Episode Description
Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a history of blindness, and blindness tech, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers.
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Links and Show Notes:
- The Country of the Blind, by Andrew Leland
- The Hidden History of Screen Readers: The Verge
- Exploding the Phone, by Philip Lapsley
- Windows Screenreader Primer, David Kingsbury
- Berkeley Systems' OutSpoken screen reader
- Jonathan Mosen's Living Blindfully Podcast
- Poetry Magazine, Braille subscription
- Atkinson Hyperlegible font
- Teleprompter Premium iOS app
- Sight Unseen, by Georgina Kleege
- More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, by Georgina Kleene