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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 [...]
New transport law in North Ireland
For years the disabled have been complaining that taxis and bus drivers have refused service, charged extra to take them on board, or have just roared past them because they didn’t want to deal with a wheelchair on the bus. Finally a new law, the "Disability Transport Regulations" now require that taxis, buses and trains [...]
Newly disabled in Haiti finding new life difficult
Falling debris and collapsing building have created hundreds and perhaps thousands of disabled people. Many have have lost more than one limb, making it all but impossible to get around a country that never was very disability friendly. With few building standards to begin with, there are no ramps for wheelchairs and mass transit has [...]
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 [...]
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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