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Personal Essay

2014 In Review And Predictions For 2015

December 7, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 5 Comments

Introduction It’s been a while since I’ve done one of my random musings pieces. I think about all sorts of shit and, sometimes, I type up such notions and present them to you, my loyal readers. In this piece, I thought I might talk a bit about this blog itself and how it performed over… Read more about 2014 In Review And Predictions For 2015

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Access Technology, Accessibility, analytics, Marketshare

Preserving Our History

July 29, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

Introduction Recently, I wrote an article called “Job Access With Bugs?,” in which I explore some of the generally accepted notions around access technology for PWVI. That article came as part of my ongoing attempt to record the history of the screen reader in the years following 1998, when I joined Henter-Joyce as Director of… Read more about Preserving Our History

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Blazie Engineering, BNS, Dean Blazie, GW Micro, Henter-Joyce, History, JAWS, Ted Henter, Window-Eyes

An Open Letter To Mark Riccobono

July 23, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

A Note To Our readers Mark Riccobono is the new president of NFB, that nation’s largest group advocating for people with vision impairment. I find him an interesting choice as president of the organization. This is a letter Ive drafted to him regarding NFB, technology and its recent resolution asking Apple to require accessibility for… Read more about An Open Letter To Mark Riccobono

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NFB

Job Access With Bugs?

July 13, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 10 Comments

Introduction For years, I’ve heard anecdotal reports that JAWS, the world’s most popular screen reader, has more bugs, is less reliable, more unstable and of a generally poorer quality than some of its competitors. In that same period, starting in 1998 and continuing until today, I have never seen a single bit of quantitative evidence… Read more about Job Access With Bugs?

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, JAWS, Quality, Screen Reader, Window-Eyes

Remembering GW Micro

May 13, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 5 Comments

Introduction Over the past few weeks, those of us who follow such things have heard two major announcements from GW Micro, the first announcing that they had decided to start selling consulting services and the second announcing that they had been acquired by AI Squared, the Vermont based publishers of the market dominant low vision… Read more about Remembering GW Micro

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Access Technology, Freedom Scientific, GW Micro, Henter-Joyce, JAWS, NVDA, Rant, Window-Eyes

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