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A Look at the JAWS Training Bundle from Freedom Scientific

… productive on the job or at home with the Microsoft Office applications Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. I have … between the feature sets of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. When appropriate, the JAWS Training Bundle includes separate … have been here, or at least referenced. MS Office with JAWS Approximately 37 of the 51 total hours of the JAWS Training …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld October 2014

Maximizing your Efficiency as a Student Using Leasey Tools for the JAWS Screen Reader

… aren't of much use to blind people?unless, that is, you happen to be using Leasey. Using our term paper as an … than laboriously moving through each entry. This also applies to files on your computer or removable storage … if needed. Whether it's listening to music for your music appreciation class or simply taking some time off work to …
Jamie Pauls
AccessWorld July 2020

Focus on AFB: Fall 2021

… a champion for inclusive design — make your websites, apps, and products accessible. Visit afb.org/consulting for …

Inform & Connect Season 2: Roy Samuelson, Narrator and Stephen Letnes, Composer

… I can't believe it, no I can't. Melody: And so much has happened, right? Roy Samuelson: It sure has. Yeah. Yeah. … levels of access to the audio description, either on an app or a TV or a cable box or a Chrome browser with a … So you can hear the narrator, but all the other audio disappears and it's jarring and it takes you out of the story. …

An Accessibility Evaluation of the Kyocera Verve Phone

… is a candy-bar styled phone, which is to say it is the approximate shape and size of two Hershey bars stacked one … with an easy way to turn on speech access, such as Apple's triple-tap gesture on the Home screen or Android's … "Check battery," and "Check network" also returned the appropriate responses. "Go to Calendar" and "Go to Contacts" …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld June 2014

Four Emerging Vision-Enhancing Technologies: the Implantable Miniature Telescope, the Telescopic Contact Lens, the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis, and the Artificial Silicon Retina

… either as stand-alone devices or via a number of smartphone apps) that can provide information about the environment, … from Second Sight Medical Products, which received FDA approval in February 2013 for the treatment of late-stage … a surgically created sub-retinal pocket. The ASR contains approximately five thousand microphotodiodes, which are tiny …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld September 2013

Choose the Right Electronic Magnifier, Part 3: Handheld Magnifiers

… text everywhere during the day—on restaurant menus, on appliance labels, and in handwritten notes. If you have low … matches up with the size of a small tablet computer, like Apple's iPad Mini or the Google Nexus 7. In the middle are … larger devices, and you won't see numbers like "1080p" that appear in monitor and TV fact sheets. More often, the best …
Shelly Brisbin, Lee Huffman
AccessWorld September 2016

Bring Your Best Cards to the Battle: A Review of Hearthstone and Hearthstone Access

… a difference, and I wholeheartedly agree. He especially appreciates watching players stream games online and hearing … Game To run Hearthstone, open the Battle.net Launcher. This app presents itself as a webpage. If the Hearthstone tab is …
J.J. Meddaugh
AccessWorld October 2021

Focus on AFB: December 2020

… single person participating in the process to make it happen.” Back to top Chef Christine Ha Brings Her Unique … student who was having accessibility issues. “Many of the apps and websites both general and special education … by starting at the very beginning of the process: the application. According to William Reuschel, director of …

Productivity

… the process to submit an expense report (n=67) Used an app or OCR to view and organize receipts (n=58) Required … to [visually] distinguish the title bars of open/active applications/windows from others. Windows 7 was much easier … close box, and I am frequently closing the wrong window application. With Microsoft Office products and some other …

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