5 posts tagged ‘Accessibility’
FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising
TechCrunch,
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined accessiBe, a startup that claims to make websites more compatible with the screen readers blind people rely on to access the internet, for false advertising and compensating reviewers without disclosing that it sponsored the reviews. In a proposed order, the FTC would require accessiBe to pay $1 million that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Ongoing Battle for Vestibular Accessibility
mjtsai,
Craig Grannell: I vividly remember getting a wonderful surprise on the sole WWDC I was flown out to, on attending a developer session on accessibility and seeing someone on stage proudly noting that slide transitions in menus had been added to Reduce Motion.[…]But what I find disappointing is that, all these years after that Guardian […]
MouthPad^
Augmental (via Hacker News): The MouthPad^ is a tongue-driven interface that controls your computer, smartphone, or tablet via Bluetooth. Virtually invisible to the world, but always available to you, it is positioned across the roof of your mouth to put all of the power of a conventional touchpad at the tip of your tongue. […] […]
The Timer in watchOS 10
Craig Hockenberry: The addition of Recents made getting to the 1/3/5/10/15/30 settings more challenging because scrolling with your nose is significantly more difficult. Thankfully, once you positioned the magic grid on the device, going into and out of timers could be done quickly and easily. […] This is exactly why the magic grid in the […]
Cursorless Is Alien Magic From the Future
Xe Iaso (via Hacker News): Cursorless is a plugin that integrates with voice control software to let you do AST level code editing with your voice. This is crazy alien magic from the future. […] The most magic parts about this are the ideas of destinations and targets when it comes to cursorless inputs. Targets […]