… Dr. L. Penny Rosenblum: Welcome to Supporting Individuals with Visual Impairments in the Healthcare Setting. My name … low vision. So I do not see in the way a typically sighted person does. Dr. Carlie Rhoads: I'm Dr. Carlie R. Rhoads, … going to talk about strategies you personally can use when interacting with individuals with visual impairments. Next » …
… central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the best possible correction, and/or a visual field of … Disability Evaluation Under Social Security . Often, people who are diagnosed with legal blindness still have some usable vision. Low vision describes "a person who has measurable vision but has difficulty …
… and adults, accessible social gaming, staying connected with others digitally, keeping technology and workspaces … friendships and stay connected while we limit our in-person social interactions and gatherings. In these … friends a bit closer to home. Staying connected with people who can pitch in during an emergency, or someone to share …
… Be My Eyes Partners with Accessible Pharmacy Services to Bring End to End … even order in-home COVID tests from trained professionals who know how to safely and effectively set up blind … Help menu, and locate Accessible Pharmacy in the Personal Health Category. The Accessible Pharmacy team is …
AccessWorld December 2020
… After all, you’ve probably had few interactions, if any, with people who are blind, have low vision, or are deafblind. And … we learned through our research and coupled it with our personal (two of us are visually impaired) and professional …
… and educators were required to switch from traditional in-person instruction to remote instruction very quickly. They needed to adopt and use new digital learning platforms with very little time to prepare for the transition. In … don’t care.” —English-speaking parent of a 12-year-old who is blind with additional disabilities Inaccessible …
… vibrant, brilliant California woman, the first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard law and to be dubbed a … shared quirky sense of humor. For this article, I caught up with her when she had just returned from Beijing, where she … to 90-minute workshops. She has a team of about ten people who type questions and comments from audience members for …
AccessWorld November 2019
… how applications communicate and the way we will interact with the Internet on a fundamental level. The Semantic Web … for developers, what effect will it have on the rest of us who are end users? The short answer is that .NET will result … can be accessed from a wider variety of hardware platforms, personal digital assistants, and mobile telephones, not just …
AccessWorld May 2003
… for a long time but which are new and exciting for people who are blind or visually impaired: voting independently and … and whether it would be easy for someone to tamper with the machines and change the results. Some people have … now do most of the things with your cell phone that sighted persons can do with theirs. Darren Burton of AFB's …
AccessWorld November 2004
… be available this summer. Anna Dresner's Getting Started with the iPhone and iOS 7 is available in Braille, eBraille … and has put into practice strategies enabling people who are blind to enjoy creating and sharing their own … thinker and successful businessman, Power brings a personal understanding and passion for the mission and …
AccessWorld May 2014