My Accessible Cordcutting Solution
Unfortunately, if you're a blind consumer who wants to enjoy TV content, far too many of the online cordcutting solutions don't take accessibility into account. While online-first services like Netflix and Disney are pretty good about offering audio description these days, livestreaming, IPTV, cloud PVR, and video on demand services for TV based broadcasts are a different story. Even if audio description was there in the original broadcast, it's often missing in the online stream, and unavailable in the video on demand archive. That's assuming the online website is even screenreader accessible in the first place.
Innosearch is good because of the humans, not the AI
If you follow me on the fediverse, you may have scene my thread about trying innosearch. They've done a lot of marketing to the blindness community, including promotions with audiogames, and events with Freedom Scientific. In trying them, I wanted to know three things:
Some Pseudoscientific Sleep Solutions
Insomnia has been a struggle for me all of my life; ever since I was young, I've struggled with shifting sleep schedules and white nights. I'm far from alone. Studies show that as many as eighty percent of blind people struggle with chronic insomnia and conditions like Non-24 hour sleep disorder. Far too often, the problem is "treated" by Zolpidem or other powerful prescription sleeping pills. Unfortunately, these pills can be addictive, require ever increasing dosages, and have side effects. After years of trying countless solutions, I've finally got a collection of strategies that keep me sleeping on schedule about three quarters of the time without prescriptions.