by Trish Robichaud | Jan 18, 2015 | All, Assistive Technology & Devices, Elections
Scytl’s, the worldwide leader in secure online voting and election modernization, has been awarded a contract by the City of Toronto, Canada to provide improved accessibility for persons with disabilities via Scytl’s secure Online Voting and Scytl’s secure Phone...
by Trish Robichaud | Oct 31, 2014 | Accommodations, All, Assistive Technology & Devices
A Pakistani technology company TPS has developed a talking Automated Teller Machine (ATM) for assisting people who are blind or have low vision, telecom and IT news website ProPakistani reported on Tuesday. TPS has come up with VIP (visually impaired customer) CASH...
by Trish Robichaud | May 21, 2014 | All, Assistive Technology & Devices, Visual Disabilities
SANTA CLARA: Shubham Banerjee, a San Francisco Bay Area seventh grade student, has developed BRAIGO, a Braille printer using Lego Mindstorms EV3, which slashes the price of a printer from more than $2000 to $350, thereby giving a more cost-effective printer. According...
by Trish Robichaud | May 5, 2014 | All, Assistive Technology & Devices
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded UCLA researchers Dr. Daniel Lu (Brentwood) and Dr. Reggie Edgerton (Bel Air) a $6 million, five-year grant to explore new therapies for the approximately 273,000 Americans living with...
by Trish Robichaud | Apr 19, 2014 | All, Assistive Technology & Devices, Hearing Disabilities, Visual Disabilities
CANADA: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is announcing that as of today the 9-1-1 call centre that serves the Metro Vancouver and select surrounding areas of British Columbia will be able to communicate with Canadians with hearing...
by Trish Robichaud | Jul 2, 2013 | All, Assistive Technology & Devices, Communication Barriers, Hearing Disabilities, Information & Communications
March 27, 2013 — Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) launched a public consultation on whether video relay service for Canadians who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired should be offered. As part of this consultation,...
