has agreed to train people for them at no charge to trainees.

What do you need to do to take advantage of this opportunity? First of all, be a power computer user with knowledge of accessibility. Some training and/or
experience in software development is recommended, but a solid interest in learning and a commitment to this type of work is definitely required. They
will be able to determine if you have the aptitude pretty quickly.

This is a job for a creative person. Many software developers are writers, poets, and artistic types. That may surprise some of you, but it is true.

If you feel you are qualified, contact
kevin.fjelsted@rdpartnersinc.com.
He is willing to answer the kinds of tecnical questions I cannot.

Best wishes,
Dick Davis
NFB Employment Committee

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Hello everyone ! 🙂
We are starting a new series of weekly articles, diving into Jami's developments through our programmers' work. 🤹‍♂️
The 1st one is "What's New On iOS" and just got posted.
The full article in the link below!
jami.net/whats-new-on-ios/
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RevK's privacy-friendly GPS logger

My very clever friend, @revk, has been making a GPS logger which requires no third party account or server, after I said I was looking for one.

Here are my initial thoughts on using it.

tl;dr: it just works. It automatically logs our journeys to an on-board micro-SD card, and uploads them, via https POST, to my webserver, when it connects to Wi-Fi. And it runs Free software!

@RevK

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New tip posted by Matej Plch: How to Overcome Android 14 Security Restrictions for Apps like Jieshuo Screen Reader accessibleandroid.com/how-to-o… #Android

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Does anyone have a working Android 6 or Android 7 device in a drawer somewhere that they want to donate to the #Conversations_im project? (Anything higher or lower doesn’t work unfortunately)

While refactoring A/V calls I got myself into a situation where I can no longer verify that calls are working on these devices without access to a physical devices. (Emulator has knows issues when it comes to A/V calls.)

The oldest device I have access to *shipped* with Android 8 (and runs Lineage OS 17)

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Have you seen the Stack Overflow Developer Survey results for 2023?

Of the 83,830 folks surveyed, Matrix is the #1 chat tool in terms of current users' satisfaction. It's also rated as the most desirable among the open source tools listed, but there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in awareness there.

Let's build on this in 2024! 🚀 survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#…

#Matrix #StackOverflow #FOSS #OpenSource

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in reply to Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth

@spaetz Oof, that's tough! We are so grateful for your advocacy.

This is definitely a sign of the work we need to do to increase awareness! As we get the Foundation more fully operationalized we hope to provide some materials to help introduce more folks to Matrix.

We're encouraged to see universities like TU Dresden and MIT running their own Matrix homeservers and want to help encourage more of that 🚀

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This sounds very interesting: OpenVoice is #VoiceCloning tool. It allows to generate speech from small samples of a given speaker, in many languages. It has controls for mood and accent. And it is free. Unfortunately I don't have an #AI capable GPU yet. github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoic…

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New Kiramoji version (v3.4), now with swatch/internet time support!
If you are a Caddy 2 user, now the Caddyfile is greatly simplified, thanks to a reported bug being fixed for Caddy-CGI 2. Grab your copy at github.com/Flameborn/Kiramoji/…

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I'm trying to set up a folder on my new laptop that's shared. Using this, I can just copy things from my old PC to this folder, then from there to wherever they should go on the laptop. I've enabled everyone to have full permission, and turned off login requirements for shared folders. File/printer sharing is on. Yet my old PC still demands a username and password every time I try to connect to this folder. Anyone know why? Does Windows have a simple way to transfer files I'm not thinking of?

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Any of my #firefox peoples want to try this extension? Same guy that made it for Chrome with my sounds in. This apparently works without fuss, but I don't use firefox so can't prove it. github.com/LordLuceus/chrome-u…

Edit: This is now a signed firefox addon and works when clicking the below link without any fuss at all. I have now tested this myself: onj.me/browser-ui-sounds.xpi

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Oh damn, why I have missed such well written and amazing message regarding #Accessibility state of linux desktop last year?
It's written by @RastislavKish and here it is: freelists.org/post/orca/Can-be…
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I would like to share a very cool project I've been working on with a couple of other very talented developers: SVT-AV1 PSY

github.com/gianni-rosato/svt-a…

SVT-AV1-PSY is the Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding. The goal is to create the best encoding implementation for perceptual quality with AV1.

We've already implemented a couple of unique features not present in mainline that do appear to produce BD-rate gains on a number of clips already!! Please check it out!

#av1 #encoding #video

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