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I helped a friend purchase a new Samsung LCD TV the other day and was suprised to see that it had Braille markings for certain functions and distinctive tactile markings on some of the smaller buttons. It seems all their TVs and Blu-ray players now include these newer accessible remote controls. Samsung have a history in developing interesting accessible products such as the Touch messenger braille mobile phone. They also run the world's only corporate Guide Dog school in Korea.

The AIR Foundation, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Minneapolis was announced today at a press conference held during the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) 2008 National Conference. The mission of the foundation is to promote universal accessibility so that every blind and low-vision person in the world has access to digital information over the Internet and Worldwide Web.

I've decided to publish this site under the creative commons license. This has served me well with photography leading to my work being used on projects including ABC science online, the Welsh National Learning Grid, and German RTL2 TV. Basically it allows for the reuse of any of the original material published on this site as long as the source material is attributed to this site, usually by way of a link. The Creative Commons site is the best place to start for more information.

Another futuristic keyboard that has many possibilities for vision impaired people is the Optimus Maximus keyboard. At first look it doesn't seem to have any specific accesibility capabilities, but its use of a OLED screen for every key means that a custom on-the-fly large print keyboard can be created. If the kids want to use it, switch it back to standard key mode. You could also configure it to be used in a similar manner to intellikeys.

The bad news is that the full 113 key version costs around $1,500US with a 47 key version costing $999. Like most cutting edge technology, expect the prices to drop dramatically over the next few years. Take a look at the Optimus product page and Optimus demo.