Sentences with phrase «blind users»

Unfortunately, only one of these methods is accessible for blind users at this time.

The company has consistently received feedback from blind users about what could be improved on their reading devices to make them fully accessible.

For instance, the Smart Reply feature of Google's Inbox email app suggests one - line responses to incoming emails, and the Facebook app now offers machine - generated photo captions for the News Feed through the screen reader on iOS to help blind users understand what their Facebook friends are sharing.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a hard decision to make: a coalition including the world's top research institutions; organizations supporting blind users on three continents; security firms; blockchain startups; browser vendors and user rights groups have asked it not to hand control over web video to some of the biggest companies in the world.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a hard decision to make: a coalition including the world's top research institutions; organizations supporting blind users on three continents; security firms; blockchain startups; browser vendors and user rights groups have asked it not to hand control over web video to some of...

Amedi hopes EyeMusic will help blind users gain more independence and improve their quality of life.

Also in December, a number of blind users protested in front of the company's headquarters to bring attention to the Kindle's lack of features for visually impaired users.

I was both angry and disappointed to learn that last year's Kindle Fire had no accessibility and I'm once again disappointed, though not surprised, that they seem to be abandoning blind users yet again.

In this review, we will do our best to provide an accurate picture of what blind users can expect when using the Kindle 3.

Once enabled through iOS» settings, VoiceOver can now read books and guide blind users through the app's interface using a synthetic voice.

What about turning on Voice Guide — How do blind users figure that out?

For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text - to - speech software and / or text - to - Braille hardware.

When links are underlined (or otherwise differentiated) as well as colored, this ensures that color blind users will be able to notice them.

The Dot is a smartwatch with a unique interface that is able to translate basic notifications for blind users by dynamically reproducing braille on its specialized surface.

The Trezor and Ledger Nano S are currently the most popular and secure hardware wallets on the market and, although both are high - quality devices, they both suffer from the same shortcoming — lack of support for blind users.

Facebook's accessibility group is testing out new ways to use FAIR's research to help blind users.

Paluri said that with the improved ability to understand images, Facebook would be able to create more accurate audio descriptions of photos to its blind users.

When Amazon upgraded its LCD - screen Fire tablets, the company removed audio features from the Kindle e-reader line, thus making it inaccessible to blind users, according to the Wall Street Journal.

By attaching a head - mounted camera to a computer and headphones, the blind users were even able to navigate around a room by the sound cues alone.

Every one of our blind users wanted to take the device home with them after the experiment, and felt they could immediately contribute to their everyday lives,» adds Maidenbaum.

Golledge, who has conducted research on other virtual mapping systems for more than 15 years, notes that blind users would still need a guide dog or cane to navigate potholes in the real world.

The device offers access to TV and film content from LoveFilm through the device's improved media player, meaning that a blind user can enjoy the tablet's full range of features independently.

In 2009, Amazon introduced the first Kindles with text - to - speech output, but blind users could not independently access this feature.

As a blind user, I would love to have access to the millions of books that Amazon offers.

For the blind user, however, using this feature is not supported.

Additionally, linking your social network accounts with your Kindle is not accessible, so the blind user can not participate in sharing information with others.

Also, there is no spoken feedback when scrolling through the document if text - to - speech is off, so none of these options for navigation are available to the blind user.

With Jelly Bean, blind users can use «Gesture Mode» to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures in combination with speech output.

In May, blind patrons filed suit against the Free Library of Philadelphia for its Nook lending program, because this ereader (unlike some others) is not accessible to blind users.

Apart from that, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean also features smarter keyboard with accurate dictionaries, Gesture Mode for blind users, and the latest mobile operating system makes snapping photo super fast, you can more easily share your masterpieces via friends.

For more than two decades, recognized as Maryland's leading private law firm for handling high impact, public interest cases for unrepresented or underrepresented persons or interests, including cases regarding website accessibility for blind users, enforcing minority voting rights on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and enforcing the rights of African Americans, people with disabilities, and others to live in the communities of their choice.

We represented the National Federation of the Blind and blind individuals in litigation against the Law School Admissions Council, and settled on terms that required the LSAC website, including all law school applications, to be fully accessible to blind users.

We have successfully challenged America Online's failure to make its site accessible to blind users, enforced minority voting rights on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and enforced the rights of African Americans, people with disabilities, and others to live in the communities of their choice.

The key was to understand the system, not to be a blind user of commercial research tools.

[The] «menus of the device are not accessible to the blind... making it impossible for a blind user to purchase books from Amazon's Kindle store, select a book to read, activate the text - to - speech feature, and use the advanced reading functions available on the Kindle

[The] «menus of the device are not accessible to the blind... making it impossible for a blind user to purchase books from Amazon's Kindle store, select a book to read, activate the text - to - speech feature, and use the advanced reading functions available on the Kindle DX.»