The focus of Georgia Tech's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Workplace Accommodations (WorkRERC) is to further the understanding of employment barriers faced by people with disabilities. Its goal is to enable equitable access to employment, enhanced employment outcomes, and increased participation in the workplace for people with disabilities.
As its name suggests, Buythecase.net allows shoppers to buy products by the case. According to two AccessWorld readers, who were kind enough to respond to a recent review of Soap.com, the site is recommended for purchasing bulk items. In addition, specialty items that may be difficult to find in local stores may be available through this site.
This month, Bookshare.org launched a new web site. The new site includes features members have been waiting for, such as navigation by headings; skip to content links; drop-down menus for the main navigation; the ability for members with low vision to enlarge text fonts; the ability to change the number of characters per line in a braille book to match your braille display; more search options; and more.
The My Blind Spot QuickBooks training program is designed to train individuals who are blind or visually impaired to successfully navigate the QuickBooks desktop accounting program for Windows with JAWS.
Described TV and Accessible Higher Ed Materials Gaining Ground
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A free update for ZoomText 10.1, version 10.11.9, is now available. This update provides the following enhancements and fixes:
Recently, Microsoft shared a video it has used internally to educate its employees on disability inclusion and accessibility, entitled Introduction to Disability and Accessibility. By permission, AccessWorld is sharing it with you to help spread the GAD message.
Virgin Australia has become the first airline in the Asia Pacific and the second airline in the world to introduce an in-flight entertainment (IFE) user interface for passengers who are blind or have low vision.
Designed to make the customer experience more accessible for visually impaired passengers, the new interface increases accessibility to IFE content through simplified screen layouts, larger icons, and voice prompts.
AFB Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of the highly anticipated third edition of the essential textbook in the field of blindness and visual impairment, Foundations of Education, edited by M. Cay Holbrook, Cheryl Kamei-Hannan, and Tessa McCarthy, and authored by dozens of experts in the field of blindness and visual impairment.
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) administers three post-secondary education scholarships for up to 7 deserving students who are legally blind. The available scholarships for 2017 are detailed below.
The Rudolph Dillman Memorial Scholarship: Four scholarships of $2,500
Requirements: