At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
“we wanted to make the t. rex look like it was running or on a hunt. so we had to design a pose that would have the legs in an asymmetric position. to do this, we did a lot of research on the dinosaur’s bone structure.” we’re sure that researching the bone structure of th...
After grad school I spent almost 20 years happily designing and prototyping accessible technologies for blind people at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Projects included specialized GPS apps, Braille street maps, a system for adding audio description to YouTube videos and...
Refreshable braille text for touchscreens can also be used.” In lieu of regulatory guidance, business owners consult regulations that govern federal agencies’ websites and related case law to better understand compliance. “There is no regulatory guidance on this issue – yet – for ...
Create a call to action.Signs are advertisements and, as any good advertiser knows, you need to get the customer to do something. That’s where a call to action comes in. An effective sign needs to encourage customers to take action. ...
Accessibility allows users, including those with visual impairments or cognitive disabilities, to understand and engage with content effectively. Typography is an important aspect of web accessibility, as the appearance and structure of text impact readability, especially for users with visual or cognitiv...
are next to each other on the piano for best success — using five fingers requires more dexterity, and your three year old may need another year or two to develop her fine motor skills. Point to each note on the music so she begins to understand left-to-right, top-to-bottom ...
Individuals who have become deaf after learning to speak and understand their native language. POLYMODAL ASSOCIATION AREAS 'Higher' areas of cortex that receive and integrate inputs from multiple sensory modalities. EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS Electrical potentials that are generated in the brain as a cons...
In addition to reading text, screen readers provide crucial information about a webpage’s structure, such as headings, links, and images, allowing users to understand and interact with content more effectively. By converting digital content into speech or Braille, screen readers enable users to na...
And these were fully adult subjects. What it proved is that the adult brain is very plastic. And they did some beautiful control experiments that are important for everyone to understand, which is that sometimes they would bring people in and they would have them touch these bumps on this sp...