News and commentary - 9 December 2009

...requests for published authors to sign on to a letter supporting new legal frameworks that would permit adaptations of their work for he blind and visually impaired , Twoddler, a device that takes the play and input of toddlers and converts it to pre-defined Twitter updates , AT&T introducing incentives to...

Heinlein predicted it, again

...hybrid cars. Specifically, the National Federation of the Blind is warning that the new hybrids are too quiet, taking away a warning cue from the visually impaired and possibly endangering blind pedestrians who won't know to not cross the street. Discussions are now ongoing over some sort of auditory warning signal...

...Amazon makes it more accessible to visually impaired students. Both schools have some...re not going to adopt a technology we know for sure discriminates against.... spokesman Drew Herdener said many visually impaired customers have asked Amazon to...Kindle could be promising for the visually impaired because of its read-aloud... is that when you make technology accessible, everybody benefits," he said....

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Optelec Offers New Solutions for the Visually Impaired and Low Vision User

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Google Enhances Search for Visually Impaired

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... You can't copy more than a paragraph of text at one time (no matter how long or short), and there's no text-to-speech function for the visually impaired or those who want an audio book. You can't hide the B&N menus on any reader. The Mac version edition can't download recent purchases. The BlackBerry ...

an accessible iPhone....sort of.

...following information posted to a list-serve for assistive technology: Silicone Touch: an iPhone case for the visually impaired 12-01-2008 The iPhone has never seemed...screen computers provide no real advantage to blind or visually impaired users vs. an adapted smart phone (like ...) with Mobile Speak or TAlKS text to speech technology loaded on. But shiny and new is always ...

decisions, rants, comments, thoughts, chaos is within my mind tonight ya I'm doomed.

... able to still be able to play on said CPU. I just wish I was introduce to Assistive Technology earlier so it could have helped me while I was going to high school and attempting college. Now that I am actually at a school for the blind and the visually impaired, it's two different worlds. And I like living in this world. Except for when they do not accommodate me when I ...

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