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A Cast Of Thousands

September 8, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

Introduction Last month James “Jamie” Teh announced he would be leaving NVAccess, an organization he co-founded with Mick Curren to create, improve and maintain NVDA, the screen reader used by an estimated 40% of blind people on the Windows platform. Almost immediately, I started receiving Twitter direct messages (DMs) and emails asking what I thought… Read more about A Cast Of Thousands

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: FLOSS, Free Software, Freedom Scientific, Jamie Teh, NVAccess, NVDA, VFO

Seeing AI: First Impressions

July 14, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 10 Comments

Introduction On July 12 of this year, Microsoft released a pretty remarkable new app for Apple’s iOS line of products. The app is called Seeing AI: Talking Camera For The Blind, it can be used to perform OCR, recognize products, to do facial recognition and (in a beta state) to have a scene described to… Read more about Seeing AI: First Impressions

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Blindness, iOS, Microsoft, Seeing AI

Howard Kaplan, Spotlight Gateway and Me

February 1, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Announcements, Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: AAO, Activism, Apple, FFB, Howard Kaplan, iPad, New York Lighthouse, San Francisco Lighthouse, Spotlight Gateway, SpotlightText, Visually Impaired Awareness Month

Deque Opens Up

July 14, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

Introduction When it comes to accessibility, I live in a world of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, based both in objective measures and in my own use cases, I am compelled to admit that, as of this writing, Apple, especially on iOS, is the “best” provider of out-of-the-box accessibility. At the same time, as I… Read more about Deque Opens Up

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, automated web accessibility test tools, Deque Systems, FLOSS, Open Source

Apple’s Super Secret New Product

June 9, 2015 by gonz 5 Comments

Forward This article was written by contributing editor Gonz Blinko. From time to time, Gonz, with whom I rarely spend any time anymore, still sends me an article for publication here. I received this one from him this morning and found it interesting, informative and, as always is the case when Gonz writes a piece… Read more about Apple’s Super Secret New Product

Filed Under: Announcements, Fiction, Guest Post Tagged With: Apple, Fiction, Gonz Blinko, iTurd, Satire

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