Archive for category: Accessibility

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

What’s the next step for Apple accessibility?    (2010.11.25)

Easy: An ignore-tremors mode on iOS

‘Scott Pilgrim’ vs. the MoPix    (2010.09.02)

We went to see Scott Pilgrim with MoPix. Only one of us liked it!

Presto Card accessibility    (2010.08.13)

Do TTC farecards have to be accessible? Yes, but despite what David Lepofsky says, we don’t need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. (Though getting off Windows will help)

Another knock against Christopher Nolan    (2010.07.18)

The director of Inception refused to allow captioning and description to take place before the movie opened. Whassamatter – afraid of something?

It’s 2137 and nothing’s changed    (2010.07.08)

Full truth: The Onion News Network’s Future: News from the Year 2137 still has no fucking captions

Smart designer exports dumb pictures of text    (2010.06.02)

The Wired app is a stag’s head hung over a mantelpiece, a pitiful reminder of a formerly living thing