P.S.: Here's Anthony unpacking — and testing! — the braille-labeled amp:

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Rock on!🤘😎 (3/3)

Last week, Victory announced that "braille panel options are now available on any Victory amplifier, worldwide, at no extra cost."

soundwithoutsight.org/news/braille...

That the kind of news easily deserves a #A11yFans hashtag! (2/2)

And let's make sure that, when things do eventually improve, we'll be as vocal in sharing praise as we are now in sharing perfectly justified criticism for that… thing… that is Apple OS 26.

Onwards! (7/7)

With Dye finally gone and replaced with Stephen Lemay, we might just see Apple's design prowess being revived to its former splendor. Let's just give Lemay and his team(s) a bit of time to sort through the current mess and devise a plan forward. (6/7)

Even someone as influential (in terms of authority) as Alan Dye cannot possibly destroy all the design history, expertise, and taste that once made up the very soul of the Cupertino company. (5/7)

What an enormous waste of talent, good will, energy, and money!

And yet, I refuse to believe that Good Design™ at Apple is dead. (4/7)

I'm absolutely sure that plenty of them were not happy with the direction that things were going, and yet, plenty of them were at the mercy of Alan Dye, the package designer who eventually played the role of Head of Interaction Design in keynote presentations. (3/7)

Just think of all the effort that countless designers, coders, product managers, program managers, marketers, etc. etc. — both at Apple and at third-party software devs large and small — had to put into making their products align with the ill-advised #LiquidGlass. (2/7)

P.S.: I just learned that Be My Eyes is the AppStore Awards 2025 winner in the "Cultural Impact" category. Very well deserved, indeed!

This is easily one of _the_ best uses of mobile phone technology I've ever experienced. It's also a great opportunity to do something truly meaningful with that connected minicomputer in your pocket. Are you signed up yet?

www.bemyeyes.com

#A11y #A11yFans

It was humbling how the (blind) person at the other end advanced so much trust to me, a complete (sighted) stranger, by letting me have a glimpse into their home, and following the instructions I provided.

…or maybe not unsolicited: The slogan is featured prominently on a major Dutch advertising agency, which is mentioned in the article I shared just now.

tbwa.nl

Surprise, surprise. Not! 🤷‍♂️

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
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Source:

Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
www.ianbetteridge.com/founder-mode...

(4/4)

"Where the hackers exist, they are either buried in the depths of big companies (does Johny Srouji ever leave that pristine basement?) or working on interesting but niche open source projects, often involving writing yet another text editor."

(3/4)

"As Dave Karpf rightly identifies, the #hacker has vanished from the scene, to be replaced by an endless array of know-nothing hero founders whose main superpower is the ability to bully subordinates (and half of Twitter) into believing they are always right.

(2/4)

Did you explore other options besides Beehiive? If so, what made you pick this one? Thanks!