{"id":2276,"date":"2017-09-21T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2017-09-21T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:36:41","slug":"microsofts-new-ai-app-to-assist-the-blind-could-be-a-game-changer-in-accessibility-techrepublic-12-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2017\/09\/21\/microsofts-new-ai-app-to-assist-the-blind-could-be-a-game-changer-in-accessibility-techrepublic-12-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s new AI app to assist the blind could be a &#8216;game changer&#8217; in accessibility &#8211; TechRepublic, 12 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said she believes the app could be useful, even for people who are not visually impaired. &#8220;What is obvious to one person can be invisible to another,&#8221; Alper told TechRepublic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/microsofts-new-ai-app-to-assist-the-blind-could-be-a-game-changer-in-accessibility\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s new AI app to assist the blind could be a &#8216;game changer&#8217; in accessibility &#8211; TechRepublic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said she believes the app could be useful, even for people who are not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2017\/09\/21\/microsofts-new-ai-app-to-assist-the-blind-could-be-a-game-changer-in-accessibility-techrepublic-12-july-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}