Public relations 101. What do you do when you have unpalatable news that you’d like to stay under the radar as much as possible? One of the oldest tricks in the book is to release it just ahead of a …

New Zealand’s Lack of Accessibility Options A Good Reason to Beat Geoblocking Read more »

The ICC Cricket World Cup is nearly here, and like the other estimated two billion people around the world expected to follow the games, I can’t wait. Like many other cricket fans who are blind, I prefer to follow the …

New Zealand’s Radio Sport Demands TuneIn Removes its Streams, Suggests Using Inaccessible App Instead Read more »

If you are blind or visually impaired and wear hearing aids, Mosen Consulting would be grateful for your help.Jonathan Mosen and Bonnie Lannom are seeking interview subjects for a book on the social, attitudinal, and technological challenges faced by blind …

Blind? Wear hearing Aids? Mosen Consulting Wants to Hear from You for our Next Book Read more »

Edit: this post has been updated to reflect accurately the nature of the 2008 dialogue between NFB and Apple. Being a member of a minority is exhausting at times. Ignorance, discrimination (both inadvertent and deliberate), and barriers preventing us from …

NFB’s iOS App Resolution: Some Perspective and Context Read more »

I’d like to invite you for a moment to imagine an exciting future.It’s June 2015. There’s much speculation about what Tim Cook and his team are about to say at the Worldwide Developers’ Conference. We know we’ll see some cool …

Can Apple, Should Apple, Mandate iOS App Accessibility? #NFB14 Read more »

I’d like to thank everyone who tweeted links to, and otherwise shared, my previous post regarding Twitter’s new experimental “retweet with comment” option.As those of you who read the original post will know, Mashable noticed the new feature, and published …

The Official Word From Twitter regarding the Experimental “Retweet with Comment” Feature Read more »

Edit for Twitter’s clarification about their experiment, see the follow-up post to this one. The Internet has helped us all to think more expansively about the meaning of the word “community”. Prior to the mass-adoption of the Net, most of …

Could Blind People be Facing the End of a Twitter Golden Era of Accessibility? Read more »

I never thought I would be up before the sun, waiting with much anticipation for some highly    intelligent man on the opposite side of the globe to unveil the newest features for a phone, slightly larger phone/computer cross, and …

Celebrating 5 years of VoiceOver on iOS. What i Means to Me Read more »