It says that copyright laws often hamper efforts to make accessible versions of books, denying access to reading material for blind people.
Mann controls a bunch of other startups, including companies that make prosthetic retinas for blind people and implantable nerve stimulators for stroke victims.
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.
We played a big part in getting mobility allowance for deaf-blind people.
Together with individuals who are blind or visually impaired, service providers, educators, and employers, we will uphold our country as an inclusive, welcoming place for blind or visually impaired people to work, learn, play, and live.
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Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier was questioned by MEPs on 15 February 2012 on why the Commission had not signed up to an international treaty to make it legal for blind and visually impaired people to make braille or large-print copies of published books.
"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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Despite this, braille use has declined, in part due to a shift from specialized schools for people who are blind to mainstream schools where there are too few qualified teachers.
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Mobile Accessibility has been specifically designed by Code Factory for people who are blind or visually impaired and for elderly individuals or those who cannot read print on smartphones because of physical, perceptual, developmental, cognitive or learning disabilities.
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Natalie Doig, campaigns officer for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, said current flight regulations did not specify that blind people needed to be accompanied.
John Godber, Head of Products and Publications for the UK's Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), says, "This is the biggest step forward for learning braille since the invention of the Perkins Brailler" in 1951.
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Transport Minister Norman Baker MP visited Reading to back the Royal National Institute of Blind People's Stop For Me, Speak To Me campaign.
This legislation will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind, or live with a visual impairment to use the technology our 21st-century economy depends on, from navigating digital menus on a television to sending emails on a smart phone.
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The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or live with a visual impairment to do what many of us take for granted -- from navigating a TV or DVD menu to sending an email on a smart phone.
For example: parents with crying babies, blind people with guide dogs, or even people with unpleasant body odor.
For many people, the prospect of making a blind call to a place of interest can be daunting.
The event is part of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) "Stop for me, Speak to me" campaign.
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The 600-metre stretch in front of the resort's tower has been blamed for causing congestion and was even branded a risk to blind people.
For anger, sadness and concentration, the detailed ways that blind people moved their faces were significantly more similar to those of their family members than to those of strangers.
David Cowdrey, from Guide Dogs for the Blind, said the scheme was a danger to visually impaired people.
Today, the majority of blind and visually impaired people use simple 2G mobile phones for voice telephony only.
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It is free for people over 75 and half-price for those registered blind.
It's there for those people who can't see the lights, like visually impaired or blind people.
"The difficulties blind and partially sighted people face in making journeys that other people take for granted are unacceptable and often unnecessary, " she added.
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"If we require a higher standard of evidence for drugs in this arena, we are not going to cause people to go blind and require dialysis, " Nissen said.
And this is not blind optimism or synthetic confidence to console people, it is the practical affirmation for our times of our faith in a better future.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has written letters to Berkshire West PCT demanding the reason for the Lucentis refusal, but campaigns manager Clare Eaglin said the PCT "never managed to give us that information".
Ceri Jackson, director of Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Cymru, said the charity "regularly comes into contact with blind and partially sighted people living in abject poverty".
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