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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)

#conversations_im

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Hi, we met at #37c3 , I am the #TinyWeatherForecastGermany #dev .

Is this what you look for?

Disclaimer: china refurbished, rom likely not original, bootloader locked because this is the AT&T US model.

Because of the locked bootloader, you cannot flash a custom recovery / rom on it.

#dev #TinyWeatherForecastGermany #37c3
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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

#foss #matrix #opensource #stackoverflow
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@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…

GitHub - myshell-ai/OpenVoice: Instant voice cloning by MyShell.

Instant voice cloning by MyShell. Contribute to myshell-ai/OpenVoice development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#AI #voicecloning

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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/…

Release V3.4 · Flameborn/Kiramoji

This release adds swatch/internet time support when displaying dates (thanks @chaoskaiser72), and simplifies the Caddyfile for Caddy 2.
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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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Word and PowerPoint Accessibility Evaluation Guide webaim.org/resources/evaloffic… from WebAIM #a11y #ppt #msword #powerpoint #accessibility

WebAIM: Word and PowerPoint Accessibility Evaluation Guide

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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

GitHub - LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds: An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for important events in the browser

An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for important events in the browser - GitHub - LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds: An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for...
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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…

[orca] Re: Can be Linux used as a daily driver system for blind users? - orca - FreeLists

[orca] Re: Can be Linux used as a daily driver system for blind users?, orca at FreeLists
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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

GitHub - gianni-rosato/svt-av1-psy: The Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding

The Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding - GitHub - gianni-rosato/svt-av1-psy: The Scalable Video Tec...
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I wanted to say a few things about the importance of applications, Wayland porting, and the joy of discussing Wayland protocol extensions... ;-)
(new blog post)
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Wayland really breaks things… Just for now? – Ximions Blog

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@matt I am not extremely knowledgeable in A11y, the issues raised with me mainly came from the testability and automation branch: For example, being able to find a button in a UI, and perform a click on it, resize a window, hover over an element and inject keyboard combinations and text, these kinds of things. 1/2
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Sorry, I meant to ask if there's anything you'd want for test automation, or any aspects of AT-SPI that you particularly dislike (I assume you currently have to use AT-SPI to find buttons etc.). I do have experience with accessibility; I'm visually impaired myself, and I wrote a third-party Windows screen reader and later worked on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft.
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@matt Ooops, how embarrassing - I completely misunderstood your question then! Sorry for that!
I'll ask a contact about AT-SPI specifically, but my impression was that these things were always used with some abstraction on top of AT-SPI in a larger test framework. One definite issue with AT-SPI is the documentation (more would always help, since it is very complex).
Some smaller apps I know now use QTest, which uses Qt internals for testing, so no AT-SPI is involved there.
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On the topic of window placement, forgive me if this has already been discussed and rejected, but how about an extension that lets applications assign persistent IDs to windows? Then, each time the application creates a window with a particular ID, the window manager can place that window at a saved position for that ID. That'd require toolkits and applications to change, but thinking about this as an app developer, I like the idea.
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@matt gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland…

See, this is exactly the problem here. The blog posts makes it seem like all the people involved in wayland don't care about making the applications work well on wayland. We suggested that this protocol can be used with another new protocol to solve 90% of the use cases. This was dismissed because of the missing 10%. Instead of pushing the protocol that everyone wants we now have another protocol that doesn't go anywhere.

staging: Add xdg-session-management protocol (!18) · Merge requests · wayland / wayland-protocols · GitLab

For a variety of cases it's desirable to have a method for negotiating the restoration of previously-used states for a client's windows. This helps for e.g., a compositor/client...
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@matt This is in a way the session-management protocol.
But consider this: What if an application has an IDE layout[1] or a layout like GIMP's multi-window mode where windows need to be initilly placed in relation to each other? What if a window needs to show up next to a UI control, like for docked windows in docked UIs or for picture-in-picture displays?
For that, the compositor at least needs to know an initial placement as well, restoration-only will not work.

[1]: wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/im…

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I attended today's presentation where Deane Blazie introduced the new BTSpeak. Much of what he discussed can also be found on the Blazie Technologies Web site which was mentioned toward the end of the presentation. blazietech.com/
Here are my notes that I took which have hardly been edited.

Deane said nobody had done an equivalent Bns. Deand and Bryan (one of his sons) were working with Raspberry PI with a Braille keyboard to make a new 21st century Bns.
Based on Raspberry PI, inside is a computer module 4, has 4 cores, equivalent to a low end or possibly midrange laptop.
About the size of an iPhone Pro
8-key Braille keyboard.
Also has music and media player can stream from Pandora
Has learning application for learning how to type on a Braille keyboard
Comes with Lynx Web browser
Runs on Linux
Builtin calculator, clock and calendar
Hdmi port for monitor
Usb c for charging or plugging in keyboards, usb stick for storage
Micro Sd card slot
He was not sure of max capacity but 256 gb is possible
Has wifi
Has small CHATGpt app but you need a token
Uses Dectalk and ESpeak
Dectalk is from Human Voice LLC which is allowing them to use it for free
Has capability to do voice commands.
Deane said “weather” to get a weather forecast.
Has a around half dozen commands.
Has dictionary.
BTRadio is a Pandora app.
Has a Bible
Morse code application
From systems menu there is an audio menu for speech synthesizer selection
From any menu or application you can get context specific help for that program
Product will have two versions: basic and a Pro version.
Pro will have desktop Linux using Orca.
Uses RPI version of Debian
Pro version will have LibreOffice.
Has a PDF reader.
Standard unit supports text and Braille files, need Pro for full Office support.
Will we have NLS support: we don’t have NLS working with it. Not sure about Newsline.
Has Bluetooth but no headphone jack but it will have an adapter for the USB port for a headphone jack
1.5 ghz
Cost 795 for basic
Pro costs 1195
Web site: blazietech.com
Units are still being developed but can’t be released until software is more refined.
Shipping in February
BTSpeak architecture cannot run Eloquence
Eloquence Was written for intel-based and older versions of Arm but not arm64
Has text editor in basic unit but can use LibreOffice in Pro unit
For editor it can do Braille translation just like bns did
Has 4 gb of ram and 32 gb of rom

Chrome works on the Pro version only

Blazie Technologies, LLc | "Assistive Technology" "Braille computer" "Braille"

Blazie Technologies, LLc makes computers and notetakers for the Blind user. Assistive Technology for the blind. Braille
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@bryansmart @tristan @tspivey @pitermach

The BTSpeak is visible on your home network with a /Public directory so you can move files to and from it with your desktop computer. The Pro version has Libra Office suite which supports Microsoft Word formats. You would be using the Orca screen reader in the Pro version.

@Pitermach @Tristan @Tyler Spivey
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Blog: Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms

I wanted to make an easily accessible webchat for the rooms hosted on the yax.im #xmpp server, and this is the result / recipe.

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@prosodyim @jcbrand@masodon.xyz

Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms

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#xmpp @Prosody IM
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Introducing Spiel - A New Speech API and Framework

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Introducing Spiel | monotonous.org

A New Speech API and Framework I wrote the beginning of what I hope will be an appealing speech API for desktop Linux and beyond. It consists of two parts, a...
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I am about to install @Arch Linux on a new laptop. This time I am attempting to look into the #secureBoot properly. Trying to boot #archBoot or manually adding #preloader into the install media fails with secure boot violation error. I understand I should enroll loader hashes into the mok list in the nvram. I can't use EFI shell, hashtool.efi, keytool.efi and similar since at that stage of the boot process there's no accessibility support and I can't handle that on my own with OCR snapshots of the laptop screen. Am I missunderstanding the secure boot concept or is that yet another thing I can't overcome no matter how much I am trying to prepare for the task? Of course windows is booting and I do have a screen reader running. But I can't find windows tools capable of manipulating EFI variables. #secureBoot #fail #Accessibility
#Accessibility #fail #secureBoot #archBoot #preloader @Arch Linux
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Have been playing with Vdo.ninja, a free solution by the dev of OBS Studio which makes it possible to stream and receive multiple sources through any web-based view. In practice, it can do what Cleanfeed does, except it's not as heavily Chrome-dependent, allows for things like changing audio inputs and outputs for other people which makes it so much easier for sound technicians to tweak the setup for radio show or podcast guests, and all of the parameters can be tweaked through URL parameters so it is easy to hand out customized invitation links with everything pre-configured for each guest. The dev, I am told, cares deeply for #Accessibility and, although some suggestions could still be implemented, it is rather pleasant to work with at present. vdo.ninja/

VDO.Ninja

Bring live video from your smartphone, computer, or friends directly into OBS Studio. 100% free.
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@stirlock I am trying to report all accessibility-related findings to the dev as much as my spare time allows. So far we have got ARIA regions for all of the connected streams aka guests, Cleanfeed style. Steve reacts very fast to such reports so it's definitely worth hanging out on the project's Discord server.
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Just pushed the first draft of my new Wayland accessibility protocol extension. Still working on actually implementing it though. gitlab.freedesktop.org/mwcampb…

staging/accessibility/accessibility-v1.xml · accessibility · Matt Campbell / wayland-protocols · GitLab

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The only important qualification to my summary is: either the communication runs indirectly via the Wayland compositor, or the assistive technology accesses the pipes to/from the provider directly - either is allowed, as I read it.
I would encourage anyone with Wayland expertise to review this when it's ready for review/comment.
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World Braille Day 2024 habengirma.com/2024/01/04/worl…

World Braille Day 2024

It’s World Braille Day! A blind teacher named Louis Braille created this tactile reading system, and now his birthday, January 4, is a day to celebrate this marvelous way to read! Braille exists in multiple languages, and I recently had the honor …
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25 years ago Jeremie Miller made an announcement of what would become the initiation, development and propagation of the #XMPP protocol until today!

Join the journey!

slashdot.org/story/99/01/04/16…

Happy birthday,
XMPP!

:xmpp: :xmpp: :xmpp: :xmpp: :xmpp:

#chat #jabber #opensource

Open Real Time Messaging System - Slashdot

Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #chat
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Je fajn, že ještě dost lidí využívá #xmpp
Asi už to nikdy nebude jak v roce 2008, kdy u mě na Mandrivě běželo Kopete a Pidgin, ale XMPP šlape stále a v rychlosti a v jednoduchosti na něj nemá myslím žádný messenger 👍
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#129 Hello 2024
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#GNOME #TWIG

#129 Hello 2024 · This Week in GNOME

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Thanks to some excellent work by Arnold Loubriat, #AccessKit now has Python bindings. pypi.org/project/accesskit/ This will be useful for GUI toolkits where the widgets are actually implemented in Python, such as Kivy or UIs on top of Pygame, as opposed to Python wrappers over C/C++ toolkits or platform widgets. Documentation is still pretty thin, but there's a pygame-based example in the source distribution.

accesskit

Python bindings to the AccessKit library
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I should also thank everyone who has worked on PyO3 (pyo3.rs/v0.20.1/), which makes it much easier to write Python extension modules in Rust. If Java had something equivalent, my Java bindings for #AccessKit would probably be done already.

Introduction - PyO3 user guide

PyO3 user guide
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I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.

I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.

If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.

Source: Form 990 stateof.mozilla.org/

Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source

The State of Mozilla: 2022 — 2023 Annual Report — Mozilla

Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.
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@ebassi @vincevlo @dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis XULRunner never really lived, tbh (I just picked the last release date as the "death" date in the post above).

I remember being psyched when ephy was ported from gtkmozembed to gtk-webkit, the code became sooo much simpler. But it was before Chrome became the problem it is today (I got my memory backwards, Chrome was released in 2008 while the first Epiphany version using Webkit is from 2009)

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Are you at #37c3 and are you using #accessibility technologies such as #screenreader , #braille displays or similar? We are in the process of making #MapComplete more accessible and want to user test this. Please get in touch!
#Accessibility #screenreader #braille #MapComplete #37c3

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I am baffled when people talk about "the atmosphere" on Mastodon. Here, there is no algorithm forcing posts into your feed. The atmosphere is the one you have personally curated.

1) Scan a person's feed before you follow.

2) Turn off the boosts of anyone you otherwise like who boosts stuff you don't want to see.

3) Mute anyone you don't want to hear from at all.

4) Filter out words/phrases you don't want to see (you will have to do much less of this if you do the first three steps right).

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Analogue FM radio transmission system turns 90 years old today radiotoday.co.uk/2023/12/analo…

Analogue FM radio transmission system turns 90 years old today

Analogue FM radio transmissions turn 90-years-old today after the technology was patented on December 26th 1933.The broadcasting platform was invented as a replacement for AM and today is being celebrated by Marco Rossignoli, coordinator of Aeranti-C
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NVDA 2024.1 Beta 2 is now available for anyone interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before its official release!

Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- Bug fixes for installing & uninstalling add-ons
- Speech text is no longer updated when the mouse moves in the Speech Viewer
- Syntax fixes for documentation
Updates to translations

Note: This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2023.3 and earlier.

Full info & Download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

NVDA 2024.1beta2 available for testing

Beta2 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
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In 2014, my children’s wonderful Mum, Amanda, who is now a teacher of blind children, approached me with a problem of great significance.

She was teaching a blind girl who had written to Santa. But the child was worried that Santa wouldn’t be able to read the letter she had written, because it was in Braille. Amanda did her best to assure the child that Santa would have no problem with Braille, but the doubts remained.

Remembering the stories I used to tell our own children when they were younger, Amanda wondered if there might be anything I could do to help.

Well, it certainly made a pleasant change from my regular writing sessions trying to figure out technology and then explain it to other people.

The result was "Louis, the Blind Christmas Elf", which I gave to Amanda in written form.

Amanda loved the story, but came back and said, "why don't you do an audio version? You'd be good at that," again remembering all the funny voices I'd use when reading to our kids.

So, back I went into the studio, to create the narrated audio version.

The reaction to this little story has been so special, and heart-warming. I've heard from so many people. Teachers, parents, grandparents and consumer leaders have all written to me telling me how much the story has meant to them. And every year at this time, I get requests for it. It has now been translated into other languages and even turned into a play.

I'm deeply touched and honoured that it has meant so much to people.
In the spirit of being proud to be blind, I offer you this festive story and wish you a merry Christmas.

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Fanny Bui

@pvagner Ohrfunk.de is a German internet-radiostation. Their website is www.ohrfunk.de. The station hosts the low vision charts (www.lvcharts.de). Disabled people can send their own music, which is introduced once per month and than you can vote. The inventers of this show did a Christmas broadcast and asked the listeneers to submit contributions so we submitted the story.
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This Christmas, I've finally bitten the bullet and done some serious contributing to @openstreetmap (and also joined the OSM Foundation while I was at it). Honestly, I think it's one of the great wonders of the #OpenSource internet, so I wrote a blog post about why I'm contributing (and you should too)

andreasthinks.me/posts/OSM_for…

#GIS #openstreetmap #GeoSpatial #christmas #DataScience #data

Andreas Varotsis - Why I’m Contributing to OpenStreetMap for Christmas…

…and maybe you should too!
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#opensource #openstreetmap #gis #data #christmas #dataScience #geospatial @OpenStreetMap

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You would make me very happy with a mention owf mapcomplete.org . It is a thematic OSM-viewer and editor in one, geared towards making it easy for newbies and non-tecnical people to contribute. And there are specific maps about trees, ATMs, shops, bicy le pumps, toilets,...

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.
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As it is a long, long tradition Conversations is available for free on the Google Play store for the last week of December.

This tradition was originally born so that when I meet people at Chaos Communication Congress and they ask what I do, they have an easy way to install Conversations. In that regard it's a very special year as we are seeing the return of CCC.

However if you are meeting loved ones to celebrate something else these days that’s fine too.🎄

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

#37C3 #XMPP

Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play

An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
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The European Blind Union is conducting a survey of braille display users, preparatory to discussions with product manufacturers. The survey's organizers are seeking respondents both within and outside the E.U.
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#braille #BrailleDisplays #AssistiveTEchnology #accessibility

Braille Display Usage

This questionnaire contains questions about the usage of Braille displays in any life situation (education, work, personal use).
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#Accessibility #braille #assistivetechnology #brailledisplays

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Could you please use ethical survey software instead of an evil data harvesting surveillance capitalist? like limesurvey.org/
#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #ethics

LimeSurvey — Free Online Survey Tool

Survey Maker — LimeSurvey is an online survey tool to quickly create questionnaires, poll votes & surveys. ✦ Free ✦ Easy ✦ Open Source ➜ Start your survey now!
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Jason J.G. White

@AstaMcCarthy A point of clarification: I am not associated with the organizers of this survey in any way. I found out about it via the braille-display-users mailing list, where it was announced, completed the survey myself, then posted about it here.
If I were conducting a survey myself, I would host it on my own server.
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@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Sailfish OS and bringing it to GNOME/Linux mobile. :android: :gnome: :linux: 📱

Great read

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A dive into Jolla AppSupport – Jonas’ Blog

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amazing! While there are not as many Sailfish OS apps many of them are quite nice and it would be great for the linux mobile phone community to have access to as many apps as possible and remove the OS fragmentation- would it be easier or harder to get these apps to run in Arch or other mobile linux distributions? As far as i know there is no effort to port SFOS apps over..
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The next release of the js sdk is planning to bump the supported #matrix spec version to 1.5 or 1.6. This means it and as a result also Element Web will refuse to start on current versions of #conduit and #dendrite. This is an intentional decision resulting from a discussion between several SCT members.

I think that approach is bad and it should check for a range of supported versions instead of arbitrarily bumping the minor version to make the ecosystem move, but this is a heads up, that now is the time to contribute to both of those servers, if you use them and want to use the Element Web client on them going forward. (I already had my discussion with the SCT and I won't tell other projects, what they should do.)

JS-SDK change: github.com/matrix-org/matrix-j…Dendrite supported versions: github.com/matrix-org/dendrite…Conduit supported versions: gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/b…

Bump minimum spec version to v1.5 by richvdh · Pull Request #3970 · matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk

We only claim to support a year of spec releases, so this should be fine. Part of: #3915 Here's what your changelog entry will look like: ✨ Features Bump minimum spec version to v1.5 (#3970).
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The maintainer of the Orca screen reader, Joanie Diggs, has made noteworthy enhancements in recent weeks. I mention them here for the benefit of those who are not following these developments or who are not regular Linux screen reader users.
Many of the improvements are performance-related, taking advantage of the cache of accessibility tree nodes maintained by the AT-SPI service. Table processing has received particular attention, and fundamental changes are underway in the code that handles users' keystrokes, some of which need to be interpreted as screen reader commands, with the remainder being passed through to the application.
I have been testing some of the changes along the way, as have other users active on the Orca mailing list. Rapid and precise bug reports continue to contribute to the development process. At this point, it is reasonable to expect these valuable improvements to appear in a release during the first half of 2024, presumably as part of GNOME 46.
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And here is the public announcement about accessibility coming to Audient's audio interfaces product line. That is something we can be especially happy and proud about, and I am sure that this will only be the first step in making more audio-related products, no matter if its interfaces, instruments or all kinds of other things, more accessible to everyone, not just blind and visually impaired people. @Scott @nick audient.com/2023/08/14/accessi…

Audio Interface Apps Accessible to Blind & Vision Impaired Users - Audient

iD & EVO mixer apps now offer accessibility support for vision impaired with latest drivers - navigate using just a keyboard & screen reader
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NVDA 2024.1 Beta 1 is now available for testing. Highlights include a new on-demand speech mode, the ability to drop speech modes from the NVDA+s command, a new "native selection" mode for Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store & ability to review add-ons & more!

Note this release breaks add-on compatibility and only works on Windows 8.1 and newer.

Full info and Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #Beta #NewVersion #A11y #Accessibility #News

NVDA 2024.1beta1 available for testing

Beta1 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
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