[nfbwatlk] nfbwatlk Digest, Vol 119, Issue 4

Lori Penor lpenor at expedia.com
Fri Mar 4 14:00:22 UTC 2016 

YAY!!!! No big plans. Mainly relaxing (and some work... :( )

Oh yeah, and catch up with zombies and other TV!!!

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Today's Topics:

   1. Sno/King meeting change for this month (Julie Warrington)
   2. Re: Sno/King meeting change for this month (mjc59 at comcast.net)
   3. Re: Sno/King meeting change for this month (Julie Warrington)
   4. Holy Braille: Scientists developing Kindle-style tablet for
      the blind, FOX News, January 13 2016 (Nightingale, Noel)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:02:46 -0800
From: "Julie Warrington" <jdwtlc at frontier.com>
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Subject: [nfbwatlk] Sno/King meeting change for this month
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Hello Federationists!
I wanted  to put out an early post regarding our Sno/King Chapter meeting for march.
We have our scheduled meetings on the 2nd Saturday as a rule, but this month we would like to move it to the 3rd Saturday, March 19th.
Tom and I will be out of town and we provide transportation for some of the members. so, our board members  decided it would possibly be  a more productive meeting when more people will be able to attend.
Hope this does not cause any inconvenience to folks.
We wil be making calls to let members know. If you are in contact with anyone that might not be on this list. Please pass along the information.
we will be resuming our normal meeting schedule in April.
Best regards,

Julie Warrington  - president
Sno/king Chapter of Washington
Phone 425-239-5720 / warrington.julie7 at gmail.com


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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:52:02 -0800
From: "Julie Warrington" <jdwtlc at frontier.com>
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Planning  on the following / 3rd Saturday, the 19th instead of the 12th.

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  I didn't see this in the email but will the chapter meeting take place the following week or is there no chapter meeting this month?

  Marci

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  Subject: [nfbwatlk] Sno/King meeting change for this month

  Hello Federationists!
  I wanted  to put out an early post regarding our Sno/King Chapter meeting for march.
  We have our scheduled meetings on the 2nd Saturday as a rule, but this month we would like to move it to the 3rd Saturday, March 19th.
  Tom and I will be out of town and we provide transportation for some of the members. so, our board members  decided it would possibly be  a more productive meeting when more people will be able to attend.
  Hope this does not cause any inconvenience to folks.
  We wil be making calls to let members know. If you are in contact with anyone that might not be on this list. Please pass along the information.
  we will be resuming our normal meeting schedule in April.
  Best regards,

  Julie Warrington  - president
  Sno/king Chapter of Washington 
  Phone 425-239-5720 / warrington.julie7 at gmail.com
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:50:11 +0000
From: "Nightingale, Noel" <Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>
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Subject: [nfbwatlk] Holy Braille: Scientists developing Kindle-style
	tablet for the blind, FOX News, January 13 2016
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Link:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/01/13/holy-braille-scientists-developing-kindle-style-tablet-for-blind.html

Text:
Holy Braille: Scientists developing Kindle-style tablet for the blind
By James Rogers
Published January 13, 2016
FoxNews.com

Scientists at the University of Michigan are working on a revolutionary display technology that could one day feature in a Kindle-style Braille tablet for the visually impaired.

"Imagine having a Kindle that isn't a visual Kindle but instead has a tactile surface that can be read by a person who is blind, using Braille," explained Sile O'Modhrain, associate professor of music and associate professor of information at the University of Michigan, who herself is visually impaired, in a video.

The pneumatic technology harnesses liquid or air to shrink the mechanism and expand. A series of bubbles within the display are then either inflated or not inflated, which push dots up and down to create the Braille characters. The researchers' goal is for the technology to display the equivalent of a page of Kindle text at once.

Related: Stanford researchers unveil technology that could prevent battery fires

Refreshable Braille displays, as they are known, do exist, according to O'Modhrain, but the electronic versions can only display one line of text a time and are extremely expensive. A single line refreshable Braille display typically costs between $3,000 and $5,000, so a full page Braille display would cost somewhere in the region of $55,000, she added.

Because the University of Michigan's refreshable Braille display does not rely on electronics, researchers are touting the technology as a much cheaper alternative to its digital counterparts.

The technology could also open up a host of possibilities for visually impaired people.

Related: Man orders a Kindle, is sent a tumor specimen

"Blind people currently only have access to a single line of Braille with these digital devices," said Alexander Russomanno, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering. "You can't do much with a single line - it's hard to read, for one, so that's a pain point. Also, you can't do things like graphs, you can't do things like spreadsheets, you can't do any kind of spatially distributed information."

O'Modhrain estimates that it could be between 5 and 7 years before devices using pneumatically-powered displays become available. "We are currently developing the low-level components that will become the basis of this new display technology," she explained, in an email to FoxNews.com. "You could think of this like developing the technique for displaying pixels using liquid crystals."

At the moment, researchers can drive a series of connected dots to display a single Braille character and are working on scaling up the system to display characters and dots on a much larger array. "Once that is done, then we would need input from people who can help us develop techniques for manufacturing displays for a mass market," added O'Modhrain. "And then, of course, the display needs to be integrated into a product, which again would depend on a third party developer deciding to use the device in their product. "

Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers


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