Darren Minifie @minofifa

Engineering Manager, iOS Vision Accessibility at Apple. @[email protected] Santa Cruz, CA Joined May 2008

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

10 months ago

Bring your passion for accessibility and your talent for solving complex engineering challenges to make a real difference for millions of users. If interested, please reach out via DM and also apply here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/… This role is in-person, based in Cupertino.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

10 months ago

The Speech and Vision Accessibility team is looking for a software developer to help shape the future of inclusive technology at Apple. While this role focuses on speech and audio, you’ll also work across products like VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Zoom.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

a year ago

@klemensstrasser Very cool. Congrats!

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

a year ago

Happy early Global Accessibility Awareness Day! The team has been working hard on some great new accessibility features coming later this year: apple.com/newsroom/2025/…

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

a year ago

People into cars please educate me. We are looking into buying a new car. The higher end trim comes with larger wheels. From what I can tell there are no reasons other than aesthetics for the larger wheels, and in fact they get worse fuel economy. Is this true?

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

OK the orchestral arrangement of the Balatro theme was pretty awesome.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

Did @OvercastFM app lose the ability to auto-delete episodes after a certain amount, and also the ability select many episodes and delete at once? I seem to have 200 unplayed podcasts that I need to delete one by one.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

I'm sorry to see this! However asking people to write in to ask for a refund on their multi-year prepaid subscription is not cool. The refunds should be automatic.

Game Informer @gameinformer

2 years ago

The Final Level: Farewell from Game Informer 🕹️

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Sai Kambampati @heysaik

2 years ago

Apple absolutely cooked with this one, I can notice the difference

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

Well deserved OKO team! Congratulations!

OKO @getokoapp

2 years ago

Oko has won the prestigious 2024 Apple Design Awards! 🏆This award celebrates our commitment to inclusivity and our mission to empower individuals with disabilities. We couldn’t be more proud to be recognized for making a difference. 🧡@AppStore #WWDC24 #blind #accessibility

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

@NativeSantaCruz that makes sense, thanks!

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

@ASITP_Gord I would love to try a 4-day work week. Two days off to take care of shit and relax is not enough.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

Last year our team created Personal Voice and Live Speech. Apple made an ad about it called The Lost Voice. It shows a person using Live Speech to read a book to someone. A few physical books were printed and I got my dirty paws on one. It is so cool! youtube.com/watch?v=ra9I0H…

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

Huge amount of awesome new #accessibility features coming to Apple platforms this year. My favorites are a new reader mode added to Magnifier and Hover Typing (a large-text typing experience on iOS). Another great Global Accessibility Awareness Day! apple.com/newsroom/2024/…

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

Check out this great segment from CBS. It features Jordyn Zimmerman who is nonspeaking, and uses Live Speech on iPad to communicate. Our team created this #accessibility feature to help give everyone a voice. youtube.com/watch?v=mTECNa…

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

I am looking for a macro pad that can pair via Bluetooth to iOS. I want to be able to program the buttons to send a sequence of key commands. Something like a Maglodon or a Huion Keydial Mini. Anyone know of a model that will work with iOS out of the box?

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

New airline rankings: JetBlue relegated to F tier along with Alaska. Every flight with them has been botched in some preventable way. United and Southwest up in S tier. Great flights with them lately.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

. @HotelBeacon we had your front desk arrange a cab to JFK for us and they tried to make us pay for a much more expensive black cab. Totally shameful behavior to take advantage of your guests like this. Do better.

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Darren Minifie @minofifa

2 years ago

Does anyone know of any good resources or tutorials that cover modern web development from the perspective of someone who just needs a refresher / whats new in the last 5 years?