New KNFB Cell Phone Text To Speech Reader

AP
Morning Edition, January 29, 2008 ·

A new cell phone offers the smallest text-to-speech reading device ever built, a device especially useful for people with impaired vision. The phone and software come with a $2,000 price tag. Read the rest of this entry »

Making Math Available To All, Professor Helps To Develop Software For The Visually Impaired
Making Math Available to All: Professor Helps to Develop Software for Visually ImpairedNewswise

— Indiana State University associate professor Elizabeth Jones has spent the past seven months working to make math accessible to all students. Read the rest of this entry »

Free Accessible PDF Reader Program

We recently posted the following information to the Accessible Devices list. Currently this is all the information we have about it. Please Note: Accessible
Devices is not in a position to provide tech support for this program or any other product we provide information about.

I came across this info on another list and thought I would pass it on. I just downloaded this program, accessible pdf. Read the rest of this entry »

SPAM Blights E Mail Fifteen Years On
BBC NEWS
Spam blights e-mail 15 years on
By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website

Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. The term is
thought to have been coined by Joel Furr, an administrator on the net discussion system Usenet, to refer to unsolicited bulk messages.

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Soccer Club Seeks To Open Field To Blind
Soccer club seeks to open field to blind
By Bob Walter – Bee Columnist Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, April 19, 2007
Story appeared in CITRUS HEIGHTS ORANGEVALE section, Page G1

Different goal: The newest goal, pardon the expression, of the San Juan Soccer Club has less to do with competition than with community service — and it’s
aiming for a pretty wide community.

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Talking Scale Manual
Our thanks to Speak To Me for making this manual available as a text file. We’ve added Headings to facilitate navigation.

You now own a Personal Scale of proven technical design and highest quality. We hope that you will enjoy the use of your new Personal Digital Scale. Read the rest of this entry »

“TravelEyes” Offers Independent Travel For The Visually Impaired;
Travel Connect (UK) Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Independent Travel for Visually Impaired

A new commercial air operator has launched, offering those with impaired sight the possibility of independent world travel.

Set up by Amar Latif, Traveleyes aims to provide blind people the experience of world travel by offering trips to both sighted and visually impaired individuals. Read the rest of this entry »

Disability Groups And The Voting Ballot Conflict

Subject: Disability Groups and Voting
The New York Times Opinion Making Votes Count: The Disability Lobby and Voting
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MAKING VOTES COUNT
The Disability Lobby and Voting
Obvious requirements for a fair election are that voters should have complete confidence about their ballots’ being counted accurately and that everyone,
including the disabled, should have access to the polls.

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Seven Eleven Installs Point Of Sale Tactile Devices
7-Eleven, Inc.’s Upgrade of Point of Sale Equipment Praised by Blind Community

Tactile Devices Will Protect Financial Privacy Washington, D.C. (March 18, 2008) – Several organizations representing the blind community today commended
7Eleven, Inc. for installing tactile point of sale (POS) devices that will protect the privacy and security of 7-Eleven shoppers with visual impairments.

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Are 400 Dollar Laptops In Our Future?

March 29, 2008

MANILA (AFP) – Philippine PC manufacturer Neo and multinational computer processor maker Intel have jointly launched a new 16,999-peso (406-dollar) mini
laptop, spokesmen said Saturday.

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