National Credit Reporting Companies Announce Landmark Initiative To Make Online Credit Reporting Accessible
National Credit Reporting Companies, Blind Community, Announce Landmark Initiative to Provide Accessible Online Credit Reports
Posted : Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:02:07 GMT
Author : TransUnion; Equifax; Experian
Braille and other formats also to be made available - ATLANTA, CHICAGO and COSTA MESA, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall, The nation’s three major consumer credit reporting companies today unveiled a comprehensive program to provide improved access to important credit information for people who are blind or visually impaired. Read the rest of this entry »
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Consumer Appliance and Electronics Accessibility Initiative
This information details an effort being made by The National Federation of The Blind to improve product accessibility. It also contains some information about products which meet their current accessibility criteria. Read the rest of this entry »
Chennai Online,
India
Beacon Light: Mohanraj Peter
Mohanraj Peter was born in a very poor family. His father worked in a tea estate in Valparai, near Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu. He was given very low wages which was not enough to feed a family of seven children and parents.
Mohanraj is the fifth child of the family. What the father earned was not enough for their family as he was the only earning member. Read the rest of this entry »
WLOX-TV, Mississippi Saturday, September 23, 2006
Blind Dispatcher Inspiration For Others
By Marcia Hill
Marcia Hill Reports On Man Who Lost His Sight, But Found A Career Helping Others In the dispatcher training class at the Department of Marine Resources building, you might not notice anything unusual. But a closer look gives it away - a working dog lies next to T.J. Faeser. T.J. is a dispatcher and he is blind.
“I graduated in 03, I lost my vision in March of 04. I was in my first semester of college when I lost my vision… I was working as a diesel mechanic, ” he says. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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.
“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 »
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