“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.

Long live the open web!

A privacy-first AI chat app with long-term memory and custom characters. You choose the provider. Your data stays on your device.

Let’s Encrypt is introducing several updates to the certificates we issue, including new root certificates, the deprecation of TLS client authentication, and shortening certificate lifetimes. To help roll out changes gradually, we’re making use of ACME profiles to allow users to have control over when some of these changes take place. For most users, no action is required. Let’s Encrypt has generated two new Root Certification Authorities (CAs) and six new Intermediate CAs, which we’re collecti...

Micron is exiting the Crucial consumer business to focus on the more profitable AI-driven data centre market. While Crucial will close by February 2026, Micron will continue to support products under warranty.

If you follow me on social media, one of the themes you’ll find I talk about fairly often related to accessibility is how text that isn’t shown visually needs to have better verificatio…

About accessibility, flawed arguments and assumptions

At Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF) 2024 I met the non-profit group See3D, a group which sources 3D prints from volunteers for distribution to blind/visually impaired people. At their booth they had …

3Play Media releases its 2025 State of ASR Report, testing and comparing the top speech-to-text technologies.

Contribute to berkeley-dsep-infra/jupyterlab-a11y-checker development by creating an account on GitHub.

On Call: Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that

In 2066, creativity is dead: all that can be imagined has been perfected by AI. The Great Revolution has eliminated the need to work, wonder, and hope for the future. Holographic ghosts of long-dead artists dance for a numb public, and inspiration is only an algorithm away.
It seems improbable that 20-year-old Aster, with her dreams of being a rock (...)

Yvian Kiver has risked everything to start a new life as a void trader. She has staked her life, her future, and her freedom on this, her first cargo run. It is not going well. Yvian's ship broke down. Pirates came. Now Yvian is naked, tied up, and staring down the barrel of a lifetime of cybernetically enforced slavery. Just when she thought things (...)

The true story of life, the universe and everything, but with Dwarves. Humanity doesn't know that almost every novel, movie, and series, are all true. They were once lived and experienced. These accounts are the backstory to the universe.

Isekaied into an ice world? Could be worse... Right? Yeah, apparently it can be a whole lot worse... When Jay Morgan and his bestie, Molly O'Brian, take "wrong turn" to a whole new level, they end up sucked into a world that makes the arctic look like a beach vacation. Even worse? After a bump

This project is aimed at developing and maintaining the NVDA IBMTTS driver. IBMTTS is a synthesizer similar to Eloquence. Please send your ideas and contributions here! - davidacm/NVDA-IBMTTS-Driver

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