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accessibility tooling, design 

it's (current year), why is it so hard for developers to make software accessible? it's ironic to think that software accessibility is inaccessible. it's something everyone wants to do, but it's just difficult to do. one thing that technology can actually help with is making things accessible and easy to do, so let's dream of what would be cool to have

@jookia That's annoying, you'd think that accessibility would be most important for a help program. I think the gnome help app had the same issue. I directed him to the wiki pages online, and those work, he just prefers having a local copy of documentation for programs he uses.

@jookia I've been helping him more with that recently. We tried GNOME first, but he had issues with Orca getting stuck sometimes, so we switched to MATE, which has been working a lot better. He has been having issues with the MATE help app though, it won't let him read anything, and just tells him that there is a cursor. I tried looking through the documentation, but I'm not sure what he needs to do to switch modes and read it.
Most other apps seem to work well. He has been getting used to some of the differences between Orca and NVDA.

accessibility snark 

affects abled people = core UI bug
affects disabled people = accessibility bug

router hacking, true sadness 

why would telstra pack this router with so much spyware jesus christ this reaffirms my position to never use closed source software

what KODI can learn from modern cable boxes 

@thufie @Luxotek@jorts.horse Jellyfin is a lot like Plex, but it's free software. I run an instance on my server that I share with some friends. It integrates with Kodi well. I haven't tried the TV tuner options that it has.

Body horror, genitals 

@Sorl @Ophillous Your eyelids are just foreskins for your eyes.

I put the four in foreskin cuz that's how much I got

i fucking hate recaptcha, i can never do it

220th birthday of john brown. happy birthday to a guy that did nothing wrong

@Murkrow @Jo @thamesynne My computer teacher in elementary school told me that I'd need three disks to bring my files from school home, and I brought in three CD ROMs. He ended up giving me the three floppies to put my files on.

@Murkrow @thamesynne I saw someone who turned a floppy drive into an SD card reader, with a slot for the cards in the bottom of 3.5" disks.

My copy of Sigil came on a fake floppy with a 16gb flash drive inside. Sadly it doesn't have a functioning metal slider, it's just a sticker.

linux shitpost 

a program like cron except it's a deadman's switch that'll run mischief tasks unless you intervene

accessibility, testing 

Oh, this looks like a dream come true: web-based access to VMs with screenreaders pre-installed.

assistivlabs.com/

Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy 

May 7th is the Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy. All children should be protected from genital cutting before they can consent to it, whether they are male, female, or intersex. Everyone deserves the right to do what they want with their own body. genital-autonomy.de/

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