On Friday, as Twitter went ablaze with news of iOS 7, I celebrated nothing new from Apple but, rather, the long awaited BARD Mobile app from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). For the first time in history, a person with print impairment now has the largest collection of audio… Read more about 2013: The Year of the Book for Blinks
Technology Review
A Look At Accessible GNU/Linux
Introduction For the past year or so, I have wanted to try a good operating system built on top of the Linux Kernel. (A “Kernel” is a bit of software central to all computing. It works behind the scenes interpreting your mouse-clicks,, keyboard events, handles memory management and much more.) I do most of my… Read more about A Look At Accessible GNU/Linux
A Review of The vOICe
Summary The vOICe, notable for the spelling of “O I C”, is a program aimed to assist people with varying forms of blindness to see using an association of black and white images with soundscapes. The program was developed by Dr Peter Meijer, of the Netherlands, and is hosted at the SeeingWithSound.com website. As of… Read more about A Review of The vOICe