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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 13 to Friday, April 17

Entertainment: Netflix makes a blind superhero accessible to blind audiences (The Washington Post) For its new series “Daredevil,” featuring a hero who acquires superpowers in an accident that blinds him, Netflix was so busy focusing on the superhero’s powers that … Continue reading

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Justice Department Proposes Movie Theater Accessibility Rules

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing new accessibility requirements for movie theaters. Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act contains broad language prohibiting public businesses from discriminating against people with disabilities. In many cases, public businesses are … Continue reading

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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 28 – Friday, August 1

Human Interest: The kids who beat autism (The New York Times Magazine) No one has figured out what happens inside the brains of people who had autism but no longer do – whether, for example their brains were different from … Continue reading

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Participate: Survey on Synthesized Speech and Audio Description

WGBH’s National Center for Accessible Media and IBM Research-Japan are recruiting survey participants who are blind or have low vision to test speech synthesis for audio description of Web video. They are looking for people 18 or older who are … Continue reading

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