I have written before about how for people with disabilities, a smartphone is way more than something cool, or a convenience, but a real life changer in how people can interact with the world, be productive, and live their lives. For me, technology truly narrows the gap caused by blindness between me and the sighted … Continue reading How that modern technology is a life changer for the blind in educational settings cannot be overstated
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Challenges and frustrations I experience being totally blind, dealing with statuses of devices with LEDs
Because most devices are designed by sighted people, for other sighted people, lights are used to tell the person statuses like on/off etc. For those who can see, it's super easy, quick and efficient. For those who are totally blind, it's only frustrating at best. The device most frustrating for blind users are the … Continue reading Challenges and frustrations I experience being totally blind, dealing with statuses of devices with LEDs
How current more modern technology, Youtube, helped restore and strengthen a Christmas memory I had from my childhood around 1980
Mom died at age 97 in July 2020, so that Christmas 5 months later during the worst of the covid pandemic found me more nostalgic than usual. I remembered that when I was a kid in late grade school, Mom had an album on vinyl of Christmas songs played on what sounded like large music … Continue reading How current more modern technology, Youtube, helped restore and strengthen a Christmas memory I had from my childhood around 1980
Ways in which cameras help the blind
What I get out of a camera as a blind personI've been politely asked, "how do you read messages or email on a computer?" a less common question is "How did you take that picture?" In the old daysWhen I was a kid, I remember being annoyed because I would have to stand nice for … Continue reading Ways in which cameras help the blind
Technology for most is a nice thing to have, but for those with disabilities, how huge of a game changer technology is in improving their lives cannot be exaggerated
Posted on July 6, 2018 As I wrote about in my last post, technology in its most basic definition is an innovation which makes some task easier, and for most of us that is most of the time, the case; but for people with disabilities, it is way more than that.Technology helps us get places … Continue reading Technology for most is a nice thing to have, but for those with disabilities, how huge of a game changer technology is in improving their lives cannot be exaggerated
Some reflections on how technology has progressed as I flew home from North Carolina to Wisconsin last Friday
Posted on June 25 2018 Just a reflection on how technology has advanced over a time period I can remember.I can remember in high school wishing I could type some of my homework on my 30 minute bus rides each way, and although until 11th grade I had a very nice electronic typewriter, it wasn't … Continue reading Some reflections on how technology has progressed as I flew home from North Carolina to Wisconsin last Friday
My thoughts on how both technology and new workflows improved my life in 2016
People can look around and see new things they bought over the last year, but if they think a little deeper they might realize how some of their workflows also changed. Yes I bought a few new gadgets in 2016, but some of that was to support changes in my thinking and planning for better … Continue reading My thoughts on how both technology and new workflows improved my life in 2016
Thoughts on how I keep remembering Beethoven’s birthday, music and technology
It is possible that if it hadn't been for Charles Schultz, and through his Peanuts cartoons , December 16th being the birthday of Ludwig Van Beethoven would have been as unknown to most of us today as the birthdays of the other great composers. In the Charlie Brown Christmas special recorded in 1965, one of … Continue reading Thoughts on how I keep remembering Beethoven’s birthday, music and technology
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