[NFB-NM] FW: The September issue of AccessWorld Is Now Available

[Tonia Trapp]

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Expanding possibilities for people with vision loss

 

The September issue of
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9e14a6a85f&e=c806462bb1> AccessWorld is now available on our website.

This issue features: 

*	Editor's Page: More Home Appliance Accessibility and Home Automation
Articles Coming to AccessWorld
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*	Instant Access to Information with Aira: An Introduction (Part 1 of
2), by Janet Ingber
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With the tap of a button, Aira puts you in touch with trained sighted
assistance.

 

*	EVision Tech: Earlier Diagnosis and Intervention Can Help Stanch
Increasing Rates of Blindness, by Bill Holton
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This article introduces a pair of recent developments in the detection and
treatment of eye conditions such as diabetic retinopathy and advanced
macular degeneration.

 

*	International Association of Accessibility Professionals: Promoting
and Improving Digital Accessibility Across the Globe, by John Rempel
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The International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) is a
non-profit, membership-based division of the United Nations Global
Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict).

 

*	Audio Description Comes to Amazon Prime, by Jamie Pauls
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As of this writing, there are 133 titles available from Amazon Video that
have audio description. Many are free with your Prime membership, while
others must be rented or purchased.

 

*	SEE3D: Teenagers Expand the Visual World for People Who Are Blind,
by Deborah Kendrick
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7cc4935add&e=c806462bb1>  
Caroline Karbowski is the mind behind the See3D project, which won second
place at this year's Tech Olympics in Cincinnati. Learn how this technology
helps people with vision loss experience shapes or objects they are not able
to see.

 

*	Book Review: Across Two Novembers: A Year In The Life Of A Blind
Bibliophile, by David Faucheux, by Deborah Kendrick
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As one who has overindulged on blindness memoirs more than once in the past
few decades, Across Two Novembers struck me as the most genuine depiction of
life from the blind side that I have read.

 

*
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ad32450dee&e=c806462bb1> AccessWorld News

 

*	Letters to the Editor
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