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March 2003 • Volume 4 • Number 2
Editor's Page, print edition page 3
Lighting Up Your Night Life, print edition page 5
Evaluations of lighting devices that make nighttime travel easier. Bryan Gerritsen
A Catalyst for Technology, print edition page 11
A talk with Harvey Lauer, pioneer, catalyst, and shaper of assistive technology. Deborah Kendrick
The Reading Machine That Hasn't Been Built Yet, print edition page 17
A pioneer evaluator of reading machines reveals their secret history and possible future. Harvey Lauer
Still Scanning after All These Years: A Profile of Kurzweil Educational Systems, print edition page 24
An inside look at the evolution of the company that brought us access to the printed word. Deborah Kendrick
The Open Source Course: An Overview of Linux, print edition page 30
Find out why this freeware operating system is becoming the choice of more and more computer users who are visually impaired. Janina Sajka
You Can Bank on It, Part 2: Advocacy, Outreach, and Legal Authority for Talking ATMs, print edition page 37
The second part of this series on Talking Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) focuses on the efforts of accessibility advocates to achieve this advance. Lainey Feingold
News, print edition page 45
Calendar, print edition page 48
Editor in Chief |
Jay Leventhal |
Contributing Editors |
Paul Schroeder, Senior Editor |
Acting Editor |
Ellen Bilofsky |
AccessWorld is published bi-monthly by AFB Press, American Foundation for the Blind, 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300, New York, NY 10001. Products included in AccessWorld are not necessarily endorsed by AccessWorld or AFB staff.
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AccessWorld is a trademark of the American Foundation for the Blind. AccessWorld is made possible by generous grants from John T. Bourger and Slena Vanderwerf and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
Photo on cover: Using the latest Kurzweil Reading Machine.
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