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Book Reviews
Book Review Double Feature: Designing Documents for Appearance and The Beauty of Dusk
In this set of book reviews, Deborah Kendrick reviews Judy Dixon's Book *Designing Documents for Appearance* while Steve Kelley reviews Frank Bruni's book, *The Beauty of Dusk*.
Access Matters
A “More” Accessible Covid test from the US Government
The U.S. Government has began providing the most accessible COVID-19 test on the market to people with vision loss. In this article, we discuss how to obtain tests and review them for accessibility.
Vision Research
Vision Tech: VoxLens--A single line of code that can enable developers to make charts and graphs more accessible
VoxLens allows a developer to provide greater access to their charts and graphs with a single line of code. In this article, Bill Holton discusses the project with the developer and provides examples of VoxLens in action.
Product Reviews and Guides
Scanning and Reading Documents with OneStep Reader and Voice Dream Scanner
The OneStep Reader and Voice Dream Scanner are two scanning and reading apps specifically developed for people who are blind or visually impaired. Both do a very good job of scanning and reading documents. For this article, we explore each app and evaluate their scanning performance.
Bookshare comes to the Amazon Echo
Have you heard? The Amazon Echo smart speaker, just got smarter—over a million books smarter. The world’s largest online library of accessible ebooks, Bookshare, has a new Echo skill in beta, Bookshare Reader and it puts your books in Alexa’s hands to read out loud.
A Review of Senior Sidekick
Imagine for a moment a high tech gadget that’s easy to use, has buttons, and even a knob that turns for the volume control. It connects to Wi-Fi for streaming services, but maintains the simplicity of a radio. If you’re thinking of Alexa with a manual volume control and a couple more tactile buttons, you might be getting close to imagining the Senior Sidekick.
A Review of Voice Dream Reader for the Mac
The popular Voice Dream Reader app is now available on the Mac. Considering it is quite the full featured and useful app, what benefits does this change of platform bring?