A few years ago, I started to write software which primary audience is going to be blind musicians. I did a small presentation of the UI at DebConf15.
Most of the functionality is in a compiler-alike backend. But eventually, I wanted to create a user interface to improve the interactive …
read moreSomething straight out from the real world: Menu cards in restaurants are not nice to deal with if you are blind. It is an old problem we grow used to ignoring over time, but still something that can be quite nagging.
There are a lot of psychological issues involved in …
read moreIn short: I love my MacBook Air. It is the best (laptop) hardware I ever owned. I have seen hardware which was much more flaky in the past. I can set the display backlight to zero via software, which saves me a lot of battery life and also offers a …
read moreThere is a strange bug in Planet Debian I am seeing since I joined. It is rather minor, but since it is an accessibility bug, I'd like to mention it here. I have written to the Planet Debian maintainers, and was told to figure it out myself. This is a …
read moreI have been looking for an App like this since I got my first iOS device in december 2011. Finally, it is here! A single-player (bot-driven) poker app for iOS, THETA Poker Pro, fully accessible and usable with VoiceOver. AppleVis has a review.
It doesn't happen very often, but App …
read moreBetween 2001 and 2004, John Wiegley wrote emacs-chess, a rather complete Chess library for Emacs. I found it around 2004, and was immediately hooked. Why? Because Emacs is configurable, and I was hoping that I could customize the chessboard display much more than with any other console based chess program …
read moreIt is that time of the year again, Debian is electing the Project Leader for 2014/15. Whenever a Debian vote is in progress, I find myself rather happy to rediscover that Debian is providing text mode voting graphs. These are quite accessible to me as a braille user. It …
read moreThere is a rather infamous multilingualisation bug in almost every screen reader I have ever used. As a german native speaker, I usually set my operating system user interface language to german. However, since I do a lot of technical work, I frequently end up on english websites. But if …
read moreIn my article Contributing on GitHub I recently explained that I can not use certain social features of GitHub on their website directly. I also explained that I make great use of Hub to circumvent some accessibility issues I have with GitHub.
Well, it turns out that adding star, unstar …
read moreI really like to read code written by different people. I've always been the type of learner that can cover a lot of ground by looking at examples. A few of the programming tricks I acquired over time have definitely been learnt by reading programs written by other people. There …
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