Teachers of the visually impaired (TVI) are periodically faced with the need to procure a braille embosser to enable student development. Simply asking the procurement function, special education department, or administration of your school system to acquire more of the…
Author: Dan Gardner
The Tyranny of the Status Quo
If you are a teacher of the visually impaired, you are likely very busy. In addition to the actual teaching time required to instruct your student, you need to plan and tailor their lessons, coordinate with the school district and…
Realizing the Achievement Potential of the Blind & Visually Impaired Individual
This foundational blogpost is the first of a continuing series that will offer innovative perspectives, learning approaches, and identify assisted learning technologies that will enable the realization of the under-developed potential of the visually impaired worldwide. Both parents and teachers…
CEO Blog 9 – Amazing week
I keep thinking about how to solve some of the huge challenges for engaging blind kids with STEM. I can see where it is totally overwhelming for parents and teacher to learn about all the options on top of all…
CEO Blog 8 – More questions than answers
I have written and scrapped a few different blog post ideas over the past several weeks. I still do plan to write on a weekly basis. My excuse is that three weeks ago I had knee surgery to repair a…
CEO Blog 7 – 5 years later
I just realized that it has been more than 5 years since I’ve written one of these. So much for documenting the experience of being the new CEO of ViewPlus. I guess I’ve just had more time to think over…
From the CEO, blog 6 – Back in the Saddle
Hi Tiger Nation, It has been a crazy few weeks. Obviously, I fell off the train of the weekly blog posts. No excuses. I failed to make time to do what I really wanted to do. That is now in…
From the CEO, week 5 on accessibility: Progress but slow
Hey Tiger Nation, This week the blog feels more like work than the exciting journey I had envisioned when starting it a month ago. Making Email Distributions Accessible I spent time trying to make sure our MailChimp emails were accessible. …
From the CEO, week 4 on accessibility: The good news keeps on rolling
Hey Tiger Nation, It might not compete with the US presidential primary politics, but it was a huge week for accessibility in the blind community. Amazon and National Federation of the Blind announced they will join forces to improve accessible…
From the CEO, week 3 on accessibility: focus and awareness not enough
Hey Tiger Nation, I wanted to have great progress to report to you on my attempt to make the 2015 ViewPlus Annual Report totally accessible, not just in a check the box kind of way. My dad was able to…