Thanks to Ron Graham from the AccessAbility Blog for giving RMM a shoutout!
He pointed us to a blog post by Marcus over at Engel’s Ensights titled
Pardon My Geekiness.
Ok, first, a lesson to all, never ever apologize for your geekiness! I don’t care what kind of Geek you are, it’s all good!
Marcus is trying [...]
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I think I got a message from my father this morning.
My Dad passed away in 96. My last dream right before I woke up this morning was so cool.
I ran into my parents bedroom to say bye to my Dad before I went out of the house with my mother and sister. I jumped on [...]
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Apple’s announcement that VoiceOver, there built in screen reader, is included in the latest version of the iPhone has the blind community buzzing.
Accessibility built in, I love it! I’m hoping to get my hands on one to test, especially since my current AT&T contract is expiring in August. More to come on that soon.
The news [...]
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I received the below email from the Author’s Guild in response to the Reading Rights Coalition protest held yesterday in NYC.
Based on their statement it still appears that the definition of audio rights will have to first be agreed upon. As someone who has been reading both books using TTS and audio narration, I have [...]
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This was one of the slogans chanted during Tuesday’s protest organized by the Reading Rights Coalition. The demonstration, held outside of the NYC office of The Author’s Guild, seemed to be well attended both in person and virtually.
Thanks to Mika Pyykhala and John Oliveira of the Association of Blind Citizens for streaming the event. [...]
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I just signed the petition started by the Reading Rights Coalition.
This organization began after Amazon released their latest version of their E-Book reader, the Kindle 2.0. The product which has built in Text to Speech has been attacked by the Author’s Guild. The Guild argues that this feature which uses synthetic speech to read [...]
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For the past few months I have been taking courses from The Hadley School for the Blind. If you’re not familiar with Hadley, it’s a free distance learning school for people who are visually impaired and blind. Their mission:
To promote independent living through lifelong, distance education programs for people who are blind or visually impaired, [...]
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Soon after President Obama was elected, I wrote to my state representatives seeking tickets for the historic inauguration.
Well, take a look at what I received today from Senator Specter. Exactly two months after the event, I get my “reply.”
Note to the Senator – have an aid check your auto response system, it’s broken!
—– Original [...]
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In 2006 I attended my first PCB State Convention which I wrote about on this blog. During that convention I had an opportunity to hear from then Director of Advocacy and Legislative Affairs for ACB, Day Al-Mohamed. Last year I had the pleasure of inviting her and introducing her during the 2008 PCB Convention.
A very [...]
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Explaining my sight loss to old friends and acquaintances has never been an easy task. In the months following my surgery I had many experiences with this. Some didn’t go as well as I hoped. There were several people who just couldn’t take the news. I imagine they believed I would become a different person. [...]
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