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In This Issue

… Deborah Kendrick Orbit Research accepted the Transforming Braille Group's challenge to produce a braille display that could be sold for under $500, and the result is the Orbit Reader 20, a 20 cell refreshable braille display that the American Printing House for the …
AccessWorld October 2016

Tips for Web Developers

… Provide Skip Links Skip links allow the speech software or braille user to bypass information that is repeated on every page, such as navigation bars. Speech and braille users generally read the page from top to bottom, … so that the visual display is not affected, but speech and braille users can hear the alt tag reading "skip main …

No Second Fiddle: A Review of the Maestro

… package includes a Getting Started document in print and in braille, a tactile diagram of the Maestro keypad with braille labels, and a user's guide and Quick Reference guide … the keypad can be set up to enter data--telephone input and braille input. The difference between the two is that when …
Jay Leventhal, Jim Denham, Heather McComas
AccessWorld July 2005

What's New in watchOS 4, macOS High Sierra, and tvOS 11

… to add a language and a table listing the many languages. Braille Support According to Apple's vision accessibility … , "In macOS High Sierra, you can edit seamlessly in Grade 2 Braille, viewing your edits in the context of the actual line of text. Converting between braille and text happens automatically so you see only Grade …
Janet Ingber
AccessWorld January 2018

In This Issue . . .

… Hodges The Challenge of Assistive Technology and Braille Literacy A company executive argues for more low-tech devices for writing braille—Tim Connell Conference Report: Techshare 2007 We …
AccessWorld January 2008

Resolución de problemas

… resulta difícil ver las letras grandes, los registros en " braille " pueden ser una opción viable. Braille es un sistema de escritura que utiliza signos en … papel. Puede que sólo sea necesario que adquiera fluidez en braille elemental (los números y el alfabeto) para llevar …

SEE3D: Teenagers Expand the Visual World for People Who Are Blind

… intellect or creativity. She told me that she learned the braille alphabet when she had an hour of boredom to fill as … clear plastic labeling sheets, so she could begin making braille labels for all her images. While Caroline and the … plastic labeling paper. Her hope is to purchase a Perkins Brailler, which her friend, Haley, has been teaching her to …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld September 2017

No (Small) Degree of Success

… to an Apple computer and the Apple to a tape-based VersaBraille, so that, probably for the first time, "we were scanning print and reading it on a braille display." Taking the Plunge By the mid-1980s, she … for Windows and Window-Eyes, a variety of video magnifiers, braille and voiced notetakers, braille displays, and more. …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld March 2004

Your Diabetes 411 Page: Connecting to Available Info

… course, Diabetes: Toward Self-Management , is available in braille, large print, online, or audiotape format. Also, … for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has both braille and recorded reading materials available free of … care professional about a book before buying it. Books in Braille The Braille Group of Buffalo, NY, has several …

Education 1894-1904

… to horseback ride. Since many books were not available in braille at that time, Anne would sign what she read into … shows Helen seated on an old stone wall with a large Braille book in her lap. She is sitting straight up, with … head is facing the camera. Helen's left hand is on an open braille book and her right hand is on the dog's back. She is …

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