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Transition to Online Learning – Captioning Video Lectures

The transition to distance learning will result in an overwhelming amount of videos faculty may use for their online lectures. Many professors have expressed concerns on how they would caption their videos for their deaf/hard-of-hearing students. Captioning can be a long process; for example, a 5 minute video can take up to 30 minutes to manually caption, making it difficult to caption/transcribe video content.
New Apple Patent for People with Motor Disabilities

New Apple Patent for People with Motor Disabilities

Apple was recently granted a patent titled “interface scanning for disabled users” that will allow motor-impaired users to navigate computer interfaces and electronic devices such as MacBooks, iPads, or iPhones using assistive technology. Apple has worked on new ways to allow a user with a disability to control an iPhone…