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When Hearing Loss Causes More Vision Loss

… step is to give up faking it! Carry a white cane or braille note taker or magnification device — any tool that …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld February 2017

ATIA Exhibitors Deliver Product Updates and a Few New Tools

… ease the transition to the overhauled application. In 2016, braille seemed to be revitalized. Products like the BrailleNote Touch became available, while the Orbit Reader and NeoBraille, among others, were eagerly anticipated, but didn't …
Shelly Brisbin, Janet Ingber, Lee Huffman
AccessWorld February 2017

The Accessible Home: A Look at Laundry Room Accessibility

… to determine which setting had been accessed without braille or other markers. Skutchan had also been right when …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld November 2017

The Accessible Kitchen: Using the Instant Pot Smart Bluetooth-Enabled Multifunctional Pressure Cooker

… digital touchpad could be marked with raised dots, or a Braille overlay could have been created, but why bother when …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld August 2016

BeSpecular: A New Remote Assistant Service

… an app like ours." Cowper also notes that the dots for the braille letter "S" are basically a mirror reflection of …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld July 2016

Happy 40th Birthday to Apple: A Look Back at Apple's Progress

… including the Alex TTS (text-to-speech) voice and braille support. The next year, iTunes was made accessible …
Janet Ingber
AccessWorld June 2016

AccessWorld News

… U.S. and Canada may now get three free books from Seedlings Braille Books for Children! Seedlings has expanded its Book …
AccessWorld February 2016

The Blackboard Online Coursework and Learning Environment: Accessibility Reports from Two College Students and One Instructor

… they were available. Some students had exams provided in braille, but most needed someone to read exam questions … college in 1993, I prepared my class notes using a Perkins Brailler, and wrote exams using an electric typewriter. Over … Talking Graphing Calculator by Tara Annis The Perkins SMART Brailler Does More than Make Dots by Janet Ingber Author …
Jamie Pauls
AccessWorld July 2015

AFB Survey Results Show Inaccessibility of Many Travel Websites

… using a screen magnifier in combination with speech or braille. When asked if they would use phone booking if it …
Katie Vizenor, Christina Wissinger
AccessWorld November 2012

Review: Get Cracking with Chrome for Windows, by Dean Martineau

… into written text, either via speech or going hands-on with braille. So as with the previous tutorial, Get Cracking with …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld March 2020

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