Grants Will Help Develop Technology to Make Homes Accessible for Disabled Veterans, Service Members The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded more than $784,000 in Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology (SAHAT) Grants to individuals, researchers and organizations. The grants will be used to develop new technologies to make homes accessible for Veterans and Service […]
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This week, Twitter added alt text options for image uploads, Facebook is looking into artificial intelligence for users with disabilities, app developers are finally including accessibility in their upgrades, and universities are building accessible IT into their course curriculums…clearly the accessibility movement has much to be proud of. These stories, and a whole lot more […]
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The NFB is hosting 2 “boutiques” to teach some of the most current issues in accessibility: How do you make a document accessible? 4/14/2016, 8am-10am Word, PDF, EPUB, PowerPoint, and HTML documents — how much do these formats have in common? For blind and other print-disabled users, they have this shared trait: all of these […]
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Ability Tools Reuse Conference June 20-21, 2016 Sacramento Convention Center Sacramento, CA This exciting conference will bring together people from around the country who are working in or want to work in the reuse of assistive technology and durable medical equipment. Learn more and register online.
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Well it might seem like the obvious, but it wasn’t, until it was – pedestrian air bags, open source platform to develop caregiving apps, inclusive signage for people with invisible disabilities and more…AT in the news for the week of 3/21 thru 3/25 IBM Cloud, Watson Help Guiding Eyes Breed Superior Guide Dogs 10-Year-Old Designs […]
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The U.S. Access Board in collaboration with the ADA National Network is pleased to announce the upcoming monthly Accessibility Online Webinar: “Open Q&A” on March 24th This is a regular session providing an opportunity to ask questions on any topic related to the Board’s activities. Session participants are requested to submit questions in advance on […]
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