TechFest & Tim Ferguson interview

TECH FEST 2012

The Royal Society for the Blind will be having 2 days of displays and demonstrations of the latest adaptive technology on Wednesday 23rd May, 10am to 6pm, and Thursday 24th May, 9am to 4pm. This includes:
• Braille equipment
• e-book readers
• magnification devices
• speech software
• scanner reader

For more information about the Tech Fest go to the Royal Society for the Blind website.


Tim Ferguson Interview
You probably remember comic Tim Ferguson jumping around on stage as part of the mad and bad musical comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars. He was, he admits, the pretty one. The act was still playing to packed houses in the mid-'90s and many wondered why it broke up. Tim Ferguson has only recently revealed he'd been living with the debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a condition he'd tried for years to ignore, but is now perhaps inevitably the subject of a new show...

See the interview here...

How a Professor Gave a Blind Student a New Outlook on Science

Professor Baldwin believed that students who are blind should not be excluded from physics courses because of inaccessible textbooks, so he created modules for many physics concepts in a format that blind students can read using accessibility tools such as an audio screen reader and an electronic line-by-line Braille display.
From ADCET News
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