Update: This no longer works in most of the world. Since Twitter has decided to go and screw all the third party Twitter clients, I realize how much I don’t go and check my direct messages unless I know there’s something there to find. Consequently, my responses have become really slow. The default solution is …
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Hey Google, Why Didn’t You Tell Me There Was A Website Listing Everything A Google Home Can Do?
Why this page has never once come up when we’ve Googled things about our Google Home Mini is a bit of a mystery to me especially since Google built it, but now that I’ve found it, I think things are going to be a whole lot easier and probably more fun. It’s categorized, it’s searchable, …
You Can Update To Firefox 60, JAWS Using Blind Kids
It took ’em a while, but apparently JAWS and Firefox have figured out how to work together again as of Firefox version 60, which was released in the last few days. When Mozilla released Firefox Quantum, starting with version 57, in November of 2017, it introduced a number of technical changes that improve the browsing …
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For Future Reference…
A few weeks ago, I learned something that I thought I would pass on to other blind folks. If you ever get asked by someone to be a passport reference, if you actually get the call, among the things they will ask for is a physical description of the person for whom you are serving …
AdSense Auto Ads: A Blind Kid’s Dream Come True?
If you run a website, putting ads on it often just makes sense. Nothing comes for free (at least not without limitations you eventually may not be able to live with), and at the very least you don’t want to go too far in the hole paying for what you need. Programs like Google’s AdSense …
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Be My Eyes Launches A Specialized Help Feature, Which Will Be Amazing If Enough Companies Go Along With It
If you’re a smartphone having blind person and you haven’t used Be My Eyes, I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that your life is at least a little more frustrating than it needs to be. And if you’re a smartphone having sighted person and you’ve spent any time at all volunteering …
Don’t Update To Firefox 57 Just Yet, Blind Kids
In a couple of weeks Mozilla will be releasing an update to Firefox, my current browser of choice. It’ll be version 57, it’ll go by the name Quantum, and according to the makers of JAWS and NVDA it’ll mess up your screen reader something fierce and you probably shouldn’t use it if you plan on …
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Closed. Not Interested, Blindy.
I don’t use my CNIB card for much, but it has come in handy for Via Rail. Apparently, they use it as proof that your guide dog is a guide dog, which is slightly twisted logic but that’s been the established piece of ID they default to. If you don’t put a piece of ID …
You Need Good Passwords. Go Make Yourself Some
I got an email today about one of Carin’s old posts. You’d be amazed how often that happens, but that’s another post for another day. Anyway, this one was about a password security tester she linked to a few years back that would tell you how long it might take for somebody to crack your …
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Airport Security Logic Strikes Again
Good lord this is stupid. So the United States and I assume some other countries have security policies in place to prevent people from bringing dangerous bottles of water or tubes of lotion into airports or onto planes. I’ve never quite understood why, but that really doesn’t matter. It especially doesn’t matter now that I’ve …