assistive technologies

Pew: 54 percent of American adults with disabilities use the Internet, compared with 81 percent of those who do not claim to have a disability.

Among other difficulties, getting VA to pay for voice recognition software.

 

About macular degeneration and its isolating impact.

An inexpensive (1.99) app for recognizing the differences between bills.

No matter how easy-to-use a manufacturer may believe its tech products are, they may still baffle the elderly.

Devices to help people with vision problems have better lives.

Two days of training, in one-hour sessions, with difficult stimuli resulted in older subjects seeing as well as younger college-age subjects.

Very interesting set of U of Washington projects for low vision or blind using the Android platform.