A few weeks ago, I learned something that I thought I would pass on to other blind folks. If you ever get asked by someone to be a passport reference, if you actually get the call, among the things they will ask for is a physical description of the person for whom you are serving …
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AdSense Auto Ads: A Blind Kid’s Dream Come True?
If you run a website, putting ads on it often just makes sense. Nothing comes for free (at least not without limitations you eventually may not be able to live with), and at the very least you don’t want to go too far in the hole paying for what you need. Programs like Google’s AdSense …
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Be My Eyes Launches A Specialized Help Feature, Which Will Be Amazing If Enough Companies Go Along With It
If you’re a smartphone having blind person and you haven’t used Be My Eyes, I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that your life is at least a little more frustrating than it needs to be. And if you’re a smartphone having sighted person and you’ve spent any time at all volunteering …
Don’t Update To Firefox 57 Just Yet, Blind Kids
In a couple of weeks Mozilla will be releasing an update to Firefox, my current browser of choice. It’ll be version 57, it’ll go by the name Quantum, and according to the makers of JAWS and NVDA it’ll mess up your screen reader something fierce and you probably shouldn’t use it if you plan on …
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Closed. Not Interested, Blindy.
I don’t use my CNIB card for much, but it has come in handy for Via Rail. Apparently, they use it as proof that your guide dog is a guide dog, which is slightly twisted logic but that’s been the established piece of ID they default to. If you don’t put a piece of ID …
You Need Good Passwords. Go Make Yourself Some
I got an email today about one of Carin’s old posts. You’d be amazed how often that happens, but that’s another post for another day. Anyway, this one was about a password security tester she linked to a few years back that would tell you how long it might take for somebody to crack your …
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Airport Security Logic Strikes Again
Good lord this is stupid. So the United States and I assume some other countries have security policies in place to prevent people from bringing dangerous bottles of water or tubes of lotion into airports or onto planes. I’ve never quite understood why, but that really doesn’t matter. It especially doesn’t matter now that I’ve …
A Real Uber Driver Will Never Try To Negotiate A Price Or Ask You for Cash
Normally when one of us writes about a scam, we’re doing it because we want to either laugh at an incompetent one or at the people who fall for an obvious one. But right now I’m going to be completely serious because I know that even as popular as it is, there are a lot …
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I Had No Idea That All This Stuff Was On Spotify
I’m a big Spotify fan, though sometimes I don’t use it as much as I’d like. It’s already more than worth the subscription price based on the huge selection of music and comedy, but it just got a little better now that I’ve discovered that you can also use it to stream classic novels, short …
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In Spite Of Its Best Efforts, We’re Now Using DLVR.it
Twitterfeed, the service we’ve been using mostly reliably to tweet our new posts to the world since 2010, is shutting down tomorrow. If you’re a webmaster and you didn’t know that, you might want to get on finding a replacement soon. Sorry for fucking up your Sunday. I’ve known for a while, but hadn’t gotten …
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