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Americans have just concluded thanksgiving celebrations. We have no equivalent holiday in New Zealand, but I love it. Numerous studies have shown the many mental and physical health benefits of gratitude. To say “thank you” to everyone who was a …
My Free eBook on Founding and Directing ACB Radio Now Available Read more »
I am sure, like most of you reading this and probably most people in the world, you did what I did this morning when the alarm sounded—roll over, grab your device of choice and check Facebook or Twitter. Whose birthday …
Back in July, I wrote a post talking about some advocacy victories in which I’d played a part, in order to provide some examples in support of my view that NFB was justified in passing its resolution calling on Apple …
Recently, my 11-year-old daughter and I spent some time on the Gold Coast in Australia. It’s been a tradition I’ve kept with all four of my kids that just before they turn 12 and become subject to adult airfares, we …
Thoughts From a Blind Traveller – Staying Connected When Overseas Read more »
Introduction It’s almost Christmas in September. Although Apple has yet to confirm it, informed speculation suggests Apple will be announcing the next generation of iPhones on 9 September US time. If that’s true, and Apple adheres to timeframes from previous …
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 …
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 »
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 »