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Standards Are Important

May 1, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 4 Comments

Introduction For nearly twenty years, the community of people working on disability related issues involving technology have worked very hard to create a set of standards, guidelines and best practices for accessibility. This article intends to explore the history of why the rich set of standards we now have available to developers had to be… Read more about Standards Are Important

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Standards, universal design, WAI/Aria, WCAG

Back In The USA

April 21, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction As I wrote in my previous piece, I spent the weekend of 4/12-13 at the QED conference in Manchester, England. This event is run by the terrific people at the Merseyside Skeptics Society (MSS) who did an incredible job of lining up speakers, arranging panels and delivering all of it in an entirely accessible… Read more about Back In The USA

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Be Reasonable, Disability, Humanism, QED, Skepticism

QED! QED! QED!

March 23, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction Regular readers of this blog (both of you) would already know that I’m a vocal skeptic, humanist, atheist and science enthusiast. When I have the opportunity, I enjoy meeting up with other like minded people at conferences, “pub” events, local dinners and other similar gatherings. In our winter residence in Florida, I enjoy the… Read more about QED! QED! QED!

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Conference, QED, Science, Skepticism

Good Books, Bad Books, You Know I’ve Had My Share

March 16, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction Regular readers of this blog, which is to say people who read the articles I write unrelated to disability as well as those about accessibility and such (about 10 of you), would know that I’m also passionate about music, literature, poetry and a lot of other artistic endeavors. At any given time, I’m usually… Read more about Good Books, Bad Books, You Know I’ve Had My Share

Filed Under: Book Review, Music Review Tagged With: Books, Led Zeppelin, Light In August, Music, Rock and Roll, The Blues, When Giants walked The Earth, William Faulkner

Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers’ Perspective

February 21, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 15 Comments

Introduction [This is an edited and corrected version of the article I posted on 2/21/2014. As always, when a factual correction is presented, I go back and fix the problems. I’ve listed the two factual corrections in a section following the Introduction section. I’ve also made a few grammatical changes but these change nothing at… Read more about Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers’ Perspective

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Accessibility API, Android, Apple, Gnome, Google, iOS, Microsoft, OSX, Windows

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