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Work: A Personal Perspective

April 24, 2018 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Introduction For the past nine months or so, I've been doing a lot of research into the issue of employment among the population of people with vision impairment. I'm still learning a lot about this issue and discovering that the problem is profoundly more complex than I would have ever predicted. At one time when… Read more about Work: A Personal Perspective

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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

Testing Android: A Deaf-Blind Perspective

January 17, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

[Editor’s note: This guest post was written by my new friend Scott. He’s a deaf-blind technology consumer who uses computational devices via a braille interface alone. He is also an adaptive technology instructor teaching those who are deaf-blind, and a member of the AppleVis editorial Team. This post is written purely from the perspective of… Read more about Testing Android: A Deaf-Blind Perspective

Filed Under: Guest Post, Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Braille, deaf-blind, failure, iOS, universal design, Windows

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

An Introduction to Media Players on GNU/Linux

September 16, 2013 by josh Leave a Comment

If you are a user of Ubuntu GNU/Linux, While working using the Orca screen reader (automatically installed and running if you use the Vinux 4 distribution of Ubuntu), you will probably also enjoy listening to music or to an audio book for entertainment, personal edification or education. Two of my favorite media players for listening… Read more about An Introduction to Media Players on GNU/Linux

Filed Under: Guest Post, Tutorial Tagged With: Accessibility, Gnome, GNU/Linux, Media Players, Orca

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