LEGO BRAILLE BRICKS FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT LAUNCHED IN SEVEN COUNTRIES
By VENKAT for The Assistive Technology Blog Remember the Braille Bricks project Lego piloted last year? Those Braille Bricks have finally officially...
Blind and low vision
Vision Made Audible
By Tina Sieber for “Make Use Of” Tech News Few things are as isolating as losing one of your basic senses....
Smart Cane That Uses Google Maps and Sensors to Identify One’s Surroundings
By McKinley Corbley – for The Good News Network This electronic walking stick is revolutionizing the way that blind people...
These Glasses Read Text Out Loud To People Who Are Visually Impaired
By Elyse Wanshel Reporter, HuffPost OrCam is a device that reads text aloud to people who are visually impaired or...
Accessibility Tech Has a Lot of Unfinished Business To Get Right
By Abrar Al-Heeti for CNET When Apple’s iPhone was released in 2007, Erin Lauridsen was frustrated. As someone who’s blind, she...
Lego releases Braille bricks to teach blind and visually impaired children
The LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group has announced their support of a pioneering project that will help blind and visually...
iCanConnect providing free equipment for vision and hearing loss.
iCanConnect provides people with both significant vision and hearing loss with free equipment and training. iCanConnect is a national program...
New App Helping People Who Are Visually Impaired to Shop and More
Assistive technology is making it easier for people who are visually impaired to buy groceries, hail rides, and more. For...
Summer travel time is here and… there’s an app for that!
The following are some apps that can help travelers with disabilities smooth the way. Google Maps (iOS and Android) has...
Microsoft – Bringing our accessibility awareness game today and every day
By: Jenny Lay-Flurrie – Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Microsoft announces new technology and resources for people with disabilities. The goal of...
Apple’s Everyone Can Code Curriculum Expanding to Schools Serving Blind and Deaf Students
By: Joe Rossignol (MacRumors Newsletter) Apple announced that its Everyone Can Code curriculum is expanding to schools serving deaf, blind,...
Bringing our accessibility awareness game today and every day
By: Jenny Lay-Flurrie – Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Today we celebrate the seventh annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day and announce...
How Artificial Intelligence is Improving Assistive Technology
By Matthew Lynch (The Tech Edvocate) The advances in technology could mean more for society than just new educational technology...
This VR exhibit enables the blind to ‘see’ art with haptic gloves
by Joe Rice-Jones (reprint from KnowTechie) Any museum-goer knows the ubiquitous “Do not touch” signs. What if you could though,...
Assistive tech is progressing faster than ever, and these 7 devices prove it
By Luke Dormehl (Digital Trends) As much as we love our shiny new iPhone X, when it comes to technology...
