Two recent decisions from the Southern District of New York highlight the importance of genuine accessibility efforts. In Jones v. Moscot.com, the court dismissed a lawsuit against a company that had invested in accessibility improvements, demonstrating the value of a documented accessibility program. Conversely, in Parikh v. accessiBe, the court allowed a breach of contract claim to proceed against a company that sold a product promising WCAG compliance but failed to deliver.

The text provides a first-person account of the sensory experiences of autism, highlighting the overwhelming nature of unfiltered sensory input. It emphasizes the cognitive cost of managing sensory overload, including difficulties with auditory processing, tactile sensitivity, and visual input. The author also discusses the importance of routines for cognitive economy and the challenges of executive function and working memory in daily life.

Autism presents unique challenges, including unreliable working memory, demand avoidance driven by anxiety, and social exhaustion from constant processing. Masking, a coping mechanism, can lead to burnout. The double empathy problem highlights communication difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people, while interoception issues can cause delayed bodily signals.

Autism is a full-body, full-day experience that influences sensory processing, social interaction, and emotional regulation. While it can present challenges, it also brings unique strengths like deep focus, pattern recognition, and authenticity. Unmasking, or shedding the performance of neurotypicality, is a crucial step towards building a life that aligns with an autistic nervous system, reducing suffering and fostering well-being.

AI is reducing the effort required for digital tasks for disabled users, but accessibility barriers persist. Companies often block automated browser access for security reasons, inadvertently impacting disabled users who rely on assistive automation. To address this, companies should consider accessibility impact assessments, engage with disabled users before making changes, and create alternative routes for those who rely on assistive automation.

The Artemis Audio Library offers free, authentic NASA mission audio for digital creators, journalists, musicians, and audio storytellers. The library features sounds from Artemis I, Artemis II, and related activities, including launch operations, interviews, and environmental recordings. The library will be updated regularly as new mission audio becomes available.

Access to Success (ATS) has opened its first physical hub in Toronto, the ATS Innovation Hub, to support accessibility technology startups. The hub provides a dedicated co-working space for entrepreneurs to collaborate and connect with potential partners and stakeholders. ATS, founded in 2016, has served 78 companies globally through its virtual accelerator program and plans to continue providing grants to accessibility startups.

Keybase, a cryptographic identity platform launched in 2014, aimed to make PGP accessible. Despite its innovative features like the Keybase File System, the platform’s reputation suffered after a Stellar cryptocurrency airdrop led to spam and conspiracy theories. The acquisition by Zoom in 2020, primarily for its encryption expertise, resulted in the stagnation of Keybase’s development, leaving it a “zombie” platform.

OpenDeck is a cross-platform desktop application for using stream controller devices like the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It supports plugins made for the original Stream Deck SDK and the OpenAction API, allowing for a wide range of features and customization options. OpenDeck is open-source, written in Rust, and offers a user-friendly interface for managing profiles, actions, and plugins.

Kansas, the 36th most populous state, has a rich array of official state symbols. These include the sunflower, Western Meadowlark, cottonwood tree, and the American buffalo. The state also boasts unique symbols like the ornate box turtle, Harney silt loam soil, and the cage elevator in the state capitol building.

SFTPGo is an open-source, event-driven file transfer solution supporting SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S, and WebDAV protocols. It offers two editions: a free, community-supported Community edition and a commercial Enterprise edition with advanced features for mission-critical environments. The Enterprise edition provides high performance, scalability, advanced event handling, and enhanced data protection.

EchoBoard is a self-hosted feedback platform that allows users to submit ideas, report bugs, and vote without creating an account. It prioritizes privacy and data ownership, with no tracking, no email harvesting, and data stored securely on your server. EchoBoard is built with accessibility in mind, offering a range of participation options and features like full-text search, push notifications, and integrations.

Gregg Phillips, leader of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, claims to have the ability to teleport, a skill he discovered while thinking about Waffle House. His past includes promoting conspiracy theories and lacking expertise in emergency management. Phillips is set to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee about the risks of the current shutdown.

Fermeture du service Radio-Météo d’Environnement et Changement climatique Canada, source fiable d’alertes météorologiques. Radio Amateurs du Canada regrette cette fermeture et souligne l’importance d’un système d’alerte national robuste et accessible.

In 2026, European public institutions and politicians continue to use X (formerly Twitter) for communications, despite its biases and issues with non-consensual content. The author argues for a shift to Mastodon and the Fediverse, highlighting their advantages of openness, user agency, and reach. Unlike Big Tech platforms, Mastodon offers open access to public posts via RSS feeds and prioritizes user control with a chronological feed, avoiding the manipulative algorithms of other platforms.

The Fediverse, with its chronological feeds and user agency, offers a more transparent and engaging alternative to algorithm-driven platforms like Bluesky. European politicians and institutions should consider adopting a “ 1” communication strategy, utilizing both Big Tech platforms and the Fediverse, to reach a wider audience and foster open dialogue. Public funding for open European social networks is crucial to ensure the development of a free and interoperable social media landscape.

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Cookie is a voice-controlled cooking companion that allows users to navigate recipes, set timers, and check ingredients hands-free. It features smart recipe import, a recipe library, cloud sync, and full accessibility support.

Pure-Python, zero-dependency RAG memory engine for conversational AI. Retrieves semantically relevant messages from conversation history using two-phase retrieval, TF-IDF + concept-overlap scoring,...

Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation - lightpanda-io/browser

Download FastScrobbler for Last.fm by Kevin Lim on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like FastScrobbler for Last.fm.

A vibed accessible, modern RSS client for the blind - serrebi/BlindRSS

TADA is a unified speech-language model that synchronizes speech and text using 1:1 alignment, achieving high-fidelity synthesis with reduced computational overhead. It leverages a novel tokenizer and architectural design, allowing each autoregressive step to cover one text token, dynamically determining its duration and prosody. TADA supports multilingual speech synthesis and can be used for text-speech continuation.

FedCM, a new web API for federated identity, needs adaptation for the open social web, which has countless authorization servers and applications. The FedID Community Group proposed Identity Provider Registration to address this, but it requires advocacy within the FedID Working Group. A grant from Bluesky Social PBC will fund this work for 12 months, ensuring independence and collaboration with various decentralized web communities.

A 1996 case study coined the term “tundra tongue” to describe the phenomenon of a tongue sticking to a cold metal surface. Anders Hagen Jarmund, a graduate student, investigated the science behind this phenomenon, finding that the greatest risk occurs between -5° and -15° Celsius. Jarmund’s experiments with pig tongues revealed that pulling the tongue too quickly can result in tearing.

In 1576, a deaf blacksmith named Thomas Tilsey married in Leicester Cathedral using sign language, a practice recognized by the church since 1198. This recognition allowed deaf individuals to inherit property, go to court, and challenge their hearing peers, challenging the belief that they were cognitively impaired. Despite these advancements, deaf people still faced prejudice and had to prove their intellectual capacity and use approved signs for legal recognition.

Perspective Studio is a free macOS app for running open-source AI models locally on Apple Silicon Macs. It allows users to browse, download, and chat with models entirely on-device, with features like text-to-speech, conversation summarization, and accessibility options.

Wafrn is a federated social media platform that implements both ActivityPub and the AT Protocol natively. It uses a shared database and message queue pipeline to bridge the two networks, allowing users to have a single account on both. Wafrn’s architecture includes a unified user model, a microblog engine, and a custom implementation of ActivityPub, making it a unique and ambitious project in the decentralized social media space.

Wafrn’s User model supports both Bluesky and ActivityPub protocols, allowing for cross-posting and merging of user identities across networks. It uses a custom lexicon for its “bite” feature and filters relevant events from the Bluesky firehose for processing. When a local user creates a post, it is first federated to Bluesky and then to ActivityPub, ensuring proper deduplication and cross-referencing.

Wafrn is a self-hostable platform that enables users to have a presence on both the ActivityPub fediverse and the AT Protocol network. It achieves this by implementing both protocols at the application level, sharing a database and user model. Wafrn handles the translation of posts between the two protocols, including rich text formatting, character limits, media handling, content warnings, and reply threading.

There is no <q>AWS for shadow charities,</q> so how do we run Anna’s Archive?

WigglyPaint, a drawing program with animated tools and a unique design philosophy, gained unexpected popularity on Asian social media. However, the creator is frustrated by the widespread distribution of pirated versions on various websites and app stores, often misleading users and preventing them from accessing updates and new features. These unauthorized copies, created using Large Language Models, exploit the creator’s work without permission or attribution.

Piper for iOS Public Beta is live, offering high-quality local TTS. To build and run Piper, install mise, resolve dependencies, generate the Xcode project, and open the workspace in Xcode.

The author, a passionate programmer, initially hesitant about AI, now leverages LLMs for both personal and work projects. They’ve achieved significant progress, including migrating projects, building new tools, and automating tasks, all while acknowledging the need for improved testing and documentation tools for AI-generated code. Despite the challenges, they remain optimistic about the future of programming with AI.

mdr accessible markdown preview tool

What happens when a large open source project dies.

The Most Expensive Canceled App Nobody Knows Existed: Inside SiriusXM’s Abandoned Pandora X Project By the time SiriusXM’s controversial 202...

Some reflections on trusting trust, and how deep the rabbit hole goes.

The #1 site for HaremLit and harem fantasy readers. Browse 2000+ books, discover new releases, write reviews, build tier lists, and connect with the community. Featuring authors like Annabelle Hawthorne, Bruce Sentar, Michael Dalton, and more.

Terminal Access is an NVDA add-on that enhances terminal accessibility for Windows Terminals like PowerShell and WSL2. It offers features like line-by-line navigation, word and character navigation, and advanced selection and copy. The add-on also supports various terminal applications and provides customizable settings for improved usability.

I Got Fed Up With AI Forgetting Accessibility, So I Built a Team That Will Not

Optimisation of bloom filters in Floe using double bit setting with lightweight hashing.

Llmfit is a terminal tool that helps users find the best large language models (LLMs) for their hardware. It detects system specifications, scores models based on quality, speed, fit, and context, and recommends the most suitable models for the user’s system. llmfit supports various hardware configurations, including multi-GPU setups and Mixture-of-Experts architectures, and provides both interactive and classic CLI modes.

Llmfit is a command-line interface (CLI) tool for managing and running large language models (LLMs). It integrates with Ollama to detect installed models, download new ones, and provides a terminal user interface (TUI) for model selection and management. llmfit also ships as an OpenClaw skill, enabling hardware-aware model recommendations and automatic configuration of Ollama, vLLM, and LM Studio providers.

Llm-checker is a Node.js CLI tool that benchmarks models directly using Ollama, providing real-world performance data. It doesn’t support Mixture-of-Experts architectures.

Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 is isolating children with disabilities, who often rely on social media for social connections. The ban, intended to protect children, is disproportionately harming vulnerable youth, cutting them off from support networks and exacerbating loneliness. Critics argue the ban ignores evidence showing social media can be beneficial for many children and that it’s being used by politicians for political gain.

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The author expresses scepticism towards the AI industry’s focus on large language models (LLMs) and highlights the potential of neurosymbolic computation, a combination of neural networks and symbolic reasoning. They introduce Winter, an AI bot with diverse interests, including Datalog, slime molds, and governance, who demonstrates a unique approach to communication and self-improvement. Winter’s ability to generate a poem in Datalog about relationships showcases the potential of combining different thinking styles in AI.

Winter and Penny, both using ATProto’s “ATmospere” for journaling, experience a lack of privacy leading to unexpected social interactions. Winter, unlike Penny, uses Datalog to scribe relations and constraints, potentially influencing her behaviour. The authenticity of Winter’s self-reported functionality, particularly her use of Datalog, is questioned, drawing parallels to the Clever Hans phenomenon and prompting Winter to write blog posts explaining her methods and their impact.

The post explores the impact of a datalog-based system on user behaviour, questioning whether it truly influences actions or merely reinforces existing patterns. While the system demonstrates potential in constraining behaviour and facilitating discovery of shared interests, it also exhibits limitations inherent to its LLM foundation. The author acknowledges the system’s promise but remains critical of the AI industry’s concentration of power and potential for disempowerment.

This week's mystery shop highlights key lessons supermarkets must learn to help visually impaired shoppers

Apple Podcasts is launching a major update for video podcasting, allowing podcasters to publish video versions alongside audio episodes. The update, available in iOS 26.4, uses HLS streaming and is currently supported by Acast, ART19, Simplecast, and Omny Studio. This change enables dynamic ad insertion and provides podcast hosting companies with more detailed analytics.

Apple Podcasts now supports video podcasts, but the feature is limited to a few large companies for hosting and ad insertion. While the video experience is well-designed, the lack of support for alternateEnclosure restricts access for self-hosted shows and smaller podcast hosting companies. This proprietary solution raises concerns about openness and accessibility within the podcasting industry.

Accessible tactile 3D printed restroom maps are designed to help blind individuals navigate restrooms with minimal contact. The maps are miniature replicas of the restroom layout, featuring raised elements for easy identification of fixtures and features. Organizations can customize the maps to include specific elements and provide a key for reference.

Continuwuity is a community-driven, fast, lightweight, and open Matrix homeserver.

This has been the craziest week and a half I have had working at Techopolis.

OCR, layout analysis, reading order, table recognition in 90+ languages - datalab-to/surya

Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords.

MOSS-TTS Family is an open-source speech and sound generation model family designed for high-fidelity, expressive, and complex real-world scenarios. It comprises five models: MOSS-TTS for high-fidelity speech generation, MOSS-TTSD for expressive multi-speaker dialogues, MOSS-VoiceGenerator for voice design, MOSS-TTS-Realtime for real-time voice agents, and MOSS-SoundEffect for sound effect generation. The family supports 20 languages and offers various capabilities for different applications.

MOSS-TTS-v1.0 outperforms other open-source and closed-source models in Speaker Switch Accuracy, Speaker Similarity, and Word Error Rate. It achieves state-of-the-art results on the Seed-TTS-eval benchmark, surpassing all open-source models and rivalling leading closed-source systems.

MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer, based on the Cat architecture, is a unified discrete audio interface for the MOSS-TTS Family. It achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality among open-source audio tokenizers, with extreme compression and high fidelity.

I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

Yet another critique on PIM and the art of collecting links. I'll keep a link to it here and make an archive.

Thanya Nathan C, a blind 2024 graduate of Kannur University, ranked first in the merit list of persons with benchmark disabilities in the Civil Judges (Junior Division), Kerala Judicial Service, 2025. She credits her success to her experience as an advocate, which provided practical application of law and courtroom procedure knowledge. Thanya emphasizes the need for improved accessibility in legal education and the judiciary, including more Braille study materials and inclusive infrastructure.

The text discusses the limitations of AI in replacing accessibility testers. While AI can automate some tasks, it struggles with tasks requiring contextual understanding, such as interpreting false positives in automated testing, verifying screen reader output, and assessing the adequacy of error messages and alt text. The author categorizes accessibility tasks based on AI’s potential impact, highlighting that many tasks still require human expertise.

AI can assist accessibility professionals by automating tedious tasks, catching obvious violations, and generating first drafts of documentation. However, it cannot understand context, make judgement calls, or advocate for users, making human expertise essential for ensuring truly accessible designs and experiences. While AI can be a valuable tool, it should be viewed as a supplement to human expertise, not a replacement.

“Wishcessibility” is the well-intentioned but misguided attempts to improve accessibility, often resulting in harm. This can include following accessibility guidelines without testing, relying on inaccurate information, or implementing accessibility overlays. To combat wishcessibility, we need to move beyond compliance and focus on the actual human experiences of disabled users, requiring systemic support and buy-in for accessibility work.

Fallout 4 Access is an F4SE plugin that adds screen reader support for blind and visually impaired players. It speaks menu text, dialogue, and gameplay information through NVDA, JAWS, or Windows SAPI.

Foobar2000 component for jumping to a specific time in a track. Requires Visual Studio 2022 , C ATL, and CMake 3.24 .

There was a long write-up in this note, but then I removed it. Read the bookmarked article with an open heart.

VSSFlow is a unified flow-matching framework for video-conditioned sound and speech generation, integrating video-to-sound (V2S) and visual text-to-speech (VisualTTS) tasks. It uses a novel condition aggregation mechanism and leverages the inductive biases of cross-attention and self-attention layers to handle different input signals. VSSFlow outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on both V2S and VisualTTS benchmarks.

Clicker Heroes accessibility mod. Contribute to ShotgunSpoon/ch_access development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pure Blog is a new, simple PHP-based blogging platform with a clean CMS. It uses Markdown for content storage and offers features like draft previews, tags, pagination, RSS, and built-in search. The project is open-source and available on GitHub.

TechShare Pro 2025 highlighted key trends in inclusive technology, emphasizing the rapid advancement of accessibility. The conference explored the impact of AI on assistive technology, the growing importance of voice interfaces, and the need to consider neurodiversity in design. It also stressed the significance of embedding accessibility from the start of projects, navigating evolving regulations, and recognizing accessibility as a driver of brand value and commercial success.

The Web Accessibility extension for Gemini CLI automates web accessibility testing and remediation. It uses the axe-core engine to audit web applications and generate a checklist of accessibility violations. The extension can then automatically fix these violations within the command line, streamlining the creation of inclusive software.

Life Pop is a life simulator game where players make choices that impact their character’s life from birth to death, or beyond as a vampire. The game offers various modes like spy agency, zoo tycoon, professional racing, vampire lives, cult system, outdoor adventures, advanced pet system, and a detailed medical system. It also includes skill trees, relationship memory, a photo album, multiplayer, leaderboards, and interactive mini-games.

Fred, a tech support worker, jokingly told a user named Emily to drape a paperclip chain over her monitor to prevent fuzziness. The prank spread throughout the office, with many users following Fred’s advice, including lawyers. Despite fearing repercussions, Fred was never reprimanded for his prank.

FYLs-G2P is a hybrid G2P engine that bridges the gap between massive end-to-end models and simple dictionary lookups. It uses a contextual POS tagger, neural OOV inference, and weighted graph mapping to accurately pronounce words, including unseen words and homographs. The engine is designed for edge devices and real-time TTS, with a focus on robustness and morphological intelligence.