Dear AccessWorld readers,
Last month AccessWorld served up its best holiday gift-giving ideas for people with vision loss. In the November issue, Deborah Kendrick gave some great ideas in her article, AccessWorld 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Great High- and Low-Tech Ideas Under $100, and Janet Ingber provided information on popular shopping websites in her article, AccessWorld's 2014 Online Shopping Guide.
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, and it may even have the manual for that gift you are hoping to get over the holidays.
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 last December's article from J.J. Meddaugh, audio description technology in movie theaters is becoming increasingly 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 is proud to announce that the free AccessWorld app has now been downloaded over 4,500 times; the newly launched CareerConnect app, also free, has been downloaded over 600 times; and AFB's note-taking app for the iOS platform, AccessNote, has been downloaded over 4,000 times. AccessNote is now free and can be found in the Apple App Store. Look for a free Android version of AccessNote in the Google Play Store early next year!
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
