This law prohibits the discrimination against people with a handicap in programs receiving federal funds. Where the ADA excludes some federal agencies from its governance, those same agencies are clearly responsible to this law.

Section 255 of the Federal Communication Act mandates that the producers and manufacturers of telecommunications devices (telephones, pagers, faxes and answering machines) must provide the print information pertaining to those pieces of equipment (such as user’s manuals) to the purchaser in the alternate format desired.

A text-to-speech system, intended for use by blind or low-vision users, that speaks the text content of a computer display. See Speech Synthesis.

Magnification System A combination of optical and electronic means to enlarge print.

Magnification System A combination of optical and electronic means to enlarge print.

Computer software controlled by the user to enlarge and increase contrast of letters on the computer screen

In simple terms, these electronic machines examine a piece of paper bit by tiny bit and determine whether that bit contains a color or white space. In a matter of seconds, the machine feeds a composite digital picture of the page to the host computer that can be displayed and manipulated in helpful ways. In […]

This stands for Rich Text Format, a file format developed by Microsoft. This format was developed to enable documents to be transferred between application programs. Rich Text Format Files have the file extension .rtf. Most word processors can process Rich Text Format files.

Any one of a large group of inherited disorders in which abnormalities of the photoreceptors (the rods and cones) in the retina lead to progressive visual loss. People with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) first experience defective adaptation to the dark (“night blindness”), then narrowing of the visual field (“tunnel vision”) and eventually loss of central vision. […]

An experimental process that implants various sorts of electronic chips either in front of or behind the retina. Some human experiments are now being conducted.