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I 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 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 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 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 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 by MRR Software 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 entire experience of using Syrinx a breeze with VoiceOver.
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 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 with VoiceOver from Microsoft Windows and JAWS was a great organizing exercise for me. I took a look at my daily tasks and realized that I spent the majority of my computer time in the following programs: • Microsoft Outlook 2003 • AOL, Yahoo,
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
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