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rbreich, 2 days ago to random

813 US billionaires control a record $5.7 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% of Americans control $3.7 trillion in wealth.

When ~800 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

VE3RWJ, 1 day ago to random

How to spot a Baby Boomer on social media? They use proper grammar.

aby, 2 days ago to men

Dear men,

Imagine you're in the middle of a conversation where you are telling a friend you've just been diagnosed with cancer. Imagine if someone butted in and started talking about how women get cancer too, how people die every day from things other than cancer, how cancer is bad but so is covid and HIV.

Would you think that was ok? Or is that person being an absolute fucking dick? (spoiler: they're being a dick)

Because that's what you're doing when you push into conversations about violence against women and start talking about how men suffer violence too and how DV is bad but other types of violence are bad as well.

That person is a dick. Don't be that person.

(i can't believe I have to fucking post this, you arrogant fucks)

#ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW #DomesticViolence #Men #Sexism

Amanigordon, 2 days ago to random Spanish

trans lives matter🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

podcast, 2 days ago to accessibility

Delighted to see the tech press taking an interest in the Sonos #accessibility debacle. We need this to keep the pressure on. New Sonos app breaks accessibility for visually impaired users, here’s what this advocate recommends

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/new-sonos-app-breaks-accessibility-for-visually-impaired/

9to5Mac, 3 days ago to random

New Sonos app breaks accessibility for visually impaired users, here’s what this advocate recommends https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/new-sonos-app-breaks-accessibility-for-visually-impaired/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

JonathanMosen, 3 days ago to accessibility

Blind Sonos users have an important and rare opportunity to make our presence felt and our displeasure heard about the massive #accessibility regression in the new mobile apps.

Next Tuesday 14 May between 2 and 5 PM US Eastern time, three senior Sonos staff are conducting an “ask me anything” (AMA) session in the Sonos community. In attendance will be Diane Roberts, Senior Director of Software Development, Kate Wojogbe, Senior Director of User Experience, and Tucker Severson, Director of Product Management.
These are the key people in the company who agreed to the app being released in the inaccessible state it’s in, and they are the key people who need to take fixing it seriously.
Many people want to take some action that makes a difference. This is something you can do.
You can bookmark the page for the AMA. It is, https://en.community.sonos.com/events/sonos-app-redesign-ama-6

Try to become familiar with the forum before Tuesday, because while it isn’t completely inaccessible, it’s not the best and a little quirky. You should be able to sign in with your Sonos ID.
Perhaps compose your question thoughtfully ahead of time and have it on your computer, so you can paste it into the AMA when it goes live. It will not hurt for Sonos to understand how upset and inconvenienced many of us are by what they have done. We can do that firmly while remaining polite.
They need to understand, the best way to make us go away is to fix what they broke. We won’t be quiet until we get back what they took from us.
Happy contributing.

jaybird110127, 5 days ago to random

Please boost for reach. My dad and I both have iPhone SE second generation (2020) phones. For several months he has complained about intermittent sluggishness when doing just about anything involving a change of focus E.G. unlocking the phone and going to the Home screen, opening an app (whether it's already running or not), etc. Turning VoiceOver off and back on again usually fixes it temporarily, and so does restarting the phone. Sometimes making a change in some settings such as unpairing an old Apple Watch that he wasn't using would fix the problem, again temporarily. I hadn't experienced the problem until last night when it reared its ugly head on my phone. A restart of VoiceOver fixed it for me, and I thought I'd found the magic solution, only to have him tell me that's a very temporary fix. Both of us are totally blind, so we can't tell if the phone itself is slow to launch things, or if it's VoiceOver that's taking much longer than normal to react to changes on the screen. Is anyone else having this problem? If so, do you know of any solutions? Would getting an iPhone SE third generation fix it? What about resetting the phone and erasing all data, then restoring from iCloud? Thanks for any help.

ben, 5 days ago to random

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

hannah, 6 days ago to random

I posted about brain cancer and hope to find people to pick up the torch on my accessibility projects that I think could help make the web better. I have a major surgery May 29th and time is short. I will only become less able.

Summaries and links can be found here: https://github.com/alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

I'm happy to answer any questions, or just discuss things, but I do ask that kind words on cancer not be posted here, despite my appreciation for them.

Boosts and sharing elsewhere appreciated.

💜 Hannah

accessibleandroid, 5 days ago to random

Answering and Ending Calls in Jieshuo Screen Reader https://accessibleandroid.com/answering-and-ending-calls-in-jieshuo-screen-reader/

IVRadioNetwork, 6 days ago to random

At the top of the hour, please join DJ Celrock, for The Monday Spot. This week, she's playing Country music. She's also going to attempt both, a Cover Comparison, as well as Hit it or Smash it, and where the Hit it or Smash it is concerned, or in Country terms, Hey Yeah or Hell Nah, she's going to explore a cover of a classic Country song, performed by the most unlikely of artists to do so. Requests are welcome, and if you wish to get in touch, please visit http://inner-visions.net/connect, to listen, go to http://inner-visions.net/listen, and for all Teamtalk related things, please visit http://inner-visions.net/teamtalk. Show goes from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM Eastern. Hope to see you there, and as always, Happy Listening!!!

eblu, 6 days ago to random

hey can I put out a public plea to get more people on board with posting stuff that isn't about tech or politics? I love fedi but I think that nobody's been really talking about anything else lately. show me art or that cool thing that you're researching or a silly video that you threw together.

Strandjunker, 7 days ago to random

On June 1, 2020, he hid in an underground bunker like Adolf Hitler, then emerged briefly to gas his own people & clear a path for a photo op in front of a church he never attended with an upside down Bible he never read. — Don’t normalize him. Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.

mckensie, 7 days ago to random

Hey everyone! I've got some very good news! So did you guys think that the natural voices would be exclusive to narrator? Did you guys think the natural voices wouldn't even make it to other screen readers? Well, you all thought wrong! Because guess what? Thanks to a video on YouTube, I found out there is an NVDA addon for these voices! And it even works on windows 10! You can get this addon at datajake.braillescreen.net, TTS, synthesizers for NVDA, and titled neural voices. The rest of you guys can thank me later! Feel free to boost this post! It deserves one!

mckensie, 7 days ago to random

A new person is joining us today, guys! Some of you guys might know him, while others may not. His name is Matt curtis. His thing might be Matthew Eugeen Curtis. Yes, I exposed full names but whatever.

radio, 7 days ago to random

Come and celebrate mothers of all kinds with !@Tammy on Center Stage, Thursday, 2 PM eastern!

JamminJerry, 7 days ago to random

I am live right now with JamminJerry's Dirty House of Fun! lets have fun for the next three hours! tune in by putting the following URL into your player of choice.
http://listen.jjhof.com:6969/stream
tell your friends, family, pets, innomies, lyft driver, uber driver, even your instacart driver to tune in!

it appears Sonos is about to become less usable by screen reader users (mosen.org)

thisisskaly, 7 days ago to art

GIVEAWAY TIME!
(internationally shipped)
I made sooo many new handmade works and I'd like to give some away as a thank you for to the support of the amazing Mastodon community!
To join the giveaway, boost this post and I will choose a random human to get a gift from my shop.
ALSO! - anyone who orders a necklace or set over the next 48 hours will receive free handmade earrings or bracelet in their package!
Find your favourite here: https://genderlessbyskaly.etsy.com

#handmade #artists #art #news #new

photo close from my lips to low chest of me in light blue suit flowery jackets modelling two handmade necklaces with hematite styled tusk shaped pendant and bronze style elephant pendant, with black, hematite styled and garnet beads
photo of handmade necklace with hematite styled beads, rainbow pendant and mushroom red white glass beads
handmade green purple necklace with loads of glass pendants, oval, rhombic and baroque shaped on black doll with crystals and plants around

liamerven, 8 days ago to random

I'm celebrating my Birthday with some Stardew Valley today at 7 PM Eastern. come join me and say hello. https://youtube.com/live/u4NecpxHYrc?feature=share

zkrisher, 8 days ago to accessibility

Sonos is considered a recommended speaker brand in the blind community.

Both because many blind people are audiophiles, and because their app is screen reader accessible.

However, Sonos is about to release a new version of their app and at the moment it looks like it will be practically unusable for the blind.

Screen reader users that will not prevent their devices from updating will lose access to the expensive hardware they have purchased.

https://mosen.org/sonos2024/

#accessibility #blind #sonos #IOS #android

LavenderPawprints, 8 days ago to random

Just as an FYI, my main account @LavenderPawprints is inoperable right now and may be as such for a while. Right now it's unknown whether or not it's fixable or coming back.

For those who usually follow me, I'll be on this one for the foreseeable future while technical issues are addressed.

Please boost for visibility

986themix, 9 days ago to random

Tonight, on The Variety Party, DJ Celrock brings you all, another jam packed show, complete with a Comparison Cover requested by a listener, artist vs. themselves! She also received a ton of requests from Romeo. Who's Romeo? Well, obviously not the guy from the Shakespearean play from the 1600's, but a different one entirely, and one with limited vocabulary at that! She'll also have The Flashback Hour during hour number 3, and this week, her look back at her week will be on a brand new talk bed, that she's never used before, but it might sound familiar, if you've been known to be tuned into the program, from the very beginning of the show, as in, shortly after she connects to the station to go live. All of this, plus much, much more, is coming up on tonight's program. The partying music and fun occurs, exclusively on Server 2, starting at 7:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM Central, and goes until 10:00 PM Eastern, 9:00 PM Central. Hope to see you there, and as always, Happy Listening!!!

IVRadioNetwork, 9 days ago to random

And now it's time for your gameshow question! Which composer’s piece is commonly played as the processional during many wedding ceremonies, featuring a sequence that repeats but grows more elaborate each time?
Options:
A) Johann Pachelbel
B) Ludwig van Beethoven
C) Antonio Vivaldi
D) Johann Sebastian Bach

Get your thinking caps on, and keep your ears open for the answer! 😁