blindness archives

“The Miracle Worker” logo from the production currently playing at the Hale Center Theater in Orem.
The miracle in Helen Keller’s life was not the acquisition of sight nor hearing, but of language. The last five minutes when she discovers words at last were absolutely amazing. An awesome experience, if you can still get tickets.

posted by ted on Friday, Apr 18, 2008

“For some reason, some folks get it into their heads that being blind is really terrible and the only way our lives can be whole is for us to have all the pretty pictures in the world described to us. Where, in actuality, most blind folks couldn’t care less about most of it.”
Aaron Cannon, explaining why many online pictures do not need to be explained in detail to blind users

posted by ted on Thursday, Nov 08, 2007