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   by mlang23 6y ago

   On the one hand, you are right. GNOME has been doing good work in the past. The move from CORBA to D-Bus didn't help to stabilize the AT-SPI, leaving us with a halfway broken system for years. But please dont get me going on donating
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   We need to stop treating accessibility as an afterthought. Adding accessibility in a late stage of product development leads to suboptimal results, both in term of developer time needed and user experience. This is exactly why Google took
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   If FOSS can not cater to people with special needs per definition, as you seem to imply, I will have to stop advocating it altogether. If advocating for FOSS means supporting a movement that is not willing to bridge the gap and fight agains
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   Be My Eyes – Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people(bemyeyes.com)

   2 points by mlang23 6y ago|0 comments
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   I wonder if it implements Accessibility APIs and a screen reader. It took Google years to catch up to what VoiceOver on iOS can do. I hope FOSS does not forget about this topic on phones. My phone has become the most ubiquitous assistive
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   Or this wonderful gem from the german VICE division: https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-s...
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   You mean quality journalism like this: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-... "This story is over 5 years old." I wonder when this infantile news outlet finally bites the du
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   Since when?
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   by mlang23 6y ago

   I was anoyed by Apple Music ads as well. To a point where I really started to hate them for that. I do not want a monthly subscription for a streaming service, I do prefer to buy what I want and thats it. After half a year of tapping &qu
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    I believe the fundamental error was to try and break backwards compatibility in a dynamic language. I can see how this would be much safer for a strongly typed language to pull off. It would still be a PITA, but at least I'd feel a b
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    That's what the recruitment theory implies.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania Apparently, there is no consensus as to what triggered this phenomenon. Very interesting mystery.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    Same here. However, I am thinking about the "loud pipes save lifes" nonsense. Loud pipes should simply be banned, and thats it. The argument always seems to be the same, for kids as well as for grown up bikers: "But they&#
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    I am of the opinion that the problem start with the ROI argument. Apple has managed to do the right thing and deliberately ignore ROI when it comes to accessibility. Why can they do the right thing, and the rest of the world can not be ar
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    “It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.” -― Nicolas Chamfort
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    EWW is a godsent, very cool. Nice replacement for emacs-w3, which was very slow to render.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    I get what you mean. However, I dont agree that "we" cant do anything about user content. Users will use the technology that is provided to them. If the tech providers dont care about accessibility ultimately, they will create
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    User generated content is not part of a websites content? Please elaborate.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    Another blind user here. Indeed, modern web technologies and developers are killing my productivity. At first, it started to become increasingly hard to read something with a text browser. For at least half a year, no github wiki rendere
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    I totally agree. Thanks for putting your perspective out there. It is indeed an assault on kids. Where I come from, school is mandatory. I think there is an obligation of the government to ensure that school can continue, with the same
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    Bonus points for comparing parenthood with a disability. I am surprised you haven't been ripped into pieces yet.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    wget directly to /usr/bin. Am I the only one who cringes upon such a pattern? I am probably too old. I recently almost doubled over when I saw that /sbin is now a symlink to /usr/sbin on bullseye. Even worse, &#
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    Braille Music Compiler Live Demo (2015)(youtube.com)

    1 points by mlang23 6y ago|0 comments
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    Have you been interviewed once? And also read what they finally wrote? Nope, sorry, they are not particularily great at reporting facts . All they do is fill a page with text.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    LFS and buildroot taught me a lot about how linux is build from scratch. A very valuable learning experience. Thanks to both projects for their work.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    Now would be about the best time for him to make that move. With elections upcoming and all that.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    PTSD is quite obviously a response to adversity, that is already implied by the name! What am I missing here? Why is this news?
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    Oh, I didn't know. Nice genre. My favourite so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUx9nOt9u8
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    ikiwiki gives you a wiki with git as backend.
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    by mlang23 6y ago

    While reading through the comments here, I found this link yesterday. Took me down a rabbit hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBhgEm3j7A