Archive for category: Accessibility

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

Camera apps don’t work in VoiceOver    (2012.12.17)

Instagram, Camera+, and Flickr all bork in VoiceOver

‘What impact will Facebook’s new accessibility team have?’    (2012.10.04)

‘What impact will Facebook’s new accessibility team have?’ None

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