Accessability for All

It is amazing how far technology has come to allow people with disabilities to use the Internet. There is a blind man that attends my church in Birmingham and it is really amazing what all he can do. In high school, Shane played trumpet... I'm not sure how he read music but he did. Shane also downloads books and hymns to print off in Braille. He has a machine that he can put a memory card into that translates whatever is on the card into braille. Shane has taught the Youth Sunday School class with all his notes and Bible on a refreshable braille display that was shown in the Dr. Sullivan's PowerPoint Presentation.


Shane is a really fun guy to be around and it is really interesting learning how he lives using technology. He really lives a regular life because technology has so many creations for the blind. Shane has a Facebook Account and spends a lot of his time on the Internet. He has an ipod that he can work probably better than I can work my own. He knows what he is doing and wants to help other blind people become computer literate. He actually just started working for Apple, which really shows how much he knows and how willing he is to teach other people with disabilities to use the computer. Shane really is an awesome guy and is the coolest blind person I know!