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How for blind people, the iPhone significantly changed the world of cell phones even more than for the sighted

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”

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