Mike Dorn invited me to join in here. I'm Penny L. Richards, a lapsed geographer (BS and MS) with a PhD in Education. I mostly do history of disability now, as a research scholar at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. I believe Carol Marfisi and I are both from the Scranton area--it's a small world.
I came across this today--I hope this isn't old news here (didn't see it in the archives). A lab at Cornell is working on ways to make the colors on maps readable via sound: The blog Curb Cut Design linked to this story. Says the engineering graduate student who's working on the project, "Sometimes I just want to know where is the land and where is the sea."
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"colors on maps readable via sound" What an amazing idea
An amazing idea. did we ever find out any more about it? Just letting you know 1 of your posts is full of spam in comments in chinese or japanese so I did not want to leave a comment there. http://disstud.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/disability-blog-carnival-1.html
A lot of the posts are full of spam--we fixed the commenting system to limit that, but I still haven't got around to clearing it out of all the old posts--it's just not my favorite way to spend time online. (I also need to update the blogroll sometime. In 2009 that took me a solid week, and I haven't found another week to dedicate to the task since then; it might even take longer now.)
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