Ever wanted to be able to control your Android screen reader with JavaScript? Backtalk now lets you do just that! @Aryan has already made scripts to combine the more actions and go to channel buttons in the YouTube app into accessibility actions instead, thus making videos only one swipe element, and doing the same for the update and view details buttons in the app updates section of the play store. Here's how simple this is, speak a message whenever settings opens:
export const manifest = {
id: 'hello',
name: 'Hello',
version: '1.0',
author: 'You',
minApiVersion: 1,
testedApiVersion: 1,
apps: ['com.android.settings'],
permissions: ['speech'],
};

backtalk.onAppEnter(() => backtalk.speak('Hello from a script'));

I've just tried backtalk, and it is amazing! The only annoying thing is that I can't use my banking app with the screenreader.

Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs (TrendForce)

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20261008-13264.html
http://www.techmeme.com/261010/p7#a261010p7

Rungui is a small (16kloc) portable desktop GUI library built as a wrapper over GTK3 (Linux), Win32 (Windows) and Cocoa (macOS). It has no other Rust dependencies and builds in seconds. https://github.com/graydon/rungui

I'm happy to announce scriptview 0.2.0, a tool that shows you the source code of compiled AppleScript files, on macOS, Linux and Windows. This does feel slightly weird for me because it's the first time I'm truly vibe coding something; Claude did practically all of the coding, and I directed, reviewed, pushed back, and read through endless amounts of old documentation and bytecode.
What it does:

• Reads compiled scripts, bundles and applets, and matches osadecompile line for line on every script that ships with macOS and on 6,133 of 6,142 scripts from GitHub.
• Rebuilds the source of run-only scripts from their bytecode. No comments, but the code comes back perfectly.
• Reads classic Mac OS scripts back to AppleScript 1.0 in 1993, from resource forks, ._ files, MacBinary and BinHex. Current macOS refuses to open many of these.

The macOS builds are signed and notarized, so no Gatekeeper dance.

Downloads: https://github.com/trypsynth/scriptview/releases/tag/v0.2.0

It's open source under MIT, and the docs folder has everything we learned about the format, much of which wasn't written down anywhere before. #AppleScript #macOS #accessibility

First week with my new bambulap A1 3d printer, and it's amazing!

Googlebook’s app situation is a mess, and not just because things are missing https://9to5google.com/2026/10/09/googlebook-app-situation-messy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RE: https://social.visionhub.ie/@adrian/117390003573683525

This. Absolutely this. I don't understand why everyone is going crazy over glasses when there are plenty of other devices, let's start with Ring Door-bells but we can talk about phones, watches, anything you like, that already have the power to video, photograph and record you. Oh yes and let's not forget dash cams and cars themselves.

If you have a Pixel watch or any other similar wear OS enabled device, I cannot recommend trying backtalk enough. Natural bias, of course, Backtalk is my baby, but using the rotor to change between reading controls feels very good on this size of screen, and actually being able to do that on my watch is incredible, as is the circular menu and status readout. I've still got some improvements to make, for example figuring out why the settings app of all things makes it lag so bad when scrolling, but now the main thing stopping me from using my Pixel watch 4 is the fact that I got the larger size and it's slightly uncomfortable on my tiny little wrists, not the screen reader. https://github.com/trypsynth/backtalk

W Social verspricht, botfrei zu sein. Dafür muss sich man beim Registrieren mit seinem Personalausweis verifizieren. Wie eine "Einlasskontrolle im Club".
Wie erklärt sich dann eine öffentlich einsehbare Liste mit Klarnamen, Geburtsjahren und Nationalität auf ihrem Server?

Ich habe mit @martinfehrensen die Recherche aufgedröselt, mit Menschen von dieser Liste gesprochen und auch mit W Social - die das alles mit "public by design" erklären.

Heute exklusiv bei Haken dran:
https://hakendran.podigee.io/638-glaesern-by-design-mit-martin-fehrensen

Finally back on mastodon.

Why are those touch vending machines everywhere? I went today to a burger king. I just wanted a burger. But the managers of burgerking seemingly value money over accessibility.

Meine lehrerin so: "leute ihr habt ab 11:30 Hitzefrei" wir so: "Geil". denken wir dürfen chillen mit freunden reden. sie so: "nicht reden, nich ans handy, und auf keinen fall die Bank verlassen!!! wir planen jetz Tages ausflüge"

I think amazon don't likes me! Yesterday i got the message: your package is lost! really? really? i ordered it 3 times, and 3 times it is lost!

Ich habe heute nur Schule biss 11:20 uhr! geil!

Ich bin im internat und habe keinen bock mehr. Überall um mich herumm sind kleine Kinder!