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I have been doing a lot of development work with Claude Code, and the thing that slowed me down most was not the AI. It was reading the output. In my experience both the Claude desktop app and the terminal have challenges with screen readers. The desktop app often requires scrolling around in a screen reader’s view of the text, using scroll to bottom, and generally fishing around too much to find what was just…

I want to say upfront the vast majority of the code here was written using prompts to ChatGPT. I wanted to see how the AI tool worked for a simple coding project and jump start my own use of Python. Once I started with ChatGPT, I found making adjustments in the scripts myself and then working with ChatGPT became a challenge so for this effort, I opted to use prompts to ChatGPT exclusively. I suspect…

A few months ago, I wrote about audio ducking in iOS 18. Since the initial release came out, there has been a small refinement to what I originally described. The ducking choices themselves remain the same: off, when speaking and always. The ducking amount, however, has been moved to a separate setting by the name of Ducking Amount that you can add to the VoiceOver rotor. To find this setting, open Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Rotor…

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…

Be My AI in the Clouds Although it has been close to 40 years now, there was a time when I had enough vision to see the sky and the color and shape of clouds. I’ve been intrigued by trying Be My AI on pictures of the sky because I guess I still have memory of the different colors and shapes clouds can take. Here is the result of one such exploration. Assuming the descriptions…

With AI being touted repeatedly as the answer for almost anything, I tried obtaining an answer to a basic question as the U.S. reaches the 2023 4th of July holiday. My question posed to both Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard: Q: Write an article detailing the spending on fireworks in the US and break the spending down. Below are the answers. In my opinion neither is acceptable for different reasons. Bing’s answer is incomplete on…