Open, Sesame - Gulf Coast Newspapers

Gulf Coast Newspapers

Open, Sesame Gulf Coast Newspapers, AL - 2 hours ago Various equipment will be purchased including illuminated tabletop magnifiers, large-letter keyboards, Zoom Text software, JAWS Screen Reader software, ... ‘Resolve to Read’ in ’09 Gulf Coast Newspapers all 2 news articles

Getting older means less peer pressure - News Sentinel

Getting older means less peer pressure News Sentinel, IN - Dec 24, 2008 We purchase three pairs of “150-200 magnifiersâ€� and forget where we leave them. ♦Early birds — we eat dinner at five and always arrive well before a movie, ...

Calendar - Community centers - Blue Springs Examiner

Calendar - Community centers Blue Springs Examiner,  USA - Dec 26, 2008 LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER – The area has equipment such as magnifiers, check writing guides, auto focus video magnifier and more. Call for an appointment. ...

Help for the visually-impaired at the Library - Indianapolis Star

Help for the visually-impaired at the Library Indianapolis Star, United States - Dec 24, 2008 The library will loan the magnifiers to interested cardholders for 21-day intervals. Residents just need to visit the second floor circulation desk to ...

No answers from the experts - Global Investor (subscription)

Global Investor (subscription)

No answers from the experts Global Investor (subscription), UK - Dec 29, 2008 Solow, asked if hedge funds were the market demons they are being portrayed as, said they were "magnifiers" of the crisis. "They were part, but only part, ...

Learning to live life without sight - MSNBC

Learning to live life without sight MSNBC - Dec 22, 2008 ... the use of high-powered magnifiers or referrals to essential resources such as the Veterans Administration and California Department of Rehabilitation ...

Braille: Balancing tradition and technology - Kansas City Star

Braille: Balancing tradition and technology Kansas City Star, MO - Dec 7, 2008 ... an explosion in technologies designed to help the blind access everything from novels to the Internet: “talkingâ€� computers, magnifiers, audiobooks. ...

What magnifiers + lens combos are best on M8? - Leica User Forum
I haven't gotten a chance to look through the 1.25 or 1.4 magnifiers yet and was wondering what are some of the experiences that people have had using.

Informative Articles » Web accessibility for screen magnifier users
The needs of screen magnifier users are overlooked when implementing web accessibility on to a website. Screen magnifiers are used by partially sighted web users to increase the size of on-screen elements. Some users will magnify the ...

Magnifiers Home News
News about screen magnifiers and other low vision products.

Electronic Magnifier
Consider meeting with a low vision rehab specialist before you purchase the more expensive magnifiers. They can assess your needs and then make recommendations for the best magnifiers for you. If you must make your own best decisions, ...

Screen Reader Easier Than Magnifiers | Learning Accessibility
Magnifiers lose context. JAWS can provide the user with immediate lists of links, images, form fields and other web artifacts. She can get that information instantly. The screen magnifier user cannot. Jaws uses keyboard shortcuts for ...

Gordon’s Blog » Make CCTV / low vision video magnifiers more useful
Make CCTV / low vision video magnifiers more useful.

PDA screen magnifiers and QR codes [mobile-learning.blog-city.com]
A work package that spun out of a JISC Scoping Study into the Potential of QR Codes in Education was the question, how does a QR code reader on a mobile device work with a screen magnifier on the mobile device.

Seniors should pay attention to the 'little things' (Hutchinson News)
A groundbreaking new study suggests that tackling common problems that often get too little attentio ...

Susan Flagg Godbey: To remain independent, pay attention to the 'little things' (Pioneer Press)
A groundbreaking new study suggests tackling common problems that often get too little attention — such as hearing and vision loss, incontinence and balance problems — helps people older than 65 remain independent longer.

New guidelines boost Web Access (Usability News)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new standard to make sites more accessible to older and disabled people.

Calendar - Community centers (The Examiner)
Events planned at Eastern Jackson County community centers.

/Opinion/ Ajax and accessibility, part one (.net)
Developing a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that’s accessible has historically been somewhere between difficult and a nightmare, even with seemingly common technologies such as HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

Ticked off! @ nincompoop nannies and bald idiot fathers (Orlando Sentinel)
•I'm ticked off that when an animal bites a person, it is put to sleep. But when a person kills an animal, they don't receive the same treatment.

EU-funded consortium to improve accessibility (TechWorld)
Sun involved in disability project. A European Commission-funded effort is looking to improve disabled individuals' ability to use mobile devices, computers and rich Internet applications (RIAs).