Since 2015, when the Denmark-based platform Be My Eyes launched, more than 2 million volunteers have signed up to assist some 120,000 blind and low-vision users, according to the company.
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Xbox Game Adds Accessibility Features for Color Blind Gamers
HyperDot has a very simple premise — all players need to do is dodge everything that comes at them.
AbleGamers’ Launches New Accessible.Games Website for Developers and Gamers with Disabilities
The AbleGamers Charity recently launched Accessible.Games, a site with free resources for developers who want to make their games accessible to a wider audience.
Microsoft’s VR Toolkit Helps Partially Sighted Players with Virtual Reality
A research team at Microsoft has been working on SeeingVR: a set of 14 tools designed to make virtual reality accessible to visually impaired users.
Lego Unveils Prototype Designed to Help Blind and Visually Impaired Children Learn Braille
Recently, Lego unveiled a prototype of new “Braille bricks” at the Sustainable Brands Conference in Paris.
Do Blind People Have Better Hearing? Study Says Yes!
Research has shown that people who are born blind or become blind early in life often have a more nuanced sense of hearing, especially when it comes to musical abilities and tracking moving objects in space.
Assistive Tech for Good Program Helps People with Disabilities Use Wireless Devices
Assistive Tech for Good Program aims to help Canadians with disabilities use smartphones and wireless devices enabling them to live more independent, connected lives
This Program Helps Visually Impaired and Blind Children Scuba Dive
Blind and visually impaired children are learning to scuba dive thanks to a special program in Berks County.
Textbook Publisher is First to Get Accessibility Certification from Benetech
Textbook publisher Macmillan Learning is the first publisher to gain an ebook accessibility certification from Benetech.
Artelus Is Using AI to Help People from Going Blind
Rajarajeshwari Kodhandapani has a dream, to screen one million people for diabetic retinopathy (DR) so they can get timely treatment and not risk going blind. She is one of the four co-founders of Artelus, along with tech veterans Vish Durga, Lalit Pant, and Pradeep Walia, who is also a serial entrepreneur. As a former business analyst, she never thought she would become an entrepreneur (though she did want to become a politician at one time). Now, she is part of Artelus, a company that builds advanced screening tools to allow doctors and hospitals to diagnose a greater number of patients in the same time for a variety of diseases.
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