FYI for folks using the BrailleNote Evolve, Remote Incident Manager is installed on the units so you can get remote support from Humanware.

My initial impressions of the BrailleNote evolve as a product still aren't 100% glowing, but the fact that HumanWare support helped me get my braille back (by reinstalling Windows), on a weekend, especially the weekend of July 4th, says something incredibly positive about their support team. That's something you don't get many places. The evolve's going through OOBE again over there.

Happy Independence Day! After 250 years, I think it's time we live up to our founding ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There is no life without the ability to afford it, no liberty without the power to say no, and no happiness with unmet basic needs.

UBI makes our ideals real.

A 12 year old child in the United States or Canada and arguably in many other countries can get the highest level of a ham radio license and theoretically build or service a 1500 watt tube amplifier. This exposes them to lethal voltages. They are however forbidden from participating in “social media”.

The problem isn’t the children, it’s the tech bro billionaires and their non stop harvesting of your data.

As Independence Day approaches in the United States, many of us are also preparing for some of the biggest blindness-related gatherings of the year, including the #ACB and #NFB26 national conventions in the United States and the UK’s #SightVillage Exhibition.
At Pneuma Solutions, we can’t think of a better time to celebrate a new level of independence for blind and low-vision technology professionals and consumers.
For a blind technician, trainer, teacher, or support specialist, independence is not just about using your own computer. It is also about being able to help someone else use theirs.
That is where #RemoteIncidentManager changes the game.
With RIM, a blind user can connect to a sighted end user’s computer, even when that computer does not already have a screen reader installed, and still perform a fully accessible remote support or training session. Whether the user is on Windows or Mac, RIM gives blind professionals the ability to work directly, efficiently, and independently.
To celebrate this milestone, Pneuma Solutions is offering unlimited access to Remote Incident Manager completely free for the next 27 days.
Whether you are at convention and get asked to help a friend, colleague, or family member with a computer problem, or you are traveling and need to reach back to your own machine at home, RIM is ready to make the process quick, painless, and accessible.
For the rest of the month, it will not cost you a dime!
Download Remote Incident Manager, start a session, and experience remote desktop access built for the independence of blind people from the ground up.
Visit GetRim.app to get started.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116855182902859321

I have my account bridged to #bluesky, so hopefully people there will see this.

🎉 We've reached 400 followers! 🎉

A warm BITS welcome to our 400th follower, @DHarvey and heartfelt thanks to everyone who's joined us here.

Whether you've been with us from the beginning or are just climbing aboard, we're grateful you're part of our community as we explore technology, accessibility, and inclusion together.

Here's to the next milestone! 🚀💙
For more about BITS visit:
https://bits-acb.org

NLS announced that sometime in the future they will add synced reading positions to BARD Mobile and the DA2 and other BARD platforms, so that you can stop a book on one and start it again on another from where you left off. #NFB26

RE: https://flipboard.com/@politico/politics-u9ikh4qkz/-/a-CZkxlrc3RCWn7cBymFRn5w%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0

Yay! Steve Bannon argues that #Mandami #BernieSanders #DSA are the ascendant political force like the #TeaParty populists pre-Koch corruption, and both MAGA and Democratic Party playbooks of "money wins" and traditional endorsements will no longer be determinate - enthusiasm, commitment, actions, and a resonant working people's message is now "the coin of the political realm" not billionaire or Party money that wins (take that SCOTUS).

Bannon is pretty freaked out by Colorado socialists wins. He believes Mandami is not just a localized liberal NYC one-off, but a national trend. Bannon intimates that Trump is a disruptor, not a populist and cannot be replicated. Bannon, an unrepentant global white Christian nationalist/fascist is pushing his fear of this new emerging political change as "Marxist jihadism" ie every accusation is a confession.

It may be why Trump is pushing "Commie" fearmongering... meanwhile a J6er Trump pardoned was revealed to have been a paid agent for Rubio's nemesis Cuba (paid by the grandson of Fidel, a Cuban government official). But low info MAGA don't care - they're angered by high prices in food, housing, and healthcare, by opulence and ostentatious shoved-in-our-faces wealth by those who claim to care but don't. Trump and MAGA and Musk as the avatars of the billionaire/trillionaire Epstein class are over.

Apparently, they are scaring away very few voters....at least few enough that the DSA has won half (38 out of 76) of the local, state, and national elections they've run in 2026 including, most recently, in Colorado.

https://2026.electoral.dsausa.org/

In Finder on Mac, use command plus shift plus A to quickly move focus to the applications folder. Command plus shift plus you will move your focus to the utilities subfolder. #BitsTips # Mac #keyboard

Hey Apple, I know you can send files via the Share sheet, but do you know what I mostly use the Share Sheet for 99.99.99% of the time? Copying something to the clipboard. Text, URLs, you name it because I have friends across platforms and services. Could one of you brilliant code people explain to me why such a useful button, copy to clipboard, is hidden behind a menu that isn't the first, more, menu? I'm starting to think tech people don't have friends to share stuff, because if they did, this button wouldn't be hidden behind a super secret view more menu in the Share sheet that isn't in the first, more, button in the Share sheet. #Apple

Quickmail 0.7.8.1 is available with fixes for attachments not working properly to save or open, shift+F10 not working the first time it is pressed within the app and more logging of what the program is doing behind the scenes if you run with /debug. https://github.com/kellylford/QuickMail/releases/tag/v0.7.8.1

Pending any large issues, this will be the last release for a few days as I transition to a different install technology that will support automatic updating and add additional test coverage with such a change.

This past week I have seen a dozen or more videos where Russian women film themselves crying in their cars, because they cannot fill up the tank due to Ukraine's "Long range sanctions".

These women have been paying taxes for more than four years to a regime which has been murdering, torturing, raping, and plundering in Ukraine, and abducting Ukrainian children, and now they are losing it due to fuel scarcity?

Honey… What did you think murdering civilians in Ukraine would lead to?

None of this is about protecting children https://theintercept.com/2026/06/28/age-verification-privacy-surveillance-journalists-whistleblowers/

Abbreviations are disabled so as to not surprise users. You can enable in the menus or from the command palette. The evil r/s/a bug is gone thank goodness! Sorry everyone.

We will be highly responsive to point releases when issues/bugs are reported. The Check for Update procedure is now working and for this release we are asking people to visit the web site to obtain the latest build. This shouldn't, knocking on wood, be a problem moving forward. We have extended infrastructure to assist with this coverage at this point.

All bugs, issues, constructive feedback and suggestions have made it into the latest release of QUILL and we thank those who have contributed their ideas, bugs, suggestions and honest assessments of the product. Do remember, this is a beta. Direct attention will be given to continued bug fixes, enhanced hotkey management and discoverability and refinements to the document compare functionality. AI is also in the mix and you will see changes slowly in this area over time.

It showed the HTML, so I will just post the link. http://quillforall.org #quill #quillforall

Now, let's see what happens if I use HTML to post a hyperlink to Mastodon. <a href="http://quillforall.org">quill for all web site</a> #quill #quillforall