We are strong supporters of the rights of the visually impaired and have served many visually impaired customers since we opened our first Eatsa in 2015.
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"Every time I say I'm visually impaired," says Casey Greer.
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The rules will also help the blind and visually impaired.
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"I'm not visually impaired, but I'm physically disabled," she says.
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"We are strong supporters of the rights of the visually impaired and have served many visually impaired customers since we opened our first Eatsa in 2015," the company said in a statement shared with Recode.
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Imagine that you're visually impaired and at a restaurant, he says.
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And they do believe he is deaf and maybe visually impaired.
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For the visually impaired, it's very important to have audible announcements.
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But corrective navigation for visually impaired runners was in its infancy.
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During the decades of losing my sight, I was visually impaired.
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Tech Tip Q. How can mobile technology help the visually impaired?
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Wong's father is visually impaired, which makes using a smartphone more difficult.
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So voice is a godsend for a lot of visually impaired users.
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Accessing the web presents unique challenges for the blind and visually impaired.
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By the way, this works for everyone, not just the visually impaired.
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It lets the visually impaired play racing games without "seeing" the screen.
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Aristotle taught us about what it is like to be visually impaired.
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Let's, back to ableism, there are visually impaired people of all ages.
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A visually impaired woman from Michigan has gone missing while vacationing in Peru.
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For Varma, who is visually impaired, the research is a little more personal.
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Jerome is visually impaired, yet much of her research focuses on psychedelic drugs.
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TheBlindGuide is an e-commerce retailer serving the blind and visually impaired communities.
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The visually impaired, who deserve the opportunity to live a more navigable life.
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Accommodations for the visually impaired, for example, differ in each of London's boroughs.
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Voting machines may not accommodate people who use wheelchairs or are visually impaired.
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Ideally, it will help visually impaired users navigate their surroundings a lot easier.
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This could offer easier access to information for people who are visually impaired.
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Graphic novels, as primarily visual narratives, are usually inaccessible to the visually impaired.
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Last month, Bonner also launched her Visually Impaired Education Program in Staten Island, where she travels to schools with her guide dog, Frances, explaining to children how they can interact with the visually impaired and how to greet a service dog.
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"Being deaf or visually impaired is no excuse not to succeed," White told GMA.
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Finally, visually impaired users can now hear aloud who's tagged in photos alongside them.
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LEGO just took a gigantic step forward for the sake of visually impaired kids.
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Last year, Google announced a new app to help the visually impaired named Lookout.
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Haptic technology, Wheatcroft believes, can steer a visually impaired person without overloading their senses.
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Gabriela Rubio Gaytan is 39 years old and has been visually impaired since birth.
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She then passed the torch on to édria Santos – a former visually impaired runner.
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Aref Shabaneh, 8, is blind, and his sister, Yasmeen, 11, is severely visually impaired.
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It's a wearable device for visually impaired people that you clip to your glasses.
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Goalball, a sport for the visually impaired, resembles a mix of handball and bowling.
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But some visually impaired people have also learned to navigate the world this way.
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Alibaba's $1 "Smart Touch" plastic sheet helps smoothen smartphone experience for the visually impaired.
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According to state census, China had around 13 million visually impaired people in 2012.
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The impact of Blitab on the lives of visually impaired people is potentially enormous.
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But for the visually impaired, they can mean the difference between life and death.
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Microsoft is putting its artificial intelligence technology to work to help the visually impaired.
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And there's no reason other blind or visually impaired writers can't do the same.
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String, who is visually impaired, mostly relies on the television for news about the water.
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The new larger screen also brings the ability to enlarge icons for the visually impaired.
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It also added audio descriptions to its pornographic videos to help the visually impaired community.
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Few immigrants to the United States endure what this visually impaired young woman has overcome.
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That's welcome news for the visually-impaired community, which suffers from sky-high jobless rates.
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Mr. Bhattacharyya, 70, is visually impaired and has lived in the building for 25 years.
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A Microsoft patent from last year reveals a special controller customized for visually impaired gamers.
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To date, Tech4Freedom has helped over 70 million visually impaired individuals in 14 countries. 33.
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Rahma Mohammed Ali, 60, is visually impaired and lives in a tent on her own.
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"I drew inspiration from the visually impaired, how they perceive their world," the designer says.
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After he became visually impaired, Gearry used a cane to help him navigate his surroundings.
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Because of an ugly childhood experience, I've always felt very close to the visually impaired.
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The competition, which began in 1965, aims to raise money for the blind and visually impaired.
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Last fall, it introduced a suite of accessibility features for its blind and visually impaired users.
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This combined with an audio prompt could help a visually impaired user through the process quicker.
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There are also yellow markings and a light on the floor to aid the visually impaired.
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The company also offers a catalog of "descriptive videos," launched in 2016 for the visually impaired.
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It's based on a previous device that helped people who are visually impaired navigate the world.
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If you are visually impaired, this should be as exciting as having a 53-inch iPhone.
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That may sound strange to many people, even to some who are blind and visually impaired.
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"We want this to open up information access to the entire visually impaired community," Yu says.
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Today Facebook will begin automatically describing the content of photos to blind and visually impaired users.
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Unfortunately for the visually impaired, it will be some years before these technologies are fully developed.
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There are special performances catering to children who are deaf, are visually impaired or have autism.
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But it's not difficult to imagine how the technology could be transformative to the visually impaired.
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Li is among the first one hundred visually impaired or blind users to trial the technology.
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Technology to assist visually impaired runners had advanced considerably since Marla Runyan of Santa Maria, Calif.
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Her end-of-semester assignment was an evaluation of campus crosswalks unfriendly to visually impaired students.
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"That's where we got started – just to create a device that helps visually impaired people," Marcus explains.
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About two years ago, Eric Jerpe, a teacher of the visually impaired (TVI), showed me a trick.
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One customer of Microsoft's AI services, startup Pivothead, is working on smart glasses for visually impaired people.
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Visually impaired users experience this through the app's ability to recognize photos and read what's in them.
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That's where Erin Lauridsen, access technology director at LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, comes in.
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Microsoft has been working on a physical programming language for children who are blind or visually impaired.
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"Feedback from the visually impaired community has been overwhelmingly positive," Tukrel wrote in an email to TechCrunch.
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That means the visually-impaired are best saving their dollars and going for the cheapest Kindle around.
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For the visually impaired, however, things can be a bit more complicated and, in Amazon's case, occult.
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Every new Jurassic film brings a raft of new questions: Was Tyrannosaurus rex really that visually impaired?
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Yet for millions of blind and visually impaired people, that's been the reality for over a decade.
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The Guide Dogs UK charitable organization for visually impaired has been campaigning for AVAS legislation for years.
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Started by three current Penn students, ThirdEye brings object recognition to mobile to help the visually impaired.
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Instead, TheBlindGuide will hire visually impaired and disabled programmers — building tools for the impaired by the impaired.
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The app, which was built by visually impaired engineers, can read the different menu items for you.
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Their prototype wristband is a proposed solution to GPS-based navigation for the blind and visually impaired.
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When smartphones with text-to-speech machines for the visually impaired arrived, she immediately bought an iPhone.
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Thanks to a new "Described Video" category, Pornhub has just gotten more accessible for the visually impaired.
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Another item would have expanded the availability of "video described" programming for blind and visually-impaired people.
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That's coupled with a partnership with Bay Area-based Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Still, as a visually impaired reviewer, I felt compelled to share this bit of accessibility minutia. Color.
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This feature was born out of designers wanting to design email for people who are visually impaired.
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We've had two winners for the writing competition for a blind or visually impaired comic book writer.
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The paper map and diagram were made with the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired nonprofit organization.
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Facebook also hopes the new feature will make the platform more accessible for blind and visually impaired users.
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Last year, it began using artificial intelligence to help visually impaired users identify various elements of an image.
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Take Tactile Navigation Tools' Eyeronman vest, which employs three different types of sensors to guide the visually impaired.
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Beyond federal mandated accessibility requirements, there are tactile stripes on the ground to help visually impaired people navigate.
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On a display as large as iPad Pro's, these elements' small size is untenable for the visually impaired.
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"Oh my dear, even a visually impaired man can see what you're all about," Bill says to Suzanne.
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Braigo Platform is a free web application aimed at anyone who needs accessibility solutions for the visually impaired.
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"I love Blind Al," she says of her visually impaired, opinionated, strong character, who is also Deadpool's roommate.
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Attendees learn about all sorts of technology for the visually impaired, including a session on Apple Watch accessibility.
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Aipoly, a free, downloadable app for iPhone users, helps blind and visually impaired people identify everyday objects quickly.
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This is to prevent these vehicles from injuring pedestrians, especially people who are blind or are visually impaired.
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Another new feature uses Facebook's AI to analyze photos and describe them to blind and visually impaired users.
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A beauty pageant was organised for visually-impaired girls in India's eastern Orissa state on Tuesday (August 30).
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And it could lead to the development of new games that are specifically designed for the visually impaired.
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The requests go out to volunteers of similar age and physical location to the visually impaired, Cowper explains.
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ORII is the brainchild of Kevin Wong, whose father has been visually impaired since he was a teenager.
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Twitter this morning announced an effort to make its service more accessible to those who are visually impaired.
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Other curbs lack any markers for the visually impaired to warn them that they are entering the street.
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I'm visually impaired, and this helps me and many others, but I have an Android smartphone and tablet.
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Five students from China have developed a smart helmet that could aid the visually impaired in their everyday activities.
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The company is also plans to add new features for visually impaired users with the upcoming Android N release.
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Instead, the visually impaired alpine ski racer relies on her husband and guide, Rob, to get her down safely.
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A new, free mobile app allows the blind and visually impaired to witness the eclipse through sound and touch.
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When it comes to technology developed for the visually impaired, "the biggest thing is accessibility and affordability," says Wheatcroft.
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And Jacob says he hopes to make the toy available for visually impaired children everywhere at an affordable price.
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Twitter is now more accessible to the visually impaired, introducing descriptions to images with screen readers and braille displays.
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"Paloma's been very instrumental in helping us secure ad hoc funding for children who are visually impaired," Galban says.
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These highly-trained, intelligent, loyal canines devote their lives to giving visually-impaired individuals newfound freedom and incomparable companionship.
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If you would like to help visually-impaired people find the perfect pooch, there are numerous ways to help.
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Images without tagged descriptions for screen-reading software make accessing the internet for the visually impaired next to impossible.
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But — given that love is blind, or at least visually impaired — don't assume she'll be grateful for the information.
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I am sure that there are many visually impaired kids besides me who want to but cannot play games.
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Perhaps someday, an app like BlindTool could help the visually impaired "see" art even when such programs aren't available.
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My concern is with the well-being of my elderly, visually impaired aunt who still lives alone at 89.
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Now they're being trained to help guide visually impaired runners in road races — and maybe, someday, in a marathon.
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Since then I've educated myself about blindness, seeking out visually impaired people and the professionals who work with them.
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Lego isn't completely inaccessible to the visually impaired, they can still stack blocks and build whatever they can imagine.
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In the past, the event has focused on helping the visually impaired experience visual art through music and poetry.
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There are empowering AI tools that help people that are visually impaired, dyslexic and have cerebral palsy, Nadella said.
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"Parkwood excludes the blind and visually-impaired from the full and equal participation in the growing Internet economy that is increasingly a fundamental part of the common marketplace and daily living," the lawsuit states, adding that visually impaired users trying to navigate Beyoncé's website would need the help of a sighted person.
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What we wanted to do with Helios is use next-gen technologies to radically improve accessibility for visually impaired people.
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And that's not counting iOS 10's evolved design language, which is bound to have ramifications for the visually impaired.
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People have fretted for years that pedestrians, especially the visually impaired, won't be able to hear these whispering wonders approaching.
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Some aids are obvious, like the textured paving strips for visually impaired people that line most sidewalks in major cities.
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Kasikorn cites Beacon Interface, a startup offering bank services to visually impaired customers, as one of its KBTG success stories.
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Pornhub has also optimized its website for visually impaired users by using enlarged text, customized color contrasts, and keyboard shortcuts.
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Microsoft has released Seeing AI — a smartphone app that uses computer vision to describe the world for the visually impaired.
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AM: An obvious example is that the New York Public Library runs the Andrew Heiskell Library for the visually impaired.
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Audio indications were ruled out in early testing, as visually impaired people tend to rely very heavily on their hearing.
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Campers line up before a graduation ceremony on the final day of Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCIVIS).
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The Horus works by scanning the surrounding area of the visually impaired person and translates visual information into verbal messages.
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So far, 3,000 visually impaired people have played with the Blitab and the feedback has been great, the company says.
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Facebook has launched a tool, Automatic Alternative Text, for blind and visually impaired people to "see" images on the site.
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This very good boy is a guide dog for Nathan Tree, a visually impaired ice hockey player from Oxford, England.
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Also, for the first time the Treasury will add tactile features to the notes for blind and visually impaired people.
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Although 1.3 million Americans are blind , with another 8.7 million qualifying as visually impaired, they still constitute a niche market.
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As this technology matures, it could be revolutionary for everything, from automobile interfaces to accessible technology for the visually impaired.
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The videos feature enhanced audio, with voiceovers to fill in details (like setting, clothing, and positions) for visually impaired users.
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In 2017, McDonald's confidentially settled a lawsuit that alleged its website and mobile app did not accommodate the visually impaired.
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Equally important is for sighted individuals to know how to interact effectively with people who are blind or visually impaired.
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The store is completely accessible to the blind or visually impaired using a high-contrast display or a screen reader.
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If you're in a wheelchair, pushing a stroller or if you're visually impaired, navigating the sidewalk can be difficult these days.
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According to the World Health Organization, 39 million people worldwide are blind and another quarter of a billion are visually impaired.
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But for Candice Jordan, who is visually impaired, the ability to do these tasks independently has brought tears to her eyes.
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But the team did share some interesting feedback that it received from one segment of users: those who are visually impaired.
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The company is also adding facial recognition to its service for visually impaired people that describes photos from friends in text.
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As a result, he continues to set new standards, both technologically and physically, for what visually impaired people everywhere can accomplish.
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Audio from before, during and after totality will also give the blind and visually impaired an opportunity to experience the event.
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Another uses a phone camera to "see" what's around a visually impaired user, describing facial expressions or what's on a menu.
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Especially on Infograph, it's plausible that all the complications, in all their color, present an issue for some visually impaired people.
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Avett Ray Maness, of Dayton, Ohio, was born blind in one eye and visually impaired in another, according to CBS News.
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"One of the biggest things we learned is that most visually impaired families fall below the average income class," Xia says.
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It's one of the most affordable Braille devices out there and could change the way visually impaired people use computing devices.
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Researchers in Sweden are developing a crowdsourced speech engine in an effort to make Wikipedia more accessible to the visually impaired.
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The accessibility feature, targeted at visually impaired users, will be hitting the Paperwhite first, shipping as a bundle with the reader.
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The company built and is testing augmented reality glasses to help the visually impaired recognize and navigate objects in their environment.
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PEOPLE's guide dog at large is continuing to learn the skills he will need to help his future visually impaired person.
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Shortly afterward, one of Mr. Modi's top lieutenants rebuked Mr. Rajan for offending the visually impaired, and Mr. Rajan publicly apologized.
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After the accident, he attended a school for visually impaired children in Marburg, near Frankfurt, an institution he grew to love.
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Recently, an association for visually impaired individuals staged a protest against e-scooters, claiming they're making life miserable for the disabled.
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"Echo can reach people who are visually impaired," said Davis Park, director of the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing.
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In Las Vegas, 28 teams competed in the Nevada International Dragon Boat Festival — including the first race between visually impaired paddlers.
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Foster is not the only visually impaired person turning to new technologies to either improve vision or assist with everyday tasks.
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Finderr is an interesting solution to the problem of visually impaired people being unable to find items they've left around their home.
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Pedestrians can struggle to hear quiet electric and hybrid vehicles coming, which presents a particular risk for blind and visually impaired people.
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Aipoly joins a small group of apps designed to help the visually impaired, such as Be My Eyes and Color ID Free.
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To better understand what it's like to live with vision loss, we spoke with five visually impaired women with very different conditions.
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All of these golden retrievers, labradors and "goldadors" are working to become service dogs for the visually-impaired and veterans with disabilities.
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The guide dog has been by Holly Bonner's side ever since the yellow Labrador retriever was paired with her visually impaired owner.
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However, Mohammed Al-Asaadi, a spokesperson for UNICEF in Sanaa, said that the facility did offer special classes for visually impaired students.
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Tiresias, the visually impaired seer (a bit on the nose, eh?) from Greek mythology, is often cited as the original super-crip.
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Aira give the visually impaired immediate access to a remote, sighted assistant who can tell them what's in their field of vision.
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Tukrel also has been working with several organizations representing the visually impaired, which he says have been happy to collaborate with him.
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" But Gearhart, a retired program director for the visually impaired, can think of only one adjective to describe life without Poppet: "Awful.
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The description can then be accessed by the visually impaired and be read like any other text post using their assistive technology.
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Twitter's visually impaired users, meanwhile, have been left to use third-party workarounds like EasyChirp and Alt Text Bot for alternative text.
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It was, however, specifically developed to address the more highly tuned haptic sense of the Institute students and other visually impaired visitors.
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There are 5003 separate 100-metre finals for men with different conditions: for example, visually-impaired people do not compete against amputees.
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Our other topics center on glasses that can help the visually impaired and a blood donor who has helped millions of Australians.
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Her mother is a certified music therapist at the Lighthouse Guild in Manhattan, which offers health care services to the visually impaired.
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"It helps (the blind and visually impaired) in their everyday living like reading newspapers, drinking juice," Parsee project manager Bartosz Trzcinski said.
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But being visually impaired might even help him distinguish profound and enduring works from art that is superficial and ephemeral, he says.
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Dunning said that while station staff were happy to help the visually impaired, this tech allowed people to act on their own.
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But what do the blind and visually impaired turn to when they want to buff the banana or flick the magic bean?
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Four sets will be made available to blind or visually impaired users through a free app in a testing phase from Aug.
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Instagram announced on Wednesday, in a short company blog post, that it would make the app more accessible to the visually impaired.
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Responses to the addition were generally warm, with the company receiving thanks from visually impaired users in reply to the announcement tweet.
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He currently leads the R&D team at OrCam, a company that has developed a unique device for blind and visually impaired people.
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In addition, he's consulted with tech companies about inclusivity and designing for the visually impaired, and he's continuing his studies, including computer coding.
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Some of the heavenly shots also include the dog's "halo" — a pet product designed to help visually-impaired animals avoid bumping into things.
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In 2016, the company launched a descriptive video category for visually impaired users, which compiles audio descriptions of the site's most popular videos.
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Braigo Labs is today launching a beta of its service to help blind and visually impaired people make sense of text on images.
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Wide pavements that are wheelchair-friendly and tactile paving for the visually impaired must not be taken over by street vendors, she added.
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While he can't talk about specifics, Erfurt said the product can be used to help companies engage with visually impaired customers and employees.
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Disabled Americans often endure voting horror stories like voting booths that can't accommodate wheelchairs, or machines that don't work for visually impaired people.
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It's also a problem for the blind and visually-impaired who stand to benefit greatly from functional, scalable, and affordable indoor positioning systems.
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LONDON — A supermarket employee who let a visually-impaired autistic child play with the checkout has been praised by thousands of people online.
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The accessibility-focused update rolling out today offers two options to give visually impaired users alternative text descriptions of what's happening in posts.
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The hope is that this new service will help the elderly or visually impaired patients who cannot access the internet through traditional means.
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Jordan is one of 200 blind or visually impaired people who is testing Aira, an app that connects users to visual interpreting services.
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"The description is too loud compared to other, well, sounds in the video," Jakob Rosin, a visually impaired student and journalist, told VICE.
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With about 285 million blind or visually impaired people in the world, that's a sizable part of the global population being left out.
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Hong Kong dispatch The Darkness Fighters are the only visually impaired team in an annual Hong Kong festival that blends ritual and rivalry.
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Understanding why he could not do so opened her eyes to the lag in technological innovation to benefit blind and visually impaired people.
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Later this fall, she plans to introduce Blitab's debut product, a portable tablet (also called Blitab) designed for blind and visually impaired people.
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But their home was far from the Lighthouse Guild, a nonprofit organization that assists people who are visually impaired, and the marriage soured.
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And, as he chased the finish line, he also pursued technology that could help the blind and visually impaired lead more independent lives.
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The tactile blocks (originally called Tenji blocks) help visually impaired people navigate public spaces by letting them know when they are approaching danger.
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The archive provides visually impaired users with a place to go, one where they know that there will always be accessible content available.
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Mr. Morris, an avid basketball player who liked to draw N.B.A. logos despite being visually impaired, was struck in the head and killed.
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The government said that the new note also carries improved identification mark so that visually impaired people are able to identify the denomination.
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By pairing him with volunteer running guides, Achilles is helping Mr. Butler — and about 60 other visually impaired runners — prepare for the race.
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For years, visually-impaired people have been fighting to have that information made available some other way, and finally, it's beginning to happen.
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This is an important command for when he is partnered with a visually impaired person, who will need to get his attention without difficulty.
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At a macro level, where Workflow's VoiceOver support helps the blind and visually impaired be more productive, djay Pro helps them be more creative.
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He says the decision to move to the mobile app was motivated by the ubiquity of smartphones, especially Apple devices, amongst the visually impaired.
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"Unfortunately, this is where the connection between artist and fan end — at least where the fan is blind or visually impaired," the complaint continues.
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So I have got an occupational therapist looking for some toys for visually impaired children with autism that he might be able to use.
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It started as an improved version of block coding for the visually impaired, to address issues where traditional screen readers or magnifiers weren't enough.
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While canes can help the visually impaired detect obstacles on the ground, they can't tell users which way to face or when to turn.
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BARRAQUER, Barcelona, ISM/Science Photo LibraryScientists have used stem cells to cure blindness in rabbits—which could be incredible news for visually impaired people.
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But you have to be cold-hearted, visually impaired, or a fucking idiot to think that Savage should've been allowed back into that game.
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Those who are visually impaired can use glasses with a camera connected to an earpiece, through which a person relays information about their surroundings.
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Then, Stafstrom recorded the visually impaired spiders for the next 4 hours in the wild, noting what kind of prey they caught and how.
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Visually impaired people can now "see" images on Twitter Using up to 420 characters, people can provide details of the image they are tweeting.
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Programmers need to realize that blind and visually impaired people are using their websites in the first place, in order to code for them.
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Cue the waterworks: Some visually impaired cats are getting a new lease on life, thanks to some help from two very special pit bulls.
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In the decades since, it has helped turn a small slice of Manhattan into something of a haven for the blind and visually impaired.
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Twitter announced a new feature that will allow users to add descriptions to their photos to accommodate visually impaired users who use screen readers.
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The thoughtful gameplay has resonated with an audience beyond the visually impaired, and demonstrates what the future of lightweight accessible gaming could look like.
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That year, he teamed up with LEGO Group to create LEGO® Audio & Braille Building Instructions, customized instructions for the blind or visually impaired.
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Guide dogs for blind and visually impaired people, for example, need to be confident in order to successfully lead their handler, Mr. Hibbard said.
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James Brown, a visually impaired former cyclist, climbed atop the fuselage of the plane and livestreamed it as part of the Extinction Rebellion campaign.
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Facebook's computer-vision tools were originally envisioned to help the visually impaired navigate the service, discerning what's in a photo just by scanning it.
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W., a 50-year-old visually impaired woman who asked to be identified by her initial, plans her subway trips to the last step.
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Mr. May, the executive director of Envision's BVI Workforce Innovation Center, which provides employment training for the blind and visually impaired in Wichita, Kan.
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On Tuesday, Twitter acknowledged that an increasing amount of its content is becoming inaccessible for visually impaired users, and it offered one patchwork solution.
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No, and there was no one blind or visually impaired in my family or friends at the time who could have triggered this thought.
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Additionally, visually impaired users can use face recognition in conjunction with the social network's automatic alt-text tool to identify who appears in Facebook photos.
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Sixty-nine-year-old Pamela Prescod, who is visually impaired, requested a wheelchair and help deplaning due to various health issues, according to CTV News.
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Erik Rodriguez, a visually impaired man who plays blind beep baseball for the Indy Thunder, reflected on the jerseys to ABC News' Start Here podcast.
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The Aipoly app uses artificial intelligence to recognize its surroundings, and then says those objects out loud as a way to aid visually impaired users.
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The youngest winner was 20-year-old visually-impaired alpine skier Menna Fitzpatrick, who was Britain&aposs most successful competitor in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
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Most notably, it gave users a glimpse at the automated captions that Facebook creates using machine learning — a valuable accessibility feature for visually impaired people.
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The museum staff committed to creating rich descriptions of every image on their website, as if they were describing them to a visually impaired friend.
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Chun was delighted to discover that the museum had some closet poets, but even moreso that visually impaired visitors weren't the only ones to benefit.
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For example, a seeing-eye dog must pass a four-month course with a sight instructor before being paired with someone who is visually impaired.
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Christian Erfurt, the founder and CEO of Be My Eyes, said the app has signed up more than 26,000 visually impaired people and 347,000 volunteers.
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AAT is currently available for iOS screen readers set to English because that's where Facebook sees the most use from blind and visually impaired people.
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The visually impaired alpine skier, who also has Multiple Sclerosis, competed in the 2018 Paralympic Games, but has even more on her plate this fall.
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"Orchestras won't have any excuse not to hire visually impaired musicians because the technology's right there allowing them to be an integral part," he added.
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Assuming it's actually released one day, developers won't simply be able to point at Microsoft's new controller as their solution for accommodating the visually impaired.
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Lasser seeks to require "Hamilton" to put on at least one show per week with at least 25 headsets designed to accommodate visually impaired people.
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This June, web pornography behemoth Pornhub launched a (NSFW, obviously) "described video" category to make a portion of their offerings accessible to visually impaired users.
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Though Facebook launched Automatic Alt Text in April to audibly describe photos, there haven't been too many porn sites that cater to visually impaired people.
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To be sure, Facebook is hardly the only tech giant looking to improve the core experience for people who may be blind or visually impaired.
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As ESPN reported, the only one of the sports federations not found implicated in corruption was the Brazilian Confederation of Sports for the Visually Impaired.
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Company: OrCamTotal raised: $130 millionOrCam is an Israeli unicorn, valued at $1.75 billion, developing technology that helps the visually impaired and the blind to see.
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Accompanying a blind student on the subway to and from campus, she had learned to read Braille and became disposed to teaching visually impaired students.
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In December 2017, Facebook pushed an automatic alt-text update that used facial recognition to help visually impaired people find out who is in photos.
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It's electronic and is accessible in multiple languages, has built-in headphones and has a variable font for ease of use by the visually impaired.
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For example, captions aren't just helpful for deaf people and even if you're not visually impaired, high-contrast fonts are just easier to read, period.
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Most lawsuits are quickly settled, with the visually impaired plaintiffs earning a few hundred dollars per lawsuit and their lawyers pocketing thousands in legal fees.
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Visually impaired people can use long canes (and in fact, to obtain a dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind, must already be doing so).
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OrCam harnesses the power of Artificial Vision to compensate for lost visual abilities thus enabling visually impaired people to overcome the barriers that impede their independence.
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In 2010, they won two bronze medals in the women's downhill and super combined events for the visually impaired at the Paralympics Winter Games in Vancouver.
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Visually-impaired users navigating Glossier's website won't be able to identify what is featured on the website, including store details, products, and prices, the complaint notes.
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That eventually led us towards the "Aha moment," where we knew this camera could be the secret sauce for building something to help the visually impaired.
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In 2010, they captured two bronze medals in the women's downhill and super combined events for the visually impaired at the Paralympics Winter Games in Vancouver.
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Many of the visually impaired don't have a job — 70–80 percent in the US are unemployed — and suffer varying degrees of mobility and navigational challenges.
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Take the example of someone who needs to use a screen reader program (software that helps communicate text on a computer screen to the visually impaired).
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This like asking a visually impaired person to join a book club but refusing to consider or even discuss limitations in accessible publishing when making selections.
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As all dollar bills are the same size and color regardless of value, spotting the difference can be difficult or even impossible for the visually impaired.
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New APIs and services are popping up all the time to help computers understand images, which will undoubtedly be helpful to visually impaired people, as well.
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Kai Sheng Si saw a visually-impaired man at an MRT station looking lost, and decided to help when he realised passers-by were ignoring him.
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The next step for Lego would be to find a way to officially make all of its building sets accessible to blind or visually impaired builders.
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It could be as simple as fine-tuning a screen's contrast for the visually impaired, which will ultimately make full-sighted people's reading experience more pleasant.
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In its fourth edition, the La Jolla event for surfers with disabilities features its first team competition for visually-impaired female athletes, with Lopez representing Spain.
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Growing up in poverty in rural China, Shang's parents couldn't afford to hire a coach for her, and her visually impaired brother made a deep sacrifice.
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Facebook already uses its AI to describe the content of images to visually impaired users, but imagine the same process happening offline with real-time video.
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But it will also include a notice of proposed rulemaking that requests comment on how to increase video described programming for blind and visually impaired people.
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Story at a glance Earlier this year, the Smithsonian Institution started working with the smartphone app Aira to make museums more accessible to visually impaired visitors.
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Committee members will ask Mueller about his findings, and Mueller will read the findings as if he is recording an audio book for the visually impaired.
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For the visually impaired, there are lots of accessibility options if you want to browse the web — screen readers, podcast versions of articles and so on.
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"With our technology, a visually impaired employee can review a document unassisted, and a blind client can read a contract before signing it," Ms. Tsvetanova said.
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The visually impaired are freed to use their sense of hearing to listen for approaching vehicles and pedestrians and to more fully engage in their surroundings.
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In a workshop that she runs a few times each year, "Dance Without Sight," Ms. Hashimoto brings the sighted and the visually impaired into her world.
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Not only are they close friends, OJ, who is visually-impaired, depends on Blue Dozer to show him the way and safely lead him through new spaces.
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I discovered that with computer science, I can create apps that make people healthier, programs to help the visually impaired see, and people who are deaf hear.
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MateriaMagica helps facilitate the translation of visual information to a primarily auditory format through the use of various plugins in a visually impaired package on its website.
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A new, free mobile app aims to dispel that notion by allowing the blind and visually impaired to witness the eclipse through sound and even through touch.
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"This is a first step, a baby step, in the right direction towards including the visually impaired in this age of social media," King, 50, tells PEOPLE.
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When Facebook released the tool last April, visually impaired users could leverage existing text-to-speech tools to understand the contents of photos for the first time.
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Murphy is in training at Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, New York, to become a guide dog to a blind or visually impaired person.
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It was such a clever way to help encourage blind or visually impaired children to learn braille that Lego is officially releasing its own Braille Bricks collection.
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These include projects developing open-source, 3D-printed prosthetics, digital libraries for the visually impaired, and devices that turn any manual wheelchairs into powered ones (pictured above).
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With luck, in a year or two the visually-impaired youngsters at a school near you might have a fun new platform to learn and play with.
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Using a computer and modern software can be a chore to begin with for the visually impaired, but fundamentally visual tasks like 3D design are even harder.
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To write code at Amazon, Forzano uses a laptop with a screen reader software, which allows blind or visually impaired users to "read" text through audio cues.
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"If in a couple of years, we can get it on street level, it would mean visually impaired people would have a step towards independence," she added.
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I want to help all blind and visually impaired children in the world dare to dream and see that life has so much in store for them.
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Facebook's accessibility team is also looking at an alt-text tool for video that could describe what's happening in the video for those who are visually impaired.
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This is especially important because there are specialized Twitter applications designed for those who are visually impaired, including EasyChirp, Chicken Nugget, and The Qube, the company notes.
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The reflecting pool, where people tossed pennies, is now complemented by a tiny weir whose tinkle of babbling water adds a sound feature for the visually impaired.
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For example, images should have captions for visually impaired customers who use screen readers, and consumers should be able to navigate the website using only a keyboard.
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Billy Wong, a 38-year-old visually impaired theology student, also supports the anti-government movement but has found himself increasingly home-bound due to escalating violence.
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Another item that the FCC abandoned under pressure from Republicans would have expanded the availability of so-called "video described" programming for blind and visually-impaired people.
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On the contrary, sighted people who visit the store will need to use adaptive tools and techniques to navigate or ask a visually impaired person for assistance.
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Fresh out of college, he worked on the development of the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the Blind, the first commercial text-to-speech machine for the visually impaired.
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In January, more than 75 galleries were sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for failing to make their websites accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
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While O6's utility for distracted drivers seems dubious or possibly even self-defeating, it seems like an obvious win for someone who is blind or visually impaired.
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Materia Magica helps facilitate the translation of visual information to a primarily auditory format through the use of various plugins in a visually impaired package on its website.
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Another sport that's unique to the Paralympic Games, Goalball involves blind athletes (and visually impaired athletes using eyeshades) attempting to throw a ball into their rival team's goal.
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Some built into Skype will help users schedule deliveries and book holidays, while others will help the visually impaired by describing facial expressions and reading text from images.
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In practice though, it's clear that Microsoft still has a lot of work to do before Seeing AI will actually be a useful tool for the visually impaired.
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Focusing in on helping the visually impaired people, OxSight plans to build a platform that will address these needs, but also grow with the advancement of future hardware.
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Angy Keelin wanted to stay in Flint Community Schools, where her blind son, Averey, was progressing in a program for visually impaired students, but then it ended abruptly.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A conductor's baton has been created that allows the visually-impaired to follow its movements, opening up the potential for blind people to join more orchestras.
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Accenture Labs in Bangalore is developing workforce accessibility solutions called Drishti, using Responsible AI to empower the visually impaired, in collaboration with the National Association for the Blind.
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Consumer VR headsets not only remain quite bulky and heavy but they don't provide a wide enough field of view to enable a visually impaired person to see.
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It is also the reason the Malibu Diner offers menus in Braille and has a speaker playing music outside, which signals to visually impaired regulars that they've arrived.
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Exploring and understanding the design of something as unique as the Sydney Opera House for someone who's visually impaired can only be done through a replica or model.
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On Tuesday, Google announced that it was making it easier for visually impaired individuals to use Live Edits—real-time changes made by collaborators in a Google Doc.
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Since the early 1980s, film and TV shows, theaters and museums have steadily increased accessibility to the visually impaired, said Joel Snyder, a pioneer in audio description services.
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Kirk Adams, president of the American Foundation for the Blind and longtime advocate for the visually impaired, shared that transportation is a constant theme when talking about inclusion.
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For example, the ChromeVox screen reader and adjustable magnification and contrast settings aid visually impaired users, and there's a keyboard guide for people who can't use a mouse.
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On Motherboard: 'A Blind Legend' Uses Binaural Audio to Create a Game for the Visually Impaired How did you decide to have panel descriptions and a single narrator?
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Shree Pragnachakshu Mahila Seva Kunj, located in the Gujarat area of India, provides a home, education, and a sense of family to girls and women who are visually impaired.
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The Denmark startup Be My Eyes offers a free app that allows video calls with sighted volunteers to help visually impaired people complete everyday tasks and maneuver their surroundings.
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All proceeds from the calendar, on sale for $200 now, will go to the Special Olympics, a cause close to Roitfeld's heart as her personal trainer is visually impaired.
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From my point of view, the most challenging part was to see the world from the perspective of the people who we are trying to help: the visually impaired.
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Hooters needs to spread its wings and take care of visually impaired folks looking to purchase gift cards ... so says a legally blind man suing the popular restaurant chain.
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Danelle is a visually impaired alpine skier from Park City, Utah, and three-time Paralympic Bronze medalist who competed in the 2018 Paralympic Games that started on March 9.
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Despite a massive market, one that's forecast to grow as baby boomers age, there has been no truly affordable or readily attainable breakthrough navigation technology for the visually impaired.
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Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company's Lumos computer vision platform is now powering image content search for all users.
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Jim Allen, the accessibility coordinator at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, said that with these in-window popups it can just become a guessing game.
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Historically, for the blind and visually impaired community, there are additional things you have to buy or things that you have to do to be able to use technology.
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Microsoft today launched Soundscape, a new iOS app that aims to give people who are blind or visually impaired a greater awareness of their surrounding by using 3D cues.
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"ObjectiveEd exists to help teachers, parents and schools adapt to this new era of gamified learning for students with disabilities, starting with blind and visually impaired students," Schultz said.
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"The one and only form of entertainment that truly presents an even playing field between the visually impaired and the sighted is the joy of music," the complaint states.
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For example, visually impaired people may have difficulty understanding how to use menstrual products without braille instructions, and physically-impaired people may lack the dexterity to use the products.
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For the millions upon millions of visually impaired people in India, it can be difficult getting hold of the audiobook they want in the language they need it in.
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WearWorks has been working with a number of visually impaired individuals to test the Wayband, including an ultra marathon runner who will be competing in this year's NYC marathon.
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BlindTool, by Joseph Paul Cohen, a PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is a free Android app that helps the blind and visually impaired navigate the world.
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This is particularly important in her work at the Seabury Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired, where her participants use touch and smell to identify and arrange their bouquets.
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Ms. Mitchell takes training courses a few times a week for computer skills specifically for the visually impaired and soon hopes to be placed in a part-time job.
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Galleries including Gagosian and Marian Goodman have been accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to make their websites accessible to the blind or visually impaired.
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He was visually impaired and attended a school for the blind, where he was known as a manipulative leader of other students, a role he continued with Aum Shinrikyo.
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But the steady migration of commerce and culture to the internet has given rise to a new flood of litigation, over the accessibility of websites to the visually impaired.
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Significantly, the website will also feature image descriptions specifically for the blind or for individuals who are visually impaired, which remains a lacking feature from many online museum collections.
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The woman, Kathleen Sypert, claims that she "encountered multiple access barriers" when visiting the website, denying her and other visually impaired and legally blind users equal access to Glossier's amenities.
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If you have serious battery retention problems and are not visually impaired, try enabling the Low Light Zoom filter, which takes your phone's display brightness down a few notches more.
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Technology can be central to the lives of the 285 million people in the world who are blind or visually impaired, as long as they know how to use it.
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At CES, the company hopes to attract partners that may want implement its technology in things like games, educational apps, or to create a special mode for the visually impaired.
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Hawkins wrote that representatives from Apple visited Austin's Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired to teach students to fly drones with code written in the Swift Playgrounds app.
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This Friday, Bonner will attend the group's "Reach for the Stars Achievement Dinner and Auction Gala" to raise money for individuals with developmental and sensory disabilities and the visually impaired.
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That isn't always the case, and for the more than 285 million people around the world who are visually impaired, browsing the 'net can be a less than fruitful experience.
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Since Jackson's birth, Martinez and her fiancé have received guidance from families in support groups for the blind, and from the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Since 2014, Wayfindr—a digital system that lets people navigate the London underground by sound—has helped the few visually impaired people trialling out the tech to travel without assistance.
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Headspins, rocking and other stylistic moves practiced in breakdancing are being used to create inclusive dance performances for the visually impaired, helping extend scientific research into how the brain functions.
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But the agency's estimate of the number of accidents prevented assumes that blind people ride bicycles in traffic in the same large numbers as people who are not visually impaired.
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Kayne Rogers/The New York Times Among the competitors last month were the Darkness Fighters, Hong Kong's only dragon boat team composed of visually impaired paddlers and their sighted coaches.
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And Instagram rolled out a tool that describes photos for visually impaired viewers, either automatically using AI object recognition technology or by reading custom "alt text" descriptions added by users.
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After preparing for her high school equivalency degree with the Lighthouse Guild, she went to the Catholic Guild for the Blind, which administers the state exam to visually impaired students.
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The complaints state that Dawson aims to change the businesses' "corporate policies, practices, and procedures so that defendant's website will become and remain accessible to blind and visually impaired consumers."
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Blind and Graying, Dragon Boat Paddlers 'Challenge the Impossible' (2018) The Darkness Fighters are the only visually impaired team in an annual Hong Kong festival that blends ritual and rivalry.
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They're called tactile blocks, and the bumps that can be felt with a walking cane or through shoes to help visually impaired know when they are approaching a walking hazard.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - In Hong Kong, when the tempo of traffic-light signals accelerates to about 800 ticks a minute, visually impaired residents know they can safely cross the road.
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Fast-forward a decade and a half and Allen now regularly coaches visually impaired kids on far simpler ways to get their work done using near-ubiquitous smartphones or laptops.
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She moved to Newark from Detroit in 250, and worked for more than 22 years as a Braille teacher at the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Redditor mack3r shared a photo of his blind daughter's heart shaped Valentine's Day cards, which she created using braille, a system of writing which uses raised dots for the visually impaired.
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These include recommending content in the company's Marketplace shopping feature; describing photos and videos for visually-impaired users; and sorting posts so certain adverts don't appear alongside political or adult content.
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BlindSquare already uses GPS from mobile devices to aid the visually impaired in outdoors locations using tools like OpenStreetMap, but the new beacons will now give users the same experience indoors.
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He doesn't need any help; he walks around by himself with his white cane, his cellphone hanging from his neck, and a vest that identifies him as a visually impaired person.
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Thomas Panek, 48, ran along with three Labrador retrievers, Waffles, Westley and Gus, according to the Guiding Eyes For The Blind's website, a charity that trains dogs for the visually impaired.
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Her contribution investigates how deep misconceptions can run, when language and environment encourage the preconception that the blind and visually impaired community are somehow more limited than the rest of us.
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Not only do the blind and visually impaired make up for their loss of sight with a heightened sensitivity to the other senses, but there are closer relationships between these senses.
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I'm not sure what it would be like to navigate the streets of New York if I were visually impaired, but I imagine it would not be the most comfortable experience.
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It may represent the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to make erotic materials available to the visually impaired, a field that has, until now, been sorely lacking quality content.
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As you might expect, it's already quite hard for a visually impaired gamer to play some games, and although that difficulty can't be entirely alleviated, there are definitely things worth doing.
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"A lot of this is due to the sheer dynamics of the artform," says Geering, who discovered the phenomenon after Rationale collaborated with Visually Impaired Directors Kaite O'Reily and Andrew Loretto.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — In men's goalball, a sport for the visually impaired that, kind of, sort of, resembles a mix of handball and bowling, countries tend to have distinct playing styles.
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It looks like the Oscars are going to nominate a bunch of big hits for Best Picture Why did it take Instagram so long to add features for visually impaired people?
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Today, April 5, Facebook begins rolling out a new feature called Automatic Alternative Text that helps blind and visually impaired users better understand photos that are posted to their News Feed.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Voters in Israel's election who are blind and visually impaired cast their ballots unassisted on Tuesday thanks to a local invention that "read" the options out loud for them.
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The diner, at 163 West 23rd Street, lies several doors down from Selis Manor, a roughly 200-unit apartment building that offers housing to blind, visually-impaired and disabled New Yorkers.
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This included consideration of pricing plans for business data services –– special access lines which businesses use to transfer large amounts of data –– and implementing video accessibility measures for visually impaired consumers.
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King started volunteering with IBM's accessibility projects, working on a screen reader to help visually impaired people "see" what is on their screens either through audio cues or a braille device.
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Advocates point to what they call a Braille literacy crisis in America, despite research showing that visually impaired people have better employment and educational outcomes if they read and write Braille.
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Ten airports, including ones in Seattle, Boston, Houston, Memphis and Minneapolis, currently offer zones where blind and visually impaired travelers can download the Aira app and use the service without charge.
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The Comics Empower website was designed to put blind and visually impaired customers first by providing original and adapted audio comics produced in-house, plus audio comics produced by other companies.
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It uses a headset for tracking, and then a shortened white cane like a visually impaired user would already own, that is then attached to a braking mechanism worn around the waist.
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The plan is to embed tactile indicators—the bumpy curb-surface designed for visually impaired people—with red and green LEDs that will alert pedestrians when it's safe to cross the street.
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In addition to the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin, Apple says there are seven other institutions across the country that are implementing the Everyone Can Code curriculum.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board supports several teams, including the Physical Disabilities team, teams for people who are visually impaired, for people with learning disabilities, and for people who are deaf.
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The AI-powered app, which has been undergoing testing since it was originally announced in May 2018, is designed to help blind and visually impaired people by identifying the objects around them.
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It's difficult enough already for the visually impaired to read the books and publications sighted people take for granted, but it's downright impossible when the content isn't even available in accessible formats.
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While the headlining aspect of Apple's newest iPhone is the substantially better camera system, the key story for me, as a visually impaired person, is my return to the largest-screened iPhone.
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This included a consideration of pricing plans for business data services –– special access lines which businesses use to transfer large amounts of data –– and implementing video accessibility measures for visually impaired consumers.
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A class-action lawsuit filed against Beyoncé's management company claims her website is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), unable to be used by people who are visually impaired.
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The 47-year-old, who was visually impaired, collided with a car that was traveling in the same direction on a road near the town of Gawler, South Australia, local media reported.
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Kanuganti said he's inspired to keep pushing Aira forward thanks to visually impaired friends who inspired the company, including serial entrepreneur Larry Bock, who invested in Aira before he died this year.
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Be My Eyes connects sighted volunteers with blind users over live video, allowing the former to describe what's happening in a video sent by a visually impaired person on the other end.
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He does concede that there might be very rare use cases where the tech could be allowed under a strong regulatory scheme — for example, as an accessibility tool for the visually impaired.
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Mojo Vision is partnering with the Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Palo Alto, California, to connect with the nonprofit's clients and get input for the lenses during development.
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As a visually impaired person, foregoing the XS meant I was purposely giving up a pivotal accessibility feature—the OLED screen—that would have made my experience with the device more accessible.
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Many dog providers focus on one specific type of disability or set of tasks—for instance, training dogs for the visually impaired, diabetic alert dogs, or dogs that assist veterans with PTSD.
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For now though, visually-impaired users won't have access to the standard range of features on the ATMs — the voice-activated menus only allow users to withdraw cash and check their account balance.
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At this year's Facebook F8 conference, Building 8 revealed it was working on a technology to let people type just by thinking, and another to help the visually impaired "hear" through their skin.
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The World Health Organization estimates that there are 285 million people visually impaired worldwide, and Olson wants to help as many of them as he can reach through museums and other cultural institutions.
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JERUSALEM, April 9 (Reuters) - Voters in Israel's election who are blind and visually impaired cast their ballots unassisted on Tuesday thanks to a local invention that "read" the options out loud for them.
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A spunky, visually-impaired 10-year-old has turned her sights on her state lawmakers to help win funding for children with vision loss – and so far, has secured $1.25 million and counting.
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An Italian technology startup called Eyra Ltd will soon release a wearable device known as the Horus that allows the visually impaired to explore public space beyond the limitations of the walking cane.
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"We are mostly improving the user interface, making it easy for everyone, even people who don't regularly use technology," said Murgia, who has tested it out on 100 visually impaired people since 2014.
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"Most of my students are significantly visually impaired or blind, so for every lesson, I need an element they can explore either through touch or smell that relates to the lesson," Saydah said.
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The third commercial in a series was released last week, and features a mother, a military veteran and a visually impaired client of a social-service agency saying they stand with state workers.
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Normally, a visually impaired person uses some form of screen reader to audibly read out text that's on screen (on an iPhone, you can do this by switching on VoiceOver in its settings).
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In addition to labeling the "start ride" and other buttons with Braille, Alphabet is experimenting with so-called "wayfinding" features, which help visually impaired passengers find their cars by making a guiding sound.
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Mr. Bruni wrote that he is now "bumping up against my limits," but at A.F.B., our mission is to create a world of no limits for people who are blind or visually impaired.
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The school, which has served blind and visually impaired musicians in Manhattan since 1913, finds its existence imperiled by its own parent group — a charitable organization with a mission to help the blind.
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The other founder, Ziv Aviram, is retiring from Mobileye to focus on another company he started, OrCam, which makes artificial-vision devices that allow the visually impaired to understand text and identify objects.
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If it takes a few years to get clearance on a device that works for the visually impaired, it will take a few more to make a smart contact lens for everyone else.
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On the day the subreddit was created, the lead moderator of the r/Blind subreddit reached out to Kaufeld to tell him the impact r/TranscribersOfReddit could make to visually impaired people's lives.
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Anti-government activists have smashed more than 700 traffic lights since demonstrations erupted in June, significantly altering the soundtrack of daily life for the southern Chinese-ruled city's estimated 174,800 visually impaired people.
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"It is tragic that 1.3 million Americans who are blind, and millions more who are visually-impaired, will not be able to enjoy expanded video description," Wheeler said, his voice bristling with fury.
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But that's changing, thanks to start-ups like eSight and Aira, two companies that are taking advantage of recent advances in mobile and imaging technology to help visually impaired people navigate the world.
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" Advocates say the product could transform reading for blind and visually impaired children, making the experience of learning Braille more inclusive and helping to combat what has been called a "Braille literacy crisis.
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Though details on this project are slim, the social media company compared its new project with braille, which translates specific surface textures into words and is used by those who are visually impaired.
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Beyoncé KnowlesPhoto: GettyMary Conner, a legally blind woman, filed a class-action lawsuit against Beyoncé Knowles' entertainment company Parkwood Entertainment on Thursday alleging that the superstar's official website isn't accessible for visually impaired users.
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Materia Magica, a MUD with a 20 year history, is undertaking a project as ambitious as it is surprisingly straightforward: It wants to make this most visual of genres accessible to the visually impaired.
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And while voice commands could be game-changing for visually impaired people as they could avoid pushing buttons that can be hard to see, so far, the limited selection of presets could be frustrating.
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Then Motherboard explains how Facebook is using artificial intelligence for its visually impaired users, and VICE Sports tells us how a lucha libre wrestling school in Seattle is trying to change the sport's regulations.
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Complemented by 19th-century personal narratives, raised-print textbooks, and teaching tools of the visually impaired, Jaynes's original works challenge our cultural assumptions about the interrelationship between art, sight, and the history of disability.
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Materia Magica, a MUD with a 20 year history, is undertaking a project as ambitious as it is surprisingly straightforward: It wants to make this most visual of genres accessible to the visually impaired.
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In early April, Facebook announced the launch of "automatic alternative text," a form of artificial intelligence that scans photos on the platform and lists keywords for blind and visually impaired users with screen readers.
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Florida's Division of Blind Services provided her with equipment and training at first, but because Florida cuts off non-school support to visually impaired children aged 6-13, Paloma lost access to state services.
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Though the visually impaired spiders didn't have trouble catching airborne prey, like mosquitoes, they were less likely than their "all eyes on deck" counterparts to catch prey that was walking by them, he said.
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An innovative new tablet that uses magnetically configurable bumps may prove to be a powerful tool for translating information like maps and other imagery to a modality more easily accessed by the visually impaired.
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But that's changing, thanks to start-ups such as eSight and Aira, two companies that are taking advantage of recent advances in mobile and imaging technology to help visually impaired people navigate the world.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish non-profit organization is hoping to help the blind and visually impaired with plans to make and give away what it says will be the world's first free smart glasses.
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It's frustrating to see so many wearable innovations without more devoted to providing solutions for the disabled, which is why MIT's new prototype for the visually impaired is more than just a little exciting.
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Of the eight companies in Urban-X's 02 cohort, I picked four that tackled problems relating to pollution, the visually impaired, urban deliveries and maintaining public cleanliness: O2O2 Facewear, WearWorks, Upcycles and Sencity, respectively.
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"We wanted [Wayfindr] to be accessible to as many people as possible, and for them to benefit from it," said Khanum, stressing how the tech took into account people across the visually-impaired spectrum.
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Cheerfully colored tableware, devised for visually impaired customers, works for everyone else, too, including people with dementia, for whom distinguishing food from plates or liquids from containers can become a difficult and unappetizing chore.
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When my son was very little, I took him to a play group at a local school for the blind where he sang songs in circle time with other visually impaired and blind toddlers.
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Of the millions Americans who considered blind or visually impaired, approximately 70 percent are unemployed, only 15 percent complete a bachelor's degree or higher, and a shocking 29 percent live below the poverty line.
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If you are visually impaired, and you're on Facebook on your smartphone, not only will the text be read to you, but every image you encounter, the system will vocally describe the image to you.
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City Access New York, a not-for-profit organization serving developmentally disabled and visually impaired communities, announced in July that Los Ciegos Del Barrio will be honored with their first Annual Achievement Award on Friday.
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To learn more about the training Murphy went through to become a guide dog, and the other amazing work Guiding Eyes for the Blind does to assist the visually impaired, visit the non-profit's website.
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Don't get me wrong, there is no shortage of guidelines for how to make the web more accessible to blind and visually impaired users, but a lot of web developers seem to simply not care.
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I was there because I wanted to find out how blind people experience an erotic fair, he was there because he has been severely visually impaired since birth and wanted to experience an erotic fair.
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With all of the technological advances that have been made over the past century, we haven't come up with much better than a stick with a metal tip for helping the visually impaired get around.
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The collective effort of such services has ignited the recent boom in online music streaming, given rise to the phenomenon of "binge watching" and provided the visually impaired with greater access to digital reading materials.
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"Blind and visually impaired individuals will suffer because Republicans and their allies on the Commission will not allow a vote to expand the amount of video-described programming available," Markey said in a statement Wednesday.
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This year, Dickson worked on a tablet-based voting system for blind and visually impaired voters in New Hampshire, joining Missouri and several other states in updates to voting technologies to increase disabled voter participation.
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Now, Google can automatically sort your holiday photos based on whether you're at the beach or the bar, and Facebook can describe every image on its social network for the benefit of the visually impaired.
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"It is tragic that 1.3 million Americans who are blind and millions more who are visually impaired will not be able to enjoy expanded video description," Wheeler said on Thursday at the FCC's monthly meeting.
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Even the people who fix the subway create new nonconformities — power-wash cleaners who blast the decals off guideway strips for the visually impaired, work crews who cut holes in ceilings and leave them unfilled.
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At a workshop on a recent Saturday, Ms. Hashimoto was surrounded by four students from the Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School, a community school for the blind and visually impaired that's near Lincoln Center.
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"Blind and visually impaired individuals will suffer because Republicans and their allies on the Commission will not allow a vote to expand the amount of video-described programming available," Markey said in a statement Wednesday.
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Clearly, tons of people disagree — viewing videos and photos is superior on a larger screen, they say; it's accessible for the visually impaired, they say; it's just so much easier to work on, they say.
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This isn't just about driverless vehicles: robots that help people walk and a wearable device to help visually impaired people are part of its aim to help people move freely – and not just by car.
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This is especially important when considering these characters as it may be the primary way that visually impaired users interact with emoji, particularly "guide dog with harness," which is proposed with these users in mind.
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It no doubt made its way through the grapevine that Cichoki was working on Actiview, and Koren told me that a Pixar employee with a personal interest in assisting the visually impaired brought it up internally.
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There's also new Bluetooth support so visually-impaired readers can sync the Kindle up with their headphones and enjoy their books with Stephen Fry or someone overacting the hell out of them (often at exorbitant prices).
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The first of these non-profit organizations provides trained guide dogs free-of-charge to the visually impaired, while the latter provides free service dogs to veterans, which are trained to meet each veteran's individual needs.
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Of the estimated 285 million people who are visually impaired around the world, 90 percent live in low-income settings, while 80 percent of cases could be cured or prevented, according to the World Health Organization.
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According to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook, there are more than one million visually impaired veterans over the age of 45 in the United States — and within that group, approximately 157,000 are considered legally blind.
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About 80 percent of visually impaired veterans have a progressive disability caused by age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy — and a number of these diseases can lead to permanent vision loss if left untreated.
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The company introduced a new app called Seeing AI that's meant to help the visually impaired "see" the world around them The app will narrate what's around you as you point the camera at your surroundings.
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During my time as a puppy raiser, the visually impaired people that joined my local GDB group repeatedly shared stories about non-service dogs that distracted their guides in places where pets were otherwise not allowed.
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The Box comes equipped with NFC that helps visually impaired individuals recognise objects around them, beacons to aid with perimetral control, a compass for orientation as well as an emergency charger for the user's smart phone.
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When Gray, who is visually impaired himself (as is Butler), spoke to the audience, he stressed that accessibility can't be an afterthought for developers, or something that's further down on a checklist of abstract company goals.
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Glaucoma left him blind in infancy, and he attended the Louisiana State School for the Blind in Baton Rouge (now the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired), where he studied piano along with drums and trombone.
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And the job itself sometimes requires a lot of background knowledge in order to write an accurate transcription that visually impaired people can rely on, a transcription that allows them to join in on the conversation.
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Shared scooters block sidewalks As riders can drop them anywhere when they're done with them, scooters create fall hazards, especially for the blind and visually impaired, as well as those using wheelchairs or similar mobility devices.
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While images of black-clad protesters hurling petrol bombs and riot police shooting tear gas have become ubiquitous, the visually impaired hear, rather than see, the unrest that has plunged the former British colony into crisis.
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"The fact that there isn't a database for blind subjects I think is quite significant, because possibly people haven't looked at how the technology is used for visually impaired subjects," study author Dr. Norman Poh told Motherboard.
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In her role, Lauridsen helps ensure people who are blind and visually impaired "know how to access all of the technology that they need to live their lives," Lauridsen told me on the latest episode of Bullish.
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King joined Facebook in June as the company's first blind engineer to make sure millions of visually impaired Internet users around the world are not handicapped in their personal relationships simply because they can't do the same.
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However, you won't be able to walk into toy stores to find them, they're only being made available to select institutions devoted to assisting the blind and visually impaired, and they will be distributed free of charge.
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After dachshunds Herbie and Hilda were rescued by Salem Dogs in Salem, Oregon, it was discovered that the dapple Herbie was visually impaired and that Hilda – who rarely left his side – acted as his seeing-eye dog.
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Microsoft also recently announced its "Seeing AI" app, which hopes to support those who are visually impaired or blind — with the use of specific technological accessories — to understand who and what is around them with greater ease.
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If a vehicle can move forward or in reverse without engaging an internal combustion engine, it needs to make some kind of noise that blind and visually impaired pedestrians can identify as coming from a moving vehicle.
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Our correspondents went along with a dragon boat team composed of visually impaired paddlers as they prepared for Hong Kong's annual Dragon Boat Festival, a centuries-old tradition throughout Asia that combines sacred rituals with serious competition.
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Mr. Rizzi's suit accused the bank of violating the Americans With Disabilities Act by "denying access to its websites to individuals with disabilities who are visually impaired" and who require screen-reader software to access digital content.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In an attempt to make braille more familiar and accessible, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has redesigned the tactile script to make it readable for both visually impaired and sighted individuals.
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The introduction of AI to Pornhub follows several other tech upgrades the site has made over the past few months, including optimization for those who are visually impaired and videos that work in sync with wireless sex toys.
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As for the upfront cost, the U.K. offers a £500 grant to visually-impaired people for this sort of thing, and they engineered the 360-degree ceiling-mounted camera to minimize the number needed to cover the home.
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It's not clear how many people are blind or visually impaired in the tech industry (tech companies don't typically report this data and it also brings up privacy concerns), but they seem to be few and far between.
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All the user needs is an app, in which they can select their movie and what content they need: scene descriptions for visually impaired, amplified audio and/or subtitles for the hearing impaired, other languages, even sign language.
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However, could this not be the opportunity to go further — to modify our bills by size or color, or with embossed or indented markers, to make it easier for the visually impaired to accurately recognize the individual denominations?
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The app launched on World Sight Day on October 13, 2016, and so far has around 10,000 subscribers, with a roughly equal split between the visually impaired and volunteers, according to the company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport, for example, is testing a system involving beacons and an app that helps visually impaired travelers, with the use of audio instructions, find their way to gates, restaurants and power outlets.
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"I think that's a pretty cool feature for people who are visually impaired, because if you walk into a store, you might not know how to navigate to certain places," Shashank Sharma told me after his team's presentation.
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For example, if it becomes a priority to design mapping apps that can increase the font size of street names, then that will help visually impaired people of all ages, not just older users whose eyesight has declined.
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I would take him to the yearly Superfest International Disability Film Festival that my organization co-hosts with Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco to experience real camaraderie among disabled people and our allies.
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But over time, although they occasionally felt frustrated, angry and depressed, they learned how to "cope with the challenges and limitations associated with being visually impaired," the researchers wrote in The Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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Check it out: There have previously been helmets designed for visually impaired people, notably one called Sonic Eye, which aims to let users track their surroundings using echolocation to determine how far or near they are from a subject.
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For his latest video, YouTuber Tom Scott interviews Richard Holmes from the Royal National Institute of Blind People to find out more about the road markings — all of which actually serve as a clever guide for visually impaired people.
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According to Best Friends, Gudgel also adored Melvin in purrson but decided she need some time to think about adopting the cat to make sure she and her boyfriend Ellison were prepared to care for a visually-impaired pet.
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For every unique social post through April 23, Purina will donate $1 (up to $75,000) to Leader Dogs for the Blind, a global organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of the blind and visually impaired through specially trained canines.
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Also on the list is Moto Color, which emits sounds or vibrations when reading colors for the visually impaired and the unfortunately named ModCoholic, which detects blood alcohol content and tries to get the user to take a taxi.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The producer of "Hamilton" has been sued by a blind theatergoer who claimed that the blockbuster Broadway musical violates federal law by failing to offer services to help blind and visually impaired people enjoy the show.
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"Many disabled people sit at home or beg in markets," said Anthony Joseph, secretary general of the Jubek State Union for the Visually Impaired, an initiative by blind people living in and around Juba to advocate for their rights.
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"In a world where computers help us with everything from navigating space travel to counting the steps we take in a day, I think we can do better to support visually impaired people than a walking stick," says Rus.
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Once the 8-week-old puppy completes all of his training, which usually take 16-18 months, he will be given to a visually-impaired person free of charge, helping that individual gain a new found sense of freedom.
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Blind Louisiana resident Scott Magee filed the suit, alleging that McDonald's violates the disabilities act by prohibiting visually impaired pedestrians such as himself from ordering at the drive-thru window after the restaurant lobbies are closed for the night.
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NEW YORK An article on Friday about a Manhattan music school for the visually impaired misstated how The New York Times obtained a letter sent to the school's students by Dr. Alan Morse, the president of Lighthouse Guild International.
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The proposed rule-making would be an amendment to rules that were finalized in February 2018 requiring EVs and hybrid vehicles to emit sounds at low speeds to prevent injuring pedestrians, especially people who are blind or visually impaired.
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Eric Juyoon Kim, founder and CEO of Dot, said the watch is just the first step in a bigger picture offering braille devices to the blind, especially those in developing markets, where the vast majority of visually-impaired reside.
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Braille illiteracy contributes to high unemployment rates for blind and visually impaired people, estimated to be 75 percent in Europe (according to the European Blind Union) and 70 percent in the United States (according to Cornell University's Disability Statistics).
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"The government wants the benefits of green transport to be felt by everyone, and understands the concerns of the visually impaired about the possible hazards posed by quiet electric vehicles," Michael Ellis, the UK's roads minister, said in a statement.
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Just a few months after Pornhub brought VR porn and fuck-yourself-fit regimes to the masses, the site has announced that it will launch a collection of videos called "Described Videos," made specifically for the visually impaired, CNN reports.
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Also, the complaint states that Glossier should have legally blind or visually-impaired people test the accessibility of its site regularly as well as create and clearly disclose an accessibility policy on its site that allows users to report any issues.
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In an effort to combat these numbers and help veterans battling PTSD, Southeastern Guide Dogs breeds, raises, trains and places canines free of charge not only for the visually impaired but for veterans in need of a supportive friend as well.
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On the accessibility front, Microsoft is improving keyboard shortcuts to make the program to make the program easier to use for those with mobility impairments, as well as making it easier to use OneNote with screen readers for the visually impaired.
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Microsoft has been showcasing some of the work it does toward accessibility in recent years, including an iPhone app for blind people, Office improvements for people with dyslexia, and even physical blocks to help visually impaired children learn how to code.
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The Android app cleverly uses the OS's Accessbility feature (it's where you might put, for example, a text-to-speech app for the visually impaired) to overlay Dango on top of any app, but it's not quite so straightforward on iOS.
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On top of managing her intricate bill payments with her husband, she is raising five kids, painting out of her dining-room-turned studio, and adjusting to life in her home in Smyrna, Tennessee, now that she is visually impaired.
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Grand prize winner J. Kevin White of Maryland, took home $1 million for his nonprofit, Global Vision 20/503 which prescription eyeglasses to the 2.5 billion visually impaired in the developing world using an efficient and cost-effective method he devised.
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Facebook has also been steadily ramping up its investment in artificial intelligence and it's likely the social network will highlight some of these efforts, like its tool that reads photos to the visually impaired and M, its experimental assistant for Messenger.
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For help adapting to the iPhone, he and thousands of others have turned to a program called iFocus from the Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a 96-year-old institution that serves 3473,000 students annually across the globe.
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Visually impaired individuals could use it to identify objects that feel similar in shape or size, or it could deliver more specialized information — identifying a phone model, for example, and quickly bringing up a list of specs and a user manual.
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The research project, a collaboration between graduate student Alexa Siu, Joshua Miele and lab head Sean Follmer, is intended to explore avenues by which blind and visually impaired people can accomplish visual tasks without the aid of a sighted helper.
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But for the residents of Selis Manor, a building directly behind the Dumpster where the bomb exploded, the blast and the drama that ensued were particularly terrifying: Like Ms. Olivares, most of the building's residents are blind or otherwise visually impaired.
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NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The producer of "Hamilton" has been sued by a blind theatergoer who claimed that the blockbuster Broadway musical violates federal law by failing to offer services to help blind and visually impaired people enjoy the show.
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"If you're visually impaired, even when you want to go somewhere five minutes away, if you don't know where it is, you might have to take a cab," Khanum, also a member of the the RSLB youth forum, told me.
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While audio dramas have always held an audience, the element of interactive choices may open up new windows for blind or visually impaired players, who understandably struggle with a heavily visual medium, though perhaps in a more roundabout way than expected.
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It has a court, complete with raised lines that notify players where they are, that has been adapted for goalball, which emerged from the darkness of World War II as equal parts rehabilitation and pastime for visually impaired veterans in Europe.
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If, like me, you love to feel like a stranger in a strange land, you will enjoy settling into Rick's Café in Casablanca, or checking out the Darkness Fighters' dragon boat, a visually impaired team competing in Hong Kong's annual regatta.
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One of her earliest public art commissions, in 1988, was also one of her most challenging: She was asked to create a work for the Joseph Kohn Training Center in New Brunswick, N.J., which is for blind and visually impaired people.
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In this family program, intended for the visually impaired as well as for those with normal sight, Ms. Chester will teach techniques that will help participants create two- and three-dimensional greeting cards for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
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In fact, every Eatsa location is staffed with Hosts that provide personalized ordering and pickup assistance to visually impaired customers, should they desire additional assistance, and all of our technology is designed to be compatible with the appropriate assistance features.
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More broadly, "people in rural communities really get social capital," said Katherine Freund, founder of ITN America, a nonprofit network of more than 700 drivers across the country, most of them volunteers, who give rides to seniors and the visually impaired.
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For example, Microsoft last year launched its free Seeing AI app, which turns a smart phone into a "talking camera" that helps visually impaired people do things like scan and read aloud text, recognize faces and identify products bar codes.
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The characters tick familiar boxes: Scotty (Grant Rosenmeyer), who has paraplegia, is the crass, childish one; the visually impaired Mo (Ravi Patel) is a nervous stickler for the rules; and Matt (Hayden Szeto), who uses a wheelchair, is the straight man.
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The US Copyright Office grants narrow exemptions for these categories, but they must be renewed every three years — a perennial headache for researchers who want to test security vulnerabilities, visually impaired people who want to read books, and many others.
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However, disability groups on Thursday noted that moving to just paper could make it difficult to vote for blind or visually impaired people, those who have difficulty leaving their homes, or those for whom English is not their first language.
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"There are a number of really interesting examples both in terms of hiring people with conditions like autism or people that are visually impaired, where AI can dramatically transform their ability to interact with society and in workplaces," she said.
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According to the National Federation of the Blind, roughly 23 million Americans are blind or visually impaired, and about 2800 million of that number are legally blind, defined as central vision acuity of 220/2329 or less in the better eye.
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"The new standard for braille displays will significantly narrow the gap in communication between people who are visually impaired, blind, or deaf-blind and their sighted and hearing counterparts," said Joseph Bruno, president and CEO of Helen Keller Services, in a statement.
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Since the day he was born, Murphy, PEOPLE's Guiding Eyes for the Blind guide dog trainee, has been working towards being the best dog he can be, so he can help change the life of a blind/visually-impaired individual after he graduates.
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Out of the 218 million blind or visually impaired people globally, a full 83 percent are in the developing world, and 28 out of 215 of those cases would be completely treatable or preventable with access to appropriate healthcare, the WHO says.
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Roughly a decade after founding Mobileye, whose camera-based sensor chips and software systems are helping to develop self-driving cars, Shashua set up OrCam, which uses a camera mounted on eyeglass frames to help the visually impaired interact with their surroundings.
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Over the past few years, the streaming site has made sex education sites to teach folks about their junk and sex exercise routines to help people fuck their way to fitness, and released a series of audio porn for the visually impaired.
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Last Saturday The Arc/k Project showcased a virtual reality experience of Palmyra; the New York Public Library will host an event and ongoing exhibitions that explore how emerging technologies may help "make architectural cultural heritage … more accessible" for the visually impaired.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads More than 75 art galleries in New York have been served with lawsuits claiming that they have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to make their websites accessible to blind or visually impaired people.
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The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates, alleges that the iPad touchscreens used to order food at Eatsa, as well as the restaurant's automated cubbyhole pick-up wall and mobile app, all lack accessibility features and thus disenfranchise visually impaired customers.
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The FCC on Wednesday pulled several items from its open meeting agenda for Thursday, including pricing plans for business data services –– special access lines which businesses use to transfer large amounts of data –– and implementing video accessibility measures for visually impaired consumers.
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"It is our hope that these models will be an effective teaching tool for teachers to communicate sex education in a way that works for students who are blind and visually impaired," said Dr. Lisa Wadors Verne, program manager of education and partnerships at Benetech.
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She also works with tech companies like Google, Uber, Lyft and Facebook around user testing to make sure "things that already exist and that are being created are as accessible as they can be to people who are blind and visually impaired," Lauridsen said.
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Each watch features raised markers around its face and two magnetic balls that revolve around it; using just those design elements, you can use your fingertips to feel what time it is, making this an excellent watch for people who are blind or visually impaired.
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Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind is a multimedia exhibition that looks at historical embossed and raised-letter documents for the visually impaired as a starting point for a multi-sensory exploration of the nature of perception.
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Even something like Microsoft's Seeing AI, an app that translates the world through the phone's camera, might have been made with the visually impaired in mind, but will be useful to just about anyone who will use an augmented reality app in the future.
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"The Marrakesh Treaty will, when widely adopted throughout the world, create the framework for persons who are blind and visually impaired to enjoy access to literacy in a much more equal and inclusive way," said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry in a press release.
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TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A U.S. school for the blind plans to train 1 million teachers around the world by 2030 to educate the 6 million visually impaired children who also have other disabilities, to increase their chances of living independently and finding jobs.
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This opportunity is being pursued by Marty Schultz, who has spent the last few years as head of a company that makes games targeted at the visually impaired audience, and in the process saw the potential for adapting that work for more directly educational purposes.
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The Dumpster where the bomb exploded was being used in the renovation of the fifth and sixth floors of Selis Manor, a 205-unit Section 8 apartment building that provides affordable housing for the visually impaired and disabled, its managing agent, Tony Savarese, said.
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In his complaint on Monday, Denver resident Mark Lasser said Hamilton Uptown LLC and Nederlander Organization, which runs the Richard Rodgers Theatre in Manhattan where "Hamilton" is performed, could easily provide live audio narratives to help visually impaired people follow stage action between songs.
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"The point of this initiative was to improve the [Pornhub] experience for those who are visually impaired and also initiate a larger conversation with our user base on how to make our platform more accessible to all," Corey Price, Pornhub's vice president, told VICE.
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I'm fairly self-absorbed, so it's not something I've thought about a lot before, but since I started filming my show, I've learned that there isn't a lot of porn out there for people who are blind or visually impaired and, well, that sucks.
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While increasing web access for the visually impaired is, of course, an important cause, some have raised concerns that lawyers are clogging the courts with ADA lawsuits to turn a profit, not for the sake of fighting for the rights of people with disabilities.
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Lori Scharff, president of the council, said she hopes the lawsuit will spur city officials to more quickly expand the number of intersections with accessible signals so visually impaired pedestrians can move around the city with the same sense of safety sighted people have.
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Bill McCann, the founder and president of Dancing Dots, a company in Phoenixville, Pa., that creates software to help blind and visually impaired musicians read, write and record music, said he navigated through the airport or an Amtrak station using the sighted-guide technique.
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Poh, the study author, said that while his research focused on the visually impaired, blindness is just one of the many issues to consider when designing apps and software, and accessibility for people with disabilities needs to factor more into the decision-making behind technology's user experience.
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While ThirdEye's initial product was well-received, even landing the company a partnership with the National Federation for the Blind (it tested the technology on the visually impaired and provided feedback), the team felt that wearables were far from the best way to achieve real impact.
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In offering a window into their lives, not only have these YouTubers become de facto educators for the general public, but also they've become rallying points for the broader visually impaired community—a place to share stories and tips about navigating the world, online and off.
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Each year, a group of fourth to 12th graders head to the Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students in Huntsville, Alabama, to learn what it's like to launch into orbit, float in zero gravity, and walk on the moon—even if they can't actually see it.
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Facebook is launching "automatic alternative text"; a tool that uses object recognition technology to identify and describe an image, so that visually impaired and blind people using screen readers will be able to hear—and therefore visualize—what's in a photo posted on the social network.
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Dropbox, the popular Web storage and collaboration service, created an experience for the visually impaired by adding text for images, including additional text for context and building semantic functions understandable to people using screenreaders, said Cordelia McGee-Tubb, Web accessibility engineer at the San Francisco-based company.
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The reasons I chose that day to "rebel" are a twisted amalgam—born in part always noticing strangers checking me out from of the corner of their eye, part new friends not knowing what to do or how to act when they discovered I was visually impaired.
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The Lighthouse Guild sent a letter to students in June — in large print, for the visually impaired — notifying them that the 105-year-old school would no longer be part of the Guild's future and that it must leave the Guild's building on West 64th Street.
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The initiative isn't just about Lego expanding its market and being able to sell sets to even more kids, or even a chance for the company to generate some positive PR. Lego sets can also be an excellent learning tool for the blind and visually impaired.
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