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An Open Letter To Mark Riccobono

July 23, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

A Note To Our readers Mark Riccobono is the new president of NFB, that nation’s largest group advocating for people with vision impairment. I find him an interesting choice as president of the organization. This is a letter Ive drafted to him regarding NFB, technology and its recent resolution asking Apple to require accessibility for… Read more about An Open Letter To Mark Riccobono

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NFB

Job Access With Bugs?

July 13, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 10 Comments

Introduction For years, I’ve heard anecdotal reports that JAWS, the world’s most popular screen reader, has more bugs, is less reliable, more unstable and of a generally poorer quality than some of its competitors. In that same period, starting in 1998 and continuing until today, I have never seen a single bit of quantitative evidence… Read more about Job Access With Bugs?

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, JAWS, Quality, Screen Reader, Window-Eyes

Back In The Game

May 19, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction After I left my Freedom Scientific office for the last time in November 2004, I turned my professional path to one in which I worked for an AT company to working in accessibility contracting, mostly for research groups. This time has allowed me to work on projects far outside the range of things that… Read more about Back In The Game

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: 3 Mouse Technology, 3MouseTech, a11y, Accessibility, Christopher Toth, Mike Calvo, Services

Standards Are Important

May 1, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 4 Comments

Introduction For nearly twenty years, the community of people working on disability related issues involving technology have worked very hard to create a set of standards, guidelines and best practices for accessibility. This article intends to explore the history of why the rich set of standards we now have available to developers had to be… Read more about Standards Are Important

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Standards, universal design, WAI/Aria, WCAG

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