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I suggested a Tell A Friend & Poll ( Read more... )

And a big bang I must say. This year it's been crazy getting the website updated and stuff. With the new updates and new additions it's still evolving. Hoping 2010 will be a good one for the website and it's team of volunteers that help run it.

Have a safe and wonderful New Years Eve and New Years Day!

The section is complete! I see my eye specialist in May where I can show him a printed list of what I have. For now the list stays as is ( Read more... )

This page will show up in the following areas of the site: Blind VI, Braille Suite, White Cane Project, Access Tech & Guiding Paws start pages right below the copyright notice. It'll also show up in the Websites section of Blind VI because thats where a bunch of articles & the eye conditions section houses. As mentioned via the last entry, I have ( Read more... )

Here's the list I wanted to share with you guys.

Most common conditions causing visual impairment

• Astigmatism (distorted vision)
  
• Hyperopia (farsightedness)
  
• Myopia (nearsightedness)
  
• Presbyopia (aging eyes)
  
• Strabismus (cross eye/turned vision)

Most common conditions causing blindness:

• Amblyopia
  
• Cataracts
  
• Color Blindness
  
• Diabetic Retinopathy
  
• Glaucoma
  
• ( Read more... )

I landed on a article on the NFB's website. They had a list on that article of most common eye conditions. I googled keywords "most common eye conditions" with blind being a wild card keyword. Then I found a even better list. One for the most common conditions that cause vision impairment and a secondary for just vision loss. I have most of ( Read more... )

Howdy folks. It's been a loooong time since I made up a update. I've been working on the website real slowly. Reason? I was cleaning my closet one day and found my old high school blindness resource binder. Since I'm reactivating my NFB status I wanted to update it. Everyone has at least one of these scrap book type deals. If you don't you ( Read more... )

I'm one year late but I didn't see the need for IPod Nano at that time. The newer IPods are packed with lots of cool stuff that even those with little to no vision might like. I'll go into the list and then cratique each one.

• Spoken Menus
  
• Video Camera
  
• Voice Recorder
  
• External Speaker
  
• FM Radio (kit sold seperately)
  
• Fitness (kit sold seperately)
  
• ( Read more... )

I googled the no-ip redirect urls that I've been using for the last few years. They for whatever reason are not showing up on google. The next blog update you see on url changes, the no-ip IDs will have been removed ( Read more... )

This is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over due and I apologize ( Read more... )