Google drops it's plan of disabling 3rd-party tracking cookies by default in Chrome. 🍪
Looking for a Chrome alternative? Check out our recommendations.
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…
#browser #email #privacy #encryption #foss #cookies
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.Tutanota
Derek attributes his experience with NVDA instrumental to his career success and since working at Google has found numerous ways to improve accessibility, both internally and externally.
"A product built by the community, for the community, is better than one built by some company, simply because the community is in charge of what goes into it." - Derek Riemer
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource
GitHub has released an insightful article to accompany the documentary shared earlier showcasing NVDA, OSARA, & REAPER. The article interviews NVDA co-founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh, as well as Derek Riemer, who has used NVDA since 2011. Derek has contributed to NVDA itself & written over 20 add-ons. He also now works as a software engineer at Google.
Find the full article (& short documentary) here: github.com/readme/featured/nvd….
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource
NVDA and OSARA provide access to information, employment, community, and more, as well as empower a new generation to build a more accessible world.Mike Melanson (GitHub)
By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
We are pleased to be one of the many projects supported by the EU's NGI programmes, with NLnet's contribution.
Open, decentralized solutions are essential for user freedom on the Internet and for the resilience of our services. What would happen if one of these centralized services were blocked tomorrow?
The NGI programmes are a strength, let's hope they continue: pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI
In-Process is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4, the add-on update notification feature in NVDA 2024.3, thanks to Intopia (& all our corporate sponsors) and a look at jumping between paragraphs! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #ThankYou #Intopia #Navigation #Beta #Prerelease #FOSS #Software #blog
We’re getting closer to the release of NVDA 2024.3 with a new beta out this week. The table of contents in recent editions of the blog has been popular so far, so let’s start with that: 2024.3 Beta…NV Access
NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4 is now avaialble. Everthing from the previous betas PLUS beta 4 also includes:
- Fix reporting addresses in Modern Outlook To/CC/BCC fields
- Improved handling of errors when installing add-ons, fixed bug where failed add-on updates remove the installed add-on
- Minor fixes to improve updating a portable copy
- Updates to translations
Read the full what's new and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #FOSS #Beta #Prerelease
Beta4 of NVDA 2024.3 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…NV Access
The Matrix.org Foundation joins the FOSS community and advocates of digital sovereignty in calling on the European Commission to sustain its funding for the Next Generation Internet program.
The European Union must keep funding free software: matrix.org/blog/2024/07/17/ngi…
#Advocacy #Policy #EU #FOSS #OpenSource
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJosh Simmons (matrix.org)
A while ago, Simon Phipps, member of the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation, shared the idea to introduce a peer-to-peer collaboration built in to desktop LibreOffice without the requirement for a cloud provider.Heiko Tietze (LibreOffice Design Team)
LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started in mid June, 2023.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Thanks to gitlab.com/ab-amal and gitlab.com/Glitchyi we have a redesigned home page for diasp.in
#XMPP #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource
We are hosting a public XMPP / #Jabber service for 8+ years and you can request an account now. You can learn more about XMPP / Jabber at joinjabber.org
With a diasp.in account and app like Monocles Chat or Monal, you can talk to users of many others messaging apps like Quicksy or Prav.
Berlin, 11 July 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.5 Community, the fifth minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office productivity suite for office environments and individuals, the best choice for privacy-conscious users and digital sovereignty, is a…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Beta3 of NVDA 2024.3 is now available for download & testing. Changes from Beta2 include Add-on update notifications no longer appear when running the NVDA installer & updates to translations. Read more & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…
Highlights of 2024.3 include notification of add-on updates, Unicode normalisation options, Help Tech Activator Pro display support, mouse wheel scrolling commands, bug fixes for emoji panel & browsers
#Beta #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #PreRelease #FOSS
Beta3 of NVDA 2024.3 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…NV Access
Okay, I think I fixed the link.
So, this is like, one of the first times I've done this, but I wanted to show a bit of installing Fedora Linux on my laptop. I'd already started the installation, but it shows most of it, and a bit of setup afterwards. I recorded this on my iPhone, so it won't sound the best. A few things I forgot to mention:
* You cannot buy IBM Viavoice (Eloquence) for Linux anymore, but it's of course still floating around.
* We also have DecTalk on Linux, obvious from the BTSpeak using it.
* You can also get Vocalizer voices.
* There's also Piper of course.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/ku4p2ylikzz…
#Linux #foss #Fedora #accessibility #blind
For those who don't know about it yet, here is a tool, called Audio Game Manager, that lets you play lots of Windows audio games on Linux. This might be useful to be put on the BT Speak, connected to a USB keyboard or Gamepad of course.
git.stormux.org/storm/audiogam…
#linux #foss #audioGames #blind #accessibility
Installer and launcher for Windows based audio games under wine for Linux.Stormux: Powered by Gitea
Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and the Design community has produced new icon sets, new MIME type icons, a hugely improved dark mode, and improvements to the NotebookBar (This is part of The Docume…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Berlin, 11 July 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.5 Community, the fifth minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office productivity suite for office environments and individuals, the best choice for privacy-conscious users and digital sovereignty, is a…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Do you want to help make AntennaPod ready for the future? And do you have experience (or talent) in the domain of UX and/or UI design?
We're looking for folks to help us with embedding new innovative features on our player screen!
All details & contact options here👇
opensourcedesign.net/jobs/jobs…
#OpenSourceDesign #UX #UI #FOSS #OpenSourceContributions #Penpot #wireframes #volunteer #SummerProject #UXdesign #UIdesign
Also @Tutanota , as a privacy focused company, why are your comments run on #Reddit, rather than the #Fediverse? Most privacy minded folks don't want their comments being used by AI LLM's etc.
This is way off brand.
@carlschwan among others have already shown how to do it fedistyle, pretty easily, and I'm sure many of the FOSS Fedipeeps here would happily help you out with a quick transition if you asked or gave a few $ to their FOSS project.
The annual Tidelift maintainer survey is open for responses. It gets cited *all the time*—there really aren't many other sources for understanding of why maintainers do (or don't do) the things they do.
So please circulate widely in all the places you and your #opensource #FOSS maintainer friends hang out.
tidelift.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe…
2024 Tidelift maintainer survey: help us understand the experience of being an open source maintainer bettertidelift.az1.qualtrics.com
Our two main websites are vital sources of information for The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice software.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
NVDA 2024.3 Beta 2 is now available for testing!
Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- Fix for reading messages in Windows Mail
- Added International Phonetic Alphabet braille table
- Bug fix for audio output on a mono audio device
- Bug fixes for Unicode normalization
- Updates to translations
Read the full change log and download the Beta from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #PreRelease #FOSS #ScreenReader #NewVersion #New #News #Update #Unicode #IPA #Translation
Beta2 of NVDA 2024.3 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…NV Access
You can now get three kinds of #PureOS subscription from @purism!
Each of them:
- Helps maintaining releases and bug fixes
- Helps pushing code to other projects
Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) developers also need an #income!
Consider subscribing if you want to advance #Linux #privacy friendly computing or if you are using #MobileLinux.
shop.puri.sm/?s=pureos+subscri…
#opensource #phone #librem5 #pinephone #chatty #mobian #linux
In 2023, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2023 – we’ll post the full version here soon.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
In-Process is out, featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.2 AND the newly released NVDA 2024.3 Beta 1 plus info on our new Code Signing Certificate, a thank you to our donors, and we remember community contributor, Austin Pinto.
Catch up on everything here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Blog #Newsletter #InfoSec #PreRelease #Beta #FOSS
In-Process 3rd July 2024 We’ve got a new stable release AND a new beta to cover. And do please read the important note on the new Code Signing Certificate as it will affect you if you downloa…NV Access
Not sure if I've talked about this here, but there are like, tons of stuff here. I'm gonna try that Linux distro through Crostini on my old ChromeBook that I don't do anything else with anymore. The VM's over the Internet are really cool too! The AT Museum is cool. And I'm curious to see if the Windows 2000/XP on **Android** works. That'd be trippy.
#accessibility #blind #AssistiveTechnology #Linux #gaming #TTS #VirtalMachine #foss #Android
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started May by talking to Isabelle Dutailly about her work on LibreOffice templates.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
NVDA 2024.3 Beta 1 is available for testing. It includes notification of add-on updates, unicode normalisation options, unassigned commands for mouse wheel scrolling, new Braille displays and tables, fixes for Windows 11, browsers & more. For those interested in testing the new version before it is released, we welcome you to download the beta & provide feedback. Read more & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…
#Beta #Prerelease #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Testing #Foss #NewVersion
Beta1 of NVDA 2024.3 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…NV Access
3/3 For those interested in learning more about the code signing process, and this warning, please see: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…"
and if you would like to test out Alpha builds of NVDA, head to: Please feel encouraged to run the latest snapshot from nvaccess.org/files/nvda/snapsh….
If you do have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at info@nvaccess.org.
#NVDA #FOSS #Alpha #testing #Prerelease #Certificate #Security
2/3 When the warning appears, press tab to "More info", then press enter. Reading through the dialog, note that the publisher is listed as:
"AU, Queensland, Camp Mountain, NV Access Limited, NV Access Limited"
To allow NVDA to run, press tab to "Run anyway", and press enter to run the snapshot. This will help us get through this period until Windows considers our certificate "trusted":
#NVDA #FOSS #Alpha #testing #Prerelease #Certificate #Security
1/3 NV Access is pleased to announce that we are using a new code signing certificate for our builds. This will give users additional peace of mind in the authenticity of NVDA builds.
In the interim, those running new Alpha / beta builds may see a warning from Microsoft that Windows Defender prevented an unrecognised program from running. It is important to be wary of unexpected warnings like this, however in this case, the warning is expected, as the certificate is new.
Explore how you can contribute to LibreOffice, the leading open-source office suite. Whether you're a developer, designer, tester, or advocate, find out how your skills can help improve and promote LibreOffice.whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org
LibreOffice functionality can be used through UNO API, which is several years old, and provides many functionalities of LibreOffice through network or sockets. But the API is not helpful if you want to have the LibreOffice UI in your application.Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
In 2023, 11,272 commits were made to the LibreOffice source code, from 253 authors, in 21 repositories.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
This #EOFY help NVDA keep improving with a donation. We have changed the lives of over 250,000 people in more than 175 countries. With your help, we can continue to expand our impact and ensure NVDA stays on top of ever changing technology!
Donations can be made at nvaccess.org/donate
#NVEOFY #FOSS #TaxTime #TaxBreak #Accessibility #GiveBack #Philanthropy
New on // foss.events: The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation on 19-22 September 2024 in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany
foss.events/2024/09-19-the-mat…
Call for participation is running until 26.06.2024
#TheMatrixConference #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
