Guest blogging for Ocusource

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A walk down Candy Lane

Candy Memories

Wonder what happened to those favorite candies you loved as a young boomer growing up in the 50s and 60s or even a young Gen-Xer in the 70s?

Visit

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/CandyList.htm

and find out.

--Text by David Faucheux

Another kind of book: The joys of graphic audio--virtual movies in your mind

Lights out for Blind Justice

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Aztec Blood, Part II

Aztec Blood, Part I

Aztec Blood describes the world of swords and cloaks that is early 17th-century New Spain. This is a world that Miguel Cervantes y Savedra, creator of that ingenuous gentleman, Don Quixote, would have mocked for its pretense and elaborate code of chivalric behavior toward Spanish women. This behavior was not extended to women of other ethnicities who seemed to be universally regarded as putas. I found this novel interesting but did wonder as follows: In the novel, Christo writes a secret history in an invisible ink supplied by a pregnant prisoner, and a history for the viceroy's consumption that was not secret. We do not see the non-secret history. Extracts of the non-secret history might have made an interesting juxta position with the baudy secret history. All in all, an interesting read by the estate of the late Gary Jennings. I would have wished Jennings had been able to do for the Incas what he did for the Aztecs and could have also told the story of that intrepid traveler, Ibn Batuta.

Portmanteau words

Helen Keller, Part II

The other Helen Keller, Part I

Blind Justice catch-up--and the case for audio descriptions of TV shows

Related: Audio description info for Web developers, from the National Center for Accessible Media.

'Driving school offers blind people a chance to take the wheel'

Maybe David Faucheux will do a commentary on this, but meanwhile, from 9news.com in Denver, here are a few details about a driving school for the blind:

The people taking driving lessons at Master Drive of Denver Thursday have been rock climbing, white water rafting and skiing, but getting behind the wheel of a car may be the most thrilling thing they've done in a while.

The student drivers were from the Colorado Center for the Blind and they were very excited to do something that many of us do everyday and sometimes wish we didn't.

"It's going to be awesome," said 30-year-old Jason Fayre, who was about to drive for the first time. "It's going to be great. Probably won't let me go as fast as I'd like to go, but such is life. I think it'll be a very, very exhilarating feeling to be able to do that."

No, you can't earn a drivers license for real this way, but that doesn't detract from the fun the student drivers have.

Labels for Literacy

From Labels for Literacy:

Labels for Literacy is a program designed to place more Braille on mainstream products in order to increase the usage and understanding of Braille. The program will also bring equality of access to brand and product information for the blind and visually impaired consumers.

The Labels for Literacy program will accomplish this by producing sheets of self-stick labels that identify common brands and products in large print and in Braille. These labels will then be distributed to blind and visually impaired consumers nationwide at no cost to them.

Blind Chance: A selective retrospective of the past year

The Giverny Award

Giverny Award site

Music videos for the blind

Everybody needs a little commonsense(s)

Link to Commonsenses.org

Captchas: An update