Posts under ‘accessibility’

ILAB’s Cary Supalo will present “Multi-Sensory Approaches to Teaching Chemistry to Students with Blindness or Low Vision” on Tuesday. Aug. 31 at 3:00 p.m. in room 339 Fawcett Hall at Wright State University.

Chandrika Jayant is a computer science PhD student at the University of Washington: “My research is on mobile device and camera interaction for blind and low-vision people. My goal is to find a usable way for blind people to use the camera on mainstream cell phones to gather certain information about their environment.”

Many thanks to Jerry Hensley, my accessible tech guru, for sending these links to interviews from the 2010 CSUN conference.

Manufacturers and suppliers of consumer technology devices in the US could be forced to make all their products accessible to blind consumers, if proposed legislation is passed by Congress.

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.