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Greg Wocher Jan 6, 2025

@iaccessibility How do I move over to techopolis.social from iaccessibility.social?

Greg Wocher Jan 6, 2025

AppleInsider Jan 6, 2025

A new non-invasive blood glucose monitoring device, Isaac by PreEvnt, aims to revolutionize diabetes management with real-time alerts via an iPhone app and breath analysis.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/06/isaac-by-preevnt-uses-an-iphone-app-to-track-blood-clucose-with-breath-analysis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Isaac by PreEvnt uses an iPhone app to track blood glucose with breath analysis

Unveiled at CES 2025, a new non-invasive blood glucose monitoring device, Isaac by PreEvnt, aims to revolutionize diabetes management with real-time alerts via breath analysis.

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Greg Wocher Jan 5, 2025

Hacker News 50 Jan 5, 2025

No more needles Tracking blood sugar on your wrist

Link: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/no-more-needles-tracking-blood-sugar-your-wrist
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42599189

No more needles! Tracking blood sugar on your wrist | Waterloo News

Imagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it. University of Waterloo engineers have achieved this technological feat to help people faced with chronic health problems such as diabetes monitor their glucose levels. The Waterloo team’s breakthrough addresses the major

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Greg Wocher Dec 24, 2024

Jeff Bishop Dec 24, 2024

BITS is developing a Visual Studio Code extension. ACCESS-VSC - Accessible Configuration and Customization Environment for Software in Visual Studio Code - "Empowering developers to code without barriers.". ACCESS-VSC positions itself not just as a tool but as a movement to make Visual Studio Code the most inclusive IDE available.

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Greg Wocher Dec 20, 2024

@Woody Congratulations David.

Greg Wocher Dec 19, 2024

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Bas Dec 19, 2024

I wrote a blog post, in case you've not (yet) used VoiceOver on macOS and are curious where to get started — and how it differs from VoiceOver on touch screen devices!

https://www.basbroek.nl/macos-voiceover-first-time-huh

VoiceOver on macOS: First Time, Huh?

You may have used or tried out using a screen reader on a mobile device, but what about on a desktop?

Bas’ Blog

Greg Wocher Dec 19, 2024

Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats Dec 19, 2024

Day 19 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. Accessibility labels might not be the best input labels, used for example to find or interact with elements with Voice Control or Full Keyboard Access. In those cases, you can provide accessibility user input labels.

To know more about accessibilityUserInputLabels checkout: "Improving Accessibility: Voice Control" by @bas: https://basbroek.nl/improving-voice-control

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Improving Accessibility: Voice Control

Having improved an app for VoiceOver means you’ll have made some major steps to also support its sibling: Voice Control. Whereas VoiceOver is a screen reader, reading what’s on the screen, Voice Control lets users navigate their devices by voice.

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Greg Wocher Dec 8, 2024

@doubletap @tayarndt Whoops hit the enter key before I was ready. I did follow the guide and still nno go. I dont even get the pop ups to ask for permission. The app just will not run.

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Greg Wocher Dec 8, 2024

@doubletap @tayarndt I did follow the guide. I don

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Greg Wocher Dec 8, 2024

@tayarndt @doubletap I did that and still no go. When I press command plus o to open the app absolutely nothing happens. It never shows up in the menus extra. My last resort is to nuke and pave my mac to see if that will work.