Sensible Innovations is excited to announce that we will be providing the audio guides at two major, upcoming, conferences in the US next month. The first, M-Enabling Summit Conference and Showcase 2016 takes place in Washington DC on June 13 and 14. The M-Enabling Summit is the only program exclusively dedicated to promoting mobile accessible and assistive application and services for senior citizens and users of all abilities. This is an annual meeting for all those who cre

I just read this wonderful article about a team effort between Purdue University students and students at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ISBVI). Purdue engineering students in the university’s EPICS program, a program devoted to helping meet community needs, are working with ISBVI’s high school students to improve education for those with visual impairments or blindness. Projects they’re currently working on include a device that turns braille writing

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day devoted awareness for the technological advancements providing greater accessibility for those with disabilities. That’s exactly what AWARE is all about. AWARE uses iBeacons and the existing technology in smartphones to provide audio-based guidance and information to users. Because people with visual impairments or blindness should absolutely have the same access to information as sighted people. Everyone should be able to re

On Tuesday, we performed an Aware installation that makes me so proud. We installed Aware at the Mary Bryant Home for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Springfield, Illinois. The Mary Bryant Home is named for a young girl in the 1800s who lost her sight to scrofula, a form of tuberculosis. At 15 years old, she evacuated her fellow students, all blind, from their school during a fire. The home is a supported living facility where those with blindness or visual impairments can

Rasha Said launched Sensible Innovations to help improve the lives of America’s almost 21 million visually impaired. In 2015, the mom of three created the AWARE Audible Proximity App, an iOS app using iBeacon technology, to help the visually impaired more fully experience their surroundings in real time and navigate public spaces via voice instruction. The app, which she launched from her office in Springfield just months ago, has already proved successful in a test pilot pro

In March, I was so pleased to be able to take part in the 31st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference at California State University Northridge (CSUN). The feedback we received from people who visited our booth was just incredible. The team from WebAble.tv was there and was able to capture one of our demonstrations, this one featuring activist Albert Rizzi, who is blind. “This is a fantastic tool. This is gonna open so many doors. The applica