WEBVTT 00:00:26.674 --> 00:00:31.940 What we do is work on broadcast innovation. You might say what would be broadcast innovation for 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:36.741 accessibility purposes and I would say, for example, radio for the deaf. 00:00:36.741 --> 00:00:42.454 That's a project that we've been working on here at our booth for the last 2-3 years. 00:00:42.454 --> 00:00:51.579 With folks like Gallaudet, the Hearing Loss Association of America. And once we've created a mock up of how to produce captions for radio, 00:00:51.579 --> 00:01:00.218 then the folks at the Helen Keller national center said can you convert it into braille for the deaf/blind. So we showed how to do that as well. 00:01:00.218 --> 00:01:05.102 And then it was a matter of can you now add emergency alerting features that will run through 00:01:05.102 --> 00:01:13.813 the local public radio station. We've now got a project that we'll begin testing and showing how we can do that this summer in the gulf states. 00:01:13.813 --> 00:01:20.046 Latino USA became our first regular program that's going to carry captions each and every week hereafter. 00:01:20.046 --> 00:01:32.437 So you can go and view them online at their website: futuromediagroup.org and look for the links to Latino USA and their caption radio program. 00:01:32.437 --> 00:01:38.088 And you can follow the work we do at NPR labs at: nprlabs.org. 00:01:38.088 --> 00:01:43.621 Humanware is involved in a few areas of assistive technology. We have kind of have three focuses: 00:01:43.621 --> 00:01:48.253 we have blindness products, speech and braille products, DAISY players. 00:01:48.253 --> 00:01:54.520 And we have the low vision side of the business which is magnification of course. Video magnifiers. 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:00.488 And some learning disability products too. Some book reading and comprehension products. 00:02:00.488 --> 00:02:09.320 We manufacture braille embossers that vary all the way to the very basic to high end high production embossers. 00:02:09.320 --> 00:02:13.756 We also have a touch pad that we call IVEO. 00:02:13.756 --> 00:02:19.623 We also distribute products like voice eye and a product from independent science which is a talking mapquest. 00:02:19.623 --> 00:02:24.887 We're the industry leaders in tactile graphics and we work very hard to support all the assistive 00:02:24.887 --> 00:02:28.606 technology needs for anybody around the world. 00:02:39.934 --> 00:02:48.502 Today we're here talking about Windows 8 and our new surface tablet and some of the improvements we've made for accessibility in Windows 8. 00:02:48.502 --> 00:02:59.438 So our magnifier and our onscreen narrator for hearing the computer in text speech in a touch environment. 00:02:59.438 --> 00:03:05.804 So you have a tablet, you don't have a keyboard, how do you actually use these devices when you can't seem them very well. 00:03:05.804 --> 00:03:11.244 So our magnifier and our narrator have been enhanced so you can use them with touch. 00:03:11.244 --> 00:03:19.681 Our approach to consumer research is to actually include people with disabilities in the broader user research we do. 00:03:19.681 --> 00:03:29.103 So several months, probably a year or so, leading into the release of Windows, we will work with consumers. We have beta testing phases. 00:03:29.103 --> 00:03:38.384 We do usability studies and tests and all of those include specific feedback from people with disabilities. Of all types of disabilities. 00:03:56.074 --> 00:04:05.349 Hamilton relay services the deaf, the hard of hearing, people who have difficulty speaking or being understood on the telephone, as well as people 00:04:05.387 --> 00:04:11.920 who have combined hearing loss with vision loss. Today at our booth, we are showing all of our different services that are available. 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:18.952 For example, we have the California relay service, which is an awesome service for people who are completely deaf. 00:04:18.952 --> 00:04:28.586 For people with speech difficulties, we have a service called speech to speech which is amazing for people who are struggling to be understood on the phone. 00:04:28.586 --> 00:04:35.720 We also have visually assisted speech to speech which adds a visual component to our already existing speech to speech service. 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:44.621 We also have Hamilton CapTell, which is a great service for people who are hard of hearing, finding it hard to understand what's being said 00:04:44.621 --> 00:04:49.852 on the phone, where they can listen to what the person says, and read captions of the call. 00:04:49.852 --> 00:04:56.185 So we have many different solutions for people from one extreme to the next and we'd love to share more information with you. 00:04:56.185 --> 00:05:08.601 We sell aids to people so they can live independently on their own. Things as far as talking watches, braille watches, talking clocks, 00:05:08.601 --> 00:05:18.608 magnifiers, a lot of braille products, a lot of teaching products for small children. We have braille blocks. 00:05:18.608 --> 00:05:25.345 And just things to make life a little easier to live on their own so they don't have to depend on other people. 00:05:25.345 --> 00:05:32.617 For the past 10 years, we have served as experts in the field of accessibility for the federal government. 00:05:32.617 --> 00:05:36.777 We offer electronic documents, such as PDF remediation, we offer website development, 00:05:36.777 --> 00:05:40.443 web application development, assessments and remediations there as well. 00:05:40.443 --> 00:05:48.937 We also offer full online training courses and classroom training courses as well for developers and content managers and the like. 00:05:48.937 --> 00:05:55.408 If you would like to find out more information, please visit our website: www.devis.com