The Royal National Institute for the Blind access to digital information campaigns manager, Julie Howell, welcomed the emphasis in helping everyone to get access to the net.
By adopting a Big Data model, the analysis of massive data sets will create actionable information, eliminate blind spots where threats can lurk undetected and, ultimately, help to shrink our windows of vulnerability.
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The Scottish SPCA has appealed for information after a lost blind pet cat was found bumping into things in Aberdeen.
As Mark mentioned in his speech at the press conference after the first public demo of the vehicle early this year, blind drivers have other sources of information beyond the DriveGrip and SpeedStrip controls.
Regarding the capability of the blind, I believe that with the right nonvisual user interfaces, once we can deliver all the information needed to safely operate the vehicle to the driver, the blind can perform as well as, or possibly even better than the sighted.
My Administration is working to increase information access so Americans who are blind or visually impaired can fully participate in our increasingly interconnected world.
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Just looking at what's happened in the last three or four years with access to smart phones, it is revolutionary for blind people, it's as big a revolution as Braille in terms of getting information and it should get easier so that it's not just the blind whizz kids out there who are using them.
Having grown nearly blind, Mr Wahid finds it difficult to interpret information and has anyway shown little interest in policy detail.
"We believe the Project RAY device will enhance the ability of blind and visually impaired people to access resources and information independently, " said Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel for Qualcomm.
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The expressed goal of IBM's Home Page Reader is "to minimize the information gap between the sighted and the blind, " according to Chicko Asakwa, a blind researcher at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory who played a pivotal role in the development of the product.
But without such information, IT is going to be flying blind when it comes to making huge decisions about whether to adopt SaaS-versions of applications, build new data centers, create private clouds, or use public cloud resources.
The focus of autonomous vehicle research is on developing intelligent vehicles, or artificial intelligence for cars in some sense, while the focus of the blind driver challenge vehicle is developing methods to convey a vast amount of information to the driver through nonvisual means, fast enough and accurately enough for safe driving.
With the SEC now demanding such information, it is harder than ever for fiduciaries to turn a blind eye.
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"A lack of access to information is arguably the biggest potential barrier to inclusion in society for blind and partially-sighted people, " a spokesman told the BBC.
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On a conference call, the company said that it is getting some information about the total number of side effects, but is still blind to the results.
Not for Anne Taylor, who has to guess where to type in her name, credit card information and address when she shops online on websites that aren't accessible to the blind.
"Having the ability to gain greater access to information on smartphones through the use of a free suite of applications is a very positive development in the blind community's quest for more affordable choices, " said Mitch Pomerantz, president of the American Council of the Blind (ACB).
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