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Seeing AI: First Impressions

July 14, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 10 Comments

Introduction On July 12 of this year, Microsoft released a pretty remarkable new app for Apple’s iOS line of products. The app is called Seeing AI: Talking Camera For The Blind, it can be used to perform OCR, recognize products, to do facial recognition and (in a beta state) to have a scene described to… Read more about Seeing AI: First Impressions

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Blindness, iOS, Microsoft, Seeing AI

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

EZ Fire Or Sleazy Liar?

August 30, 2016 by Chris Hofstader 12 Comments

Epigrams “What you can’t buy, you gotta steal, and what you can’t steal, you better leave,” Joe Strummer. “When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted you must shun him on the roadside when you meet him, you must shun him in the streets of the town, you must shun him… Read more about EZ Fire Or Sleazy Liar?

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Consulting, Ethics, EZ Fire, Pratik Patel

2015 In Review And Predictions For 2016

December 8, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 14 Comments

Introduction A year ago, I published an article hear called, “2014 In Review And Predictions For 2015 in which I discussed the different articles I posted last year, the different numbers of hits different articles received, I made some entirely unscientific conclusions derived from the statistics and made a number of predictions about what might… Read more about 2015 In Review And Predictions For 2016

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: a11y, Access Technology, Accessibility, Data, Hacking, Screen Reading, Statistics

Apple’s 2015 Accessibility Rebound

November 12, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

Introduction No, I have not given up blogging, I’ve just been very busy on a number of professional projects that are taking most of my time. I have about a half dozen different blog articles in various states of incomplete but it’s been weeks since I last published a new one so forced myself upon… Read more about Apple’s 2015 Accessibility Rebound

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Apple, AppleWatch, Google, Microsoft, VoiceOver

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