I am doing a public outreach event today. Somehow the swag shipment didn’t get mailed, so I was told to raid the old education office to see what we have.
I'd love to chat with a #vision scientist about why they think some things have a "right side up" and not others. writing is strongly orientation sensitive, but brain doesn't seem to care when recognizing and processing lots of other complex objects. seems like a weird gap in my understanding and a really basic question. #neuroscience#neuro@neuro@neuroscience
It has been developed as part of "A Touch of the Universe", a non-profit project for a tactile astronomy kit addressed to children with vision impairments.
Before designing a website, or even making a small change to an existing one, ask if your design choices consider the needs of people with color blindness. Changing the button color on your website may seem insignificant, but it could make that website inaccessible to nearly 8% of men and 0.4% of women who have color blindness.
Hilferuf aus der Münchner #Fahrradbubble: Lindwurmstraße für alle! Als Aktion ist morgen (!!!!), Donnerstag 15.2.
Lindwurmstraße - Verbandfahren von der Sendlinger Kirche zum Sendlinger Tor spontan geplant. Start um 18 Uhr. Bitte kommt zahlreich um die tolle Planung für die Lindwurmstraße zu retten!!!! 🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️🚴🚴🚴
'A George Mason University scientist and team of researchers developed a new camera system that allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings, according to a report in the open access journal PLOS Biology.'
Street parking was already scarce in #Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to 👍end traffic fatalities.👍
For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 people has reported resounding success:
♦️Not a single automobile occupant, bicyclist or pedestrian has died in a traffic crash since January 2017♦️, elevating Hoboken as a national model for roadway safety.
Mayor Ravi Bhalla was a City Council member in 2015 when a van struck 89-year-old Agnes Accera as she crossed Washington Street in the bustling downtown business district. Bhalla didn’t know Accera but attended her wake and said her death inspired him to push for better safety.
“I felt it wasn’t acceptable,” Bhalla said. “Our seniors, who we owe the greatest duty of safety to, should be able to pass that street as safely as possible. For her to actually be killed was a trigger that we needed to take action.”
Bhalla became mayor in 2018 and the city fully committed to #Vision#Zero: 🔸a set of guidelines adopted by numerous cities, states and nations seeking to eliminate traffic deaths. 🔸
👉Proponents believe no accident is truly unavoidable and even want to do away with the word “accident” altogether when describing roadway fatalities. #Sweden originated the concept more than a quarter-century ago, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete #Buttigieg touted Hoboken in 2022 when announcing his department would follow Vision Zero guidelines.
Major U.S. cities including #NewYork, #Minneapolis, #SanFrancisco, #Baltimore and #Portland, Oregon, have integrated aspects of the program into their safety plans,
including at least some form of #daylighting, the term for the removal of parking spaces near intersections to improve visibility. #VisionZero#CarSafety https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-daylighting-pedestrian-safety-007dec67706c1c09129da1436a3d9762
"With millions of people flocking to big cities and small towns to witness Monday's eclipse, hospitals are on high alert for increased traffic accidents, the potential for mass casualty events and, of course, eye damage.
Eclipse fervor will especially strain understaffed health care systems in rural towns that may not have dealt with an event of this scale."
What is the best way to offer you text-to-speech in my video game? Should I build it in myself? Or should I somehow make the text available to external screen reading plugins you already have installed?
What is the best way to enable text-to-speech? I'm trying to imagine how a blind person would find the toggle in a settings menu they can't see. The only way I can think of around that would be to enable it by default and have an option for users who don't want it to disable it at the beginning, but that sounds cumbersome. Is there a better middle option? Is there a commonly-used keyboard shortcut I can enable or something?
Our favorite animals are deer 💛 ~ Nazaré, Portugal 🇵🇹 The name of this town and the presence of deer is not coincidental! In the second photo, the deer ducked its head before I had time to focus and take the picture. 😅
#PhysicsFactlet
The human eyes have "only" 3 different colour receptors, so multiple spectra can be perceived as the same colour.
(And this without considering all the ways the signal is processed before you actually "see" it.) #Optics#Colour#Color#Vision
Pleased to share my latest research "Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model" about a glimpsing neural network model the learns visual structure (here, number) in a way that generalises to new visual contents. The model replicates several neural and behavioural hallmarks of numerical cognition.
Relationship between sleep and ADHD
https://brainclinics.com/the-relationship-between-sleep-and-adhd/