Running to Thanksgiving by Kelsi Hansen Thanksgiving? It’s already Thanksgiving? I can’t believe it! The years fly by, don’t they? Normally my family has a small Turkey Day, planned at the last second, and we all stuff as much food as we can into our gullets. Nothing too unusual, just the normal Thanksgiving. However, this year I decided to sign up for a 5k on Thanksgiving day. I’m super excited … I’m hoping I’ll be able to stuff...
Being a Single Mom Who Also Happens to be Blind By Kelsi Hansen I am Kelsi, and I am a mother. A mother who happens to be single, and a mother who also happens to be blind. But first and foremost, I am a mother. People are constantly praising me for what a wonderful job I do as a mom. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t be a single mom, let alone one who has a visual impairment. (Their words, not mine.) My feelings on this sentiment...
Blog Post from Jessica Hodges There is nothing stopping you from accessing blind abilities! You tell me you don’t have time to listen? Or maybe you just don’t know how to find the illustrious gathering of blogs and podcasts that is blind abilities in the moment, when you’ve got a thousand things to do? Well, wonder no more. Here are all the ways you can find us. Cooking something complicated in the kitchen? Have your hands...
A Blog Post by Jessica Hodges An Evening Read, using Overdrive for iOS I’m practically spinning as I walk through my door on a late Friday afternoon. It’s been a busy day. I need a break. Fortunately for me, I have just the thing in mind, the new book in a favorite series. One problem, I don’t want to read it in text, Bard, the reading service for the blind through the library of congress, doesn’t have it, and I don’t...
Blind Abilities News Letter July - Sept 2018
The nip of Fall is in the air, quietly chilling your nose in preparation for winters cold embrace. Starbux has brought out the pumpkin spice latte once again. Thanksgiving plans are being laid in advance, perhaps. New technology is making its debut, and last, but certainly not least, students have come back to school. Blind abilities has news on these things, sans latte, and a whole lot more. First,...
Don’t help them, a tale of two pedestrians, Blog Post By Jessica Hodges I was lost. Completely, thoroughly lost. I was also in a bit of a time crunch, because class started in twenty minutes, and while I knew I wasn’t too far from campus and the building I needed, I also knew, due to the nature of being lost, that I could easily end up eight blocks away headed the wrong direction. It was time to flag down a person. “Excuse...
Ways to Type on iOS, or, How Many Ways to Tell a Friend Not to Talk to You, Especially at 4 AM! A Blog Post by Jessica Hodges Bzzzzzzzzz! Ding! Groaning, I roll over. Finding my phone in a tangle of bedclothes, I swipe clumsy fingers across my screen. A friend sent me a novel via text. Ordinarily, I love reading these. Right now, it’s four in the morning, and I’m in the middle of finals week, so I’d only gotten to bed two hours...
Job Interviewing Tips A blog post by Serina Gilbert So you’ve scoured the job search websites, found your perfect job, applied for it and now you have an interview! Exciting right? If you are anything like I was when I interviewed for my dream job I’d bet you are super nervous. You want to make a great impression, you want to be able to answer the interview questions with confidence and most importantly, you for sure...
Writing a Million Miles, Word-Processing on iOS By Jessica Hodges The weather is warm. The bus stop isn’t crowded. Standing there, messenger bag swung over my shoulder, stuffing my face with a sandwich, my mind is racing. I’ve got a lot of due dates, a lot of papers, and not a lot of time. Cramming the rest of the sandwich in my mouth, I wipe my hands on my dress, and open my phone. I love to write, from poetry that keeps me from exploding,...
FlickType: 3rd Party Keyboard for the BVI Community is Arriving Soon! Blog Post by Jessica Hodges Many years ago, before iPhones were as common as stars in the sky, a small, twenty-dollar app hit the app store. This app, Fleksy by name, made quite a splash in the blind community, and the world at large. Their goal was a simple one, to make typing on a touch screen happy again. The way they went about this, was somewhat revolutionary. ...