DENVER - James Gashel swipes his finger over the screen of his smartphone and double-taps the screen he can't see. A voice reads the words beneath his fingers. Blind since birth, Gashel, 66, can't ...

The release of an esoteric plug-in for a twenty-year-old piece of software normally doesn’t merit much attention… except when the software is the ubiquitous Microsoft Word, and the add-on could have a ...

Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software. You get through half the form and then come to a question with drop-down options the ...

Inspired by a child's toy and an old-style scientific graph printer, computer scientists and engineers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a graphic display device that ...

In an order delivered on World Disability Day, apex court issues a slew of directions to UPSC to safeguard rights of ...

Unity is updating its game engine to support native screen readers in both macOS and Windows. The feature is available now in the Unity 6000.3.0a5 alpha, and should make the process of making games ...

In a blog post published Tuesday, Google announced what it described as an “all-new” version (officially, 9.1) of its TalkBack screen reader. Android accessibility product manager Brian Kemler wrote ...