Moderator: Devin Coldewey, Writer & Photographer, TechCrunch Greg Stilson, Head of Global Innovation, APH Greg Stilson will also lead a breakout session for attendees who want to go deeper on the Dynamic Tactile Device. The Dynamic Tactile Device: That “Holy Braille” for educations is nearįollowing up on last year’s discussion of the APH and Humanware collaboration to create an education-focused tactile display (see next session), Greg Stilson updates Sight Tech Global on the project’s progress and APH’s work toward an SDK for developers to build on the tactile display. To see times and more, go to the Sight Tech Global agenda page. Don’t forget to register today!Īnd before you browse this awesome agenda: For technologists, designers and product folks working on earthshaking assistive tech, we’re hosting a small, in-person event on December 9 featuring workshops on assistive tech, many run by the same luminaries on the agenda. Understanding AI is vital to the future of everyone with disabilities for all those reasons. At the same time, AI is arguably the best core tech ever for people without sight. There is no shortage of hype as far as AI’s capabilities, and it’s important to push back on that by discussing some serious limitations and deficits in the way today’s AI works for people with disabilities, not to mention humanity in general. Our third big slab of programming is about AI itself. We’ll also take our first look at accessibility in VR, which is an area of huge concern because if/when VR takes off in the entertainment and business worlds, it’s vital that people without vision have access, as they do today on smart phones and computers thanks to screenreaders like JAWS, VoiceOver and NVDA. Register today!Īt this year’s event we have sessions with the creators of several new devices to assist with vision, and we’ll talk about the technology architecture decisions that went into balancing capability with cost and tapping existing platforms. If you don’t follow this topic, maybe you should, because a lot of cutting-edge tech over the years - think OCR and NLP - was developed at the outset with blind people in mind, and went from there to more mainstream uses. The third annual Sight Tech Global conference, a virtual, free and highly accessible event on December 7 and 8 convenes some of the world’s top experts working on assistive tech, especially AI, for people who are blind or visually impaired.
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