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Accessibility, Technology, and Musings on Blindness

  • Me vs. Pouring Drinks

    Me vs. Pouring Drinks

    Pouring yourself a drink. That is something that I bet the vast majority of people think nothing about doing for themselves. Easy, peasy, right? Now, imagine pouring yourself say, a cup of hot coffee while wearing a blindfold. Still easy? Nope. Not at all. In my case, I can see a little out of one…

    March 13, 2021
  • Where is My Robot-Driving Car?

    Where is My Robot-Driving Car?

    Driving a car. Such a simple, modern convenience. Driving is probably something most all of you do daily. You most likely drove somewhere even today, to work, school or even to get groceries or to hit a drive-through for dinner. I, on the other hand, have not driven a car in seventeen years. Do I…

    February 15, 2021
  • Me vs. Exercise

    Me vs. Exercise

    Just for a minute, I would like for you to think about exercise. In particular, think about the different ways that people often exercise. I imagine that among the things that came to your mind was going to a gym, jogging, biking and possibly even rollerblading or hiking. All of those are great ways to…

    July 16, 2020
  • Me vs. The Grocery Store

    Me vs. The Grocery Store

    With a family of six to feed, clothe and keep healthy, we visit the local supermarket, natural food grocer or Wal-Mart about four times a week on average. These kids go through gallons of milk, bagels, bananas, and Nutella at a pace that has to be seen to be believed. I often go along with…

    February 4, 2020
  • Me vs. The Cinema

    Me vs. The Cinema

    The movie theater. An ideal place to experience the latest big-budget action spectacular with eardrum-shattering sound and visuals to make you gasp. An ideal place unless you are visually impaired that is. For people like me, a movie theater is a study in frustration. They are dimly lit, densely packed rooms with unevenly spaced stairs…

    November 30, 2019
  • Me vs. The Restaurant

    Me vs. The Restaurant

    Eating out is almost always a great time… unless you are blind like me. Okay, so that might have been a bit of a “shock” opening line but, unfortunately, it is true for me. Like most people, I love eating good food with family and friends. I especially love it if I don’t have to…

    August 18, 2019
  • Me vs. Braille

    Me vs. Braille

    What a fascinating thing the tactile language of braille is. It utilizes a set of raised dots in a grid to represent each letter of the alphabet, plus numbers and punctuation. There is even a more advanced version called contracted braille that combines common letter groupings to make reading more efficient. It is hard to…

    July 22, 2019
  • Me vs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park

    Me vs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park

    A blind man walks into a cave. Sounds like the opening line of a joke doesn’t it? I have always been fascinated with the array of National and State Parks that dot our country. Of course, most of this fascination has been more intellectual in nature, as I am not an “outdoorsy” guy. I know…

    July 19, 2019
  • Me vs. The World

    Me vs. The World

    Sometimes I feel like the world is out to get me. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I feel like the world that I live in is not particularly well suited for me. You see, I cannot see, at least not very well. I am legally blind. What “legally blind” means, in…

    July 18, 2019
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