86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind
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English - September 13, 2023 03:15 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTechnology News Tech News tech accessibility Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a kind of history of blindness, and blindness technology, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers. He talked with me about the book, about the technology he uses, and some of his encounters with people made uncomfortable by low-vision.
Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a kind of history of blindness, and blindness technology, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers. He talked with me about the book, about the technology he uses, and some of his encounters with people made uncomfortable by low-vision.
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Links and Show Notes:
The Country of the Blind, by Andrew Leland
The Hidden History of Screen Readers: The Verge
Exploding the Phone, by Philip Lapsley
Windows Screenreader Primer, David Kingsbury
Berkeley Systems' OutSpoken screen reader
Jonathan Mosen's Living Blindfully Podcast
Poetry Magazine, Braille subscription
Atkinson Hyperlegible font
Teleprompter Premium iOS app
Sight Unseen, by Georgina Kleege
More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, by Georgina Kleene