… birth, Chris Peterson is an avid user of technology and braille. Daily, he uses a Windows-based PC (purchased for … Computers for the Blind), JAWS screen reader, a Mantis Q40 braille display, an iPhone, and a variety of software …
AccessWorld Winter 2024
… One example they gave was when someone printed visual braille without making it tactile, a significant oversight, … feedback with clarity and care. The example of visual braille illustrates this perfectly: even though it was …
… rise of fascism in Europe, and atomic energy. Helen used a braille typewriter to prepare her manuscripts and then … Permanent Blind War Relief Fund, later called the American Braille Press, was founded. She was a member of its first board of directors. In 1946, when the American Braille Press became the American Foundation for Overseas …
… size, audible labeling technologies, tactile markings or braille, or other methods calculated to provide alternatives … Washington, DC Blind Services Planning Council, Chicago, IL Braille Institute of America, Los Angeles, CA Cabell-Wayne … Association of Audio Information Services, Detroit, MI Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, IA Iowa Statewide …
… can run several days, at best. Cartridges arrive labeled in braille, but as a newly blind individual, perhaps you do not read braille yet. Each book or magazine arrives on its own … from your regional library, except they do not have braille labels, and they use a USB cable to connect to your …
AccessWorld February 2017
… also adds the VoiceOver Rotor, the ability to use a braille display, and the ability to have VoiceOver speak … Delete and Cancel buttons will then be on the screen. Braille In a major accessibility update, braille displays can now be connected via Bluetooth to the …
AccessWorld December 2020
… and some, even if their eyes can see print, are fluent braille readers. Some drive a car occasionally; a few see … 8 am to 4 pm every day she wore sleepshades and studied braille, cane travel, and how to perform all those tasks of … she says, have been invaluable in every aspect of life—the braille that she uses for labeling (admitting that it was …
AccessWorld June 2020
… technology. She uses an iPhone synced to a 16-character braille display, a BrailleNote, and an electric brailler. David is a fan of AFB’s AccessWorld® and uses its …
… conversion of web site content into synthetic speech or braille and users' ability to navigate a site with only the … by the screen-reading software and are then spoken or brailled as the user traverses them by keyboard. By … a user hits a hot key that causes the system to announce or braille a list of names of all the items within a 3-meter …
AccessWorld March 2008
… of battle had been reduced to New York Point and American braille. At its biennial convention that year, the American … research team was the discovery that a third system—British braille—apparently gave better results than either the American version of braille or New York Point. It looked as though the entire …