{"id":3708,"date":"2016-11-04T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2016-11-04T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:22:06","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-11416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 11\/4\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of the week and we&#8217;re gonna mix things up a little. Every Friday from now on, instead of blogging a list of articles we tweeted through the week, we&#8217;re going to choose the Top 5 assistive technology articles that we think best reflect innovation, change, and impact. Let&#8217;s call it Top Five Fridays! And if you want to go back and see ALL of the AT news for the week, just visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDTAP\">MDTAP Twitter<\/a> page. For now, here are some great articles about assistive technology for the week of 10\/31 thru 11\/4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/28\/technology\/accessibility-apple-sady-filmmaker\/index.html\">The woman featured in Apple&#8217;s accessibility video also edited it <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2016\/11\/01\/apple-doubling-down-accessibility\/22966\/\">Apple Doubling Down On Accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/tech-opens-the-door-for-people-with-cognitive-disabilities\/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&amp;linkId=30520360\">For kids with cognitive disabilities, tech means jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/a-new-era-of-assistive-technologies-for-people-with-disabilities-\">A New Era of Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3888074\/World-s-bionic-eye-millions-chance-seeing-Chip-bypasses-eyes-sends-wireless-signals-directly-brain.html\">World&#8217;s first bionic eye to give millions the chance of seeing again<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3708\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of the week and we&#8217;re gonna mix things up a little. Every Friday from now on, instead of blogging a list of articles we tweeted through the week, we&#8217;re going to choose the Top 5 assistive technology articles that we think best reflect innovation, change, and impact. Let&#8217;s call it Top Five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}