Employment

Blindness Briefs – Edition 79

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What's Inside

  • AI can fight blindness.
  • Celebrating the 33rd anniversary of ADA.
  • Jobs for 200 blind people in Delaware.
  • Nepalese doctor runs free clinic for impoverished eye patients.
  • Church run and attended by blind people in Nigeria.
  • Art gallery run by blind people displays art by blind artists.
  • An action packed sports section.
  • And, about 45 stories about blindness and blind people from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 78

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What's Inside

  • Yet another smart cane developed.
  • Program teaching cyber security to blind starts.
  • Almost 10 million Americans have diabetes related eye disorders.
  • Blind chef opens pizza shop in Florida.
  • Blind man thrown out of gym for "staring" at a woman.
  • Blind girls take to runway in fasion show.
  • An action packed sports section.
  • And, about 60 more stories about blindness and blind people from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 77

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What's Inside

  • Another smart cane developed, this one in Nigeria.
  • Amazon reveals new accessibility features.
  • Teacher invents new ways to teach StEM subjects to blind students.
  • July is disability pride month.
  • Blind fashion show.
  • Italy hosts blind baseball clinic.
  • And about 45 articles about all things blindness and blind people from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 76

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What's Inside

  • Fashion magazine release braille edition.
  • How Mick Curren and Jamie Teh changed the way blind people live.
  • Mania and psychosis after acquired blindness.
  • Blind women called "health and safety risk" and forced to leave cruise.
  • An Action packed sports section.
  • And, more than forty articles about all things blindness from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 75

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What's Inside

  • Designing "with" and not "for" disabled people.
  • Robots that are more disabled friendly.
  • ViewPlus partnering to work on greater access to science for blind.
  • Blind women working to detect breast cancer in India.
  • Blind student falls victim to Twitter scam.
  • Blind woman raped, dies from suicide upon release from hospital.
  • Blind woman with guide dog finds lost woman with dementia.
  • An action packed sports section.
  • And, about 55 articles about all things blindness from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 74

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What's Inside

  • Microsoft to use ChatGPT to provide tech support for blind customers.
  • A pair of new mobility technologies announced.
  • First blind person to graduate from US Naval Academy.
  • Accessibility barriers remain on government web sites.
  • How do blind people watch movies?
  • Orchestra of all blind musicians to play concert.
  • Another action packed sports section.
  • And, about 65 more articles about blind people and blindness from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 73

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What's Inside

  • Apple adds more accessibility improvements.
  • Accessibility in outer space?
  • Google can now describe images.
  • Blind school that was victim to arson attack requests armed guards.
  • Blind people at risk due to inaccessible health information.
  • Blind self proclaimed prophet accused of raping two sisters.
  • Shortage of guide dogs causing problems for some blind people.
  • An action packed sports section.
  • And, about 65 stories about blindness and blind people from the entire world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 72

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What's Inside

  • Students create yet another smart cane for blind.
  • Why designers are making video games for blind people.
  • Blind fashion designer to feature in braille book to be sold at mainstream stores.
  • Intruder gets into bed naked with 86 year old blind resident in care home.
  • Making travel more accessible to the blind.
  • 21 of the best examples of highlighting disability in art.
  • Beep baseball, blind archery, blind cricket and more in the sports section.
  • And, more than 65 articles about blindness and blind people from the entire world.

Of Keys and Castles: The Social Model of Disability

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Trevor, one of our regular writers, is back with a very well researched and written piece about the social model of disability theory. He explores the model and contrasts it with other models and provides sources so the reader can dig deeper into this important topic if they are so interested.