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Have a look at the TSI speech plus, a really old talking calculator. Tell me. Was it huuuge? I wonder exactly how old it was. Let me check. Wow, it was created in 1976 ish. So…not that old. And by the sounds of it, not that huge. 7.1 inches long by 4.5 inches wide by …
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I just got a link to a survey, so I thought I would pass it along. There is a team of students who are trying to design a high-quality talking watch, and they want our input. They have some pretty neat ideas about things they want to put into it. It’s a quick 10-question deal, …
Yes! Yes! Yes! It’s so good to bring good accessibility-related news. Sometimes, I get so mired in the bad, the futile attempts to make things better. It’s so nice to see a victory, and here it is. I wish I could say I had more of a hand in this. I did write that old …
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Here are two scary thoughts for anyone living in New York. There’s an ambulance company there that allows persistent violent felons to drive their ambulances, and one of them was dumb enough to use the ambulance as a getaway vehicle after a robbery. Kevin Cheeks had been driving the ambulance for a couple of months. …
Ok, people need to chill out with their texting rage. First, we had those dudes meeting up to fight because one of them texted the wrong number, and now we have people engaging in a knife fight because of a predictive text error in a text message. I guess the story goes that Neil Brook …
Well, the day has come. I finally, after hemming and hawing for a year, got myself KNFB Reader, or eyeballs in a box as I affectionately call it. First I was worried I broke my phone’s camera. So, I got that tested out in June at the Aiming for Accessibility conference. Once it was determined …
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It looks like William Amory believes in the Home Depot Pry Bar guy philosophy for dealing with uncooperative devices. Break stuff. But Ammory doesn’t restrict his rage to the offending device. Oh no. He goes after the people trying to help him. Amory was a substitute teacher for a second-grade class. He was having trouble …
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This happened last Monday, and I’ve been meaning to write about it ever since in the hopes that it might help someone else. The phone rang, and the caller ID said number unknown, but I decided to pick it up anyway. It then rang in my ear. Auto-dialer fail! Then, a heavily accented voice started …
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I’m going to keep this post quick since Carin and I are busy not buying presents and doing nothing special for Valentine’s Day, but I do want to say that I am a very lucky guy. It’s an amazing feeling knowing you’ve found a person you can ignore Valentine’s Day with, and it might be …
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I am full of this crazy energy, but cannot focus it. It’s kind of what it looks like if I have one of those heavily-caffeinated drinks, or, if all is in the right combination, a cuppa soup. I just sort of run around in several directions and get nothing done, but boy do I want …