{"id":3771,"date":"2016-12-16T09:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2016-12-16T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:21:28","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-121616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3771","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 12\/16\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never short of surprising, and often straight up amazing, this week&#8217;s foray into the latest assistive technology news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coolblindtech.com\/blind-people-can-take-amazing-selfies-with-talkback-and-the-camera-app-on-pixel-and-nexus-devices-running-nougat-7-1-and-higher\/\">Blind People Can Take Amazing Selfies with Talkback and the Camera App on Pixel and Nexus Devices Running Nougat 7.1 and Higher<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/12\/08\/assistive-technology-disabilities-design\/#7uYKQ0F2Tsqm\">People with disabilities want better tech and they know how to build it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/12\/11\/504953475\/behold-a-robot-hand-with-a-soft-touch?utm_campaign=storyshare&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social\">Behold A Robot Hand With A Soft Touch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapmunk.com\/voice-controlled-wearable-for-paralyzed-high-school-kids\/\">A Voice Controlled Wearable Enabling Movement for the Paralyzed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2016\/12\/06\/proposed-bill-authorizes-the-federal-government-to-equip-disabled-individuals-with-tracking-devices\/\">Proposed bill authorizes the federal government to equip disabled individuals with tracking devices<\/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=3771\" 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>Never short of surprising, and often straight up amazing, this week&#8217;s foray into the latest assistive technology news&#8230; Blind People Can Take Amazing Selfies with Talkback and the Camera App on Pixel and Nexus Devices Running Nougat 7.1 and Higher People with disabilities want better tech and they know how to build it Behold A [&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":[3,36,27,14,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771"}],"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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}