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The Amish User Experience

August 27, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 17 Comments

Introduction Last month, I attended the HopeX, Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City. It was a terrific event and I encourage all of my readers to come to the next Hope conference when it happens in 2016. At HopeX, I enjoyed a lot of different talks and I had a lot of… Read more about The Amish User Experience

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Android, Apple, GNU/Linux, Google, Marco Zehe, Microsoft

The Model T Syndrome Revisited

September 28, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 5 Comments

A few years ago, when I still wrote my now defunct blog, Blind Confidential, I posted an article called, “The Model T Syndrome” in which I blasted Android accessibility for being sorely substandard. Recently, my old buddy and fellow Freedom Scientific refugee, Marco Zehe wrote an excellent piece called “Switching to Android Full Time,” in… Read more about The Model T Syndrome Revisited

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Civil Rights, GNU/Linux, Google, iOS, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Microsoft, VoiceOver

An Introduction to Media Players on GNU/Linux

September 16, 2013 by josh Leave a Comment

If you are a user of Ubuntu GNU/Linux, While working using the Orca screen reader (automatically installed and running if you use the Vinux 4 distribution of Ubuntu), you will probably also enjoy listening to music or to an audio book for entertainment, personal edification or education. Two of my favorite media players for listening… Read more about An Introduction to Media Players on GNU/Linux

Filed Under: Guest Post, Tutorial Tagged With: Accessibility, Gnome, GNU/Linux, Media Players, Orca

A Look At Accessible GNU/Linux

August 19, 2013 by josh 17 Comments

Introduction For the past year or so, I have wanted to try a good operating system built on top of the Linux Kernel. (A “Kernel” is a bit of software central to all computing. It works behind the scenes interpreting your mouse-clicks,, keyboard events, handles memory management and much more.) I do most of my… Read more about A Look At Accessible GNU/Linux

Filed Under: Guest Post, Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Blindness, GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Vinux

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