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23 Nov

Posted at 14:18h in Uncategorized

In FY2018, the Act to Promote the Education of the Blind provided $305 per student who is blind, and working below college level.  The attached map shows the number of blind and visually impaired students registered in the Federal Quota Program as of January 2019.  The total number of students in the United States, including outlying areas is 56,137.

This is where all TVI’s play such an important role in ensuring that we are registering as many students as possible! With these funds, our children can receive highly needed products for their education.

Map containing the number of registered students in each state
Map containing the number of registered students in each state

15 Jul

Posted at 03:18h in Uncategorized

Hi Friends, Family and new friends

Please fill this 14 question survey out? Computer use as an Adult
We need major research to prove how desperately  children need computer instruction in the school systems by proving what the adult population is using now or if retired, what you did use in your job. The hope is to present this information next year everywhere around the world and in particular at blind conferences in order to get computer instruction into the school systems.
Please pass this onto  family members, friends, colleagues, and adults you can think of and make a plea for them to fill it out. I need to collect as much data as I can in the next few months. Thanks for your help on getting the word out

12 Jan

Posted at 17:32h in Other Blind Tools, Word

Combined with Calibre bookmanagement which allows you to manage all those kindle books in an accessible format but you do not need both this and codex

combined with shortcuts for all this allows quick access for braille or text reading

Find thousands of books: http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/by/genre

Now if you just want to have kindle accessible on your PC–download the simple plugin that allows kindle books to talk with ease on your computer

Kindle for PC [Download]

Kindle Plugin-

  • Start reading (from the top of the page) – CTRL, R
  • Pause/Restart reading (from current position) – Space bar or F6
  • Read current sentence from beginning – CTRL, (comma)
  • Read previous sentence – CTRL, Shift, Up Arrow
  • Skip forward one sentence – CTRL, Shift, Down Arrow
  • Toggle voice (male/female) – CTRL, Shift, V
  • Increase speech rate – Shift, +
  • Decrease speech rate – Shift, –
  • Announce current location within a book – CTRL, P
  • Toggle continuous reading – CTRL, Shift, C
  • Read instructions – CTRL, I

 

 

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