AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You
Delivering total nonsense, with complete confidence.
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Automate the CEOs - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work
Let’s be rational here. If I were to imagine a job that was a perfect candidate for replacement by AI, it would be one that consists of measurable tasks that can be learned—allocation of capital, creation and execution of market strategy, selection of candidates for top roles—and one that costs the company a shitload of money. In other words: executives.
The logic is sound. However…
The CEOs will be spared from automation not because they should be, but because they are making the decisions about who is spared from automation.
Introduction to Screen Readers Using Voiceover | Gymnasium
This is a great short introduction to using VoiceOver with Safari by the one and only Ethan Marcotte.
Making a ‘post-it game’ PWA with mobile accelerometer API’s | Trys Mudford
I made an offhand remark at the Clearleft Christmas party and Trys ran with it…
Research with blind users on mobile devices | Accessibility
Some interesting outcomes from testing gov.uk with blind users of touchscreen devices:
Rather than reading out the hierarchy of the page, some of the users navigated by moving their finger around to ‘discover’ content.
This was really interesting - traditionally good structure for screen readers is about order and hierarchy. But for these users, the physical placement on the screen was also really important (just as it is for sighted users).
Iain M Banks’ Universe
Francis Spufford—author of the excellent Backroom Boffins—writes a cover story for the New Humanist magazine remembering Iain Banks with the middle initial M firmly to the fore: it was Iain M Banks—and his creation, The Culture—that took the seemingly passé genre of space opera to new heights.
The Blind Shooting The Blind ∵ Stephen van Egmond’s weblog
If you make inaccessible iOS apps, you really only have yourself to blame.
There are also some handy tips here for getting to know VoiceOver.
My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain | Behind the Curtain
An emotionally affecting endorsement of the accessibility features on the iPhone.
Audio Atrocities (TM)
"This site is intended to be a constantly growing and changing museum for the study and enjoyment of truly terrible video game voice acting in video games from the very first CD system, the Turbografx until the present day."
My first experience using an accessible touch screen device « Marco’s accessibility blog
A hands-on account of the new accessibility features in the iPhone. Sounds like a great experience.