[accessibleimage] Zoo, Tactile password,exhibition

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http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/09/129256.shtml
video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGNznLt2mc

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/150203.asp

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/oct/22/potter_builds_culture_clay/?living

http://www.westmountexaminer.com/article-45633-Art--Vision-raises-funds-for-the-visually-impaired.html

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Everyone from blind grandmothers to little boys construct the earthenware pots, or ollas, using the same timeworn methods as their ancestors of the Casas Grandes culture. They start with a flat circle of clay, dug by hand in the nearby mountains, and top it with plump coils, smoothing the walls until they’re thin as bone china.


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Singapore Zoo's visual upgrade


THE visually disabled can now enjoy a sensory experience at the Singapore Zoo.

The zoo has installed Braille interpretive signboards and life-sized replicas at 10 of its most popular exhibits — such as the white tiger, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and proboscis monkeys.

Ms Adeline Krishnan, 45, who is blind, said: "There are a couple of animals here that I've not seen before, especially life-sized crocodiles, otters and kangaroos … The 3D diagram is very good because we can feel what the animal's real form is like."

To encourage the blind to visit regularly, the zoo has produced a guidebook — available for loan free of charge — with a braille version of the zoo map and introductions to some animals. Student volunteer guides are also available.

Said Ms Fanny Lai, executive director of the Singapore Zoo and Night Safari: "We want to make sure that this national park is all-inclusive … We spent less than $10,000 to transform it." — Channel NewsAsia
THE visually disabled can now enjoy a sensory experience at the Singapore Zoo.

The zoo has installed Braille interpretive signboards and life-sized replicas at 10 of its most popular exhibits — such as the white tiger, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and proboscis monkeys.

Ms Adeline Krishnan, 45, who is blind, said: "There are a couple of animals here that I've not seen before, especially life-sized crocodiles, otters and kangaroos … The 3D diagram is very good because we can feel what the animal's real form is like."

To encourage the blind to visit regularly, the zoo has produced a guidebook — available for loan free of charge — with a braille version of the zoo map and introductions to some animals. Student volunteer guides are also available.

Said Ms Fanny Lai, executive director of the Singapore Zoo and Night Safari: "We want to make sure that this national park is all-inclusive … We spent less than $10,000 to transform it." — Channel NewsAsia


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Westmount Examiner, Montreal Canada
Saturday, October 21, 2006

Art + Vision raises funds for the visually impaired

By Marilynn Vanderstay

It is said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This Tuesday, October 24 the Montreal Retina Institute and The Montreal Association for the Blind Foundation will let viewers be the judge at Art + Vision, a fundraising cocktail vernissage in support of new facilities for the Montreal Retina Institute.

Twenty-nine local sighted, blind and visually impaired artists, including Westmounters Sara Peck Colby, Jane Desjardins, Susan Pepler, Graeme Ross, and Catherine Bates, will be exhibiting works at the event.

Pepler, who delivered her work at the space Thursday afternoon, says there was a feeling of excitement in the quasi gallery as artists were arriving and discussing the vernissage.

As is the usual for vernissages, most of the artists will be on hand to meet the public and discuss their work.

The Montreal Association for the Blind is a private non-profit organization that has been providing comprehensive rehabilitation programs and services to visually challenge individuals of all ages and backgrounds since 1908. Of particular interest to the MAB currently is the Early Intervention Program whose goal is to help provide visually impaired and blind children from birth to kindergarten and their families with a stimulating home and rehabilitation environment so they will ultimately be able to integrate into regular schools and other activities in their communities.

Admission is $50. In addition, a large percentage of the sale of the paintings will go to the Montreal Association for the Blind. There will also be silent auction of watercolors, original and hand-signed lithographs by internationally renowned Montreal abstract artist Jean Paul Riopelle.

Art+Vision will take place Tuesday evening, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. at 4120 St. Catherine W. Tickets can be purchased by calling organizing chair Angela Chen 514-285-8866 Ext.228 or communications director Claire Webster 514-489-8201 Ext.2032.


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"Entering passwords using a tactile interface would remove two of the main vulnerabilities of using keyboards and alphanumeric passwords say UK researchers. They're using sequences of tactile icons on a VTPlayer tactile mouse instead. Shapes are displayed using the 16-pin tactile displays under the user's fore and middle fingers. As well as being almost impossible for anyone else to observe, tactile passwords can't be guessable in the same way as many conventional ones, they say. A video shows it all in action."


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