Student Kenneth Spector and professor Sethuraman Panchanathan test the iCare system. The computerized "seeing" assistant will help blind people read books, access Web pages, recognize faces and ...
Jim Dickson is a smart man. He graduated from Brown University, has a job as a vice president for a national organization and considers himself a quick study. But when a report arrived recently that ...
University of Florida researchers have wedded speech recognition software, wearable computers, satellite positioning technology and other emerging technologies in a 21st-century navigational aid for ...
Inventors have developed free, open-source software to enable blind people to use computers. For many blind people, computers are inaccessible. It can cost upwards of $1000 to purchase "screen reader" ...
Sit down in front of your computer, but don't turn it on yet. Cover your eyes so you can't see anything; don't cheat, and don't peek! Now, turn on your computer, if you can find the switch, which, ...
Helping blind and visually-impaired people navigate their world has been a passion for Eelke Folmer. Guide dogs and canes are important and valuable tools, but he takes a different perspective: he ...
People with sight seem fixated on the mouse as an aid to blind computer users. But Richard Ring and Curtis Chong say those who can see are looking in the wrong direction. “We get a lot farther with ...
Andreas Stefik never really considered himself an agent for change. He simply saw a need in the blind community — which didn't have the resources to work in computer science because of the lack of ...
When Chris Donahue opens the door to let his dog out, he is unable to see where the animal runs. The Brighton Heights resident is blind, but he can find his dog outside via the Ray-Ban AI (artificial ...
Gayle Yarnall of Amesbury, Mass., is blind. Consequently, photography is not a skill she ever anticipated mastering. “But the iPhone will tell you if the face in the viewfinder is centered, or if [the ...
Put your graphical user interface to this test: Adjust the contrast on your display until the screen is completely black. Now, perform basic e-mail, word processing and Web-browsing tasks. What?
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