Personal Essay

Introduction In March, I published an article called "The X-Dog and Me" which told a number of anecdotes (mostly amusing) about life with my first guide dog, X-Celerator. There is a passage in that article about a number of trips we made to Miami Beach to hang out with my late friend Tellis. After I… Read more about Tellis

Introduction Any blind person who has a guide dog has a number of stories about their animal doing something amusing. Long term readers of this blog and especially BlindConfidential before it, will remember that a lot of the satirical fiction written under the Gonz Blinko moniker had a character who was a yellow Labrador I… Read more about The X-Dog And Me

Introduction When I first started blogging and was writing articles for BlindConfidential two or three times per week, I did so to add a more critical voice to the community of people with vision impairment. I wanted to show how AT companies earned windfall profits on devices that they could manufacture pretty inexpensively. I wanted… Read more about Major Progress In Mainstream Accessibility

Introduction I wrote my first blog article in January 2006. It was mostly just an announcement that I was starting a blog called BlindConfidential and a few ideas about what I would write about. I wrote two or three BlindConfidential articles per week fairly consistently until 2011 when I decided to take some time off… Read more about Why I Write A Blog

Errata In the article below, I state that no blindness specific notetaking device contained GPS, a camera or cellular data. This is incorrect, some of these devices have GPS, some have a camera and some have both. The only device in this category that I could find with cellular data included is the Freedom Scientific… Read more about The Access Technology Affordability Act