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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 »
This morning, I woke up to a much higher volume of direct messages than I have in recent months. I thought they’d all be about the piece I posted here last evening my time about Twitter, but only some of …
Unleashing my Inner-Grammarian. When to use “I”, and When to Use “me” 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 »
On Thursday evening at 7 PM in the UK, 2 PM Eastern US time, Brian Hartgen and I will be giving a presentation about our recently released 14-hour audiobook, Broadcast it – The Definitive Guide to StationPlaylist and JAWS for …
Join Brian Hartgen and me on the Accessible Friends Network to Discuss “Broadcast It” Read more »
Brian McCallen hosts a show on ACB Radio mainstream called “Speaking Out for the Blind”. He gave me a Skype call yesterday and we had a chat about my work with assistive technology, founding ACB Radio, working in broadcasting, dealing …
Every Sunday at 2 PM Eastern, the Mosen Explosion radio show opens with a really cool music bed for me to talk over. It’s been that way since 2002, and I couldn’t imagine it any other way.When I moved the …
I beta test a lot of software, and have done so now for over 25 years. Some betas are public, most betas are not, and a few apps and services I’ve tested are seemingly in a permanent state of beta. …
I Signed an Agreement, and I intend to Honour It Read more »
A chance remark by a friend of mine a few weeks ago saw me embarking on quite a journey. He asked me if I had one of the Synology NAS (network attached storage) devices. When I indicated that not only …
My new Synology NAS. Great product, NASty accessibility Read more »