The Arrogant Worms Would Like Your Help Funding Their Hopefully Very Long Goodbye

The Arrogant Worms are crowdfunding another album. Sadly, it’s their farewell album. Well, their first farewell album, anyhow. We want to put out a new album for our 25th year but we NEED YOUR HELP! The Arrogant Worms have been cranking our melodic Canadian comedy for a quarter of a century now. And a big …

Have A Look At Dictation Bridge

I’ve been hearing about a funding project for something called Dictation Bridge, which is supposed to make it so people using NVDA or whatever screen-reader can hear what they’re typing when using dictation software like Dragon. I thought it was a cool idea, and meant to send them some dough. Then they made a promo …

Help Wendy Fuller Recover From An Eviction That Should Never Have Been Allowed To Happen

This woman is a friend of some friends of ours. It’s sad to see systems that are supposed to be helping give people a hand up fail the very people who are trying to take that hand. If you can help out by sharing, donating or both, I know it would be appreciated. They’re looking …

When Accessibility Meets Music, You Get…An Album?

Here’s a little quick something to hopefully get me moving. A week or so ago, Steve found out about this album put out by 13 people who are accessibility keeners, and also like to make music. It’s called Accessibility Rocks, the Web Accessibility album. Each artist has donated a song that they created. The proceeds …

Robobraille: OCR In A Pinch

I don’t know why I’ve never written about this service, but better late than never. More often than I’d like, I get a document that’s either unreadable because it’s a scanned image, semi-readable or readable if you have a million years and infinite patience. Usually, if I can put it through OCR, it can fix …

Tall Can Audio, Our Old Friend Matt’s New Podcast!

Sorry for the sudden quiet. Between dealing with some headache unpleasantness and some other unpleasantness that took me out of town for a bit and has me feeling a little down, I haven’t been having the greatest week. But this one’s an easy post, so I figure I’ll pop it up before maybe or maybe …

Shaw Offers Free Long Distance To Nepal Until May 25th, Free Indian News Station Until May 6th

On the heels of Videotron’s announcement this morning, Shaw has announced its own free stuff for customers in the name of Nepal offering. To help customers stay connected to their family and friends, all Shaw Phone customers will be given complimentary long distance calling to Nepal until Monday, May 25. Shaw customers will also be …