by VR Horizons | Oct 15, 2019 | Accessibility, Blog, News, 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 | Sep 18, 2014 | living with disabilities, News, Technology
The Neurobridge is a collaborative project developed by Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center and applied science development non-profit organization Battelle. Through combined efforts, the organizations have been working on a tool that allows the brain signal...
by VR Horizons | Aug 12, 2014 | disability community, living with disabilities, News, Technology
It is not often that the disability world gets a chance to band together and make media history. Right now, across the United States, individuals of all abilities can record their story and experience with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) or an experience with...
by VR Horizons | Jul 8, 2014 | disability community, living with disabilities, News, Technology
Touch technology is used all over the world and even in space. The abilities of touch technology is just being discovered while engineers and scientists study and research the unlimited possibilities. One study conducted at the University of California Berkeley...
by VR Horizons | May 16, 2014 | Accessibility, braille, living with disabilities, News, Technology
Utilizing new 3D printing technology, London-Based firm, OwnFone, has released the first ever pre-programmable Braille Phone to go on sale. The item itself is highly customizable since the technology of 3D printing is so adaptable. For those who can’t read...
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