Month: August 2024

I’ve written previously about tracking a fantasy football draft in Excel. The 2024 version of my Excel Tracker is now available. My podcast, The Podcast To Be Named Later, also has a demonstration of using the 2024 version of the tracker with a screen reader.

One of the larger changes I’ve encountered in the Mac OS 15 betas is not immediately obvious unless you know to hunt for it. The VoiceOver Commanders item within VoiceOver Settings has been replaced with an item named Commands. But this is far more than just the renaming of the same old controls. The various tabs for the different commanders such as Numpad and Trackpad have been replaced with check boxes to turn control on…

If you are not comfortable tinkering with your OS install and potential consequences, please ignore the rest of this post. I have a range of computers I use, several of which do not meet the official hardware requirements to run Windows 11. Most notably, they either do not support what is known as Secure Boot and or do not have a TPM 2.0 chip. Every few months I see another mainstream publication write an article…

In late July, Senator Bob Casey introduced the Section 508 Refresh Act of 2024. The text of the law has not been published online as far as I can find. The senator’s office sent me a PDF of the proposed legislation and I’m sharing it here with their permission. I’m told the bill text should show up as S.4766 at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4766/text?s=8&r=16 but that there can be a backlog for legislation to show up here. In…