I’m writing from the point of view of a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies, not as an Apple fanboy.[1]Trust me: my wallet does not like the price I’d have to pay for the MacBook Pro I want to replace my mid-2015 model! The memory upgrade prices are way too steep in my opinion. Why…
Read More iOS 18 Accessibility Features Look InterestingIn other words: Did I waste a lot of time? I don’t think the project I described in a previous post was a waste of time at all — there are two ways in which I think of the project: The mere act of going through the abstracts pointed out to me the articles that…
Read More Followup: Why bother to have abstracts for all my journal articles?One of the complaints that my students hear from their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) friends is that communication is such an “easy” discipline. In the first week or two of my Communication Theory and Theory and Research classes, we pretty quickly work on refuting that notion. We talk about how even the “simplest”…
Read More Polymaths and the Communication DisciplineEndNote 21 has a nice new feature where tags can be added to any reference. There are some peculiarities with tags, though, which is why I consider them a beta feature. I’ll mention here what I’d like to see changed, but even though tags are in their early stages, there are some legitimate use cases…
Read More EndNote 21: Tags vs GroupsMost readers of this site won’t have heard of Craig Hockenberry. But you may have heard of one of the apps his company, Iconfactory, was known for: Twitterific. Craig has a really smart piece about accessibility and how even Apple has made some mistakes in the new WatchOS 10 timer app. Spoiler alert: he even…
Read More Why accessibility matters – how the user interface and timers interactAn accessibility rant courtesy of my Faculty Focus email So who doesn’t want a syllabus that students will actually read and use throughout the semester? I think most professors — whether creative or not-so-creative, or those who see themselves primarily as teachers and those who don’t — hate to get the questions that are already…
Read More Want a cool syllabus that’s accessible…It feels like it’s a one-sided relationship between you two… I’m hoping that you both will work with me here. Parallels really wanted me to install Windows 11. And if you look at the Parallels website, it says that I can. As I mention elsewhere on this site, I have a mid-2015 MacBook Pro. But…
Read More Dear Microsoft and Parallels,When you subscribe to various productivity lists, you start seeing some of the same applications pop up over and over. For example, quite a few productivity sites are into personal knowledge management apps such as Obsidian and Craft. I still don’t see how those apps will help me do my work, so I haven’t given…
Read More The Arc browser: Why add another browser?I suppose one of the reasons that it’s easy to have a full inbox is because there might just be that good article that’s worth saving for a class or another reason. So what do I do when finding such articles? My new answer: save them to DevonThink and my database for that class. Just…
Read More Teaching Workflow Example: Email to DevonThinkI’m mentioning two different pages that helped me solve a lot of problems when converting InDesign files that had been converted to PDF. PAC2021[1]It should be noted that the new version requires registration, although I’m not quite sure why. The old PAC 3 version does not. (the PDF accessibility checker, currently Windows only) highlights many…
Read More How to reduce many InDesign PDF errors in just a few steps.