Archive for category: Accessibility

Dour, contemptuous Piers Handling’s cinema funplex strangely unprofitable    (2012.04.16)

Why might the TIFF Bell Lightbox be losing money? What else do you expect from an organization run by dour, contemptuous Piers Handling?

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

Hot new iPhone apps by irresponsible developers    (2012.03.01)

How many hot-hot-hot! new iOS apps have impressed legions of fans while demonstrating their developers are too irresponsible or incompetent to make them accessible under VoiceOver? Shall we start a list? [Updated twice]

Jesse Thorn, pay for your own damned captioning    (2012.02.22)

Jesse Thorn has quite enough money to caption his video podcast and DVD

What happens when you let Canadian Tire run a government office    (2012.02.03)

The atrocious signage at my Service Ontario location is one thing. The fact that it is functionally impossible to get there if you’re blind is another – and it is one of only two locations in Toronto where blind people can apply for the only ID card they can use

If you want lousy audio description, hire NCI    (2011.12.06)

Listen to this sample from Iron Man 2 and tell me you could put up with this bullshit for two straight hours

GetGlue, maker of iPhone apps blind people can’t use, is hiring!    (2011.11.30)

Some kind of app named GetGlue is so inaccessible two blind people had to record a 45-minute podcast teaching you how to overcome the problem. And now GetGlue is hiring!

Two Gruberian corrections    (2011.10.21)

Mild rebukes of John Gruber about pictures of text and system fonts that may or may not be “clones”

How exactly did the Mac help Tabatha Southey write?    (2011.10.10)

Tabatha Southey has a learning disability, but claimed the Mac allowed her to write. Now: How, exactly?