RE: Interesting new assistive tech

Sorry

 

It just takes finger spelling movements and displays them as letters.
So it lets you spell out words.      It doesn't detect or translate ASL.


 

Could be very nifty as a keyboardless keyboard though for those who know
finger-spelling and can communicate well by spelling out words.

Could also be used for data entry.

 

Gregg

 

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Cynthia Shelly
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:55 PM
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Interesting new assistive tech

 

A New York Times article about a new device that translates ASL into
text.  It's not in production yet (a high school kid invented it), but
sounds really cool.

 

Here's the article.  Requires a free subscription to NYT online.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07GLOV.html