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· 22 Shevat 5778 (Wednesday 7 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

Blindness professionals should be encouraging this community to take control of its own technological destiny, not encouraging reliance on or loyalty to vendors who have been out of touch with all but the highest-paying customers for well over a decade.

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· 21 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 6 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

Current status: Preaching the good word about the open, inclusive, independent web to anyone who will listen. #indieweb

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· 21 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 6 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

OK partners in code, it’s informal poll time. If you use a braille display when coding, and you need to make an edit, do you find it quicker to use routing buttons on the display to move the cursor, or your keyboard? Asking for a friend.

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· 21 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 6 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

If Freedom Scientific had spent less time whining and throwing Mozilla developers under the bus, and more time following NV Access’s example of rolling up sleeves and playing ball, Jaws users wouldn’t still be required to use Firefox ESR.

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· 20 Shevat 5778 (Monday 5 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

Tired of fighting with the Facebook algorithum and finicky Twitter clients. Spending some time this evening to set up the infrastructure to consume Twitter and Facebook via RSS.

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· 19 Shevat 5778 (Sunday 4 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

Didn’t like either team, but glad it wasn’t a Patriots win because I hate the Patriots more than the Eagles. Also, Patriots fans, cry the tears into the shot glass before you pour the liquor. It’ll mean you don’t have to stir. I will enjoy drinking your tears with my scotch.

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· 19 Shevat 5778 (Sunday 4 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

It’s not even 9AM, and I’ve already had my fill of the patriarchy for today. Can we speed up the destruction please?

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· 17 Shevat 5778 (Friday 2 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

OK, one more time for the folks in the back. “Works best with $FavoriteBrowser” is not OK. Ever. It wasn’t OK when Internet Explorer was the favorite, and it definitely isn’t OK now that Chrome’s the favorite, and it’s a damn shame that browser discrimination is back in style.

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· 17 Shevat 5778 (Friday 2 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

My sleep schedule is totally messed up thanks to coming down with the flue this week, so I took some of my current awake time to finish owning my bookmarks. I now have my Pocket feed as a subscription in PressForward on my personal site. #indieweb

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· 16 Shevat 5778 (Thursday 1 February 2018) · 1 minute to read

You know the left and right in this country have more in common than either would like to admit when each can borrow the other’s conspiracy theories, change a minor detail, and then re-tell them to anyone who will listen. Everybody’s the same when you play in the fever swamps.

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· 13 Shevat 5778 (Monday 29 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

My kingdon for blind people not starting a podcast that has something to do with tech. God I am tired of blind people and podcasts to do with tech. There are other subjects in the world FFS, and it would be nice to see educated blind people talking about something other than tech.

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· 12 Shevat 5778 (Sunday 28 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Wil and Denise have not seen “The Princess Bride”. I must fix this. It is imperative that I fix this.

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· 9 Shevat 5778 (Thursday 25 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

People adding special characters to filenames and then wanting them linked on their websites? Wolves. People adding spaces to filenames and then wanting them linked on their websites? That’s right, wolves.

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· 8 Shevat 5778 (Wednesday 24 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

It’s not even 9AM and I already have far too many browser windows open.

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· 7 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 23 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

It looks like the Android V. iOS wars are popping up in the blind community again, so here’s my take. I love free (libre) open source software. I truly do. But free is not automatically better than proprietary,and with regard to iOS V. Android, accessibility is not subjective. We have standards by which to measure the accessibility or lack thereof of software, and while Android has improved, it is not yet at the same level of accessibility as iOS is. While there are some details of accessibility which are subjective, accessibility as a whole as it pertains to the removal of barriers faced by people with disabilities when using software and websites is not subjective. It doesn’t mean different things to different people. As of right now, Android’s accessibility continues to lag behind the accessibility of iOS, and Android users who insist on saying otherwise are fooling themselves.

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· 7 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 23 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

I’ve taken ownership of my RSS feed reading by installing PressForward on my personal site and importing all feeds from my WordPress.com reader. Next step: Taking control of bookmarking. Attempting to see if I can get a feed of my Pocket content. #indieweb

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· 7 Shevat 5778 (Tuesday 23 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

All right Spotify, let’s get something straight. If I choose one of my playlists that I’ve curated, and hit shuffle on it, you don’t get to insert your Goddamn music discovery algorithm into it. Leave my music alone.

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· 6 Shevat 5778 (Monday 22 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Dear NFB: Using the government shutdown as a marketing opportunity for your Washington seminar is disgusting. People who work every day to serve this country, often without acknowledgement, have missed a day’s pay and have had to deal with the added stress of not knowing how they were going to keep their families fed or the lights on. And you choose this as a gimmick? You couldn’t possibly sink any lower.

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· 6 Shevat 5778 (Monday 22 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Pocket’s implementation of ReCAPTCHA is downright hostile to people with disabilities.

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· 3 Shevat 5778 (Friday 19 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

Deer population is controlled by releasing wolves into an area. All problems should be solved that way. Jaws fans saying NVDA won’t survive because Jaws is professional? Wolves. Two guys in a garage arg.? Wolves. Blindness orgs with inaccessible websites? That’s right, wolves.

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