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What we do is work on broadcast innovation. You might say what would be broadcast innovation for
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accessibility purposes and I would say, for example, radio for the deaf.
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That's a project that we've been working on here at our booth for the last 2-3 years.
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With folks like Gallaudet, the Hearing Loss Association of America.
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And once we've created a mock-up of how to produce captions for radio,
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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.
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And then it was a matter of can you now add emergency alerting features that will run through
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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.
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Latino USA became our first regular program that's going to carry captions each and every week hereafter.
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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.
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And you can follow the work we do at NPR labs at: nprlabs.org.
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Humanware is involved in a few areas of assistive technology. We have kind of have three focuses:
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we have blindness products, speech and braille products, DAISY players.
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And we have the low vision side of the business which is magnification of course. Video magnifiers.
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And some learning disability products too. Some book reading and comprehension products.
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We manufacture braille embossers that vary all the way to the very basic to high end high production embossers.
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We also have a touch pad that we call IVEO.
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We also distribute products like voice eye and a product from independent science which is a talking mapquest.
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We're the industry leaders in tactile graphics and we work very hard to support all the assistive
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technology needs for anybody around the world.
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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.
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So our magnifier and our onscreen narrator for hearing the computer in text speech in a touch environment.
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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.
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So our magnifier and our narrator have been enhanced so you can use them with touch.
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Our approach to consumer research is to actually include people with disabilities in the broader user research we do.
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So several months, probably a year or so, leading into the release of Windows, we will work with consumers. We have beta testing phases.
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We do usability studies and tests and all of those include specific feedback from people with disabilities. Of all types of disabilities.
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Hamilton relay services the deaf, the hard of hearing, people who have difficulty speaking or being understood on the telephone, as well as people
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who have combined hearing loss with vision loss. Today at our booth, we are showing all of our different services that are available.
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For example, we have the California relay service, which is an awesome service for people who are completely deaf.
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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.
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We also have visually assisted speech to speech which adds a visual component to our already existing speech to speech service.
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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
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on the phone, where they can listen to what the person says, and read captions of the call.
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So we have many different solutions for people from one extreme to the next and we'd love to share more information with you.
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We sell aids to people so they can live independently on their own. Things as far as talking watches, braille watches, talking clocks,
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magnifiers, a lot of braille products, a lot of teaching products for small children. We have braille blocks.
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And just things to make life a little easier to live on their own so they don't have to depend on other people.
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For the past 10 years, we have served as experts in the field of accessibility for the federal government.
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We offer electronic documents, such as PDF remediation, we offer website development,
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web application development, assessments and remediations there as well.
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We also offer full online training courses and classroom training courses as well for developers and content managers and the like.
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If you would like to find out more information, please visit our website: www.devis.com