Something 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 …
In 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 …
There 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 …
I 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.
Between 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 …
It 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 …
There 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 …
I used to host my internet infrastructure at Hurricane Electric.
It all started in october 1998 with POP3/SMTP, HTTP and DNS.
In the coming years, I began to host all services except DNS on my own.
But I kept using he.net for its DNS management interface.
It was …
In 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.
I 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 …