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Stream It! Music, Movies, and More with Apple TV and VoiceOver, by Jonathan Mosen: A Book Review

… now exists. Available from Mosen Consulting and National Braille Press, and written by Jonathan Mosen, Stream It! … iTunes accounts from around the world for $29.95. National Braille Press makes the book available in eBraille, hard-copy braille, Word, and DAISY formats. Any of …
Jamie Pauls
AccessWorld August 2015

Optical Character Recognition Systems

… with severe vision loss. Unless it was transcribed into braille or read aloud, printed text was totally … can be displayed in an audio format, enlarged, converted to braille, or presented in whatever manner best suits the …

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

… we were surprised that no documentation—electronic, braille, or large print—was included in the package. Code … that is included is comprehensive and plentiful. A Braille Quick Guide and large- print version of the entire … available in a wide range of languages, supports literary braille input and output, and offers blind users true …
Bradley Hodges
AccessWorld September 2007

Walt Disney World Provides Accessibility for Blind Guests

… and GPS devices, so the fact that Disney made available a braille guidebook was equally astonishing and wonderful. The … Relations for these items. We were offered three options: A braille guidebook containing description of attractions and … to conclude that the reason seemed to lie in the fact that braille and print were on every page. When given the audio …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld August 2014

Always Seeking Innovation: An Interview with Curtis Chong

… for the blind that he could actually go there to select his braille books and Talking Books. He was an avid reader who … in 1972, when there were no talking computers, refreshable braille displays, or braille embossers, so Chong devised his own method (a piece …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld September 2005

Getting from Here to There: A Short Review of Trekker

… or base, PDA styli, keyboard static stencils (for the braille keyboard), and a user guide. The on/off button for … in the left-most column represent dots 1, 2, and 3 of a braille cell, and 3 buttons on the right represent dots 4, … 5, and then the Enter button in the middle column on the braille keyboard. No contractions are allowed. Needless to …
Jay Leventhal
AccessWorld July 2003

AFB Staff Find Special Treasures in the Helen Keller Archive

… I love this photo of Helen Keller sitting and reading braille in the garden with her collie dog standing next to … home in Westport, Connecticut. She is reading a book in braille as she sits on a rudimentary log bench that … Helen as a gift from Kazuo Honma, founder of the Japanese Braille Library. The main box is in black lacquer with gold …
AFB Staff

An Independent Louis

… read words by feeling nails in much the same way. No date. Braille's parents were determined that Louis should be … lived by begging or peddling. Both Simon-René and Monique Braille could read and write, and they recognized the …

iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen

… feature from the Accessibility/Speech menu. QuickNav and Braille Displays It is now possible to use the same QuickNav … link, etc., that Bluetooth keyboard users enjoy with your braille display's input keys, although some users have … this feature is a bit buggy at the time of this writing. Braille Keyboard With iOS 8 you can add a brand new option …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld October 2014

Handout: Suggestions for Registration Staff

… Tools an individual may use to access print include: braille, a magnifier, a monocular, text to speech software, … may mean emailing paperwork to the individual or sending a braille copy to them. Offer alternatives to print forms. Not … to them). Others may prefer you read to them or provide a braille copy. Offer options for completing paperwork. Some …

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