Chris Maury is definitely a real person
It's been about a year and a half since I left Apple to work on  InformUp.org . At the time I had the idea for the service, but little else. The goal was, and still is, to enable folks to engage directly with their elected officials with
“Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention?” — Sister Sarah-Joan, Lady Bird How much do you value your time? We seem, as a society, to both value it very highly—paying 20% more to have food delivered than deal with
Being blind online: Race to make internet accessible for visually impaired Diagnosed with a disorder that will leave him blind within years, Chris Maury is working on changing the way the internet sounds. ABC News Yasmin Parry and Will Ockenden A recent interview I had on the Control Zed podcast
Awesome conversation I had with Mary Tresler on Voice first design.
100+ Books, 500+ Podcast episodes, and 1000+ news articles. 2015 was a busy year. PODCASTS This past year I really got into Podcasts. The show that pushed me over the edge was Startup by Gimlet Media (paired with the Overcast app with 2.5x+ listening speed). After that I was
64 Books. Whew. It looks like I beat my record from last year (58). This year was very heavy on Charles Stross, who I really enjoy reading. That said, I feel like this year was much lighter on educational non-fiction. I’ll have to correct that this year,
I spent some time this weekend working on speechifying the NewsBlur RSS feed reader. I ran into a few issues with conflicting keyboard commands and ran into a brick wall with Chrome’s support for SpeechSynthesis…  The code below only supports speaking article headlines. I’m
36oz of pure Café Bustelo espresso. Proud proud moment. This was the first item purchased using the SAy Shopping App. And, according to us, the first product ever purchased using a Voice Assistant. This was before Alexa added shopping support.
Conversant Labs builds audio-only applications for the blind and visually impaired. The company is one of the start-ups in the current cycle at AlphaLab, a leading accelerator in the country.
Here is the audio from my talk at CSUN 2014 - Screen Readers: their limitations and possible improvements.
A week from this wednesday I’ll be speaking at the  29th International Technology and people with Disabilities conference  in San Diego. The talk will focus on the limitations of traditional screen readers, and how we can start to move beyond them. Screen Readers are amazing tools
There is a lot to be said about the possibilities for always on, always listening ear buds (see my previous post on Her). This Kckstarter is the first potential product that gives us a hint about we may experience in the next generation of consumer gadgets. More thoughts on this
In Spike Jonze’  Her , before we ever meet  OS One(Scarlett Johansson), we are introduced to Joaquin Phoenix’ unnamed, dumb non-sentient operating system. Using the same hardware piece, Phoenix issues voice commands to the near future version of Siri. Less annoying and more useful,