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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

Chicken Nugget, Accessible Twitter Client Released

February 10, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Some people send me press releases when they do something new in accessibility. I tend not to publish them and have never published one verbatim. As I edited this one as a favor to its author, though, I’ll let it stand on its own. I use the Chicken Nugget Twitter client when I’m on my… Read more about Chicken Nugget, Accessible Twitter Client Released

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Accessibility, Chicken Nugget, GetAccessibleApps.com, Twitter, Windows

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 20 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

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