http://www.apple.com/accessibility/designed-for-students/ Because, why not? Apparently this ad has created a conversation piece in the disability community. I can’t speak to or for every disability, but I can speak toward the audio description, which in its effort to include all in all its inclusive glory misses the access point by a half mile. I say a half mile, because half of the thing is described. For whatever reason, despite there being no actual dialogue in this circle jerk, the audio description decides there are times when things are happening… but we just don’t need to know about them. Isn’t that the … Continue reading Apple Celebrates Accessibility By Dodging it?

Blind People Problems: losing something small, and having no clue which direction it even went. Somewhere in this room is the I key to my keyboard. In the meantime, I’m typing and hitting the hole where it used to be. Life truly is a grand adventure. TV Shows Watched: Squid Game: The Challenge: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, I Love LA: S1E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, SNL: Glen Powell (Peacock) with audio description, Matlock: S2E? (Paramount Plus)with audio description. Squid Game: The challenge- I’m so far behind, this is the second episode. Someone already won this. Still, i needed … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/11/25

Death By Lightning- S1E1 (Netflix) wit audio description- So I wanted to jump in on this, because i was waiting to go through this journey with you until the Small Screen Diaries returned. There have been complaints online about the audio description for the show, and it incorrectly labeling people. I’ve certainly heard that before, and when I read someone’s account of it, I noticed the company involved was one of the constant offenders in low quality audio description.I’ll say from my perspective, the first episode already didn’t make sense to me. there’s an entire president between Grant and Garfield. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/10/25

I’m telling you. Y’all. I know this is sad. I’m not even listing at the top, because the amount of shows is just so low. Boston Blue- Not sure what episode this was, but it dealt with parents being accountable for something horrific their teenager does. If that helps. I’m not crazy about the show, but I watch with someone else who liked Blue bloods. Even with that, I don’t think this show is going to stay on my radar for very long. It does have a stellar cast which keeps me engaged. I’m a fan of sonequa Martin-Green, and … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/09/25

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Are you not entertained? I missed the gig economy life. I often wonder, had I not lost my vision, would I have joined the masses in picking up food, groceries, or driving strangers around?Aziz Ansari has also missed out on this phenomenon, as he has been well known as a stand-up for years, with Parks and Recreation really boosting his career in 2009. I doubt he did much gig work before, but likely worked enough part time jobs to understand the struggle is real.We’re the same age, and by 2009 I had already worked … Continue reading Good Fortune

So, I didn’t announce this was going away, I just reached a day with no TV. Then another day. I’ve been so inundated with movie screeners and voting deadlines, I stopped watching most TV. You did not miss much. The only two shows I kept up with were Welcome To Dairy and Stranger things. There are still several shows I haven’t seen. Welcome To Dairy- I think I’ve gotten the chance to thank the team behind this, because their description is excellent. From Pennywise casually munching on some heads, to some grotesque specters haunting our psychic, everything is really gory, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/08/25

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Huzzah! Everything felt so entirely different back when I was a kid. I often think the innocence lost of the kids that came after is a result of apathy from those who somehow prioritize anything over their kids, while also trying to act like they don’t. Case in point, our complete and abject inability to do a damn thing regarding school shootings. I never had an active shooter drill in my day. i simply just saw Columbine happen, and remembered the shock that something like that could happen. then it happened again, and again. … Continue reading All The Empty Rooms

TV Shows Watched: Boots: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Devil In Disguise: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Sheriff Country: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, English Teacher: S2E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Name that tune: S4E6 (Hulu) no audio description, Elzabeth: S3E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and… Gabby’s Dollhouse: S1E1? (Netflix) with audio description. Boots- Why do I feel like the character who is trying to decide whether or not to reenlist secretly had a gay relationship, and in this don’t ask don’t tell world, is trying to pretend like nothing happened and move forward? But basically Cameron … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/06/25

TV Shows Watched: Down Cemetary Road: S1E2 (Apple TV) with audio description, Wayward: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S3E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Squid Game The Challenge: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E12 (Disney plus) with audio description, and The Paper: S1E10 (Peacock) with audio description I usually go in order, but I did finish both Wayward and The paper, and intend to do a full review for both. Look for that. Down cemetary Road- A lovely mystery is unfolding, with some really surprising twists along the way. I gotta say, I … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/05/25

TV Shows watched: High Potential: S2E7 (Disney plus) with audio description, Chad Powers: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Anne Rice’s Talamaska (AMC Plus) no audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Murdock: S1E4 (Disney plus) with audio description, The Chosen Adventures: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description High Potential- The Fall Finale. The Thomas crown Affair meets High Potential as an art piece goes missing, and it’s up to our team to recover it. but when the insurance company associated with the owners of the painting sends … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/05/25

A promising victim of a system where I ask for accessible screeners and don’t get them. I did a short review for Good Boy a while back, which I struggled with, after getting a screener for that with no audio description. Now I’ve been offered the film AGAIN (I shit you not) as part of IFC’s FYC campaign, and it still isn’t accessible, and their reps will not respond to my email to save their lives. When you say “audio description”, I might as well be speaking High valerian. I reviewed another film recently which I enjoyed very much, and … Continue reading Going In Blind: I Wish You All The Best

TV Shows Watched: Black Mirror: S5E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Mr Scorsese: S1E3 (Apple TV) with audio description, The Chair Company: S1E4 (HBo MAX) with audio description,Crutch: S1E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and Last Week tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet Black Mirror- Miley Cyrus’s episode is my nomination for a gateway episode to Black Mirror if you’re trying to introduce your friend to it, and they may not get the eccentricities of other things. Some of the episodes are wickedly smart, highly satirical of our lazy asses, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/03/25

TV Shows Watched: the Witcher: S4E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Robin Hood: S1E1 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Star Wars Visions: S2E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, ghosts: S5E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Have I Got News for you: S3E9 (HBO MAX) no audio description, Matlock: S2E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Loot: S3E3 (Apple plus) with audio description the Witcher- One day, I may find someone, fall in love, and they may say to me… The Witcher. I’ve never seen it. In that moment, maybe, I will watch it, long after the series has finished. when I can … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/03/25

Cast: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, Written By: Directed By: Akiva Schaffer Release Year: 2025 Studio: Paramount runtime: 85 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: A continuation of the trilogy that starred Leslie Nielsen, with Liam Neeson portraying his son, Frank drebin Jr., who finds himself in very similar hilarious setups, and delivering the same dry, deadpan humor. He has to help a blonde bombshell (Anderson), who he obviously will fall in love with, just like his father, and go up against a tech billionaire (Huston), who is seeking to … Continue reading The Naked Gun (2025)

Y’all have no idea how many times I type the title and my fingers trip and spell “Dairies”. Nearly every morning. TV Shows Watched: The Last Frontier: S1E4 (Apple TV) with audio description, From: S3E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description, DMV: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Starting Five: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, 911 Nashville: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tulsa King: S3E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, South Park: S28E2 (Paramount Plus) no audio description yet, Boston Blue: S1E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Abbott Elementary: S5E5 (Hulu) with audio description, and Nobody Wants this: S2E1 (Netflix) … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/02/2025