A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
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In my last two articles I’ve stepped away from sharing different aspects of my journey with chronic kidney disease and dialysis. I felt we all needed a break from the topic for a while *smile* That’s not to say that nothing has been happening on that front. On the contrary, I have so much to …
As I’ve expressed many times before, often the greatest obstacles we face as people with disabilities are the barriers imposed on us by the non-disabled community. People who have no personal contact with disability are seldom able to understand what we can achieve. They usually assume wrongly that our disability means we are restricted or …
The final blog post about my reading this year is about the books related to disability, the final category of diversity that I mentioned in my previous post. Below are the books I’ve read that are either by authors with disabilities, with characters who have a disability, or are on the subject of disability. Here …
Since learning that I would be needing to start dialysis in the (perhaps near) future, I felt it would be a good idea to make some of the lifestyle changes that I will ultimately need to. My rationale was that starting dialysis will be enough of an adjustment and that needing to additionally adjust my …
A few months ago I took a long, hard look at the work I’m doing and began to think about ways I could make my content more accessible for all consumers. I totally get it. I understand why most content creators either don’t know or don’t care about the potential needs of the disability community. …
There was a time when it felt like everyone was watching cute puppy and kitten videos on YouTube. I have no idea if that is still a trendy way to use the video channel, but I thought I would let you know about some cute guide dog videos on my channel. There are several of …
Great news! My podcast has gone video! A few weeks ago I took the decision to release some of my podcast episodes as videos on YouTube. Naturally, only those episodes where I have permission both to capture and to share the content. There are two primary reasons for me to start doing this. First, so …
A few years ago much of my work revolved around accessible travel and tourism. At the very least, that was the major focus of my podcast, A Different Way of Seeing. Rather, A Different Way of Travelling, as the show was then called. Yet somehow, apart from my trips overseas, my focus seemed to have …
Two weeks ago I mentioned the impact that stories have on so many aspects of my life. Everything I shared in that post was brought home to me in a chance conversation I had a few days ago. Here’s what happened. I recently had to go for some routine medical tests. When I arrived at …
I recently had the opportunity of exploring the concept of making the visual world accessible to the blindness community through the use of audio description. It was the subject of a podcast episode with Shakila Maharaj, the managing director of ShazaCin Accessible Media, who is one of the foremost proponents of audio description in South …