Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@social.cleverlibre.org

OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘

A simple #emacs hook to GPT-3 API https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yuamsr/i_added_a_simple_hook_in_emacs_to_the_gpt3_api

Hey #emacs fans 👋 EmacsConf 2022 is happening Dec 3-4 https://emacsconf.org/2022

Nous avons développé un jeu vidéo – Lausanne 1830 : histoires de registre – entre 2021 et 2022 et celui-ci vient de remporter le prix du #SeriousGame suisse de l'année ! https://www.sgda.ch/fr/swiss-game-awards/ #SwissGames

C'est une superbe reconnaissance pour tout le travail de l'équipe de développement (Saara Jones, Sarah Jallon, Andrew Dobis) et le studio qui nous a accompagnés dans ce projet (Digital Kingdom).

Pour les curieux·ses, le jeu est disponible gratuitement ici : https://lausanne1830.ch/

The "csquotes" #TeXLaTeX package provides advanced facilities for inline and display quotations. The package has excellent support for different languages, too. Set the `csquotes` variable to make pandoc use this package when rendering quotes. For best results, set the `lang` variable as well.
E.g., the first output below was created with
pandoc -o a.pdf
and the second with
pandoc -o a.pdf -V csquotes
#pandoc #l10n

#NLP Job advertisement 2/2

My group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at Stuttgart University, Germany is looking for a #PhDStudent in #NLP or #DigitalHumanities for a project on investigating literary productivity in 17th century #Spanish #siglodeoro dramas. This is a joint project with Romance philology at Tübingen (Hanno Ehrlicher).

Details here (look at first half of page):
https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktuelles/news/TCL-offers-one-doctoral-position-Digital-Humanities-and-one-postdoctoral-position-Machine-Learning/

Contact me for any questions :)

#NLP Job advertisement 1/2 @thegradient

My group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at Stuttgart University, Germany is looking for a #PostDoc in #MachineLearning to think about general problem structures in language. Experience with #StructuredPrediction welcome!

Details here (look at second half of page):
https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktuelles/news/TCL-offers-one-doctoral-position-Digital-Humanities-and-one-postdoctoral-position-Machine-Learning/

Contact me for any questions :)

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

Guess a certain Twitter feature will vanish soon...

Setting up mastodon.el was a question of adding these 6 lines to my init.el https://gist.github.com/cpbotha/e2a8739171c0471842480635b9df8e3c -- then C-x C-e aka M-xk eval-last-sexp -- at which point mastodon.el automatically copied the authorization URL to my clipboard, which I could then paste into my browser to grant perms and then the timeline magically appeared!

Anyone use org-vcard and want to maintain it? https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ys0nap/orgvcard_seeking_new_maintainer/

There's also @RSSBot , which I think might have a slightly wider set of sources since it also includes Reddit and Hacker News.

Oh goodie, @emacslife seems to now be doing its thing and tooting the items from the Planet Emacslife feed. =D Enjoy!

CDE is so beautiful...
Also this website is a goldmine of incredible looking old UIs: https://guidebookgallery.org

#ui #aesthetic #cde

Château de Chillon is built on a small island in Lake Geneva guarding the passage between the Rhone Valley and the Vaud Riviera. Its history goes back to the 12th century and these days it is among the most visited medieval castles in Europe. #switzerland

"Vorübergehende leichte Herzmuskelzellschäden nach Booster-Impfung." Diese Meldung machte in den letzten Tagen die Runde. Doch was steckt hinter der Studie, die noch nicht mal als Preprint vorliegt? Martin Amrein hat nachgefragt.

https://twitter.com/martin_amrein/status/1591719720155217920?t=633lMr3DbJV4g_fdwKmRXQ&s=19

Corona-Impfung: Wie häufig sind Herzmuskelzellschäden? https://magazin.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag/wissen/corona-impfung-wie-haeufig-sind-herzmuskelzellschaeden-ld.1711762