Stories
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
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The sweet sound of synthetic speech
After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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See hear on saturday.
Date: 1999- Books
Deaf history unveiled : interpretations from the new scholarship / John Vickrey Van Cleve, editor.
Date: 1993- Books
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Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.
Date: 1893- Books
Deaf lives : deaf people in history / edited by Peter W. Jackson and Raymond Lee.
Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
When the mind hears : a history of the deaf / Harlan Lane.
Lane, Harlan, 1936-2019.Date: [1984], ©1984