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Mobile Speak 4
Mobile Speak 4, Now Available!
Cross Platform, Touch, Multi Voice and Ready for the Next Generation
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, January 27, 2010
Today, Code Factory introduced Mobile Speak 4, a revolutionary screen reader for anyone who wishes to enhance his/her use of a mobile phone. Read the rest of this entry »

Scholarships

Local Scholarships:

Junior League of Orange County, California, Inc., (JLOCC)
Deadline: January 30th 2010
Award: $1000.00 to $5000.00
Eligibility:
” Currently a graduating high school senior or a post-secondary student
” High school or post-secondary grade point average of 2.5 or above
” Citizen or permanent resident of the United States
” Pending acceptance to a post-secondary institution (required for receipt of scholarship)
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2009-2010 Kellogg Admitted/Returning International Student (Financial Aid Award Notice Instructions)

We have received and reviewed your financial aid application materials for the 2009-2010 academic year. Please follow the (3) steps below to review and respond to the offered Financial Aid. Note: In conjunction with the Financial Aid Award Notice Instructions please download the “Financial Aid Handbook”:

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/fin_aid/handbook.htm

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CONTINUING STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP RENEWAL, 2009-2010

FLETCHER SCHOLARSHIPS

Each year The Fletcher School allocates funds for student scholarships. The funds are divided equally for first- and second-year students and are awarded on the basis of merit and need. To be considered for a Fletcher scholarship, all students who will take classes at Fletcher next year should complete the Continuing Student Scholarship Application. Submit the completed form to Fletcher’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid (Goddard 213) by April 17, 2009. You must submit this form even if you received a Fletcher scholarship for your first year of study. (Note that PhD students charged only the enrollment fee should use the simplified Continuing PhD Student Scholarship Application.)
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2010 LOCAL SCHOLARSHIP RULES AND REGULATIONS

THE MISS _____ ORGANIZATION WILL AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS UNDER THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES: (PLEASE NOTE IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES A 501 C-3 FOUNDATION AFFILIATION MAY NOT ALLOW PAYMENT OF SCHOLARSHIP FUND TO BE UTILIZED FOR STUDUENT LOANS OR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT.)
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Exclusive Network Flaw Causes Scary Web Error
SAN FRANCISCO – A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mo bile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information.
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Listening To Braille
January 3, 2010
Listening to Braille By RACHEL AVIV
AT 4 O’CLOCK each morning, Laura J. Sloate begins her daily reading. She calls a phone service that reads newspapers aloud in a synthetic voice, and she listens to The Wall Street Journal at 300 words a minute, which is nearly twice the average pace of speech. Later, an assistant reads The Financial Times to her while she uses her computer’s text-to-speech system to play The Economist aloud. She devotes one ear to the paper and the other to the magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

A framework for making virtual worlds accessible to the visually impaired

Sapre, Manjari. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009.

Virtual Worlds have virtually exploded in popularity and have experienced significant commercial success. Read the rest of this entry »

A critique of need-blind admissions in higher education

Guziewicz, Meaghan Brown. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009.

Need-blind admissions, as described by the colleges and universities that subscribe to the practice, is a means of expanding opportunity for underrepresented students in higher education. According to these institutions, it is a great equalizer, providing all students even footing in the admissions process. Read the rest of this entry »

Blindness Organizations and Arizona State University

Resolve Litigation Over Kindle

Phoenix, Arizona (January 11, 2010): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the American Council of the Blind (ACB), and Arizona State University (ASU), today announced a settlement agreement resolving litigation filed by NFB and ACB against the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) and ASU. The lawsuit arose from the university’s participation in a pilot program using the Kindle DX, a dedicated device for reading electronic books, or e-books, developed by Amazon.com, Inc. The NFB and ACB alleged that the Kindle DX was inaccessible to blind students and thus violated federal law. ABOR and ASU denied and continue to deny any violations of the law.
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