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Introduction The third Thursday in May of each year is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. For my contribution this year, I am drawing from my experience as a lifelong advocate for disability rights and former technology product manager to reflect on …
Preview of our post-WWDC coverage Apple’s 2018 Worldwide Developers conference, (WWDC) begins with the keynote at 10 AM Pacific, 1 PM Eastern, 6 PM in the UK on Monday 4 June. That equates to stupid o’clock, AKA 5 AM New …
My top 10 wish list for iOS 12, and our post-WWDC coverage Read more »
Author’s note. Due to the amount of interest in this post, I update it from time-to-time with additional information and experiences. If you would like to support keeping this post current, I’d be super grateful if, when joining Aira, you …
A review of Aira. What it is, how it works, and the ways it has changed my life Read more »
A long time ago, and it almost seems like it was in a galaxy far, far away because times were so different, I encountered my first Kurzweil Reading Machine. It was about the size of a washing machine, lived in …
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 »
When Apple announced iPhone X in September, some totally blind users of the product were concerned that we may be excluded from the next big leap in biometric authentication, Face ID. When it comes to experiential paradigm shifts, I think …
The fact that so many blind people care so deeply about their experience with Apple Products is a testimony to how well Apple has done. Not only is there a wide range of apps designed specifically to meet the needs …
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 read a lot of technology news, and share some of the more interesting titbits of it on the Mosen Consulting Twitter account. Since iOS 11’s release, I’ve been reading numerous articles espousing the view that Apple is no longer …
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 »