@NVAccess posted:
In-Process 19th May 2025
Pratik Patel
I am a blind technologist, humanist, a voracious devourer of books, speaker, writer, and a thinker, who finds himself championing #accessibility for fun and necessity. I'm currently exploring the complex world of AR and VR worlds to find best ways to achieve full accessibility for disabled people.
Oh and give me your fun book recommendations: be it nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy, romance, mystery, and more.
@NVAccess posted:
In-Process 30th April 2025
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The Washington Post is trying to sell us that Trump's immigration ratings have turned negative?
By now, you already know what I'm going to say!🙂
You can look at the cross tabs from their IPSOS survey, and you can see if the majority of US white folk still support this horrific immigration policy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/25/trump-immigration-approval-ratings-drop-poll/
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Our top story, from Josephine Lee: Attorneys at the Department of Education say that #Trump's cuts to the agency have left them “hamstrung” and unable to pursue civil rights cases, including a shocking incident of police brutality in a Gulf Coast school. https://www.texasobserver.org/beaumont-pepper-spray-school-department-education/
#education #police #politics #USpol #news #schools #CivilRights
@lynnskyi That's a good solution. It works.
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@ner @BorrisInABox I'm also going to reply to every employment offer I get and provide all my private details so that I can get that check.
@NVAccess posted:
In-Process 11th April 2025
@NVAccess posted:
In-Process 25th March 2025
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Few outlets are covering the DOGE/Elon Musk/Trump attack on the foundations of government better than @WIRED It makes sense: This is a tech story as much as anything, and Wired is uniquely positioned to track it deeply. Read this interview with Wired's Tim Marchman to see why.
Wired's expertise is one reason why I subscribed. You should, too.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/staring-into-the-doge-abyss-with-wireds-tim-marchman/
Also: Wired has dropped its paywall on all FOIA-based stories.
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@tspivey I wanted to mention @NVAccess on this so we can discuss this as I'm not in favor of completely disabling add-ons on secure screens at all and I will not update my NVDA if this happens. Apart from Remote, we need to think about people who prefer a certain speech synthesizer due to, for instance, hearing loss, or cases where the built-in synthesizers do not have very good language support for a given language (for instance, I heard that eSpeak has some foreign languages that are not good at all and there are some OneCore voices that also do not have high quality support for certain languages). Please consider these points before enforcing the inability to use add-ons on the secure screens. The correct approach is to either allow the add-on developer to indicate in the manifest whether the add-on is allowed to run on a secure screen, or to allow a user to individually select which add-ons to copy to the secure screen. The fact that the plan is to just completely disable all add-ons on the secure screen, instead of allowing users to selectively copy add-ons over to the secure screen, when users express that they want this, is not good and it is not in the user's best interest. I am hoping that this thread can start a dialogue about this so that this can be discussed further, as opposed to completely disabling add-ons on the secure screens without considering the possible ramifications.
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Ticket giveaway!
As a proud sponsor of @webstandards's State of the Browser conference on March 29, we have two in person and six online tickets to share among our network.
Please comment or message if you are interested.
Just five minutes of social browsing makes me tired. So tired.
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Long COVID is an ongoing public health disaster. People who weren’t hospitalized for COVID are at an increased risk for 30 neurological disorders and 18 cardiovascular conditions, including ischemic strokes, epilepsy, myocarditis, and heart failure.
Long COVID patients experience severe functional limitations, poor quality of life, and extreme fatigue at least as detrimental as many serious illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease and certain cancers.
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I keep my Google home speaker thing in the bathroom and only ask it the weather and similar while I am actively using the toilet. Maybe adapt that but without the speaking part.
“Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
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I have two new stories up: first is on disability politics under Trump 2.0, second is me feeling bad about a new feel-good documentary about blindness . Both linked on my "Substack" here! https://open.substack.com/pub/vilejelly/p/how-maga-scrambled-disability-politics?r=dec&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
@simon Exactly. It's ongoing so be ware of that. But the author does update and hasn't abandoned it.
I've been reading this amazing HP fanfic thing throughout the weekend.
As Long As I'm Here
"If I had other family, why wasn't I given to them instead?" Harry asked angrily.
"Because she didn't know you were family until a few weeks ago..." She stepped from behind the group of people.
He gasped and blinked quickly to stop the tears that were trying to fall. "You have eyes like mine. Who are you?"
"I'm Gwen. I'm your older sister."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/44860534?view_full_work=true
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Today I learned: If you use #Chrome and are annoyed by those "Sign in with Google" dialogs stealing keyboard focus on certain websites, you can disable it at the browser level.
In the address bar, type or paste in "chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi" (without the quotes. You should land on the "Third-party sign-in" Settings page.
On that page, there'll be two radio buttons: "Sites can show sign-in prompts from identity services", and "Block sign-in prompts from identity services". Set it to the second one, and you should find that the problematic dialogs are no longer present.
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