Archive for category: Accessibility

‘Spoken language is not the primary experience for me’    (2011.07.18)

Oliver Schmitz: “I have a hearing impediment, so spoken language is not the primary experience for me”

‘No… it’s awful’    (2011.07.10)

“It must be nice to always believe you’re right, to always think you’re the smartest person in the room.” “No. It’s awful”

Lorraine Sommerfeld: Blind teen can fix cars but can’t read article about him    (2011.06.16)

Newsflash, Lorraine Sommerfeld: A teen who can fix cars does not need sighted help to read a newspaper

Ringtone, flashtone, vibetone    (2011.06.09)

Under iOS 5, not only can you set a ringtone for each of your contacts, you can set a flashtone (not quite) and a vibetone

Confidential to Lee Jordan of Captions, Inc.    (2011.06.07)

Somebody get Lee Jordan to drop me a line

Faux fonts of ‘Funkytown’    (2011.03.15)

It’s Arial! Arial! Everywhere! in Steve Galluccio’s homage to disco Montreal, Funkytown

Microsoft: ‘We were incompetent on this’    (2010.12.14)

Why isn’t Windows Phone 7 accessible to blind people? Ask Microsoft. Somebody did, and here was the answer: “We were incompetent on this”

Tell Roger Ebert and Pat Bowes about HCO    (2010.12.10)

Roger Ebert and Pat Bowes can actually still use the phone, via hearing carryover (HCO) at the relay service. Won’t somebody tell them?

Where open-source is as good as Microsoft    (2010.11.25)

Android, Windows Phone 7, and Windows itself are all inaccessible – because nobody at the top demanded otherwise. Bad taste has a cost people with disabilities pay