As I've been writing in all of our weekly news digests for the past couple of months, it has moved to World Blind Herald where it is now called "Blindness Briefs." You can read last week's edition by clicking the link to it on the WBH home page. The science digest has also moved over… Read more about To My Subscribers
Announcements
Time To Take Action
Introduction U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD-03) introduced legislation to help break down the significant barriers that Americans with disabilities continue to face when accessing website and software applications, which all Americans rely on for employment, commerce, education, public services and all other aspects of society. The Websites and Software… Read more about Time To Take Action
Pandemic to passion project: Let’s Go Shopping
For some of us, those first scary days of the Covid-19 pandemic may now feel like it was a million years ago, but for others still dealing with the trauma and aftermath of grief and loss, or who are still struggling with "long Covid," it may feel like a never-ending nightmare. The predominant emotion I… Read more about Pandemic to passion project: Let’s Go Shopping
A Cast Of Thousands
Introduction Last month James “Jamie” Teh announced he would be leaving NVAccess, an organization he co-founded with Mick Curren to create, improve and maintain NVDA, the screen reader used by an estimated 40% of blind people on the Windows platform. Almost immediately, I started receiving Twitter direct messages (DMs) and emails asking what I thought… Read more about A Cast Of Thousands
Seeing AI: First Impressions
Introduction On July 12 of this year, Microsoft released a pretty remarkable new app for Apple’s iOS line of products. The app is called Seeing AI: Talking Camera For The Blind, it can be used to perform OCR, recognize products, to do facial recognition and (in a beta state) to have a scene described to… Read more about Seeing AI: First Impressions