Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
A week or so ago, a friend of mine sent me these two complaint letters from a group of blind people who call themselves the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians. One was complaining about the commercials that the CNIB put out that say “not everyone who looks blind is totally blind. 90% of the …
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I just got a pretty cool call. I finally sent that thank you letter I’ve been meaning to send to TD bank about their talking bank machines. They called to thank me for sending the letter! Not only that, but they told me that if I had any further feedback about the machines, I have …
They talk all the way through! They even tell you to select your language, in multiple languages! At last, there is speech from the beginning to the end! They did it! Yea! Woo! Now I need to send that thank you letter out pronto. I know I probably look nuts to sighties for getting excited …
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I’m awake, and trying to burn out so I can go back to sleep. So here I am. Last week, I talked about the new talking feature on the TD bank machines. Well, my number of beefs with them has gone down from 3 to 1. I figured out how to adjust the volume, and …
Jen sent me a news story saying that the new TD green machines are supposed to talk! This made me have a sudden, unexplainable need to get out $20, so off I went to the bank with a headset in my pocket. And I found that the machines do in fact have a headphone jack, …
Now everybody’s staring at me, confused. I can explain! On Monday, we had our municipal election, and for the first time, because of a cool new talking voting machine, I could vote independently. Voting has always made me a bit nervous because I’ve always needed some help from the staff at the polling station or, …
Excuse me while I vent a little. Boy am I ever pissed off. I think this will rival my rabbid rage-fest about Bell. Oh no, that one will win hands down just for length and complete lack of clarity, oh and number of hahahaha’s. Ok, so this post gets one of those now. Let’s go. …
I realize that tomorrow, the original post about this will drift off the main page. So, here’s a link to it again. I got another email about it. They said they’d seriously look into why OCR software packages, packages that turn the printed word into text, thus into something the computer can read, demand the …
Well, the good folks at the Canadian Cancer Society apparently never sleep. I already got an email from a human profusely apologizing for this, and saying that I should hear more from their web team within 8 days. Holy crap! That’s almost enough for me to open my wallet and send them some dough!
Ha ha ha. I’m so corny. But I had to write about this, because I find it slightly amusing and extremely disturbing all at once. Did you know that information that we’re led to believe should be common knowledge is locked up behind password protection by its own publishers? Let me explain. I was on …