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James Winthrop Thatcher (March 25, 1936 – December 7, 2019) was an American computer scientist, and the inventor of the first screen reader, a type of assistive technology that enables the use of a computer by people with visual impairments. Thatcher was also important to the development of the accessibility consulting industry.
The IBM 1288 is an online reader that can optically scan cut sheet pages to generate input data for an IBM System/360 or System/370 host, reading the OCR-A font, handprinted numbers (with an optional feature) and/or optical marks (with an optional feature). It was developed and manufactured by IBM Rochester and first shipped in July 1969. [1]
Brazilian Portuguese screen reader. MSAA support. Latest info about it is from December 2007 [12] Linux Screen Reader (LSR) GNOME: Unix-like Free and open source (New BSD License) It was an alternative screen reader to Orca led by IBM started in 2006. However, it was ceased in 2007 when IBM focused their resources in other projects. [13] It ...
One of the earliest electronic displays is the cathode-ray tube (CRT), which was first demonstrated in 1897 and made commercial in 1922. [1] The CRT consists of an electron gun that forms images by firing electrons onto a phosphor-coated screen.
The Nook 1st Edition (styled "nook") is the first generation of the Nook e-book reader developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, [1] based on the Android platform. The device was announced in the United States in October 2009 and was released the next month. [ 2 ]
Maxwell's Plum was a bar at 1181 First Avenue, at the intersection with 64th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A 1988 New York Times article described it as a "flamboyant restaurant and singles bar that, more than any place of its kind, symbolized two social revolutions of the 1960s – sex and food". [1]
[42] [43] The three other Con Edison parcels that had been included in the sale and rezoning included the former Kips Bay Generating Station on the east side of First Avenue between East 35th and 36th streets, a former parking lot on the west side of First Avenue between East 39th and 40th streets, and a former office building on the east side ...
Juan Rodriguez [1] [2] [3] (Dutch: Jan Rodrigues, Portuguese: João Rodrigues) was the first documented non-indigenous inhabitant to live on Manhattan Island. [4] As such, he is considered the first non-native resident of what would eventually become New York City.