a Introduction I’ve known Peter Korn, accessibility architect at Amazon, for nearly as long as I’ve been in the access technology world. He and I have worked on some of the same committees, forums and other working groups over the years and I’ve long been impressed with his intellect and ideas but, more so, with… Read more about Amazon’s Sky Rocket To Improved Accessibility
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Howard Kaplan, Spotlight Gateway and Me
February is visually impaired awareness month so I chose to write about a very interesting project being announced today by a number of organizations and companies. Introduction Spotlight Gateway, announced today by a number of blindness organizations, a large pharmaceutical company and Bookshare intends to provide an iPad to every underprivileged child who is either… Read more about Howard Kaplan, Spotlight Gateway and Me
It’s Gotten Much Worse: ADA Trolling A Year Later
Epigram “More than 240 businesses nationwide have been sued in federal court since the start of 2015,” Sara Randazzo, The Wall Street Journal. Introduction Nearly a year ago, I published an article titled, “Stop The ADA Trolls” describing how the Pennsylvania law firm Carlson Lynch Sweet & Kilpela LLP (Carlson/Lynch) was perpetrating a lawsuit blitzkrieg… Read more about It’s Gotten Much Worse: ADA Trolling A Year Later
2016 In Review, A Few Predictions for 2017
Introduction I want to start this piece with an apology to all of the many readers who have made this into such a successful blog over the past nearly eleven years. In 2016, including this one, I’ve only published 5 articles, compared to an average of more than 20 in most years since I ended… Read more about 2016 In Review, A Few Predictions for 2017
EZ Fire Or Sleazy Liar?
Epigrams “What you can’t buy, you gotta steal, and what you can’t steal, you better leave,” Joe Strummer. “When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted you must shun him on the roadside when you meet him, you must shun him in the streets of the town, you must shun him… Read more about EZ Fire Or Sleazy Liar?