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A Technical Dive into ODF - The Document Foundation Blog
To write this article, I went beyond the limits of my technical knowledge, which is that of an advanced user who has studied standard formats and their characteristics in depth, to understand why standard formats – one of the pillars of digital sover…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
It's a busy day! NVDA 2025.2 Beta 1 is now out: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2b…
AND In-Process is also out: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3… - covering all about NVDA 2025.1, NV Access in the Forbes Accessibility 100, five quick things to try with NVDA 2025.1, and a small end of financial year request: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #NewVersion #PreRelease #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS
From the Debian mailing list: Proposal: Debian-AI — A Free and Open-Source AI Operating System
So people think of AI before accessibility. I'm not surprised, but still, just another reminder. And I know it's just a proposal, nothing concrete, but we don't see proposals for accessibility, like, at all. So yeah foss, keep going with that End of Ten evangelism, keep showing disabled users how y'all are. I hope governments in Europe have to return to Windows due to accessibility issues in Linux, and that it hits the news hard. Maybe then you'll wake up.
#accessibility #foss #debian #linux
Oh, wow! The German IT Planning Council decided yesterday to consolidate a bunch of disparate communication tools into a unified system based on Matrix and MLS.
Here's the record of their decision and the other options they considered: gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungs…
#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #DPI #DPG
Zielarchitektur/Architekturentscheidungen/ADR-0011-Kommunikationsschicht.md · main · IT-Planungsrat / Föderales IT-Architekturboard / Zielarchitektur Postfach- und Kommunikationslösungen · GitLab
Informationen zur Umsetzung von Beschluss 2024/28 des IT-Planungsrates.GitLab
Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.
Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
LibreOffice Merchandising Shop - The Document Foundation
LibreOffice is a free private office suite backed by a non-profit (The Document Foundation)LibreOffice Merchandising Shop - The Document Foundation
Are you a GitHub user who would like to support the great work NV Access does?
You can become a GitHub Sponsor!
Today, we'd like to give a shoutout to Nael-Accessvision, one of our GitHub sponsors.
You can sponsor NV Access here: github.com/sponsors/nvaccess
(Or through PayPal or bank transfer via the "Donate" link on our website)
*Donations in Australia are tax deductible*
#FOSS #FLOSS #Accessibility #NonProfit #NotForProfit #GoodCause #Donate #Donation
Sponsor @nvaccess on GitHub Sponsors
NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.GitHub
I want to do the same but for anyone who needs help with CSS or HTML for their Open Source project? maybe a website or a documentation website?
mstdn.social/@earthtoneone/114…
Please help me to share
More info here: jailandrade.com/services/websi…
EDIT: Thanks all!! I'm passing along your suggestions.Anyone know an open-source project, even a small one, that needs API docs created or improved? Asking for a #technicalWriting pro who wants more experience with API documentation. #FOSS #techcomm (bonus points if it hits interests like politics, food, beer, auto racing, mapping/OSM, civil engineering, social good...)
EDIT: Thanks all!! I'm passing along your suggestions.
Anyone know an open-source project, even a small one, that needs API docs created or improved? Asking for a #technicalWriting pro who wants more experience with API documentation. #FOSS #techcomm (bonus points if it hits interests like politics, food, beer, auto racing, mapping/OSM, civil engineering, social good...)
For #screenReader users, that might not be as simple as all that due to #accessibility reasons. This weekend's IC_Null stream aims to dig into this, but I need your help. What tools, services etc. should I look at from an #accessibility perspective? Anyone here who needs their tools evaluated? Anyone here who's curious about a particular tool or suite of tools? Let me know and I'll add it to the list. Anything goes. #selfHosting #blind #tech #EU
Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability - The Document Foundation Blog
The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Just listening to the speech of the @EUCommission's DG Connect Director Thibaut Kleiner, who celebrates #FOSS and the global ecosystem of #opensource developers as well as the #NGI programme but somehow his convictions seem to not be enough for the Commission to massively scale up investments in the #digitalcommons. What am I missing? 🤔
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg
Does it make sense to compare #OpenSource to water utilities? Is a metaphor folks will understand? Is physical infrastructure like bridges better? Governments generally find $$ to repair the physical infrastructure they are responsible for, why is digital different?
What have #OSPOs done to change the culture within the organization? How can long-term investments & maintenannce fit into this? How do you invest in the public sector & the private companies which support the software?
Important questions from #UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSourceWeek #FOSS #OpenSource
Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/…
#Mastodon #DPG #DigitalPublicGoods #UnitedNations #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
Mastodon is a digital public good
Mastodon has been added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance's DPG Registry.Mastodon Blog
Ooo lookie, accessibility is not planned. Lol. As usual. Cause foss is just a toy that no one actually depends on.
github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral…
#accessibility #foss #RemoteDesktop #Mesh
Accessibility with screen readers
We're trying MeshCentral out at work, and as one of the blind staff members who have access, I'd like to ask for some fixes to accessibility issues: When accessing a PC through the Terminal, I cann...prater-devin (GitHub)
Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice... - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#VivaldiBrowser Has a good #privacypolicy, is #European, and is 95% #FOSS. It removes the #googlecrap from the #Chromium code before using it in their #browser
Also, it lets adding blocking sources and tweaking them, which is a must-have since their ad blocking is no the greatest, THB.
It has an overall good balance between privacy and functionality, and this is why I believe it should be added in the list.
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-diffe…
vivaldi.com/blog/technology/wh….
Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome | Vivaldi
What should you make of the fact that Vivaldi shares its engine with Google Chrome?Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)
ODF: An Analysis of the Adoption of the Open Document Format - The Document Foundation Blog
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy - The Document Foundation Blog
Marco Marega writes: Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. This release introduces NVDA Remote Access, provides speech, braille, OCR & Office improvements, Native selection in Chrome & edge
Full info & Download: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #FOSS #NewVersion #Update #News #Free
🗓️ Planify mi bylo doporučeno v komunitní místnosti o #triliumnext – a musím říct, fakt super!
Konečně krásná co padne do #Gnome, jednoduchá a funkční aplikace pro správu úkolů, která se napojí na #Nextcloud #oscloud přes CalDAV.
Nextcloud (backend) + DAVx⁵ + Tasks.org (Android) + Planify (desktop)
Funguje to skvěle dohromady.
#FOSS #Planify #Nextcloud #CalDAV #Linux #OpenSource #oscloud
github.com/alainm23/planify
GitHub - alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME
Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME - alainm23/planifyGitHub
LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
🗓️ There are 4 days left to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app and help us to reach the next goal!
Every contribution helps us build a world where everyone can use PeerTube from anywhere!
#crowdfunding #mobile #app #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Soutenir PeerTube
Popularisons les vidéos partagées par les humain⋅es pour les humain⋅es !support.joinpeertube.org
Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
Regina Henschel writes: Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
In-Process is out, featuring the latest on NVDA 2025.1, the recent NV Access strategy session, and Should you use Screen Layout? (H/T to @jscholes for your recent poll)
Check it all out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #newsletter #Software #PreRelease #FOSS #OpenSource
The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
QA/Dev Report: May 2025 - LibreOffice QA Blog
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.7 was announced on May 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Page Layout, expanded help for paragraph justification, updated menu paths in Help, added help pages for newly-added Calc functions and of-pie cha…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
LibreOffice for End User Privacy – TDF’s Annual Report 2024 - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice stands out as a privacy-respecting open source office suite. Unlike proprietary alternatives, the software is designed with privacy, user control and transparency in mind.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
🛡️ "The evolution of Linux targeted cyber threats"
with Pau Hoz at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 11:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
🔍 From supply chain attacks to evasive malware, Pau digs into how Linux threats are evolving—and what it means for FOSS security.
🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…
#Linux #Security #FOSS #CyberThreats
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.GNOME Events (Indico)
Want to start a Repair Café in your area?
You can!
Repair Café International enables local groups around the world to start their own:
repaircafe.org/en/join/start-y…
@RepairCafeInternational supports #EndOf10 to prevent #eWaste!
#RCInternational #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows #Win10
Start Your Own Repair Café - Join the Movement
Want to make a difference? Start your own Repair Café and become part of the global movement promoting repair and sustainability.Repaircafe