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A couple of weeks ago, I decided to stop using Twitter on a daily basis. Blog posts I made here were tweeted automatically, and I continued to use Twitter for the Mosen Explosion radio show, so I certainly didn’t decide …
Tony Seba has been in New Zealand this week, and his visit has prompted some interesting discussion about the future of transportation. Just as blindness technology has made its way into the mainstream in a number of notable cases, so …
Clean Energy Vision Could be Life Changing for the Blind Read more »
I still get emails from people following up on the blog posts I wrote last year, regarding the unique needs of blind people who wear hearing aids. I’m in the early stages of putting a book together for blind people …
Edit: this post has been updated to reflect accurately the nature of the 2008 dialogue between NFB and Apple. Being a member of a minority is exhausting at times. Ignorance, discrimination (both inadvertent and deliberate), and barriers preventing us from …
NFB’s iOS App Resolution: Some Perspective and Context Read more »
I’d like to invite you for a moment to imagine an exciting future.It’s June 2015. There’s much speculation about what Tim Cook and his team are about to say at the Worldwide Developers’ Conference. We know we’ll see some cool …
Can Apple, Should Apple, Mandate iOS App Accessibility? #NFB14 Read more »
I’d like to thank everyone who tweeted links to, and otherwise shared, my previous post regarding Twitter’s new experimental “retweet with comment” option.As those of you who read the original post will know, Mashable noticed the new feature, and published …
The Official Word From Twitter regarding the Experimental “Retweet with Comment” Feature Read more »
This morning, I woke up to a much higher volume of direct messages than I have in recent months. I thought they’d all be about the piece I posted here last evening my time about Twitter, but only some of …
Unleashing my Inner-Grammarian. When to use “I”, and When to Use “me” Read more »
Edit for Twitter’s clarification about their experiment, see the follow-up post to this one. The Internet has helped us all to think more expansively about the meaning of the word “community”. Prior to the mass-adoption of the Net, most of …
Could Blind People be Facing the End of a Twitter Golden Era of Accessibility? Read more »
On Thursday evening at 7 PM in the UK, 2 PM Eastern US time, Brian Hartgen and I will be giving a presentation about our recently released 14-hour audiobook, Broadcast it – The Definitive Guide to StationPlaylist and JAWS for …
Join Brian Hartgen and me on the Accessible Friends Network to Discuss “Broadcast It” Read more »
Brian McCallen hosts a show on ACB Radio mainstream called “Speaking Out for the Blind”. He gave me a Skype call yesterday and we had a chat about my work with assistive technology, founding ACB Radio, working in broadcasting, dealing …