Category: accessibility
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If you own an M1 Mac, I’m a little jealous and a lot sorry.
Every now and again, I consider either stealing a friend’s Mac for dinking around purposes or just buying my own–the latter option because hey, if I bust it, I own it. I’ve never been a huge fan of Apple’s walled garden approach, but I’ve also been an iPhone user for … Read the rest
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I would absolutely love a self-driving car. It won’t happen in my lifetime.
As a blind guy, and sometimes the only blind guy in the room, I get it a lot. “I bet you’re looking forward to the self-driving car.” And I mean I get it. I really, really get it. But my answer is always “yes, but no”. In theory, absolutely yes. … Read the rest
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Ontario doesn’t do accessibility. Also water is wet.
If you’ve spent time in Ontario, especially if you have any kind of disability, you become pretty aware pretty quickly we fail at disabilities. That includes, to the surprise of hopefully no one, accessibility for those who have them. Three years after the Doug Ford government received a … Read the rest
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In which WordPress lets me do with an interface what I used to do with code. 13 years later.
I don’t even know what version of WordPress I was using when I relaunched this site back in 2008. 2.something, I’m fairly sure. Either way, I’ve been using it for a bit–and yeah, some of the code that used to make this site go is evidence of that. As so … Read the rest
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Ontario’s disability failure: wheelchairs.
I have… let’s call it second-hand experience with how Ontario handles wheelchair purchase and repairs. Not for me, but for someone I was–at the time–fairly close to (we’ve gone separate ways since and are both probably better for it). The TL; DR version is they don’t, at least not very … Read the rest
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Why you could not pay me enough to use Ottawa’s Para Transpo.
Having at one time been responsible for helping someone who essentially depended on Para Transpo if conditions were severe enough that she couldn’t get around on her own, I had more than enough reason to become far too familiar with the system’s inner workings–which had the added benefit of being … Read the rest
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Putting priority back in priority seating.
I haven’t the slightest idea if this is a thing unique to Ottawa or what, but I’ve noticed no matter what the actual intent of priority seating was supposed to be, it almost always defaults to whoever someone else thinks needs it. A run I took a few days ago … Read the rest
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On OC Transpo’s public disservice announcements.
I’ve mentioned the automated bus stop announcements they’re now using up here for OC Transpo. They were a long time coming, and it’s actually nice to see they work really quite well–so long as the system’s been appropriately kicked into gear, but I expect that these days. On recent … Read the rest
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Guest Submission: New Worlds Ateraan attends the ACB convention
Have you ever read a book and wondered what it would be like to play one of the characters? This year at the ACB convention you can learn about the text only online role playing game known as New Worlds Ateraan. This high adventure, fantasy role playing game is … Read the rest
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Mobility musings. Because half past late.
If you’ve read the “about me” style pages linked on the left side of this thing, you’ll probably be made vaguely aware that I have this problem (*) wherein vision just doesn’t happen. The same can be said for a few of the folks what read the thing. So it’s … Read the rest