Category: Accessibility
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On Drawing
As my vision faded out in the early Spring of 2014, I also felt my artistic and creative side fading out with it. Not only would I never be able to animate again, let alone create hyper-visual special effects in video, put illustrations and designs in motion to tell a story, or build, light, shade,…
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Blind Dating Primer
I’ve decided to write up a bit of a structured list of information and tips for dating someone who is blind. These are my own ideas and mostly center around my own experiences, but can be useful and tweaked depending on the personal tastes of interaction with other partners. Tech Questions How am I writing…
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Why I detest inline links
A common occurrence I’ve seen time and time again with current web design trends is to put anchor links within a sentence. For documents that require citations, I can understand this process, but for general text and informatics it is really quite frustrating to navigate when using a screen reader. VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, and others…
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NFB 2019 – Viva Self Driving Cars!
To start, here’s the Popular Science story about the Self-Driving car experience we set up for NFB 2019:Lyft’s Braille Guides for Robocars Another year, another full on experience attending the National Federation of the Blind conference and representing Lyft as their blind accessibility specialist. The event moved in 2019 from Orlando to Las Vegas, trading…
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Frustrication
I’ve come up with a new word that exemplifies what I go through every time I attempt to learn something new or technical these days while blind. The lack of accessibility for blind students at various educational resources such as Treehouse and Khan Academy makes the entire experience absolutely frustrating. Frustrating education = frustrucation. …
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Gaming While Blind – Interviewed by Rachel Myro
Rachel Myro from KQED interviewed me about gaming and accessibility during the week of GDC. Major thanks to the Lighthouse here in SF for setting me up with the opportunity! We talked about how I went blind, what life was like when I had vision, and the lack of immersive gaming for blind people. There…