NCBI is delighted to announce that its friends at Sight and Sound will be holding their latest product seminar, with SELVAS, on Friday November 8th, at the ChildVision Conference Centre on Grace park Road, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. SELVAS, with its HIMS branded products, is a global leader in the assistive technology field, …Read More about Seminar to introduce and explore Polaris, QBraille and U2 devices from Hims – Friday 8th November
Orbit Reader 20: Making Refreshable Braille More Affordable
Braille is an incredibly empowering tool for people with sight loss, opening many doors to literacy, education, and employment. However, Braille on paper is costly because it takes up more space than the printed word. Braille displayed on an electronic display with dots that pop up and down to form characters is a less costly alternative. …Read More about Orbit Reader 20: Making Refreshable Braille More Affordable
Instagram & Facebook Inclusion with Alt-Text Editors
Alt-Text HTML is the acronym for Hypertext Mark-up Language and is utilised by web designers to build websites. Alt-Text is an HTML attribute used to describe the appearance and function of an image on a webpage. Adding alternative text to photos is first and foremost a principle of web accessibility. Vision-impaired users using screen readers …Read More about Instagram & Facebook Inclusion with Alt-Text Editors
Audio Games for everyone
Feer is a game in which the character runs along a road of endless fog trying to avoid attacking zombies and other terrifying obstacles. There are no visual cues to help the player, and they must rely on listening skills to avoid obstacles or danger. With headphones, the sounds will come from left, right or …Read More about Audio Games for everyone
Bone Conduction Headphones
Bone conduction is a technology heavily used in hearing loss technology where the cochlear bone is stimulated with vibrations and carry this sound information directly to the hearing centres in the brain. If the ear canal is damaged and in-ear hearing aids can’t be used then cochlear implants or cochlear conduction devices are used to …Read More about Bone Conduction Headphones