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Access Information News for Monday, September 11, 2023 - Volume 927The Week's News in Access Information A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication Access Information News. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access information. Subscribers: 10,302 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 26 Premium Subscribers were sent this issue via email. This Week's Featured Advertisement: Join Industry Leaders And Begin Reaching Over 15,000 Access Professionals, Educators and Enthusiasts, All Over The World, Each Week. All While Supporting The Ongoing Distribution of This Publication For Those Very Same Readers. Only $100 USD Per Month. While Packages Last. This Issue Made Possible By Support From The Following Sponsors:
Ongoing Distribution Made Possible By Support From: Pneuma Solutions, WayAround, APH ConnectCenter, Access Ready, Inc., Total Tech Solutions, LLC, Eyes on Success and Empish J. Thomas. Learn more about Sponsorship today at: https://accessinformationnews.com/sponsor.Dear Access Information News Subscriber,Submit your Access Information News Item for free, with timing and placement determined by our editors, here: https://accessinformationnews.com/submit-news. Submit a Sponsored News Item, with timing and placement determined by you, here: https://accessinformationnews.com/submit-sponsored-news.1) Top 5 Most Clicked Access Information News Articles From Last WeekA.) Sight Loss Tip: How Do You Read to Kids When Blind? | Tim DixonReading to your kids is one of the parenting pleasures parents take for granted. So, how do you read to kids when you are blind? B.) A Lightweight Wearable Device Helps Users Navigate With A Tap On The Wrist | Science DailyScientists have developed a fabric-based wearable device that 'taps' a user's wrist with pressurized air, silently helping them navigate to their destination. The study demonstrated that users correctly interpreted which direction the device was telling them to go an average of 87% of the time. Since the wearable embeds most of its control system within the fabric itself, using air instead of electronics, it can be built lighter and more compact than existing designs: C.) DoorDash Adds An AI-Powered Voice Ordering Phone ServiceDoorDash is branching out from app-only ordering by adding an artificial intelligence voice that will take your order: D.) What's Up With Smart Glasses? | Ophthalmic EdgeBy now we expected smart glasses to be all the rage. They'd be on lots of faces, in the same way smartphones are in (just about) every hand. Actually, they were predicted to replace the smartphone, providing the wearer with voice access to information and apps. And, of course, they'd be accessible to visually impaired or blind users, because smartphones are. It would be wonderfully inclusive and normalizing, glasses that made information accessible, whether you could see the screen or not: E.) Can Reading E-Books Get You in Trouble? Protect Yourself From Digital Threats | Good eReaderReading is one of life's greatest gifts & pleasures. It lets you experience the lives of countless others or elevate your own by accumulating knowledge. Better yet, the digital age allows us access to millions of books without having to lug any of them around. E-books might be convenient, but are they safe? In this article, we explore how E-books themselves or acquiring them can affect your devices. 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Whether you are a current Sponsor or not. Current Weekly Subscriber Count: Over 10K. Drive traffic to your access product and service announcements, events, updates or fundraisers using this incredibly cost-effective and easy-to-use advertisement tool. Learn more today at: 5) Follow Access Information News On Your Preferred ChannelIn addition to receiving Access Information News via email every Monday morning at 6:00 AM ET you can also pick up the newsletter and its trending articles on any of the following channels: 6) The Secret 'Language' Only Blind People Can Understand — And It's Not Braille | Emily McPherson | 9News AUPublisher (Di Blasi): Quick disclaimer regarding this article's title. There is no actual secret language involved. The language in question is always the speaker's native language. It is just sped up to a point that non-trained ears can no longer understand it. I am sighted and have been practicing speed reading via both sight and sound for more than 10 years now. The very best that I can do with sound at this point is about 500-600 words per minute. With 500 being relatively comfortable for me and 600 requiring my undivided attention. Now, contrast that with blind friends that can effortlessly understand words at a rate of 800 to 900 per minute. While it may not be a secret language, it's still a very real super power if you ask me. 7) Accessible Content Basics For Social Media And Pr Pros | PR DailyReach more people and ensure inclusivity with these tips from Alexa Heinrich: 8) Audiobook or Reading? Science Shows There Is No Difference To Your Brain | Good eReaderLife can be busy and finding the time to sit and read isn't easy — but that doesn't mean you have to go without. Now a day's many of us enjoy our stories in a variety of different ways; books, eBooks, audiobooks or on our cell phones. A great option is to pop in the ear buds, pop on an audiobook, and carry on cooking dinner, exercising, or puttering around the house. However, it raises the question whether or not a listener is getting the same experience as a reader when it comes to engaging with a novel? 9) Bringing Braille Fun Home: LEGO® Braille Bricks on Sale for the First Time | Darren DizonWhen I was young, I loved playing with Legos, but in a fun and unique way! NOW, there are LEGO® Braille Bricks which have changed the way we teach sighted people about Braille. Come along for the ride, and explore the potential of Lego Bricks: 10) Amazon Has Ended Its Periodicals Program, And Independent Publishers Are Panicking | The VergeSince Kindle Periodicals was dropped, many pubs are scrambling to find a way to stay alive: 11) A Post From Jonathan Mosen To The ACB Conversation Discussion List: Why Mastodon Is So Important, And Exercising My Right of Reply | Tech-VI List10 months ago, Twitter's entire accessibility team was fired by its new owner, Elon Musk. Shortly after, the third-party apps on which many blind people rely were no longer permitted to access the platform. The accessibility team weren't the only ones to go. Twitter's safety team has been decimated. It is now a much more unsafe place for disabled people, and the publication of profoundly objectionable and illegal material has increased without subsequent remedial action: 12) Legal Update: August 2023 | Converge AccessibilityThere has been a real slowdown in my Lexis feed this month. Are the courts are issuing fewer opinions? Does Lexis have fewer people collecting and entering opinions? Are both factors at work because it's summer and even the nerdiest attorneys would rather be outside enjoying the day with a cool drink instead of working indoors? 13) American Streets May Soon Get Their First Accessible Design Standards from the FedsThe ADA has been the law for 33 years. Why has it taken this long to write strong guidelines to implement it on U.S. streets? 14) Fable's Digital Accessibility Solutions | Accessibility.comIn today's digital age, the importance of inclusivity and accessibility cannot be overstated. As the online landscape continues to evolve, businesses face the challenge of making their products and services accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. This is where Fable, an innovative online platform based in Toronto, steps in: 15) Web Accessibility for People with Hearing Disabilities | AllyantWebsite accessibility ensures everyone — including people with disabilities — can read, understand, navigate, and interact with a website. You may be familiar with how accessible websites accommodate people with visual impairments by allowing them to easily use a screen reader to read the web page's content aloud to them. People with hearing impairments also need accommodations to experience a website the way that was intended: 16) An Introduction To Accessibility Advocacy: An Interview With Steve Sawczyn, Digital Accessibility Lead at HealthPartners | Steve Kelley | APHSteve Sawczyn, Digital Accessibility Lead at HealthPartners, is no stranger to accessibility. Steve played a critical role in helping retail giant Target make its way to web accessibility after a lawsuit brought their attention to the inaccessibility of their website. And before that, in a grassroots effort in his home state of Maine, Sawczyn was at the forefront of negotiating with Apple on restoring a workable screen reader to their Mac computer before they were distributed throughout Maine schools as the computer of choice. In addition to Target and Apple, Steve's resume also includes Deque, and United Healthcare, before his recent leadership role at HealthPartners: 17) Innovative Technology Empowers Blind and Partially Sighted Shoppers with Audible Product Information | Cool Blind TechEurope is home to an estimated 30 million blind and partially sighted individuals, with approximately one in 30 Europeans experiencing some form of sight loss, primarily linked to aging. As the population ages, these numbers are expected to increase. Some promising solutions are emerging: 18) Standard EbooksStandard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks. The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the U.S. public domain, and Standard Ebooks dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing the entirety of each ebook file into the public domain. All the ebooks we produce are distributed free of cost and free of U.S. copyright restrictions. Standard Ebooks is organized as a “low-profit L.L.C.,” or “L3C,” a kind of legal entity that blends the charitable focus of a traditional not-for-profit with the ease of organization and maintenance of a regular LLC: 19) The Gift of Time | Justin Gardner | APHEarly in 1943, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) started a program to help soldiers blinded in World War II. Often the first item a hospitalized GI requested, braille watches were presented to each blinded serviceman referred to AFB by the military or the Veterans Administration (VA). Once a referral was received, the veteran's name, rank, and serial number were engraved on the back of a pocket or wristwatch, and it was sent to the veteran as quickly as possible. By December of 1945, 1,048 braille watches had been delivered. Five watches were even sent to American soldiers in German POW camps by the YMCA: 20) Equivalent Experience Can Cut Both Ways | Eric BaileyI've been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology, in order to make my work better. It is my hope that this can translate to experiences that people who use assistive technology consider intuitive and pleasurable to use: 21) Walmart's Commitment to Accessibility Empowers People with Disabilities | Cool Blind TechWalmart is making a new push to better serve people with disabilities with a slew of adaptive products ranging from clothing to technology. Walmart recently introduced an adaptive channel on its website with a curated collection of items all created to be accessible. The selection includes adaptive utensils and tableware, assistive devices, sensory-friendly toys, backpacks designed to work with wheelchairs, hearing aids, adaptive clothing and much more: 22) By The Numbers — Companies Still Not Considering The Real Consumer Markets | Award Winning Sight Loss Coach, Advocate and Author Donna JodhanMy final thought? Somehow, we need to change the attitudes here! This is not healthy and extremely callous and inhumane! Profits are not the only thing that should matter! 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