{"id":3791,"date":"2016-12-23T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:31:18","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-122316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 12\/23\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been listing 5 links a week for the past few weeks, but today, I just couldn&#8217;t narrow it down. My gift to you &#8211; some incredible news on assistive technology worldwide (spoiler &#8211; 7 links, not 5). Just another reason to feel good &amp; grateful this holiday season. Happy holidays, all!!!<\/p>\n<p>AT in the news for the week of 12\/19 &#8211; 12\/23.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"skip-to-content\" href=\"http:\/\/globalaccessibilitynews.com\/2016\/12\/14\/hundred-dollar-wheelchair-brings-hope-to-children-with-disabilities\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hundred Dollar Wheelchair Brings Hope to Children with Disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coolblindtech.com\/real-time-text-for-the-deaf-becomes-mandatory-in-the-united-states\/\">Real Time Text for the Deaf Becomes Mandatory in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/2016\/12\/solar-powered-wheelchair-market-is-expected-to-gain-popularity-across-the-globe.html\">Solar Powered Wheelchair Market is Expected to Gain Popularity Across the Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/12\/20\/14009890\/superflex-robot-power-suit-aging-elderly-senior-citizens-mobility\">Superflex\u2019s robot suit is meant to help mobilize aging populations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coolblindtech.com\/free-braille-music-notator\/\">Free Braille Music Notator<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/bw-dance-turns-music-into-vibrations-and-visualizations-1790165093\" data-id=\"\">BW Dance Turns Music Into Vibrations and Visualizations for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelherald.com\/articles\/68560\/20161205\/microsofts-new-ai-tech-empowers-the-blind-to-use-word-and-powerpoint.htm?utm_content=buffer0c91f&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Microsoft&#8217;s New AI Tech Empowers the Blind to Use Word and PowerPoint<\/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=3791\" 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>We&#8217;ve been listing 5 links a week for the past few weeks, but today, I just couldn&#8217;t narrow it down. My gift to you &#8211; some incredible news on assistive technology worldwide (spoiler &#8211; 7 links, not 5). Just another reason to feel good &amp; grateful this holiday season. Happy holidays, all!!! AT in the [&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":[3,27,5,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791"}],"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=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}