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Who Are The Champions?

July 7, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 22 Comments

Introduction As I sit here typing this story in San Francisco, I hear two voices playing in my head. The first, as the title might imply, is the voice of the late great Freddy Mercury singing his anthemic , “We Are The Champions.” While, by the late seventies, I had sold my soul to punk… Read more about Who Are The Champions?

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Apple, Google, Money, NFB, NFB15, Target, Uber

The Foggy Third Party Screen Reader Issue

April 14, 2015 by chris.admin 15 Comments

Introduction Last week, I published a story here highly critical of NFBCS, NFB and Curtis Chong as leaders in technology related to blindness. The piece, “Accessibility And NFBCS” described a number of incredibly important issues in technological accessibility for people with vision impairment in which the largest advocacy organization in the world of blindness remains… Read more about The Foggy Third Party Screen Reader Issue

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, JAWS, Microsoft, NFB, NFBCS

Accessibility and NFBCS: More Questions Than Results

April 7, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 16 Comments

Introduction Last week, Curtis Chong, the seemingly permanent president of The NFB in Computer Science (NFBCS) published an article in Braille Monitor highly critical of accessibility at Microsoft, especially of the accessibility on its Windows platform. Chong presents a number of indisputable facts with which I agree entirely, there are many things regarding accessibility to… Read more about Accessibility and NFBCS: More Questions Than Results

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Curtis Chong, NFB, NFBCS

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

Blind Libertarians: Oxymorons or Just Morons

June 16, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 9 Comments

After posting the article about the poor experience I had with USAirways on my trip home from Las Vegas, most of my readers responded very positively. Unfortunately, about 4 people, all blind themselves and mostly supporters of NFB, seem to believe that, because of entirely irrational libertarian politics regarding disability, that an American with a… Read more about Blind Libertarians: Oxymorons or Just Morons

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Civil Rights, Disability, Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Libertarianism, NFB, Philosophy

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