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Personal Essay

Blindness Charities And Money, Part 1: The Aggregation

January 16, 2019 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

Introduction Last April, I published a piece here called, "A Long Time Between Articles" that briefly discussed a lot of topics. Under the heading, "Where Does All Of The Money Go?" I wrote that I suspected that many if not most large non-profit organizations who claim to serve the population of people with vision impairment… Read more about Blindness Charities And Money, Part 1: The Aggregation

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A Long Time Between Articles

April 12, 2018 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

Introduction It's been more than seven months since I published an article on this blog, a record for inactivity on my part. This piece is a "random musings" kind of article, it will contain headings naming the topic and a paragraph or two about the idea as I've done in musing articles in the past…. Read more about A Long Time Between Articles

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Howard Kaplan, Spotlight Gateway and Me

February 1, 2017 by Chris Hofstader 2 Comments

February is visually impaired awareness month so I chose to write about a very interesting project being announced today by a number of organizations and companies. Introduction Spotlight Gateway, announced today by a number of blindness organizations, a large pharmaceutical company and Bookshare intends to provide an iPad to every underprivileged child who is either… Read more about Howard Kaplan, Spotlight Gateway and Me

Filed Under: Announcements, Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: AAO, Activism, Apple, FFB, Howard Kaplan, iPad, New York Lighthouse, San Francisco Lighthouse, Spotlight Gateway, SpotlightText, Visually Impaired Awareness Month

2016 In Review, A Few Predictions for 2017

December 29, 2016 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

Introduction I want to start this piece with an apology to all of the many readers who have made this into such a successful blog over the past nearly eleven years. In 2016, including this one, I’ve only published 5 articles, compared to an average of more than 20 in most years since I ended… Read more about 2016 In Review, A Few Predictions for 2017

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: 2016, BlindConfidential, Blogging, JAWS, Review, Rock and Roll, VFO, ZoomText

EZ Fire Or Sleazy Liar?

August 30, 2016 by Chris Hofstader 12 Comments

Epigrams “What you can’t buy, you gotta steal, and what you can’t steal, you better leave,” Joe Strummer. “When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted you must shun him on the roadside when you meet him, you must shun him in the streets of the town, you must shun him… Read more about EZ Fire Or Sleazy Liar?

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Consulting, Ethics, EZ Fire, Pratik Patel

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