After reading that article about Braille in last week’s New York Times, a senior producer at Chicago Public radio asked if I’d be interested in writing an essay about Braille. I sent one their way, and while I was at it, I sent along another essay as well. The second one was about that fifth […]

The most interesting question asked at one of our school presentations came from a fifth-grader on Long Island. “If you could see for just one day, and you knew that at the end of the day you wouldn’t be able to see anymore, what would you do that day?” ”I try not to think about […]

I took an extremely unscientific poll at Hackney’s, our favorite local, Friday afternoon. Question: What do you think of when I say the name “Stevie Wonder?” Answers: My Cherie Amour Music Gangsta’s Paradise Signed, Sealed, Delivered “I think he wrote a symphony, too!” our friend Larry said. It’s true. Stevie Wonder debuted “Sketches of a […]

If you’ve never seen (and heard!) a blind person using a talking computer, it must be hard to imagine how we manage a Web site without seeing the screen. Or without using a mouse. How do we find the buttons we need? What does a voice synthesizer say when it comes across a link? A […]