One of the reasons I was able to sound so well-informed during my short radio interview last month about potential changes to the Air Carrier Access Act was because I’d been hard at work on an article about that very thing for The Bark magazine. Editors there liked what I wrote, and now you can […]

Radio host Justin Kaufmann came well-prepared for our short interview on WGN Radio yesterday morning — we even got a couple of call-ins! If you missed hearing us live, you can hear The Air Carrier Act: How new procedures are impacting those visually impaired online now. During the interview yesterday I told my story about […]

Just got news that the Library of Congress Talking Book Service has created a Braille version of Writing Out Loud — it’s available free of charge to Americans who are blind or visually impaired. The Library of Congress administers the National Library Service (NLS), a talking-book and Braille program available for free to those of […]

The last time Mike had out-patient surgery, he called the hospital ahead of time to explain that his wife was blind and would accompany him to a cab to get him home afterwards. That was eight years ago, when I was still working with Hanni, my second Seeing Eye dog. The staff member who answered […]

After receiving so many comments to my Wednesday post about service dogs, I phoned Melissa Allman, Esq,, the Advocacy and Government Relations specialist at Seeing Eye. I thought you blog readers would be interested in seeing what their take is on the plans to amend and clarify regulations implementing the Air Carrier Access Act, and […]