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Book Review: Four Great Guides to Jumpstart your iPhone Journey

… Over the past 20-plus years, National Braille Press (NBP) has carved a considerable niche for itself as a fabulous source for braille materials to assist users in navigating some of … 2011 issue of AccessWorld . Available in three softcover braille volumes or electronically in DAISY audio, text, or …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld September 2012

CSUN 2007

… the popular Sendero GPS product running on the BrailleNote family of products. Speaking of handheld … print were on display as well. HumanWare's smallest braille display, for example, the Braille Connect, provides only 12 cells and is about 5 …
Deborah Kendrick, Jay Leventhal
AccessWorld May 2007

M Is for Mobile, and the Result Is Empowering

… of absolute comfort and familiarity with its refreshable braille display, synthesized speech output when desired, and … The device is the latest addition to HumanWare's family of BrailleNote products, the BrailleNote mPower, introduced on June 28, 2005, and first …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld January 2006

Product Features

… Braille Star 40 Number of braille cells: 40, Number of cursor routing keys: 40, Status … support laptop: Yes. ALVA Satellite Traveler Number of braille cells: 44, Number of cursor routing keys: 88, Status …
AccessWorld July 2002

Series: Removing the Stress from iOS: A Blueprint for Incorporating Touchscreen Products Into the Classroom, Workplace, and Community. Part II: Success With iOS: Making it Happen!

… All of these rotor commands can be accessed via refreshable braille displays with braille input capabilities. Rather than using the rotor … very heavily weighted to accessing these settings using a braille display which truly provides me with a very fast and …
Larry Lewis
AccessWorld June 2012

The BrailleSense 6: More Bang for Your Buck!

… of AccessWorld , I had the privilege of writing about the BrailleSense Polaris , a 32-cell notetaker from HIMS Inc. … a 13-megapixel camera. Earlier this year, HIMS released the BrailleSense 6, which doubles the performance of pretty much everything on the Polaris. Running Android 10, the BrailleSense 6 has the same 32-cell display with 64GB of …
Jamie Pauls
AccessWorld November 2021

The Key to the Information Age: A Review of Three Screen Readers, Part 2

… 866 MHz with 256 MB of RAM running Windows 2000. We tested braille output using a Focus braille display from Freedom Scientific and an ALVA … in print, on a digital Talking Book CD, and online. A braille quick-reference guide is included. You can also …
Jim Denham, Jay Leventhal, Heather McComas
AccessWorld July 2004

Accessible Reading: A review of The Abundant Bookshelf by Judith Dixon and A First Look at Downpour, a New Source for Audiobooks

… people who are newly blind and who have not used voice and braille access long enough to have witnessed the initial … I will take a look at this eBook, available from National Braille Press . Then, I will introduce you to a brand new … The Abundant Bookshelf is available from the National Braille press for $12 in various accessible formats …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld May 2017

Books for the Blind

… all very well to improve the quality and reduce the cost of braille literature through two-sided printing, efficient … whether this book for blind readers should be ordered in braille or in New York Point or in Moon type or in all … forms of type in books for the blind. When, in 1917, braille Grade 1½ was adopted as the uniform type for all …

Focus on AFB: Summer 2018

… education is to future success. In a recent speech at the Braille Challenge awards ceremony celebrating the national winners and finalists in this braille reading competition, he shared his own experience learning braille after losing his sight at age five. "I had already …

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