This week the Cool Blind Tech team along with a special guest host, discuss the latest happenings in the world of Accessible Technology. Join Joel, Jessica and Darrell Hilliker as they share their opinions on this week’s news and bring to you some very Cool Picks. Make sure to press play or download this week’s special show.
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Guide Dog School Struggles with Lack of Funding and Awareness
The Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind, located near Moshav Beit Oved in central Israel, is the country’s only accredited guide dog training school. The centre trains the dogs for service, including for challenges particular to Israel, but struggles with a lack of awareness for the need in the country and a shortage of funding for the expensive facilities and training.
Adobe Announces a Free Solution for Optical Character Recognition On Your Smart Phone
It seems that the number of free apps that can help a visually impaired person with Optical Character Recognition on their smart phone keeps growing and growing. Some of them are specifically designed to help the visually impaired and some are just well coded and can be used by the blind with little or no difficulty.
Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired – How OrCam Changes Lives
The latest innovative technology for the blind and visually impaired, OrCam, is a device that can change everything for those with visual problems. Essentially, it’s a tiny high-tech camera that attaches to reading glasses. They are a pair of smart glasses for the visually impaired and for the blind that can revolutionize reading, and help blind and visually impaired, even those with reading disabilities, to re-gain their confidence and independence. All one has to do is point their finger towards anything that they want to “see”–be it text, a street sign, even the face of a loved one. And with that point of a finger, the device can “read” the text aloud in your ear within seconds. It’s truly cutting-edge technology. This device is life-changing, and this assistive technology for visually impaired people, as well as blind people, has the potential to dramatically change the lives of thousands.
Window-eyes users, you have another choice with NVDA
The conversation solidifies. As reported previously, Window-Eyes, perhaps the third-most popular screen reader in the blindness community, is no more. At the time, Freedom Scientific (now part of the VFO group) published their guide to switching to JAWS as part of their offer.
Help Frederick Mother Get a Pair of NuEyes
A device called NuEyes, is a harbinger of hope for Frederick resident Jamie Gallimore — if she could afford it.
The Read Read: An Interactive Tool That Makes Learning Braille Easy.
Alex Tavares has developed an interactive device that helps anyone learn braille. Working at Harvard’s Innovation Lab, Alex created a device that uses tiles with braille letters on each tile. When touching the tile, it responds exactly like a touch screen device. The Read Read will speak the braille letter, speak the dots used to create the letter, and even phonetically read back entire words. The Read Read was tested at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts with very positive results.
I believe this is the first device that allows a child or first time braille user the ability to learn braille in an interactive way without a specialized instructor present.
VIP: In With the New, Out With the Old
The Cool Blind Tech team is on top of the news in the world of accessible technology. This week, Joel, Jessica and Nelson discuss the latest happenings from Google, NVDA and say goodbye to an old friend. Make sure to download the podcast or press play to listen to this week’s information filled show.
VIP: Are You Ready for Prime Time?
This week the Cool Blind Tech team reviews some of the latest happenings in the world of accessible technology. Join hosts Joel, Jessica and Rachel as they discuss new laptops, navigational aids for the blind and of course their Cool Picks of the week. It’s another jam-packed show that can’t be missed.
AI for Everyone: A Look At Google I/O 2017
Google held their Google I/O 2017 and announced some very exciting developments; not just for companies or advanced users, but for everyone. Unlike most years, this year saw changes implemented across all platforms and devices, and a greater commitment from Google than ever before to the concept of Machine Learning. So what do all of these changes mean for us as consumers, and how can we expect to see accessibility implemented?
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