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Because apparently Google can't be bothered implementing decent keyboard #accessibility for Google Calendar, I'm currently trying to throw together a Greasemonkey script which changes right arrow so that it moves to the next day when you hit the end of the current view instead of just doing nothing. You can currently press n to go to the next day, but then, it does this absurdly useless thing where it... focuses the first day in the scrolled view instead of the last, which is normally at least a week before the day that just had focus. 🤦‍♂️
It'd be nice if these trillion dollar companies could do things properly - this stuff just isn't that hard - but as usual, I find myself doing their jobs for them.

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Interesting article discussing, in detail, a possible design for a less expensive refreshable Braille display: jacquesmattheij.com/refreshabl…

And the Hacker News comment thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

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All of the cell technologies I've encountered at the low-cost end of the market have usability downsides, so I end up buying the more expensive Piezoelectric braille displays.
The most interesting technologies I'm aware of currently are those by Dot Inc., and by Tactile Engineering, both capable of supporting multi-line Braille/graphics-capable displays.
A patent search will show numerous other proposals developed over the past several decades, few of which have ever become publicly available products.

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The more I learn about Glidance, a system that purports to replace the cane, the more it seems to have taken all the criticisms of "smart canes" into account. It might be the first genuine high-tech navigation aid that could be beneficial, replacing the cane in most circumstances. I'm usually highly skeptical about these things because people just havent thought through the implications including ergonomics, weather conditions, etc

glidance.io

#accessibility #blind #a11y #mobility

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Continuing this thread about Glidance/Glide.

Based on the demo on their site + FAQs + the recent interview, here are some questions that seem to have been answered.

1. The design takes into account rainy weather. It will work on rainy streets. No answer about snow yet.

2. The timeline is longer than I anticipated. Beta tests are happening this year and release will happen in 2025.

3. Preorders wil start this year to gage demand and satisfy funders.

#accessibility #blind #a11y

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WebAIM Screen Reader Survey #10: Key Takeaways for 2024 and Beyond allyant.com/webaim-screen-read…
#10

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Did you know that a lot of #Dune 's Fremen language is just Arabic? Some examples:

Muad'Dib: Teacher
Lisan al-Gaib: Teller of things yet to come.
Shai-Hulud: Eternal thing, or Eternal Shaikh/Sheik (old man).
Mahdi: The guided one
Arrakis: the dancer, the name of a star (Mu Draconis A)

Here's a bigger list: reddit.com/r/dune/comments/ec1…

#Dune

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Bad news from #mozilla - the network location service used by #microG will stop.
discourse.mozilla.org/t/retiri…
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„HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained“

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The HN thread full of hilarious „I know better“ alphas and corporate conspiracy fans.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

It is fun to explore what is good. It is childish to fight over what is best.

The economy idea that life is competition, that we are in a „lifeboat“ universe where everything needs to be ranked, is toxic.

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@bagder Sounds like it's really just two or three people though, that do most of the hating.

Comment sections need to get better at this. Maybe there should be a downvote threshold that starts hiding all comments from one account? Or, sites should prevent people from commenting above a certain rate?

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It's a busy time at NV Access HQ, and Abroad! This week's In-Process has all the news about CSUN, NVDA 2023.3.4, NVDA 2024.1, and a run through of the new Native Selection Mode in Firefox. Read more here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #CSUNatc24 #CSUN #CSUN24 #News #Newsletter #Blog #Release

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Semantic Digital Audio memory: A cognitive aid to boost the capabilities of your memory 1/2

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Semantic Digital Audio memory: A cognitive aid to boost the capabilities of your memory 2/2

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"Wget can be typed in using only the left hand on a qwerty keyboard!"

Still my favorite difference between #wget and #curl

daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wg…

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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.
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@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.

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Portals are bad because there's no pre-authorization support (such that the distro or admin can pre-grant it instead of the user approving it individually) in xdg-desktop-portal. As long as that continues to not be a thing, portals are wildly inappropriate.
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in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@Conan_Kudo Would one use portals for ATs, a way to ensure it can be preconfigured by a distribution is indeed a must, and a perfectly reasonable thing to add to the portals ecosystem, not only for ATs. It's not a reason to not use portals though.
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.
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@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.

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@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.

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@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).

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@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…

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@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.
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@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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I like having events in a calendar, but I hate creating calendar events. So for the past few days I've been hacking on this: codeberg.org/tadzik/caleb

It's now in a pretty capable state that I'm happy to show to the world - maybe you'll find it useful.

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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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Thank you Bitwarden! @bitwarden
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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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Wie are pleased to announce that #Monal 6.1.0 with full video call support is now available in the appstore.

Have fun calling :)

#xmpp #ios #videocall

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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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I personally find Windows Terminal, which is the default in Windows 11 I think, to be really buggy and unreliable. To change that, Windows Settings (Windows+i), type terminal into the search box, select "Choose a terminal host app for interactive command-line tools", and change Terminal to "Windows Console Host". See if that helps.
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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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I wrote some ideas for how to actually make HTML documents a viable replacement for PDFs.

willcrichton.net/notes/portabl…

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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#132 Bottom Sheets
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

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Crazy read: detecting positions of players in Counterstrike by *listening to their GPU over a microphone*

faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~genkin/…

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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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I wrote an overview of what happened within the MapComplete-world in 2023: openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%…

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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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