Archive for the 'Black Ink' Category

Black Ink 2.0.2: Bug Fixes and Accessibility Improvement

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

Black Ink 2.0.2 is now available on the Black Ink home page and from the Mac App Store. This update is a follow-up release to Black Ink 2.0, including a number of fixes to bugs that have been reported since that release. Black Ink 2.0.1 was a Mac App Store-only release to address a problem […]

Black Ink 2.0 Is Here

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

I’m excited to share the news that Black Ink 2 has shipped and is available for immediate download both on the Black Ink home page and from the Mac App Store. As promised, customers who purchased a license to Black Ink 1 on or after January 1, 2018, are entitled to a free upgrade to […]

Early Catalina Updates

Thursday, June 27th, 2019

Apple was quick to release a public macOS 10.15 beta this year, so some of you may already be installing it to give it a spin. If you haven’t installed it yet, I strongly encourage you to be more cautious than usual. This year’s update to macOS includes a large number of significant architectural changes […]

Accessible Crosswords

Friday, June 14th, 2019

Many years ago, I set out to make my Mac crossword app, Black Ink, accessible to VoiceOver users. I failed. The assistive technology on macOS at the time simply did not seem up to the task for mapping the complex, two-dimensional, nested hierarchy of a crossword puzzle into a form that could be meaningfully conveyed […]