TeamTalk for Accessibility is a popular tool among visually impaired since it allows its users to meet and chat with other people in the TeamTalk community.
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Setup Guide for Sonos Speakers
Whether you’ve got Play:1, Play:3 or Play:5 speakers, we will show you how to install a Sonos system. The Sonos app has been accessible for blind and low vision users for as far as I can remember with great support if needed. When you’re setting up a speaker for the first time, these are the steps you’ll need to take.
Microsoft Offers Windows 10 PCs for $189 and Education Software Updates to Schools
Microsoft will offer Windows 10 PCs to schools for as little as $189 (£135) as it looks to get its hardware and services in as many classrooms as possible.
Microsoft Develops Bot Artist, That Converts Text to Images
Microsoft researchers are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled ‘drawing bot’ that can create images from text descriptions of an object. The technology can generate images of everything from ordinary pastoral scenes, such as grazing livestock, to the absurd, such as a floating double-decker bus, Microsoft said in a blog post.
A Hero’s Call 1.0 is Now Available!
A Hero’s Call version 1.0 will cost $19.99 and is an AUDIO ONLY release. The game will feature no visuals but will be completely playable only from using sound. To achieve this, the game uses the following types of audio for navigation and exploration:
A Bitcoin Whitepaper Braille Version is Now Available
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the whitepaper ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash system.’ Soon after its release, the whitepaper was translated into numerous languages and is available for free online; now there is an effort underway to produce the documents in tactile form.
Microsoft’s Seeing AI App Gets Major Update and is Now Available in 35 Countries
Recently, Artificial intelligence took center stage at Microsoft’s AI Summit in San Francisco. Aside from announcing AI smarts for a range of software, Microsoft is also ramping up its Seeing AI app for iOS, which uses computer vision to audibly help blind and visually impaired people to see the world around them.
New Free App Bringing Braille to Developing Countries
a new app has been launched to help blind and partially sighted people in developing countries to access information in braille, large print and audio formats.
You Can Still Get Windows 10 for Free!
You can still upgrade your Windows PC to the latest Windows 10 operating system for free if you use assistive technology. You can get Windows 10 for free as Microsoft hasn’t blocked the free upgrade path yet. However, you’ll need to have the genuine Windows 7 or 8.1 licenses in order to upgrade your machine.
Reviewing The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft’s Revision To A Vision: Part III – Ease of access
The importance of Ease of Access
In previous Windows 10 reviews, never would I have imagined that I would be required to construct a separate section of content on the basis of accessibility alone. Although it is true that there was plenty of changes to list and explore just from the perspective of every day usability of this new release, there are enough changes in the innovation of access that it’s easy to break it out into a smaller section along with my final conclusions.
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