Access Awards

The Access Awards honor individuals, corporations, and organizations that are eliminating or substantially reducing inequities faced by people who are blind or visually impaired.

The 2009 Access Awards recipients were:

Apple, Inc. for making significant accessibility improvements to the latest versions of the iPod Nano and the iTunes software, and for installing the VoiceOver screen reading software into all Apple computers.

Diagnostic Devices, Inc. for their PRODIGY® Voice, the only blood glucose monitoring system available on the U.S. market with the necessary speech output capabilities to accommodate people with vision loss.

Mike May and The Sendero Group for pioneering accessible location information and navigation technologies with tools like Sendero GPS, and their new cell phone-based GPS system.

Canada's National Broadcast Reading Service for their work to provide print and video media in an accessible format for people who are blind or visually impaired.

For questions please contact:
Caitlin McFeely
(212) 502-7674 or
cmcfeely@afb.net