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Ahead of its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC), Apple has announced the winners and finalists for its 2025 Apple Design Awards--including 2 winners in the Inclusivity Category: Speechify and Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles.
The Quality of Life Index for Persons with Disabilities includes more than 80 indicators that will be used to measure whether the province is making progress on improving the well-being of people with disabilities.
Discover seven accessibility features anyone can use to improve customization and productivity.
A major development showcasing the potential for the open social web was unveiled Thursday at the online conference known as FediForum.
Why Accessible Procurement Matters
Customer told Ars that the website wouldn’t offer a full refund.
Kagi Small Web is an initiative by Kagi, a privacy-focused search engine company, designed to surface and promote content from the "small web." The "small
Frederico planned to celebrate the new year with friends at the exotic international tourist haven of Molvania. When visiting the area, one could buy and use a MolvaPass (The Most Passive Way About Town!) for free or discounted access to cultural sites, public transit, and more. MolvaPasses were available for 3, 7, or 365 days, and could be bought in advance and activated later.
It may cover other things too, things that also are not “emergencies.”
: TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind
Who, Me?: Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter
Environment Canada had issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Ottawa area and said the storm could produce wind gusts of up to 90 km/h.
FediIndex data on Betula. Very interesting! 1.3.0 is still used by some, 1.2.0 has ceased to exist. Third of all instances are hosted in Russia.
I wish it knew more Betula instances though.
Recently, while scrolling on Tik Tok, I saw a video from Tab Buddies where they were promoting their product, aptly named the Tab Buddy. It’s a small gadget that helps you open soda cans, and…
On Call: After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity
The Nuance Audio hearing glasses offer a fresh take on over-the-counter hearing aids, offering a stylish and discreet option to assist with your hearing and vision.
by Tonya R. Moore The latest Ace Double features stories by two authors who both write under pseudonyms. John Rackham is the pen name of electrical engineer and author, John Thomas Phillifent, whose works include three novels from the popular American spy fiction universe series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Phillifent was a prolific author, the … Continue reading [May 28, 1970] A pair of Saras: Flower of Doradil and A Promising Planet →
3Play Media releases its 2025 State of ASR Report, testing and comparing the top speech-to-text technologies.
Our anonymous submitter, whom we'll call Craig, worked for GlobalCon. GlobalCon relied on an offshore team on the other side of the world for adding/removing users from the system, support calls, ticket tracking, and other client services. One day at work, an urgent escalated ticket from Martin, the offshore support team lead, fell into Craig's queue. Seated before his cubicle workstation, Craig opened the ticket right away:
Google's Play Integrity API is making it harder for users with rooted phones or custom ROMs to access certain apps. Here's what's changing.
It's a holiday in the US today, so we're taking a long weekend. We flip back to a classic story of a company wanting to fill 15 different positions by hiring only one person. It's okay, Martin handles the database. Original - Remy
A curious email arrived in Phil's Inbox. "Windows Support Engineer required. Must have experience of the following:" and then a long list of Microsoft products.
Phil frowned. The location was convenient; the salary was fine, just the list of software seemed somewhat intimidating. Nevertheless, he replied to the agency saying that he was interested in applying for the position.
by Arturo Serrano When I was appointed, in recent weeks, as a cultural attaché of the Colombian embassy in Bonn, I was beside myself with excitement about the prospect of imbibing from the richness of Teutonic civilization, whose light was but briefly obscured during the war. I say this without intending in any manner to … Continue reading [May 26, 1970] A Regrettable Case of Runaway Apophenia (Erich von Däniken's Memories of the Future) →
Windsor's new blind darts league is bringing blind and partially-sighted people together — offering both a sense of inclusion and joy.
Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude …
Who, Me?: Life in a corporate aquarium didn’t go swimmingly
On Call: For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…
More information about the end of support for Pocket.
For AI to be beneficial in accessibility tech, the people who use it must be involved in its development.
After years of growth, industry turmoil has left the accessibility community at a standstill.
Bell apologized to customers for the massive internet outage that hit Ontario and Quebec Wednesday morning, and detailed the underlying cause.
Adaptation Ventures wants to fill the persistent funding gap for early-stage startups building accessibility tech.
What Keyboard Layout is better Dvorak and Colemak. Compared with the QWERTY - expert opinion - everything you need to know.
The QWERTY keyboard layout, the defacto standard derived from the Sholes layout popularized by Remington in the early 20th century,…
Contribute to berkeley-dsep-infra/jupyterlab-a11y-checker development by creating an account on GitHub.
Who, Me?: Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it
This article was discussed on Hacker News. Introduction This was a fun nostalgia trip. But it ended up being an attempt to collect and preserve some retro computing history as well… and I als…
Discover the wonders of nature with "The Art of Fauna", a beautiful puzzle game! Each artwork is paired with a fascinating description about the animal it depicts, allowing you to choose your path: relax and piece together stunning vintage drawings, or challenge yourself by reconstructing the text and learn about these magnificent animals. THE ART
Environment Canada has been tracking a storm system Saturday that could bring hail and heavy rain to the region.
Microsoft quietly and without any announcements started rolling out a new "Advanced Settings" section for Windows 11. However, it is not enabled by default; here is how to make it work.
One year is not a long time. Yet, from GAAD 2024 to GAAD 2025, it feels as if we have crossed an entire era in AI. What once seemed distant, experimental, even niche, has quietly become essential.
In this installment: stupid transit crimes, Darth Vader’s management style, and it’s overtime for the “ChiefsAholic.”
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BookLore is a web app for hosting, managing, and exploring books, with support for PDFs, eBooks, reading progress, metadata, and stats. - adityachandelgit/BookLore
We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of a new community bug tracking initiative at AppleVis. Since at least 2012, AppleVis has regularly published lists of new and fixed accessibility bugs in Apple software impacting blind, DeafBlind, and low vision users. As an independent editorial organization, we see the tracking and reporting of these bugs to be one of the more impactful ways in which we live out our mission to serve and empower our community.
On Call: Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that
Apple’s ‘Accessibility Nutrition Labels’ will put investments in inclusive design in the spotlight. But Cory Joseph says companies don’t need to be huge to embrace accessibility.
GDPR, WCAG 2.2 AA, and EAA compliant, self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative with PoW mechanism and advanced anti-spam filter. - altcha-org/altcha