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Screen Reader Failure: Innovation, Deterioration, Despair

July 29, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 26 Comments

Eight days ago, I wrote an article here called “The Death of Screen Reader Innovation” and posted it on Saturday July 20, 2013. For a variety of reasons I didn’t expect this article to be much of a hit. I posted the item on a Saturday, typically a slow day for traffic on this site,… Read more about Screen Reader Failure: Innovation, Deterioration, Despair

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Despair, Employment, failure, Freedom Scientific, innovation, JAWS, NVDA

The Death Of Screen Reader Innovation

July 20, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 65 Comments

On the Monday of Thanksgiving week 2004, I walked into my St. Petersburg office for the last time as a Freedom Scientific employee. I had, at that point, been at the helm of the FS software engineering department for six years but, as Lee Hamilton, then CEO of Freedom Scientific told me that day, I… Read more about The Death Of Screen Reader Innovation

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, failure, Freedom Scientific, innovation, JAWS, screen readers

Sending Books to Prisoners

July 3, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I learned that a friend of mine, a young woman for whom I care a real lot, was sentenced to 360 days in county jail in Florida. Today, I will follow the new Florida regulations and send her a few new books to read directly from Amazon, the only way that one can send… Read more about Sending Books to Prisoners

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Addiction, Crime, Friends, Substtance Abuse Disorder

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