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.
NEWS
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.
AFB Launches First Accessible Digital Archive of the Helen Keller Collection
More than 160,000 artifacts can now be viewed in a groundbreaking, fully accessible online archive thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Express
Apple’s HomePod Has Launched in Canada, France, and Germany
With the launch Siri will provide news briefs from a handful of sources in Canada, including CBC, Global TV, CTV, and CNN.
Robot Operates On A Human Eye for the First Time
In 2016, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences launched a clinical trial to test the PRECEYES Surgical System, a robot designed to perform surgery on the retina, the surface at the back of the eye.
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.
University Project Helping Blind and Visually Impaired Children to Feel the Universe
The Tactile Universe has been developed by the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation to engage the blind and visually impaired community with astrophysics research.
SimpleContacts Develops App That Allows Contact Wearers to Test Their Eyes from Home
SimpleContacts have developed an app that allows contact wearers to test Their Eyes on their phone. The results are then interpreted by a team of ophthalmologists and the contacts are shipped immediately after.
New App Teaches Classical Guitar Using Braille
When the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired opened in 1856, there were only three students. In order to pay the bills, students were expected to make brooms and other goods to sell. Nowadays, students are able to focus on academics, life skills and enrichment opportunities, such as learning to play classical guitar. A new app is helping people learn through Braille.
iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone’s Location with 911
The new feature will be part of iOS 12, the upcoming software update for the iPhone and iPad, and will help emergency services locate a person more quickly when in need. It will be available to users in the U.S. only.
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