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The Elevator of Infinite Abstraction(michaelbromley.co.uk)
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Surviving Assad's prison cells(aljazeera.com)
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Careers in security, ethical hacking and advice on where to get started(troyhunt.com)
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Brian Will: Object-Oriented Programming Is Bad(youtube.com)
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by jscholes 10y ago
> Microsoft has even limited the possibility of independent developers to warn users about their licenses expiring in the first three days after expiration ... this is the crucial period during which a significant number of users seek ex
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In your opinion, what's wrong with akka-actor?
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Freeing my tablet: Android hacking, software and hardware(thanassis.space)
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by jscholes 10y ago
This looks really interesting. How can you localise an app's UI when using this?
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by jscholes 10y ago
The solution you've settled upon (text editor plus CLI) is pretty much the best you and your student can hope for at the moment. When I was at university, speaking as a screen reader user myself, the very first thing I asked my tutors
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by jscholes 10y ago
FYI, Atom isn't particularly screen reader friendly.
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by jscholes 10y ago
> For web apps you can install the tota11y [1] browser extension and use its experimental Screen Reader Wand feature to get an idea of how a screen reader will interpret elements. An idea, perhaps, but that's all it would be rather
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by jscholes 10y ago
Also, some context for the blind person when designing their own pages. If they're aware that website X is considered to have a good design, they can get a description of it and know what colour schemes, positioning and placement, et
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Traversing the London Underground Guided by Bluetooth Beacons(arstechnica.co.uk)
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Ethiopia bans posting on Facebook as Oromo crisis grows(qz.com)
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Tim Cook: Virtual reality no substitute for human contact(apple.slashdot.org)
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Meanwhile on the command side of my architecture (2011)(cuttingedge.it)
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Worse recommendation letters for female geoscientists(arstechnica.co.uk)
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Baidu's $3B startup-backing fund(techcrunch.com)
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Refugee Text: The chatbot that teaches asylum seekers their rights(arstechnica.co.uk)
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India's Wushu Warrior Girl(aljazeera.com)
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China’s gaokao exam: Meritocratic only because it’s equally bad for everyone(theguardian.com)
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On Ada Lovelace Day, how diverse are tech companies?(theguardian.com)
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More learning, less time(codewithoutrules.com)
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by jscholes 10y ago
> rockstar developer Could you expand a little on what you mean by this?
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This is an absolutely ridiculous way to run an audit. No wonder accessibility on the web is a mess.
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> We just hired a 100% visually impaired student and he said that most MS apps provide enough metadata cleanly to play with screen reader apps like JAWS, and that the real bane of his existence was GTK-based applications on Windows. Not
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by jscholes 10y ago
> Go check the price of JAWS. By your logic anyone making great is just doing that for PR. Worth noting, perhaps, that very few blind people actually own a JAWS license that they paid for themselves. The majority[citation needed] either
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by jscholes 10y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of this. I'm a VoiceOver user (totally blind), but when my lock/power button broke on my iPhone it took me a while to figure out that I could just use assistive touch to avoid having to
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> Also, another random oddity: somewhere in one of its built in libraries there was a function for validating email addresses. It was returning true on a bunch of very obviously bad address formats, so I looked up the source and found th
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> i.e., "We've decided it would be easier to make everyone who updates a page on the GOV.UK website change their language than to make everyone that makes screen reading software produce a product that reads screens correctly&q

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