Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
Jen emailed me this, and it made me chuckle. But I do have to say the man telling this story had a lot more sympathy for the blind dope than I do. I’m sure by the end, you’ll understand why. I didn’t know this, but apparently in england there are certain cars on trains designated …
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It appears that the letter to the editor bug went and bit Brad. This letter is a beautiful thing, aside from the fact that he misspelled his own name! what’s that all about? So because I loved it so much, here’s his letter, saved forever in case it disappears off the Brantford Expositor website. Blind …
I’ve talked on and on about how calling out bus stops can’t be that much of a distraction when I’ve seen bus drivers chat to passengers, mess with their fare box and sign, or even better, yap on their cell phones or eat cereal while driving. Now I’ve seen a new one. One driver, while …
This is good news! The CRTC has made a ruling that, among other things, blind and deaf folks whill have better access to accessible cell phones and text messaging, and there will be better captioning and description on TV. I think the coolest thing I saw in there was that every wireless provider has to …
On Tuesday, Steve said he was going to write a letter to the editor about an editorial he saw about the calling of bus stops. Well, it got in. I wrote one too, and it also made it in. I think his was better, but oh well. At least we both got to hit some …
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This editorial about why bus drivers shouldn’t have to call out stopsirritated me so much that I had to write a letter about it. It hasn’t been published yet, but here’s what I wrote. By the way,hereis a post that Carin wrote last year expressing similar frustrations to give you an idea of how long …
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I get a lot of my groceries at Food Basics. A while ago, I wanted to read their flyers. So, I went online, and quickly discovered that their online flyers were nothing but images. Sure it looked like there were words there, but all those words were part of an image. JAWS cannot interpret images. …
Here’s a sad statement that shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it still sucks. USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people’s access to written material Yup, publishers convinced a bunch of government folks that it was not a good idea to allow a few people with various disabilities that make reading …
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I think Trixie has earned herself another dog post. Last weekend, we went to a friend’s wedding, and Steve was in the wedding party. Hopefully we’ll get some good pictures back, and you’ll actually get to see what Steve looks like. It’ll look a hell of a lot better than my failed attempt at photography. …
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I met my first disservice dog in person yesterday, you know, somebody’s dog who they’re saying is a service dog, but it’s obvious that the dog sstill needs some serious tweaks in training. I went to a public meeting about that roundabout they want to build in the middle of town, and in walked a …