Assistive Technology at MIT
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The MIT Assistive Technology Club is a community of people from MIT and beyond in creating, developing, and learning about assistive technology. Join us!
The MIT Assistive Technology Club is a community of people from MIT, the Boston area, and beyond that designs, develops, builds, and learns about assistive technology. We work collaboratively with people with disabilities in design and engineering courses, hackathons, and other events, with the goal of helping people live more independently or just be able to do something more easily.
08/18/2021
Accessibility Is a Right. This Restaurant Treats It That Way. Contento, in East Harlem, sets an example for an industry that is rarely welcoming to diners with disabilities.
08/18/2021
https://www.wired.com/story/valve-steam-deck-handhelds-not-designed-disabled-gamers/
Handhelds Still Aren't Designed for Disabled Gamers Valve's new Steam Deck looks fantastic—but for players with vision or dexterity difficulties, it's just more of the same challenges.
08/17/2021
"The new boxes will allow a smartphone to detect a unique on-pack code and playback labelling information to the shopper with sight loss."
Kellogg's to roll out accessible cereal boxes Following a successful trial, Kellogg's is permanently implementing a new "world-first" technology that enables consumers with sight loss to playback on-pack information via a smartphone.
07/19/2021
"More effective ways to talk about science in sign language could help deaf scientists overcome some of the barriers they face. But fully appreciating the challenges of communicating technical information in ASL requires understanding that ASL is not a signed form of English. It’s a distinct language, with specific rules and grammar."
Expanding American Sign Language’s scientific vocabulary A lack of signs for many scientific terms impedes deaf people’s entry into the sciences. Deaf scientists want to chip away at the barriers by developing more ASL signs for scientific terms.
07/07/2021
In May - June 2021, WebAIM surveyed preferences of screen reader users and received 1568 valid responses. This was a follow-up to 8 previous surveys that were conducted between January 2009 and September 2019. Lots of interesting data in here!
WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #9 Results Screen Reader User Survey #9 Results You are here: Home > WebAIM Projects > Screen Reader User Survey #9 Results Article Contents Introduction Demographics Region Age Disability Disability Types Screen Reader Proficiency Internet Proficiency Level of Employment Primary Screen Reader Screen Readers C...
06/18/2021
How Google Makes Android Apps, And The World’s Information, Universally Accessible To Everyone To Burkhardt, Google’s mission to make the world’s information accessible to everyone has special meaning. He is legally Blind, so not only is he intimately involved in building the tools that make his company’s software accessible, he uses those same tools to have easier access the world.
06/16/2021
“Keke's work is really the first in the visualization community to explore the idea of cognitive accessibility,” says Wu’s advisor, Danielle Szafir, an assistant professor of computer science with ATLAS and director of the institute’s VisuaLab. “It was previously an invisible disability to the community; we were completely unaware that common best practices were creating barriers for a large number of people.”
Data accessibility: Leveling the field for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities In a world where decisions of all kinds are based on statistical information, maximizing access to data is more important than ever. However, a recent study finds that common practices may be cutting large portions of the population out of the picture.
06/14/2021
A useful writeup with examples of how you can design for accessibility in your web apps. It covers React, but the general concepts can be applied to other frameworks as well!
How to Design Keyboard Accessibility for Complex React Experiences How you can design an inclusive and accessible org chart experience and solutions to common development challenges you will face.
06/10/2021
“Most advances in aiding visual impairment focus on Braille scripts... But we feel that life is beyond words. It’s more than that. It has color, it has rhythm, it has emotion—it’s multi-dimensional.”
Coding Color Into Sound: Hacking for Assistive Technology By Katelyn Clontz Hill, Worldwide Communications, Lenovo
06/06/2021
An interesting read that demonstrates an example of inclusivity in voice recognition projects.
Tech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand Atypical Speech Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri often can’t understand people with dysarthria or a stutter. Their creators say that may change.
06/01/2021
A cool article about accessible gaming!
‘Can I Play That?’ Co-Founder Courtney Craven on the Spectrum of Disability and Challenge of Accessibility “Can I play that?” This is a question facing gamers with disabilities, just about every time they pick up a new game. It’s also the name of a robust accessibility resource co-foun…
05/26/2021
KKR Makes $55 Million Investment in eSSENTIAL Accessibility KKR Makes $55 Million Investment in eSSENTIAL Accessibility
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