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Gonz and the X-Dog at QED

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

I will be attending the QED conference in Manchester England next week. You can easily identify me, I’ll have a hat on, I have long grey hair, I usually wear RayBan sunglasses and I will be in the company of a large yellow labrador. I will probably be the only person there with a dog… Read more about Gonz and the X-Dog at QED

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Accessibility, Blindness, Conference Accessibility, Guide Dog, QED

Rebuttal to Mike Calvo on WSJ Live

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Recently, my good friend Mike Calvo appeared on Wall Street Journal Live and said a number of things that I believe are misleading and or incorrect. As a matter of disclosure, Mike and I have been good friends for a really long time. I respect Mike for the many contributions he has made to access… Read more about Rebuttal to Mike Calvo on WSJ Live

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Accessibility, Calvo, Disability, Legislation, Litigation, Regulation, Serotek

Want, Want, Want!

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

I enjoy Twitter. I use it daily to hear about news in science, skepticism, secularism, humanism and other interests. I also follow lots of friends and I’ve developed online relationships with a lot of people around the world. For one like me who spends his days at a computer, Twitter provides a fun way to… Read more about Want, Want, Want!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Android, Disability, iOS, Samsung

The Snake Lady

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

By: Gonz Blinko 11/3/2012 “Play some Pistols!” I yelled, somewhat drunkenly, at the rock cover band playing in a dive Seaside Heights bar. “Play some Ramones!” The band, who did have some punk in their repertoire, instead launched into some more mainstream rock song. I bellied up to the bar and got myself another Budweiser…. Read more about The Snake Lady

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fiction, Punk, Sandy

Actors Inside 2012 Edition

June 7, 2013 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

On a Friday in 2006, I lectured at an undergraduate class in Occupational Therapy at University of Florida.  One of the questions I received from a student and, coincidentally later in the day from a professor wondered if Braille would go obsolete now that we have all of these cool electronic reading systems.  As the class and… Read more about Actors Inside 2012 Edition

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Blindness, Braille, Disability, Literature

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