Archive for category: Accessibility

Camera apps don’t work in VoiceOver    (2012.12.17)

Instagram, Camera+, and Flickr all bork in VoiceOver

This is how lousy Android accessibility is    (2012.08.05)

A couple of Android devices, running the rarely-seen current version of the operating system, kind of support accessibility. How well? About as well as you’d expect

At this point I think Apple can afford captioning    (2012.06.20)

Whether they’re captioned up front or shipped first and captioned later, Apple has the money to pay for captioning of its videos. Because I thought Apple was committed to accessibility

Blinks vote with their fingers    (2012.06.07)

VoiceOver usage is about 9% on desktop but nearly half on mobile. There’s a reason for this

I deny having ‘gawped’    (2012.05.15)

Esteemed colleague writes about the blind shooting the blind at the VIPhone user group

‘Republic of Doyle’ renewed for some reason    (2012.04.19)

Last year, Republic of Doyle was atrocious. And now it’s been renewed for some reason

‘Poison’    (2012.04.17)

Twentieth-anniversary edition

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