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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

NVDA Remote Access

March 10, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 24 Comments

Introduction Back in December, I wrote an article called, “2014 In Review And Predictions For 2015” in which I somewhat disingenuously predict that this will be a big year for NVDA. I say “disingenuously” not because I don’t think this is true but, rather, because I had a lot of insider knowledge about some of… Read more about NVDA Remote Access

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Free Software, JAWS, NVDA, NVDA RA, Remote Access

Back In The Game

May 19, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction After I left my Freedom Scientific office for the last time in November 2004, I turned my professional path to one in which I worked for an AT company to working in accessibility contracting, mostly for research groups. This time has allowed me to work on projects far outside the range of things that… Read more about Back In The Game

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: 3 Mouse Technology, 3MouseTech, a11y, Accessibility, Christopher Toth, Mike Calvo, Services

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