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An interesting post from Szilvia Agárdi, a well known musician and singer from Hungary. Here Szilvia shares with her Facebook fans as well as her 142,000 Tik Tok followers her impressions whilst reading using Explore 8, our high-definition electronic magnifier supplied by HumanWare’s partner in Hungary, Labrador Kft. Szilvia is a 25 year old graduate from Budapest Metropolitan University who has been visually impaired since birth and has only 9% vision. She has been singing from a very young age and has previously won the Lions international competition in Krakow for visually impaired people in 2017 as well as starring on Hungary’s version of The voice and representing Hungary at the 2016 Eurovision Song contest. Video is in Hungarian. https://www.facebook.com/agardiszilviahivatalos/posts/3564493040263627

HumanWare is an active participant in the industry-wide Access and Engagement research project! The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is proud to announce the release of the Access and Engagement research report, the culmination of survey findings from 1,432 U.S. and Canadian participants who represented 455 children birth-21 with visual impairments, 710 teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs), 138 orientation and mobility (O&M) specialists, and 180 professionals who worked in both roles. The #AccessEngagement report highlights the challenges experienced in education in late spring 2020 as the shift was made from education in school buildings to remote education, or in some cases no education. To participate in the next step of the survey: http://www.afb.org/AccessEngagement

City, University of London, in partnership with Microsoft, is researching how Artificial Intelligence can be used to build personalised object recognition tools for visually impaired people. The ORBIT project invites you to record videos of items that are important to you. These will be added to a research dataset to help create new Artificial Intelligence technologies for blind and visually impaired users around the world. To learn more: https://orbit.city.ac.uk/phase-2-data-collection/

Today is World Sight Day and an occasion to raise global attention on blindness and visual impairment! It is a great privilege and honor for HumanWare to contribute to the visually impaired community through our offer and to help people with vision loss achieve their goals! Discover the HumanWare complete range of solutions 2020! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWVYiggn-w

IT’S HERE! After the incredible success in the USA where it was introduced by the American Printing House for the Blind and now being made available internationally by HumanWare, there’s a new kind of mantis in town, the Mantis Q40, and it’s revolutionizing the way braille is used in the classroom and workplace. The efficient QWERTY keyboard is paired with a 40-cell refreshable braille display to provide the best of both worlds in one device. Available in English and in select International zones, please, contact your HumanWare representative to get your hands on one!

Looking forward to what's next with HumanWare Live Webinars? Do not miss this week's two topics: 'Making the most out of magnifying & distance viewing on Connect 12 in a classroom` on Wednesday and `Research like a pro Browsing the web and accessing digital talking books on the BrailleNote Touch Plus` on Thursday. To register: http://support.humanware.com//humanware_live_webinar_series

The inspiring story of Xavier Hopkins, a blind downhill mountain biker who has taken his passion to a professional level! https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-berkshire-54235407