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Glad I’m not 16 and looking for my first job
Now that Markus has turned 16, he’s wanting to find a job, after all, what 16-year-old can’t use some extra money? :). Back in my day, this was an exciting time and there was never a shortage of things a 16-year-old could do: papers needed delivering, restaurants needed servers, stores needed folks to stock shelves,… Read more
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Demonstrating iReg, an app that allows recording on the Apple Watch
Earlier this morning, I heard of iReg, an app that allows one to make audio recordings on the Apple Watch. In this brief episode, I provide a brief overview of the app. Darren Duff, @Darren_Duff on Twitter, has done a far more in-depth demo for those wishing to learn more. Read more
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How the W3C Text Alternative Computation Works – SSB BART Group
This is a rather technical article, but if you’ve ever wondered why screen readers sometimes read one type of information, such as a label on a form field and sometimes another, such as a description, this may help explain. The Text Alternative Computation Over the years, there has been a lot of confusion about the… Read more
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Thank you, MNsure, for giving me one more reason to hate ARIA
As a member of the accessibility community, I have the pleasure of getting to work with a wide variety of folks, all of whom approach accessibility with a somewhat different mindset. There are those, for example, who feel that accessibility is more of a technical challenge, an exercise in ensuring mechanisms exist for technologies like… Read more
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The web accessibility basics – Marco’s Accessibility Blog
If you’re not familiar with Marco Zehe, you definitely should be. Marco, @MarcoInEnglish on Twitter, has done an incredible amount to ensure that Mozilla products and services are accessible. In whatever free time he has left over from that, he writes an informative blog often discussing the challenges faced in accessibility. In his most recent… Read more
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Testing the Mobile Podcaster app
In this brief recording, I test an app, Mobile Podcaster which allows one to record a podcast episode directly on an iOS device, specify a description and publish. Since the app hasn’t been updated since 2013, I’m not sure if it’ll even work. With fingers crossed, I shall hit the botton to bublish and see… Read more
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Review: One for the Money
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich My rating: 5 of 5 stars Light-hearted and extremely humorous, this book about a female bounty hunter who is successful more by luck than skill had me chuckling right from page one. I’m now on the 16TH book in the series and am loving it just as much… Read more
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The amazing kitchen gadget that is the OptiGrill
The OptiGrill is an amazing kitchen gadget that, with its audible alerts, is very accessible. This demo is repodcasted courtesy of Accessible Devices. Read more
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Looking for accessibility resources on the Apple Watch? David Woodbridge has you covered
Like many, I had so many questions about the Apple Watch: what would its accessibility be like? Could we actually use all the watch’s features? And most important to me anyway, what’d it sound like? David Woodbridge has been tirelessly blogging about his experience with the Apple Watch in addition to having created a fantastic… Read more
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Audio posts now fixed
if you have recently tried to listen to any of my audio posts, you may have had trouble finding the links to play or download the audio. Apparently I broke something when implementing a new theme, however, I was able to fix it earlier this evening. Anyway, I’m sorry for any trouble anyone might have… Read more