It is a well known fact that all Apple products have amazing accessibility features, and that’s one of the reasons why these products are appreciated so much. However, have you wondered why Apple cares so much for accessibility? Why do they invest so much time and money in researching accesibility f…

In the last few years, we have read quite a bit about how technology has allowed our brain to control devices or objects around us without the use of limbs. (If you haven’t, you can read about some examples here, here, and here). Futurism.com, a great website that posts about how human potenti…

This post was written by Esoteric Quality, a blind musician and activist. In order to explain how the struggles of a blind man launched the blindness revolution, it is necessary to start from the beginning of my life, so that readers will understand the context and purpose of the song and my music. …

Can a quadriplegic, someone paralyzed from the neck down, drive a car?  Race car driver Sam Schmidt’s career came to an abrupt end when a crash in 2000 left him paralyzed. After 17 years though, project SAM (Semi Autonomous Motorcar), a car with various modifications, has helped Sam get back o…

Let’s say you are coming back from work in the evening. You enter your house, and proceed to flip the switch(es) that will turn on lights in and around your house. But what if you have a disability that either prevents or makes it difficult to manually turn on the lights?   In order to turn on light…

Have  you heard of digital Braille yet? Perkins library recently piloted a compact and portable Braille device that will revolutionize the way blind people interact with braille content. Typically, Braille books are very voluminous and very bulky. To put things into perspective, Leo Tolstoy’s …

Just last week, Microsoft announced that it will have in-built support for compatible eye tracking devices in Windows 10. What that means is that Windows 10 users will not need any special software or interface to use eye tracking devices – they will be able use an on screen keyboard, mouse an…

Children with learning disabilities are usually very special children. It is important to remember right from the start that though although these children may have difficulties in one or more areas; this does not mean that they have difficulties in all areas. There are many ways to help children en…

Australian company Cochlear has created its first “made for iPhone” cochlear implant that will be controlled completely by an iPhone. Cochelear’s new Nucleus 7’s sound processor streams sound directly from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without the need for an app. The Nucleu…

Blind students at Priestley Smith School in Birmingham have been using 3D pens to draw and “see” their creations by touching and feeling the raised, freshly created objects. Before that, they had to ask someone else to draw, and get it altered on raised paper. The 3Doodler Start, release…

When blind people navigate, they can use various technologies that can guide them to their destination. While walking outdoors, their smartphone’s GPS can give them step by step directions. For indoors, there are some places that use Bluetooth beacons to provide step by step directions to help…

This article first appeared on harkla.co. SENSORY INTEGRATION Sensory Integration is the process your central nervous system goes through when it takes in information from your body’s senses, processes that information, and then responds accordingly. Our bodies take information in through eight diff…

Independence Science recently launched the Sci-Voice Talking LabQuest 2 to help blind and low-vision students independently complete data-collection investigations during STEM labs. By integrating text-to-speech assistive technology with Vernier Software & Technology’s LabQuest 2 hardware device…

If someone asks you what Autism is, how do you explain it? Do you give them just the definition of it or explain it by giving examples? How do you simplify it for a child, a brand new parent or someone who doesn’t understand disabilities? This video below shows an introductory and simplified e…