If youāre reading this, thereās a good chance you may have contacted APH ConnectCenterās Information and Referral (I&R) Line seeking answers and advice about living with blindness or low vision. Thereās also a decent chance youāre one of the nearly 500,000 blind or low vision people and counting using the Be My Eyes app. The … Continued
If Scott Davert wasnāt so good at assessing assistive technology and educating others about it, he could have had a career as a comedian or comedy writer. Then again, perhaps his quick wit and sense of humor make him so good at the work heās done across various jobs in his career to date. Born … Continued
Editorās note: The third Thursday of May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), when people worldwide can learn and talk about access and inclusion for all people with disabilities. Here, Jeff Bishop shares about his career in accessibility. Jeff Bishop not only relies on accessibility tools. He is part of the team that creates them … Continued
APH ConnectCenter is launching a new quarterly webinar, Employment Connections, focusing on topics related to employment. For our first edition, we discussed when job seekers should disclose their disability with Russell Shaffer, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Programs at Disability:IN. Russell Shaffer has a lot of experience with the topic of disclosing a disability … Continued
Ann Chiappetta, M.S., has heard people say that everyone has three careers in their life. Although she reveled in her first two careers, sheās clearly thriving in her third and current career as a poet and author. Her first career was in retail, initially in the textile industry and then at an acrylic design company, … Continued
When you consider the distinguished career Kim Charlson, M.S. has established in the field of library science, itās hard to believe she ever wanted to do anything else. But the fact is that she began her college studies planning to become a disability rights attorney. In her last year in college, however, she began to … Continued
Zelda Gebhard doesnāt identify as a person with low vision, because sheās so much more than that. āIām a whole person,ā she says. āAlong with my career, Iām a wife, Iām a mother and a grandmother. I have a full life with interests and hobbies. Iām not that much different than a person who doesnāt … Continued
Steve Dresser had a solid career working for 30 years as a computer programmer for the state of Connecticut. But after he retired from the position in 2002, he started his own business: Jennco Productions, which is dedicated to producing high-quality braille materials from electronic documents. Blind since birth due to retinopathy of prematurity, Steve … Continued
Joe Strechay has the kind of career many people dream about: working in the entertainment business. His job? Making sure that blindness is represented accurately, especially by actors who are sighted. Born with retinitis pigmentosa, Joe later developed cataracts and has been legally blind since he was 19. Heās always been interested in media and … Continued
Lisa Lloyd has plenty of personal experience with blindness and low vision. She has retinitis pigmentosa that causes her night blindness, and within her family there are 16 people across five generations with some level of blindness or low vision, including one of her daughters and her father, who are both blind. Sheās a volunteer … Continued