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Introduction It’s almost Christmas in September. Although Apple has yet to confirm it, informed speculation suggests Apple will be announcing the next generation of iPhones on 9 September US time. If that’s true, and Apple adheres to timeframes from previous …
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to stop using Twitter on a daily basis. Blog posts I made here were tweeted automatically, and I continued to use Twitter for the Mosen Explosion radio show, so I certainly didn’t decide …
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
As I write this, we’re around 10 days away from the big reveal of iOS 8, which will occur at the keynote that kicks off apple’s Worldwide Developer’s conference. I have everything crossed that Apple will stream the event, due …