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Half wacky, half awesome, apparently guide ponies are all the rage. Maybe now some little girls really can get the pony they've always wanted. :-P

The extended lifespan of a pony (30-40 years) as compared to a horse is *probably* a plus, though it could make emotional and psychological adjustments to a new guide harder. What happens to service animals should their person pass away, are they retired?

Judge rules paper money unfair to blind, gives the US Treasury 30 days to start working on a solution. It's about time!

One of my friends is at a hotel on a slow internet connection, and Gmail kept timing out for him. Who knows what made me think of this, but I remembered that a while ago I'd noticed that if you highlight the top of the normal Gmail screen, there's white text saying "If you are using a screen reader, you may wish to switch to basic HTML for a better experience." That did it for him! Yay Gmail!

I'm not sure what I think of the new legislature that would require states and local offices to consider pets in emergency plans. On the one hand, pets are very emotionally/socially important to us, and help maintain our wellbeing, on the other hand, when resources are thin, including pets could push them past the breaking point, and every pet saved means a human lost.

The one unequivocally good part is that the Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act also requires the accomodation of service animals. :)

In Modesto CA, an election smear campaign has just turned discriminatory. One Republican candidate is claiming the other is unfit because he had a heart transplant.

The Modesto Bee article.

The flyer

Found by

unofischal, feel free to repost.

While surfing the web to try and find the appropriate html code for maroon, I stumbled on this list of consequences of colorblindness. (I think it was on the same site as the second hit for "html css color name".) I'm sure if I'd thought about it I would've come up with how it'd be a hinderance in reading various chemical tests (I do teach science, after all), but it never occurred to me that you might not know whether you have a sunburn, or that single blinkie lights are unidentifiable.

Horribly horribly wrong, and cracked me up. :)

Yay, Blogger's introduced an accessable word verification system, where you can select an audio human-verification tool if you can't use the visual one. Awesome!

If you use Gmail, try this: take your mouse pointer and highlight the very top of the screen where there's white above the logo and search line and your username. In white against the highlighted background, you'll see the text "If you are using a screen reader, you may wish to switch to basic HTML for a better experience." Cool beans!

Transcribe a webcomic! Oh No Robot I think was originally designed so that fans of webcomics could more easily search the archives, I realized (through a

no_pity post) that it has the added benefit that people with screen readers can now have a chance at reading these comics. Rock on!

Schlock Mercenary's Howard Tayler is apparently doing this (transcribing) manually in his archives.

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