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.
Not exact matches
Facebook's accessibility group is testing out new ways to
use FAIR's research to help
blind users.
TECH CRUNCH - May 9 - To
use The
Blind Date Club,
users begin by simply asking Alexa to find them a date.
And if you're concerned about
blinding pedestrians and other road
users, the laser technology activates at 37mph and
uses a computerised sensor to detect oncoming cars and then adjust the light beam accordingly.
Amazon today announced a number of new features for its Kindle for iOS app that aim to make it easier to
use for
blind and visually impaired
users.
The summary helps
users who are
blind understand how to
use the schedule.
Android does have some built - in accessibility to allow
blind users to independently
use the touchscreen; Amazon could have worked with Talkback and added software to make it work with the Kindle - specific offerings.
In this review, we will do our best to provide an accurate picture of what
blind users can expect when
using the Kindle 3.
For the
blind user, however,
using this feature is not supported.
Once enabled through iOS» settings, VoiceOver can now read books and guide
blind users through the app's interface
using a synthetic voice.
[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.»
If you
use «blockchains without bitcoin» just to avoid public blockchains, you will be subjected to a huge market
blind spot because there are millions of
users that want to trade with bitcoin, and you'll be insulated from them.
On a trip to Apple Park's visitor center, Twitter
user @xarph composed a thread of tweets detailing nine ways that Apple designed the location to cater to
blind individuals who
use canes, partially - sighted individuals, and those who
use wheelchairs, saying «Basically, go to the Apple Park Visitor's Center if you want to see how to design a building for maximum disabled access when cost is no object.»
Alternatively, they can
use PART tokens with CT
blinding features applied to hide amounts sent between addresses.This flexibility adds to PART's intrinsic value because it allows PART to be
used for different sorts of transactions and is 100 percent based on
user preference.
Crisp and clean fonts are important for screen readers — software programs that
use a voice synthesizer or braille display to help
blind or visually impaired
users read text on the web.