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Do We Get What We Pay For?

August 28, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 18 Comments

Introduction Historically, both on this blog and on BlindConfidential, I have very rarely engaged with commenters. I write articles, I post them, people read them or not and some choose to comment. While I was reading Marco Zehe’s excellent Android review series , I observed him engage with his commenters both in the comments on… Read more about Do We Get What We Pay For?

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Android, Apple, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Google, iOS, Microsoft, Segregation

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

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

Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers’ Perspective

February 21, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 15 Comments

Introduction [This is an edited and corrected version of the article I posted on 2/21/2014. As always, when a factual correction is presented, I go back and fix the problems. I’ve listed the two factual corrections in a section following the Introduction section. I’ve also made a few grammatical changes but these change nothing at… Read more about Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers’ Perspective

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Accessibility API, Android, Apple, Gnome, Google, iOS, Microsoft, OSX, Windows

I Left My Hair in San Francisco

October 14, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Chris, with maniacal grin, wearing long braids sticking out of either side of his head

It’s been a long time since I last wrote a random musings article. In fact, I haven’t written anything like this since the BlindConfidential days. Lots of things cross my mind that may be interesting or amusing to our readers so I will write them down here and hope you people enjoy them. Locks of… Read more about I Left My Hair in San Francisco

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Apple, Google, Hair, iOS, Locks of Love, Music, Musings, Shelley Segal

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