My dad is partially sighted with poor motor control. He likes audiobooks but every player I tried had tiny buttons and too many screens.

I’ve now made this one. Two screens, big controls, high contrast.

When I want to send him a new book, I just text him a link — he taps it and the book appears in his library.

It always comes back to the last book he was playing, ready to play again.

The settings are configurable via a link too.

This is very much made for my exact specific needs with him, but it’s open source and free if it helps anyone else.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/easy-audiobook/id6761441597

https://github.com/griches/EasyAudioBook

#iOS
#Accessibility
#Audiobooks
#OpenSource
#AI

I am at the Colorado capitol today to testify against a new bill, SB26-090, that would carve out a broad and unnecessary exemption to our groundbreaking right to repair law that would effectively remove the right to repair for large categories of technologies.

The bill is going to be heard in committee today "upon adjournment" of the senate. If you have the ability to testify online or in writing against this bill, I would encourage you to do so as soon as possible.

Background: https://www.ifixit.com/News/116447/a-new-colorado-bill-could-blow-a-hole-in-the-nations-strongest-right-to-repair-lawhe-nations-strongest-right-to-repair-law

Testimony signup link: https://sites.coleg.gov/public-testimony/sign-up-to-testify/step-1

Current day status board: https://www.leg.state.co.us/public/display.nsf/index.html

Bill details: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-090

My worker-owned coop is hiring! Come join us!

Palante Technology Cooperative is seeking a new technical support person to join us in our work with incredible nonprofit and community organizations. The new worker will join our tech support team, providing remote and on-site assistance to our clients in New York City. https://palantetech.coop/hiring #FediHire #job #GetFediHired

A new article from me about syndication feeds is out over on Piccalilli!

A (reasonably) brief yet (fairly) complete rundown of RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed. All great, standardised formats to facilitate web-wide distribution of your content.

If your site doesn’t have a feed, this is your sign to change that!

#RSS #Atom #JSONFeed

RE: https://front-end.social/@piccalilli/116335257375032090

Saw a TikTok from a girl who was probably in the 13-15 age range saying "kids are paying attention to the stuff with the Epstein files & taking notes on how the adults around us respond (or are silent) to decide who we trust." She said they've learned a lot about how society views kids & they are fucking fed up.

GOOD.

Rubber Ducking

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater