Everyone knows that accessibility is really important but at the same time it's one of those problems that nobody has enough time to actually go and work on=...YouTube
Michael administriert z.B. #BigBlueButton #blind auf #Linux:
kom-in.de/181/wenn-michael-kuh…
In diesem Beitrag geht es um zwei sehr unterschiedliche Dinge, die eines gemeinsam haben: Beide werden mit einer Tastatur bedient bzw. gesteuertwww.kom-in.de
Wie die Suche nach effizienter Bedienung eines Smartphones zur Blindenschrift führen kann und welche Perspektiven sich für blinde Menschen daraus entwickeln könnenwww.kom-in.de
Linux Is Already Broken Before You Even Start
A rant from @fireborn about #accessibility in #linux
Thanks @kc for sharing
Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS?
Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.
No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps
PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.
More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Hey, ich möchte wieder Artikel zu #Barrierefreiheit unter #Linux machen. Ich suche Linux-User*innen mit Behinderung, die mir zeigen, wie sie Linux verwenden und wo da Barrieren für sie sind oder sogar Lust haben, selber einen Artikel zu dem Thema zu schreiben. Mein erstes Interesse gilt, ob und wie moderne Linux-Desktops für blinde oder sehbehinderte Menschen bedienbar sind.
Schreibt mir gerne an ktn@ct.de oder kontaktiert mich via DM/Private Erwähnung.
If you contribute in some way to GNOME, are you already a GNOME Foundation member? If not, you should apply ASAP: foundation.gnome.org/membershi…
Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!
The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.
#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS
Big thanks to Ada for translating Post 1 of my blog series “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back” — titled “Built for Control, but Not for People” — into French.
They’ll be reading it live on the radio today with Irina!
Tune in: p-node.org
Time: 12:12–13:30 CEST
I’m deeply honored this piece resonated enough to be shared like this.
Post 2 and the first interlude are already out — more posts to follow.
Boosts appreciated!
#Linux #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #BlogSeries #OpenSource #PNode #Radio #TechRant #Translation #Français
What do you get when you let (overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male) able-bodied developers build an operating system?
Well, you get an insightful display of structural #ableism.
As a developer, I feel ashamed about this state of affairs, reading the excellent blog series by @fireborn . We can do better, and we deeply need to.
dragonscave.space/@fireborn/11…
#Linux #Accessibility #a11y #FLOSS
The state of Linux accessibility in 2025. This started out as a rant but became a series. Please feel free to leave feedback, comments, and subscribe via rss or email for more stuff as I release it. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.blog.torproject.org
I can't tell y'all how much I love #Emacs. It was the first interface that really intrigued me. It was the first interface where I felt like there was so much I could learn about. And Emacspeak brought it to life for me. Headings spoken by a deeper voice. Italics spoken by a higher, rather fuzzy voice. Bold spoken by a deep voice, almost like headings. Because headings are bold, and large. A calendar where I could move around the actual calendar, not just a list of events. Want to know what date next Friday is? Find Friday of this week, and simply press Down arrow. Or C-n if you're really into Emacs. And there it is. Oh and Nov-mode (nov.el). I can't say enough about that package. An EPUB reader that doesn't choke on a huge book. And Markdown-mode and Org-mode, and even HTML-mode. With Emacspeak, I could hear the syntax highlighting. That way, I knew if I didn't close a bracket pair, or quotes, not only by the punctuation itself, but how the voice sounds.
And now Emacspeak hasn't been updated in a year. Luckily, I think T.V. Raman has made fixes up to Emacs 30. But beyond that, I don't know. I hope it's not abandoned forever. I maybe could use Emacs through Orca, or BRLTTY, or maybe Speechd-el, if I can figure out how it's supposed to be set up and used well. But it feels like such a pail imitation of Emacspeak. But then, unconfigured Emacs doesn't feel all that special either.
Embedded Recipes 2025 heads to Nice, France with talks, workshops, and a PipeWire hackfest, all bookended by the Linux Media Summit and the GStreamer Spring Hackfest!Collabora | Open Source Consulting
If you’re like me and enjoy watching streams or listening to multiple audio sources, check out my newly updated @pipewire based script! It makes muting or unmuting sound from different sources really easy.
Find it here:
github.com/zikusooka/toggle-pw…
Context: joseph.zikusooka.com/?p=2637
#ZikTIPs #Linux #PipeWire #Multimedia
Toggle volume between several pipewire ports. Contribute to zikusooka/toggle-pw-volumes development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I wasn't going to post anything about #linux #a11y today, but some things keep coming up, and I think it's time I took a break from yelling.
So an interlude, then. Lets look at some of the good that's happening.
As always, feedback is welcome, and subscribe via email or rss for more of what I write.
Well crap. Tried Slint, but it like, uses Alsa and doesn't have sound drivers for my main sound card, and using a USB sound card, well it broke after I saved Orca settings. Not even a restart fixed it. Meh. Ah well. Linux breaks.
#slint #blind #accessibility #Linux #foss
Huh, if you need good #accessibility (special needs, bad eyes, blindness) you will fail with #Linux.
Linux on Desktop is a hell, even for IT pros.
Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS?
Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.
✅No ads
✅No trackers
✅No #surveillance
✅No terms of service traps
Run it on Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.
Link - What is #PureOS?: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
@lcruggeri Seems like it would be good to encourage and normalize a trend towards sharing about what FOSS we've donated to most recently. Make it a part of FOSS social culture. If we're openly sharing every time we donate it might encourage or remind others.
My most recent donations were to the Linux Mint folks, Thunderbird, Wikipedia. My donations are always small due to my budget but repeated throughout the year as often as I'm able.
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back
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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back
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by @fireborn
Read this article! I promise this is not another “I’ve tried Linux but it is too hard” post but a very insightful and well-written piece on accessibility across the Linux landscape.
I strongly suggest reading this well-written blog post about experiences of a blind longtime #Linux user:
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
Accessibility is not an optional "feature" in GUI. It is a must. We all should feel responsible to make the GUI accessible. Period!
This post on the #accessibility of #Linux is heartbreaking.
So sad seeing systems going from good (or even just okay) to absolutely non-functional because of neglect in the name of progress.
If you’re leaving people behind, it’s not progress. It’s exclusion.
“Linux ‘just works’ – if you can see.
…
This isn’t a bug.
This is neglect.”
– @fireborn
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be… There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” web.archive.org/web/2025041809… This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)
#accessibility #inclusivity #universalAccess #a11y #linux #FOSS #openSource #freeSoftware #freedom
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The #Linux #kernel's #PGP Web of Trust
blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/the… (by @ukleinek )
"[…] However there is a problem on the horizon: GnuPG 2.4.x started to reject third-party key signatures using the SHA-1 hash algorithm. […] This doesn't directly affect the kernel-pgpkeys repo, […] When Konstantin imported the updated certificate GnuPG's "cleaning" was applied which dropped all SHA-1 signatures. So Theodore Ts'o's key lost 168 signatures, among them one by Linus Torvalds on his primary UID. […] That made me wonder what would be the effect on the web of trust if all SHA-1 signatures were dropped. Here are the facts: […]"
So, I'm about to try Slint! Thanks to @JessDail for reminding me about it. Except this time I'm going to try it in a VM because I do not want a repeat of the Fedora incident from a week ago. Ugh.
