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Apple Store employee describes great experience with students

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 8th, 2013)

Floating around this week was a wonderful story from former Apple Store employee Chris Gonzales. He tells the tale of a group of deaf students who visited his Apple Store to purchase new Macs. After struggling for a few minutes because he couldn't communicate with them, he came up with the idea ...

Digit-Eyes identfies everything for the blind without breaking the bank

by David Winograd (Jul 31st, 2010)

The Digit-Eyes Audio Scanner and Labeler (US$29.95) from Digital Miracles is a remarkable Assistive Technology (AT) app for the iPhone and iPod touch geared to the blind and visually impaired community. What it does is fairly straightforward once you get the big idea, but the implications of its ...

Video relay calling breakthrough uses FaceTime to help the deaf

by David Winograd (Jul 14th, 2010)

In the past, the only way for the hearing impaired to communicate was either in person or by way of the TTY (teletypewriter); the TTY is a device that's about as large as a laptop computer, and it allows the hard of hearing to type on a QWERTY keyboard and have the communication transferred. ...