The problem with Captchas Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP According to a recent Ted Radio Hour episode, n.pr/1bOzlZ, we spent 500,000 hours solving Captchas world wide. Chances are, you run into them all the time. A Captcha is the little box, usually on a website, which asks you to type the blurry […]
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AFB and VisionAware recently launched new initiatives addressing the needs of individuals with vision loss. Check out some of the newest materials here: Help Us StrengthenSpecialized Services by sharing our new advocacy materials As services geared to help people with visual impairments are almost perpetually in danger of being cut due to shrinking budgets, it becomes […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP As we posted on both Facebook and Twitter earlier this afternoon, Window-Eyes is now free to any user of MS Office 2010 or later. By going to www.windoweyesforoffice.com and selecting my language, I promptly found myself in possession of a fully-functional copy of Window-Eyes. The installation took around […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Informed consumer choice is one of our goals at MDTAP. Meaning, you, the consumer, must choose the assistive technology which works best for you. There are two aspects to this. In an ideal world all technology works well and performs as expected. This is not the case […]
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Keysoft 9.4 Arrives Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP After months of fanfare, Humanware has finally released Keysoft 9.4 for the Braillenote Apex line of Braille Notetakers. You can download Keysoft 9.4 from the support page here. There are 2 significant advances in the new release. First, support for reading the text contained […]
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Learning to Write with DoItWrite Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP With the release of iOS7, Apple added a hand writing function to VoiceOver. When the “Hand writing” option is selected via the rotar function, print characters, such as uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation, can be drawn directly on the screen of an iOS device. […]
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