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Workplace Protections extended to millions of additional people under changed Americans with Disabilities Act

Employers beginning to embrace reasonable accommodations By Richard Manning, former Public Affairs Chief of Staff, US Department of Labor As a person living with cancer, diabetes, MS, dyslexia, epilepsy, depression, fibromyalgia, autism spectrum disorder...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 4:04 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, MS, ADA, blind, Workplace, anxiety, depression, wheelchair, epilepsy, people with disabilities, dyslexia, visually impaired, JAN, deaf, hard of hearing, hearing loss, arthritis, EEOC, Autism Spectrum Disorder, employers, amendment, AIDS, schizophrenia, legal, Restoration Act, fibromyalgia, cancer, accommodation, carpal tunnel, lupus, asthma, careers, productivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, bipolar disorder, HIV
Making Broadway Accessible for the Disabled

Via: The New York Times March 5, 2010 Arts Beat By Erik Piepenburg The next time you complain about not being able to see the stage from the nosebleed sections of a Broadway theater, think about not being able to see the stage at all. “No one wants...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 9:35 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, blind, deaf, audio description, physical disabilities, sign language interpretation, vision impairment, hearing disabled, TAP, Broadway, low vision, open captioning, The New York Times, Restoration, Theater Development Fund, accessibility program
Music Legend Stevie Wonder To Accept Award at AAPD Gala

Via: Top40-charts.com February 23, 2010 NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ American Association Of People With Disabilities) The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the country's largest cross-disability membership organization, is honored...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2010 1:37 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: AAPD, blind, music, disability community, Stevie Wonder, AAPD Image Award, disability advocate, AAPD Leadership Gala
Blind Mother Regains Sight And Sees Daughter For First Time

Brooklyn mother Cassy Rivera regains her sight and sees youngest daughter, Aniahya, for first time via Daily News By Jeff Wilkins and Larry Mcshane DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Originally Published:Thursday, December 17th 2009, 11:05 PM Updated: Friday, December...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2009 1:10 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, visually impaired, Christmas, Regain Sight
Not Just ‘That Blind Person’

via The New York Times Published: September 12, 2009 IN high school I took the train from my home in Briarcliff Manor, north of New York, into Manhattan to take dance lessons with Syvilla Fort in a studio over a bar on 44th Street. I danced with the Alvin...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2009 3:17 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, visually impaired, seeing eye dogs, jaws
Visually impaired couple proud to serve Coast Guard Auxiliary

By Kevin Parks August 5, 2009 via ThisWeeknews He can't see very well. She can't see at all. Not exactly recruiting poster material, this couple. Nevertheless, Jenine and Kent Stanley of Minerva Park are members in good standing of the U.S. Coast...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 12:04 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, Guide Dogs, Coast Guard Auxiliary
Bicycle repairs by roadside Mr. Fixit: Blind since birth, Petaluma resident Steve Martin and his Wheel Fix It! can make busted bikes almost new again

By Bob Canning via the Argus-Courier June 24, 2009 At 33, Steve Martin is a budding entrepreneur, but he’s taking it one cautious step at a time. He’s been a bicycle repairman for about 18 months, working out of his parents’ garage....

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 11:23 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, green business, Lions World Services for the Blind, Bicycle assembler and mechanic, entrepreneur, Lebers congenital amaurosis, Wheel Fix It, Bicycle Assembly & Repair course, bicycle repairman
Expanding access to copyrighted materials for blind focus of UN-backed meeting

New York, Jul 14 2009 1:10PM via US News Centre Speeding up access to copyright-related material can benefit over 160 million blind or visually impaired people around the world, participants at a United Nations-backed intellectual property gathering have...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2009 11:33 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, print disabilities, altered balance, intellectual property, Visually Impaired Initiative, web site launching, proliferation of digital technologies, United Nations, expanding access, General Francis Gurry, World Intellectual Property Organization, VIP, copyright protection systems, copyrighted materials
The laser that can halt blindness and offer hope for millions

via Daily Mail Online By David Derbyshire Last updated at 8:00 AM on 06th July 2009 A revolutionary laser treatment could save the sight of millions, British experts claim. The process is said to stop the onset of age-related macular degeneration, one...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2009 3:41 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, cure, AMD, age-related macular degeneration
"We Don't See with Our Eyes" Device Pushes the Limits of Vision

By Allyson T. Collins NEI Science Writer/Editor Erik Weihenmayer wears sunglasses often. He was wearing them to protect his eyes when he reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in 1997. He had them on when he completed the 2003 Primal Quest, the world's...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 1:41 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, Inc., assistive technology, seeing with tongue, Erik Weihenmayer, NEI, sensory substitution, custom-designed image modes, BrainPort inventor Paul Bach-y-Rita, apply for device approval from the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, Wicab, retinoschisis, National Eye Institute, BrainPort, everyday tasks, not meant to replace cane or guide dog
Disability groups slam Random House over Disabling Kindle text-to-speech

By Eric Engleman May 20, 2009 via TechFlash Amazon Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature, which reads electronic books aloud, is sparking more heated words. Amazon, if you recall, said it would allow authors and publishers to switch off text-to-speech...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 1:31 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: National Federation of the Blind, blind, print disabilities, visually impaired, Kindle 2, 15 million print-disabled Americans, discriminatory, copyright concerns, authors' guild, Reading Rights Coalition, disabling text to speech, read aloud feature, text to speech feature, Random House, equal access to books
Blind soldiers embrace newfound confidence

By Michael Futch - The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer via AP May 18, 2009 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Army Master Sgt. Dexter Durrante hasn't driven his Chevy Suburban in nearly two years, not since he was blinded during a training exercise at Fort Bragg....

Published Tue, May 05 2009 1:22 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, Guide Dogs, blinded, soldiers, instructor, life-changing independence, training customized for each veteran, blast from improvised explosive device, training exercise, brain trauma, counselor for blind and visually impaired veterans, Fort Bragg, demolition training, newfound confidence, bond, IED, becoming an advocate for the blind and disabled, Guide Dogs of the Desert, missing driving
Disney adds audio for the blind to attraction device that has captions for deaf patrons

via Orlando Sentinel Jason Garcia Sentinel Staff Writer April 16, 2009 Walt Disney World has rolled out a first-of-its-kind service designed to let even blind guests "see" its famed attractions. Called "audio description," the service...

Published Mon, May 05 2009 6:48 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, infrared sensors, visually impaired, deaf, World of Coca-Cola museum, hard of hearing, Hall at Patriot Place in Foxborough, amplified sound, Softeq Development Corp, DisneyWorld, captioning, Mass, audio description, remote, hand-held captions
Bookshare-University partnership Lets More Disabled Students Access Books

via abledbody April 29, 2009, 10:07 am Bookshare, the online library for people with print disabilities, today announced a new program that will significantly increase college students' access to digital books and textbooks. The Bookshare University...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 3:03 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, print disabilities, people with disabilities, BookShare, K-12, Chafee Amendment, digital books, visually impaired, HarperCollins, Jim Fruchterman, copyright exemption, online library, Hachette Book Group, college students, Benetech, pool resources, post-secondary students, digital textbooks, equal educational experience, Scholastic, cost-effective approach for schools
The Blind Astronomer

via Scientific Blogging By Alex Antunes | April 28th, 2009 09:13AM Two days ago, I woke up blind. Couldn't open my eyes-- lids were fused shut. For that early morning hour, I had to question just what I would do as a blind astronomer. I'd had...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 2:56 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: blind, in-situ radio or magnetometer instruments, Courtney Smith, blind administrators, Goddard Space Flight Center, astronomer, NASA, 'Touch the Universe'-- an astronomy book for the blind, blind project managers, "Not Just Taking Up Space, " profiles on blind scientists, career, web accessibility, ' Walk on the Sun, Non-image measurements put through 'sonification' to help show patters in data, GSFC, translate STEREO sun data into sounds, blind theorists

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Workplace Protections extended to millions of additional people under changed Americans with Disabilities Act

Making Broadway Accessible for the Disabled

Music Legend Stevie Wonder To Accept Award at AAPD Gala

Blind Mother Regains Sight And Sees Daughter For First Time

Not Just ‘That Blind Person’

Visually impaired couple proud to serve Coast Guard Auxiliary

Bicycle repairs by roadside Mr. Fixit: Blind since birth, Petaluma resident Steve Martin and his Wheel Fix It! can make busted bikes almost new again

Expanding access to copyrighted materials for blind focus of UN-backed meeting

The laser that can halt blindness and offer hope for millions

"We Don't See with Our Eyes" Device Pushes the Limits of Vision

Disability groups slam Random House over Disabling Kindle text-to-speech

Blind soldiers embrace newfound confidence

Disney adds audio for the blind to attraction device that has captions for deaf patrons

Bookshare-University partnership Lets More Disabled Students Access Books

The Blind Astronomer

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