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by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
New accessibility technologies for blind and visually impaired people usually entail head-mounted video components with some means of translating for or alerting users. Examples include eSight’s electronic glasses for the legally blind and the Horus headset....
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by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health
Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...
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by Bruce Brown | July 1, 2016 | General News, Health
By definition, blind people have not been able to enjoy visual arts. If you can’t see it, how can you appreciate it? When blind people visit art museums or galleries, they most often have to rely on recorded audio guides or other people to describe the works....
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by Bruce Brown | April 13, 2016 | General News, Health
In addition to visual impairment, people need a cell phone screen reader for a variety of reasons. Certainly blind people and people with significant vision problems are a prime demographic, but there are other needs and disabilities where a screen reader can be a...
by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2016 | General News, Health
Suddenly, the race appears to be on to help blind and visually impaired people enjoy if not actually see images transmitted via social media. We recently wrote about Twitter’s new 420 character image description field. Now Facebook is in the game with another...
