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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)