Angenommen, du fährst gerne Bahn und du magst gerne Blahaj (hab gehört, solche Leute solls hier auf fedi geben) und du würdest rein hypothetisch eine gute Ausrede suchen, noch einen oder fünf zu kaufen.

Well. I might have the perfect reason.

Der Freiburger Ikea spendet diesen Monat für jeden verkauften Blahaj an @QueerLexikon.

Gerne weiter teilen, dass möglichst viele Bahn- und Blahaj-Freund*innen diese frohe Kunde vernehmen können.

I've been meaning to write about the state of #accessibility support in #tech for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.

As a #parent of a child with #disabilities, as well as being a #disability #advocate and #technology professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.

As much as I am an #opensource advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, #Microsoft #Windows has, unquestionably, the best support. #Apple has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.

One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet #Linux still treats it as a #DIY project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME and #XFCE nor is there any kind of unified API.

It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/apple_accessibility_features_2025/

#news #technews #technology

Wow. It's amazing that the proposal to ban conversion therapy in the EU has, over the recent days, received more votes per day than it did over a years time. Really did not expect that.

The total is 597466 right now.

It would be aweseome to see it pass the 1000K threshold tomorrow. IT IS STILL POSSIBLE

🤞 🤞

I'm sure anyone that could, has already shared this, the link has been going around for a while now on this platform, but here it is anyway:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home