I did some work over the weekend to improve Able Player’s support for YouTube videos. The changes will be available in the next major release of Able Player, which I’ll be unveiling in my session at CSUN. The biggest challenge with playing YouTube videos in a third-party player is getting access to captions. I described […]
On New Years Eve 2015, I completed my latest music project which I’m calling MOATmix (MOAT = Music Of All Time). MOATmix is a celebration of the music that has shaped our lives for generations, and is now available by invitation only at MOATmix.com. Over three years in the making, this is my most ambitious, […]
You may have seen the new holiday commercial from Apple featuring Stevie Wonder and Andra Day singing “Someday at Christmas”, a beautiful and poignant holiday song for the times, with lines like: Someday at Christmas men won’t be boys playing with bombs like kids play with toys and Someday at Christmas we’ll see a land […]
It’s December 2015, the one-year anniversary since Google introduced its NoCAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA in a Google Online Security Blog post. As Google explained then, “On websites using this new API, a significant number of users will be able to securely and easily verify they’re human without actually having to solve a CAPTCHA. Instead, with just a […]
My song Man with Small F (The Inaccessible PDF Song), originally released on my Flow Theory Flavors album, is now featured on a compilation album called A11y Rocks! Man with Small F features a screen reader on vocals, trying but failing to make sense of a PDF document that wasn’t created properly for accessibility. There’s […]