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… . Release of Second Edition of Beginning with Braille: Firsthand Experiences with a Balanced Approach to … of the revised and updated Second Edition of Beginning with Braille: Firsthand Experiences with a Balanced Approach to Literacy, by Anna M. Swenson. Beginning with Braille, 2nd Edition , updated with Unified English Braille …
AccessWorld December 2015

“Do You Need Dancing?” or: One Blind Person’s Thoughts On International Travel

… Istanbul to Tel Aviv, Turkish airlines provided me with a braille safety card—a braille book, actuallythat had tactile drawings of the plane’s exits along with uncontracted braille in several languages. The in-flight entertainment …
Jamie Pauls
AccessWorld December 2019

ADA Checklist for Hotels and Motels

… the person will be totally blind, that the person will use braille, and that the person will travel with a cane or dog. … who are blind, deaf-blind or visually impaired may use braille, some may use a cane, others may use a dog, and still others may not use braille or a mobility aid at all. Thus, your guest who is …

AccessWorld News

… from the Lighthouse, which will also host the legacy BrailleNote and Braille Sense software. Other aspects of this transition … by Aira and the Lighthouse as they come about. National Braille Press Announces Opening of Submissions for Touch of …
AccessWorld December 2018

CSUN 2015: What's New from the Exhibit Hall and Beyond

… with your screen reader, a backup method for displaying braille characters is also available. Instructions for … Bargains podcast with AccessaMed to learn more. A Musical Braille Display from Handy Tech While many companies are looking to fill the mobile niche of smaller and smaller braille displays, Handy Tech is going in a different …
J.J. Meddaugh
AccessWorld March 2015

Touching the News and Other Tactile Graphics Offerings from the San Francisco LightHouse

… possible to emboss tactile graphics using certain models of braille embossers with manufacturer's software created for … graphics are created for 8-1/2 by 11 inch paper and include braille labels, and sometimes print reference information. … inch paper and include large print labels in addition to braille. If you prefer to create your own TMAP, you can …
Judy Dixon
AccessWorld September 2021

Staying On Course: Interviews with Students Who Are Blind

… in addition to making and receiving telephone calls. On her BrailleNote, she takes class notes, and on her computer … major at Northern Kentucky University, uses most are her BrailleNote and the Lime Aloud and GoodFeel software from … Dancing Dots. Besides reading books and taking notes on her BrailleNote, Annie often transfers documents that her …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld July 2007

A Review of Window-Eyes Classroom Training

… the postcard arrived in the mail, it caught my attention. Braille and print on the same card is still atypical enough that, for those of us whose literacy is centered on braille, it is remembered. The news conveyed was that GW … the trainers beforehand to my personal dependency on braille and my wish to bring my own braille display. They …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld July 2010

CSUN 2013 Wrap-up: What's New from The 28th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference

… right and pitch, respectively. Graphs can also be sent to a braille embosser or be represented numerically. Basically, … a completely accessible GPS app originally created for the BraillePlus 18 PDA and, now, released for Android phones and … new VoiceOver tutorial app was also shown. In addition, The Braille Institute demonstrated several free apps including …
J.J. Meddaugh
AccessWorld March 2013

Employment Matters: Casey Mathews, Entrepreneur and Founder of Web Friendly Help

… of eyesight he possessed was gone. It was time to learn braille. For whatever reason (and probably the … in every teenager had something to do with it), learning braille was a struggle. He only really worked at using it … order to take and pass the high school competency test. No braille, no graduation. He took and passed the test, but …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld August 2020

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