Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
I saw this satirical list of 17 ways to make a blind person happy, and after I finished laughing, I thought it needed a link. Let’s see. How many of these have I experienced? Most of them. Thankfully no. 11 doesn’t happen much, but it has. The closest I’ve had to no. 12 was that …
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A while ago, in the comments under another post, I lamented that when I try to write a serious post about something that is bugging me, it always comes out long, whiny, convoluted and repetitious. Here is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. Here’s my post, and here’s a much more succinct and …
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I don’t know how much Verizon paid Jay Croft for this advertorial puff piece on its new VelaSense blind person helper app, but they might want to see about getting their money back. Even if we look past all the silly hyperbole (Technology worthy of a Hollywood sci-fi movie?” It’s a cell phone camera and …
Seriously, when are people going to stop trying to foist this sort of horribly expensive, impractical garbage on us? Let’s do this one more time. A: A lot of blind people don’t wear glasses and we’re not going to start for the sole purpose of making your camera and giant backpack full of processors work …
Something happened to me yesterday that I’ve probably written about in components before, but it all happened to me in one 10-minute interaction yesterday, so I thought I’d write about it. I got off the bus and started to walk. I got to the first intersection, and something seemed a wee bit off about my …
This sensitivity training video is pretty awesome. I’d love to know what happens at one point where the woman goes “I’ve got ya,” and then the other woman screams. I get the general message, but I’d love to know if she just got grabbed and heaved onto a bus or some other ridiculous thing. I …
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This was circulating wildly around Twitter between blind folks. Although I’ve never been accused of faking my blindness, I know that can be a thing. I don’t think Braille is totally awful, but I’m glad they brought up the point that it’s uber bulky and just because you’ve gone blind doesn’t mean you magically know …
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I also saw this on Friday, and decided to put it up too. We’ve probably said all of this in one spot or another, but I don’t care. The more eyes who see this, the better. Here’s an awesome article called How To Talk To A Person With Disabilities Without Sounding Like An A-Hole, and …
And now, here’s Gill with today’s installment of let’s ask a blind person a silly question. Most people who know me should know that I don’t suffer fools, and village idiots often feel the wrath of Ms. Gillie. Knowing this I was quite shocked that in the advanced year of 2014 that I would have …
I saw this tweeted as I was coming home on the bus the other day…who knows why I was looking at Twitter while riding the bus, but there I was. I watched it, and thought “hey, this is totally what we’ve been saying in different forms in the blind guy user’s manual over the years.” …
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