follow up to: cab driver fails to pick up blind guy. seriously?

as posted yesterday a cab driver was under investigation. The results? He only lost a days wages and keeps his job. The article follows, in it’s entirety with my comments following. A Capital Taxi driver has been disciplined for refusing service to a blind man Tuesday evening. “He’s already had his disciplinary action – he’s … Read more

FSU: (fmeeping) stupid university? Yes, actually, it is, thank you for asking.

The last 4 days have been nothing but a fuck shit stack, with one quick break yesterday that lasted oh, an hour, maybe two? I’ll preface this by stating the obvious. I absolutely despise Fitchburg State University. Nope, not gonna lie. In fact if I still had this perspective legally blind freshman’s email anywhere in … Read more

Petty Thievery, much?

Some tweets from this morning hit my radar almost 19 hours later, and I feel I need to say something publicly. Over the past few months, Christopher Toth has developed and distributed Hope, a third-party application that allows a Windows user using a screen reader to access the popular Pandora service. He charges $10 US … Read more

a follow up to the post entitled: welcome to open communication, pizza pizza.

I posted 2 weeks ago a letter I mailed off to pizza pizza, regarding their inaccessible iphone app, it was a little blunt, but you’ll have that. Today, I received this in response. ——————————————————————————– From: Pizza Pizza App Customer Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:51 PM To: Shane Davidson Subject: RE: iphone app … Read more

attempting to ram religion down blind peoples throats isn't how you sell a product.

so as a long time tech geek, I have this bad habbit of keeping up with firmware upgrades for the various blind products, pacmate braillenote family of products and the braille sense family of products once distributed by GWMicro now sold and distributed by their manufacturer hims INC. It’s come to my attention that the … Read more

and pembroke is now under the knife.

I learned, thanks to james that pembroke taxi services, are now under a complete review of their practices and procedures. Pembroke plans to bring its bylaw governing taxis in line with the province’s Accessibility Act. Having developed customer service standards, the city will now have to contend with other standards dealing with employment, transportation, information … Read more

Is freedom scientific finally losing their touch?

Hello fellow blog readers It’s been awhile since I posted something of major substance to the blind community here. On this blog We have some very interesting posts to reference. I’m going to post each of them below, exactly as posted, and I’ll follow each one of them up with my comments. The first one … Read more