Your Mac’s Speak Announcements feature belongs to Apple’s Accessibility settings, which include several features designed to help more people access and navigate their devices efficiently.
Gadgets
Restaurant installs technology for blind and vision impaired customers
Vispero has been selected by McDonald’s to assist in providing customers with an accessible kiosk experience.
Visually impaired players can now play badminton using drone
Led by assistant professor yoichi ochiai, a team of students from the university of tsukuba in japan, have formed the digital nature group to develop technological solutions that bring humans and machines closer together.
How to locate your Android phone with Find My Device
If you have an Android phone, you can use the Find My Device feature to locate your phone.
Android’s new accessibility feature allows you control your phone
Android phones are getting the ability to control your phone using only facial expressions..
New Prototype wristband offers people greater independence
New Prototype wristband offers people greater independence
Robot helps deaf-blind people to communicate independently
The robotic arm, built by Johnson, a bioengineering graduate student at Northeastern, is designed to produce tactile sign language in order to enable more independence for people who, are both deaf and blind. Lard is one of the members of the deaf-blind community that is helping Johnson test the robot and giving her feedback on how it could be improved.
This navigation device assists blind and visually impaired swimmers
A product design student at Loughborough University has developed a navigation device that allows visually impaired competitive swimmers to train safely.
How to change to Alexa’s new voice and Ziggy wake word
Alexa has always had a feminine-sounding voice. But Amazon finally began rolling out a masculine-sounding voice last week – when it introduced a Shaq celebrity voice option. Amazon has also added a new wake word – Ziggy – to trigger Alexa. It isn’t specifically associating Ziggy with the masculine-sounding voice or Alexa with the feminine-sounding voice, however. You can use either voice option with any of Alexa’s wake words.
New award-winning app helps the blind and visually impaired manage their clothes
Two Industrial Design students from Carleton University have won an Innovative Designs for Accessibility (IDeA) student competition award from Universities Canada.
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