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My Favorite Rock And Roll Cover Songs

August 4, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

Introduction About a year ago, my friend Bryan Smart, knowing I’m a serious music fan, suggested I try Spotify. I loaded it onto my iPhone 5S and, after a few days of enjoying the no cost version, I bought the $10 per month premium edition. In the past month or so, Apple released its music… Read more about My Favorite Rock And Roll Cover Songs

Filed Under: Music Review, Personal Essay Tagged With: Cover Songs, Fun, Rock and Roll, Silliness, Summer

The Greatest Living Blind Hacker

July 21, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 3 Comments

Introduction I’ve known Tyler Spivey for just over two years. In that time, we’ve hung out on a TeamTalk VOIP channel on a near daily basis. I’ve had the opportunity to watch Tyler work, we’ve talked about nearly any other topic that came into our minds, I’ve grown tremendously fond of Tyler and he is… Read more about The Greatest Living Blind Hacker

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Hacker, Hacking, NVDA Remote Access, Pokemon Crystal, QRead, Tyler Spivey, YASR

Deque Opens Up

July 14, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

Introduction When it comes to accessibility, I live in a world of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, based both in objective measures and in my own use cases, I am compelled to admit that, as of this writing, Apple, especially on iOS, is the “best” provider of out-of-the-box accessibility. At the same time, as I… Read more about Deque Opens Up

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, automated web accessibility test tools, Deque Systems, FLOSS, Open Source

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

Apple’s Super Secret New Product

June 9, 2015 by gonz 5 Comments

Forward This article was written by contributing editor Gonz Blinko. From time to time, Gonz, with whom I rarely spend any time anymore, still sends me an article for publication here. I received this one from him this morning and found it interesting, informative and, as always is the case when Gonz writes a piece… Read more about Apple’s Super Secret New Product

Filed Under: Announcements, Fiction, Guest Post Tagged With: Apple, Fiction, Gonz Blinko, iTurd, Satire

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