via SFGate By Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, January 1, 2010 During her high school years, Lisamaria Martinez, who has been visually impaired since she was 5, carried a 25-pound backpack to school crammed with books written in Braille. But once she was introduced to...
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August 17,2009 via ScienceDaily Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips. Yosi-Bar Cohen, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, was inspired...
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Here's a headline that I would have hoped never to encounter: "Paterson's sight hurting job." The article that follows, which can be found at http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1250927108150700.xml&coll=1 details New York Governor, David Patterson's abysmally...
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Are you following the issues surrounding digital publications, copyright protections, and making books and other media accessible to people with print and vision-related disabilities? Here's a web site we encourage you to visit regularly and frequently. Becoming well informed is a prerequisite for...
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