Posts Tagged ‘ article ’

My local paper, theChapel Hill News, ran a very nicely done story, Through a lens darkly, about me a few weeks ago. The reported had done the interview a while ago, so I did not know when to expect it. The day it ran, I brought the paper in only to toss it into...
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Spotted on Twtter, Talking lamp-posts will help blind people find their way. IF YOU heard a lamp-post talking, you might think you were going mad. But speaking signs have been springing up to help blind and partially-sighted people. Newcastle is one of the first places in the UK to pilot the RNIB React Talking...
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The NYTimes ran an article, The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon, with an accompanying audio slideshow today that is worth checking out. The article is inspired byt a retrospective of Avedon’s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography,...
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From Glenda Watson Hyatt’s Do It Myself Blog, here are 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More Usable. How many times do you skim an online article or blog post, looking for interesting or relevant links? Individuals with sight impairments using screen readers (software that reads aloud text on the computer monitor) can have...
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Spotted on Slashdot, Stem Cell Treatment To Cure the Most Common Cause of Blindness. Specifically, this treatment, if it passes the trials, should be a cure for AMD, age related macualr degeneration. As I have a form or juvenile macular degeneration, I have high hoped for some broader applicability. The Times Online reports that...
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According to Slashdot , there is now a Bionic Eye Telescope To Treat Macular Degeneration. This visual aid actually goes inside the eye. It sounds a bit frightening, actually, but exciting at the same time. External vision aids are bulky, often uncomfortable and easy to lose or break. This one avoids all those issue. If...
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APH’s Fred’s Head blog has a detailed bio of, article on and interview with blind photographer and disabilities activist, George Covington, in George Covington’s Method for Using Photography to Enlarge Images Sighted people tend to take photographs to capture an image of a loved one’s face, to have a visual record of a person,...
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As seen on Slashdot, New Netbook Offers Detachable Tablet, Engadget is reporting on a new product. The Touch Book from Always Innovating harbors removable tablet, netbook pricepoint. It’s not every day we see an all-new angle on the laptop form factor, much less a netbook with aims at innovation. Perhaps it should come as...
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When I was first diagnosed with macular degeneration, my ophthalmologist Suggesting that I look just to the of what I wanted to see. this is because my peripheral vision is not as strongly affected as much information. The more serious the macular degeneration, the more central vision is lost. fortunately for me, I still...
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Spotted on Slashdot, Author’s Guild Says Kindle’s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal. “The Author’s Guild claims that the new Kindle’s text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.”...
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Spotted on Slashdot: Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data. Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data from the shutter-to-think dept. conner_bw writes “In a world first, a research group in Kyoto Japan has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain. Here’s the Japanese...
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I strongly believe that there is a burgeoning market for what might be called intermediate accessibility in product design. Too often, the term accessibility is related only to those with profound lack of access. When we think of people in need of accessibility, we think of the profoundly deaf or blind and those restricted...
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I am all for making all products more accessible. Sometimes, though, you have to laugh (or cry). Scanning Slashdot for the latest news in technology and science, I ran across this article on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled: Repton writes “Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to...
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Last Week’s Personal Tech section in the NYTimes featured a nifty new product, ClarityLife C900 Amplified Mobile Phone. The C900 is designed for the more senior among us, but is equally useful for the visually impaired. The phone only has four buttons on its face, each is large and easy to find and use....
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Spotted on Device Daily: Touch Sight Camera Allows The Blind To Take And Touch Photos The Touch Sight, a concept camera from Samsung, is a great stride forward for visually impaired photographers with little of no vision. Instead of an LCD screen, it has a Braiille display that can present the image in a...
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