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GNOME @gnome@floss.social
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Top 5 improvements in Calendar 49:

1. Focus indicators were added in various places
2. Events are focusable with a keyboard
3. Year/month spin buttons are navigable with arrow keys
4. Calendar grids are skippable with Tab, and cells are wrapped via keyboard focus
5. Calendar list box now behaves like a check box

For screen readers: events and year/month spin buttons have proper semantics!

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André Polykanine @menelion@dragonscave.space
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I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.
for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:
"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."
I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.
tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac

sacrificing accessibility for not getting web-scraped

tilschuenemann.de

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Robin the Mod (fka Josh) @josh@union.place
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A gentle reminder to folks who are new to Mastodon. In solidarity with those in the disabled community who rely on screen readers, we ask that you:

* Add alt text/image descriptions when you post media
* Capitalize the first letter of every word in a hashtag
* Avoid emojis in your display name

UPDATE: So many great questions! Please check the replies to see if your question has been asked and answered ❤️

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TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.

Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.

I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.

These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.

I accept donations through the following platforms:

- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Liberapay: liberapay.com/TheEvilSkeleton/ (free and open-source platform)
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke

Boosts welcome and appreciated.

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.

tesk.page · TheEvilSkeleton

Link author: TheEvilSkeleton@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe
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Not just unsurprising, but utterly predictable.

“Trump administration says sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image”
apnews.com/article/american-si

Though he has a point — having an ASL interpreter could make it look like he cares about, well anything other than himself. That’s not his brand.

An American Sign Language interpreter, right, signs as President Donald Trump arrives for the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image

The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public image.

apnews.com · AP News

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Devin Prater :blind: @pixelate@tweesecake.social
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Okay this is wild. So there was this third-party screen reader for the Mac called Vosh. It's recently been picked up by some one who has had enough of Apple's neglect of the Mac and canned responses. And I understand that. But also I kinda want to ask why not Linux, but I understand that as well, that everything else they like about the Mac except the screen reader.

applevis.com/forum/app-develop

[Work In Progress]: Vosh - a third-party screen-reader for the Macintosh | AppleVis

After getting fed up with the general neglect of MacOS accessibility from Apple, and having wanted to work on something meaningful for quite some time, I decided to attempt something that for some reason nobody seems to have tried to do before: write a completely new screen-reader for that platform. This isn't an easy task, not only due to the amount of work required to even get close to matching a mature screen-reader in terms of functionality, but also because Apple's documentation for more obscure system services is nigh on non-existent.

www.applevis.com

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Meagen Voss @vossisboss@fosstodon.org
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I'm SO happy with how my talk was produced for 2025! The intro by Ariane Djeaupang was fantastic and the slick animated title was awesome!

Have a watch here and learn how Python devs (yes, even backend devs) can help out with on the web.

youtu.be/KrtUTEZzD6U?si=lmTtsC

Meagen Voss - Building more accessible Python-powered websites

Language: EnglishSpeaker: Meagen VossThis talk is for Python enthusiasts who want a solid introduction to best practices in web accessibility. While attendee...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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GNOME @gnome@floss.social
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This year brought great improvements to in GNOME, including:

• Accessibility from the start on the login screen
• Full accessibility of GNOME Web
• Tons of improvements to Calendar
• Screen reader integration for Notifications
• Configure screen reader from Settings
• GTK apps integrated w/Windows & macOS accessibility

Help us reach 1,500 so we can focus on accessibility even more in 2026!

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Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to
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I've had a lot of financial setbacks this year. Ripped off several times on my way out of the US. Medical emergency and follow-up appointments that had to be paid for out of pocket. Higher costs than anticipated due to Masters dragging on and tying me down past the best time to leave.

I try hard to keep costs low. I walk in a lot of pain sometimes so I can avoid paying for transportation.

I'd really appreciate whatever help you could spare trying to get an accessible ride again.

Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to
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The point to donating to this trike crowdfund on is that Bandcamp waives its fees for me on that day. Only PayPal will charge me a fee. So that increases the amount of money from a music purchase that goes to me and this recumbent crowdfund.

So this Friday, December 5th, if you're able to donate to help a disabled geezette like me out, I would so appreciate it. meganlynch.bandcamp.com/album/

Songs The Brothers Warner Taught Me, by Megan Lynch

13 track album

meganlynch.bandcamp.com · Megan Lynch

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Eventua11y @eventua11y@mastodon.social
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Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Accessibility removes barriers that many people never notice but others bump into every day. For those of you doing this work, it isn't always easy. Some days you fix one thing only to discover three more waiting behind it. But the progress you make does matter. Keep going.

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Adrien Plazas @KekunPlazas@mamot.fr
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Over November 2025, I've been able to contribute to @gnome, and it was a pleasure!

I focused on GNOME Clocks, with the goal of making it as good as possible for GNOME 50. I focused on , and all sorts of bug fixes and features, as well as issue and MR triaging.

I also fixed some tiny issues in and , and helped make gettext-pseudolocale as good as possible.

I hope to find more free time to make GNOME Clocks 50 dependable as a mobile clocks app.

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Alan J. Cain @ajcain@mathstodon.xyz
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Big update to the annotated edition of G.H. Hardy's ‘A Mathematician's Apology’: the PDF is now *tagged* (plus various minor improvements).

(A contains extra semantic information to assist screen-reading software etc.)

The new version is available ( as always) at archive.org/details/hardy_anno

The LaTeX tagging system is still under development [latex3.github.io/tagging-proje], but I have been making progress in adapting my LaTeX styles to be tagging-compatible.

For the annotated ‘Apology’, I also had to re-implement a subset of the functionality of the "manyfoot" package (which is currently not tagging-compatible), because there are two different kinds of footnotes in the annotated ‘Apology’. (Hardy's original footnotes and the annotations.)

Although the PDF passes VeraPDF validation, there may of course be mistakes in the tagging. Feedback, especially from users of screen readers, would be much appreciated, especially because I now hope to add tags to ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [archive.org/details/cain_forma].

An Annotated Mathematician's Apology : G. H. Hardy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is an annotated edition of G. H. Hardy’s A Mathematician’s Apology and ‘Mathematics in war-time’, including three essays by the annotator: the...

archive.org · Internet Archive

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Aria.DNE [grim] @grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space
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So I lost my job yesterday, which means I'm looking to ! I've been a Senior Software Dev for ~8 years, but I've been programming for more than 20 years.

I have lots of experience with C, C++, C#, Python, JS, x86 and other assembly. I've touched a lot of languages on several platforms. I have worked a bunch in simulation and robotics (ROS), open-source software, and 2D and 3D graphics.

Hoping to work with interesting people on interesting projects. Diversity and accessibility are very important to me. Remote work is preferred. I am in Canada.

Edit: Getting ahead of this now. No GenAI cultism please. No late-stage corpo ad-serving, data scraping, always online, crypto stuff either.

Thank you in advance, I love you!
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Craig Abbott @craigabbott@a11y.info
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Finally hit publish on a blog post I've been writing for a while.

It's common to hear the term "fully accessible" used to describe products which have passed WCAG 2.2 level AA. But, are they really?

In this post, I explore 5 examples which highlight why WCAG, as awesome as it is, is not a measure of great usability or performance.

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/5-

Craig Abbott presenting at a conference

5 reasons why WCAG AA compliance does not mean your website is accessible

5 reasons why WCAG compliance does not mean accessible accessible

craigabbott.co.uk · craigabbott.co.uk

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Mozilla Localization @mozilla_l10n@fosstodon.org
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Hello world 👋, here's the Mozilla Localization team. 🦊

Our goal is to make Mozilla's products available in as many languages as possible, ensuring that people can browse the web and use our platform in their native languages.

You can follow us for updates on localization progress, behind-the-scenes insights, and opportunities to get involved. We'll also share Mozilla l10n news, localizer spotlights, and more.




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W3C Developers @w3cdevs@w3c.social
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⏰ The deadline to submit a proposal for the @w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium workshop on Smart Voice Agents (Feb 2026, virtual) is 27 Nov 2025!

Smart voice agents need clearer use cases, stronger , better -based interaction, and improved accuracy, , and multilingual support. Broader concerns include device coordination, , , regulatory gaps and emerging business models.

Don’t miss your chance to present your work and submit now: w3.org/2025/10/smartagents-wor

W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents - February 2026, Virtual on zoom
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ @Blort@social.tchncs.de
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@dansup

Looks fab!

Concerned comes after all being worked on now.

I ❤️ options are planned. Concerned "ad free" options imply ads are planned as part of the roadmap?

Absence of is refreshing!

Is part of "push notifications", or just feeding everything via / ? (cue usual: "They're encrypted. Don't ask whether metasdata / future decryption / matter" discussion)

Project Moebius (?), better editing & live streaming look super cool! ❤️

Finally, a regular reminder to please avoid creating a digital 1% elite by focusing "For you" on relevance not rolling-snowball-boosting of already popular accounts/content.

Thanks for all your amazing hard work! 💕 You ROCK!

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Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to
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"New TRISLED Back O’ Bourke full suspension recumbent trike.

Standard Back O’ Bourke trike starting from $9,950. This includes 1×10 gearing, 32T chainring, comfort heel sling pedals, integrated rear rack, Big Apple or Smart Sam tyres, & Shimano disc brakes.

Make your enquiry today for further upgrade options and pricing at info@trisled.com.au."

I keep forgetting about Trisled.

trisled.com.au/hpv/back-o-bour

Back O’ Bourke

Inspired. human. power.

trisled.com.au · Trisled

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TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!

flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.

tesk.page · TheEvilSkeleton

Link author: TheEvilSkeleton@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems

TheEvilSkeleton @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
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After two long and painful years, several design iterations, and more than 50 rebases later, we finally merged the infamous, trauma-inducing merge request !362 on GNOME Calendar.

The calendars list in the quick-add popover has undergone accessibility improvements, providing a better experience for assistive technologies and keyboard users (to a limited extent). Specifically: tabbing from outside the list will focus the selected calendar in the list; tabbing from inside the list will skip the entire list; arrow keys automatically select the focused calendar; and finally, assistive technologies now inform the user of the checked/selected state.

Admittedly, the quick-add popover is currently unreachable via keyboard because we lack the resources to implement keyboard focus for month and week cells. We are currently trying to address this issue in merge request !564, and hope to get it merged for GNOME 50, but it's a significant undertaking for a single unpaid developer. If it is not too much trouble, I would really appreciate some donations, to keep me motivated to improve accessibility throughout GNOME and sustain myself: tesk.page/#donate

For non-accessibility-related details about this merge request, feel free to check out mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1155

quick-add-popover: Port to libadwaita widgets and merge stack pages (!362) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Both stack pages are merged into one, to avoid additional clicks. Mnemonics were added to accommodate keyboard users as well. Closes

gitlab.gnome.org · GitLab

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social
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I've been too busy with work to actually write on social media, but the year is soon over which means I soon have availability for new clients again, starting January 2026 👋🏻

I work freelance with web & dataviz accessibility and offer:
- Reviews (high-level or full audit)
- Consulting, advice, documentation
- Training, talks, workshops
- Help with remediation
- Front-end development

Interested?
💌 collab@fossheim.io

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Dan Q @dan@m.danq.me
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👋 Re-, because the last one had gotten a little outdated. And long.

:bisexual_flag: :polyamory_flag:​ . since 1998, fan since forever, citizen since 2018.

🇪🇺 :socialiststar: European in exile living in West , , with my partner @fleeblewidgetRuth TA (she/her), her husband @misterjtaJTA [he / his] 🇪🇺, two kids, and one . Politically .

:HackerCat:​ :threerings: Software engineer with a focus on , , and . Founded and with .

:geohashing: :geocaching: When I've time for fun, I'm into , , , and performing . Sometimes at the same time.

:hehim: He/him pronouns.

📹 Video content: me giving a 15-second summary of the above.

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Robin Kanatzar @Robinkanatzar@mastodon.green
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"Is my app accessible? Where do I start making it better?"

These are the first two questions I've been getting from my clients, and they want the answers right away. That's why I'm now offering a new service called the "accessibility checkup" to give you those answer is two business days or less. Same great report you've seen earlier drive.google.com/file/d/19rSHK
delivered to you fast.

Sound like something you or your team would be interested in? Let me know!

Sample Audit Report - Essential.pdf

drive.google.com · Google Docs

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elementary @elementary@mastodon.social
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We’ve gained a number of new followers recently—shoutouts @FediFollowsFediFollows has moved!—so maybe it’s time for a re-?

Hi! We’re elementary, an software company with a focus on ! We make —the thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS—plus , the pay-what-you-can app store.

We’ve been contributing to the desktop space for about 16 years now and we’re 100% funded by regular people just like you 💕

Jamie Dowling @captainblack@hachyderm.io
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Hello there! Here's my .

I'm Jamie, a critical illness survivor powered by classic rock and metal and regular infusions of coffee.

I'm from Birmingham, England and am currently based in the UK.

During the day I work in Cisco Unified Communications and Telecoms. Been in IT and Telecoms for a fair while. NetWare 3.11, SINIX / Reliant UNIX kind of a fair while. Been around, seen a lot.

By night I'm a husband (recently clocked up 10 years of marriage to my wife) and a Tortie Cat daddy. Meow.

We mask the hell up. COVID is not over.

We work remotely very successfully and advocate it.

We are disability, accessibility, LGBTQ* and workplace mental health advocates with lived experience.

Wouldn't say that I'm exciting, dynamic or charismatic but there's a whole bunch of stuff I'm kind of nerdy about so Fedi is the place to be, right? 😀


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masukomi @masukomi@connectified.com
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Web Developers & Designers

This is your friendly reminder that low vision users exist. We need font sizes that are dramatically larger than yours.

Many of us use the “minimum font size" NOT zoom, because we need bigger text, not bigger images.

I'm on the very low end of low vision needs, but my 20pt minimum font size breaks SO MANY web sites.

This pic shows how big fonts are on my screen (thumb & ruler for context).

A photograph of a screen with a text editor. In front of it is a thumb holding a ruler with metric and imperial measurements. 5 lines of text are just under two inches, or five centimeters tall.
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Jonathan Mosen @JonathanMosen@caneandable.social
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It is impossible to overstate the contribution Glen Gordon has made to the industry. More important even than that, his meticulous attention to detail and his understanding that something must be more than accessible, it must be efficient, has helped countless people to be productive at work, at school, and just when living life.
Glen devised many concepts that are now just thought of as the way things are done in a graphical user interface.
On top of all that, he is one of the nicest, most humble people I’ve ever met and worked with. I have heard from several young people following the National Federation of the Blind’s National Convention, at which we honored Glen with the prestigious Kenneth Jernigan award and he offered some wise advice, that Glen inspired them.
You are a legend, Glen. And although the words seem ridiculously inadequate, all I can say in conclusion is, thank you so much for all you have done.
I am pasting Glen’s LinkedIn post for those who are not over there.
Glen Gordon, Screen reading for the blind software pioneer, 24 minutes ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn, 1st
Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader.
I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom Scientific/Vispero because I found myself unable to continue working for a company that’s changing in ways that are moving away from my personal values.
As recently as the 2025 NFB convention, I was thinking that I’d be working on JAWS far into the future. Much to my surprise, a recent influx of new Executive leaders and customer facing product related changes convinced me that it was time to leave.
I leave behind a group of smart and passionate colleagues, and products which are the best in class. It’s been a great journey, and I thank all of you who have been users of Freedom Scientific software for some or all that time.
Yes, I’m retiring, in the sense that I’m of retirement age and not actively seeking another job. But I’m resigning in the sense that I felt I needed to take a principled stand.
I will continue doing my part to improve the state of accessibility. What that will look like will evolve over time.

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Elena Brescacin @elettrona@poliversity.it
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Italian, European, citizen of the world. Internet user since 1998 but started with PC in 1989. Formerly facebook, now stable on Mastodon - formerly "talksina" on MastodonUno italian instance; still "talksina" as handle into Linkedin, WordPress .org profile, google (till it lasts) and github, as it's impossible to edit profile name. I believe in data liberation and ownership. I work on accessibility (web and apps), I have a disability myself (totally blind). Blogger, WordPress user and MarkDown lover, interested in electronic voices and creating audio-dramas with text-to-speech. AI user, moderately optimistic. HIV awareness advocate. Firmly against tech-based "age verification" on sexuality related sites. Education should do the job, allowing governments to control Internet is introduction to censorship.

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Elena Brescacin @elettrona@poliversity.it
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Mezzo Fediverso italiano mi conosce ma siccome mi sto un po' alla volta liberando del vecchio nick "talksina" in cui non mi riconosco più, sto gradualmente migrando da @talksinaElena Brescacin a qui. Principalmente per liberarmi dalla schiavitù dei 500 caratteri. Immagine del profilo per ora no, aspetto di farne una coi nuovi occhiali addosso. Continuerò a occuparmi di , e anche attivismo se serve.

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