Raising The Floor is dedicated to making the internet accessible to all people, regardless of their abilities. Participants and organisations that are part of Raising The Floor engage in commercial, academic, voluntary and governmental activities towards their cause.
The three plaintiffs from California and Kansas filed the lawsuit against Disney in September 2010. The suit argued that Disney was in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (2008) by failing to cater to people with disabilities across its parks and websites.
Blindspot integrates a traditional white cane with new technologies, allowing blind or vision impaired people to better socialise using social media with geo location features such as Foursquare and Facebook Places. The Blindspot smart white cane uses information from friends signed in on social media to firstly identify the location of a friend and provide navigational directions to the user that are given through voice cues on a Bluetooth ear piece.
Located at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, the VDRCD will identify and prototype new technologies to improve access via audio description to educational material delivered via the Internet and mobile devices.
