Using Apple Notes as an accessible graphing calculator

Starting with the basics Exploring our graphs with VoiceOver How does it relate to other accessible graphing tools? Epilogue Starting with the basics With the release of their latest batch of operating systems Apple made some substantial updates to both the Calculator and Notes app. I am not even saying about bringing an official Calculator to the iPad for the first time but more a feature called Math Notes which lets us, as the name implies create notes with math expressions inside them.

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Some interesting things we can do with strings in Swift

Today I want to discuss strings in Swift Hello everyone. I am trying to reinforce my knowledge of some interesting topics by writing about them./ I like to write as this gives me an introspection into my thought process, allows others to get possibly interested in a topic and learn from me, and allows me to learn from much better people than myself. If I have time, I will try to write those articles here.

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Accessible Drag & Drop on iOS with VoiceOver

Introduction Drag & Drop is a function that’s with us almost from the beginning of our digital, GUI-oriented world. With Drag & Drop we can drag files from our File Explorer to our mail client. We can drag audio/video files to our media editor. Or, most importantly, we can drag cat photos to the conversation window we have opened with our significant one. However there’s a myth going arround that states that Drag & Drop cannot be used by blind people.

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Modding games for blind gamers: a nice challenge or a bottomless pit of sorrow and frustration??

Introduction It is widely known that billions of people every day enjoy video games, whether on their computers, mobile phones or gaming consoles. But how many of you thought about making those great titles accessible to those with special needs? Recently more and more games get accessibility options. And while some games make only the minimum effort to comply with the existing accessibility laws and regulations, some titles take this a step further and make their titles fully playable for disabled people.

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An introduction of sorts

An introduction of sorts Hello and welcome to the Nunonical Micro World, or to the nunonuno.micro.blog, because twice is always better than once. What will I be posting about here? Programming: this is my biggest passion. I try and dedicate all my free time to this great art. I will be posting my thoughts about .NET, Swift, Xcode and other stuff Sysadmin: being a programmer doesn’t make me exempt from other “boring” tasks that every IT hobbyist and professional should be able to complete.

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