[3] Direct Links to Blogs
This is a preliminary listing of some of the blogs in the blindness field that look interesting. It is bound to change often, so please come back again. I've quoted the news feed whenever I've been able to find one.
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abledbody - news, insights and reviews on disability and assistive technology
RSS Feed
Abrahams Accessibility Blog
RSS Feed
AccessTech News for people with disabilities. The WordPress version has apparently been suspended for some reason, but there is
another blog of the same name on BlogSpot
Atom Feed for AccessTechNews on BlogSpot.
Adventures of a Blind Cashier
Atom Feed
AFB Blog from the American Federation for the Blind.
RSS Feed
After Blindness Comes Light - personal blog by a visually impaired artist.
Atom feed
Are we all Web2.0 crazy? - "Thoughts from a librarian interested in the web's potential for information provision, looking at accessibility and assistive technology in particular.". Ruth is a librarian at Oxford University who works with disabled students.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
As Your World Changes - "adjusting to vision loss with class, using technology". From the folks who programmed
@podder, an accessible podcast receiver program.
RSS Feed (feed not working at present? Dec. 1st, 2007).
ATMac Blog - Assistive Technology for Mac OS X Users.
RSS Feed
Assistive Technology Blog Carnival - contributions by several familiar bloggers.
Atom Feed
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Attitudes Are the REAL Disability by a teacher who teaches blind students.
Atom Feed
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BBC Access 2.0 - part of the
Ouch! disability web site.
RSS Feed
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Jim Fruchterman of
Bookshare.
Atom Feed
Benefit Scrounging Scum - UK-based disability blog.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Blind Access Journal - Darrell and Karen Shandrow tackle many issues of accessibility, in technology and elsewhere.
RSS Feed
Blind Bargains - Deals & News for the Blind & Visually Impaired.
RSS Feed
Blind Bloggers - blind learners and technology.
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Blind Confidential Blog by Chris Hofstader. Blindness, technology and other things.
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Blind Geek Zone - Rick Harman comments on technology.
RSS Feed
Blind Insight -
RSS Feed
Blind Mind News - Unrestricted Access - "Blind Mind Radio "Unrestricted Access" is a technology blog and podcast from blindmind.net, which features the latest tech news, reviews, interviews and advocacy issues affecting the blind and visually impaired."
Blind Mind News RSS Feed
BlindSoftware.com Blog - accessible software for fun and productivity. Some entries are available as podcasts.
Blind Software Blog RSS Feed
Bye Sight! "Losing My Vision, Not My Sense of Humor"
RSS Feed
C
Chairman Mal's Little Red Book - "You have found a portal into an alternative universe where blindness is commonplace, where the blind rule, enjoy full employment and universal access to technology. Readers are invited to speculate about what this world could be like."
Atom Feed
Colblindor - "Color Blindness viewed through Colorblind Eyes"
RSS Feed
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Desktop Team - blog for Opera web browser
Atom Feed
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Diary of a Monkey - by Jemma Brown, partially sighted artist and hater of mobility scooters.
Atom Feed
Do Your Worst - by Damon Rose, producer of Blindkiss.com and the BBC Ouch! disability website.
RSS Feed
E
E-Access Blog - Modern Government and a Fair Society.
RSS Feed
emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop by T. V. Raman of
Google Accessible Search fame.
ATOM Feed
F
Fred's Head from the American Printing House for the Blind.
RSS News Feed
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GDOs Unleashed - guide dog owners' blog, though you don't need to be a current owner to take part.
RSS Feed
H
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IEBlog - The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
J
Jazz Sightless!-The Adventures of a Blind Jazz Musician
RSS Feed
K
Klangoblog.net - blogs by members of Klango, which is mainly a network of blind and visually impaired users of the Klango social network client.
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Lioncourt.com - Mac-cessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
RSS Feed
Living Blind - the blog attached to the Living Blind site.
RSS Feed
M
Madman at Work - by someone with a variable photosensitive condition.
RSS Feed
Marco's Accessibility Blog - "Musings, tips and tricks about the accessible software world" - one-time Freedom Scientific developer comments on access tech.
RSS Feed
Michael Feir's Blog - "A digital record of my blessed and unusual life and pursuits."
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
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Nuvision for a Nuday - "a collection of essays, commentary, and poetry that detail the experiences of a beautiful, brilliant, black woman, who happens to be blind. The goal of this blog is to allow anyone who travels to this site the opportunity to see life and the world we live in through the eyes of a blind woman. So close your eyes, take a look around, and see what you've been missing."
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Nickie's Nook - "The Radical Ramblings of a tactless teen." Sharp observations by a teenage student who has a chronic pain condition as well as a visual impairment.
RSS Feed
NBP Book Updates from National Braille Press, USA.
RSS Feed
O
Ouch! Blog - the BBC Disability web site has its own blog with trivia or not-so-trivial items.
RSS Feed
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Perspectives from a Blind Point of View - the author, Helena Roberts, says, "A blog dedicated to how I see the world as a 20 something blind woman, as well as news important to the blind community. Not all of my opinions will be based on my disability, but I hope to bring a new perspective to the blogging world.;"
Atom Feed
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Peter Korn's Weblog an accessibility specialist at Sun Microsystems writes an occasional blog.
RSS Feed
Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto, author of a book also called "Planet of the Blind".
RSS Feed
Q
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Reading in the Dark (alias The Blind Bookworm Blog) - the techno-adventures of a blind bookworm exploring the space between disability and technology...
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
RNIB Web Access Centre Blog -
RSS Feed.
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Safe & Sound blog - Adventures of a woman and her Seeing Eye dog.
RSS Feed
Science Blog - look for topics within the Human Eye category.
RSS Feed
Second Life for the Visually Impaired - Analysing the accessibility of Second Life with respect to visual impairment.
RSS Feed
Sensory Metrics - re-inventing the User Experience
RSS Feed
SeroTalk Podcast and Blog - find out about the latest access technology, and take part by phone or e-mail. Produced by Serotek, makers of System Access.
RSS Feed for both blog and podcast
Serotek Blog - the people who may have brought you Freedombox and System Access comment on developments in their yard.
Atom Feed
T
T & T Consultancy Blog and Podcast - material from CSUN and Sight Village and other things.
RSS Feed
Talking Books Librarian - "A blog about Talking Books and other great resources for blind or visually impaired persons. Find out what's happening in the world of libraries and Talking Books! The blog also includes information and resources of importance to older adults, as well as those with disabilities."
Atom Feed
Technology Blog and Podcast by Jared Rimer
RSS Feed
Teach Vision - teaching visually impaired children
RSS Feed
Technology Esoterica - "A blog dealing with concepts and technologies that are considered esoteric like chaos theory, sensory substitution and speech recognition." Includes experiences using the vOICe graphics-to-sound technology.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
The Blind Blogger by Roger Wilson-Hines, he of Thunder screenreader fame.
Atom News Feed
The Chaos World of Assistive Technology Blog - "The latest and greatest, tips and tricks and other items of interest".
RSS Feed
The JAWS for Windows and Pacmate Blog
RSS Feed
The Portable Player Portal Blog - Brian Hartgen gives information on accessible mp3 players and similar devices.
RSS Feed
The Ranger Station - Ramblings from some dude in the Assistive Technology industry.
RSS Feed
Tina's Virtual Backpack this and that about accessibility -
RSS Feed
U
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Vicki Manley's LiveJournal - Sound Studio Technology Degree student.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Voice of the Nation's Blind - from the (American) National Federation of the Blind
RSS Feed
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Wiki Visual Impairment - a plea for visually impaired people to contribute to their own version of Wikipedia dealing with visual impairment issues.
Atom Feed
Wise Advice by Helen McFadyen. Cooking, dogs and vision loss. She's Canadian, and has lots of time on her hands....
RSS Feed
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Yodel Anecdotal - Yahoo! people blogging about their world. Includes some accessibility discussions.
RSS Feed
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