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The next e-book frontier? Braille

The next e-book frontier? BrailleA good step for e-book evolutionI can also imagine an alternative e-book device that would read the words on-screen aloud. An ideal device, however, is one that's integrated: can do regular and braille, and can speak words aloud. That would benefit not only the blind, but...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Braille

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

The next e-book frontier? Braille

It may just be a conceptual mockup, but man if Yanko Design's Braille E-book proposal doesn't send a chill up your leg: E-books are still very much in their collective infancy. Amazon's Kindle, effectively the iPhone of the e-book category, is only on its second...

Tags: Braille, EAP, E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-20

gh PLAYER Standard 2.2 (Windows)

gh has developed a software reading system designed for reading NIMAS, DAISY Digital Talking Books, and plain text files (*.txt) while providing multiple sensory output. Whether you read with high contrast large text, recorded or synthesized speech, or Braille output to a refreshable display, the gh PLAYER™ gives you access...

Tags: Braille, GH, Gh, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-27

Apple Braille Display 1.0 (Mac)

Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard includes a powerful screen reading technology for the blind called VoiceOver that supports a variety of refreshable Braille displays. When you have a supported Braille display connected to your computer, VoiceOver automatically detects it and sends it information about what is displayed on the screen....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Braille, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-02-05

Louis 1.0 (Mac)

Louis is a full featured braille translator for the Apple Macintosh. Designed around liblouis and liblouisxml Louis is designed to produce braille in a wide range of formats and languages. Full Mac GUI with VoiceOver support. Full online and local documentation. Translation of MS...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Braille, Greg Kearney, Louis

Software downloads 2007-05-31

JAWS 6.20.065 (Windows)

The most popular screen reader worldwide, JAWS? for Windows works with your PC to provide access to today?s software applications and the Internet. With its internal software speech synthesizer and the computer?s sound card, information from the screen is read aloud, providing technology to access a wide variety of information,...

Tags: Braille, Freedom Scientific, Training Tutorial, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2005-08-26

Turbo Braille 0.5.2 (Mac)

Turbo braille is a command line text to braille (grade 2 or grade 3) translator. This version has been slightly modified to compile under MacOSX 10.4. This is a source code release, you will need to compile it. Or you can download the pre-complied installer package version.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Braille, Greg Kearney, Turbo Braille

Software downloads 2005-07-21

California gives up newspaper vs. Web fight

California gives up newspaper vs. Web fightI'm visually impaired have vision loss and I can't read newspapers.I would much rather read over the Internet. If I can't, then making newspapers available on Braille would be fine (I've mastered Grade 1 Braille, now trying to learn all the Grade 2 Braille...

Tags: Regulations, Web, Braille, regulation

Discussion threads 2004-12-21

PAC Mate Braille Display n/a (Windows)

PAC Mate Braille Display

Tags: Braille, Freedom Scientific, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-07-21

Braille Alphabet (Mobile)

The Braille alphabet, created by a 15 year old blind French boy named Louis Braille, is used by blind people. It is formed by up to six dots in 2 by 3 frame. These dots are raised and this alphabet is used for tactile writing and reading using your fingers....

Tags: Mobile, Alphabet, Braille, SuperMemory Knowledge Goldmine

Software downloads 2002-11-13

HP Teams With ViewPlus to Put Braille in Living Color

ViewPlus wanted to develop a tool to help people with visual impairments communicate better with their sighted counterparts. ViewPlus teamed up with HP Specialty Printing Systems SPS to combine HP TIJ 2.x color inkjet printing technology with advanced paper embossing technology to produce raised color text and graphics, making it...

Tags: Team, Hewlett-Packard Co., Braille, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

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Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour

Another videoThere's another video on a blog at http://chromeos-blog.com that also shows the browser. It's 3 mins.RE: Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video TourWith Google in the fight against MS over MS tyingbundling their browser to their OS, can someone explain to me why its ok for Google to make...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Web browser, operating system, Chrome, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Double-screen laptop appears in Japan

Try using that on an airplane!I can't even open my 13" laptop when sitting in the cheap seats!It's an interesting concept, though I wonder about durability. My laptops take a lot of beating, especially with the airport security requirement that you take it out of the bag. That one rule...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Double-screen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Google reCAPTCHA could raise bar in anti-bot, anti-spam battle

Well what are other options?I'm not knocking your concern because it is a valid point. But does that mean we just leave everything open to bots and spammers? What could be done for the disabled? I thought reCAPTCHA had some ways of handling this.What about for the deaf-blind?Implement CAPTCHA or...

Tags: anti-spam, reCAPTCHA, Amazon.com Inc., CAPTCHA, bot, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Samsung HT-BD1250

Photo gallery:Samsung HT-BD1250DVD home-theater-in-box systems seem to offer a lot of value from the spec sheet, but are often seriously disappointing in use, with lackluster audio and video being the norm. So far our experience with Blu-ray HTIBs has been the exact opposite; almost all of the systems we've tested...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, subwoofer, center channel, Samsung HT-BD1250, Blu-ray HTIB, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., speaker

Product reviews 2009-08-14

The American Textbook Accessibility Act

Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...

Tags: Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Government, E-books, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), XML, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

Kindle draws fire at Arizona StateRidiculous liberalismHas any blind student even indicated an interest in the course? Has the school offered to provide braille copies or text-to-speech technology? This sounds like a non-problem that people are trying to turn into a problem to advocate a misguided political agenda. When I...

Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Arizona State, Americans with Disabilities Act

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

News to know: Oracle-Sun, IBM, Apple ads, Windows 7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Complete coverage of Oracle-Sun news: Larry Dignan: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Live from New York: Amazon

Live from New York: AmazonGot a pic of the Kindle 2 itself? ntnt = no textRE: Live from New York: AmazonIMO if AMZ wants Kindle 2.0 acceptance, all they have to do is convince the publishers of college and university textbooks into Kindle format and promise to save parents some...

Tags: Text-to-Speech, Kindle 2, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchers

Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchersI'm visually/hearing impaired.But that doesn't mean I'm blind and deaf. Those who are blind and deaf can honestly not use CAPTCHA. I mean, it does not work with Braille displays out there in the market: the screen reader cannot read text from images...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Audio CAPTCHA

Discussion threads 2008-12-08