by VR Horizons | Nov 26, 2019 | Accessibility, Blog, disability community, living with disabilities, Technology
Over 217 million people in the world are severely visually impaired or blind. This is also a world of continuous technologization, but it is somewhat surprising that high-tech assistance for the visually impaired took so long. Now, there’s a Bluetooth-enabled “smart...
by VR Horizons | Oct 15, 2019 | Accessibility, Blog, Technology
Show and Tell is an Alexa feature designed to help blind and low vision customers identify grocery items. With Show and Tell, blind and low vision customers can hold up an item to the Echo Show camera and ask, “Alexa, what am I holding,” and Alexa helps identify the...
by VR Horizons | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog, Technology
Apple® has proposed 13 new emojis to the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit that reviews emoji requests. Working with the National Association of the Deaf, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and the American Council of the Blind, Apple’s request includes four categories of...
by VR Horizons | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog, Conferences, CSAVR, NCSAB
On Sunday April 8, 2018 VR Horizons will be partnering with Alliance Enterprises, the leading provider of case management solutions for Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), to host an on-site focus group at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda. This free session, scheduled to...
by VR Horizons | May 12, 2017 | Blog, RSA, VR Agencies, WIOA
Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), core partner programs are required to report on common measures. Data collection for this new requirement begins July 1, 2017. This will be a new endeavor for vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies, that are...
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