Hello my dear friends. Today I wanted to share with you my new experience with the Avaya virtual phone system, which I have been using for several months now. Avaya is a virtual phone, that is, it consists of programs that run on different operating systems, so that you can make and receive calls through these programs, without the need to have a physical phone, you will use […]
Ways to handle Captcha verification image for the blind.
welcome. It is certain that when you browse a certain site, you will encounter the Captcha verification image, especially on sites that require registration or data entry. And the talk about verification forms, their standards, and what they should be is long, but its conclusion is that the principle is that the verification images are capable of being solved by all persons, including those with disabilities, without prejudice to the main objective of those […]
Unified Arabic Braille from Mada Center
Today, more than 150 million blind people around the world still use Braille. It also highlights the importance of this method in helping the blind to learn to read and write, as it enables them to learn the spelling of words, punctuation marks, and how to format texts. Blind people also use the Braille method to read the Holy Qur’an, various books and periodicals, and take notes through electronic notebooks, in addition to […]
Digital chat: assistive technologies and telework.
The Ministry of Technology and Communications organized this meeting to celebrate the World Digital Accessibility Awareness Day, which the world celebrates every year on the third Thursday of May. I was honored to participate as a speaker alongside my colleagues, Alia Al Ismailia, and Sultan Al Ameri. The meeting can be watched on YouTube:
"Envision AI". An application that has given us a lot using artificial intelligence.
Months ago, I was talking to a co-worker, and he was asking me about artificial intelligence, and what benefits it offers to the blind, in the areas of reading and object recognition. I directly told him about the Microsoft application: Seeing AI, and the services it provides, such as instant text reading, the wonderful image description feature, and other services provided by the application. But I told him that the application does not support […]
World Accessibility Awareness Day. Global Accessibility Awareness Day
. Tomorrow will be the eighth anniversary of International Accessibility Awareness Day, which is celebrated annually on the third Thursday of May. On this day, institutions and activists in the fields of people with disabilities raise awareness about the concept of digital access to websites and applications, and the extent of change that we can all make to make the lives of people with disabilities easier if our websites […]