Earlier this year Stonemaier Games published Vision-Friendly Card Sets for their award-winning game Wingspan. My company contributed design ideas that were included in the Vision-Friendly Card Sets. More recently, Stonemaier Games co-founder Jamey Stegmaier and I discussed the vision…

Echobatix, my company’s app, is available in the App Store as of today. Hurray! If you or someone you know is blind or low vision, please check out Echobatix 1.0. Here’s the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echobatix/id1552392882 More features to come! In this post I’ll briefly mention a few online resources…

Apple’s NaturalLanguage library may not assign parts of speech accurately for strings of just two or three words. But that’s understandable, right? The two-word phrase “Order pizza” can be interpreted as two nouns rather than as “[Verb] [Noun].” But maybe you’re writing a chatbot feature for a pizza ordering app…

If you’re working with String variables in Swift, and especially if you’re working with Natural Language Processing (NLP) using the Natural Language framework, you’ll end up splitting sentences into individual words. If you’ve been splitting your String variables by whitespace and punctuation, this post is for you! Maybe your chatbot…

If you’re doing work in Natural Language Processing (NLP), then you’ve probably come across the concept of stop words. Those are common words you’ll filter out before additional processing. For example, let’s say you have a sentence such as “Show me the dog.” Remove the stop words “me” and “the”…

So your product is accessible. Great! But can people with disabilities use your product as easily and quickly as people who aren’t disabled? Accessibility, taken literally, implies merely that a product is able to be accessed by all users. Access + able. In this short blog post I suggest a…

About 1% to 4% of people have vision impairments that aren’t corrected and/or can’t be corrected. Call it 2%. If fewer than 1 in 50 people in your organization have vision impairments, could your organization be overlooking qualified people? About 1% to 2% of people worldwide have red hair. Are…

Do you make money on Medium? If so, that’s most excellent. I don’t make money here. No worries! Money is not why I post. One of my posts that received few claps or reads — and there are plenty of contenders! — was the post that lead to a fun conversation, and from that conversation to a lot of fun people developing great technology. Many thanks to Beno Chapman for suggesting I create a Medium account. Hey, it worked! Multiple times, really, but that one time in particular.

My company’s touch screen accessibility project for Snap’s A.R. smart glasses made an appearance in the video from today’s Snap Partner Summit (Thursday 28 April 2022). Such an honor! Here’s the time-coded link to the bit about Echobatix: https://youtu.be/OlPey4WxY1Q?t=2395 Accessibility & ASL There’s also a great segment about Snap’s work in American Sign…