The official Twitter feed of the World Blind Herald. A world of perspective from the global blind community. published weekly.

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Check out our founder and editor in chief Chris Hofstader on Outlook on Western Radio, a Canadian radio show about blindness at: facebook.com/outlookonradiow… #blind #a11y #podcast #disability
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We would like to thank all the athletes, volunteers, coaches and officials for making the 2023 Provincial Goalball Championships a huge success. Every athlete deserves recognition for their outstanding development and sportsmanship! link We hope to see you all next year! 👏🤾
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Check out this week’s Blindness Briefs with articles about blindness and blind people from all over the world: worldblindherald.com/blindne… #a11y #blind
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An excellent profile of inclusive designer Amy Pedid by Itto Outini is up at: worldblindherald.com/the-her… #a11y #blind #inclusive design
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This week’s edition of WBH has a great article by Itto Outini profiling an inclusive designer and our usual Blindness and Science Briefs with a lot of interesting stories from all over the world. Https://www.worldblindherald… #a11y #blind #disability #inclusivedesign
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Our latest issue features an article on how to start a podcast by Ann Harrison, check it out at: worldblindherald.com/eight-q… #a11y #blind #disability
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ChatGPT impersonates blind person to crack security, Blind man beheads wife, EEOC sues Papa Johns Daniel Kish on human echo location and 50 more articles in this week’s Blindness Briefs: worldblindherald.com/blindne… #a11y #blind #disability
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In case you missed it, check out this week’s issue with a great article by Itto Outini, Blindness and Science Briefs: worldblindherald.com #blind #a11y #disability
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Today the @FCC proposed rules to expand support for individuals who are blind or visually impaired by expanding audio description requirements to all remaining market areas where the requirement does not already apply. #a11y fcc.gov/document/fcc-propose…
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If you’re interested in the science and medicine related to blindness, this week’s Science Briefs has about 20 articles of interest: worldblindherald.com/science… #a11y #blind #disability
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The Blindness Briefs curated news of the blind we publish every week has about 60 articles this week and we’re sure you’ll find lots of interest in it: worldblindherald.com/blindne… #blind #a11y #disability
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This week’s WBH features an excellent article by Itto Outini about coming to America, privacy, trade offs and is really compelling: worldblindherald.com/public-… #a11y #blind #disability
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Issue 11 of WBH is now live. It features a terrific article by Itto Outini, a blind Fulbright scholar from Morocco with interesting ideas. We have our Blindness and Science briefs with about 75 articles. from mainstream media worldblindherald.com/ #blind #disability #a11y.
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Our new issue drops tomorrow so, if you haven’t read last week’s, you can now at worldblindherald.com #a11y #blind #disability #advice #legislation #civilrights
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Today I stopped off at a cafe and wanted to buy a piece of cake. But as I can’t see to read the labels, I wanted to ask one of the staff members for help. It seemed that my request for them to read the labeld was a huge inconvenience to them.
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In case you missed it, you can check out our latest issue with a letter from Senator Markey to Elan Musk about #a11y as well as all of the news we could find about blindness and blind people from all over the world: worldblindherald.com/ #blind #disability #civilrights
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We’re very proud of the team we’ve assembled so far and are happy to say its growing all of the time. Check out our advisors, writers and activists on our WBH Team page: worldblindherald.com/staff/ #blind #disability #a11y
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Our latest edition features an introduction to Jenna, our new advice columnist, has a letter from Senator Markey to Elan Musk and, of course, all of the news we can find about blind people and blindness from all over the world. #blind #disability #a11y worldblindherald.com/
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We're really looking forward to our newest column, Ask Jenna, where blind people can submit questions like the examples Jenna gives in this piece and have them answered while anonymity can be preserved. worldblindherald.com/introdu…
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