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Tag Archives: audio description
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 13 to Friday, April 17
Entertainment: Netflix makes a blind superhero accessible to blind audiences (The Washington Post) For its new series “Daredevil,” featuring a hero who acquires superpowers in an accident that blinds him, Netflix was so busy focusing on the superhero’s powers that … Continue reading
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Tagged aging and vision, antidepressants, audio description, blind and low vision, bupropion, cognitive behavioral therapy, custom physical therapy equipment, deaf and hard of hearing, depression, Freehand, Netflix, Panoply social networking platform, rest measuring wristband, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, Special Olympics, spinal cord injury, SSRIs, swim team for adolescents with autism, Versatile Extra Sensory Transducer (VEST), visual contrast sensitivity, Wellbutrin
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 28 – Friday, August 1
Human Interest: The kids who beat autism (The New York Times Magazine) No one has figured out what happens inside the brains of people who had autism but no longer do – whether, for example their brains were different from … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility signage, accessible furniture, ADA, audio description, autism, caregivers, closed captioning, diabetic autonomic neuropathy, language skills, mainstreaming, mindfulness, Movie theaters, open-source design, Parkinson's Disease, positive adult development, preschool education, pupillometer, Special needs children, spill-proof cup, students with disabilities
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Participate: Survey on Synthesized Speech and Audio Description
WGBH’s National Center for Accessible Media and IBM Research-Japan are recruiting survey participants who are blind or have low vision to test speech synthesis for audio description of Web video. They are looking for people 18 or older who are … Continue reading
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Tagged audio description, blind, survey, synthesized speech, visual impairments
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 
Justice Department Proposes Movie Theater Accessibility Rules
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing new accessibility requirements for movie theaters. Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act contains broad language prohibiting public businesses from discriminating against people with disabilities. In many cases, public businesses are … Continue reading →