Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, June 4, 2026 - Volume 1070 | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of The PWD Media Co-Op
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The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.
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Leadership hears "AI writes the code now."
Engineering hears "I am about to spend my weekend reading code I did not write."
It is a power tool. Amazing on the deck. Less amazing when you hand it the load-bearing wall.
The Accessible View is one of the screen reader features I rely on most in VS Code. Press Alt+F2 and it pulls the current content, hover docs, errors, terminal output, into a buffer you can read line by line. Escape closes it.
#accessibility
NVDA 2026.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing!
https://t.co/AwvxRc9Y9c
This release includes a built-in magnifier, improved braille & touch support, custom speech dictionaries, press NVDA+x to repeat the last spoken, and more!
#NVDA#NVDAsr#ScreenReader#NewVersion
Assumptions are fine. Unflagged assumptions are the bug.
I'm a blind developer. I can't glance at AI's code and trust it, so I read every line through a screen reader.
The worst case is big codebases. The AI pattern matches. It assumes the rest of the repo works like the part in front of it, instead of tracing where the data comes from or who uses it.
I used to remind it constantly. Then I wrote it into the rules it has to follow. Now the assumptions get flagged instead of buried.
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In this week's In-Process blog:
- Update on NVDA 2025.1
- Planning for CSUN
- What's on the web
- Paragraphs in Braille
And bonus history of the Pilcrow! (Ok I was interested)
https://t.co/VoGUlJfii0
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Just marked my 2-year milestone with AWS 🎉. Decided to venture into the world of GCP, just to diversify a little :) I must say, if you're utilizing a screen reader, you won't be let down! More motivation to delve deeper into the world of GCP! #GoogleCloud#AccessibilityMatters