Blind Sighted
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On Drawing
As my vision faded out in the early Spring of 2014, I also felt my artistic and creative side fading out with it. Not only would I never be able to animate again, let alone create hyper-visual special effects in video, put illustrations and designs in motion to tell a story, or build, light, shade,…
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Blind Dating Primer
I’ve decided to write up a bit of a structured list of information and tips for dating someone who is blind. These are my own ideas and mostly center around my own experiences, but can be useful and tweaked depending on the personal tastes of interaction with other partners. Tech Questions How am I writing…
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so Many Upgrades!
I’ve been hard at work adding features and flows to my Oh Craps python game. It has been interesting and educational while creating development git branches, tweaking and testing, writing pseudo code to work out how I want the features to work, implementing the changes, merging, and enjoying the results after pushing all the updates…
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Big Updates to Oh Craps!
More fun updates to my Oh Craps game! I had a bunch of ideas and worked them all into my code, play tested them all, and just pushed them out to the Master branch up on git. I follow a lot of different Craps content creators on YouTube, and when I come across a strategy,…
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Oh Craps! – My Love of Dice
I absolutely love the game of Craps. The play built entirely around chance, each roll an independent event that doesn’t affect future outcomes and is not built on by previous rolls. Whenever I’m at a casino, I always seek out the tables by the sound of the chips being stacked and fiddled with, the call…
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Why I detest inline links
A common occurrence I’ve seen time and time again with current web design trends is to put anchor links within a sentence. For documents that require citations, I can understand this process, but for general text and informatics it is really quite frustrating to navigate when using a screen reader. VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, and others…
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Overall 2020 Update
It’s been a long while since I’ve update and posted to this blog. I just rebuilt it all and backdated all the posts to when I originally posted them, with the exception of the dating primer since it’s fun to have that front and center! In an insane nutshell, 2019 was a ridiculous year for…
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NFB 2019 – Viva Self Driving Cars!
To start, here’s the Popular Science story about the Self-Driving car experience we set up for NFB 2019:Lyft’s Braille Guides for Robocars Another year, another full on experience attending the National Federation of the Blind conference and representing Lyft as their blind accessibility specialist. The event moved in 2019 from Orlando to Las Vegas, trading…
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Frustrication
I’ve come up with a new word that exemplifies what I go through every time I attempt to learn something new or technical these days while blind. The lack of accessibility for blind students at various educational resources such as Treehouse and Khan Academy makes the entire experience absolutely frustrating. Frustrating education = frustrucation. …
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Zumanity – Another Vegas Win
Building off of my momentum with MGM providing audio description devices in T-Mobile Arena, I decided to take it a step further. Before losing my vision, Cirque du Soleil was one of my major interests. My parents brought me to my first show with Nouvelle Experience back in the early 90s. Since then, I’ve seen…