Introduction In the fall of 1973 I began attending Augsburg College as my first college experience directly out of high school. In the past forty-five years I have experienced taking many college-level classes in various disciplines, a forty-plus-year career in all manner of computer and telecommunications technologies, personal, family, and
Read moreThe Foundation of Ethics – Right and Wrong, True and False Over my sixty-plus years I have certainly been exposed to a number of viewpoints on the subjects of ethics, right and wrong! No less important have been the definitions of true and false. I subscribe to the Ten Commandments as
Read moreThe Early Years My earliest childhood memories are amazing in detail and vivid clarity. They remain with me sixty years later. I was born on the Sandia military base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I remember swimming in the base pool. I remember riding on the back of my dad’s
Read moreI was recently asked the following questions concerning accessing web sites via a screen reader. 1. When using a screen reader on a new page you’ve never accessed before, how do you typically figure out what’s on the page and how to navigate around it? 2. Has there
Read moreI am a life long braille reader who enjoys the freedom that braille gives me to read any book that has been transcribed or translated. Braille is the key to literacy for all of us who are blind. I can’t imagine not reading braille. It would be like depriving
Read moreIn doing some cleaning out of storage spaces recently, I came across ten reels of magnetic tape with no labels on them. My parents had given them to me several years ago when they were cleaning up. I was fortunate to be able to listen to there contents thanks to
Read moreIt is an amazing thing to think about is the reality of the world we experience in our day-to-day lives. When I was a child, I was told by someone – who’s name I have now forgotten – that “blind people can’t ride a bike because if one cannot see
Read moreI am so amazed that I haven’t posted to this blog in over two years! 🙂 So much has happened and so much has changed. I am now almost 58. 🙂 Both of my parents are in heaven! I am loving learning and school! I made one of those new year
Read moreI have been using the new version of Syrinx [http://mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/Syrinx.html] by MRR Software [http://mrrsoftware.com/] for the Mac to handle my Twitter interactions for a week now. Syrinx is an absolutely stellar Twitter client because the author has worked very hard to make the
Read moreI think I remember the title of a book or article that was popular when I was a child. It went something like this “A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To The Park”. I remember thinking about the fact that I always wanted adventure and new and
Read moreOperating With A PC Moving to the Mac [http://www.apple.com/mac/] with VoiceOver [http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/] from Microsoft Windows [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.aspx] and JAWS [http://www.freedomscientific.com/jaws-hq.asp] was a great organizing exercise for me. I took a look
Read moreIn my quest to move all my activities to the Mac [http://www.apple.com/] one of the first items that needed to be handled was an accessible Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/] client. Although I am not a power user, the number of people that I follow on Twitter
Read moreI remember in the late 90’s buying a Palm Pilot for my wife because it was the latest thing out there for organizing one’s life! Organizing is a very general term and definitely means that the Palm Pilot could claim to be a general device. The razor blade
Read moreHi. My name is Monica, and I’m doing some work for Kevin to give his blog some great new social media features. Since I have to publish a post to make sure everything is working well, I want to tell you something about Kevin that he’ll never tell
Read moreFor as long as I can remember I have marveled at the various methods we employ in an effort to stay in touch with our world. I remember the first time I saw a bible. I was amazed at how many pages were in the compact book that I held
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