Blind Users

Student Design Improves Pill Bottle For Blind, Visually Impaired

22 May 2012

Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leader of the Transcendentalist movement, once said “Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.� Two students from the University of Cincinnati have done just that; they recently applied for a provisional patent on the design and prototype of a prescription-medicine pill bottle that ...

New Release of Axis 360 Provides Accessibility Solutions for the Blind

22 May 2012

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books, today announced an important new release of its Axis 360 digital media ...

Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind

21 May 2012

Human-computer interaction researcher Eelke Folmer of the University of Nevada, Reno, watches as Dora Uchel, a university student, demonstrates the indoor navigation system for the visually impaired developed by Kostas Bekris and Folmer of the Computer Science Engineering Department.