Old-school news, just in time
by Kiara Wales Daily Maverick National Disability Rights Awareness Month in South Africa ran from Nov. 3 to Dec. 3, but two visually impaired Cape Town residents have never felt less visible. Sergil January and Benjamin Pedro are employed at the Cape Town Society for the Blind (CTSB), as an awareness officer and …
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by Alva Solomon Royal Gazette The creation of a work readiness program for people who are visually impaired is among key plans pursued by the head of a charity. Erica Ingemann, who officially assumed the role of executive director of Vision Bermuda in May, also aims to use her creative skills to produce …
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by Kevin Burton I was on the road playing beep baseball when the e-mail notifications about the first blind Barbie doll came pouring in. And I mean they poured in, from every quarter. I thought, that’s a story. But then I realized, I had no idea what to think or say about it. …
by ABC World News (LVIV, Ukraine) — Col. Oleh Avtomeenko was wounded while performing a combat mission in Donetsk region, in the first days of the Russian full-scale invasion in late Feb. 2022, and lost his eyesight. And now, after 20 years in the Ukrainian Army, he has to say goodbye to it and …
by Kevin Burton Giant pizza-delivery chain Papa John’s will cough up a big chunk of dough, for employment discrimination against a blind man, according to multiple published reports. Louisville-based Papa John’s is the fourth-largest pizza delivery chain in the US, according to USA Today. On its website, Papa John’s lists “the values that …
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by Hanna Arhirova Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Sunlight filters through shattered windows, casting a glow upon the dusty furniture and fragments of glass strewn across the floor of the office belonging to Oleksandr Vinkovskyi, director of a Kyiv business where visually impaired people worked. Vinkovskyi is blind, and can’t see the scale of …
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In a bare room in a remote government-run primary health center in Vapi, a city in the south-west Indian state of Gujarat, Meenakshi Gupta holds a diagram of a woman’s breast with five Braille-marked orientation tapes pasted on it. Speaking to the woman sitting on the bed, she says: “I’ll paste these skin-friendly tapes on your …
by Kevin Burton Today, two stories about blind people standing up for their rights, one of a pending lawsuit, one of a successful suit in Ohio. I’m happy to see blind people demanding their rights, but sad that we should have to go to such lengths to get the right to lead basic, …
by Kevin Burton What some could see as just a game has enriched me as a person with low vision, in ways I could not have anticipated. The sport is called beep baseball. It has been played in the United States since the 1970s and is now played in Canada, Taiwan and the …
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by Kevin Burton A non-profit agency established to provide employment for the blind paid a fine of more than $1.9 million amidst claims it defrauded the federal government, according to published reports. Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired, located in Milwaukee, bought millions of dollars worth of products from Asia and sold …
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