Widening the Field of Vision

WIDENING THE FIELD OF VISION THE EVOLUTION OF SIGHT ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY 1824 BRAILLE Louis Braille takes a French military code too complicated for soldiers to learn and simplifies it, bringing reading and writing to the sight-impaired. 15 AGE OF LOUIS BRAILLE WHEN HE COMPLETED THE BRAILLE CODING SYSTEM WHITE CANE 1921 James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol who was blinded in an accident, paints his walking stick white to make it more visible in busy traffic. 109,000 ESTIMATED NUMBER OF THE 1.3 MILLION LEGALLY BLIND PEOPLE IN THE U.S. WHO CURRENTLY USE A WHITE CANE GUIDE DOGS 1929 The first guide dog training schools are established in Germany to assist World War I veterans who were blinded in combat. $25,000 THE COST TO TRAIN A SINGLE GUIDE DOG IN 20 12 TACTILE PAVING 1965 2001 Seiichi Miyake develops a system of raised bumps to alert visually impaired. pedestrians of their approach to streets or hazardous drop-offs. YEAR U.S. REQUIRES DETECTABLE WARNINGS AT PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS SIGHTFINDER 2012 Cloud-based image/sound recognition technology, deveľoped by NTT Service Evolution Laboratories, processes user-captured data in real time and responds right away with alerts to help the vision-impaired read signs and navigate the streets. +20 NUMBER OF COUNTRIES WITH DATA CENTERS THAT SUPPORT NTT COMMUNICATIONS SEAMLESS GLOBAL CLOUD ONTT Group SOURCES: WIKIPEDIA • ACCESS-BOARD.GOV • WHITECANEDAY.ORG WIDENING THE FIELD OF VISION THE EVOLUTION OF SIGHT ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY 1824 BRAILLE Louis Braille takes a French military code too complicated for soldiers to learn and simplifies it, bringing reading and writing to the sight-impaired. 15 AGE OF LOUIS BRAILLE WHEN HE COMPLETED THE BRAILLE CODING SYSTEM WHITE CANE 1921 James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol who was blinded in an accident, paints his walking stick white to make it more visible in busy traffic. 109,000 ESTIMATED NUMBER OF THE 1.3 MILLION LEGALLY BLIND PEOPLE IN THE U.S. WHO CURRENTLY USE A WHITE CANE GUIDE DOGS 1929 The first guide dog training schools are established in Germany to assist World War I veterans who were blinded in combat. $25,000 THE COST TO TRAIN A SINGLE GUIDE DOG IN 20 12 TACTILE PAVING 1965 2001 Seiichi Miyake develops a system of raised bumps to alert visually impaired. pedestrians of their approach to streets or hazardous drop-offs. YEAR U.S. REQUIRES DETECTABLE WARNINGS AT PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS SIGHTFINDER 2012 Cloud-based image/sound recognition technology, deveľoped by NTT Service Evolution Laboratories, processes user-captured data in real time and responds right away with alerts to help the vision-impaired read signs and navigate the streets. +20 NUMBER OF COUNTRIES WITH DATA CENTERS THAT SUPPORT NTT COMMUNICATIONS SEAMLESS GLOBAL CLOUD ONTT Group SOURCES: WIKIPEDIA • ACCESS-BOARD.GOV • WHITECANEDAY.ORG