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A Cast Of Thousands

September 8, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

Introduction Last month James “Jamie” Teh announced he would be leaving NVAccess, an organization he co-founded with Mick Curren to create, improve and maintain NVDA, the screen reader used by an estimated 40% of blind people on the Windows platform. Almost immediately, I started receiving Twitter direct messages (DMs) and emails asking what I thought… Read more about A Cast Of Thousands

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: FLOSS, Free Software, Freedom Scientific, Jamie Teh, NVAccess, NVDA, VFO

Two Deaths

August 25, 2015 by chris.admin 3 Comments

Introduction I rarely write anything too personal on this blog anymore. I did articles about my life when I wrote BlindConfidential but I’ve grown a bit more private and don’t live in an entirely “open source” manner any longer. I enjoyed sharing some tidbits of my reality back then but haven’t the time or energy… Read more about Two Deaths

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Bill Acker, FLOSS, Free Software, Freedom Scientific, GNU, Hacking, Henter-Joyce, Joe Simparosa

Anarchy, Leadership and NVDA

March 17, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 13 Comments

Introduction When I first met Richard Stallman, he described his philosophy as “information anarchism” and explained his vision for a future of free software in which individuals and corporations voluntarily donate money to support the programmers bringing them free, libre and open source technologies. Stallman’s dream has been the NVDA reality for many years now…. Read more about Anarchy, Leadership and NVDA

Filed Under: Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Anarchism, Free Software, Freedom Scientific, Leadership, NVDA, NVDA Remote Access

NVDA Remote Access

March 10, 2015 by Chris Hofstader 24 Comments

Introduction Back in December, I wrote an article called, “2014 In Review And Predictions For 2015” in which I somewhat disingenuously predict that this will be a big year for NVDA. I say “disingenuously” not because I don’t think this is true but, rather, because I had a lot of insider knowledge about some of… Read more about NVDA Remote Access

Filed Under: Announcements, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Free Software, JAWS, NVDA, NVDA RA, Remote Access

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