The release of an esoteric plug-in for a twenty-year-old piece of software normally doesn’t merit much attention… except when the software is the ubiquitous Microsoft Word, and the add-on could have a ...
A multi-university research team, including the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has developed A11yShape, ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping people see the world in new ways every day, including the blind, who find AI helping them navigate the world with greater ease and more options than they ...
Umwelt is a new a system that enables blind and low-vision users to author accessible, interactive charts representing data in three modalities: visualization, textual description, and sonification. A ...
The actual use-value of smart glasses remains keenly debated—but less so among blind people, who are increasingly relying on ...
Two new apps will enable blind people to navigate indoor buildings with spoken directions from a smartphone app, providing a safe method of wayfinding where GPS doesn't work. UC Santa Cruz professor ...
Pictured is an example multi-modal representation of stock data created with Umwelt. It includes a line chart, a sonification (top right), and a multi-level textual description describing various ...