[AI] Driving for the Blind - A dream come true
Dear Friends, I found this snippet of news. The event pertains to the USA. Anyone interested in India? Col Pradeep Kapoor Blacksburg, VA - Blind people in Virginia are getting the chance to drive, thanks to a special dirt buggy developed by students at the Virginia Tech College of Engineering. The retrofitted four-wheel dirt buggy developed by the Blind Driver Challenge team uses laser range finders, an instant voice command interface and other innovative technologies to guide blind drivers as they steer, brake, and accelerate. "It was great!" said Wes Majerus of Baltimore, the first blind person to drive the buggy on a closed course at the Virginia Tech campus this summer. Majerus is an access technology specialist with the National Federation of the Blind's Jernigan Institute. Mark Riccobono takes a test drive Rather than producing a fully-autonomous vehicle, the team designed the vehicle so that the blind motorist has complete control of the driving process, as any sighted driver would. This approach led to new challenges, including how to effectively convey the high bandwidth of information from the laser sensors scanning the vehicle's surrounding environment to the driver fast enough and accurate enough to allow safe driving. As a result, the team developed non-visual interface technologies, including a vibrating vest for feedback on speed, a click counter steering wheel with audio cues, spoken commands for directional feedback, and a unique tactile map interface that utilizes compressed air to provide information about the road and obstacles surrounding the vehicle. Once the technology is perfected, laws now barring the blind from driving and public perception must be changed, Riccobono said. The team is already planning major changes to the technology, including replacing the dirt buggy vehicle with a fully electric car. The all-electric vehicle would reduce the vibration which can cause problems to the laser sensor, and will provide clean electric power for the computing units. The team will bring the Blind Driver Challenge vehicle to the National Federation of the Blind's Youth Slam summer camp event held July 26 to August 1 in College Park, Md. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] " how will crat new web site.
Dear accessindia friends: again Tharanipathy. I need some guide lines from you. I wished start new business related with leather goods. So, I want creat new web site for My own. It'll really impruve My business and I can get loat's of buyer and I can show our product to outhers. PLZ guide me. it'll grate full. I am seeking your valubel guide lines as soon as posible. Thanks for ever: B. Tharanipathy. Mobile: +91 09840825958 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Spoken Word Internet Radio Station, Free Radio OnlineSpoken Word Internet Radio Station, Free Radio Online
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[AI] regarding Kaspersky
Hello Jain sir, I purchased Kaspersky 2010 from the shop. I browsed in the website www.kasperskylab.com whether I can get any information. There was an option to update the latest version if the earlier version is in the system.I read your comments. Are you talking about the trial version or other versions also. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] regarding Kaspersky
Sir, Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 V 9.0.0.459 supports Jaws. It has been brought to my notice that few people are facing problems with accessibility. So, my advise to you would be to go to: http://techinfo.co.in/wordpress Which is a blog, owned by our own expert Ashish Rohtagi sir, on this page the first heading with text below it, describes kaspersky inaccessibility review. Go below, and when you hear "x" comments where x is the number for example, 4 comments, click. Wait and when the page gets load, read my first comment where I have presented accessible review of Kaspersky Internet Security, there you will find the link for downloading the accessible trial version. Download, and enjoy. I know, you are talking about kaspersky antivirus but so far I have tried kaspersky internet security and its accessible. Now I don't know, that weather you can use the same lisence of antivirus with internet security. Its bit confusing, but bit helpful if you ever think to install Kaspersky Internet Security. Contact off the list for any query. Regards, Amar Jain. - Original Message - From: "gramesh banu" To: "accessindia" Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:00 PM Subject: [AI] regarding Kaspersky Hello access indians, I had been using kaspersky and I have updated Kaspersky 2010. Does jaws support? If it supports please guide me. thank you ramesh To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] regarding Kaspersky
Hello access indians, I had been using kaspersky and I have updated Kaspersky 2010. Does jaws support? If it supports please guide me. thank you ramesh To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] be careful.
Clipboard Hack Problem - Shocking news about CTRL+C
Ctrl+C may be the most important work we do everyday. But it's not a very safe
thing to do. Read on to know why. What happens when you press Ctrl+C while you
are online. We do copy various data by Ctrl + C for pasting elsewhere. This
copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a
combination of Javascripts and ASP. This is called clipboard hack problem.
Just try this:
1. Copy any text by Ctrl + C
2. Click the Link: http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp
3. You will see the text you copied was accessed by this web page.
Surprised! Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, credit card numbers,
PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to
extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information.
Forward this information to as many friends as you can, to save them from
online frauds!
It is true, text you last copied for pasting (copy & paste) can be stolen when
you visit web sites using a combination of JavaScript and ASP (or PHP, or CGI)
to write your possible sensitive data to a database on another server.
How Clipboard Hack is done?
The Clipboard hack is done by the following Source Code:
var content = clipboardData.getData("Text");
alert(content);
Solution:
How to safeguard yourself from Clipboard Hack Problem?
To avoid clipboard hack problem, do the following:
1. Go to Internet Options->Security.
2. Press Custom level.
3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via
script.
Clipboard Hack Problem - Shocking news about CTRL+C
Ctrl+C may be the most important work we do everyday. But it's not a very safe
thing to do. Read on to know why. What happens when you press Ctrl+C while you
are online. We do copy various data by Ctrl + C for pasting elsewhere. This
copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a
combination of Javascripts and ASP. This is called clipboard hack problem.
Just try this:
1. Copy any text by Ctrl + C
2. Click the Link: http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp
3. You will see the text you copied was accessed by this web page.
Surprised! Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, credit card numbers,
PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to
extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information.
Forward this information to as many friends as you can, to save them from
online frauds!
It is true, text you last copied for pasting (copy & paste) can be stolen when
you visit web sites using a combination of JavaScript and ASP (or PHP, or CGI)
to write your possible sensitive data to a database on another server.
How Clipboard Hack is done?
The Clipboard hack is done by the following Source Code:
var content = clipboardData.getData("Text");
alert(content);
Solution:
How to safeguard yourself from Clipboard Hack Problem?
To avoid clipboard hack problem, do the following:
1. Go to Internet Options->Security.
2. Press Custom level.
3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via
script.
regards
raghu.
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[AI] about track changes
hello friends thanks to reply to my query. but my problem is whenever we turn on track changes it show all the changes you made at the right side of yours document. but after turn it off I guess it should be disappear but it is not. now tell me what should i do? hoping yours reply soon To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] BSNL recruiting candidates, but neglecting visually challenged.
Recruitment of DGMs in Telecom Management Services(TMS) and DGMs in Telecom Accounts & Finance Services (TAFS) Exam. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. [BSNL] will recruit 150 DGMs in Telecom Management Services and 60 DGMs in Telecom Accounts & Finance Services Exam [subject to variation depending on the availability of vacancies] through Written Test & personnel interview to be held around end of September 2009 on All India basis, as per the details given below. Get complete details with application form in word Format at: www.bsnl.co.in There is no special provision for the visually challenge to apply for these posts. Friends, can we do something in this regard? Amjad To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] BSNL recruiting candidates, but neglected the VH
Recruitment of DGMs in Telecom Management Services(TMS) and DGMs in Telecom Accounts & Finance Services (TAFS) Exam. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. [BSNL] will recruit 150 DGMs in Telecom Management Services and 60 DGMs in Telecom Accounts & Finance Services Exam [subject to variation depending on the availability of vacancies] through Written Test & personnel interview to be held around end of September 2009 on All India basis, as per the details given below. Get complete details with application form in word Format : Advertizement | Application form The is no special provision for the visually challenge to apply for these posts. Friends, can we do something in this regard? Amjad To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] regarding mobile phone accessibility
Hi Subramani In short, each of the user interface should be accessible and all the content too should be accessible. Ease of use should also be an important thing to consider. Harish Kotian. - Original Message - From: "Subramani L" To: Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:14 PM Subject: [AI] regarding mobile phone accessibility Folks: Yesterday, I had a talk with a measurement/compliance/designing company which has a specific focus on wireless and telecom devices. I asked them if it possible for someone like me to start learning the design features (technically) so that we can explore ways of incorporating accessibility into a phone that may be available in future. This is a project I am planning do on my own, but as you all know, not without consultation and learning that I would do in the course of this. TO begin with, I would like to know what do you all think as the major challenge(s) we may be facing while designing devices for WiMAX, 3-G or LTE based technologies. Just let me know from where exactly I can start. Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of nilesh sonar Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:30 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] how to turn off track changes? hello friends does any one knows how to turn off the track changes by useing keybord hoping yours reply soon thanking you from nilesh sonar Mo:9226448091 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Microsoft office takes it to the web-read on.
hello access indians! greetings to you all! is this announcement from the software giant a direct conpetition to google? read this article from the BBC news. Microsoft Office takes to the web By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Office 2010 will enhance video and picture capabilities in PowerPoint Microsoft has fired its latest salvo at Google, announcing a free web-based version of its Office software. Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it ships next year. The new web offering will compete with Google's free online Docs suite launched three years ago. Last week Google took aim at Windows with news of a free operating system while in June Microsoft introduced a new search engine called Bing. "We believe the web has a lot to offer in terms of connectivity," Microsoft's group product manager for Office told the BBC. "We have over a half a billion customers worldwide and what we hear from them is that they really want the power of the web without compromise. They want collaboration without compromise. "And what they tell us today is that going to the web often means they sacrifice fidelity, functionality and the quality of the content they care about. We knew that if and when we were ever going to bring applications into a web environment, we needed to do the hard work first because we hold such a high bar," said Mr Bryant. Microsoft said that 400 million customers who were Windows Live consumers would have access to the Office web applications at no cost. At a conference for business partners in New Orleans, Microsoft announced an early release of web apps to thousands of testers later this year. At the end of the year the company expects to release a proper public beta for the software and ship a final version off to PC makers in the first half of 2010. 'Conversion' Analysts have mostly given the thumbs-up to Microsoft for moving some of its applications to the web, even if it might cost them dearly. Excel spreadsheets can now run in the browser The Wall Street Journal has estimated that offering free online software could "put at risk as much at $4bn (£2.46bn) in revenue". One analyst told the paper that despite such losses, it could be a canny move. "Making sure people are still using Microsoft products is more important" in the short term than risking revenue, explained Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. "They need to keep people using Office," he said. "Microsoft is finally making the conversion through the web-based world. First, we saw that through Bing. Now we are seeing that through Office, " said Jeffries & Co analyst Katherine Egbert. "The software giant has woken up," wrote Emil Protalinksi of online blog Ars Technica. "It is promising to know that such a traditional software company is responding to the 'threat of the cloud' to its core business by embracing it." Investors appeared to like Microsoft's move and boosted shares by almost 3.8% higher to close at $23.23 (£14.33). Rivalry Microsoft's announcement is being seen as the latest move in a tit-for-tat rivalry between two tech giants as it and Google increasingly make efforts to encroach on one another's turf. When Google announced its Chrome operating system last week, the blogosphere watched and waited for Microsoft to react. Chrome OS is seen as a direct challenge to market leader Windows Mr Bryant stuck to the company line when he spoke to BBC News. "I haven't seen the product. I think it's not a trivial engineering investment to go and build an operating system," he said. "Of course it is interesting and there is a lot of talk but until we see the product, it's hard to say what kind of impact it will have. "We can't afford to get wrapped up in hype or buzz or noise because really our customers depend on us every single day." Microsoft's business software division, which includes Office, made $9.3 bn (£5.74bn) in profit from $14.3 bn(£8.82bn) in sales during the first three-quarters of its 2009 fiscal year. with warm regards, solomon. teachs...@gmail.com SkypeID: solomonkarur To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] help regarding music programming
hi friends, i m a musician & want to do music programming. if there r any music programmers on accessindia please contact me. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Strong Protest on Wrong Portrayal of Indian Map (without J&K) on official Website of ADD India
Sorry for this off subject post but thought it might appeal few of you. A leading disability International organisation working in India deletes J&K from Indian Map on its official website. How should we react to it? -- Forwarded message -- From: SC Vashishth Date: 16 Jul 2009 16:28 Subject: Strong Protest on Wrong Portrayal of Indian Map (without J&K) on your official Website To: addin...@vsnl.com To Dr. Sebastian Director- ADD 4005, 19th Cross, Banashankari II Stage Extn, Bangalore 560 070, India Dear Mr. Sebastian, This refers to our telephonic discussion a while ago on the subject. As I said I am deeply pained that an international developmental organisation of this stature especially working in India has such flaws on its website http://www.add.org.uk/India.asp *which no Indian would tolerate *. *I strongly object to portrayal of Indian Map in its present form i.e. without J&K. This relates to the integrity and sovereignity of the nation.* I appreciate that you have joined recently and would take time to understand the official work related to the important post that you fill *but this matter must be immediately dealt with before it blows up in ugly proportion! * My good wishes to you on joining this august organisation as its Director and hope we have a continuous dialogue on many common areas in disability sector. Warm regards Subhash Chandra Vashishth Advocate-Disability Rights, New Delhi, India Mobile: +91 (11) 9811125521 Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Consider environment! -- Warm regards, Subhash Chandra Vashishth Mobile: +91 (11) 9811125521 Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Consider environment! To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] regarding mobile phone accessibility
Folks: Yesterday, I had a talk with a measurement/compliance/designing company which has a specific focus on wireless and telecom devices. I asked them if it possible for someone like me to start learning the design features (technically) so that we can explore ways of incorporating accessibility into a phone that may be available in future. This is a project I am planning do on my own, but as you all know, not without consultation and learning that I would do in the course of this. TO begin with, I would like to know what do you all think as the major challenge(s) we may be facing while designing devices for WiMAX, 3-G or LTE based technologies. Just let me know from where exactly I can start. Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of nilesh sonar Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:30 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] how to turn off track changes? hello friends does any one knows how to turn off the track changes by useing keybord hoping yours reply soon thanking you from nilesh sonar Mo:9226448091 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] how to turn off track changes?
Conversely, Could you also pl instruct on turning this feature on? Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of nilesh sonar Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:30 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] how to turn off track changes? hello friends does any one knows how to turn off the track changes by useing keybord hoping yours reply soon thanking you from nilesh sonar Mo:9226448091 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Subject regarding with gold wave script
Ok, visit following links that may help you. http://blind-geek-zone.net/ http://blindcooltech.com/ http://blind-computing.com/ http://jaws-users.com/ Two links are already given by Sandesh bhaiya, find in older archives. One link to sendspace was given by Singuru Rathi sir, find in older archives. The tutorials are so big, that it can not be sent to you by email. On blind computing, you can locate easily, and same with blind geek zone under audio section. About Jaws users I dont remember and same with other sites. For any query, write me off the list. Regards Amar Jain. - Original Message - From: "Timy Sebastian Ettumanoor" To: Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:38 PM Subject: [AI] Subject regarding with gold wave script Dear access Indian!!! If any one having gold wave tutorial please send to me in my Id. My ID is timysebastian.sebastia...@gmail.com with regards Timy Sebastian Ettumanoor. karalla India. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4230 (20090710) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4230 (20090710) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Subject regarding with gold wave script
Dear access Indian!!! If any one having gold wave tutorial please send to me in my Id. My ID is timysebastian.sebastia...@gmail.com with regards Timy Sebastian Ettumanoor. karalla India. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4230 (20090710) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4230 (20090710) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Bookshare & Code Factory Announce Partnership
July 7, 2009, Palo Alto, CA Individuals with print disabilities can now choose new, low-cost mobile technologies to read more than 50,000 digital books and periodicals thanks to a partnership between Bookshare, the worlds largest online library of accessible books for people with print disabilities, and Code Factory, Barcelona Spain; a leading global provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for a wide range of mainstream mobile devices. The Mobile Speak screen readers for mobile phones developed by Code Factory use synthesized speech to read aloud information displayed on the mobile phone screens including ebooks stored on their phones. Using this technology, Bookshare members who are blind or have visual impairments will have new alternatives and features like navigation, bookmarking and text search, to access digital books for work, study or reading pleasure. For years, individuals with print disabilities have needed the ability to read books on a readily-available, low-cost, portable device such as the mobile phone, said Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, the nonprofit organization which operates Bookshare. We envision students with visual impairments or learning disabilities on the bus reading textbooks and other assignments with their phones; in rural areas or homes without computers, individuals can download digital books at school or a community center with computer access and read the content anywhere using their mobile phone. Mobile phone technologies will bring Bookshare books to people and students who previously lacked a portable technology solution to read digital books, magazines and newspapers on the go. To read Bookshare books, users of Mobile Speak can download books and periodicals from the Bookshare website (http://www.bookshare.org) to their PC and transfer them to their mobile phones or PDAs. Code Factory provides accessible solutions for Symbian phones as well as Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs. If users have a Symbian phone (e.g. Nokia phone) they can install the Mobile DAISY Player application in addition to the Mobile Speak screen reader application. Mobile DAISY Player is a book reader which will allow users with sight and visual impairments to read Bookshare files in DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) format. Mobile DAISY Player is the first and only mobile phone DAISY application to support both DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3.0 (NISO) book formats. Users can adjust the speed of reading without changing the pitch, set bookmarks to favorite places in the contents screen, navigate by character, word, sentence or paragraph, and configure font sizes and screen colors. Individuals with a Windows Mobile device can also read Bookshare books in BRF (Braille Ready Format) through the built-in Braille reader implemented in Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket. The Braille reader application will read Bookshare BRF files in English through users active speech synthesizer whether or not a Braille display is connected. Users having a refreshable Braille display can read Bookshare books in Braille which is particularly useful for deaf-blind users. Bookshare member Larry L. Lewis, Jr., President and Founder of Flying Blind, LLC, uses the Mobile Speak application to read Bookshare books on the go. My Mobile Speak-equipped Smartphone is convenient and allows me to accomplish more tasks while carrying fewer devices, said Lewis. Code Factory's BRF reader allows me the flexibility to read Bookshare books with a wireless Braille display or to simply listen to the text while it is read by Mobile Speak. Bookshare and Code Factory share a vision to provide individuals with disabilities around the globe with greater access to a vast collection of digital books and information, said Eduard Sanchez, CEO of Code Factory. We value this introduction from Bookshare, a social enterprise, to identify the latest mobile technologies as a solution that will raise the level of access for these individuals. Product Information Links: Bookshare Membership Code Factory Promotion Code Bookshare offers memberships to individuals in the U.S. and around the world for a nominal fee. The library has tens of thousands of books including fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, educational reading, newspapers and magazines, plus two free software applications that read digital content. To learn more visit http://www.bookshare.org/signUpType. Applicants, other than U.S. students who qualify for free memberships, will receive a $25 waiver on a set up fee. To receive this waiver, you must: 1) enter promo code: Codefactory in your registration form and 2) send an email to members...@bookshare.org to request the waiver ( http://www.bookshare.org/signUpType?promoCode=Codefactory) Mobile Speak Pricing and Distribution Information Code Factorys accessible solutions are available in the U.S. through several distributors, including ATT.
[AI] An Inventor Whose Blindness Was Just A Legal Technicality
An Inventor Whose Blindness Was Just a Legal Technicality By STEPHEN MILLER Sam Genensky liked watching baseball, birds and women -- not necessarily in that order. So it might have come as a surprise to those who never met him that Mr. Genensky was legally blind. A RAND Corp. mathematician who had been left almost sightless by an accident in infancy, Mr. Genensky developed a system for projecting magnified text on video screens that has helped millions of the partially sighted people around the world to read. "The technology had a dramatic impact," says Mitch Pomerantz, president of the American Council of the Blind. "Up until then, people with low vision had no alternatives, except perhaps magnifying glasses, and they were clunky." Mr. Genensky, who died June 26 at age 81, always resisted being treated as sightless, even though his 20-1,000 vision in his one functioning eye made him blind by law. That didn't stop him from being a fan of the impressionists, even if he had to view canvasses one piece at a time and mentally reassemble them. View Full Image Los Angeles Times Samuel Genensky, who created solutions for the blind, would observe paintings one section at a time and then reassemble them mentally. Obituaries Notable deaths from the business world and entertainment industry from Tributes.com.As a child, he balked at Braille and spoke of his one year at a school for the blind as a prison sentence. In his teens, he discovered how to modify a pair of binoculars his dad brought home from World War I so that he could see the blackboard in class and take notes. He went on to graduate with honors from Brown University and returned to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1958. At RAND in Santa Monica, Calif., he programmed early computers, and modeled fluid dynamics and spontaneous combustion. But he continued to be dogged by his limited vision that made reading into a neck-craning chore. He described the way he read as "nosing." The problem was that programs were geared toward the totally blind. The Veterans Administration offered white-cane training and guide dogs to servicemen blinded in World War II. But despite the fact that the majority of the legally blind have at least a limited capacity to see, there was little help for those whose vision was severely impaired but could be improved with technology. "People seem to want blind people to conform to the image of blind men, even if the person can see," Mr. Genensky told the Los Angeles Times in 1971. His answer, constructed with the help of a team of RAND scientists and engineers, was Randsight, the prototype for systems that project large text on a video screen. Randsight presented text 31 times its original size when he first demonstrated it at a convention of the American Academy of Optometry in Los Angeles in 1968. A Reader's Digest feature in 1971 dubbed it "Sam Genensky's Marvelous Seeing Machine," and generated thousands of inquiries from around the world. Mr. Genensky declined to patent the invention to encourage other companies to develop and manufacture video magnification systems. He said he could read 130 words a minute with his system, slow for a sighted adult, but a near-miracle for many of the legally blind. Says American Federation for the Blind President Carl Augusto, "Sam was responsible for really bringing low vision into the mainstream." The video systems were one of an array of solutions offered at the Los Angeles-based Center for the Partially Sighted, which Mr. Genensky founded with federal grants in 1978. The center continues to offer technology, as well as psychological counseling. Mr. Genensky himself used a pair of "monster binoculars" for reading signs, a footlong spyglass for attending the ballet or sporting events, and an odd-looking compound lens mounted on glasses for walking the streets and "even girl-watching," as he once said. He traveled internationally to raise funds and bring attention to the cause of the partially sighted, and did some counseling himself. Teenagers sometimes resisted help. "They say, 'I don't want to use that. It looks funny!'" Mr. Genensky told the Los Angeles Times in 1990. "I say, 'I'm going to give you my 'it's fun to be different' lecture." To address another possible source of embarrassment, he developed what became a California state standard for lavatory signage, a large triangle for the men's room, a circle for the ladies. As a result of cataract surgery in the early 1990s, Mr. Genensky's vision improved dramatically for a time, and he was stunned to realize that his wife was a redhead, not a brunette, as he'd thought. But the improvement was temporary, and in recent years he'd had to dust off his Braille-reading skills. Paul Baran, a scientist who worked on the team that developed the original Randsight device, says the project came about almost on a whim. "Low vision was not a subject RAND was interested in," says Mr. Baran. "We just thoug
Re: [AI] Gold Wave tutorials?
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