Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
So the time is coming for me to renew my passport. I got it at the beginning of 2006, so it won’t be long before it expires. I decided I would start looking into it now, even though that probably seems absurd. But since this is a passport and forms can be yucky and complicated, …
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This is a great idea. DirectionsForMe.orgis a new site created by Horizons for the Blind that aims to offer accessible package information for many different products. It will provide preparation and use directions, ingredient lists and nutritional information among other things. The database is searchable and also browsable by category in case you don’t quite …
Back a week or so ago, I said I would write a tutorial on the Megabus site to make it easier for blinks to navigate. Here it goes. I’m using JAWS, so if you’re using a different screenreader, some of this may not apply. Just so everybody knows, the Id de Chariotte de marchand was …
Here’s an odd blog post, but we like those. We’re trying to go to Barb’s house. We heard about this service called megabus.com that has cheap bus fares from Toronto to a few cities in Ontario, Quebec and the states, one of them being the city where Barb lives. So hey, we’re all down with …
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This is just a quick plug for my cousin Brad. I think I’ve briefly mentioned his wedding, although it was sandwiched in among talk of the place where we stayed. Anyway, he’s walking in an event called The Underwear Affair 2010 in Ottawa. Basically, it’s an event raising money for a cure for those cancers …
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I had a few random thoughts that weren’t Trixie-related. Don’t worry, I can’t foresee this post being nearly as long. In our house, we have a fan standing in the hallway near the entrance of one of the bedrooms. The reason it’s there is that’s the only room where we could put our air conditioner, …
I figured out something with my Trekker that I thought other people might want to know. If you’re in free mode, and you record a point of interest or POI, a. it becomes hard as all hell to find and label, and b. you cannot use that POI as an origin or destination of a …
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Hehehe! It’s a good day! Why is it a good day? Because I got my Trekker software and maps updated! Yeeee! I have yet to go take Trekker on a test walk, mainly because I’m crazy and finally got things updated at 2 or 3 in the morning. I’ll talk about my impressions after I’ve …
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This morning, I went out for Trix’s morning routine of visiting the doggy crapper, and my good lord she wanted to pull. I had to actually plant my feet and give her a good correction to tell her to quit with that crap and get down to, well, business. Then…what’s that I smell? Skunk? Jesus, …
A while back, something happened to Adobe Flash’s installer, and it got buggered for screenreader-users. If you ran the installer from the site, you’d be fine, but if it appeared after a restart, or if you installed it via Firefox’s plugin-finder service, or if you had to remove it, you ran into this ugly version …
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