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Greetings everyone! I'm Jayna Sheffield, your friendly Café friend and it is my pleasure once again to introduce a blog by our dear friend Donna J. Jodhan.
Donna! Blogger, editor, writer, advocate, and so much more! A tireless worker and one who is headed to Canadian Federal Court in September to fight for the rights of Blind and partially sighted Canadians. We will be making more of an announcement on this momentous event in early September.
Here now is Donna and make it a great day.
Vision found and vision lost
There are not many people who can say that they were lucky enough to have gained some vision after being born blind. This was the case for me as a teen and on a typical fall day my doctor in Montreal informed me that he could give me a corneal transplant in order to improve my vision. Even now after all of these years, my heart still beats like a jack hammer as I recall the memories of it all. True to his word, DR Joel Rosen of Montreal Canada delivered on his promise and three months after the transplant, my world had changed. Going from almost total darkness to sunshine was something that I will never forget. My world had suddenly exploded into a kaleidoscope of colors and I had found myself just literally wanting to see as much as I could. I felt like a kid in Wonderland!
I could see people; my mom and dad and I will never forget the morning when I first discovered that I could see their faces. I rushed into the bathroom and as I gazed dazedly into the mirror I realized that I looked just like mom. I wept for joy and as the tears came pouring down my cheeks I thanked God for having sent DR Rosen to me. I could see the fat snowflakes chasing each other around. I could see the blue skies and the fluffy white clouds. I could see the green grass and the delightful colors of flowers. I could see so much more. Spring in Montreal allowed me to go out and explore; looking at passersby, learning to play basketball and roller skate, and walking down town with my best friend Char.
Some friends took me to a strip bar to see what it was like and what an experience that was. I enjoyed as much as I could and even learned to read and write but the phenomena for the doctors was this; I was somehow able to read print and to this day I can not figure out why. I remember sitting next to my dad on the sofa and reading the sports headlines in the Montreal newspaper as he proudly looked on. Then when I saw my two beloved brothers for the first time! My twin Jeffrey did not look anything like me! He was tall, handsome, and possessed a pair of skinny legs. My older brother Robert was shorter, looked more like me, and looked like a little boy. Then I went around visiting all of my cousins and aunts. What a treat!
I had 25 wonderful years of new vision. I was still categorized as blind but I did not care. I played ice hockey and air hockey. I enjoyed the placid green sea with those lazy white capped waves gently rolling onto the golden sand. I loved the sparkling sun rises and the peaceful sunsets. I enjoyed watching hockey on TV as well as figure skating. My beloved Montreal Canadiens team rushing up the ice in their red jerseys. The silver Air Canada jet bird gliding lazily over a deep blue Caribbean ocean with the sun streaming down on it from above. I learned to draw and paint and do so much more. I never tired of looking at pictures of my beloved granny, my hero Pierre Trudeau, Robert F. Kennedy, JFK JR, and all of those other handsome hunks, too many to mention. Then there were photos of my dogs when I was growing up! Forever imprinted on my mind along with the rest.
25 wonderful years of memories; too many to fit in to 100 suitcases. I will never forget and I thank God, DR Rosen, and all those who helped to make my memories lasting and cherished ones. My world may be dark now but the candles still flicker in my mind. The sparkling sunrises and the peaceful sunsets are still a part of me. The blue skies, golden sand, waves as white as lace, gorgeous flowers, and everything else are still a part of my world. I never got to see granny's gentle expression but her photo lingers in my mind and images of my dearest dad and beloved brother Robert who are now in Heaven will always be with me; in waking hours and in my dreams.
I am one lucky person because I was able to see all of this for a time whereas so many other blind persons would never be able to enjoy it. I think that by now you probably have the picture. Time for me to put away my book of memories for now.
I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and encouraging you to go out there and share my story with others. If you would like to read more about my memories then please send me an email at donnajodhan@sterlingcreations.ca.
Donna J Jodhan is the president of Sterling Creations.
Now you can view blogs and editorials written by Donna at:
http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com (Donna Jodhan! Advocating accessibility for all)
http://www.onestopbookcafe.com (under the café talk link)
http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm (important answers to consumers concerns)
http://www.diversityintheworkplace.ca (monthly editorial on issues on diversity)
http://www.sterlingcreationsca.blogspot.com (blogs for language professionals and accessibility consultants)
Hello there! It's your friendly Café team and boy o boy! We're smack bang in the middle of August and just humming along!
Today, we would like to share some of Steve's tips with you and without much further ado, here is Steve.
Make it a great day.
Steve's daily tips
Taken from Melanie Mama's corner
How To Go Raw!
Want to switch to a raw food diet? It’s not always easy converting to a new food plan.
But if you follow these tips, you can easily add more nutrient- and enzyme-rich foods into your diet.
Start Slow–
When you switch to a raw food diet, you might be worried about giving up other foods you enjoy. Instead of quitting your favorite foods cold turkey, gradually work in more whole, fresh, raw foods. An easy way to start is with dessert. Or try incorporating raw fruits, veggies and nuts into smoothies or salads for a meal.
Start Now–
It’s the best time of year to begin a raw food diet. With fresh produce everywhere during the summer, it’s easy to find sweet, succulent whole foods. Plus with the temperatures up, your body craves cooling foods, like fresh fruits.
Be Prepared–
Have raw snacks on hand so if you start craving a snack, you don’t turn to your old processed standbys. Stock up on assorted raw nuts and seeds, along with herbs, spices, tahini and nut butters. Also keep a blender and food processor on hand to make raw foods recipes.
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The Trick That Keeps Produce Crisp All Week
Make your produce stay fresh for at least seven days by tossing a few dry sponges into your refrigerator's crisper drawer. The absorbent rectangles will sop up the excess moisture that wilts veggies.
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Whiter Teeth For Less Money
Just wet your toothbrush, and dip it into a box of baking soda. Then, brush your teeth, and rinse. Repeat regularly, and you'll have whiter teeth at a price that you won't feel guilty about.
Why This Works
When mixed with water, baking soda creates a thick paste that's perfect for scrubbing away the stains on your teeth, and because it's applied with a toothbrush, it even does a good job of reaching and removing the stains that form between your teeth, something most whitening kits can't do.
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Need Fiber? Try Figs!
Depending on age and gender, a typical person should be getting between 25 and 50 grams of fiber a day. Unfortunately, the average American diet only contains about 11 grams of daily fiber. One natural source of fiber that may surprise you is figs.
Six dried figs offer up a solid 5 to 6 grams of fiber, plus they’re a naturally sweet and delicious treat that can tame even the sweetest sweet tooth.
But what’s the big deal about fiber, anyway? Fiber is the natural cleansing and detoxification nutrient that helps us maintain healthy gastrointestinal systems. "Research from Harvard University has shown that men with the highest dietary fiber intake (about 29g a day) had a 40 percent reduction in heart attacks compared to men eating the least fiber," wrote Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, in his book, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. "High-fiber diets have also been shown to be associated with better blood sugar control and with much better weight control."
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Ensure Shoe Laces Stay Tied
Coat the ends of shoe laces with baby powder before you tie your shoes. Talc, a mineral in the powder absorbs any grease that can make laces slippery. And the slight friction it provides helps hands grip laces and knots stay in place.
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Why You Need Thiamine
Think back to health class. Remember learning about vitamin deficiencies? A thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency can lead to the nervous system disease with the unusual name: beriberi. This disease causes muscle wasting, gastrointestinal disorders, fatigue, weight loss and mental confusion. Thiamine, a water soluble nutrient, is necessary for healthy circulation, carbohydrate metabolism, digestion and brain function. Researchers continue to study its free-radical-fighting power against the effects of aging. You can find thiamine in common foods, such as egg yolks, brown rice, whole grains, peas, asparagus, raisins and prunes. The recommended daily intake of thiamine is 1.5 mg.
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What’s The Difference Between Green Tea And Black Tea?
Actually, the proper question would be what is the difference between green tea, black tea, white tea and oolong tea. First off, all four kinds of non-herbal tea actually come from the exact same warm-weather evergreen, the Camellia sinensis. Second, the only difference between the four is how they are processed and when.
Here’s a quick rundown:
White Tea—technically the least processed tea of all and the only one made from immature
leaves that are picked right before the buds have fully opened
Oolong Tea—partially fermented tea, but harvested from mature leaves and then "withered" or air-dried.
Green Tea—not fermented at all, made from mature withered leaves.
Black Tea—produced from fully fermented, mature leaves.
Most people know the health benefits of green tea, but if there were as many studies done on white tea as there are on green tea we might find that this purer form of tea might be even better for us. And for a long time, people thought Black Tea was inferior to Green Tea because the fermentation process required to produce black tea deactivates a key compound known as epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). While that is true, recent research has found that the fermentation process also creates a whole other set of powerful antioxidants. So if green is not your favorite color, you can stick with black and still know you’re enjoying one of the healthiest beverages available.
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Powered Up Oatmeal!
Oats contain soluble fiber which helps control blood sugar levels and holds hunger at bay longer because the body digests it more slowly. Add some blueberries to a bowl of oatmeal and you benefit from their antioxidant properties, which will lessen the inflammation response. Now add an ounce of walnuts to the mix and that dampens production of neuropeptide Y, a culprit in a bulging belly. Then, add a half teaspoon of cinnamon to your oatmeal and that, like the fiber, will inhibit a blood sugar spike. Mix that with a little stevia for sweetening, along with some coconut milk, rich in medium chain fatty acids, which actually help to burn fat more efficiently, and you’ve got a nutrition-powerhouse packed into a cereal bowl! And it tastes good, too!
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Unclog Problematic Spray Nozzles
Does your aerosol hairspray nozzle become clogged and you have to pick away the residue? The next time this pesky problem happens, dip the nozzle in rubbing alcohol, wait a minute, then rinse under hot water. The rubbing alcohol will cut through built up gunk.
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Egg Tips
The simplest way to tell if an egg is fresh is to observe it's shell.
If it's rough and chalky, it's fresh. If it's smooth and shiny, it's old.
You can also place an egg in cold salted water. If it sinks, it's fresh. If it floats, it's old.
To tell if an egg is hard boiled or raw, spin it. A hard-boiled egg will spin smoothly. A raw egg will wobble.
It is easier to separate eggs when they are cold.
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10 Benefits Of Lemon Water For Health*
Many people often love the tarty flavor of lemon juice in their dishes. But have you ever wondered if you could put this lemon juice to many more good uses than this? Yes! There are enormous benefits of lemon juice and water in your everyday life.
You simply need to arm yourself with relevant knowledge and you would soon start valuing this amalgamation more than ever.
Lemon is an inexpensive, easily available citrus fruit, popular for its culinary and medicinal uses. It is used to prepare a variety of food recipes such as lemon cakes, lemon chicken and beverages like lemonade and lemon-flavored drinks. It is also used for garnishing. Lemon juice consists of about 5 percent citric acid that gives a tarty taste to lemon. Lemon is a rich source of vitamin C. It also contains vitamins like vitamin B, riboflavin and minerals like calcium, phosphorus, magnesium as well as proteins and carbohydrates. Lemon is generally consumed in the form of lemon juice or lemon water. Lemon water makes a healthy drink, especially when taken in the morning. Daily consumption of lemon water provides a number of health benefits like:
1 — Good for stomach
Lemon can help relieve many digestion problems when mixed with hot water. These include nausea, heartburn and parasites. Due to the digestive qualities of lemon juice, symptoms of indigestion such as heartburn, bloating and belching are relieved. By drinking lemon juice regularly, the bowels are aided in eliminating waste more efficiently. Lemon acts as a blood purifier and as a cleansing agent. The intake of lemon juice can cure constipation. It is even known to help relieve hiccups when consumed as a juice. Lemon juice acts as a liver tonic and helps you digest your food by helping your liver produce more bile. It decreases the amount of phlegm produced by your body. It is also thought to help dissolve gallstones.
2 — Excellent for Skin Care
Lemon, being a natural antiseptic medicine, can participate to cure problems related to skin.
Lemon is a vitamin C rich citrus fruit that enhances your beauty, by rejuvenating skin from within and thus bringing a glow on your face.
Daily consumption of lemon water can make a huge difference in the appearance of your skin. It acts as an anti-aging remedy and can remove wrinkles and blackheads. Lemon water if applied on the areas of burns can fade the scars. As lemon is a cooling agent, it reduces the burning sensation on the skin.
3 — Aids in Dental Care
Lemon water is used in dental care also. If fresh lemon juice is applied on the areas of toothache, it can assist in getting rid of the pain. The massage of lemon juice on gums can stop gum bleeding. It gives relief from bad smell and other problems related to gums.
4 — Cures Throat Infections
Lemon is an excellent fruit that aids in fighting problems related to throat infections, sore throat and tonsillitis as it has an antibacterial property. For sore throat, dilute one-half lemon juice with one-half water and gargle frequently.
5 — Good for Weight Loss
One of the major health benefits of drinking lemon water is that it paves way for losing weight faster, thus acting as a great weight loss remedy. If a person takes lemon juice mixed with lukewarm water and honey, it can reduce the body weight as well.
6 — Controls High Blood Pressure
Lemon water works wonders for people having heart problems, owing to its high potassium content. It controls high blood pressure, dizziness, nausea as well as provides relaxation to mind and body. It also reduces mental stress and depression.
7 — Assist in curing Respiratory Disorders
Lemon water assists in curing respiratory problems, along with breathing problems and revives a person suffering from asthma.
8 — Good for treating Rheumatism
Lemon is also a diuretic and hence lemon water can treat rheumatism and arthritis. It helps to flush out bacteria and toxins out of the body.
9 — Reduces Fever
Lemon water can treat a person who is suffering from cold, flu or fever. It helps to break fever by increasing perspiration.
10 — Acts as a blood purifier
The diseases like cholera or malaria can be treated with lemon water as it can act as a blood purifier.
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Portobello Mushrooms:
Portobello mushrooms are a "cousin" of the commonly cultivated white mushroom. They can grow to be extremely large, however, and have a dark brown color, a flat cap and a tough, woody stem.
The fully mature mushroom has a large number of exposed "gills" on the underside of the cap, which causes the mushroom to lose moisture; this moisture loss results in a more concentrated flavor.
Their size (they're commonly as large as six inches in diameter) and strong, "earthy" taste make them popular substitutions for beef in vegetarian recipes. It is common to grill Portobellos and serve them as you would hamburgers, with all of the fixings.
They also make great fajita stuffers.
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Hello there! I'm Matt Chadwick, your friendly Café friend and I hope that everyone had a great weekend.
Well, to kick off a brand new week, I have an interesting article to share with you; all on the interesting topic of business disability. Want to learn more? Then pllease read on.
We thank our friends at www.sterlingcreations.ca for passing this along to us.
Make it a great day.
The Business of Digital Disability
Gerard Goggin
Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Sydney,
Autralia
Christopher Newell
School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The paradox of disability and inclusive information technology is
considered. If we are now possessed of greater knowledge about disability
and design, why is accessible and inclusive technology so difficult to bring
about? Is it because inclusive technology is not
profitable, and so unattractive for businesses and unsustainable as an
industry? Or is the answer more education and awareness?
This paper seeks to reframe dominant approaches to disability, information
technology, and policy, by offering a thesis centred upon the power
relations of disability and the crucial role played by disability's cultural
and social constitution. In explaining and
testing the theory, we look at case studies from telecommunications, mobile
phones, and the Internet.
Keywords access, digital technologies, disability, equity, inclusive
technology, information and communications technologies,
Internet, telecommunications
THE PARADOX OF INCLUSIVITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology (IT) and communication technology are dominant themes
of our age. IT and digital networks form the nervous system not only of the
economy but also of our society. We use computers in all sorts of factory,
office, domestic, community, and health settings. The Internet, mobile
phones, and other networked IT technologies are part of the texture of what
we do, of how we communicate, think, and feel. Information technology is
also central to disability, and how it is conceived, experienced, and framed
in society.
The intimate link between technology and disability is found in a wide range
of technologies adopted, consumed, and used by people with disabilities, who
do so in unexpected and innovative ways, often unforeseen by the designers
and promoters of such technologies. Many
technologies intimately associated with our bodies such as those
pharmacological, machinic, or informatic assemblages classed as medical
technologies-have a complex relationship to impairment and disability
because they alter the balance between death and life (at least they do so
for those countries or individuals who can afford them).
Delving more deeply inside the body, developments in genetics and
biotechnologies raise profound issues of ethics, values, and power, at which
disability is often pivotal- yet this is still too infrequently credited and
pondered (Newell, 2006). In all this, disability is customarily invoked
as a warrant for development of new technologies, from biotechnology to
information and communication technologies, and "smart homes." Such claims
are rarely analyzed and interrogated. Nor are the unexpected uses and ends
of these technologies scrutinized. This is surprising
for many reasons, not least that the introduction of new technologies often
creates new forms of exclusion for people with disabilities.
Perhaps we can tell a story to illustrate this argument. En route from
Australia toWinnipeg, Canada, to attend the May 2005 summer institute in
disability studies, Inclusive
Information Technology and Business Success, convened by the University of
Manitoba, one of us (Goggin) arrived at Vancouver airport with our colleague
and technology expert Tim Noonan to catch our flight toWinnipeg.1 Stepping
out of the airport bus, and walking inside the airport, Goggin and Noonan
were rather disoriented by how to proceed. In front of us were a row of
self-service kiosks, with signs indicating we should use these for check-in,
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rather like machines now found at various airports around the world. The
only traditional check-in counters were located a very long way away, on our
far right. We hesitated to head for these, as very few people, if any, were
checking in there. We wavered at the self-service kiosks just long enough
for a friendly airline staff member to assist us. As we stood in front of a
touch-screen machine, we were tutored in how to enter our booking reference
number, how to navigate menus, check where we were seating (with a map), and
print out a boarding pass. As conscientious delegates to a meeting on
accessible information technology and business success, we posed the obvious
question to the airline customer service representative: Why is the machine
not accessible? And what if a Blind person was traveling
by him- or herself? If that were the case, the staff member replied, we
would be able to proceed to the one, well-camouflaged, customer service
stand, where assistance were offered by a human being.
We collected our baggage, and proceeded to the next row of kiosks to have
our baggage tagged. Before we loaded it ourselves on the baggage carousel,
another friendly staff member came over to check whether we needed
assistance. We replied that we were fine, but remarked on the lack of
accessibility.
Her reply was quite instructive: With a wry and long-suffering tone, she
said that the point of the new technologies was to cut jobs.
The same exchange was repeated at the kiosk, where a friendly staff member
did not get the point of our barbed comments about accessibility, and
instead lampooned the airline's chief executive officer's propensity for
cost-cutting.
While we certainly had some sympathy for the workers' predicament,
latter-day Luddites as they were at the frontline of new technologies
welcomed by some but annoying for others, we were disappointed, though not
really surprised, that their understanding of the power relations of
technology did not incorporate disability and accessibility.
As Noonan observed, what would be the reaction in 2005 if we turned up to
the airport and there were only stairs between us and the check-in counter,
or concourses, or to board the airplane? Clearly, more than 20 years after
the 1981 International Year of Disabled Persons, information
accessibility is still not routinely considered.
This anecdote invokes the paradox of inclusive technology. That is, the
arguments for inclusive technology seem compelling, once these are
understood. If those inventing, designing, commissioning, implementing,
programming, and paying for, information and communication technology, had
in mind the needs, expectations, and desires of people with disabilities,
then accessibility and use would be incorporated in the technology-rather
than having to
be an expensive and not particularly compatible add-on, and
after-thought.Andin addition the technology would be accessible, easier to
use, and more attractive for many people without disabilities. As a
consequence, the argument runs, IT businesses would have more customers,
more revenue, and would be more profitable.
While such optimistic thinking is important, change is slow. There are many
advances in inclusive technologies from voice synthesizer technology and the
development
of screen-readers, accessible payphones, and hearing aid compatibility of
telephones, to Microsoft making itsWindows operating system accessible, the
World Wide Web
Consortium's accessibility initiative, and, the inclusion of screenreader
capability into Apple Mac's 2005 Tiger operating system. Yet again and
again, reflecting the routine
social exclusion illustrated in our airport technology story, the
introduction of new technologies sees people with disabilities overlooked,
omitted, neglected, or not considered.
This creation of inaccessible technologies has profound economic, social,
cultural, and personal costs, not least lost business opportunities. The
elusiveness of inclusive technology is especially regrettable in the case of
information technology, because of the extraordinary potential this branch
of technology holds. Full social participation increasingly requires
knowledge of, skills in, and affordable access to effective IT. Despite the
scholarly and policy
interest in inclusive IT, we believe that academic, activist, industry, or
government theory has yet adequately to account for what is going on at the
nexus of disability, accessibility, and technology.
At the outset one of the difficulties here worth highlighting relates to the
problematic nature of accessibility as a concept. Any description or account
of what is accessible is only provisional and relational, rather than a
given attribute of technologies (behind this is the standpoint that
technology is a product of social relations). This means that the binary
between "accessible" and "inaccessible" technology is part of the problem
that needs to be addressed.
THE TURN TO BUSINESS, AND AWAY FROM THE STATE Since the late 1990s there has
been a marked, global turn towards a reengagement with business, and away
from seeing the state as the preeminent locus of initiative and power.
Our generalization doubtless excludes much detail, but the lines of a new
paradigm are clear. In the 1980s, and 1990s, disability movements in
different parts of the world sought to achieve recognition by society of
disability discrimination and inequality, and sought basic or general
legislation to symbolize this sea change, as well as to provide a framework
for enacting rights, legal redress, and social change. Specific laws passed
included the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA) (1990), the British Disability Discrimination Act (1995), the
Australian Disability Discrimination Act (1992), and the Canadian provincial
Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2002) and subsequent Accessibility forTHE
BUSINESS OF DIGITAL DISABILITY 161 Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005).
Human rights and general discrimination legislation in many countries has
also been amended.
As we have examined elsewhere (Goggin & Newell, 2003), such legislation has
played an important role in highlighting accessibility to and inclusiveness
of information technology. In telecommunications, for instance, there has
been much debate, policy initiative, and some genuine recognition of the
importance of understanding the needs and desires of people with
disabilities, and the need to incorporate their perspectives into the
processes of design and technology innovation and production. Yet change has
proven frustratingly slow.
We suggest two reasons why this situation is so. First, there is a long
debate about to what extent changes in law result in social change. Second,
even when changes in law regarding disability and human rights have some
benefits, the implementation and legitimacy of such laws has been highly
contested, most damagingly in the United States,
with celebrated cases of high-profile celebrities such as Clint Eastwood
challenging the legitimacy of such rights (Johnson, 2003).
Less obvious rearguard action against accessibility requirements codified in
new laws and policy
has been industry's either outright opposition, passive ignorance, acts of
omission, or unwillingness to embrace required change. Inclusive technology
seems to be something that requires considerable resources on the part of
those supporting this objective, not least because legal, regulatory, and
policy processes are often time-consuming
and expensive.
There has been considerable frustration with the slowness of change in the
achievement of accessible and inclusive technology. This discontent
generated a strong interest in dealing directly with those designing,
making, implementing, and distributing technology. The disability proponents
sought to convince the industry about the benefits of incorporating
accessibility and inclusivity in the design process, especially in the
earliest conceptualization of new products. The general character of such
arguments was consonant with the precepts gaining acceptance through various
bodies of literature and practice, such as human factors research and
user-centered design, but most specifically in relation to accessibility in
the universal
design movement. To schematize this work, there was much concern with
exploring the so-called demand" side of information technology-arguing that
people with disabilities were left out of the technology innovation process,
and should, as users, be inserted. A stronger version
of this can be seen in work, such as our own, preoccupied with the power
relations of technology, and its social shaping, and how people with
disabilities are a relatively powerless
group in such processes, subject to structures and practices of domination
of which technology, especially information and communications technology,
is increasingly salient.
What may well have been left out in all of this discussion are two things.
First, industrial players, and often policymakers, continually requested
clearer economic and commercial information on "markets" for technologies,
centering on the often asked and argued question: Is it profitable to make
technologies inclusive? If so, which technologies and how
exactly? What's the business case, and what are the numbers?
Understandably, the question askers wanted to understand the users and their
needs and preferences. What was problematic was that they approached the
demand side by constructing quantitative models, with some rather
problematic assumptions, about how technologies could
be commodified.
Second, implicit in the turn to engagement with business is a realization
that the so-called "supply-side" (problematic as this binary is) has not
been well conceptualized or
understood at all. There are a number of dimensions to this. The design and
production of information and communications technologies has grown
especially complex with convergence; the relationship between production and
consumption has become closer and closer, especially
with the emergence of the figure of the "produser" (sic) or
user-producer/consumer-producer in Internet technologies and cultures.2
Further, notions of disability, accessibility,
and inclusiveness have not figured in attempts to map and understand the
innovation processes across the research, industrial, and retail complexes
of information and communication technologies (despite the important
conceptual and research advances in the interdisciplinary literatures on
innovation and technology).
Finally, notions of the state's role in the regulation of industries and
economy have changed markedly, with a shift toward the idea that government
"steers" or "facilitates," rather than owns," directs," or even directly
regulates. Hence, we point to the growth and significance of self-regulation
(the idea that industry is best placed to regulate itself, and government's
role is to encourage that), especially in ICT industries.
>From roughly the mid-1980s to late 1990s, if our very schematic chronology
and characterization holds good, there was of course much interaction with
business regarding inclusive technology. Yet there also was faith vested in
the state as a trump card if negotiations failed. We would point to two
classic examples here. First, the discussions between the Blind community
and America Online (AOL) regarding the inaccessibility of AOL's user
interface, in which the legal stick of the ADA focused the technology
company on the carrot of good community relations, brand perception, and
public relations, as well as the possible fiscal virtues of retaining and
attracting customers and revenue (Goggin & Newell, 2003). Second, the
celebrated case of how government laws on procurement, famously the s.508 of
the U.S. Rehabilitation Act, used the purchasing power of the state, in the
public interest, 162 G. GOGGIN AND C. NEWELL to require providers of
technology to meet accessibility requirements, alongside other requirements
stipulated in tenders (Goggin & Newell, 2003).
What has emerged since the late 1990s is the turn to the business of digital
disability. We believe this turn to dialogue and partnership with business
is, and will remain, important. However, much is being left out of such a
discourse, not least the continuing power relations of
Disability and we need to acknowledge and deal with these. To explore this
contraction further, we now turn to leading pieces of research delving into
the market and business dimensions and rationales for inclusive information
technology.
EXPLORING THE PARADOX OF INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY
The goal of enlisting business into designing, producing, and marketing
inclusive technology has attracted much attention of recent years. There are
two important and emblematic pieces of research on this topic, that seek to
convince those interested that inclusive technology can indeed be profitable
as well as socially desirable.
In 2002 the U.S.-based World Institute of Disability conducted research,
based on interviews and conversations with industry and disability activist
experts to "discover how leading electronic and information technology (E &
IT) companies are successfully making technology accessible,
usable, and valuable for people with disabilities" (Tusler, 2005b). The
research was published in a study entitled How to Create Disability Access
to Technology (Tusler, 2005a; summarized in Tusler, 2005b). Among the
findings are four tenets we wish to mention here.
First, Tusler argues that companies need to precisely chart and define the
disability market, demonstrate the profitability of access, and tie access
to mainstream product
needs. Second, they need to incorporate accessibility and universal design
practices into design. Third, Tusler suggests that "the participation of
those directly affected that is, customers with disabilities-is essential to
making products that are useful"-hence the need to focus
on "environment solutions to accessibility issues" (Tusler, 2005b).
Underpinning this is the need to value disability and people with
disabilities, not least because the "challenge of being successful . . . has
led many people with disabilities to be skilled problem solvers and
consumers making them valuable assets for companies that wish to
be successful" (Tusler, 2005b). Fourth, Tusler focuses on
the realpolitik of corporate structure and culture. He underlines the
importance of "Accessibility Champions" in organizations, and, more
pervasively, writes of the need
to transform companies, "to weave accessibility into the
DNA of the company" (Tusler, 2005b). Key to such a fundamental
paradigm shift in business culture is publicizing and marketing a company's
accessibility policies and products internally and externally (Tusler,
2005a). The point
of such efforts by business lies ultimately, Tusler seeks to persuade his
corporate readers, in their own industrial sustainability and profitability:
After all, older people and people with disabilities buy and use products
for the exact same reasons as the young engineers.
The need and desire to communicate, create, and be entertained is universal.
Companies who survive and prosper will pay attention to universal needs of
all. (Tusler, 2005b)
The World Institute of Disability report seeks to install notions of
accessibility and the profitability of inclusive technology in the
discourses of business leaders and
commercially-oriented technologists and designers themselves. In addition,
it aims to provide a tool kit for disability organizations and activists to
enable them to understand
the life worlds of corporations and to achieve change in them.
In both of these respects it is very useful. However, we would also point to
some limitations of
the report's framework and concepts. In our view these revolve around the
report's taking-for-granted of the dominant self-conceptions of corporate
culture and markets,
rather than analyzing and interrogating these. Take, for instance, the pithy
and memorable adage that companies serious about inclusive technology need
to "to weave accessibility
into the DNA of the company" (Tusler, 2005b). As a motto to insert into
management discourses, this is certainly a striking one. Yet it is also
quite misleading. The
metaphor is one taken from genetics-ironically a technology system and
discourses in which disability is very problematically shaped-and suggests a
sociobiological
account of corporations. That is, the makeup of companies is fundamentally
shaped by a set of codes, and if one could just ensure accessibility is one
of these, corporate culture
would be transformed. Our problem with talking about accessibility (and,
impliedly, disability) in this manner is that it ignores the social shaping
of accessibility itself, as well
as the complexity and contingency of corporate structure and practice. To
conceive accessibility in this way is potentially to put it beyond the
domain of the social, and to miss crucial dimensions of the power relations
involved in the constitution of corporations, technology, and market.
To shed light on the specifics of how technologies come to be viewed as
profitable commodities, we turn to a roughly contemporaneous report. This is
the comprehensive 2004 U.S. National Council of Disability (NCD) report
Design for Inclusion: Creating a New Marketplace, which really seeks to come
to grips with the innovation, research, and production systems that
determine inclusive
technology, and the logics and constitutions of markets for inclusive
technology. In an innovative approach, Design for Inclusion was based on an
extensive research program,
examining the roles and perspectives of industry, federal government, and
consumers with respect to six product lines important to people with
disabilities: automated teller machines (ATMs), cellular phones, distance
learning software, personal digital assistants (PDAs), televisions, and
voice recognition technologies.3
The starting point of the NCD report is a mapping of the relevant trends in
information technology. For our purposes here we would note four of these
trends. First, to
increase profitability, companies need to move into emerging world markets,
where consumers have relatively low incomes and literacy levels, "in order
to increase sales and
gain competitive price advantage through economies of scale" (NCD, 2004, p.
43). Second, improvements in capabilities are "enabling developers to
integrate advanced access
technologies (speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, projected
displays . . .) into devices where it had not previously been technically
possible to do so" (NCD,
2004, p. 43). Third, "Customers' technical knowledge and expectations are
constantly increasing, along with the use of wireless Internet appliances
and wireless infrastructures"
(NCD, 2004, p. 43). Fourth, "[l]egal mandates to manufacture more accessibly
designed E & IT in support of people with disabilities are a driving force
behind these
technological trends" (NCD, 2004, p. 43). As part of its research,
theNCD conducted a user study that found, among other things, that users
with disabilities are often asked to pay high prices for phones with feature
sets that are not useful to them; rapid changes in technology often cause
decreases in accessibility; users are reluctant to adopt technologies that
have proven frustrating in the past; and users are reluctant to invest in
technologies with an unproven accessibility record (NCD, 2004).
There are a number of notable findings in this research concerning inclusive
technologies: first, that a market for universally designed products and
services does exist; second,
the proposition that universal design principles can be easily incorporated
into current design practices; third, that products designed to be
accessible sometimes do not
actually met the needs of users with disabilities; fourth, that many
barriers to universal design remain and must be addressed before progress
can be made; and fifth, and rather controversially, that legislation is both
a facilitator of and barrier to universal design (NCD, 2004).
In its view that legislation is not anymore the main answer, a standpoint
heretical no doubt for many disability activists, NCD places much weight
upon standards. NCD suggests standards could be used to "prohibit
nonessential features that pose accessibility problems" and "to eliminate
interoperability problems that create accessibility problems" (p. 17). As
well as standards, NCD also emphasizes the use of market forces, such as
consumer information practices and selling practices (for example, labeling
and warranty features). To facilitate the demand, or consumer, side of
market forces, NCD recommends the development of information clearinghouses
for user information on accessibility issues, marketing strategies and
approaches that "will facilitate a connection with people with disabilities"
(p. 20), and the training of people with disabilities as "subject-matter
experts" to participate in design
focus groups and accessibility evaluations (p. 20).
Both the World Institute on Disability and National Council of Disability
reports offer a compendia of strategies in the quest to achieve inclusive
technology, through
strengthening the commercial profitability and sustainability of IT.We also
see them both as representative of a particular discourse on business,
disability and technology.
The lesson both appear to offer is that one can both do good (through
inclusive technology) and make money at the same time. Or, in the strong
version of the claim, doing good in this manner can and will make one more
money.
To bring about inclusive technology, it might be noted, requires much
coordination, commitment, and action between and among noncommercial as well
as commercial sectors, institutions, and actors. Kate Seelman has offered a
thoughtful discussion of the respective place of universal
design, assistive technology, and "orphan technology" and their respective
markets, placing the U.S. experience in international context (Seelman,
2005). Certainly standards
play a pivotal yet thorny role in this. For instance, it may be argued that
unless standards are referred to in legislation, their adoption is likely to
be minimal. Further, there is a sense in which standards indicate, or
require, a minimum set of attributes for a technology, but often this turns
on making products safe rather than accessible (as the history of standards
bears out).4 In response to such suggestions, wewould also note that the
relationship between standards and legislation varies across jurisdictions.
To explore more fully the contemporary dilemmas of inclusive technologies we
now wish to turn to this knotty problem of shaping inclusive technologies,
paying particular attention to networked digital technologies.
DISABILITY, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND MOBILES
As is evident from the foregoing discussion of research on inclusive
technologies, much discussion of developments of the information and
communication technology industry
focuses on the world's industrial powerhouses, especially the United States.
This is certainly important, but there is much to understand and debate in
the experience of other countries and regions-such as the place in which we
live andwork, Australia. Like its Commonwealth counterpart
Canada, Australia has a relatively small population but medium-sized economy
and domestic market, not to mention very large land mass, by global
standards. In Australia the telegraph was instrumental in the political
movements that led to the federating of colonies
into a nation in 1901. Throughout the 20th century the telephone became
important-if relatively unnoticed-to how the country conducted its business,
and how people communicated with each other. With the advent of the great
telecommunications reforms in the 1980s and the 1990s,
many of the taken-for-granted assumptions about the telephone were
dismantled. Cell phones were introduced in 1987, competition in
telecommunications was introduced in 1991, networks were digitized, the
Internet became a mass, customized medium, digital television became a
reality,
and all manner of new technologies were introduced. As we have chronicled
elsewhere, in Australia, the legislation ushering in competition, the 1991
Telecommunications
Act, featured a definition of universal service that mandated the delivery
of standard voice telephony service throughout Australia, but explicitly
separated the universal availability issues from accessibility (Goggin &
Newell, 2000, 2003). Accessibility was not part of the universal service
obligation. Instead, the government undertook to provide funding for
accessibility as one of its "community service obligations." In a time of
stringent fiscal management, no such funding eventuated for a number of
years.
Telecom Australia (now Telstra), the government-owned former monopoly
carrier, was encouraged to continue operating its own "concession" scheme to
give people with disabilities access to the telecommunications network.
Telstra did not, however, make telecommunications accessible
for Deaf people and people with speech disabilities requiring text telephony
equipment (known in Austral
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Greetings everyone! I'm Jayna Sheffield, your friendly Café friend and it's that time for me to introduce you to an editorial written by our dear friend, and favourite blogger, writer, and editor; Donna J. Jodhan.
Donna is an avid advocate on accessibility for all and in addition to running her own company, she continues to advocate, work tirelessly on various boards, and is getting ready for her upcoming court challenge case against the Canadian government to be held in Toronto between Sep/21 - 23.
For those of you who can attend, it will be held at 180 Queen street West on the above dates starting at 9:30 am.
Donna is suing the Canadian government over their inaccessible websites and related web content and information on their websites.
To learn more about how you can support this very worthy cause, send us an email at info@onestopbookcafe.com and we will be delighted to respond.
Here now is Donna and make it a great day!
Can we learn from Susan Boyle?
Written May 2009
If you have been keeping up with the arrival/saga of Susan Boyle on the show in Britain, then you'll know what or rather whom I am speaking of. If you do not, then here is a brief introduction.
A few weeks ago Susan Boyle made a very unexpected and unheralded entry on to the stage of the British show named "Britains got talent." Sounds innocent enough but wait! When the audience and judges first laid eyes on this 47 year old lady, they did not give her any hope of success. Almost everyone present started to jeer and snicker but within seconds Susan changed the entire hall and the world forever. You see, and literally so, within split seconds of the beginning of her song, both the audience and the judges had been stunned by one of the most awesome voices that they had ever heard. A middle aged volunteer church worker singing "I dreamed a dream" from the musical Les Miserables had done it!
So what am I really getting at you may be asking? Very simple! Most of the world, those with sight enough to see, often judge people by their looks and when the audience and judges first set eyes on Susan Boyle they did exactly that. They did not give this very plain looking middle aged lady a ghost of a chance of success and why? Because they felt that she was just a bit too old to appeal to them. She was just too dowdy looking to be taken seriously. She was just not good enough based on her looks. What a shock when she belted out her first notes.
I am afraid that this is the kind of thing that blind and visually impaired persons face on a daily basis. We are almost always judged based on our blindness; the inability to see, and the inability to navigate our way like normal persons. Most of the rest of the world judge us on our disability rather than our ability. They do exactly what the audience and judges did to Susan Boyle a few weeks ago. Sometimes, blind and sighted persons do manage to shock their associates and acquaintances and I hope that Susan Boyle motivates my sightless friends to reach out and provide some timely shocks as she has managed to do.
I am offering to help our sighted readers become less judgmental when it comes to their perceptions and hang-ups about persons who are blind and sight impaired. You can contact me at info@sterlingcreations.ca or if you are curious and open minded enough you can visit any of these websites:
www.nfb.org, www.afb.org, www.acb.org, www.rnib.org, www.cnib.ca.
I'm Donna J. Jodhan your accessibility and special needs business consultant wishing you a terrific day and suggesting that you should not judge a blind person by their disability. Judge them for their ability.
Donna J Jodhan is the president of Sterling Creations.
Now you can view blogs and editorials written by Donna at:
http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com (Donna Jodhan! Advocating accessibility for all)
http://www.onestopbookcafe.com (under the café talk link)
http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm (important answers to consumers concerns)
http://www.diversityintheworkplace.ca (monthly editorial on issues on diversity)
http://www.sterlingcreationsca.blogspot.com (blogs for language professionals and accessibility consultants)
Hello there! It's your friendly Café team and we are delighted to be with you today. We hope that you are enjoying your summer thus far and today, we bring you a techy type of article; how to copy files to the clipboard without any registry hacks.
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Copy a File’s Path to the Clipboard without any Registry Hacks!
Who knew it was so easy? Computing life just got a little easier.
Quickly Copy the Full Path of a File or Folder to the Windows Clipboard
If you ever wanted to copy the full path of any file or folder to the clipboard but without installing any third-party utilities or making any changes to your Windows registry, here’s a tip for you.
Copy File Path to Windows Clipboard
Copy the File’s Location to the Clipboard
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the file or folder whose path you want to copy to the clipboard. Once you are there, hold the "Shift" key and right click that file or folder’s icon.
Because the Shift key is down, the contextual menu will have a new item that says "Copy as Path" – select that and the full location of the file or the folder will get saved to your clipboard from where you can paste it anywhere including the DOS window.
The keyboard equivalent is done by holding down shift and then press the application key.
The app key is three from the space bar's right edge also one key left of the right control key.
This key is the same as pressing the right mouse button.
The copy to path will still appear with the above keyboard action.
You can use this tip to copy a file’s location from all places including those appearing in the desktop search results.
This trick works in Windows Vista and Windows 7 but not XP. It was originally published in Ed Bott’s book.
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Friday, October 05, 2007
All-in-one gizmo for blind people
By Geoff Adams-Spink
Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website
Caption: The TellMate can read a thousand labels using radio frequencies
A multi-purpose gadget for blind people that will enable them to listen to music and identify household items is under development.
The TellMate, designed by Singapore company, GaiShan Technology could soon be available in the UK.
It has a one gigabyte memory and can be used as a music player, radio, clock, talking book player, voice recorder and label reader.
The Mark 2 version of the TellMate will also be able to read SD cards.
Sound guide
The device is being imported into the UK by a Basingstoke-based fundraiser, Dave Chatten-Smith, but he is looking for another company to distribute it.
The TellMate is about the same size as a television remote control but with fewer buttons.
Mr Chatten-Smith believes that it will be of particular use as a scanner and label reader to help vision-impaired people identify items in the house or at work.
"You could label up your CDs, your DVDs, paperwork - there are even washable, waterproof labels so that you can identify your clothes," he told the BBC News website.
The TellMate uses RFID tags that can be attached to, for example, different food items in a kitchen cupboard.
Each label transmits a low-powered signal to the device which then plays the audio clip that has been recorded and associated with it.
The labels can be re-used by recording a new audio clip.
Up to a thousand labels can be read by the TellMate.
"As the labels are unpowered, you have to be in close proximity to them - about five or six centimetres away," explained Mr Chatten-Smith.
One of the partners of GaiShan Technology - the Singapore based company that developed the TellMate - has a vision impairment himself.
The new product has been extensively tested for the past 18 months.
Mr Chatten-Smith says that it will sell for around £250, and the SD card version should be available by the end of the year.
Although none of the functions of the TellMate is new, it is the first time that everything has been brought together in a single unit.
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http://www.onestopbookcafe.com (under the café talk link)
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http://www.diversityintheworkplace.ca (monthly editorial on issues on diversity)
http://www.sterlingcreationsca.blogspot.com (blogs for language professionals and accessibility consultants)
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Greetings everyone! I'm Jayna Sheffield, your friendly Café friend and it's that time of week for me to present you with an article written by one of our dearest friends, Donna J. Jodhan.
Today, Donna talks about what it is like to live in a sighted world as a Blind person.
We hope you enjoy this particular article.
Make it a great day!
Living in a sighted world
Living in a sighted world is something that I accepted as a child and acceptance is something that enables me to function as best as I can. There are challenges to face; namely unhealthy attitudes on the part of individuals, governments, and society as a whole. There are technological challenges to face; keeping up with the evolution of the Internet using access software that is a few steps behind the times. There are social and employment barriers to deal with as well as barriers from several other quarters but I'll tell you this for sure! At the end of the day when I lie quietly in bed waiting for the sand man to take me off to dreamland, I thank God for my family and friends. Those who have never used my lack of sight as a barrier against me.
Unlike so many others with vision problems, I have been blessed with family who do not really think of me as blind or if they do they have never really allowed it to get in the way. Naturally when I was growing up my parents, brothers, and granny were a bit over protective at times but apart from this I was treated normally in every sense of the way. My cousins acted normally around me but like everything else they always came to my rescue whenever I found myself in difficulty; like bumping into things, unable to find my way, or not being able to find stray or fallen objects.
I have friends who do the same; Debbie in Tennessee who has known me since we were in high school and who recently admitted to me that we never really discussed my blindness until now and when she read my blogs she realized that we had never done so. Gabriella in Toronto; who has never allowed my lack of sight to get in the way of a really warm and treasured friendship. I often call her my electronic cane! Dena in North Carolina; my friend across the border as I call her. This is a very special friendship because you see, we have never met since forming a natural and normal friendship in 2005. She never knew what I looked like until last December and I have trusted her to tell me what she looks like. A blind friendship if I may say so.
There are so many others that I can mention here but for now I think that this is enough for you to get the picture. If you would like to learn more then by all means drop me a line at donnajodhan@sterlingcreations.ca and I will be happy to respond.
I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and encouraging you to go out there and find someone who is blind and see if you can become friends.
Donna J Jodhan is the president of Sterling Creations.
Now you can view blogs and editorials written by Donna at:
http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com (Donna Jodhan! Advocating accessibility for all)
http://www.onestopbookcafe.com (under the café talk link)
http://www.diversityintheworkplace.ca (monthly editorial on issues on diversity)
http://www.sterlingcreationsca.blogspot.com (blogs for language professionals and accessibility consultants)
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