Our special guest will be Debee (pronounced Debby) Armstrong, who is the alternate media specialist at De Anza college in Cupertino, California.

Debby has held a variety of interesting jobs, including training court reporters in computer aided transcription and supporting early Braille displays under Windows 3.1 at TeleSensory. In the early 1980s she wrote the fourth screen reader for the IBM PC. In the nineties, she was the technical support lead for the OmniPage OCR program and at the start of the 21st century she served a brief stint at a Dot Com writing spyware.

There have been a great number of e-mails lately regarding air travel and the problems some blind people have been receiving. We’ve had a travel program in the past of what to do for various situations while flying, but I thought that this time we would discuss real issues such as:

Hello everyone.

Our next program of “Issues Facing People who are Blind” will be a most interesting topic, “How good are residential agencies serving persons who are blind or visually impaired?”

This topic has come up recently on some of the blind lists, and so I thought I’d take five panelists to discuss their programs in residential agencies to see how successful the various training programs are handled. The questions that we will consider will include, but not be limited to:

Hello to all listeners of accessibleworld.org and beyond. Sunday, May 20th, 2012,
will be our next program of “Issues Facing People Who Are Blind”. In this program I’d like to consider a discussion on totally blind persons versus those who are partially sighted/low vision, or what we used to call “Sight Savers” when I was a kid many, many years ago.