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Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs!
HumanWare is a company on a mission to “develop solutions enabling people living with visual impairment, vision loss, and even learning disabilities to develop their potential and maintain their autonomy.” One of their newest products is the Mantis Q40, which is a first-of-its-kind integrated keyboard and refreshable Braille display.
According to HumanWare’s description, the Mantis Q40 is the “first-ever Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and 40-cell refreshable Braille display that you can pair with your screen reader or smartphone or simply use as a standalone device.” Either way, you have Braille at your fingertips, every time.
Whenever a student or professional is typing on the Mantis, the refreshable Braille below the keyboard provides a “multimodal Braille complement to the screen reader, making it easier to participate in, and succeed at, school or work.”
Other features include:
- Contains the following built-in apps:
- Basic editor for notes
- Book reader to download and read books in Braille
- Calculator to perform basic math calculations
- Clock to check date and time
- File manager to organize one’s work
- HumanWare signature thumb keys and home button
- 15 hours of battery life with rechargeable, removable batteries
- 16GB of internal storage
- SD card slot and USB port for flash drives
- And more
Visit Humanware.com to learn more.
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I want to take a moment to thank InTRAC the Indiana Telephone Relay Access Corporation for sponsoring our transcript today. You can find out more about InTRAC at relayindiana.com.
That was your Accessibility Minute for this week! I’m Laura Medcalf with the INDATA Project at Easterseals Crossroads, in Indiana
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