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#AO3Bingo Challenge: DETABULATED Bingo Card

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 22:59:50 GMT

Posted by: jesse_the_k

AO3 Reaches 5 Million Fanworks!

To celebrate this milestone, the archive created a Fanworks Bingo card, encouraging folks to comment at the announcement and brag elsewhere on with #AO3Bingo hashtag.

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/13111

The original post only had a graphic version. In response to my comment, i_dwell_in_darkness quickly transcribed the text. I rotated the columns and rows to make a version that will be easier to use with braille devices

( see 'em all )

Thanks to jazzyjj for proofreading!

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boost: Advocate for Bookshare with Your Favorite Authors' Publishers

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:59:04 GMT

Posted by: jesse_the_k

kestrell explains how we can make more books readable.

Bookshare.org provides ebooks to folks who have official status as print-impaired. Unlimited access is free for students and US$50 per year for adults.

Many writers and publishers still don't know about Bookshare, so in my emails I usually include a link to the Bookshare page describing how authors can get their books added to the library
https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/authors

Heartening success story: kestrell chatted with his publisher in the Readercon dealer's room and next year Chip Delany's books were on Bookshare

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Medical Accommodations

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:05:57 GMT

Posted by: jazzyjj

Hi everyone. My apologies in advance if this is the wrong comm but I'm linking to an entry which needs signal-boosting. Got these letters from somebody who requested I circulate them. Thank you in advance. https://jazzyjj.dreamwidth.org/72297.html

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Blindness and Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:47:59 GMT

Posted by: jesse_the_k

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry questions the dearth of disability community in a context where it would naturally thrive: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series on Netflix. In the first of snarkbat's Tor.com essays Constructing Blindness she asks why her family seems clueless, since Sabrina’s witchy powers are accompanied by hereditary blindness.

What Sabrina Needs to Do to Depict Blindness Realistically

It’s important to acknowledge that it is scary to lose vision when you don’t know how to cope. Of course it would be frightening to Roz—but what bothers me is that her family treats it like it should be frightening, rather than giving her the adaptive tools to lead a life she’d be happy with. In a family that knows what blindness is like, a holistic approach that would give Roz safety and security seems like something I would expect—and something I’d love to see depicted on screen. A family that copes through knowledge and adaptability; a family (like the one in A Quiet Place) that understands and utilizes interdependence to create access.

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Create Captions in Your Browser with Free, Offline Caption Tool

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:00:38 GMT

Posted by: jesse_the_k

http://ncamftp.wgbh.org/cadet/

CADET is free, downloadable caption-authoring software that enables anyone to produce high-quality caption files that are compatible with any media player that supports the display of captions. CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts. CADET does not require an internet connection in order to operate: it runs locally in any Web browser, so users do not need to upload private videos or proprietary content to servers or video-hosting sites in order to create captions.

( feature overview and origins )

Variously called “The Caption Center,” the “Media Access Group,” and currently “The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media.” ↩︎

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"Blind reading" vs "anonymous reading," from a blind SF editor

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:52:10 GMT

Posted by: jesse_the_k

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry is the Managing Editor of Fireside Fiction, a literary magazine which publishes a variety of things, lots of which are SF.

Her essay on the task, and the metaphor, of "blind reading," does a great job explaining why the phrase "blind reading" is unhelpful

http://firesidefiction.com/blind-reading

Here's a taste: ( click to read )

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Screen Readers and Second Life

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:25:55 GMT

Posted by: jazzyjj

Hello all. I have not yet tested this out but am planning to do so at a later date. But there is now a client that can be used with Second Life, which is accessible for users of screen readers. Actually this client has been around for several years, but the original developer passed away and the new one has updated the client. I can't wait to get started with Second Life. Check out this great article: http://onj.me/2xxc- . Last I checked which was just this past weekend, the latest Mac version of Radegast hadn't been posted to the new site but that may have changed by the time you read this. I was told several years ago that Second Life would come in handy for me in terms of my independent travel skills. I don't know how true that is necessarily, but I still want to check it out at some point.

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My DiversifYA Interview

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:46:18 GMT

Posted by: jazzyjj

Hey everyone. I wanted to let you know that my interview about life with a visual impairment is now up on the DiversifYA website. For some reason I can't get the direct link to copy to the clipboard. I must be using a wrong command, but whatever. Anyway, it's up for the world to see and it was fun being interviewed by them! It is the most recent interview posted. Happy reading and I'm looking forward to your comments!

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