ADA Sign Depot Blog — ADA People
Alice Wong is the founder of the Disability Visibility Project and a co-partner in #CripTheVote, an online movement encouraging the political participation of people with disabilities. Twitter: @SFdirewolf
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The concept of a “talking book” goes all the way back to Thomas Edison, whose very first recording was “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
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ASL interpreters are bringing visuals to a hearing-centric musical world
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Apr 14, 2017
A growing number of ASL interpreters are bringing visuals to a hearing-centric musical world.
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A Wheelchair on Broadway Isn’t Exploitation. It’s Progress.
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Mar 25, 2017
There’s a wheelchair onstage at the Belasco Theater, and it’s drawing an abundance of attention. There’s also a wheelchair onstage at a small theater not far away, and it’s drawing practically no attention at all. The gulf between the two says quite a lot.
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For a Half-Century, She Has Led the Blind With Chutzpah (and Often, No Cane)
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Mar 25, 2017
As an instructor of typing and assistive technology at Helen Keller Services for the Blind in Downtown Brooklyn, she dispenses tricks and tips, such as where to find the hyphen on a computer keyboard — the key to the right of the zero, best hit with your right pinkie — or what keystroke will locate a lost cursor.
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