Deafblind Engineer

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/* An Engineer powered by braille */
Website:https://deafblind.engineer
GitHub:https://github.com/DeafblindEngineer
By Day:An accessibility-conscious full-stack web developer
By Night:Ethics enthusiast && GNU/Linux advocate
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
FediTips has moved!Feb 11, 2023

Mastodon's core has just had a new update released, v4.1.0

You can see which version your server is on by looking at the bottom of your server's website.

Highlights include:

 Lists of hashtags you follow (go to your profile, click ︙ & Followed Hashtags)

 Hashtag search suggestion bug fixed

 Support for importing admin domain block lists, this will greatly help your admin keep your server safe.

...and lots of other stuff (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.0).

Release v4.1.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Added Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks (enbylenore, ClearlyClaire, dariusk, ClearlyClaire) Add listing of followed hashtags (connorshea) Add support for edit...

GitHub
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
I've gone bonkers and bought twenty-one #programming books this morning. Several are about #Rust and #Kotlin which I am currently learning. The remaining are up-to-date versions of C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Ruby, Perl, and Java as I want to brush up on these older programming languages, as my memory is a bit rusty.
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023

Microsoft has announced it is replacing the fairly basic PDF reader currently built into the Edge browser, which is currently accessible with a screen reader, with a new one powered by Adobe's pay-to-play Acrobat PDF engine. #Accessibility #a11y

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/microsoft_edge_pdf_acrobat/

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

And yes, sure, totally secure

The Register
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
Electronic Frontier FoundationFeb 11, 2023
The Searchtodon episode illustrates how the fediverse empowers people to not just be social media users, but active participants in shaping their platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/participation-fediverse
Participation in the Fediverse

Parts of the fediverse have been in something of an uproar recently over an experimental search service that was under development called (appropriately enough) Searchtodon. The project aimed to enable people to search their own home timeline and worked by being authorized by a user to access that...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
LibreOfficeFeb 11, 2023
More dark mode and compatibility improvements are coming to #LibreOffice, thanks to the work of our QA team! Here's their summary from January: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/02/10/qa-dev-report-january-2023/
QA/Dev Report: January 2023 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundaries independent from text boundaries in Writer. He also added a help page for Calc’s STYLE […]

LibreOffice QA Blog
Deafblind EngineerFeb 10, 2023
Do you think it’s a good idea to put the /home, /var, and /tmp directories on a different hard drive to the #Linux distro?
Deafblind EngineerFeb 10, 2023
This weekend my attention will focus on a side project that I begun working on in my spare time. It takes me away from my grassroots of web development and moves into the realm of #software #programming. I am learning a couple of new languages in the process: #Rust and #Kotlin, as well as reacquainting myself with some oldies but goldies such as C/C++, C#, Java, and Python.
Deafblind EngineerFeb 10, 2023
Today’s not been very productive, but overall, the week itself has with four days of uninterrupted #programming. Two #web #development projects I’m working on are progressing very well, with one nearing completion. The third I have yet to start.
Deafblind EngineerFeb 10, 2023
Web AxeFeb 8, 2023
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/never-use-px-for-font-size #webdev #webdesign #css #a11y #UIDesign
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS

Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.

Josh Collinsworth
Deafblind EngineerFeb 10, 2023
NV AccessFeb 10, 2023
Lots of tips for you to read in our In-Process blog this week! How to use Tables in #Excel, reporting table headers (in other apps too), Open Source month - #FOSSFeb, (with more links than we posted here!) and lots of info on RSS readers: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-10th-february-2022/
In-Process 10th February 2023

We’ve got a few pieces this week to help you get the most out of NVDA 2022.4: Tables in Excel Continuing our look at new features in NVDA 2022.4, here’s one for the Excel users. For tho…

NV Access