File Archives 2001
Files are listed in reverse chronological order - the most recently sent
tidbits are listed first. Please note that not all the Distribution List files
are represented here.
12/01/2001 - Assets 2002 - Call for
Submissions
10/16/2001 - Webcast Announcement
10/05/2001 - Donated Computers Open Doors of
Opportunity
10/05/2001 - Committee of experts wraps up work
on impact of new technologies
10/04/2001 - Text messaging revolution for the
hard of hearing
10/04/2001 - Window-Eyes screen reader adds
display, compatibility features
10/03/2001 - Text messages developed for blind
people in Italy
10/03/2001 - No More Sores: An innovation could
reduce deadly ulcers
09/28/2001 - Live Web Cast
09/28/2001 - Finding Life
09/25/2001 - Physicist Warns Humans About
A.I.
09/25/2001 - The Seeing Tongue
09/20/2001 - Smart Walker Detects
Obstacles
09/20/2001 - Enabling the Deaf and Hearing to
Communicate with Each Other
09/19/2001 - Free Educational Reading
Software
09/19/2001 - Christopher Reeve Paralysis
Foundation offers grants
09/18/2001 - Fluorescent LANs Light the
Way
09/18/2001 - Books without Barriers
09/13/2001 - DisabilityDirect will groom its
services to neighborhoods
09/13/2001 - Workshop on Universal Access and
Assistive Technology
09/11/2001 - Touchfree Switch experiences
requested
09/11/2001 - Making peace with a threat to
'deaf culture'
09/10/2001 - Biomedical Engineering Program
and Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities Program
09/10/2001 - Therapies Push Injured Brains
and Spinal Cords into New Paths
09/04/2001 - Free Adobe Web Site
Accessibility eSeminar
09/04/2001 - Check sites for 508 accessibility
with audit-edit tools
08/23/2001 - Altec Lansing's VoicePod
08/23/2001 - Accessibility for persons who are
deaf or hard of hearing made easy
08/22/2001 - Neuromaster - The road to
brain implants begins with a virtual rat
08/22/2001 - Recent offerings from IOS Press:
Assistive Technology and Research Series
08/21/2001 - DOD widens assistive tech
08/21/2001 - Cyborg 1.0 - Kevin Warwick
outlines his plan to become one with his computer
08/20/2001 - Assistive Technology
08/20/2001 - Accessibility Update
08/17/2001 - The Next Brainiacs
08/17/2001 - Beyond sight
08/15/2001 - Virtual Reality PTSD
Treatment
08/15/2001 - Thumbscript
08/13/2001 - A Solid Intranet in Eight Steps
08/13/2001 - Student Uses Small Tech to
Give a Voice to the Deaf
08/09/2001 - Rehabinformatics
08/09/2001 - Web-accessibility - Schools
Next?
08/08/2001 - Power-Jack - Turn a computer on
/ off independently!
08/08/2001 - Prosthetic Knee Receives Standing
Ovation
08/07/2001 - Macromedia releases new
accessibility solutions
08/07/2001 - 3 blind men given bionic eyes
08/06/2001 - Using Palm Pilots to Help Control
Computers
08/06/2001 - Tools make PDF files
accessible
08/02/2001 - PageScreamer
08/02/2001 - Grandmother's Little Helper
08/01/2001 - Accessibility to laboratory
equipment for students with disabilities
08/01/2001 - Solution to Help Federal Agencies
Meet Section 508 Compliance
07/31/2001 - Artificial Sight
07/31/2001 - Guidebook describes personal computer
adaptations
07/27/2001 - Medical Design Excellence Awards
2001
07/27/2001 - A-Prompt Toolkit
07/26/2001 - Web site accessibility goes
mainstream
07/26/2001 - MailSpeech - talking e-mail
from any phone
07/25/2001 - International Conference on
Computers Helping People with Special Needs
07/25/2001 - Robotic Fish May Hold Key to Better
Artificial Limbs
07/24/2001 - FedEdTV
07/24/2001 - Recent articles on
accessibility in Federal Computer Week
07/23/2001 - Many Federal Agencies May Fail to
Comply With Law Helping Disabled Access Web
07/23/2001 - Historic Donation Aims To Battle
Disabilities
07/20/2001 - Web site accessibility goes
mainstream
07/20/2001 - Past RESNA SIG-11 Chair Elected ACM
SIGCAPH Chair
07/19/2001 - Books for the Blind Go
Digital
07/19/2001 - President Bush's remarks on
Americans with disabilities
07/18/2001 - "A Better Employer" for
the Disabled
07/18/2001 - High Visibility - Special Glasses
Help Faltering Eyesight
07/17/2001 - 508resources - Designing
Accessible Web Sites
07/17/2001 - Windows 2000 holds many
accessibility shortcuts
06/11/2001 - Bringing E-Commerce to the
Blind
06/11/2001 - Accessing Higher Ground
Conference
06/06/2001 - Web Site Offers Museum E-tour for
Disabled
06/06/2001 - Assistive Technology (AT) Training
Opportunities
06/01/2001 - Users with Visual and Motor
Impairments Needed for Study
06/01/2001 - Electronics Recycling
Resources
05/31/2001 - Acceleration Sensing Glove
(virtual keyboard)
05/31/2001 - Access Articles from
Government Computer News
05/30/2001 - Giving Site to the Visually
Impaired
05/30/2001 - Smart Labels
05/29/2001 - Technology for disabled users:
lessons learned
05/29/2001 - New Implant Helps Hearing
Impaired
05/25/2001 - Recent Accessibility News
from Federal Computer Week Magazine
05/25/2001 - Products Check Web Content for
Federal Compliance
05/25/2001 - New Tools Boost Number of Disabled
in IT Ranks
05/22/2001 - P5 Glove
05/22/2001 - WordQ writing aid software
05/21/2001 - Usability.gov
05/21/2001 - Better Usability
05/18/2001 - Cymouse - six degree-of-freedom
positional and angular head tracking device
05/18/2001 - Sony empowers Aibo pet robot to
read e-mail
05/17/2001 - Web Accessibility Book
05/17/2001 - Wearable Computers
05/16/2001 - The WAVE web page accessibility
evaluation assistant
05/16/2001 - Future Technology May Help
Paralyzed People Walk
05/15/2001 - Microsoft Contributions Help Launch
Online Disability Resource
05/15/2001 - Kurzweil Wins MIT Prize
05/14/2001 - Researchers developing 3G phones
for deaf people
05/14/2001 - RESNA SIG-11 member honored at
USI Commencement
05/11/2001 - Researchers Unveil Breathing
Aid for Spinal Injury Victims
05/11/2001 - Call for Papers - International
Journal - Universal Access in the Information Society
05/10/2001 - Name change for IEEE Transactions on
Rehabilitative Engineering
05/10/2001 - Robots Can Learn Much From
High-Tech Playthings
05/09/2001 - Tongue patch to guide
blind
05/09/2001 - Tongue Sensors May Give Virtual
Eyesight to the Blind
05/08/2001 - Scientists Use Senses from Tongue
to Aid Disabled
05/08/2001 - Feds Issue Tech Accessibility
Rules
05/07/2001 - Tactile Display
05/07/2001 - Talking ATMs Give Blind
Independence
05/04/2001 - ADA: Opportunities For Disabled
Still Stumble on Employer Fears
05/04/2001 - Microsoft Office XP
Accessibility Features
05/03/2001 - New Freedom Initiative
05/03/2001 - Bluetooth: Can It Help
Disabled People?
05/02/2001 - Deaf, blind student invents
Braille device
05/02/2001 - Articles from "Speaking of
Computers, a newsletter for the Stanford academic community
05/01/2001 - Phones Keep Deaf in Touch with
Text
05/01/2001 - U. Maryland Program Boosts Kids'
Emotional Development with Robotics
04/30/2001 - Use Your Head: Eye Control
Device Replaces Mouse
04/30/2001 - Access for All
04/27/2001 - Samsung develops digital guide
dog harness
04/27/2001 - Robotic system in a group home
for disabled people
04/26/2001 - Web and Web Site
Accessibility
04/26/2001 - Rehab Robot
04/25/2001 - The Interface Revolutionary
04/25/2001 - Accessibility Improvements Are Just
The Start For E-Business
04/24/2001 - Group Pushes for Web Sites
Designed for All Internet Users
04/24/2001 - Pill Bottles 'Talk' to Elderly
04/23/2001 - NEC crafts a robotic helpmeet from
PC parts
04/23/2001 - Maximize Web Site Usability
04/20/2001 - Mapping the Mind's Eye
04/20/2001 - LILA helps disabled navigate Web and
daily life
04/19/2001 - Israeli Computer Mouse Helps the
Blind to 'See'
04/19/2001 - Articles from Government
Computer News - 04/02/2001
04/18/2001 - Race on to serve the disabled
04/18/2001 - Recent Accessibility Articles
in Federal Computer Week
04/17/2001 - Bush Outlines Plan for
Disabled
04/17/2001 - Acrobat 5.0 talks, meets Section
508
04/10/2001 - Disabled Need Tools for
Schools
04/10/2001 - North Carolina moves to make
Information Technology accessible for disabled
04/09/2001 - NASA Robotics May Soon Help
Spinal Cord Patients Take First Steps
04/09/2001 - NASA Device Helps Blind
Read
04/06/2001 - Pentagon spends $50M on bionic
men
04/06/2001 - Third Virtual Reality International
Conference
04/05/2001 - KeyRF Remote Control
04/05/2001 - Sonar Sight for the Blind?
04/04/2001 - Innovative Software Aims to
Aid Deaf
04/04/2001 - Interliant Builds Web Site for
the Blind
04/03/2001 - NASA's Hands-Free Approach to
Landing Jets
04/03/2001 - Ethical Issues In Disability and
Aging
04/02/2001 - US Education Department sets
uniform product design for disabled
04/02/2001 - FleetBoston to Install
Talking ATMs for Blind, Visually Impaired Customers
03/30/2001 - Implants Enable Disabled
Freedom to Breathe, Stand on Their Own
03/30/2001 - Electrical stimulation as an
assistive technology
03/29/2001 - Japan Developing Artificial
Eyesight
03/29/2001 - DARPA Selects Contractors For
Soldier Exoskeleton Program
03/28/2001 - Technology boosts Web Site for
Blind
03/28/2001 - Equal Access for All
03/27/2001 - Donor Gives $250 Million for the
Disabled
03/27/2001 - Air Force Using Computer
Technology to Put Disabled to Work
03/26/2001 - Quality of Life Grants Program
03/26/2001 - Colleges focus on making web
sites work for people with disabilities
03/23/2001 - Colleges Focus on Making Web
Sites Work for People With Disabilities
03/23/2001 - CART Students Win Contest to Build
Device for Disabled
03/22/2001 - Computer Assisted Rehabilitation
ENvironment
03/22/2001 - Bionic Ear Still Delights Its
Maker
03/21/2001 - PNC to Debut ATM Service for
Visually Impaired
03/21/2001 - Artist's View: Look Ma, No
Hands
03/20/2001 - American Foundation for the Blind
Launches Website
03/20/2001 - Progress in Making Brain-to-Computer
Connection
03/19/2001 - Standards for Electronic and
Information Technology
03/19/2001 - Agencies face June deadline
for meeting Section 508
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