To other #blind #students, what tools have you used to help you format your papers with #APA styling and #citations? My #university provides #Perrla for free to students, but it doesn't seem to be the most #accessible with #ScreenReaders, at least not the online version. I haven't tried the add-on for #MicrosoftWord. With the online version, though, I don't see any keyboard shortcuts, and when you move into the edit box to start writing a paper, focus gets trapped there and it's hard to get out, so I don't think it's the best tool for me. The only other tool I know of is the reference manager built into Microsoft Word, but it seems to have fewer features and doesn't really help you format your paper like Perrla does, something I was looking forward to since all the APA rules for styling seem hard to remember.
#College #CollegeStudent #accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReaders #writing
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1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.
TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.
#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant
RE: https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0
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Tipp: Office-Dokumente nach PDF wandeln
PDFs werden in der heutigen Bürowelt häufig gebraucht. So erstellen Sie sie einfach und schnell auf dem Mac.
In all my years of cutting and pasting, Microsoft's assumptions about what I'm trying to select have never been correct. Ever.
It's always a fight!
Microsoft tests ad-financed Office Light
Microsoft 365 without subscription fees, but with advertising. Some users can try this out. There are many restrictions.
Microsoft testet werbefinanziertes Office Light
Microsoft 365 ohne Abo-Gebühren, dafür mit Werbung. Das können manche User ausprobieren. Es gibt viele Einschränkungen.
#Doom ported to a standalone #MicrosoftWord document — plays well but there's no sound
6.6MB document runs on x86 systems with modern #MicrosoftOffice installations.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/doom-ported-to-a-standalone-microsoft-word-document-plays-well-but-theres-no-sound
heise+ | Copilot in privaten Microsoft-365-Abos im Test
Microsoft integriert seinen KI-Assistenten Copilot in die Abonnements Microsoft 365 Family und Microsoft 365 Personal und hat gleichzeitig die Preise erhöht.
#TIL:
Eine .docx-Datei ist eigentlich ein Archiv. Wenn man sie in .zip umbenennt, kann man auf die Inhalte einzeln zugreifen, z.B. auf eingebundene Bilder.
Dear writers (but also artists of otter kinds), especially those writing smut, kink and everything in between,
Do you publish your work in form of files on various websites? Please for the love of Cthulhu - scrub your metadata! Some programs, particularly Microsoft Word really love to get very intimate with your IRL identity (by integrating with your Microsoft account) and then default to produce all documents with your legal name baked into them.
I've sent 3 messages to writers because 3 writers out of 20 stories I've downloaded off a furry website had their legal name in file metadata. 
This wasn't intended if to believe 2 of responses I've got.
If you care about separation of your online identity and IRL identity, do make sure your documents don't have more than you are willing others to see in the metadata.
After being inspired by DoomPDF (a port of Doom that will run from a PDF), software engineer Wojciech Graj (who has made other Doom projects, like an ASCII version, a Minecraft version, and a Stardew Valley version) has now made a version of Doom that runs in a 6.6MB Microsoft Word document: https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-docm.
More about it here: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/doom-ported-to-a-standalone-microsoft-word-document-plays-well-but-theres-no-sound
I'm seeking advice from anyone who has recently crafted a #resume. I have a potential #JobOffer and need to create one. If you've done this recently, how did you approach it? I've explored several #ResumeBuilders but am unsure which ones are #accessible and suitable for me. I wanted to generate a resume from my #LinkedIn profile, but it seems that feature is no longer available. Additionally, I've attempted college three times but had to withdraw each time due to #ChronicIllness. My primary experience includes contract usability testing and earning certificates through #freeCodeCamp and #Codecademy. How would you recommend addressing this on a resume? I'm considering a #FunctionalResume template in #MicrosoftWord, but it's quite daunting.
#JobSearch #CareerAdvice #ResumeTips #DisabilityAwareness #ChronicIllnessAwareness #accessibility #spoonie #CareerDevelopment
Phishing: Angreifer umgehen Virenscan mittels beschädigter Word-Dokumente
Sicherheitsforscher sind auf eine neue Methode gestoßen, wie Cyberkriminelle präparierte Dokumente am Virenschutz vorbeischieben.
@vvelox @SecurityWriter @hollowone
In terms of #Desktop #Apps I disagree:
- Almost everything just runs with #Wine & #DXVK unless explicitly designed to brick it (i.e. #MicrosoftOffice) or using #malware as #DRM & #AntiCheat.
As for #collaboration tools, I think that @nextcloud and @CollaboraOffice are the way better options than #Office365 and those ain't the only ones on the market either (see #openXchange and other suites)...
- Like I'd subscribe to @monocles or @Stuxhost any day for that and I'm shure both are receptive to organization-based subscribers...
And unless you want to make printable stuff, #git and fancy frontends like #gitlab and #gitea exist that make it easy to collaboratetively edit #markdown to the point that it's my go-to solution.
- In fact most good work I've done was in #Scribus re: layout and once you go into #mathematics and #engineering, #LaTeX literally blows #MicrosoftWord out of the water...
In the end my observation is that most people don't switch because either it's not painful enough and/or they just don't know better and think that #computing must suck as a fact of life!
IMPORTANT: Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to enabled by default
Reminder if you use #MicrosoftOffice/ #MicrosoftWord/ #Microsoft365...
In a recent update #Microsoft has turned on a feature that now sends your documents to Microsoft's cloud so it can train their #AI. They are literally stealing your #IntellectualProperty as you create it to train an AI on your thoughts and creativity.
Please spread the news so everyone is aware.
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/113535711117010255
Send an editable MS Word file with "track changes" enabled to Saudi Arabia, send PDFs to everybody else. Get caught.
»Earlier on Saturday, a document was circulated by the Azerbaijani presidency with updates to the negotiating text […]
The document was sent with “tracked changes” from the previously circulated version. In two cases, the document showed edits were made directly by Basel Alsubaity, who is from the Saudi ministry of energy and the lead on the JTWP.«
To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their AI bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word.
Here's how to turn it off.
> Programs > Programs and Features > Uninstall Microsoft Office > Open browser > go to https://libreoffice.org > download @libreoffice
Then install LibreOffice on your computer and use Writer instead of Word.