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Visually Impaired
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Visually Impaired Gamer Sues SOE for Game Accommodations - AbleGamers Statement
6 days ago

Accessibility in the News: Hot off the presses of many major gaming and technical news outlets is a story about a gamer who is visually impaired who is suing Sony Online Entertainment (Everquest 2) for game accommodations in massively multiplayer onlin (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Accessibility, Disabilities, Website Accessibility


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Gesture-based VoiceOver on the iPhone and iPod touch
Oct 06, 2009

456 Berea Street: When Apple announced the iPhone almost three years ago, I posted some thoughts about the lack of a real physical keypad and how that would make it difficult to make the iPhone accessible to people who are visually impaired.On (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Visually impaired senior citizens treated to picnic
Aug 22, 2009

UK Disability Living: ... Visually impaired senior citizens treated to picnic Gwen Zimmerman is using the time when she can ... (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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Universal Text Recognition: A Wayfinding Tool for People with Visual Impairments
Aug 19, 2009

Tiresias: UMASS Computer Science Department's current project is to develop software for reading text in complex indoor and outdoor environments as the key missing piece of technology in a universal reader, a device that could assist t (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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(External News) Mac-cessibility Network for the blind and visually impaired is launched
Aug 17, 2009

Tiresias: Mac-cessibility Network is a new collection of resources, services, and sites devoted to providing information pertaining to the accessibility of Apple products for the blind, visually impaired and other disability groups and (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Development of a Digital Sign System for Indoor Wayfinding by the Visually Impaired
Aug 17, 2009

Tiresias: Advanced Medical Electronics aim to develop a prototype for an indoor wayfinding system that uses a hand-held device and bar-coded signs. Information, including the content of the sign and its position, is then retrieved from (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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Wayfinding for the Blind and Visually Impaired Using Passive Environmental Labels
Aug 14, 2009

Tiresias: The objective of this Smith-Kettlewell project is to tackle the problem of wayfinding faced by blind and severely visually impaired persons who are unable to find or read signs, landmarks and locations. They propose a novel a (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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SeeStar: A Mobile PDA Phone-based Assistance System for Visually Impaired Users
Aug 14, 2009

Tiresias: The IVISIT developed SeeStar will be able to offer visually impaired people a "pair of eyes" via the use of a mobile phone camera and data link to a remote assistant who can look at live images through the mobile phone camera (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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Indoor Magnetic Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired
Aug 14, 2009

Tiresias: Advanced Medical Electronics proposes the development of an indoor wayfinding device utilizing the unique magnetic anomaly patterns that exist in modern, man-made structures. Such a device would be able to provide low-vision (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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Group Of Countries To Back Proposal For WIPO Treaty On Blind Readers' Rights
Jul 08, 2009

Accessibility in the News: A group of Latin American and Caribbean countries have declared their intention to support discussion of a proposal to negotiate a World Intellectual Property Organization treaty ensuring an exception to copyright for visuall (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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Proposed WIPO Treaty On Visually Impaired Access Gets Deeper Look
Jul 08, 2009

Accessibility in the News: A treaty on copyright exceptions for visually impaired persons proposed last month at the World Intellectual Property Organization met with no immediate objections, according to participants, but how to treat the proposal and (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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RNIB Team Welcomes Off-The-Shelf iPhone Accessibility
Jul 07, 2009

E-Access Blog: An advanced screen-reader and other accessibility features on a new version of Apple’s iPhone represent an “extremely significant development” for a previously inaccessible technology, according to the Royal National Institut (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Podcast #72: Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News
Jun 22, 2009

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog: Download Web Axe Episode 72 (Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News) Chatter Feedback for new Web Axe theme song? Opera 10 beta Where are the headings? AudioBoo "A Eulogy For IE6" by Paul Boag. Web Axe-Refresh Detroit Tweet (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Firm sponsors Andi’s challenge
Jun 16, 2009

UK Disability Living: ... hoping for a good finish in the Visually Impaired and Blind Sailing Regatta, near Ipswich, which ... is fantastic and provides motivation for other people with disabilities. (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Disabilities


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Association selling ‘Dining Out’ cards
Jun 16, 2009

UK Disability Living: ... The Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Jefferson County once again is selling "Dining Out" cards to raise money to ... (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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iTunes 8.1 to include voice rendering of music titles
Mar 11, 2009

UK Disability Living: The iPod shuffle's new voice feature is a great navigation tool for screenless browsing of your music collection. (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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No voice for blind yet on city transit buses - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA
Mar 06, 2009

Submitted by accessful: Since the City of Greater Sudbury refuses to force its transit drivers to announce stops for visually impaired people, it will have to spend a lot of money on an automated system to do just that, whether it likes it or not.Th (Read More)
News Networks: Web 2.0, Social Networking, Unusual & Interesting. ...
Topics: Blind, Disabled, Find


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Blind Access Journal: Article: Lotus 'Safe
Aug 13, 2008

Submitted by sailor: We are relieved to learn that a solution now exists to the safety concerns posed by electric and hybrid vehicles to blind and visually impaired pedestrians. (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility


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SAP agrees to fix Arkansas ERP system
Aug 13, 2008

UK Disability Living: … data on computer screens into synthesized speech or another means accessible to blind or visually impaired users. In addition, Espo contended that Arkansas violated its own Accessibility state policy by …Bookm (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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No Child Left Behind?
Aug 12, 2008

Accessibility For All: By 2008, all states must test all children for standard language, math and science skills.  These results are to be reported publicly.  What about visually impaired children?  Many of them spend hours learning braille, orient (Read More)
News Networks: Website Accessibility, Stay At Home Mom News Network
Topics: Accessibility, Child


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