• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

The New Hofstader.com

A bunch of blogs by Chris "Gonz Blinko" Hofstader and his friends and their dogs.

Search this site

  • home
  • the Blind Confidential Archive
  • Podcasts I Enjoy
  • Licenses and Legal
  • Contact Us

Technology Review

Amazon’s Sky Rocket To Improved Accessibility

April 4, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 3 Comments

a Introduction I’ve known Peter Korn, accessibility architect at Amazon, for nearly as long as I’ve been in the access technology world. He and I have worked on some of the same committees, forums and other working groups over the years and I’ve long been impressed with his intellect and ideas but, more so, with… Read more about Amazon’s Sky Rocket To Improved Accessibility

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Amazon, Android, Apple, Fire, Google, iOS, Peter Korn

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

It’s Gotten Much Worse: ADA Trolling A Year Later

January 16, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Epigram “More than 240 businesses nationwide have been sued in federal court since the start of 2015,” Sara Randazzo, The Wall Street Journal. Introduction Nearly a year ago, I published an article titled, “Stop The ADA Trolls” describing how the Pennsylvania law firm Carlson Lynch Sweet & Kilpela LLP (Carlson/Lynch) was perpetrating a lawsuit blitzkrieg… Read more about It’s Gotten Much Worse: ADA Trolling A Year Later

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: ADA, Carlson/Lynch, Disability Rights Advocates, Laney Feingold, Scott Dinin, Texas ADA Defense Project, Trolling

Stopping The ADA Trolls: Carlson/Lynch Should Sue Itself

March 10, 2016 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

Introduction On February 16, I published an article here entitled, “Stop The ADA Trolls” which discussed what I believe to be an unethical and counterproductive process being used by the law firm of Carlson Lynch Sweet & Kilpela LLP to use the ADA to extort large sums of money from businesses with some to many… Read more about Stopping The ADA Trolls: Carlson/Lynch Should Sue Itself

Filed Under: Technology Review

Stopping The ADA Trolls: Something You Can Do

March 3, 2016 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction Two weeks ago, I published an article on this blog titled, “Stop The ADA Trolls,” in which I discussed the law firm of Carlson Lynch Sweet & Kilpela LLP and the unethical and counterproductive practices they are using to extort dollars from what appears to be hundreds if not thousands of US businesses with… Read more about Stopping The ADA Trolls: Something You Can Do

Filed Under: Technology Review

Posts navigation

Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 10 Next

Primary Sidebar

Search this blog

© 2006–2021 · Chris Hofstader. For information on reusing any of the information on this page, please visit our licenses and legal page.