It has been another rough week for me with all the usual accessibility challenges and ongoing efforts to get the staff of our paratransit service to understand the seriousness of the consequences some of their actions or inactions bring to their customers with disabilities. It culminated this morning in a knock-down-drag-out incident in which I… Finish Reading Happiness Comes In Small, Poignant Moments of Accomplishment

Karen and I usually wake up to a prominent morning radio show and listen while we get ready to take on the new day. This show features a middle aged man and woman who mix contemporary soft rock music with their own commentary, callers and guests. The show is usually a family oriented, witty blend… Finish Reading Stop Complaining: Dawn Your Glad Rags!

I have recently learned of an exciting opportunity for promotion within my current employer. It is exactly the kind of interesting, rewarding, prestigious position I have always hoped to have the honor of filling. I haven’t submitted a resume. Why not? You ask? The answer is one simple word: INACCESSIBILITY! The customer’s “high interactivity” implementation… Finish Reading Opportunity Lost to Technology Inaccessibility!

As blind people, our physical lack of eye sight can often result in perceived weaknesses wehn it comes to our ability to perform in the workplace. Realistically, our inherent inabilities to drive and to independently read print text and graphics do present challenges not encountered by our sighted peers. We can choose to emphasize these… Finish Reading Distinguishing Ourselves From The Crowd: Transforming Perceived Weaknesses into Strengths

While most of us in the blind community agree that accessibility is an important issue, there is widespread disagreement on priorities and underlying principles. There also remains a lack of practical solutions to some accessibility challenges. The following transcript of a dialogue between two advanced blind users of information technology illustrates just part of the… Finish Reading Dialogue in the Blind Community on the Need for Accessibility

Access Watch launches a new resource enabling the blind to read and post reviews of mainstream computer software. Blind computer users can check this resource before spending their hard earned time and money on a new piece of software. Blind experts in the use of a particular program may add reviews to the system to… Finish Reading Opportunity Alert! Review Mainstream Software For Accessibility!