Microsoft has announced on the company’s blog that it will be updating features on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system to help people with disabilities more easily navigate their computers. Narrator, the built-in screen reader component of Windows, will be redesigned to improve its performance, including faster reading and more available languages and voices. It will also be updating Magnifier, the tool designed to make text and graphics large enough for people with low vision to see by improving its display of high contrast colors. Applications will also be available to use magnifier on a touch-screen device. Discussing the company’s efforts, Microsoft Windows head Steven Sinofsky said, “Windows 8 is a product we design for an incredibly broad spectrum of people around the world. One of the areas where we have worked to deliver an even greater level of innovation is in ensuring that Windows 8, particularly the new Metro…
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March 9, 2012Australian Boy Looks to the U.S. for Cerebral Palsy Therapy
March 5, 2012The family of an Australian boy with cerebral palsy has almost succeeded in raising the money necessary to pay for revolutionary new cerebral palsy treatments in the United States. If the family succeeds, Blaise Wyatt will spend his third birthday in the U.S. Blaise suffers from spastic quadriplegia, a severe form of cerebral palsy that affects all of his limbs. He cannot talk, sit or stand. Blaise’s parents, Dawn and Cameron, have fundraised and saved $17,000 of the $20,000 needed to pay for the trip and the therapies. They recently launched a Facebook auction to raise the remaining money. The auction will feature 52 items donated from local businesses. If the fundraising is successful, the family will depart on March 31 for Michigan, where Blaise will undergo a variety of therapies. “We’ve got so much planned; I can’t decide whether I’m excited – it’s more hope I suppose,” said Dawn….
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Boy Gets Birth Injury Award Five Years Later
February 29, 2012It appears that the little boy who suffered a severe brain injury during his birth at a Florida hospital in 1997 will finally see the $30 million awarded to him by a Florida jury. Aaron Edwards was born at a Lee Memorial Health System hospital. In 2007, a jury found that negligent actions by nurses caused Edwards a crippling brain injury and that they failed to follow standard hospital rules and regulations. According to Roden, when her son was born, Lee Memorial was a private institution. However, by the time the lawsuit was over, Lee Memorial had been bought out by the state of Florida. As a government hospital, Lee Memorial gained sovereign immunity, which prevents individuals from collecting judgments of more than $200,000 from government agencies without the state legislature passing a bill to allow it. A few weeks ago, the Florida legislature finally heard arguments from Aaron’s mother…
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