TweetDeck has released an update that allows people to “make their tweets accessible to the widest possible audience.” Users can now add descriptions, or alternative text, to images they share in tweets.
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Bookshare’s 390,000 Books Are Now Available for People with Blindness in India
Benetech announced a major expansion of the ongoing international effort to provide Bookshare, an ebook library for people with reading barriers in India.
Ask Chloe to Read the Label on Your Prescription Bottles
A recent collaboration between the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health (located in the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute) and Aira, which makes smart glasses for people who are blind or have low vision, now has a solution to reading the tiny print on prescription bottles.
How to use Live Listen with Your AirPods on iOS 12
In iOS 12, the Live Listen feature comes to AirPods,. It’s a great feature that can really help those who don’t necessarily need a hearing aid but are having trouble hearing others in a difficult situation. Here’s how to get it working.
Doctors Say Laser Pointer Burned a Hole in a 9-Year-Old Boy’s Eye
A 9-year-old boy visited an ophthalmology clinic in Larissa, Greece, complaining of vision problems in his left eye, the case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says. Despite having 20/20 vision in his right eye, doctors found that his left eyesight was around 20/100 — a discrepancy explained by a hole on his left macula, a part of the retina that “provides sharp, central vision,” according to the National Eye Institute.
Breakthrough Study Shows Insulin Eye Drops Could Restore Sight of Glaucoma Patients
Neuroscience researcher, Dr. Adriana Di Polo, Ph. D., and her team at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) in Canada, have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of glaucoma. Their findings could also be applicable to other neurodegenerative conditions, notably Alzheimer’s disease. The results have just been published in the prestigious British scientific journal Brain, an Oxford University Press publication.
Google Finally Launches An Official Podcast App
Google finally launched an official podcast app on June 19. Android’s long been in need of a first-party solution for downloading and listening to podcasts, and now that that solution is here, so was it worth the wait?
Grilling Classes and Videos for the Blind
Summer fun involves firing up the grill, but Chris Peltz, director of Blind Grillin’, has become a grill master, teaching fellow blind grillers locally and posting YouTube videos for those not in the neighborhood.
TalkBack App Renamed to Android Accessibility Suite in Recent Update
Google has renamed the TalkBack app to the Android Accessibility Suite. TalkBack provides spoken feedback for text or images on a screen so that blind or low vision users can navigate their devices.
Plastic Overlay Makes Reading Easier for Blind iPad Users
Researchers have developed an e-reader that enables people with visual impairments to read the same text sighted readers do.
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