On a four day holiday (counting the weekend) I’m having fun doing pretty much just what I want to do. Bumming around on the ‘net, starting up xmas projects, tidying up loose ends that’s hard to do when on the run for most of the week, that kind of thing.
Just wanted to point out [...]

There are plenty of applications that can read off printed text. Windows has had that capability available in its setup for several years that I can recall now. And for the visual impaired that’s extremely helpful. There’s even a voice recognition module that lets you control things by speaking to it, again [...]

There have been some very good posts out on the recent FCC activity in granting “permanent” exemptions to the ADA’s requirement for closed captioning. In a nutshell, the ADA when enacted provided for “total” captioning to be implemented by January of 2006. Looks around herself. Nuh, uh, not by a long shot. [...]

This time I’m going to point you toward a number of videos, some clips others much longer, but I think all food for thought. Get the popcorn!
Swedish Deaf TV Perspektiv on Laurent, S.D.. This consists of interviews of deaf folk from all walks of life.
This one’s a clip of a longer show that [...]

Note, I started this several days ago, before the BoT finally announced its decision to find a different president for Gallaudet.
Joseph Rainmound has an excellent article explaining the process of “Gatekeeping” and how it applies to Gallaudet University. I want to take this concept a step further, and examine how gatekeeping is abetted and [...]

Rush Limbaugh, and what he represents. But even I was rather shocked at his lampooning of Michael J. Fox (see here) in which Limbaugh makes fun of Fox’s current level of disability, also implying that Fox is faking it.
I am not a religious person, but in this case, I know there is a circle [...]

Update
Seems that WaPo has finally provided a transcript. Good. Now the only thing left is the complete bizarreness of a president-to-be of the deaf university in this country choosing to be interviewed on a radio broadcast…
So here’s irony on top of irony on top of …
It seems that at Gallaudet university, there is [...]

If life gives you fences…PLAY VOLLYBALL!!
via:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/28/playing_volleyball_a.html