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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 [...]

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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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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.   [...]

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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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        January 27, 2004 began like most days. The one thing that made this day so different from others, I would enter the hospital uncertain if I would awake with any sight, or for that matter, even with my eye. It was the second time dealing with cancer since my first as an infant. While [...]

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I was talking to a friend about the idea of the "grass being greener," you know envying someone else’s position/possession, only to come to the realization that what you have is good. Envy – one of the deadly sins. I’ve gotten caught up in it when not conscious of what I was actually doing. It’s [...]

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This article, written by a IBM Research Scientist and Master Inventor, offers several excellent reasons for employers to be more receptive to employing more people with disabilities.   The author, Dimitri Kanevsky, says in the article: In my view, people with disabilities develop top-notch, problem-solving skills that are honed by their need to overcome many [...]

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Technorati Tags: Accessibility I know there are many reasons to visit D.C., but for me, an accessible Spy Museum is one that may actually get me to make the trip.   C’mon, I know I am not the only one who wanted to be a spy when they were young. Ahem, I mean  younger!   [...]

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Technorati Tags: Accessibility Now this is cool! After hearing about someone’s desire to play the video game Rock Band, some folks at  Kinetic Communications LLP, hooked up the drum set.   From the site: One of our clients with Lakeshore Foundation is an aspiring Rock Star who happens to be in a wheelchair. She was [...]

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Ever since deciding to bring the issue of Blog Carnival’s inaccessible visual CAPTCHA to   the blogosphere, I wondered how many people would truly be willing to take a stand. The use of Blog Carnival does not have much impact on a person’s “real” life as inaccessibility of a bank or financial institution may. However, Blog [...]

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