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- The Idea Place
Unexpected Pauses in Speech and Mysterious Character Representation in Braille: My First Experience with AI Watermarking
I’ve written several times about my work on image descriptions for my Image Description Toolkit, My Photo Library Described and Quick Describe apps…
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A Mailing List for My Projects
As my projects page shows, I have a number of apps that I’m working on. I try my best to post here and on other services about new releases and other key…
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Introducing Quick Describe: Press a Key, Get a Description
If you follow my blog or my projects, you know I’ve been working on image description for a while. It started with my Image Description Toolkit (IDT)…
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Introducing My Photo Library Described: Your Photos, Described as You Browse, on Mac and Windows
Since I started working on my Image Description Toolkit (IDT) back around January of 2025, I’ve had a goal: open my photo library on Windows or the Mac…
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The Chat Place: An Accessible Companion for Your Claude Code Chats
Is it acceptable for me to say that I think something I created through vibe coding with Claude is pretty cool? I hope so, because as much as I appreciate all…
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Image Description Toolkit 4.8: Image Descriptions from Windows AI on Copilot+ PCs
I’m pleased to announce that version 4.8 of my Image Description Toolkit (IDT) is now available. If you have what Microsoft has been branding as a…
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Letting Claude Test Windows Apps in a VM Instead of on My PC
I recently created Hyper-V Manage, a screen-reader-first tool for managing Hyper-V virtual machines. Part of what drove that was a real problem I run into…
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RSSQuick In More Places
The App RSSQuick is a vibe coded basic RSS reader I created more than a year ago. I think of it a bit like turning on the radio but for RSS feeds. It is aimed…
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Revisiting MLB Opening Day and Purchasing MLB Tickets
Revisiting MLB Opening Day Pennant races are heating up for MLB but I want to step back to opening day for the 2026 season for a minute. For the last several…
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ClaudeSpeak: Having Claude Code Read Its Replies Through Your Screen Reader
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…
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Building the Live Captions App I Wish Windows Shipped
I’ve been sitting on this project for a couple weeks, and it’s time to write about it. Windows has had a Live Captions feature for a couple of…
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A Short Video for Two of My Apps
I recently gave a talk to some staff from the University of Wisconsin’s ophthalmology clinic. Although it wasn’t the main focus of my talk, I…
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Microsoft, Where Are The Descriptions?
The Post and Video Excel is one of the programs I use frequently so a post on X by Microsoft’s Satya Nadella talking about Copilot…
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The Power of Prompting – Image Description Toolkit 4 beta 3 with NASA Images
Since writing about The Image Description Toolkit (IDT) 4.0 Beta 1 in February, a lot of work on the toolkit has been happening. A new…
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Fidelity and Elan Show Zero Accountability for Accessibility
This is a textbook example of a complete lack of accountability from both Fidelity Investments and Elan Financial Services for a fundamental accessibility…
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Windows Unattended Install with Parallels and a Simple Machine Manager
Background Virtual machines, running one computer as an application inside another, still give me that “kid in a candy store” feeling. They allow…
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“Introducing IDT 4.0 Beta 1: An Enhanced Way to Describe Your Digital Images
A 4.0Beta1 release of my Image Description Toolkit is now available. If you are unfamiliar with this project, it provides apps to handle image…
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Basic Accessibility Gaps Still Too Common, Microsoft please justify CopilotNative.Chat.Controls
With the end of the year approaching, I was doing some tax prep. I asked the Windows version of Copilot to convert a final pay…
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Image Description Toolkit 3.6.0 Available
A 3.6.0 release for my Image Description Toolkit is now available. The release features a new –redescribe option as well as support for two…
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Give Accessibility a Seat at the Notepad Table Please
Unreal, I read today that Microsoft has started rolling out table support for Notepad. But guess what, if you are using a screen reader, the…
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Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users
If you follow me on social media, one of the themes you’ll find I talk about fairly often related to accessibility is how text that…