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Testing Android Accessibility: I Give Up

January 9, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 21 Comments

A few months ago, a friend of mine who prefers Android accessibility to that available from Apple on its iOS devices, sold me a Google Nexus/7 tablet so I could try it out and, perhaps, write an article about its accessibility. Since early October,, I’ve tried to use the Nexus/7 to perform the same tasks… Read more about Testing Android Accessibility: I Give Up

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Accessibility API, Android, failure, iOS, Nexus/7, NVDA, TalkBack, Windows

Fighting Plate Tectonics

December 19, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

“Continental drift causes an enormous level of financial hardship, personal tragedy property damage and destruction. Its earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunami kill indiscriminately. Plate tectonics must be stopped!” said Doctor Genevieve Sitarski from the University of New Mexico, Peyote Campus in her keynote address at the Conference on Ending Plate Tectonics, held earlier this year at… Read more about Fighting Plate Tectonics

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, Geology, Gonz Blinko, Humor

Spam From The Ghetto

November 2, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

A few days ago, I received an advertisement email from the Korean access technology company, HIMS. The email had the subject line, “Next Generation Braille Notetaker Just Released” and it described a $4000 device running some oddball version of Windows which had no more than a minimal set of features. Recently, former FS executive, Jonathan… Read more about Spam From The Ghetto

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Blind Ghetto, iOS, Jonathan Mosen, mainstream

I Left My Hair in San Francisco

October 14, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Chris, with maniacal grin, wearing long braids sticking out of either side of his head

It’s been a long time since I last wrote a random musings article. In fact, I haven’t written anything like this since the BlindConfidential days. Lots of things cross my mind that may be interesting or amusing to our readers so I will write them down here and hope you people enjoy them. Locks of… Read more about I Left My Hair in San Francisco

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Apple, Google, Hair, iOS, Locks of Love, Music, Musings, Shelley Segal

Progress in Screen Reading: Android and iOS

October 8, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Since my middle school days,I did all of my computing either with a braille notetaking device or on a computer. People told me that, with the limited vision I had, a screen magnifier would be the best access technology for me to use. So, for years I was convinced that screen magnification should be my… Read more about Progress in Screen Reading: Android and iOS

Filed Under: Guest Post, Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Apple, Google, innovation, iOS, Mobile, progress, TalkBack, VoiceOver

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