The Accessible World seeks to educate the general public, the disabled community and the professionals who serve them by providing highly relevant information about new products, services, and training opportunities designed specifically to eliminate geographic and access barriers that adversely affect them.
Are you blind or visually impaired? Do you take prescription medications? Do you
know someone else who does? Are you concerned about remembering your prescription
instructions and information? Are you bothered that you have to rely on others to
read your prescription information? Are you looking for a way to safely and independently
manage your medications? If you answered YES to any of these questions, ScripTalk
Station is for you!
During the upcoming Tek Talk online event sponsored by the Accessible World, you
Determining the importance of computer games in education has resulted in significant
research throughout the world. While opinions of researchers vary, it is generally
believed that computer games are the most frequently used interactive media for children
and young adults and that computer games are already a phenomenon of greater cultural
importance to all ages than movies, or perhaps even sports.. The gaming industry
is believed by many to be the catalyst that is driving the propagation of new and
improved operating systems since statistics substantiate that more time is spent
The next Accessible World Tek Talk online training event will explore the musical
world with Bill McCann, Founder and President of Dancing Dots, a United States, based
company with customers in more than 40 countries, that has been providing solutions
to challenges faced by blind musicians worldwide since 1992. He will demonstrate
the Goodfeel Braille Music Translator, any sighted musician with no knowledge of
Braille can scan and edit print notation and convert it to the equivalent braille
notation. The translator also enables Blind musicians to independently create print
This week's guest on the Internet talk show Books and Beyond, hosted by Bonnie Blose,
has achieved national and international recognition for outstanding leadership in
a number of areas affecting the lives of thousands of blind and visually impaired
individuals. Kim Charlson , herself totally blind, has consistently displayed outstanding
leadership capabilities. In pursuing her own education, she became one of the few
blind people in the United States to earn a master's degree in library and information
science. Then, following 16 years as the Service Management Librarian and Assistant