Month: July 2007

A posting on The American Printing House for the Blind’s blog turned me on to what seems to be a handy web site. Walk Score tries to tell you how walkable a given address will be based on proximity to items like stores, restaurants, coffee shops and more.   A quick trial of several places I’ve lived seems to show that the site is reasonably accurate. It is also much faster than using the various…

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article talking about a strong dislike for physical buttons on hardware by Steve Jobs. One of the things that’s frustrating to me about articles like this is the fact that the reporter rarely seems to apply what has been learned from other reporting to the story of the day.   I recognized the reporter, Nick Wingfield, as someone who wrote about web accessibility in the past for the…

Most everyone probably knows the old saying about what happens when you assume so I’ll skip repetition here. But I was operating under the assumption that the National Center on Accessible Media’s Now Showing page listed all the theaters that had the potential of showing movies with audio description.   Not so I’ve subsequently learned. As one example I’ve come to discover that Regal Cinema has many theaters that have the ability to show descriptive…

Summer in the Pacific Northwest tends to be absolutely beautiful. Temperatures rarely go above 80 degrees. Breezes offer just enough wind to keep things moving. Storms, as much as I sometimes miss them, rarely spoil the day. Mosquitoes and other flying insects are all but absent from the environment. All in all, as I say summer in the Northwest is pretty close to perfect in my book.   Notebook in hand, I decided to resolve…

This definitely comes from the partly too-much-technology department but this post is being written from the road. The road in this question is I-5 as we head back from Portland to the Seattle area.   I was curious how sharing the net connection on my cell phone would work to surf the web from my notebook. So far it is working well with about a 400K connection as we drive along.   We went to…