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Instant Access to Information with Aira: An Introduction (Part 1 of 2)
by Janet Ingber
With the tap of a button, Aira puts you in touch with trained sighted assistance.
Vision Research
Vision Tech: Earlier Diagnosis and Intervention Can Help Stanch Increasing Rates of Blindness
by Bill Holton
This article introduces a pair of recent developments in the detection and treatment of eye conditions such as diabetic retinopathy and advanced macular degeneration.
Accessibility Industry Spotlight
by John Rempel
The International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) is a non-profit, membership-based division of the United Nations Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict).
Access to Audio Description
Audio Description Comes to Amazon Prime
by Jamie Pauls
As of this writing, there are 133 titles available from Amazon Video that have audio description. Many are free with your Prime membership, while others must be rented or purchased.
Technology Spotlight
SEE3D: Teenagers Expand the Visual World for People Who Are Blind
by Deborah Kendrick
Caroline Karbowski is the mind behind the See3D project, which won second place at this year's Tech Olympics in Cincinnati. Learn how this technology helps people with vision loss experience shapes or objects they are not able to see.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Across Two Novembers: A Year In The Life Of A Blind Bibliophile, by David Faucheux
by Deborah Kendrick
As one who has overindulged on blindness memoirs more than once in the past few decades, Across Two Novembers struck me as the most genuine depiction of life from the blind side that I have read.
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