Keunes @keunes@mastodon.social

#Fediverse some #fedijobs to bring to your attention!

Martel Innovate has two vacancies related to #HorizonEurope and @EC_NGI

"Passionate about engaging innovators' communities and promoting R&D projects across #Europe and beyond?

We are looking for you! Join the Martel team in the #Netherlands as Communication & Dissemination Specialist"

- Communication & Dissemination Manager

- Communication & Dissemination Specialist

Check https://www.martel-innovate.com/about/join-martel/

#Job #NGI #Innovation #EU

Please boost for visibility: Global Accessibility Awareness day (#GAAD) is on May 19th. I’d like everyone that can to turn off your monitor, or close the laptop lid and connect a keyboard, or close your eyes, and turn on your OS screen reader, and use your computer with it. How does it make you feel? Do you know enough keyboard commands? Does it give you enough info? Does it make you enjoy using the computer? Do you feel productive? Why or why not? #a11y #screenreader #blind

The curb cut effect: for example, media descriptions right here on Mastodon help people who use screen readers, but they are also useful for explaining the joke for people who don’t get it, for translations of text, and for copy-pasting what would otherwise be just an image of text.

We shipped quite a few improvements to https://fediverse.info!

✨ Popular + Trending + Recent topics

⚡ Call to action for easier submissions

✨ Secure mode supported (signed requests)

⚡ Improved profile resolution w/ webfinger support

✨ New projects added, and pleroma added to feature table on landing page

What else would you like to see? #fediverseInfo

Happy to see that @EC_OSPO has published the study about "funding mechanisms for sustaining #OpenSource #software for #European public services" in which I have marginally participated.

Lots to read to see if some of my recommendations/comments have been included.

I've seen that at least @libreoffice has been mentioned as critical Open Source software for public services (on which we recently did a bug bounty organised by @EU_Commission).

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/fosseps/news/funding-sustainability

Hey Fediverse experts, is there an app like Buffer or Hootsuite that works for Mastodon? Asking for a friend.

(That friend is @thunderbird)

#AskFediverse

Do you want to #StandUpForHumanRights?
Then we need you! We are looking for #EUjobs trainees.

We especially welcome applications from under-represented groups with our #RomaEU and #disability trainee schemes.
📌Closes 23 May 13:00 CET

Check out how here: https://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra/recruitment/vacancies

It's completely understated how dramatically #climate change will increase the chances of animal to human transmission of disease.

Not saying this case is that -- it's not -- but there's a not too distant future where these jumps happen a lot more often.

https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/first-human-case-of-h3n8-bird-flu-detected-in-china/

RT @makoshark@twitter.com

A "hybrid" course at #CHI2022 in which the instructor and all registered (paying) attendees were remote. Someone was guarding the door to make sure nobody snuck in to watch the Zoom session being projected to the completely empty room.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/makoshark/status/1521935465166876675

@aral put in strongest terms that we should avoid the term "User" in software development.

I've been practicing this, which is not always easy. What I found is that it is not the alternative terminology and language we use that is most important, but the extra attention, added awareness and the thought process we follow that makes the difference.

> Best practice: By trying to avoid referring to people as “Users” we force ourself to be more focused on their actual needs

https://discuss.coding.social/t/humane-design-avoiding-the-term-user/61

Considered "18+"
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/02/considered-18/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248250

The makers of @pixelfed, the Fediverse photo sharing platform, have just created a slick new guide to the Fediverse at:

https://fediverse.info

It's got a list of Fedi projects, a list of mobile apps for Fedi platforms and an opt-in directory of people to follow.

The directory is particularly interesting as it works very differently to FediFollows or Trunk. You add hashtags to your profile plus a special extra hashtag #Fedi22, then submit your profile to the site, and it will become searchable for the tags in your profile.

(And, yes, Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, see here for details: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108215973331591896)

#FediverseInfo #Fediverse #FediTips #MastoTips

PSA: If you're having troubles submitting your Pleroma account to the https://fediverse.info/explore/people directory, try using following format:

instance.tld/users/username

(don't forget to add https:// at the beginning!)

Wow, this looks great. #OpenStreetMap rules!

Draw maps in the style of the 1777 Ferraris Maps and then compare current maps with those of the old day with movable slider to show the before and after differences.

https://manuelclaeysbouuaert.be/projects/ferrargis.html

Accessibility is important, and often taken for granted by those who don't depend on it.

That's why we added the option to require every photo you post to contain an alt-text description before it can be posted!

We're working to enforce this on 3rd party/mobile apps too.

#pixelfed #accessibility