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Accessible Cellphones Open Doors for People with Visual Impairments

… like product and billing information, is also available in braille, large print, and electronic (plain text or HTML) … including incoming calls or messages and calendar events. Braille . Some smartphones support navigation and text input from a braille keyboard through built-in features or through apps …
Bryanna Evans
AccessWorld February 2019

Champion of the Blind 1924-1946

… year-old blind student, how to use a huge radio that has Braille symbols. The radio is almost as tall as Lillian! … typist. She typed nearly all of her own letters on both a braille writer and a regular typewriter. The braille writer works a little bit like a typewriter. It has …

Book Review: Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice, by Judge David Tatel

… independence and efficiency. For instance, while learning braille didn’t make him a braille reader, it did lead to his long-term use of a Braille ‘n Speak notetaker. As a hunt-and-peck typist, he …
Steven Kelley
AccessWorld Fall 2024

One Major Step Closer to Ending an International Book Famine

… has long been a major struggle. With high-quality audio and braille production, and more recently, digital production, … allow books to be converted into accessible formats such as braille, large print, or audio. The final treaty could be …
Paul Schroeder

Learn Tech: Assistive Technology Videos

… other devices for reading and writing with low vision, to braille watches and braille printers. AFB's goal is to provide you with the …

Using Technology

… other devices for reading and writing with low vision , to braille watches and braille printers . AFB's goal is to provide you with the …

Part 2 of 5

… in the way the brain processes information. In particular, braille was a big eye opener for me. I had heard all my life that braille was special and that feeling something was … a long time to understand and to really get it that feeling braille, like you do on a Braille Lite is enormously …

Editor's Page

… Will they have to cut prices, as some companies have on braille displays and closed-circuit televisions? There may … you. Jim Denham and Heather McComas evaluate the Focus 40 braille display from Freedom Scientific. Available with … improved ergonomic design, additional controls and smoother braille cells. Find out how these displays performed with …
AccessWorld July 2005

About Digital Inclusion

… controlled by a keyboard or gestures on a touchscreen. A braille display redirects output from the screen reader and …

Screen Reader Boot Camp

… There weren't any mainstream franchises that put speech- or braille-output products on display. That's still a problem, … screen-reading program. The software package includes braille and large-print command summaries, and the entire … own keyboard, and "see" (via synthesized speech and/or your braille display) the resulting action. Material is paced …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld November 2003

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