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 same printer model you already use (assuming you have used one in the past) can […]
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 classroom teacher, attend administrative meetings, construct lesson-related teaching materials, meet with parents and other members […]
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 cannot help but hope, and tirelessly work toward the goal of opening up the world […]
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 the other challenges in our everyday lives. Even if I could learn the best tools […]
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 torn meniscus in my right knee, so I didn’t write one. In reality, I was […]
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 the past year. Normally, I’d say that is good thing, but now I can’t tell […]
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 the past and I’m fired up. We had a great response to our new embosser […]
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. It is tough for me since I don’t regularly use a screen reader. With NVDA […]
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 reading experiences for blind and low-vision students, https://www.facebook.com/ViewPlus/posts/1094262830633546. Learn from my Mistakes I’m only […]
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 take the org chart PDF saved from Visio and create an SVG with it, but […]