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Mosen Consulting is pleased to announce the availability of “iOS 11 Without the Eye”, second edition. If you’ve not yet purchased this comprehensive guide to iOS 11 from a blindness perspective, now running at around 44,000 words, you can purchase …
It’s here! iOS 11 without the eye, second edition. Free for all purchasers Read more »
Back in the days of Symbian and Windows mobile, Talks and MobileSpeak, I operated a popular email group called BlindPhones. We actively encouraged product comparisons on the list, so not only could you compare the different platforms and discuss how …
Announcing the Accessible Phones for the Blind email group Read more »
I hope you’re enjoying the many benefits of iOS 11, and managing to cope with its few, (hopefully very short-lived), serious bugs. Thanks to the magic of time zones, it’s already 22 September in New Zealand. This means that New …
We’re unboxing Apple things later today on our podcast Read more »
As discussed in The Blind Side Podcast episode 53, Apple today made a series of hardware announcements. Understandably, the announcement that has caused the most social media chatter in the blind community relates to the iPhone X, and it’s new …
Face ID Accessibility. Apple offers some answers Read more »
The “iOS Without the Eye” series is our most popular tutorial. We’re thrilled that so many VoiceOver users find it an indispensable tool for getting to grips with all the changes in the software powering their iDevice. Thanks so much …
“iOS 11 Without the Eye” is coming, here’s how to get it Read more »
18 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This is an excellent initiative which seeks to put accessibility on the radars of those who may not think about it very often. Many web and app developers either don’t know that assistive …
Make accessibility discussion more accessible, don’t use the #a11y hashtag Read more »
Introduction My very first computer, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, was an Apple 2C. Eventually, I felt that my needs were better met by a PC, and I didn’t look back for over 25 years. …
It’s said that good things come to those who wait. Those of us who’ve had Synology network attached storage devices for sometime have been concerned by the lack of accessibility in the user interface for the operating system powering these …
Synology DiskStation Manager, now significantly more accessible Read more »
Background I’ve not become one of those people who uses their Apple Watch for tasks I previously did with my phone. For the most part, I still text, email, tweet, and talk to Siri on my iPhone. But my Apple …
Weight! Weight! Do tell me! My search for a reliable, accessible smart scale Read more »
I like thin, lightweight technology, but it isn’t the only criterion that determines what I use. If thin and light doesn’t give me the performance I need, I’m happy to choose something heavier or bigger. When the iPhone 6 Plus …