February 2022

Snap&Read now reads math + EquatIO = a beautiful union

February 11, 2022

Let’s start with a word problem: 3-6% of elementary schoolers have dyscalculia, a math-related learning disability. 5-20% of learners have dyslexia, a reading-related learning disability. With ~53 million K-12 learners in the US and a ~40% co-occurrence of the two learning disabilities (meaning that 40% of people with dyslexia also have dyscalculia and vice versa) … Continued

Recent changes to Google Docs stopped some accessibility tools from working.

February 11, 2022

By Josh Maglasang

Google Docs recently changed the way they render text (from HTML to something called Canvas). The important thing to understand is that this change took away ALL of the information that accessibility tools needed to be able to work in Google docs. Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and word prediction all relied on HTML rendering in Google Docs, … Continued

Month: February 2022