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QED! QED! QED!

March 23, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction Regular readers of this blog (both of you) would already know that I’m a vocal skeptic, humanist, atheist and science enthusiast. When I have the opportunity, I enjoy meeting up with other like minded people at conferences, “pub” events, local dinners and other similar gatherings. In our winter residence in Florida, I enjoy the… Read more about QED! QED! QED!

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Conference, QED, Science, Skepticism

Good Books, Bad Books, You Know I’ve Had My Share

March 16, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction Regular readers of this blog, which is to say people who read the articles I write unrelated to disability as well as those about accessibility and such (about 10 of you), would know that I’m also passionate about music, literature, poetry and a lot of other artistic endeavors. At any given time, I’m usually… Read more about Good Books, Bad Books, You Know I’ve Had My Share

Filed Under: Book Review, Music Review Tagged With: Books, Led Zeppelin, Light In August, Music, Rock and Roll, The Blues, When Giants walked The Earth, William Faulkner

Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers’ Perspective

February 21, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 15 Comments

Introduction [This is an edited and corrected version of the article I posted on 2/21/2014. As always, when a factual correction is presented, I go back and fix the problems. I’ve listed the two factual corrections in a section following the Introduction section. I’ve also made a few grammatical changes but these change nothing at… Read more about Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers’ Perspective

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Accessibility API, Android, Apple, Gnome, Google, iOS, Microsoft, OSX, Windows

Chicken Nugget, Accessible Twitter Client Released

February 10, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Some people send me press releases when they do something new in accessibility. I tend not to publish them and have never published one verbatim. As I edited this one as a favor to its author, though, I’ll let it stand on its own. I use the Chicken Nugget Twitter client when I’m on my… Read more about Chicken Nugget, Accessible Twitter Client Released

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Accessibility, Chicken Nugget, GetAccessibleApps.com, Twitter, Windows

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

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