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Who Are The Champions?

July 7, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 22 Comments

Introduction As I sit here typing this story in San Francisco, I hear two voices playing in my head. The first, as the title might imply, is the voice of the late great Freddy Mercury singing his anthemic , “We Are The Champions.” While, by the late seventies, I had sold my soul to punk… Read more about Who Are The Champions?

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Apple, Google, Money, NFB, NFB15, Target, Uber

The Irony Of Inaccessible Music Technologies

May 19, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 10 Comments

Introduction If one went out onto a city sidewalk to do a set of “man on the street” interviews asking a single question, “Name as many famous blind people as you can,” I’d be willing to predict that the names you would hear most often would be: Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Ronnie Milsap,… Read more about The Irony Of Inaccessible Music Technologies

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, iOS, Music, Musical Technology, Performing, Recording

What Did I Just Agree To?

April 28, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 25 Comments

Introduction A few of weeks ago, as I do most days while not traveling (I am writing this article on a train from Manchester, England to Edinburgh, Scotland), I was hanging out on TeamTalk with our usual crowd of blind hackers, technology freaks and other friends who join us on occasion. That day, one of… Read more about What Did I Just Agree To?

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: EULA, Freedom Scientific, GPL, JAWS, Legality, NVDA

The Foggy Third Party Screen Reader Issue

April 14, 2015 by chris.admin 15 Comments

Introduction Last week, I published a story here highly critical of NFBCS, NFB and Curtis Chong as leaders in technology related to blindness. The piece, “Accessibility And NFBCS” described a number of incredibly important issues in technological accessibility for people with vision impairment in which the largest advocacy organization in the world of blindness remains… Read more about The Foggy Third Party Screen Reader Issue

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, JAWS, Microsoft, NFB, NFBCS

Accessibility and NFBCS: More Questions Than Results

April 7, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 16 Comments

Introduction Last week, Curtis Chong, the seemingly permanent president of The NFB in Computer Science (NFBCS) published an article in Braille Monitor highly critical of accessibility at Microsoft, especially of the accessibility on its Windows platform. Chong presents a number of indisputable facts with which I agree entirely, there are many things regarding accessibility to… Read more about Accessibility and NFBCS: More Questions Than Results

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Curtis Chong, NFB, NFBCS

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