I researched products and companies online, received a few quotes, and then someone I know told me about her experience with Blind Occasions. The owners, Crystal and Jason, are warm and friendly, and they made the experience incredibly positive. Crystal came over twice before I made my final...
Olivier Llouquet120This amendment was a high commercial incentive for multinational companies to include accessibility features in their operating systems if they intended to sell products to the US Government (cf. Brown/Collier 2015). This sparked the development of commercially affordable, voice-aided...
Kim is optimistic about the pickup from the top brass: employees air their grievances, and it seems like companies are responding in earnest, Uber in particular. “I think right now they have a very healthy relationship with Blind,” Kim tells me when I ask about the incident. In some ...
The entire concept of health insurance needs a complete overhaul. We can go on and on about what is wrong with how disgusting insurance practices are and what needs to be done to hold companies accountable. But this never going to happen until people realise that these abuses are not occasio...
In theory, when the self-interest of top executives is aligned with the investors, companies should do well. The profit motive is the driver and is needed at all levels, including individual investors and management, for the system to work. It’s the underlying fuel for our economic system....
Also worth mentioning is the amount of money our government uses to bail out banks and other multi-million (in some cases billion) dollar companies. Why is that okay? Why should an oil company who is raping all of us every day get one single penny of my tax dollars?? Why don’t peop...
I contacted several companies for quotes but Tony was very quick responded to my questions and also guided me through the process. To my surprise, the product was manufactured and shipped very quickly. The installation instructions were clear and I am happy with quality. I have couple of ...
And as much as we’d love to think we’re safe online, the truth is that until companies like Meta are held accountable, scam culture will continue to thrive in plain sight. At this point, maybe it’s time to ask the government to step in. We’ve let these platforms self-regula...
Call for video game companies and developers to join Alpha testing Ask for feedback from game accessibility experts Call for collaborations with social impact intentions (surprise me!) I will be happy to hear from you: either via Twitter at@AccessibleXRor via thisonline form. ...
While the presence of these online communities was generally seen by participants as a positive thing, some noted that these communities are required in the absence of full accessibility support from music technology companies: Justin Macleod: “[Kontakt] is just not accessible and easy to use out...