[Oabs] Resources Mentioned in the Back to/Welcome to College Conference Call

[William Yznaga]

During the conference call today, August 19 2017, several useful resources
were mentioned in connection with college life as a blind student. These
included:


The NFB Self-Advocacy Toolkit: learn how to defend your rights; request the
accommodations, testing resources and formats, and accessibility
technologies you need; all in one place at the NFB website. Revised and
updated by the NFB national organization to version 2.0.

https://nfb.org/self-advocacy-higher-education


Upcoming accessibility tech:

- Seeing AI by Microsoft, a smartphone-camera-based assistant for the
visually-impaired and blind

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-seeing-ai-narrate-the-world-2017-7


- The upcoming Perkins Orbit Low-Cost Refreshable Braille Display

http://www.perkins.org/stories/a-low-cost-revolution-in-refreshable-braille


- Innovative assistive products from the 2017 Assistive Technologies
Conference:

a continuous talking virtual navigation assistant that describes scenes and
environments;

a self-stabilizing spoon utensil;

and Hearing AI by Microsoft

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ieee-roundup/blogs/blog/three-lifechanging-technologies-at-the-2017-assistive-technology-conference