Source page In 1990 I had a conversation with my friend Aaron Levinthal about phones and we thought it would be cool if we could just take our phone put it on our belts and go out into public. Neither of us had seen a cell phone at that point yet. On a college trip the assistantContinue reading “How for blind people, the iPhone significantly changed the world of cell phones even more than for the sighted”
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‘Find My iPhone’ app glitch sends angry strangers to man’s home
Scott Schuster says he’s had nearly a dozen people come to his door, falsely accusing him of stealing their Apple devices based on data from their “Find My iPhone” app. — Read on nypost.com/2023/04/06/find-my-iphone-app-glitch-sends-strangers-to-mans-home/
A special but vulnerable community needs our help during this 3rd covid-19 Lockdown We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us, and your donation has made it that much easier to get things done and thrust us forward. We thank you for your support and for your desire to help us succeed in thisContinue reading
Could this treatment be a possible cure for old age related blindness?
A Single Injection of Nanoparticles Restores Vision to Blind Rats – COOL BLIND TECH — Read on coolblindtech.com/a-single-injection-of-nanoparticles-restores-vision-to-blind-rats/
A Boston-based software developer wanted to make COVID-19 stats accessible He created a website that would be easily readable by electronic braille readers and other assistive devices used by the blind and partially sighted. Tyler Littlefield, a software developer based in Boston, has created a database of COVID-19 statistics meant to be accessible to theContinue reading
Blackboard Launches Free Accessibility Tool that Converts Digital Course Content Into Accessible Formats APRIL 6, 2020 6:36 AM Blackboard Inc. announced the launch of the File Transformer, Powered by Blackboard Ally — a free resource enabling students to convert their digital course content into a range of alternative formats to meet their unique learning needsContinue reading
Importance of ALT Text on your website | Turn7 Digital
ALT text is defined as alternative text or alt attributes. Alternative text is used as descriptions for images on an HTML document. Why is ALT text… — Read on turn7.io/resources/alt-text/
for those who are looking for TalkBack tutorials, Here is a link for instructional videos published by Hadley institute for the blind. https://hadley.edu/InstructionalVideos/Listen_with_TalkBack.asp
See what the google assistant can do now!
This Handy Command Deletes the Last Thing Google Assistant Heard There have always been incidents when Google misinterprets something I just said and triggers the Assistant. At times like this, I wonder how much personal information it would have “accidentally gathered”. Well, there is a Google Assistant command that might come in handy in suchContinue reading “See what the google assistant can do now!”
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