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Libraries Transforming Communities, One Year Later
In 2023, the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office launched the largest grant initiative in the Association’s ...
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Program helps with reading materials for visually impaired
Having access to reading materials is incredibly important, especially to people with vision disabilities, and soon, part of ...
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Meals on Wheels expands services for visually impaired customers
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Meals on Wheels, which serves thousands of homebound seniors nationwide and in our state, is adding a ...
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File and rank method for chess without sight, touch
Ahmedabad: Two players seated across from each other with a chessboard in the middle and timer clocks by its side — One would say there's nothing out of the ordinary about this setup ...
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Feature: Visual impaired runners shine at Tianjin Marathon
TIANJIN, China, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- In a time of two hours and sevens minutes, Li Zezhou, a 17-year-old visually impaired runner with a second-level disability, crossed the finish line of Sunday's ...
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States trial to help visually impaired islanders
Communication aids to help people with visual impairments navigate States sites are being trialled in Guernsey. The technology called NaviLens works by having codes at key points around a building ...
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Mary Rose Braille Word Search created by Portsmouth artist Clarke Reynolds unveiled by Mary Rose Trust
A Portsmouth artist has unveiled their creation helping to make a popular Portsmouth museum more accessible for the visually impaired. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News ...
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Visually impaired Washingtonians face unique obstacles to voting
As Washington registered voters received their ballots for the August primary, Marci Carpenter had to sit idle. Carpenter is blind and can’t fill out a mailed ballot in the same way as ...
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Zachary High student brings awareness of visually impaired residents to East Baton Rouge Parish
Zachary High School senior Sa’Lynn Woodside has been a champion for the visually impaired throughout her high school career. She is blind and uses a white cane. She can be seen moving about the ...
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How a Nearly All-Blind Team Created ‘The Penguin’ Audio Descriptions: ‘You Almost Get Chills’ How They Detail ‘So Much More Texture’
Leach’s own experience as a blind voice artist informed his creative process in providing fans with key details such as character micro-expressions and visual elements with symbolic narrative ...
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Blind and visually impaired people train to work in Yau Cafe, Hong Kong’s first shop to offer coffee and massage therapy
Some manage to find work in massage parlours, where sight is not a job requirement. But many visually impaired people, like Wong, know that even though they cannot see, they are capable of ...
Empowered: Vision Rehabilitation & Technology Expo shares tools to visual and audio impaired Arizonans
An event meant to help empower visually impaired people was held in Phoenix on Friday. The Vision Rehabilitation and ...