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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

Testing Android Accessibility: I Give Up

January 9, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 21 Comments

A few months ago, a friend of mine who prefers Android accessibility to that available from Apple on its iOS devices, sold me a Google Nexus/7 tablet so I could try it out and, perhaps, write an article about its accessibility. Since early October,, I’ve tried to use the Nexus/7 to perform the same tasks… Read more about Testing Android Accessibility: I Give Up

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Accessibility API, Android, failure, iOS, Nexus/7, NVDA, TalkBack, Windows

Screen Reader Failure: Innovation, Deterioration, Despair

July 29, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 26 Comments

Eight days ago, I wrote an article here called “The Death of Screen Reader Innovation” and posted it on Saturday July 20, 2013. For a variety of reasons I didn’t expect this article to be much of a hit. I posted the item on a Saturday, typically a slow day for traffic on this site,… Read more about Screen Reader Failure: Innovation, Deterioration, Despair

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Despair, Employment, failure, Freedom Scientific, innovation, JAWS, NVDA

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

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