Archive for category: Accessibility

Twitter accessibility politburo rightfully shitcanned    (2023.08.26)

Nearly two decades into its existence, Twitter does not and did not need an accessibility “team,” which was shitcanned by Elon Musk basically before he sat down for coffee. And rightly so

Arc, the latest software inaccessible at launch    (2023.06.02)

After 35 years (and true of basically everything in which I take an interest), how I tire of repeating myself. Another rich software startup is about to blow it vis-à-vis accessibility. This time it’s Arc (some kind of browser), and if they do anything about accessibility it will involve not hiring me

MAGA (sic)    (2020.09.05)

Make Accessibility Great Again

Apple Store accessibility lawsuit (Robert Shaw vs. Apple)    (2020.02.20)

Robert Shaw, a wheelchair user, is suing Apple Canada in Ontario for an inaccessible work environment. I have these court documents and you don’t. I went and got them and you didn’t. I did research and published this article based on that research, and you did neither

No bad deed goes punished in the accessibility business    (2018.04.22)

Ostracism is indistinguishable from an actual knife in the back. Cretins like those I tackle here can’t even man up and talk to me face-to-face. Meanwhile, Karl Groves continues to get away with murder

Defeating Face ID    (2017.09.28)

There are other face-recognition systems, even on telephones, but Face ID on the iPhone X will be the gold standard to beat. Hence it becomes an amusing parlour game to imagine ways to defeat this still-unreleased technology [update with how stupid I feel about this entire post]

By snagging a permanent sinecure at Adobe, presumably    (2017.02.25)

“Matt, fuck off”

‘Deaf people go to concerts?’    (2013.07.01)

Yes, and, if you go back far enough, I am one of the indirect reasons why

Ryerson prof lets students contemplate manslaughter of blind pedestrians    (2013.01.24)

Ryerson architecture prof George Kapelos failed to teach his students that woonerfs are lethally dangerous to blind people