Remote Desktop Accessibility for the NVDA screen reader - LeonarddeR/rdAccess

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A new and isolated necromancer, Jerry decides to follow the unique approach of befriending his undead. As he grows in power, it turns out his methods may hold a lot more merit than it seems…
Ostracized by his fellow villagers, hunted by bandits, and watched by the Royal Guard's least elite squad, Jerry is called to balance creating a lovely home with (...)

Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…

Microsoft product name changes collated at m365maps.com by Aaron Dinnage

Today's the day! After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wi...

Knowing the kinds of readers we have here, I strongly suspect that if you drew a Venn diagram of "TDWTF Readers" and "TikTok Users" those circles wouldn't overlap at all. But TikTok is in the news, and because my partner uses TikTok, I'm getting second hand smoke of all of this, I think there's some interesting things to talk about here.
If you've been avoiding this news, good for you. For a long recap, Ars can bring up up to date.. But as a quick recap: TikTok is owned by Bytedance, which is based in China, and subject to Chinese laws. TikTok, like every other social media company, is basically spyware, tracking your behavior to sell your eyeballs to advertisers. Over the past few years, all three branches of the US government have decided that the "Chinese ownership" is the problem here (not so much the spying), and passed a law to ban it unless a US company buys it. The whole thing has turned into an idiotic political football, with Biden saying that his waning days of the Presidency wouldn't enforce the ban anyway, and then the whole thing turns into a Trumpist political football as the incoming President is playing Calvinball and making decrees that he did not (at the time) have any authority to make in the first place.

The one accessibility area I don’t like and avoid working on is PDF files. I frankly find the process people have to go through to make a PDF accessible is far too complex and far too antiquated. …

Chain of paper cut out figures with one missing in the middle Over the past few years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have become more...

England, the US and Canada are among the countries with national autism strategies — and now Australia has one too.

Doctors in the U.S. have reported feeling unprepared to care for people with disabilities and have revealed significant negative bias about this population, according to previous research. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found much of this could be rooted in their medical school training.

Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

New research suggests that the risk for developing dementia is significantly higher than previously estimated, and the burden on the United States population will grow substantially over the next few decades.

tl;dr: Microsoft and other email security scanners will visit the links in email you transmit, and run the JavaScript in those links, including calls that lead to POSTs going out. This used to be unacceptable, since POSTs have side effects. Yet here we are. This breaks even somewhat sophisticated single-use sign-on / email confirmation messages. Read on for how to deal with this, and some thoughts on how we should treat gatekeepers like Microsoft that can randomly break things & get away with it.

Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.

New Worlds gets a music column, JG Ballard revisits an old fetish, Ian Watson takes us to Japan and Jack Storey finally finishes his novel.

On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Image generated by DALL*E We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks

Sketchy follower sales sites are (unsurprisingly) expanding to Bluesky

119 LTE and 5G vulnerabilities disclosed, including 79 in MME and 36 in AMF, risking city-wide disruptions

Apple yesterday announced a new API to expand in-app purchase capabilities on the App Store, providing developers with new ways to support large...

Frankly, “Use ChatGPT” is the best answer Siri has offered.

New research “Computer-Use Agent” AI model can perform multi-step tasks through a web browser.

In order to capitalize on network effects as people shift from old platforms to new ones, we need to think about what's holding people back.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed a long-awaited bill to stop Illinois organizations from paying less than the minimum wage to workers with disabilities.

Accessible interactive programmatic NES music sequencer

With the new Samsung announcement, it is now confirmed that the Galaxy S25 will be the first Samsung device to receive Gemini image descriptions in its

High impact? Problematic? Are we starting conversations or stopping them. (348 words / January 24, 2025)

This student project is even better than some entry-level laptops.

“An AI completing multiple tasks at the same time” — DALL-E

We are very excited to announce our third annual Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card and invite you to participate in the survey that will determine the ratings. Plus, participants who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to receive a $200 gift card, thanks to Be My Eyes.

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The remastered versions of DOOM and DOOM II have arrived, bringing with them a host of new enhancements and features, including improved accessibility options. These updates aim to make the first-person shooter games more inclusive for players with disability. Visual accessibility options include High Contrast Text and Menu Typeface, making…

Denise's company formed a new team. They had a lot of low-quality legacy code, and it had gotten where it was, in terms of quality, because the company had no real policy or procedures which encouraged good code. "If it works, it ships," was basically the motto. They wanted to change that, and the first step was creating a new software team to kick of green-field projects with an eye towards software craftsmanship.
Enter Jack. Jack was the technical lead, and Jack had a vision of good software. This started with banning ORM-generated database models. But it also didn't involve writing raw SQL either- Jack hand-forged their tables with the Visual Table Designer feature of SQL Server Management Studio.

Lawsuit over accessibility widget This article originally appeared on TechStart-ups on 23/12/2024. Userway is facing a class action lawsuit filed by

Our bodies have evolved to need exercise but not want to do it. Why is that, and what can we do about it?

We run the LLMs through a gauntlet of tests, from creative writing to complex instruction.

Learn how to kickstart inclusive accessibility research with practical advice from Fable’s experts. Get tips on building rapport with assistive tech users, navigating barriers, and bringing accessibility into your product development with confidence.

A simple command line tool to backup and restore docker containers along with their volumes - tlaanemaa/backup-docker

How do we make impactful accessibility change that better integrates into what we’re already doing? The answer is to create systems around accessibility work, instead of treating it like a barrier or a checkmark.

Read EcomBack's 2024 ADA Website Lawsuits Report. Discover which states have the most lawsuits, key plaintiffs and law firms, industries most affected, and insights on overlay widget myths. Get a clear view of the ADA website compliance scene in 2024.

First model release of 2025 for French AI lab Mistral, who describe Mistral Small 3 as "a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license." More notably, they claim …

Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-topping model called Tulu3-405B.

Today's anonymous submitter spent a few weeks feeling pretty good about themselves. You see, they'd inherited a gigantic and complex pile of code, an application spread out across 15 backend servers, theoretically organized into "modules" and "microservices" but in reality was a big ball of mud. And after a long and arduous process, they'd dug through that ball of mud and managed to delete 190 files, totaling 30,000 lines of code. That was fully 2/3rds of the total codebase, gone- and yet the tests continued to pass, the application continued to run, and everyone was just much happier with it.
Two weeks later, a new ticket comes in: users are getting a 403 error when trying to access the "User Update" screen. Our submitter has seen a lot of these tickets, and it almost always means that the user's permissions are misconfigured. It's an easy fix, and not a code problem.

I wanted to share a project a good friend is creating because it’s an important project. Last week, my friend Derek Riemer announced his adaptive sports project and I wanted to share it with…

‎Welcome to the Nexus Manor. A place that exists outside of time — and in between your ears. RYFT is an audio-based adventure game played with speech commands. Featuring a full voice cast, challenging puzzles, and a compelling narrative, this mystery game is powered by the world's greatest graphics e…

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And now that I had EVERYTHING going in the right direction, I'm sucked into another world as a scullery maid because some ex-boyfriend from high school still hates me? Seriously? I was pre-med! I had a family! And a cat!
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Specialized garbage-filled captions are invisible to humans, confounding to AI.

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

Shouldn’t there be a way to keep your apps or project data private and improve performance by reducing server latency? This is what on-device AI is designed to solve. It handles AI processing locally, right on your device, without connecting to the internet and sending data to the cloud. In this article, Joas Pambou explains what on-device AI is, why it’s important, the tools to build this type of technology, and how it can change the way we use technology every day.

We need to talk about recent executive orders and memorandums regarding accessibility.

Who, Me?: Hey! Teacher! Leave our network alone!

A website to help you determine where a product was made

News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support

We don’t live in a purely deterministic world of technology anymore.

The Nuance Audio hearing aid smart glasses have received FDA clearance and a CE marking in the EU, clearing the way for a Q1 launch.

The optional features include letting drivers know in advance you travel with one. Drivers who try to cancel will be reminded that doing so is against Uber policy — and the law.

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The NRSC’s AM Improvement Working Group published a study examining the effects of RF noise on AM radio reception in cars.

The Audio Issue

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The first week of the new republican administration was frightening and disorienting for all of us who believe in civil and human rights, justice, equality, fairness and more. This guest article is written by Eve Hill, a disability rights and digital accessibility lawyer, about actions taken on day

Ars staffers take aim at some of the web’s worst predatory practices.

Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least

A beloved community radio station featuring only music by Fediverse artists has closed its doors. This is its legacy.

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Harry feels no one deserves to be insulted for not having friends, having been bullied by his cousin all his life. So he takes no time in approaching Hermione after he overhears Parvati telling Lavender that she’s crying in a girls’ bathroom after Ron insults her for not having any friends.
This is the first part of a long series of works (FULL EDITZ) that I’m constructing.
Pure Harmony + other couples blossoming with time.

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How are financial institutions faring in this often-overlooked component of the digital banking experience?

The refreshed museum of the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky, is slated to open in 2026 with a novel invitation to visitors: please touch.

Additional data can help differentiate subtle gestures, hand positions, facial expressions

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The organization appears to be in the process of renaming the tool they use to score hundreds of companies' on disability inclusion.

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On Call: Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets

A new accessibility program based on an app for deaf and hard of hearing users is being tested on the...

When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off

Who, Me?: That's not even the worst part of this story, which features a flood, broken promises, and plenty of panic

Brent Devloo hopes to inspire kids who become blind to not only continue their schooling but to return to their passions as soon as they can.

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Improved service or even more barriers?

Snape decides to save Lily's son.
The measures are a touch drastic, but Harry isn't minding the results.

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His ex-wife will therefore not be required to support him in that endeavor (or any others).

Screen readers are great, and they deserve a lot of love. But let me give you a better option to start testing with.

What if you were given another chance? Another life? What would you do with it?
Meet Joe. When Joe died, he did not expect a screen to appear inviting him to join the world of Illuminaria. By accepting, he joins a fantasy RPG-like world, with stats, skills, monsters, and quests.
While this is a progression LitRPG tale, it focuses far more on plot (...)

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What happens when we forget humanity's past?
When Kai discovered a spaceship from an unknown place called Earth, he didn't know his life was about to get on a new course.
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Stranded in space and time, the few survivors of the colony ship Dolya struggle to build a home amongst the stars.
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Lady Regina Sheridan can see the future. Unfortunately, the future says that she will be executed as a villainess unless she can keep her new fiancé, Prince Artem Alpin, alive.
The future also tells her someone is hunting Artem… and that he has the survival instincts of a goldfish.
Please universe, The Villainess (...)

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Baltimore, Maryland (February 15, 2025): The National Federation of the Blind strongly condemns the inappropriate and harmful stereotyping of blind people that has been highlighted in the response to a recent Co

Ableton Move's screen reader support is still getting rave reviews from blind and low-vision users, even though it's not officially documented. Here's more about how it works and more about what's left to do - and an appeal to the entire industry to add more accessibility features.

As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's venture-backed promises. The difference isn't just technical—it's about whether we'll finally break free from the profit-driven cycle that has degraded every major social platform.

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In recent years, an alarming trend has emerged in the legal landscape: the filing of mass lawsuits alleging violations of the Americans with…

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The Braille Institute has just launched their Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, now with enhanced characters, upgraded with seven weights, and a bonus variable version for all you professional hyperlegible-ites out there. It has improved legibility and readability for individuals with low vision. They have also released Hyperlegible Mono, a brand-new monospaced typeface inspired by the original

I was glad to learn that a lawsuit was filed in federal court challenging two Executive Orders published shortly after trump became president. These sweeping (and unlawful) executive orders attack diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) from many angles.

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Who, Me?: 'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'

One local API for multiple translators. Plugins. Automatic calculate BLEU/COMET metrics of translation quality. - janvarev/OneRingTranslator

This is still considered bad form in the UK, apparently.

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Very loosely based on the Reptilia28 Don't Fear the Reaper Death Challenge, whereby Harry gets to relive his life. As do a couple of other people. What effect does this have on Harry's life and the Voldemort Blood wars? Not a Discworld crossover, but some guest appearances by Death's granddaughter. Some character bashing. No Cursed Child or Fantastic Beasts. COMPLETE.

Being the recipient of the Order of Merlin and also having his picture on the Chocolate Frog Cards was not a big feat for Healer Tom Riddle. As Head Healer at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, nothing much surprised him. Little did he know, his life was about to be turned upside down by the arrival of a bespectacled boy with messy hair through the Veil.

What do you get when the Saviour of the Wizarding World becomes dangerously bored, especially when the death of his godfather has already hit him seriously hard, and left to his own devices? Well, Draco Malfoy, the Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort are unfortunately going to find out soon enough!

“Your robes are…red,” Hermione finally said, strangely accusing.
“Burgundy!” Severus protested. Red was tacky. Burgundy, however, had class.
“And what did you do to your hair?” she asked in horrified fascination.
Snape’s hand rose to his scalp.
“Nothing! What is wrong with you? I just washed it and blow-dried it like every morning…”
“Ah, I see.” She nodded and stepped back. “Alternate dimension. It must be.”

Now AU sixth year.Hermione's quest for a quiet place to read leads to the discovery of a remarkable portrait. CHAPTER 18:The Order of Merlin. The living are celebrated, the dead remembered, and it is a new day for the wizarding world. Multifaceted Nominee

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Romance fraud has been growing as an issue for years. It's not uncommon to see news stories with bewildered victims explaining just how deeply they'd been sucked in. After receiving a number of opener

UI Automation (UIA) is Microsoft’s recommended accessibility framework for Windows, replacing the earlier Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) framework. De...

On Call: With only BASIC knowledge to fall back on, and a typing pool in tears, the OFF switch looked very attractive

The ESA and leading game developers have formed a new initiative that aims to make it easier to know what accessibility features a game has.

Jenny had been perfectly happy working on a series of projects for her company, before someone said, "Hey, we need you to build a desktop GUI for an existing API."
The request wasn't the problem, per se. The API, on the other hand, absolutely was.

Ghost has announced a public beta for Social Web integration, bringing their publishing platform to the Fediverse. We test it out!

Say Hello to Second Me - A New AI Species, Making We Matter Again

CLI tool allowing you to download the NVDA screen reader using the nvda.zip API. - trypsynth/nvdl

Actix-web application providing a simple API to download the NVDA screen reader. - trypsynth/nvda_zip

Virtual buffering for screen reader users of Mudlet - ironcross32/ChannelHistory

Contribute to ironcross32/QuickOutput-for-Mudlet development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sorry, dear designers, your excuses are officially dead. GitHub just proved you wrong with the rebuild and redesign of their home page.

Barry rolled into work at 8:30AM to see the project manager waiting at the door, wringing her hands and sweating. She paced a bit while Barry badged in, and then immediately explained the issue:
Today was a major release of their new features. This wasn't just a mere software change; the new release was tied to major changes to a new product line- actual widgets rolling off an assembly line right now. And those changes didn't work.

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Explore various Nintendo Switch 2 system settings that can help support different types of players and individual needs.

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