FS Cast 230 and more

Fun Fact for users of Freedom Scientific's screen reader program JAWS: Freedom Scientific has a podcast called FSCast. RantWoman is sure there is some notification setting she needs to find in order not to have the podcast announcement seize control of whatever RantWoman is trying to do and demand that RantWoman either listen to the podcast or make a couple other choices. 

Most of the time RantWoman just bangs the down arrow to Remind Me Later.

Recently, though RantWoman had time in her schedule and gave FS Cast 230 a listen.

(Note to self: check whether listening to a different podcast channel comes with the option to speed up the replay.)

There are a couple cool tech tips at the beginning. RantWoman is going to let Major Scotty Smiley (Ret.) tell his own story; RantWoman is also happy to let readers digest the latest reporting from NRTC about use of technology in the workplace on their own.

On the whole, going forward this podcast is useful enough that RantWoman is probably sometimes actually going to listen when some work activity is suspended while RantWoman waits for JAWS to present the announcement.

One really important point: this narrative makes RantWoman want to screem "No. No. NO!: about one fun fact. Major Smiley may be the first blind person in quite awhile to  return to active duty after losing vision. But he is not the first person ever. 

After WWII many men returned home from the front blinded in the war. RantWoman went looking on the American Printing House Hall of Fame for reference to, RantWoman believes, either a colonel or a general who ordered his blinded troops to remain on active duty so that they could get rehabilitated and learn skills of blindness. The other way to search about this is to look up the history of white cane usage, but that also is more historical diligence than RantWoman is going to attempt tonight.

RantWoman has one more bit of unsolicited advice for anyone in or connected to the military who is doing blindness related vocational rehabilitation: blindness happens lots of ways. RantWoman imagines that military-related groups on almost any social media platform can help people make connections.

Maybe that is enough for one post.