The Leap Motion Controller: Good for Users with Motor Differences?
by Sam Berman The Leap Motion Controller is an exciting new navigation and interaction device for virtual reality and personal computing on both Mac and Windows platforms. This...
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Accessibility NYC Meeting Recap: Two Decades of Disability Rights Advocacy with Lainey Feingold
On October 26th, Accessibility NYC hosted a joint meetup with the Computer Center for Visually Impaired People at Baruch College entitled “Two Decades of Disability Rights...
Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap: “Implementing Resizable Text Without Breaking the User Experience”
Earlier this month, Accessibility NYC hosted a meetup entitled “Implementing Resizable Text Without Breaking the User Experience.” Presenter Adina Halter, Senior Product Manager...
How Various Screen Readers Work on Mobile Devices
by Sofia Gallo Most iPhone owners do not even know it exists, but every Apple phone comes with a feature called VoiceOver — a screen reader that allows visually impaired people to...
The State of Accessibility and VR, Part 1
The most popular application of VR as it stands now is gaming. Never has this been more obvious than with the opening of VR World, New York City’s first virtual reality arcade....
Accessibility NYC Meeting Recap: “Building an Accessible Document Workflow”
Last year, Accessibility NYC hosted a meetup at thoughtbot entitled “Building an Accessible Document Workflow.” Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor for Princeton...
How Various Screen Readers Work on the Web
by Sofia Gallo One of the questions I often get from my friends is, “How do you use the internet?” After all, at first glance, a computer seems like a visual tool – looking at the...
Accessibility NYC Meeting Recap: “My Story, Aphasia, the NYC Outdoors Disability Group, and the No Barriers Summit”
This past summer, Accessibility NYC hosted a meetup entitled “My Story, Aphasia, the NYC Outdoors Disability Group, and the No Barriers Summit.” Presenter Avi Golden, a practicing...
Using Microsoft’s Seeing AI in Day-to-Day Life
An Introduction Last month, Microsoft introduced Seeing AI – an app that would describe the world for visually impaired people using artificial intelligence technology. Due to my...
Thoughts on One-Handed Typing
How does typing with one hand affect someone’s experience on the modern web? Sam Berman, Accessibility Consultant at Equal Entry, shares his thoughts on the matter in this short...
Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for People with Disabilities
by Sam Berman Like many people, my first direct, real-world interaction with artificial intelligence was with Siri on my iPhone. It was the first implementation of artificial...
Accessibility NYC Meeting Recap: Accessibility and Virtual Reality
Accessibility NYC hosted a Meetup on July 11, 2017 at thoughtbot, titled Accessibility and Virtual Reality. Our CEO, Thomas Logan, presented a variety of demonstrations of various...