April 28, 2010, 10:48 am
He gets it, I said aloud to no one in particular. I listened to the robotic-sounding voice on my screen reader that was turning the words I was reading into comprehensible spoken text.
I was talking about Samuel R. Bagenstos, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights division, who had just told the House Judiciary panel that access to new technologies for people with disabilities is “not simply a technical matter, but a fundamental issue of civil rights." All I have to say is Hallelujah!
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November 11, 2009, 5:05 pm
I wonder if Intel feels sheepish right now. Here they are, thinking they’ve just launched a great new product for the blind, a mobile device that reads text aloud. Intel partnered with assistive tech pioneer HumanWare and reached out to the blind community to get their input, too. But the Intel Reader, announced yesterday, has [...]
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July 28, 2009, 11:54 am
knfb Reader Technology's Mobile products include cell phone programs that read aloud printed text for those with print disabilities, such as vision loss and dyslexia.
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April 21, 2009, 12:31 pm
Walt Disney World debuted a service that gives visually impaired park-goers a narrative, audio depiction of popular rides, such as Pirates of the Caribbean.
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April 21, 2009, 11:28 am
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is managing a new video-enabled Web site that is accessible to people with disabilities and serves as a model to other federal agencies.
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April 9, 2009, 9:14 am
Facebook is working with the American Foundation for the Blind to make its social-networking service more accessible to users who are blind or visually impaired.
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February 20, 2009, 2:01 pm
Grammy-award-winning artist Stevie Wonder presented the 2009 Vision Free awards to 19 assistive technology vendors for making products that the blind can use. One winner, National Public Radio, won for its news reading service for the blind. Apple also took home a prize for making its iTunes library "talk."
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