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IBill Currency Identifier User’s Manual

BrailleLive — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:08:48 +0000

IBill Currency Identifier User’s Manual Screen Reader Navigation Information From Accessible Devices All topics are identified by headings and the H key will move you from one topic to the next. The P key will allow you to move quickly from one peice of information to the next between headings. The iBill, Talking Currency Identifier from Orbit Research. Users [...]

Cooking Without Looking

BrailleLive — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:57:25 +0000

Cooking Without Looking Vision World Foundation is the parent company of Cooking Without Looking”. “Cooking Without Looking” is the first TV show ever produced especially for blind/visually impaired people. Three hosts, Celia Chacon, Tom Fox and Annette Watkins, are blind/visually impaired themselves, and moderate the 30-minute show which airs twice monthly on WXEL-TV42 PBS in Palm Beach, FL. [...]

IREAD

BrailleLive — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:10:15 +0000

iRead iRead: „simply reading“ The reading software iRead converts a Windows-PC with scanner and screen reader into an open reading system “simply” You can reach your goal with a minimum effort. There is only one key press between the start of the program and reading out the first page of printed text. iRead automatically detects the connected scanner [...]

Rogue AntiVirus Comes With Tech Support

BrailleLive — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:13:01 +0000

Rogue AntiVirus Comes With Tech Support In an effort to boost sales, sellers of a fake antivirus product known as Live PC Care are offering their victims live technical support. , once users have installed the program, they see a screen, falsely informing them that their PC is infected with several types of malware. That’s typical [...]

ASSESSING NEEDS OF FAMILIES WITH HANDICAPPED INFANTS

BrailleLive — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:56:37 +0000

ASSESSING NEEDS OF FAMILIES WITH HANDICAPPED INFANTS Donald B. Bailey, Jr. Rune J. Simeonsson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A 35-item parent survey was developed to assess the functional needs of parents with young handicapped children. A rationale for scale development and content is presented. Data from 34 two-parent families with handicapped infants suggest that [...]

Major League Baseball Makes Effort To Make Websites Accessible

BrailleLive — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:59:43 +0000

Major League Baseball Makes Effort To Make Websites Accessible For immediate release FANS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS GAIN ENHANCED ACCESS TO MLB.COM NEW YORK, February 11, 2010 – Baseball fans with visual impairments will benefit from the implementation of functional improvements to MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, and all 30 individual Club sites as a [...]

Playing music or mp3 books on your NLS digital player

BrailleLive — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:52:11 +0000

Playing music or mp3 books on your NLS digital player. Contributed by: The Big R The NLS digital player has been out for a few months now. I have been asked this question countless times. How can I play music or MP3 books on my new NLS digital player? As you know music and book files can [...]

Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked

BrailleLive — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:17:06 +0000

Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked SAN FRANCISCO – Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks. The attack [...]

Technology Bill Of Rights Introduced For Blind U.S. Citizens

BrailleLive — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:37:10 +0000

Technology Bill Of Rights Introduced For Blind U.S. Citizens U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky Introduces Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ National Federation of the Blind Applauds Measure to Ensure Blind People Equal Access to Technology Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today introduced the Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind (H.R. 4533), which will [...]

Malware Research Group Spins Off From Harvard

BrailleLive — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:33:38 +0000

Malware Research Group Spins Off From Harvard SAN FRANCISCO – A research organization that tries to warn computer users about programs that do sneaky things on their computers has spun off from Harvard University. StopBadware says it will operate as a standalone nonprofit with funding from Google Inc., eBay Inc.’s PayPal and Mozilla, which makes the [...]