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Donna’s blog posts give you great insights into her daily life, challenges, and perspectives as a blind/vision impaired person. Here’s a handy roundup of her latest blog posts:
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Welcome to Donna’s weekly show where she shares tried and proven recipes with her listeners. Here are the latest episodes:
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This month, Donna answered the following questions for her “Ask the Coach” feature:
These were just some of the questions asked. Donna continues to answer questions from around the world both online and offline.
You can read more of Donna’s “Ask the Coach” answers by visiting sterlingcreations.com/blog.
This month, the “Ask Donna” podcast featured the following topics:
You can find Donna’s “Ask Donna” podcast episodes by visiting https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX95yuU4fJhjjVBc9nZ9CpakNE8ahBIm3&si=cm0-v34TvRFl61rK
Donna’s mental stretch feature is also a must-listen! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX95yuU4fJhj7lGMiFYHIVczaxcBDOa0x
You can read Donna’s “Ask an Author” tips by visiting sterlingcreations.ca/ask-an-author.
You can check out Donna’s “Ask an Expert” features by visiting sterlingcreations.ca/ask-an-expert.
Donna included the following tips in her “Catching Up With the Coach” feature:
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Hello everyone! Welcome to my “Ten Tips” series, where each month I’ll be sharing 10 tips on various pieces of technology. This would include tips on popular screen readers, office software, and browsers.
If you have any suggestions on what you would like me to share, then by all means! Write to me at donnajodhan@sterlingcreations.ca.
For this month:
Ten Tips for Learning the Narrator Screen Reader
Learning to use a screen reader like Narrator can significantly enhance accessibility for individuals with visual impairments. Here are 10 tips to help you get started with learning the Narrator screen reader:
Remember, mastering a screen reader like Narrator can greatly improve accessibility, and it’s an ongoing learning process. The more you use it, the more proficient you’ll become.
Waiting for Spring
Here is how I use the month of March to help clear my mind and imagination of cobwebs and clutter and to spark and stimulate my creative juice:
I think of spring as being the springboard for all of this. Spring is the time when everything starts to wake up; mother nature yawns and her kingdom responds.
So now we need to do the same and we have lots of help.
Think of those fresh cool winds blowing around and when you are out there they can fill you with feelings of freshness. Your senses all wake up.
Then think of those trees starting to wake up and their leaves and flowers begin to make their presence known.
They are simply beginning to get dressed!
Then the rabbits and the squirrels starting to poke their heads above ground.
They come out of their hiding places and start to sniff around and to look about themselves.
I have used this strategy for several years now and as an author I can tell you that it sure works.
So just go out there and try using my waiting for spring strategy.
To learn more about me as an award-winning sight-loss coach and author, visit www.donnajodhan.com
And to learn more about me as an award-winning advocate, visit www.sterlingcreations.ca
My goodness! I’m Scott Savoy and we have just entered the month of March!
FR time is really having his way eh?
Today, I am delighted to share our president’s editorial with you and for this week Donna J. Jodhan focuses on a broken complaints system.
Give it a read and send us your feedback to info@sterlingcreations.ca
Enjoy your weekend.
The Broken Complaints System
by Donna J. Jodhan
For those of you who know me well enough, this is a topic very near and dear to my heart!
For too many years now, I have seen where certain Canadian Federal Government departments continue to fail miserably when it comes to providing both online and offline complaints processes and systems.
What’s wrong with this picture in my respectful opinion is the following.
Certain Canadian Government departments are not even trying to make their complaints systems more balanced, more accessible, and more affective. They continue to proffer excuses and reasons that are simply unacceptable.
In other words, their excuses and reasons simply allow respondents to come out on top.
Respondents continue to be given free reign to do nothing. To wear down the spirit and financial resources and will of complainants. They continue to be allowed to get away with not providing accountability and transparency and these Government departments continue to be allowed to get away with brutal treatment of complainants.
Respondents continue to be allowed to get away with recklessness, willful misbehaviour and disrespect. They continue to be allowed to disrespect the rights of Canadians with disabilities and they are being allowed to use their deep pockets to do just this.
Online and offline systems remain broken and inaccessible. They are terribly under staffed by persons who are lacking in proper training and these systems have been developed by companies who do not even have the appropriate expertise in accessibility.
They claim to do so but at the end of the day they are blatantly guilty of not having included testers with lived experience. Instead their development and testing teams are made up of technical staff who have no idea re the meaning of accessibility.
I can only continue to call out these departments
Who are they? Example; the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the so-called gate keeper of protecting the rights of Canadians with disabilities and the vulnerable.
And there are others but for now I’ll stop here!
Just my two cents for today!
To learn more about me as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate visit www.donnajodhan.com
