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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; Blind Visionaries</title>
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		<title>IMPORTANT OPEN LETTER: Dear members of the American blind community &#8211; your feedback is needed</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/10476/important-open-letter-dear-members-of-the-american-blind-community-your-feedback-is-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries, Campaign Watch
Quoting Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian, U.S.-based disability and civil rights lawyers:
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&#8220;Dear members of the blind community:
As we approach the end of the year, we are asking for your help in making sure the settlement agreements negotiated by ACB and its affiliates are working well.  Feedback from individuals about Talking ATMs, accessible credit reports, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wise words, to live by</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/10485/wise-words-to-live-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries
&#8220;I want to see the companies that make these video games make them accessible so that people like myself can enjoy them too.&#8221;
—Stevie Wonder, while presenting the top honor at the 2009 Video Game Awards (which went to The Beatles: Rock Band)
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		<title>Flood your ears (and hearts) with Wonder!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/10388/flood-your-ears-and-hearts-with-wonder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries, Campaign Watch

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Stevie Wonder is a UN Messenger of Peace!
(And he's got an awesome sense of humour too)
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		<title>&#8220;Total Access&#8221; Product Promotion: Irked spotlights the Intel Reader</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9787/total-access-product-promotion-irked-spotlights-the-intel-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries


Intel is doing its part to help people with sight or reading disabilities enjoy the written word.
The company announced on Tuesday the debut of the Intel Reader, a handheld text-to-speech device that can read any printed text aloud to those who are blind or have difficulties seeing or reading.
The Atom-powered device uses a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMACKDOWN: Visually impaired gamer sues Sony under the aegis of the Americans with Disabilities Act</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9790/smackdown-visually-impaired-gamer-sues-sony-under-the-aegis-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries, Campaign Watch



According to gamespot.com, it doesn&#8217;t help visually impaired people that some characters in video games &#8220;are actually invisible.&#8221;


It&#8217;s not uncommon for blind gamers to feel invisible in addition to visually impaired. For instance, when gamer Brandon Cole wrote [game developer] THQ a letter suggesting changes to make its Smackdown series of WWE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECOND LIFE: Meet Max the virtual guide dog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Virtual Helping Hands (VHH) is a coalition of four groups, united in their mission &#8220;to bring people who have disabilities into Second Life so everyone can enjoy what Second Life offers—entertainment, education, and employment. Everyone can explore and enjoy the same virtual worlds of the Immersive Internet&#8221;&#8230;.with just a teensy weensy li&#8217;l [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just for the record&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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We think Abigail Breslin will make a PHENOMENAL Helen Keller!
(Even though she&#8217;s neither deaf nor blind&#8230;)

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RELATED: Watch Sight Lines, a 23-minute documentary that examines and demystifies the practice of providing access for blind and visually impaired actors.
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		<title>A blind pie-maker whose business is thriving!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9105/a-blind-pie-maker-whose-business-is-thriving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries
Quoting Michael Field, writing for stuff.co.nz:
When Michael Erasmus talks about his pies looking &#8220;pleasing to the eye&#8221; it&#8217;s surprising. The 22-year-old baker is totally blind in one eye and has only five percent vision in his other eye. His blindness was caused by a condition which affected his optic nerve from birth. Blindness, he says, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braille Coin Will Be Used in Nov. 6 Coin Toss at Bulldogs VS. Broncos Game</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9024/braille-coin-will-be-used-in-nov-6-coin-toss-at-bulldogs-vs-broncos-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Louisiana Tech University will use a 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar in the coin toss at its football game on November 6. The popular Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, a NCAA division I football team, will play the Boise State Broncos.
This unique and beautiful commemorative coin is the first U.S. currency to feature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Chung-Pin Lin: world-renowned blind winemaker and vineyard consultant</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9039/meet-chung-pin-lin-world-renowned-blind-winemaker-and-vineyard-consultant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries
Chung-Pin Lin, who lost his sight to retinal cancer at age two, is winemaker at Waipara&#8217;s Mountford Estate, and a vineyard consultant in Australia, Europe and the United States.
He said the blindness had not affected his winemaking skills, although the perception he had heightened senses was incorrect.
&#8220;I certainly do use the other four senses [...]]]></description>
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