Dear AccessWorld readers,
Last month AccessWorld served up its best holiday gift-giving ideas for people with vision loss. In the November issue, Janet Ingber gave some great ideas in the 2013 Holiday Gift Ideas for Children and Adults with Vision Loss, and she provided information on popular shopping websites in her article, AccessWorld's 2013 Online Shopping Guide: It's Time for Holiday Shopping. There is still time to get the shopping done, so if you missed these articles, you can follow these links or, as always, you can select the "Back Issues" button to check out any past online issue of AccessWorld.
If you happen to be doing some cooking this time of year, you may want to take a look back at Deborah Kendrick's November 2010 review of the Directions for Me website, Website Evaluation: Directions for Me, a Gift to People Who Can't Read the Box. This article may help take the guesswork out of preparing those holiday meals by having package directions available at your fingertips.
If you find yourself needing a break from all the pre- or post-holiday festivities, you may want to consider a stop at the local movie theater. As you can read in this month's article from J.J. Meddaugh, audio description technology in movie theaters is becoming more widely available. Relying on a friend or family member or imagining what might be happening in the film is no longer necessary. It's now possible to become completely immersed in the theater experience and enjoy films on an entirely new level. So sit back, relax, and take a break from the holiday rush.
To end the year on a high note, so to speak, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is proud to announce that its note-taking app for the iOS platform, AccessNote, has been updated to version 1.2. AccessNote retails for $19.99 and can be found in the Apple App Store.
AccessNote version 1.2 includes many bug fixes and several enhancements. The Find function has been completely redesigned to be more streamlined, and by popular request, it's now possible to import BRF files without changing the extension. To learn about all the changes and enhancements in AccessNote version 1.2, visit the complete change log.
The AccessWorld team wishes you a happy and healthy holiday season. We look forward to bringing you the latest in tech news in the coming year!
Best regards,
Lee Huffman, AccessWorld Editor-in-Chief
American Foundation for the Blind
