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A Review of The vOICe

July 24, 2013 by GreenGablesFan Leave a Comment

Summary The vOICe, notable for the spelling of “O I C”, is a program aimed to assist people with varying forms of blindness to see using an association of black and white images with soundscapes. The program was developed by Dr Peter Meijer, of the Netherlands, and is hosted at the SeeingWithSound.com website. As of… Read more about A Review of The vOICe

Filed Under: Guest Post, Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Guest, innovation, Sensory Substitution, Technology, The vOICe

The Death Of Screen Reader Innovation

July 20, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 65 Comments

On the Monday of Thanksgiving week 2004, I walked into my St. Petersburg office for the last time as a Freedom Scientific employee. I had, at that point, been at the helm of the FS software engineering department for six years but, as Lee Hamilton, then CEO of Freedom Scientific told me that day, I… Read more about The Death Of Screen Reader Innovation

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, failure, Freedom Scientific, innovation, JAWS, screen readers

Vocabulary as an Accessibility Issue

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Recently, my friend Alastair Somerville, a really smart guy working in accessibility in the UK and I sat in a bar in Bath, England discussing the idea that vocabulary used to describe a concept could create a barrier for people less educated than myself. Alastair pointed out that the fight against homeopathy, a battle in… Read more about Vocabulary as an Accessibility Issue

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Accessibility, Intellectual Disability, Simple English, Vocabulary

Rant Against Disablism: Nothing About Us Without Us!

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_About_Us_Without_Us) the term “nothing about us without us”, an ancient term dating back to the Roman era, is “used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members the group(s) affected by that policy.” The same tells us that this… Read more about Rant Against Disablism: Nothing About Us Without Us!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ablism, Accessibility, Critical Disability Theory, Disability, Disablism, NFB

Gonz and the X-Dog at QED

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

I will be attending the QED conference in Manchester England next week. You can easily identify me, I’ll have a hat on, I have long grey hair, I usually wear RayBan sunglasses and I will be in the company of a large yellow labrador. I will probably be the only person there with a dog… Read more about Gonz and the X-Dog at QED

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Accessibility, Blindness, Conference Accessibility, Guide Dog, QED

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