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Dangers of home fires for wheelchair bound
What seems to be a simple thing to do, get out of the house before the fire gets too bad isn’t so simple. Many fires start and and stay small for some time but crank out all kinds of gases that can force you to lose consciousness before you knew that there was a problem. [...]
Back on the air!
I have been gone for a while and wanted to give you an update before the next news story is posted. I have been dealing with strange mini colds which included 16000+ white cell count and 103+ temps. They hast for about two or three days and then poop out. I have gone to the [...]
Accessible software disappearing
While some commercial software packages have interfaces to work with screen readers and magnifiers, open source, or free applications cannot hook up to these helper applications. Because of licensing pricing and the inability of free software to pay for licensing for a large number of users throughout the world, open standards in file formats appears [...]
Cyber-Shockwave underscored disabled issues during emergency
A war game was played out about a week ago where the United States was attacked through the Internet and the electrical grid crashed causing immeasureable problems across the country. The game was re-broadcast by CNN and it was a chilling realization that not only were the able bodied in big trouble, but the disabled [...]
Careers and the disabled in recessions
Disabled workers have been shown over and over to be excellent workers. Many jobs like IT do not require anything more than someone with a college education that is sitting at a desk with a phone and a computer. Since many paraplegics can easily do work sitting at a desk there is no reason that [...]
Disabled community loses out on helping free software
Communication is sorely lacking in the disabled community not only to each other, but to virtually anyone in the able bodied community. This ends up creating products and services that are virtually impossible for the disabled to use. The sad thing is that with only a few changes virtually all products can be made so [...]
Disabled demanding games they can play too
Disabled gamers have had virtually no place to go to that writes up how well the games work for those with disabilities. In fact, some gamers have taken things into their own hands and are starting to sue large game companies that ignore the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to the law all companies are [...]
Adaptive driving info
One of the main topics we try to deliver on is getting information to the disabled that is not readily available from other sites. To that end we periodically add its to the "Useful Goodies" section of the site. If you haven’t checked this out then we strongly recommend you do. In the mean time [...]
City cracks down on illegal placard use
San Francisco California is cracking down on illegal disability placard use by increasing the fine from $100 to $1000 and increased enforcement. The city is doing this because thousands of the placards are either used by people that are not disabled or are fake. Last year alone over 1000 placards were grabbed from people that [...]
The ever increasing doughnut hole
The doughnut hole, or the payment that Medicare patients make when their medications cost more than $2700 a year is going to get bigger. The new bill in Congress is supposed to close the payments over the next 10 years so that all pharmacy payments will be covered by Medicare. However, because of increases in [...]
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