The Neuroplasticity and Development Lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University is seeking participants for psychology research studies. JHU will study how people with varying lifetime experiences process information. The study compares the brains of blind and sighted individuals. The goal of this research is to better understand how visual and non-visual […]
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Introducing Lire Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Lire, from www.lireapp.com,just received an award from Applevis.com. It’s the editor’s pick this month and for good reason. Lire isn’t just another RSS reading app. It does some extra work behind the curtain to enhance the reading experience. Specifically, Rather than just presenting the short […]
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The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is exploring the feasibility of creating an app to make the resources available in the Find Services feature on its websites more easily available to eye care professionals, service providers (such as rehabilitation counselors, teachers of visually impaired students, orientation and mobility instructors, etc.), and consumers. The Find […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP It’s going to rain all week. I mean all week. Sooner or later it will be time to sit down with a nice pot of tea and play a game (rather than being the global marketplace high-achiever your Mom believes you to be). So, instead of another […]
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NewsFlash iOS update Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP If, like me, you have been suffering with inexplicable keyboard problems while using VoiceOver on your iOS device—you are not alone. This has been a definite, if hard to pin down bug which debuted with the arrival of iOS 7.1. Today, Apple released iOS […]
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The Braille Edge 40 Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Recently, MDTAP has received several inquiries about refreshable Braille displays. As their name implies, these devices have one row of Braille pins which refresh themselves to reflect the output from a computer or mobile device. We have several examples of this species available […]
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