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… completed his PhD about two months ago. I've often toyed with whether I wanted to go back and finish my PhD. But I … the time. Tony Candela: Some people administer all kinds of personality profiles. A lot of people ask who their favorite … talked to our sales staff. At this time I probably wasn't interacting with customers like this, but I remember Joachim …

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… 2004 Interviewer: Tony Candela Introduction to interview with Saba Hocek Tony Candela: My quest to find legends and … 1980's and produced the first OCR Recognition system for Personal Computers. Saba and Adam preceded Kurzweil and … and also, I still have clients from the blindness industry who still rely on me to come and train on and install …

A Pocket Full of Access: A Review of Mobile Speak Pocket and Pocket Hal

… In the world of smartphones, Pocket PCs, and competing personal digital assistants (PDAs), it can feel as though a … which once sold a popular line of Pocket PC hardware, has withdrawn from the market. HP continues to offer several … Pocket PC. Mobile Speak Pocket offers several methods of interacting with the hardware. One method that is unique to …
Bradley Hodges
AccessWorld September 2007

Educating Blind and Visually Impaired Students: Policy Guidance from OSERS

… to address the requirements of Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, as amended by the … Department issued guidance for the education of students who are deaf in the form of a Notice of Policy Guidance … regard to degree of vision, the student population includes persons who are totally blind or persons with minimal light …

A Review of Manamon, an Audio-Based Role-Playing Game by VGStorm

… of accessible games stretching back to the time of MS-DOS with accessible text-based adventure games. A recent … You take on the role of a prospective Manamon tamer, who, with another classmate, will forsake his education, … or errors in its operation. The only true bug that I have personally encountered while playing on Windows 10 and …
Aaron Preece
AccessWorld March 2017

Making Your Smartphone Smarter, Part 1: A Review of Mobile Speak Smartphone

… category of cell phones that can provide access for people who are blind or have low vision. Access to Smartphones is … reader. Regular readers of AccessWorld will be familiar with Code Factory's Mobile Speak and Mobile Magnifier access … less robust than the one that runs the Pocket PC PDA (personal digital assistant) devices. Many of today's …
Darren Burton
AccessWorld July 2007

Productivity on the Go: Notetakers, Netbooks, and Everything in Between

… Not too long ago, the specialized notetaker was, almost without exception, the default choice for blind and visually … productivity tools. They mirror the scope and range of the personal computer (PC) in terms of the functions and … with the new device support. After spending limited time interacting with the braille features, we have confirmed …
Bradley Hodges
AccessWorld August 2010

The Next Generation: A Review of Personal Digital Assistants, Part 2

… in the January 2005 AccessWorld, we reviewed two accessible personal digital assistants (PDAs): the BrailleNote PK from … its most basic operations still pose challenges for users who are blind or visually impaired. Physical Description and … of the adapted PDAs currently on the market, is available with either a braille or QWERTY (typewriter style) keyboard. …
Jim Denham, Jay Leventhal, Heather McComas
AccessWorld May 2005

Now Speaking: Apple Adds Speech Output to the iPod Nano

… an e-mail message from Apple announcing a new iPod Nano with talking menus. Apple also announced improvements in the … a bit of getting used to, it can be used effectively by a person who is blind or has low vision. However, with the Nano's new …
Darren Burton
AccessWorld January 2009

Entering Text on an iPhone, Part 2: Using External Hardware Devices

… have a look at a low-tech product that can definitely help with entering text on an iPhone. SpeedDots are tactile … stands alone as a specialized input device for those blind persons who are not braille users. The Rivo 2 will be … a call, you can enter touchtones from the Rivo keyboard for interacting with banking, voicemail, and similar systems …
Judy Dixon
AccessWorld January 2022

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