Archive for the “technology for people who are blind” Category

This year she's a bulldozer

October 31, 201513 CommentsPosted in Blogroll, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guest blog, parenting a child with special needs, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

I have a part-time job at Easter Seals Headquarters in Chicago. I’m the Interactive Community Coordinator there, which means I moderate the Easter Seals national blog. I keep my ear open for articles or issues that have something to do with disabilities, recruit interesting people to write blog posts about those things, edit the posts, […]

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I used to think "blind photographer" was an oxymoron

September 26, 20155 CommentsPosted in blindness, Blogroll, guest blog, memoir writing, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

A blog post I published here earlier this month got such an intriguing comment from a blogger in Germany that I asked her to write a guest post here. She said “Ja!” Photo Narrations — pictures for the blind and sighted by Tina Paulick Beth’s post was about how she asked writers in her memoir […]

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Let's keep working: today is the 25th anniversary of the ADA

July 26, 201523 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

When I finished college I got a job at the Study Abroad Office at University of Illinois. During one-on-one appointments with U of I students, I’d ask what they might like to study overseas, what sort of living arrangements they wanted, did they speak a foreign language, which countries they were particularly interested in, that […]

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One step at a time

July 2, 20157 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, parenting a child with special needs, politics, radio, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

Twenty-five short years ago, the United States Capitol had no wheelchair ramps. You read that right. The monument that pretty much defines American equality and justice was inaccessible to people using wheelchairs. In 1990, activists in Washington, D.C. struggled out of their wheelchairs and crawled up the Capitol steps to urge lawmakers to pass the […]

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